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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 10h

I'm definitely trying to disrupt the status quo in the UK.

Billy @cromartie7.bsky.social · 10h

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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 8h

I suppose they thought they would be safe because the taxpayers were paying the bill and not Trump personally.

How little they understood him.

Anne Golden @annegolden.bsky.social · 10h

Raise your hand if you’re astonished.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

We are looking with lawyers at the propensity of AI to produce dishonest and defamatory statements.

Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 1d

I've just been called a "rape enabler" by the X AI tool Grok. This is a shocking allegation which has totally taken me aback & beyond anything I've ever encountered in normal political discourse. These AI tools are supposed to be there to serve us honestly with facts. Disturbing.

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 1d

I've just been called a "rape enabler" by the X AI tool Grok. This is a shocking allegation which has totally taken me aback & beyond anything I've ever encountered in normal political discourse. These AI tools are supposed to be there to serve us honestly with facts. Disturbing.

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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 9h

Oddly, the Health Spokeswoman for the Labour Party in the Scottish Parliament just went on the BBC to tell us - again - how bad NHS Scotland is compared to the other three.

In 2024/25 there is not a single sector where NHS Scotland is not at the top.

You would think she’d be more upbeat.

Wullie @wullieforindy.bsky.social · 15h

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/05/p...

Police investigate over 1 000 avoidable baby deaths in NHS England, none in Edinburgh and none in Scotland where ‘maternity failings’ pay-outs are half, per head, of those in England but Jackie Bailli...

Professor John Robertson OBA In the Herald today, the above and: Scottish Labour has called for a national investigation into maternity and neonatal services following a catalogue of…

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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 13h

“Tacky” hardly does the over window scroll justice.

And as for the sign!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

It’s like they wake up every day and ask themselves “how can we make this place look even cheaper and tackier and less historic?”

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Ronnie Barbour @ronniebarbour.bsky.social · 20h

Bylines Scotland Radio -An exclusive interview with Guy Verhofstadt.

Bylines Scotland Radio -An exclusive interview with Guy Verhofstadt. - Bylines Scotland

Bylines Scotland writer, Martin Roche's exclusive interview with former Belgium PM Guy Verhofstadt.We apologise for sound problems on the recording. This was caused by a faulty microphone. Our studio ...

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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 19h

Radio 4 discussing the mistaken release of a dangerous criminal who is now on the run.

The host asked repeatedly, “was he an asylum seeker”?

No-one challenged her. Next it will be, “was he Black or Irish or Jewish or Gay”?

Unapologetic racism from the BBC.

What is important is he is dangerous.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 1d

Shetland has the lowest recorded crime rate in all of Scotland. Most years it has exactly 0 murders.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

TV tonight: Ashley Jensen is back solving murders in Shetland

DI Ruth Calder investigates the killing of a retired social worker. Plus: the final episode of scandal drama The Hack. Here’s what to watch this evening

www.theguardian.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

Samir Zitouni: a British hero

Train hero who saved passengers during attack named

The family of rail worker Samir Zitouni say they are

www.bbc.co.uk

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European Movement West London #FBPE #FBPR #RejoinEU @em-westlondon.bsky.social · 1d

Is anyone surprised?

For years the BBC’s coverage of the EU has been too negative.

Between 2001 and 2016, the BBC’s coverage of the EU veered between disinterest and EU-bashing.

Reports about the EU were so negative that Brussels came off worse than Putin.
#Brexit
www.politico.eu/blogs/on-med...

Media monitor: BBC harsher on EU than on Vladimir Putin

Public broadcaster aims to be neutral but for years its coverage of the EU has been too negative, researchers say

www.politico.eu

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 1d

It's going to be a difficult few days for racists. No sooner do we discover the attacker was a British man called Anthony Williams, we then discover the rail worker hero who almost gave his life to save others is called Samir Zitouni.

We can't wait to hear the hot takes on whether he is British...

