Marian the Formidable

Love Perthshire, have travelled far but here is best for me. I'm BBC free and BT free, can't wait to be Wastemonster free! 🦄 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

‘Is there any mice in your arse?’ was a 19th-century Scottish way of replying to someone who is referring to themselves as ‘we’.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have won an igNobel Prize for discovering that rich people drive more selfishly, are more likely to lie at work and more likely to steal sweets meant for children.

[STV News @STVNews]

Scots are shouldering £25m in extra costs for every week that the war in the Middle East continues, according to new analysis.
https://t.co/945J3XLLkF

[Scotland’s Story @80_mcswan]

Let's make this the biggest online poll ever on Scottish Independence! Do you support Scottish Independence? RT RT RT 🗳️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Poll #Independence #Scotland

[Marian the Formidable @The_Lady_Driver]

@Cloagfarm @trafficscotland Google maps is sending me through perth and through bridge if earn. Rejoining M90 sb at kintillo Junction 9

[Marian the Formidable @The_Lady_Driver]

@trafficscotland What time will the #M90 southbound 9-11 be open again?

[Marian the Formidable @The_Lady_Driver]

@trafficscotland I can't make head nor tail of this. I need to drive southbound on M90 overnight. Your weblink isn't right, looking independently brings a list of 85 plans for M90 but none for tonight, and I can't find the route planner. 🤷‍♀️

[Marian the Formidable @The_Lady_Driver]

@andyburns180 @WingsScotland @TheParty1sOver This story is from 2021

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

"What is the charge? Eating a carrot? A succulent home grown carrot?"

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

A very useful screenshot to keep about your person.

[Suz Jamieson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @SuzJamieson]

That's it. I'm done. I'm 60 years old now, I'm not going to waste any more time on politicians and their wiley ways. I'll always want independence for Scotland but no fucker wearing a suit is going to get it for us.

Gimme a shout when the civil disobedience starts.

[iScot Magazine @iScotNews]

The SNP won the 2026 election with 38.3% of the constituency vote — a stronger mandate than Keir Starmer’s 33.7% UK-wide vote share in 2024.

Labour called 33.7% a “landslide” and a mandate to reshape Britain and pursue closer EU ties, yet says Scotland cannot even vote on its own future.

If 33.7% is enough to govern the UK, why is 38.3% not enough to ask Scotland a question?

That's constitutional hypocrisy - or, is it just standard colonial rule? #IndyRef2 - @iScotNews

[Andrew Andy Lowe @AndrewLowe1880]

@griffo44374 @gracebrod1e Independence for Scotland Party. Standing in all regions except South , on the list. Colette Walker Leader standing in West, John Hannah in Edinburgh, John Forbes MDFife, Fiona Nelson Highland, Julie Mcnulty Central, Allan Petrie NE, P Steele Glasgow.

[Marian the Formidable @The_Lady_Driver]

Astonishing. Major backfire coming up.

[ISP - Independence for Scotland Party @IndyScotParty]

This statement responds to the decision by @ScotNational
to refuse future advertising from the Independence for Scotland Party following so called “reader feedback" and to the conditional offer from The Herald to carry an advert only if it removes any reference to women. This raises serious concerns about censorship, political gatekeeping and the suppression of legitimate debate in Scotland’s media.

No, this isn’t just “strong feedback,” this is a line being crossed. What we’ve been sent isn’t a commercial decision, it’s a political one, a decision to shut the door on a lawful political party because it dares to say things that make the comfortable uncomfortable for the Editors. A paper that wraps itself in the language of independence and democracy has just shown exactly where it stands when a real alternative appears, not beside the people, but blocking them.

Let’s call it what it is, censorship, raw, blunt, unashamed and then comes the so called “alternative,” an offer with a condition that should outrage every single person reading it,
we can have NO reference to women.

Take a second and let that sink in.

A political party in Scotland is being told it can access a front page but only if it stays silent about women, silent about rights, silent about safeguarding, silent about reality and silent on one of its founding principles.

So here’s the question that needs to be answered by these so called newspapers.
When are they going to tell their women readers that their sex is not relevant to their pages?
Because that is exactly what this decision says,
It says women don’t matter, at least not if acknowledging them disrupts a preferred narrative of the queer agenda, it says some truths are inconvenient to the trans allies and therefore must be buried, it says free speech is conditional and only exists for those who toe the TRA line.

