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We are appealing to trace a teenage girl reported missing on the Isle of Skye. Ella Wright, 14, was last seen near the A850 at Clachamish around 3.35pm on Thursday, 19 March, 2026, after she ran away from a family member. Anyone with info call 101, inc 2080 of 19 March.

#picoftheday Caerlaverock Castle @ladycultreboot @PennineThe @raiphsays @staithesartist @MarySummer1966 @pilaraymara @GREIGEYESBIKER1 @moleatthedoor @mrs_counter @colz261 @Catrionareids @BSmart1575 @lorri1962 @ArgyllSeaGlass @weestie97 @cee4cat @defiaye @Becca3Artach @GaelMyrica

First osprey of the season arrives at Scottish wildlife reserve i.stv.tv/4svIqF9

The term “BUTTLOAD” actually comes from a genuine historical unit of measurement...... A butt was a large cask used primarily for storing wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks, and it equaled about 126 U.S. gallons (roughly 477 liters). In fact, a butt was considered half of a tun, another old liquid measurement. While today the word is mostly used jokingly to mean “a lot,” in the past it was a precise way of describing just how much drink a massive barrel could hold. #archaeohistories

@AjaTheEmpress @latsot What's the point unless the trackers give them electric shocks. (Only partially joking)

@latsot This is the future isn't it? Nobody's gonna go to a prison, they're gonna put trackers on everyone to help keep us "safe."

This is insane. It's absolutely insane. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/1…

Laughing & crying at the same time

Artist Ethel Moorhead (1869-1955), the first Scottish suffragette to be forcefed, said, “You Scotsmen used to be proud of Burns; now you have taken to torturing women." How long must we wait until the Scottish government accepts the Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of “woman” does not include “anyone who says he is”?

Reading Dune. Frank Herbert was cooking.

#picoftheday Fro The Queens View @ladycultreboot @PennineThe @raiphsays @staithesartist @MarySummer1966 @pilaraymara @GREIGEYESBIKER1 @moleatthedoor @mrs_counter @lorri1962 @Catrionareids @BSmart1575 @colz261 @ArgyllSeaGlass @weestie97 @cee4cat @defiaye @Becca3Artach @GaelMyrica

@MiladysNewBlade @dtaylor5633 Nice to see you on here even if it's at stupid o'clock

@dtaylor5633 In hospital, week 4, it's a very different life. Surgeries mess with your head and body clock. Hope you get some sleep soon.

Anyone still awake? And why? I'm up at 6am for work but sleep has fucked right off

I just overheard a woman say "I'm not being mean. I'm just not actively making you comfortable." ... and I'll be using that line forever

@SuzJamieson Now I'm wondering where mine is.

@cee4cat That's the fella! 😂

Compost corner update: Gooseberry cutting kindly sent to me by @Mislein has overwintered nicely and is now planted beside the black and redcurrant bushes.

@SuzJamieson It's an aquilegia 😆

The winter flowering Jasmine and the other thing that I can't remember the name of 😆that I got from @cee4cat are now also planted out.

There's a bit of warmth to that sun today. As pleasant as it is, don't forget that Glasgow actually has 12 seasons 😬 #Glasgow

It’s a constant battle against the algorithm on here!! Please help out the bunnies with a share ❤️

Anas Sarwar commends lack of triumphalism in vote on AD Bill. In the next parliament, can that please be normal again? The performative triumphalism of some MSPs in their standing ovation to parts of the public gallery at the end of GRR was a very low point of Holyrood 2021-26.

@teflonwitch @WingsScotland @Sorelle_Arduino Sounds like an excellent reason to ban the "care" then.

@WingsScotland @Sorelle_Arduino And both he and his lawyer cite being “trans” and receiving “gender affirming care” as the very reasons he preyed on children.

Oh man, it didn't happen AGAIN. archive.is/ERLky

Woman of the Day pioneering suffragist and abolitionist Matilda Joslyn Gage of Cicero, New York, died OTD 1898, aged 71. The Matilda Effect - the phenomenon in which the achievements of women scientists are claimed or stolen by their male colleagues - is named for her because she first identified it in her 1883 essay Woman as Inventor. Matilda worked with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to found the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869, and collaborated with them in writing the History of Woman Suffrage (1881–1887) and the Declaration of the Rights of Women. She published and edited the National Citizen, a paper devoted to the cause of women. The fight against inequality was in her blood. Born into an abolitionist family, Matilda and her husband offered their home as a station on the Underground Railroad despite the risk of harsh penalties and imprisonment. She described herself as "born with a hatred of oppression” and was a staunch advocate for Native Americans, publicly criticising their treatment by the federal government. In 1870, Matilda wrote “Woman as Inventor” promoting the work of female inventors, including Sarah Mather who invented the deep-sea telescope and Margaret Knight who invented a machine that created flat-bottomed paper bags. She pointed out that society disapproved of women inventors, thus suppressing their talents, deterring them from learning about mechanics, and patenting their inventions under the names of their husbands to evade insults and ridicule. “In not a single State of the Union is a married woman held to possess a right to her earnings within the family; and in not one-half of them has she a right to their control in business entered upon outside of the household. Should such a woman be successful in obtaining a patent, what then! Would she be free to do as she pleased with it? Not at all. She would hold no right, title, or power over this work of her own brain.” Widely regarded as an excellent speaker and writer, Matilda also took direct action. In 1871, she organised several women in an attempt at voting in New York. In 1872, she tried and failed to vote in the presidential elections, but she actively supported Susan B. Anthony who was arrested and tried at court for successfully casting a ballot. When the Statue of Liberty was unveiled in 1886, she led a protest arguing that it was hypocritical to depict Liberty as a woman when real American women were denied political and social rights. Writing about laws which allowed a man to leave his children in his will to a guardian unrelated to their mother, she said, “It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.” Christianity especially drew her ire. “The most stupendous system of organised robbery known has been that of the Church towards woman, a robbery that has not only taken her self-respect but all rights of person; the fruits of her own industry; her opportunities of education; the exercise of her own judgment, her own conscience, her own will.” Matilda died in 1898 at the age of 71 but it was her contention in Woman, Church and State, published in 1893, that struck a chord with me. The parallel with today is striking. “The witch was in reality the profoundest thinker, the most advanced scientist of those ages. The persecution which for ages waged against witches, was in reality an attack upon science at the hands of the Church. As knowledge has ever been power, the Church feared its use in woman's hands, and levelled its deadliest blows at her.”