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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 15m

I just read about this and can't stop thinking that it could describe so much that we're seeing in the world, from the behavior of Israel’s IDF to the insanity of poor people from Middle England to the American Midwest embracing billionaire conmen as their new Messiah.

muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 18m

Vimes' 'Boot' theory of poverty

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 13h

Apparently, frog costume stocks in Chicago have been completely depleted by the Antifroga.

muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 15h

It was so moving to have the new Head of the Palestine Mission to the UK, Ambassador Husam Zomlot, who spoke so passionately about the friendship and long time support offered by Scotland to the Palestinian people. An incredibly moving, historic moment.
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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 18h

Highlights from the second day of the party's National Conference: hearing speeches from my amazingly talented female colleagues Martha Mattos Coelho, Vicky Nicolson and Simita Kumar, and Scotland's youngest ever candidate-the party is in good hands to take forward the fight for a progressive future

muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 18h

At a meeting during the SNP Conference, hearing the moving testimony of doctors from Medical Aid for Palestine on the inhuman conditions being inflicted on innocent civilians by the occupying IDF forces. Tommy Sheppard spoke powerfully as usual, but it was the women's voices that moved us near tears

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Marco Gervasoni @marcogervasoni.bsky.social · 1d

Mancano solo le svastiche

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 18h

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 19h

Today is Artist’s Day in Ukraine.

In the video, you see three watercolour paintings
by Ukrainian artist and soldier
Davyd Chychkan –
killed on the front line in August 2025.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 19h

Release the Epstein files. All of them. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 18h

I love that Scotland is a place with names like Mugiemoss Road, a word that rolls off the tongue, then drips down into the gutters. No wonder Harry's Hogwarts was invented here.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 1d

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Strong 'bald men squabbling over comb' vibes to this attack line. Yes, Nigel Farage drove the economy into a cul de sac with Brexit. But the dude who refused to reverse it out is Keir Starmer.

Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 2d

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

More than 5,000 federal employees have received layoff notices. We’re working to ensure that the administration isn’t using state voter rolls to target registered Democrats for termination. More details soon.

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 1d

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 3d

A gorgeous autumn
has come to Kyiv.
All scents of gold
are breathing on the trees.

How’s the weather
where you are?

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 3d

It's Banned Books Week! If you love books, and you believe in freedom of thought and belief, check one of these out.

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 4d

The Annual Fall Fashion Show is back, with leaves wearing their most spectacular colours! Get out to your local park today - entry is free!

muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 4d

The GERS system is the British government's way of trying to keep Scots both ignorant and docile, many honestly believing they're 'too poor, too wee, too daft' to have a real country.

No one ever asks, if true, why on earth does the UK government do everything in its power to prevent us leaving? 🤔

Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 4d

This means that e.g. duty from spirits like whisky; oil & gas; and renewable energy very largley are collected from Scotland, but we only get about 8% of it back. So no wonder GERS under-estimates Scottish revenues! I refer you to analysis by Andrew Sharpe using ONS data.

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