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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.bsky.social · 8h

one thing i will never forget and forever be sickened by was that the leader of the SNP's, the First Minister's, in-laws were literally being bombed in an active genocide and the press and most of the political establishment just didn't care

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 9h

Husam Zomlot thanked the people of Scotland in a rousing speech to SNP conference

🗣️ 'The Palestinian people will never forget the support of the people of Scotland when we needed it most'

Husam Zomlot thanks people of Scotland in rousing speech to SNP conference

www.thenational.scot

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Simon @simonxix.com · 10h

I don't have to imagine not knowing what platform my train has been changed to or if it's running late because I've been to Preston station.

An information paragraph about the first Real-Time Passenger Information system.

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Simon @simonxix.com · 10h

While it was in town, we took a trip to see the Inspiration exhibition train that's working its way around Britain to celebrate 200 years of the modern railway. https://railway200.co.uk/inspiration/

A train carriage with the word 'Future' written on the side

A man standing in front of a train locomotive named 'Michael Portillo' (the locomotive, not the man)

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 13h

"Why travel all the way to Italy when you can visit a place much closer by that is shaped like Italy?"

bigthink.com/strange-maps...

poster of great western railways visit cornwall it better than italy advertising campaign

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 1d

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

9:09am - 9/9/2025 180K Views

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Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 17h

hello i have just learned about Terry Pratchett's multiple German publishers who either used unbelievably bad covers or put soup ads in the middle of the book.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 2d

If I was afraid of cities, I'd be so embarrassed, you wouldn't be able to torture that information out of me

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Simon @simonxix.com · 1d

I've even had decent Chicago-style pizza here (at Thundercats) which I never thought I'd get again without going back to Chicago.

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Simon @simonxix.com · Feb 25

A very fine Total Trust tasting menu at Glasgow's 111 by Modou today. You don't know what you're getting and have to guess what you've eaten.

A delicious starter that I don't want to spoil what it is.

A very nice fish course with white fish and various purees.

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Simon @simonxix.com · 1d

Next week we're going for a tasting menu of tacos for £25 each. That's at La Masa Taco Bar and the food is wildly good.

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Simon @simonxix.com · 1d

Glasgow is the best city I've ever lived in for food: a huge range of diverse cuisines, incredible places for tasting menus and Michelin-level food, and a great city for vegans.

The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 1d

Dinner at the Lasg restaurant on Blythewood Square, in a genteel Georgian part of Glasgow I didn’t know existed - but only 10 minutes walk from Central. Big fan of mussels, these were superb. I reckon Edinburgh gets all the attention, Glasgow is hiding its light under a bushel…

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Simon @simonxix.com · 1d

Fascinating that Morgan simultaneously denies the existence of some trans people while also not wanting people to think he has a problem with trans people. He wants to be a bigot but not to be called a bigot.

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 1d

So police used a paedophile to spy on green activists. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists

Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters

www.theguardian.com

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International Wader Study Group @waderstudy.bsky.social · 2d

Today IUCN has officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.

Read more here ⬇️
www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 1d

*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.

LopaLeach @lopa.bsky.social · 2d

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU

Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 1d

John Curtice said after the 2021 Holyrood elections that the launch of the Alba had actually helped the Scottish Greens by making people more aware of the idea of voting for a different pro-independence party on the regional ballot, and i wonder if Your Party is having a similar impact on the GPEW

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2d

Lisa wheeling in a lifeless Bart saying MOM, DAD, BART’S DEAD!

BART popping to life and saying DEAD SERIOUS ABOUT GOING TO ITCHY AND SCRATCHYLAND

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The Daily Politik @dailypolitik.bsky.social · 2d

Zack Polanski used the ‘F’ word twice on BBCQT last night… and the audience applauded him for it 👇

"You actually are a fascist from a far right party… this is racism, this is facism and we should call it out"

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Simon @simonxix.com · 2d

You guys are still working on that?

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

New from 404 Media: an internal Meta message we obtained tells employees on its metaverse team that they should be using AI to “go 5x faster”. That's 5 times faster, not 5 percent more.

www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

www.404media.co

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Simon @simonxix.com · 2d

My hope is that Ash Regan starts her own party and subsequently loses a leadership contest for it.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Ash Regan has quit the Alba Party

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 2d

Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, candidate for SNP leader in 2023 and subsequently Alba leader in 2025, has now quit Alba citing it's "direction". She becomes an Independent and is re-standing as one next year. Alba's - never earned, only defected - parliamentary representation is ended.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Simon @simonxix.com · 2d

Literal toilet police in England. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskBrits/comments/1o2llvb/should_i_laugh_or_cry/

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 2d

Nice try, “Paul A. Thompson”

A Pitchfork review for One Battle After Another that call it a “nerve-wracking masterpiece”, written by one Paul A. Thompson

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Simon @simonxix.com · 2d

Mind when a Chinese tech company released an open source model that showed you could have an LLM that didn't need all the processing power and hardware propping up the US "AI" industry and everyone panicked until they decided to just ignore it?

Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 2d

Bloomberg bubble charts the Bubble:

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