Peter Scott

Retired music lecturer, specializing in early music. Interests include cycling, trekking, travel, especially railways.

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

[Irishmonk @castlvillageman]

Fun fact. The unionists came by boat

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Almost 10,000 likes for straight-up lies by Annunziata Rees-Mogg, quote:

"Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset's population and 44% of alleged sex offences. So unbelievable I had to check. It's true."

It's not true, it's utter garbage.

I'll go through facts and figures. /1

[Oliver @OWS1892]

"Can I count on your racism while I get on with removing your grandchildren's employment protections?"

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

The Holocaust at Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas of antisemitism, words, stereotypes & prejudice, through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder of Jewish people.

The Holocaust took time.
#YomHaShoah

[Peter Scott @pjdscott]

Get better soon @Care2much18 - you're one of the reasons why I'm still on this platform and I admire your courage, fortitude, expertise and empathy. Take care.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

I've been unwell, so I haven't been following the news very much. 🤧🤒

I see the entirety of far-right Irish Twitter is involved in these 'protests'.

The only observation I can make is the worst people in the country are yet again involved in creating chaos.

Gobshites.

[Peter Scott @pjdscott]

This was yesterday, Friday 10 April 2026 at 11:30.

[Peter Scott @pjdscott]

Portbury Dock entrance with 66312 @railnigel on empty steel coils from Margam. The staff equipment at Ashton gate was broken, but Control quickly arranged pilot working (good to see a woman pilot) and it arrived only a few minutes late. Kudos to all concerned.

[Chad Scott @cpscott16]

Just a reminder: in 1982, when Great Britain was attacked by Argentina, starting the Falklands War, the United States did not come to their aid because the Falklands are not in the North Atlantic and the British did not bitch about it.

In 1956, when the French and British attacked Egypt, causing the Suez Crisis, despite the fact that France and Great Britain are in NATO, the United States not only refused to assist, but went to the United Nations to condemn them for attacking Egypt.

In 2019, when Turkey decided to attack Syria, the Trump administration had the Pentagon send out an official notice that they did not support the campaign and would not send troops.

So kindly shut the fuck up, everyone in the White House.

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Since 2 March, 23 Israeli security personnel and two Israeli civilians have died in Hezbollah attacks. Israel’s attacks on Lebanon during that time have, it’s thought, killed 1,400 Hezbollah fighters, and 350 confirmed civilians, including 110 children. The international legal principle of proportionality prohibits attacks ‘expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, or damage to civilian objects which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage’. It applies to every country, whether or not it has ratified the treaty — including the US, which has been accused of breaching the proportionality principle in its attacks on Iran.

[Reel News @ReelNewsLondon]

Duke of Devonshire's exclusive Mayfair bookshop occupied as fury grows over his decision to raise rents to Irish farmers from £500 to £5,000

His ancestors stole this land in 1753; this mad rent rise will force farmers off land that they have cultivated for hundreds of years

[Peter Scott @pjdscott]

@RobLooseCannon Thanks for the plug Rob and apologies not necessary; much appreciated!

[Dublin Airport @DublinAirport]

Update on Troy 🦜

Our lovely lady Troy has been confirmed as a female Alexandrine parakeet after a vet check this morning.

She is safe, happy and being very well looked after by the Airport Police unit, but she would really like to go home.

If you recognise her or have any information, please email [email protected] or send us a DM on any of our social channels.

[Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @CompletedStreet]

Fun fact: The new Elizabeth line in London moved more people in 2025 than Highway 401, the busiest freeway in North America.

[Daniel ShenSmith (BlackBeltBarrister) @dshensmith]

@Ryanair Like this?

[Grace Gym🏋️‍♀️ @GraceGym_]

Every cycling enthusiast should know these tricks 🚴‍♀️

[Rob Blackie 🔶 @robblackie]

A straight out lie from Danny Krueger MP at Reform's event today.

He said that asylum seekers go straight to the top of the council housing list.

In fact they are *banned by law* from accessing council housing.

Further details on Shelter's website here: https://t.co/pFYFMbz8pn

[Peter Scott @pjdscott]

@BigIssue Happy birthday to @johnbirdswords and huge thanks for an outstanding “Bird’s Words” in this week’s issue (no.1702); they certainly need a history lesson. @PauldMcNamee editorial was also engaging and it was lovely to hear Mark Carney’s enthusiasm for @BigIssue