Aidan Skinner
@aidan.skinner.me.uk
Open Source Open Rights Open Banking Open Supply Chains Open Labour
Open Minds
Open Containers
Open's a verb
GNU/Accelerationist
Dusty black coat red right hand
(He/Him)
Open Minds
Open Containers
Open's a verb
GNU/Accelerationist
Dusty black coat red right hand
(He/Him)
The attackers appear to have drawn the defenders out to the south and the infiltrated the inner keep from the north
NEW Have archaeologists identified the largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain? Survey at Brusselstown Ring, one of the largest hillforts in Ireland, found evidence for potentially hundreds of occupied roundhouses!
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The attackers appear to have drawn the defenders out to the south and the infiltrated the inner keep from the north
it's "astonishingly arrogant" for the SNP to try and bounce the UK into a second scexit referendum there's no mandate for and that they have no plan for implementing the result of if they won it.
Rachel Reeves accused of 'astonishing arrogance' over Scottish independence referendum call
www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
Rachel Reeves accused of 'astonishing arrogance' over independence referendum call
The Chancellor has given her thoughts on a second independence referendum for Scotland, as she spoke on Thursday morning to promote the UK Budget
www.scotsman.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
it's "astonishingly arrogant" for the SNP to try and bounce the UK into a second scexit referendum there's no mandate for and that they have no plan for implementing the result of if they won it.
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Looking at this pic of Justin Bieber's house, I'll never understand why the infinitely rich choose to live in gaffs that look like millennium era lottery funded conference centres.
September 19, 2023 at 10:37 AM
Looking at this pic of Justin Bieber's house, I'll never understand why the infinitely rich choose to live in gaffs that look like millennium era lottery funded conference centres.
Busted McFlushFace (Corbyn v Sultanaism)
Ahead of its launch conference this weekend, 12% of Britons say they are likely to consider voting for Your Party, down from 18% in July
Not only is this less than for the established parties, but it has additional caveats... / 🧵
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Not only is this less than for the established parties, but it has additional caveats... / 🧵
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
November 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Busted McFlushFace (Corbyn v Sultanaism)
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Could institute a formal process of nomination & voting for "the Alan Clark Memorial Shield" - the most persistent advocate of overt prejudice in mainstream media - for December & annually. (Happy for any media outlet to take on the idea)
Rupert Lowe, Ant Middleton and Lucy White seem to be engaged in the contest for what we could call the 'Alan Clark Memorial Shield'
Critieria: who can most persistently make the most overtly prejudiced arguments (while still being granted some 'mainstream' platforms + reputation)
Critieria: who can most persistently make the most overtly prejudiced arguments (while still being granted some 'mainstream' platforms + reputation)
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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A good day for Ed Miliband: mansion tax introduced, green levies moved off bills to taxation, ban on new North Sea oil and gas licences confirmed.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A good day for Ed Miliband: mansion tax introduced, green levies moved off bills to taxation, ban on new North Sea oil and gas licences confirmed.
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LIBRARIES EXIST. if you want to read my book for free that is absolutely fine by me, and you can go to a library and take it home and make a note of anything that’s interesting, and then return it and someone else can do the same. And doing that will help your local library AND I’ll earn a tiny fee.
I see the book piracy discourse is back and as a writer I only have one opinion which is that yea I would actually quite like to earn a comfortable life doing an easy, likeable creative job, I don't think the world owes that to me, but it would be nice, and it's not an insane thing to want
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
LIBRARIES EXIST. if you want to read my book for free that is absolutely fine by me, and you can go to a library and take it home and make a note of anything that’s interesting, and then return it and someone else can do the same. And doing that will help your local library AND I’ll earn a tiny fee.
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Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
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"It’s almost as if women’s right to say ‘no’ is seen as something that should be set aside when we become wives and mothers."
NEW blog: sex schedules are not the answer.
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/sex-sch...
NEW blog: sex schedules are not the answer.
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/sex-sch...
You never have to have sex if you don’t want to | Girl on the Net
You never have to have sex if you don't want to. Obvious, no? So why does this principle get binned in monogamous relationships? Let's talk sex schedules.
www.girlonthenet.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"It’s almost as if women’s right to say ‘no’ is seen as something that should be set aside when we become wives and mothers."
NEW blog: sex schedules are not the answer.
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/sex-sch...
NEW blog: sex schedules are not the answer.
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/sex-sch...
Ross Career has spent his whole parliamentary Greer so far voting for SNP budgets that push brutal austerity onto councils
Today's UK budget could have delivered for people and planet by taking on the rich and powerful.
But that's not what it did. 👇
But that's not what it did. 👇
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Ross Career has spent his whole parliamentary Greer so far voting for SNP budgets that push brutal austerity onto councils
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Amidst the many ups and downs of this government, it's nice to see the Co-operative Party consistently succeeding in its push for more community ownership and co-operative business
💼 IN THE BUDGET:
Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirms a call for evidence on support for co-op growth, as part of our shared mission to double the size of the co-operative sector.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirms a call for evidence on support for co-op growth, as part of our shared mission to double the size of the co-operative sector.
