I think people who use X for work do need to let people know they won’t be readily available on this platform. I’m still here if you need to DM. But *obviously* this site is rapidly losing its usefulness for reporters and, like many others, I’m no longer spending much time here.

I don't usually waste time posting on this .platform but maybe it is the right place to push stories about AI-generated slop about SNP leaders?

RT @OliverKamm: @LeaskyHT 👆That’s inadvertently very funny and rather shocking. I wrote here about pidgins and creoles, fwiw .

As an aside: there is nothing wrong with pidgin languages. Scots isn’t one. That is neither a good thing or a bad thing. It’s just that - and sorry to be a bore - linguistics terms have meanings.

Look, I don’t think there any hope of a meaningful conversation on language or linguistics and related politics on X. Why not? Cos We have low public knowledge of languages. And cos being abusive about minority languages/ speakers is just a way marking your online gang.

If you’re remotely interested in languages or language politics I don’t think there is anything funnier than somebody with a Ukrainian flag in their bio declaring Scots to be “pigeon English”.

Who needs Tesco? Orkney shop keeps customers satisfied after 170 years.

RT @LeaskyHT: I am looking for folk who have moved to Scotland from England, Wales or Northern Ireland recently. I want to know why! It's f….

I am looking for folk who have moved to Scotland from England, Wales or Northern Ireland recently. I want to know why! It's for the paper. Do get in touch!.

This is intended as a conversation starter. Better-off Scots pay more tax. But do lower house prices, safe & well-rewarded public-sector jobs & olicies like free tuition make Scotland the best place in the UK to be middle class?

Hiya! I am looking to speak to anybody who has recently taken up cycling to work. It's for a newspaper thing.

Who are Scotland’s angriest voters … and who are the most relaxed?.

Sorry to make this appeal on the former Twitter. I don’t want to stereotype remaining users as angry but I also want to speak to people who are raging. And I see there are a good few of you on here.

Hello! Do you feel angry? Are you raging about politics, about the state of Scotland or the world. If so, please get in touch. I’m keen to speak to angry people this week, for work!.

Death of the staycation? Why Scots can’t afford to holiday at home.

My life as a priest in modern Scotland? It’s a bit like Father Ted.

Scots are nog getting more unionist as they age. Not yet, anyway, according to analysis of 24 years worth of gold-standard survey data.

RT @lizrob92: The new Times app has launched this week. You can read more about it here 👇. If you're looking for the brilliant Scotland sec….

RT @DSanderson_85: Why is the SNP losing so many female MSPs?. Twice as many of a growing number of nationalist parliamentarians quitting H….

RT @lizrob92: Read @jessmsharkey’s brilliant piece on the best place in Scotland to be a girl.

RT @KennyFarq: If you fancy reading some of my journalism in The Times while the paywall is down this weekend, you’ll find all of my work f….