stephen smith

Retired from the Oilfield 30+ yrs,lifelong Hibby,husband,proud father of 2 great kids & an enthusiastic golfer......like a dram...& a beer....#Arran Whisky

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

Magnificent.

[Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki @MatthewWielicki]

The UK just “smashed” its May temperature record… but here’s the part the Met Office conveniently leaves out:
The PREVIOUS record was set in 1922.

That’s 104 years ago.

Long before SUVs, private jets, or modern CO₂ emissions. Heathrow Airport didn’t even exist yet. The area was literally farmland and small villages.

So if a 1922 heatwave could produce nearly identical temperatures in a world with ~130 ppm less CO₂, maybe, just maybe, natural variability plays a much bigger role than the panic merchants admit.

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @MrsBr0wn_82]

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Green MSP Q Manivannan has been caught out big time. ‼️

Hes been telling voters he grew up starving from a lower caste family back in India.

Turns out he went to a fancy private school in Chennai studied at a private uni and comes from a proper upper middle class background with doctors engineers and academics in the family.

Now on a student visa in the UK and running for Holyrood. Wild how these stories unravel.

#ScottishPolitics
#WokeHypocrisy #IdentityPolitics

[SCOTBALL 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotball_]

John McGinn is casually enjoying the ULTIMATE football career:

• Winner of St Mirren's first major trophy (Scottish League Cup) in 26 years (2013).

• Winner of Hibs' first Scottish Cup in 114 years (2016).

• Scorer of Aston Villa’s winning goal in play-off final at Wembley, marking the club’s return to the Premier League following three year absence (2019).

• Part of Scotland team that qualified for Euro 2020, the country's first major tournament for 22 years (2020).

• Part of Scotland team that qualified for the country's first World Cup in 28 years (2025).

• Captain of Europa League-winning Aston Villa team, the club's first major trophy in 30 years (2026).

Legendary. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[John McGinn @jmcginn7]

Good morning villains 💜💜 🏆

[Alan Stubbs @alanstubbs_6]

Enjoy your night Hibbees!! 💚🕺🏻

[Graham Stack @GrahamStack1]

What a weekend!

I delivered a talk for 200+ students on the importance of sport, team work & exercise. Saw my eldest daughter play at Loftus Rd, celebrated my son’s 15th birthday & played with my youngest at QPR.

But best of all…

I watched Hearts get beat & lose the title💚

[Gerry @GerryKeogh_]

This is just fucking embarrassing.

[Chief Miekelson - The Chief returns! @ChiefMiekelson]

Many are clamouring for my opinion on that late penalty award for Celtic at Fir Park. As Scotland's most neutral man, I feel it would be wrong to comment. Impartiality is my watchword.

And to be honest, I didn't see the incident as I was enjoying the mighty Hibs pumping Rangers.

[The 44 ⚽️ @The_Forty_Four]

Jarrod Bowen….

WELL F*CKING SAID.

[stephen smith @sasmith1966]

@MrAndyNgo An absolute disgrace and shambles - our country is well and truly doomed…..

[Marvin Bartley @dothebartman1]

Thank you 💛🖤💛

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: Norway has begun RE-OPENING North Sea Oil sites to meet growing demand from the UK

In case you weren't aware of just how stupid the UK Government is, they are BLOCKING permits to drill while PAYING Norway to drill oil from the North Sea instead

We are led by clowns

[stephen smith @sasmith1966]

@ScotlandSky Holiday weekend, 12:00 on a Sunday - it’s not everyone that can go week in week out regardless of kick off time or day of the game set by tv.

[Sedd @SeddSezz]

🚨Two UK pub chains axed along with 3,500 jobs amid rising taxes

Whitbread, which owns both Beefeater and Brewers Fayre, plans to close all 197 of its restaurant sites.

CEO Dominic Paul said the decision followed “significant cost increases”, which includes higher employer National Insurance contributions and business rates.

Reeves' relentless pursuit of businesses' money is ruining our economy!

Rachel Reeves is decimating business and jobs.

[Kieran Power @KieranPowerHibs]

Tickets continue to pop up online for the Edinburgh Derby - West Executive and Ticket Exchange

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

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 fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”