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Amidst the many ups and downs of this government, it's nice to see the Co-operative Party consistently succeeding in its push for more community ownership and co-operative business
This does need to be fixed
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage on.ft.com/3M2AYkD
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage
Surprise move from chancellor means some university graduates in England may have to pay back debts sooner
on.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This does need to be fixed
She's been the responsible minister for 2 and 1/2 years
Ooft - credit to @jennimintomsp.bsky.social for an emotion response to tonight’s GIC wait time debate. I’m thankful she’s taken time to hear from trans people, and hopeful her colleagues in government will respond accordingly to allow progress in this life saving area of healthcare.
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
She's been the responsible minister for 2 and 1/2 years
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📢✨️ Dream postdoc job alert:
Research Associate – Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe (RaRiE).
Full-time, 5 year fixed-term job working with @fergusmcneill.bsky.social at University of Glasgow and researchers in the Netherlands and Norway.
#Criminology #CrimSky
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP716/r...
Research Associate – Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe (RaRiE).
Full-time, 5 year fixed-term job working with @fergusmcneill.bsky.social at University of Glasgow and researchers in the Netherlands and Norway.
#Criminology #CrimSky
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP716/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
📢✨️ Dream postdoc job alert:
Research Associate – Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe (RaRiE).
Full-time, 5 year fixed-term job working with @fergusmcneill.bsky.social at University of Glasgow and researchers in the Netherlands and Norway.
#Criminology #CrimSky
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP716/r...
Research Associate – Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe (RaRiE).
Full-time, 5 year fixed-term job working with @fergusmcneill.bsky.social at University of Glasgow and researchers in the Netherlands and Norway.
#Criminology #CrimSky
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP716/r...
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In politics, you don’t get many days like today - when a campaign you have worked on for eight years finally wins. The 2 child limit is going, 1.6m kids will benefit and 450k will move out of poverty. Take a moment, everyone: we did this
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
In politics, you don’t get many days like today - when a campaign you have worked on for eight years finally wins. The 2 child limit is going, 1.6m kids will benefit and 450k will move out of poverty. Take a moment, everyone: we did this
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The fundamental political-economy for the government is that is objectively implementing a soft left economic policy on speed whilst being hated by lots of left leaning people because of its other policies and rhetoric.
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The fundamental political-economy for the government is that is objectively implementing a soft left economic policy on speed whilst being hated by lots of left leaning people because of its other policies and rhetoric.
The Hives are indisputably one of the greatest live bands around and have been for 25 years
"Here at tiny Saint Luke’s, a converted church, there would be a chance to see the whites of their eyes, the whites of their ties and take a sacrament of sweat at the altar of garage rock."
I went to see The Hives in Glasgow and wrote about it for The Times.
www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...
I went to see The Hives in Glasgow and wrote about it for The Times.
www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...
The Hives review — no phones please and a minute’s silence
The impressive Swedish five-piece stormed through an intimate set at Saint Luke’s church in Glasgow
www.thetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The Hives are indisputably one of the greatest live bands around and have been for 25 years
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I love how this person has invented Lennist-Calvinism, somehow.
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I love how this person has invented Lennist-Calvinism, somehow.
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It'd be fair enough for him to argue that the government should tax the rich a lot more. But it's a silly distortion to say they "refuse to tax the rich" after (even ignoring tax rises from last year) they've just announced a "mansion tax". Trumpy post-truth X type disinfo.
The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population.
How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?
They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?
They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It'd be fair enough for him to argue that the government should tax the rich a lot more. But it's a silly distortion to say they "refuse to tax the rich" after (even ignoring tax rises from last year) they've just announced a "mansion tax". Trumpy post-truth X type disinfo.
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Ourobobus
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Ourobobus
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Periodic reminder that Aaron Banks Twitter DMs got leaked & he was immediately linked to Russian agents & absolutely nothing was done about it.
The UKIP/Reform Russian money trail has been going on for over 8 years now
The UKIP/Reform Russian money trail has been going on for over 8 years now
November 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Periodic reminder that Aaron Banks Twitter DMs got leaked & he was immediately linked to Russian agents & absolutely nothing was done about it.
The UKIP/Reform Russian money trail has been going on for over 8 years now
The UKIP/Reform Russian money trail has been going on for over 8 years now
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"Just another $100M in VC runway and I would have touched the sky"
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"Just another $100M in VC runway and I would have touched the sky"
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Removal of the 2 child limit is hugely welcome. This one measure will immediately lift 20,000 children in Scotland out of poverty.
Props to those in Scotland - and elsewhere - who campaigned relentlessly for its removal.
#Budget
Props to those in Scotland - and elsewhere - who campaigned relentlessly for its removal.
#Budget
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Removal of the 2 child limit is hugely welcome. This one measure will immediately lift 20,000 children in Scotland out of poverty.
Props to those in Scotland - and elsewhere - who campaigned relentlessly for its removal.
#Budget
Props to those in Scotland - and elsewhere - who campaigned relentlessly for its removal.
#Budget