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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 16h

I wrote this on Nathan Gill, Russian bribes, Reform and Farage nearly two weeks ago. Here it is again if you’re sick of the silence of the UK media

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

It's time we asked some serious questions about Reform and Russia, says Neil Mackay

As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 8h

Third strip hoodoo.

Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 8h

A ten at this stage? Game's gone. #strictly

Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 9h

Exceptionally genocidal, they stood for the values of Hitler, Pol Pot and Idi Amin, as they waged an assymetric war against innocent civilians, journalists, medics, and aid workers.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Jared Kushner in Tel Aviv: "Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional, you chose to stand for the values that you stand for, and I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel."

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 11h

Looking at the right hand end, and anticipating the painter up some steps, gives me the absolute fear.

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 19h

You might like this newspaper photo from 1976 when the Subway was extensively modernised. St Enoch mainline and its hotel with its St Pancras style raised approach has been demolished for a car park, and the Subway station floats above a huge hole in which the modern station is now located.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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The Highland Council @highland.gov.uk · 1d

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ These are fake 'RingGo' QR codes that have been found by enforcement officers in #Inverness. Do NOT scan them. They will take you to a fake website. All our parking machines accept card & cash payments directly on the ticket machine.
@HighlandCouncil

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 1d

a man stands in front of a microphone with the word do written in yellow

Alt: a man stands in front of a microphone with the words do you ski written in yellow

media.tenor.com

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 1d

A photo meme showing two small children cowering in a corner with the caption "conservatives". They are looking to the opposite corner where there is a rabbit and a wooden bucket with the caption "shit Conservatives made up".

Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 1d

There's always next year, after the successful suppression of the Portland Frog riots.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 2d

Bring back Cieran Slicker on Sunday for the lols. #scotland

Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 2d

It was grim. No self belief. You wonder what it is in the Scotland camp that turns players at the peak of their game into showroom dummies. Actually not what, but who.

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 2d

300 Scotsmen #hampdenthermopylae

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 2d

Saving their energy for midnight snacks and the darts tourney back at the team hotel.

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like a hazy pale. Fine carbonation (as promised), light smoke flavours, tiny hint of biscuit. Very nice.

A pilsner glass half full of hazy Grodziskie style smoked beer stands beside a brown bottle with a blue label

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 2d

That's quite something.

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 2d

It's in the fridge right now, waiting for the football on the telly.

Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 2d

Council officer: "... a balance has to be struck between the needs of a community and the needs of other users.”

🤔 If all the surrounding roads are 20 limit, who *needs* this road to have a 30 limit, and more importantly, why?

The Edinburgh Reporter @edinreporter.bsky.social · 2d

East Lothian 20mph plea rejected by councillors

Residents on a main road into East Lothian’s biggest town have lost a five year long battle to have the speed limit on it reduced to 20mph. More than 50 people living on Ravensheugh Road, which lies at the south entrance to Musselburgh travelling…

East Lothian 20mph plea rejected by councillors

Residents on a main road into East Lothian’s biggest town have lost a five year long battle to have the speed limit on it reduced to 20mph. More than 50 people living on Ravensheugh Road, which lies at the south entrance to Musselburgh travelling from Prestonpans, signed a petition demanding the council overturn officers’ refusal to cut the 30mph speed limit on the road.

theedinburghreporter.co.uk

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 2d

Beer thought, having bought some Schlenkerla Grodsyzkie. What if the person telling you that a beer is a good example of a style has only tried two versions? We need to recategorise beer sampling into nice/not nice and just leave it at that. 😇

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 2d

Like a horrific version of Spargelzeit

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 3d

Losing the war on woke

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 3d

Much better than the civilian version. Playing for charity allows people like me to engage again, unlike the unease of seeing folk form friendships with people who are lying for cash.

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 3d

Not long now until somebody tries the Wayne's World "a sphincter says what" joke.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: Roy Singham is married to one of the co-founders of Code Pink

TRUMP: Who?

Q: What is the administration going to do to bring consequences?

TRUMP: Well I don't know the name, but I'd like to ask Pam to take a look at it. I'd like you to look at it, Pam

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