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Auntie Syzygy
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Hermit pensioner & forager. Former indexer. Scottish Statehood, Greek & Greece, Bee Orchids & the Bronze Age. Nobody should own land as if it was a thing.
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Auntie Syzygy @auntiesyzygy.bsky.social · Nov 1
It occurs to me that, being newly here, I should maybe explain my name. It comes from Caledonian Antisyzygy - a perceived characteristic of Scots literature (and presbyterian theology) to see the bad in the good. I think we Scots tend to second-guess ourselves, and our lack of confidence hampers us.
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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 21h
Fraud: How Sir Keir Starmer conned the British electorate | Richard Sanders for 'Declassified UK:
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How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate
Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.
www.declassifieduk.org
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 6h
North Sea oil rig workers rescue owl blown out to sea during Storm Amy.
North Sea oil rig workers rescue owl blown out to sea during Storm Amy
The short-haired owl was found exhausted after battling 'danger to life' winds during the storm.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6h
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 6h
Israel shouldn’t count on EU leaders forgetting the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, even if Donald Trump’s peace deal succeeds in ending the war.

That’s the candid private view of diplomats, politicians and officials.
‘Israel needs to deliver’: Europe’s private fears over Trump’s plan for Gaza
Officials and diplomats are hoping the ceasefire lasts but don’t want to ease the pressure on Israel just yet.
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 1d
Brice Dickson: The meaning of ‘civil rights’ in the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/13/b...
Brice Dickson: The meaning of ‘civil rights’ in the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement
From 14 to 16 October 2025 the UK Supreme Court is due to hear an important case on the extent to which the Windsor Framework – the new name for the revised Ireland / Northern Ireland Protocol to t…
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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · 19h
The Queen and Thatcher were born within six months of each other 100 years ago and Brexitannia is the result of their incompatible coupling. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 8h
Ardura Community Forest, Mull 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Mull & Iona Community Trust engaged us to find out the age of oaks which had been felled in the 1960s when the Sitka spruce plantation was created by the Forestry Commission. They were mostly around 200 years old.
#dendrochronology #ThickTrunkTuesday #Mull
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Auntie Syzygy @auntiesyzygy.bsky.social · 7h
I never grew onions from seed, but at our allotments I found more and more plotters were doing that, and with good results. May as well try seed, seedlings and setts - conditions are so variable nowadays, cover all bases.
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Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 1d
It will be interesting to see what Ministers are prepared to say about the China spying case from the despatch box. I am surprising that this morning's line to take still seems to turn on China not having been "designated" a threat/enemy by the last government. /1
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Auntie Syzygy @auntiesyzygy.bsky.social · 1d
Yes. Because land has been made into a commodity. Nobody should own land as if it was a Thing that you can just buy and sell, any more than the sea or the sky.
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Alastair McIntosh @alastairmci.bsky.social · 1d
“Scotland’s land is owned by the few—and the Government is letting it happen….

“And why? Because land is power.”

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...
'No citizens anywhere else in the world own so little of their own country'
Scotland’s land is owned by the few, while the many are left powerless. Despite overwhelming public support for reform, political will remains…
www.heraldscotland.com
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ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 4d
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Botanical adventures - from Stirlingshire to the mighty Ben Nevis nordwand!
Details Date: October 14 Time: 07:30 pm - 09:00 pm Event Category: Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling & the Trossachs, Stirling, Stirling and Clackmannanshire Group Organizer Stirling and Clackm...
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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 1d
Freyer's Grayling (Hipparchia fatua) nectaring on Sea Squill (Drimia aphylla). One of the Grayling species to be seen here in Rhodes 🇬🇷 at this time of year.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2d
‘The message is clear: 20th-century colonialism created the conditions for a 21st-century tragedy.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’
This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...
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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 2d
God love Kew, this is incredible
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Ramblers Scotland @ramblersscotland.bsky.social · 6d
🌳Scotland needs Paths Into Nature!🚶

We’ve launched an ambitious joint manifesto ahead of the 2026 Holyrood election, backed by 7 partner orgs in Scottish Outdoor Recreation Alliance.

Our goal? ✅ Make Scotland’s world-class access rights an everyday reality for all!

ramblers.org.uk/scotmanifesto
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Helen Todd @helenrambler.bsky.social · 2d
This is really worth a read, a clear and informed view from an experienced forester. Reform of the forestry grants system is surely needed.
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nickkempe.bsky.social @nickkempe.bsky.social · 4d
Victor Clements, a woodlands adviser, takes a look from a professional perspective at why BrewDog's Lost Forest went so wrong parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/10/09/b...
BrewDog's Lost Forest - What if? - parkswatchscotland
Introduction It has been well covered in the media recently that the craft beer company BrewDog have sold on their “Lost Forest” at Kinrara Estate, which stretches from Speyside into the Monadliath, t...
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Mathew Nicolson @eyjarskeggi.bsky.social · 2d
"we might reflect on how Shetland’s economic history, often characterised as boom and bust, has fostered an unfortunate belief that we need one or two big things rather than the sustainable development of many smaller things." www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/10/05/a...
A Shetland moment
In this Viewpoint, the former Scottish Labour candidate and Shetland Charitable Trust reform campaigner Pete Hamilton offers a response to Jonathan...
www.shetnews.co.uk
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Michael Wilson @mikewilsonuk.bsky.social · 2d
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Archive of John le Carré to go on display for the first time in major exhibition
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Jenny @ Random Scottish History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📜⚔️🏰 @flikenoir.bsky.social · 2d
Quick Helmsdale Stop 🏞️

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#ScottishHighlands
Quick Helmsdale Stop
YouTube video by Random Scottish History
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Alice Woolley @alicewoolley.bsky.social · 1d
This is so heartwarming
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance
Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines
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John T Psaropoulos @johntpsaropoulos.bsky.social · 1d
With current trends, Greece faces an annual climate change bill in the billions by the end of the decade. That is one reason why it is decarbonising faster than most EU members. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Greece’s mounting climate costs, and what we’re doing about it
Greece is an above average EU performer in the green transition; it is also an above average loser to climate change
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Simone @ceefercrafts.bsky.social · 1d
A very productive day
In addition to putting a cabinet together with my daughter I had time in the garden.

Pruned back the curry plant and artemisia as they were taking over.

My roses are still flowering!

The squash and carrot harvest

And now cooking down crab apples for pectin

#Garden2025 🌱
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Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social · 1d
Sheffield looking exceptionally lovely today. I was speaking at the Off the Shelf Festival of Words. Incredibly well organised and well attended. I can heartily recommend this Octoberfest to writers and readers alike.
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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 1d
A few mushrooms from The Brecks this weekend. I've never seen so many Fly Agarics in one place!
Sorry @wildflowerhour.bsky.social -I'll be back to normal for #WildFlowerHour next week... 🪻
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