Well here’s the problem with that, the Independence for Scotland Party does not exist to toe anyone’s line, it does not exist to ask permission, it does not exist to dilute its principles and it sure as hell does not exist to be told what it can and cannot say by editors, advertisers or anyone else who thinks they get to control the boundaries of public debate.

ISP will not be silenced, not by newspapers, not by gatekeepers, not by anyone.

If you think shutting us out of a front page stops this message you’ve fundamentally misunderstood what’s happening across this country. This isn’t about ink on paper anymore, This is about people, it is about lived experience, it is about voices that have been ignored for far too long finally refusing to be quiet and here’s the truth that should worry them most, every door you close, we’ll kick open another, every platform you deny, we’ll build our own, every attempt to silence us only proves why we must speak louder, because a movement grounded in reality cannot be erased by editorial decisions, so keep your front pages, stick your conditions where the sun don't shine, the ISP will not be controlled by arms of the British state.

The people are watching, the people are listening and no matter how hard you try
you will not silence us.

@joannaccherry
@WWWheesht
@WingsScotland
@jk_rowling
@ForWomenScot
@WRNScotland

[Scotch Whisky Association @ScotchWhiskySWA]

With the Scottish Parliament now in recess, the countdown to #Holyrood26 elections is on ⏳

Over the past year, we’ve been engaging MSPs across Scotland, making the case for our industry & setting key asks of the next Government. It’s vital that our nation’s top export is safeguarded & supported under the following priorities:

🥃 Progress Prosperity
🌍 Promote Scotch
♻️ Protect Sustainability

[The Crossgate Centre #SupportsAlexSalmond @CrossgateCentre]

Alliance To Liberate Scotland Regional Candidates List Holyrood 2026

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Keith the Apocalypse Bringer is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon.

Keith should not be underestimated.

Keith has been systematically dismantling the ecosystem since approximately 7am, when he ate a bramble. This is significant because bramble is an invasive scrub species that outcompetes wildflowers, reduces biodiversity, and creates dense monoculture thicket that nothing else can use.

Keith ate it. Keith does this every day. Keith does not charge for this service.

8:15am - Keith ate a thistle. Thistles are also considered invasive scrub in managed pasture. Goldfinches eat thistle seeds, but Keith's grazing will ensure the pasture remains open enough for the ground-nesting birds that can't use dense scrub. Keith has not attended a conservation workshop. Keith arrived at this conclusion by being a goat.

9:00am - Keith dismantled a section of hedge. This was less helpful. Keith does not have a perfect record.

10:30am - Keith escaped the field. He was in the road for eleven minutes. He ate a neighbour's rose. This is not being counted in Keith's environmental impact assessment.

11:00am - Keith was returned to the field. Keith regarded the farmer with the specific expression of an animal that does not recognise the concept of property.

12:00pm - Keith ate more bramble. His digestive system: four stomachs, a rumen full of specialised microorganisms, the ability to extract nutrition from lignified plant matter that would defeat any other animal on this field, is converting scrub vegetation into milk with a fat content of approximately 4.5%. The milk will become cheese. The cheese will be sold at the farm shop. The farm shop is four miles away. The cheese food miles are: four.

3:00pm - Keith produced manure. The manure will grow the grass. The grass will grow the bramble. The bramble will be eaten by Keith.

This system has no inputs.

It has been running since goats were domesticated approximately ten thousand years ago.

Keith is not aware he is saving the planet.

Keith is thinking about whether the fence on the north side has a weak point.

It does. Keith found it at 4:45pm.

Keith got out again.

[Mark Hirst @Documark]

Judgement day has arrived and it has potentially historic implications for Scots law and its current "unjustifiable restrictions" to a proper legal remedy in malicious prosecution claims.

Many thanks to all those who have supported this important case.

https://t.co/2q1neX7XvX

[Ash Regan @AshRegan_]

For the first time, Parliament heard sex buyers in their own abhorrent words - vile punter community review sites oozing entitlement and abuse from the root cause - demand. Unbuyable tackles demand - yet over half of MSPs chose to shield these punters from the law.

To @ScotGov claims of “we need more time” - what have you been doing for 19 years? For those who claim that shielding the perpetrators of violence “keeps women safe”. Shame - on - you!
Inaction was YOUR decision.

[Women Won't Wheesht 👩‍🦰 @TheParty1sOver]

This is a damn disgrace!! OVER £10MILLION???
Other people's money eh! 🤬 @scotgov

"While litigation costs have increased, Scottish Government spending on legal aid (for citizens) has declined by 45% in real terms over the past decade."

Plebs like us, who pay, don't matter? 🤬