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Stephen Greenhorn

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Word Monkey Edinburgh Passing Places. Glasgow Kiss. River City. Marchlands. Doctor Who. Sunshine on Leith. Dalgliesh. Around The World in 80 Days. Dept Q. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1114104/

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Stephen Greenhorn @sgreenhorn.bsky.social · Dec 21

a chimpanzee in a pink jacket is holding a gun

Alt: A chimpanzee taps intently at a typewriter, fingers bashing randomly at the keys.

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Scott Myers @gointothestory.bsky.social · 27m

William Goldman: "I wrote a line once that caught on out there in Hollywood: ‘Nobody knows anything.’ And they don’t. If we knew what we were doing, every movie would be wonderful. It’s a crapshoot. It just is.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/screenwritin... #Hollywood #movies #screenwriting

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 1d

SETTING THE STAGE
New Wave Scottish Drama from the 1970s & 1980s

Featuring 5 exciting & experimental playscripts:

White Rose (Peter Arnott)
Mary (Ian Brown)
Playing With Fire (Jo Clifford)
An Island in Largo (Sue Glover)
The Way to Go Home (Rona Munro)

#drama #theatre
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Annual Volume 54 (2024)

Edited by Steven Cramer and John Corbett Paperback, 346 pages Association for Scottish Literature, September 2025 Price £19.95 ISBN: 9781906841652 Order from our bookshop These five plays address…

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4h

“The UK stands at a crossroads. Are we going to be a nation that respects its human rights obligations, or are we going to abandon them whenever the rightwing press demands it? First immigrants, then trans people – who next, Sir Keir?” goodlaw.social/fs2m

European human rights chief warns against trans exclusion in the UK

Human rights commissioner calls on parliament to make sure guidance following the Supreme Court’s decision in April promotes inclusion.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 2d

In what may be the greatest sentence of the year, this article reports that “Plot details for The Resurrection of the Christ are under wraps.” So expect a twist, ladies and gentleman!

deadline.com/2025/10/pass...

‘Passion of the Christ’s Jim Caviezel & Monica Bellucci Not Returning For Mel Gibson’s Sequel

Although the son of God is finally getting his long-awaited sequel, 'The Resurrection of Christ' will not feature the return of Mel Gibson's original cast.

deadline.com

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 7d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 10d

“This new data confirms what we already knew: there is a trans+ healthcare crisis in the UK. But the actual numbers are stark. The system of NHS gender clinics, which is failing to give people an appointment in their entire lifetime, is limiting the number of people who can transition.”

Appalling.

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 7d

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 7d

Head up UK screenwriters! Very important dates for your diary. This year’s annual BBC Writers Room Open Call for TV drama or comedy/drama submissions window - noon Tuesday 4th November to noon Tuesday 2nd December.

Details here: www.bbc.co.uk/writers/oppo...

#ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky

How to submit a script to us

Open Call is our system for receiving unsolicited original scripts.

www.bbc.co.uk

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 7d

"Let us not pretend that we are talking about ways of reversing the genocide...Rather, the discussion is about more or less murderous ways of completing the destruction and replacement of Palestinian Gaza"
@martinshaw.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/d...

'Donald Trump's Plan Will Not End the Gaza Genocide'

The author of The New Age of Genocide, Martin Shaw, on why Trump's 'peace' plan will allow the ongoing destruction and replacement of a Palestinian Gaza

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Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 8d

The Pillar of Mad Geo.
A line of sight.

Papay - Orkney.
Stonebuilt.

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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 8d

1979, Clyde Walkway bandstand, Glasgow📸John Sturrock

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 8d

Raymond Depardon.

“Depardon’s geography is unique, arbitrary, personal, deliberately born of ‘the pain of the frame’ and ‘the joy of light,’” writes Bruno Racine in the introduction to Raymond Depardon’s La France, a photobook and ode to his native country, published in 2010.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 8d

This should concern everyone.

Protest is a cornerstone of our democracy - without it, we wouldn’t have the right to vote. We must protect it at all costs.

After years of the Tories attacking our right to protest, this Labour government should strengthen our rights, not restrict them even further.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 8d

Tom Leonard’s 1984 poetry collection INTIMATE VOICES was banned in Scotland’s Central Region school libraries. The Education Committee said

“There are some harmful words in it … Sometimes the naked truth has to be clothed”

But Leonard had anticipated this sort of reaction…
#BannedBooksWeek
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A pale green book cover. In the middle is a white rectangle. A large red stamp displays the book title: TOM LEONARD: INTIMATE VOICES: 1965–1983. Above the stamp is a poem, set as if typed on a typewriter:

in the beginning was the word
in thi beginning was thi wurd
in thi beginnin was thi wurd
in thi biginnin was thi wurd
n thi biginnin wuz thi wurd
nthi biginnin wuz thi wurd
nthi biginnin wuzthi wurd
nthibiginnin wuzthiwurd
nthibiginninwuzthiwurd
in the beginning was the sound

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13d

extremely well put

An actual pragmatist would evaluate and change course. Someone who understood public opinion might notice that anti-immigrant sentiment responds to media coverage, not objective reality. They might reason that this is not a problem that can be addressed by policy concessions because policy is not what is causing it. They might even consider offering a different narrative and seeing whether that makes a dent. A truly daring politician might consider telling the British public the truth: that they are being lied to by the right-wing press about the cause of the country's problems, and that Reform is capitalising on this for political gain.

The government does not seem inclined to do any of this. Despite understanding themselves as critical thinkers, reactionary centrists are conformists at heart. And they are so unmoored in our current age because, increasingly, there is no social consensus for them to conform to. Affluent countries the world over are balkanising into fascist and anti-fascist factions. One must simply pick a side. There is no longer such a thing as “British public opinion” (if there ever was). Rather, half the country supports socially illiberal parties and half supports (broadly speaking) liberal ones, similar to the split in the Brexit referendum. If we follow international trends, the values of these two sides will only grow more irreconcilable. Starmer is—though you would never guess it—the captain of the liberal team. His job is not to find consensus, but to hold his own coalition together.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13d

"In 2012, 60 trans-related articles were published by Britain’s media. By 2022, it was more than 7,500, according to figures from Trans Media Watch. The media is not responding to public rage against vulnerable minorities; it is helping to create it." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?

A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 9d

Dr Goodall speaking for millions of us hundreds of millions!

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 9d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 9d

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

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Lily Einhorn @madewithstring.bsky.social · 9d

If you are not very, very frightened by this then you are not paying attention www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Watt Photography @paulwattphoto.bsky.social · 18d

The Shore, Leith, Edinburgh #scotland #photography

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10d

BREAKING: Since dawn, Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 46 Palestinians, despite US President Trump’s call for Israel to cease its attacks, medical sources told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/08ph6v

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 10d

Israel accused of “sowing division” by rolling out the red carpet for far-right thug and EDL founder Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (also known as “Tommy Robinson”)

@sayeedawarsi.bsky.social and @sundersays.bsky.social quoted

Israel accused of ‘sowing division’ in UK by inviting Tommy Robinson

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi criticised the ‘deeply dangerous behaviour’ by Israel in inviting the far-right activist.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 10d

89 years ago today Mosley attempted to march his blackshirts through the East End of London. The Jewish press counselled calm. East End Jews - backed primarily by Irish & Communists - beat them back with fists, pipes, clubs. Old women poured hot water on them from above.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 11d

When hiking in the Alps Ödön von Horváth found a skeleton with rucksack attached. He opened the rucksack to find an addressed postcard: 'Having a wonderful time.'

Horváth's friends asked him what he did next.

'I posted it.'

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