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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 1d

New Yorkers really know how to craft an online campaign pitch.

Simple, powerful and clear.

Our own Scottish campaigners could learn from this.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio

There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.

Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

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John Dabell @johndabell.bsky.social · 2d

1 week ago I was on a ventilator & hooked up to various gubbins & now catheter is out, & I have one less chest drain. Lung not fully inflated yet & big decisions have to be made about my feeding as it is currently going through my nose & possibly permanently so. Hate being on the ward.

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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 2d

This is worth watching.

Note that none of the criticisms of the PIP process voiced here apply to Scotland’s ADP process.

ADP was designed specifically to avoid PIP’s flaws, to support people with disabilities and support their integration in the community.

Iris Cook @montrose.bsky.social · 3d

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Just one advice

Never dare to become Disabled in that woeful neighborLand

#Unabhängigkeit

#FreeScotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Reform UK Still Don’t Get Disability — But They’ll Cut It Anyway

YouTube video by KernowDamo

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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 2d

Canada was also the first Commonwealth/Empire country to declare war on Nazi Germany in support of Britain, several hours before the British themselves.

Peter in Vancouver 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈💉 @pjhvan.bsky.social · 3d

CANADA UPDATE: MILITARY HISTORY
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We’re proud of our small but mighty military and their history of peace keeping

James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 2d

Another reason to resist the rise of billionaires is the clear damage it wreaks on their mental health. Somewhere during the process of accumulating all that money their brains lose all links with reality.

I’m not convinced that’s a price worth paying for just a bit more cash.

Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 3d

An MP needs to read out this quote in the House of Commons and ask the government why they are still on twitter

cc @columeastwood.ie

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d

Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"

"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"

"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 3d

An MP needs to read out this quote in the House of Commons and ask the government why they are still on twitter

cc @columeastwood.ie

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d

Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"

"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"

"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"

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Greg Moodie @gregmoodie.bsky.social · 4d

A single paragraph that is likely to make you angry.

Scotland is expected to generate nearly three quarters of Britain’s onshore wind power with in five years — sparking fears the country is facing North Sea oil-style exploitation as a green energy supplier for England.

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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 2d

He succinctly reminds us that the challenge is not just dealing with the increasingly unlikely survival of the UK but the also the survival of an unequal England where one part of that country feeds on the rest, leaving them criminally under resourced and vulnerable.

Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

How can the UK survive when most of its member states want to leave? youtu.be/CnLkIsKxEEw?...

How can the UK survive when most of its member states want to leave?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 3d

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Why a gentle touch feels like love

YouTube video by Hannah Fry

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 3d

Imagine if the people who run England got to run Holyrood too.

Support Scottish parties like 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗡𝗣 and Scottish Greens, and our Government will continue to deliver on Scotland's priorities.

Better still, join one...
www.snp.org/join/member/

“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 3d

🇬🇧 But…but…..FERRIES !! 🇬🇧

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 4d

* The asylum hotel scandal Pecksniff can’t print
* Immigration panic shown to be a media myth
* Tory HQ admits it’s lost 131 constituency parties
* Reform’s “real people” turn out to be AI inventions

This and more in Pecksniff's Diary ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

Pecksniff: Evidence of corruption in refugee hotel contracts must remain unpublished

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 3d

But none of the tax revenue will come to Scotland.

Like oil and gas from Scotland from the 70s onwards it will all end up in London to shore up UK governments that Scotland doesn’t usually vote for.

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/02/g...

Go out and buy the Herald today? Words you rarely, actually never, hear here

Professor John Robertson OBA You’ll have to excuse be if I have no scoobie as to why the Herald is leading with the above, presumably Alba-inspired, story: Scotland is expected to generate ne…

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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 3d

And he admitted this?

Willingly?

I had high hopes for him.

It turns out they were misplaced.

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 4d

Elbows down.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Canadian PM Carney apologises to Trump over anti-tariff Reagan ad run by Ontario premier