Fran Armour

Recovering Classics nerd turned Third Sector bod. Tweets are my own & should never be taken seriously unless they’re beer/food recommendations.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Recently, I keep thinking about Terminator when Sarah Connor was thrown into a mental asylum for sabotaging AI data centers owned by Skynet.

[Agent P @AgentP22]

A superb letter from Jill Stephenson.

Clear, concise and a timely reminder that John Swinney leads a devolved government, not an independent state.

[Fran Armour @FranArmour]

@MonicaLennon7 @ScottishLabour will be better without him. Welcome back - glad you’re here

[Tony Turner @tonytiger67]

Love seeing all the celebrities in the crowd #WorldCupFinal

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

I have never taken part in a coup against any Leader of the Labour Party and I am not going to start now. 2/3

[Kirsti Miller @KirstiMiller30]

@Poeslawisalive In the criminal justice system, algae -based offenses are considered especially heinous. In Washington DC the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Algae Unit. These are their stories

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

This is a real ad for a nursing home on Instagram. The comments are gold. 😂

[Alex @dubsa98]

As someone who works with transgenic mouse models for cancer research, this is objectively one of the funniest things I’ve seen a real life politician post

[Mike Morrison @MDMorrison82]

The lads have gone and I’m not okay. I’m posting 20-year old memes. I’m a mess.

[euan mccolm @euanmccolm]

exhausting tribalist bores complaining about his “expenses paid jolly”, please take note.

[Virgil @VirgilsQuill]

I love that we’re the new Rome. Peace with Persia in the afternoon and a gladiator fight in the evening, all on the Emperor’s birthday. Another 1,000 years.

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

I loan it out in June.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is an official government account in a democracy.

This is what Orbanism looks like. The president bragging, via AI video, that he forced a comedian who mocked him off the air and ‘into the trash’.

[ellen🍸 @algorecrave]

harold wilson summer has arrived!

[Levi Pay @soppystern]

I was one of three parliamentary staff members at The Scottish Parliament who got together in a room to draft the Parliament's first ever Language Policy back in 2004.

Here's an archived copy of the policy, as it has obviously been replaced by more recent versions since then: https://t.co/O5fcF5kk3B

The policy was designed to support use of Gaelic in the work of the Parliament, and to overcome genuine barriers that a minority of people might face in accessing the Parliament or its work because they were not fluent in English.

This policy was not designed to prompt politicians to speak any language they liked in the chamber to score points relating to their own identity or ideology. @MaggieChapman would seem to be able to speak English fluently, and therefore I struggle to see any access-based premise for her speaking in Shona in this context.

I feel constantly embarrassed by the way in which genuine good-faith work to address genuine barriers to access has been used by people for ideological and political reasons.

I feel sad that it has now become difficult to defend inclusion-based activity because it has become associated with virtue signalling and with undermining, rather than strengthening, human connectedness.

I wish I had been able to foresee what would happen, so I could have detached myself from equality and diversity work even sooner than I did.

This is before we get onto the political symbol Maggie Chapman is wearing around her neck. This whole thing is so unprofessional and embarassing.

[Harrison Ford @HarrisonFordLA]

May the fourth be with you

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

I’ll admit, when I was a kid in the 90s I definitely thought that Kid Rock would have less direct involvement with military operations

[kramerica industries @hepimp]

this but a showing of Dead Man’s Shoes with middle aged blokes doing the ‘you’re right there’ scene.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

the genius of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern: watching two characters desperately try to matter in a narrative that doesn’t care about them. Stoppard turns powerlessness into philosophy. Gary Oldman and Tim Roth become metaphors for human insignificance.

[Art Candee 🍿🥤 @ArtCandee]

Bette Midler dropped a revamped Woodie Guthrie protest song into All You Fascists (Bound to Lose) against Donald Trump and his MAGA cronies in Congress.

This part where she sang about the Epstein files and said “you pervs are bound to lose” had me rolling.

Bravo, Bette (and Barbara Hershey)!

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