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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 18h

Whatever becomes of this ceasefire, the reality is clear - humanity cannot suffer the state of Israel to exist.

We will destroy it or it will destroy all of us

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 21h

People who side with the monsters who do this are monsters themselves

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 1d

Scottish labour is part of UK labour
The scottish conservatives are part of the UK Conservatives
The Scottish Lib Dems are part of the UK Lib Dems.

The Scottish greens and *the green party of England and Wales* are separate parties.

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 2d

Sure is good for clicks though

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 4d

She personally endorsed the bombing and is backed by the US government

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 4d

Actually to correct myself, she doesnt explicitly *lead* the party and instead operates as it's National Coordinator - unclear exactly how close to leadership that is within their structure but she isn't listed on the leaders page on their site

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 4d

Oh this is way more explicit than I expected, they're not even hiding it folks!

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 4d

Here is your Nobel Peace Prize, advocating for the open murder of mariners simply because they were returning on their boat to Venezuela. She is a violent sicko.

"Legitimate pressure". Someone should put some legitimate pressure on the Nobel Committee and really start doing some politics!

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado welcomed the US strike, describing it as legitimate pressure. She interpreted it as a direct attack on the government, which she said would be overthrown before long.

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 4d

Lol come on now

The daughter of a steel magnate whose business got nationalised, who got into politics by starting a US-government-funded "pro-democracy" org with a McKinsey consultant and who now runs the US-backed right wing party?

The consent-manufacturing factory is running at full steam rn

Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely brilliant that Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize. A defender of democracy who put herself in danger deservedly rewarded

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 5d

Vance just be kept away at all costs

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 5d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 5d

Third times the charm

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 5d

Venues will specifically announce "we are closing because we got a 1000% rent increase" or "we are closing because people can't afford to buy tickets/drinks any more" and the response from both the government and increasingly-disappointing NTIA is "got it, tax cuts/deregulation 👍"

It's maddening!

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 6d

The pubs around me usually close before their licensed hours because there's hardly anyone there and those of us who remain are nursing our £6 pints as long as we can

THE RENT, BOTH RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL, IS TOO DAMN HIGH

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Pubs to stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise move Pubs, clubs and restaurants will be able to open into the early hours as part of Labour’s drive for economic growth, a move which critics say will lead to more drunken disorder. Ministers are pushing ahead with plans to allow premises that sell alcohol to extend their opening hours in order to boost “the British night out” and help the hospitality sector. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 6d

Dw chief we'll get you educated ☺️

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 7d

Be aware that Mr Mamdani, a Muslim man of immigrant parents, cannot just come out and say the exact words you would like. I read these words carefully and his sincerity remains clear and full of conviction. Free Palestine.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 8d

Yankee go home

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 8d

Where's her fucking poppy

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 8d

In place of a speech by Victoria Atkins, the shadow Defra secretary, she is holding a “rally for the countryside” in the main exhibition hall. Her Union Jack jacket is back from the dry cleaners again.

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 8d

Name names I've gotta go bully them

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Beth 💜 @picklebee.bsky.social · 10d

This should be a resigning matter, no minister of health or leadership at Sandyford should be able to govern over a health service that has a waiting list of over 224 years.

The gender service at Sandyford must be abolished and replaced with primary healthcare

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

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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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 11d

Whenever I hear that "there isn't money" for basic lifesaving services, this is now the image that will flash unbidden to my mind

juux @juux.com · 11d

burn it all down
burn it to the ground

News website screenshot
[Photo: A woman is sitting in front of a fireplace. She is wearing a light brown dress and is smiling]

Taylor Humphrey says she has always been interested in baby names

Meet the woman who will name your baby — for $30,000
Taylor Humphrey, a San Francisco-based baby-name consultant, makes a living giving advice on the perfect monikers for the children of wealthy celebrity clients

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Blood Seagull @redtim.bsky.social · 13d

Ahhhh, fuck. Currently no reported deaths besides the attacker, so let's hope it stays that way.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 13d

Actually, yes, if you consider toilets to be a safe sanctuary away from trans people and the presence of a trans person in one to be so horrifying you need to bring in legal to ban it you are the very definition of transphobic

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 14d

Because built environments precede and shape the way people engage with them.

You don't build car-dominated infrastructure because of some inherent car-dominance of a space, you build car-dominant infrastructure and then people are incentivised, even forced to drive to exist in that space.

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 16d

Anyone who actually cares about protecting women and girls should be clamouring for a Butlerian Jihad against this shit and the jackals who have made it

Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social · 17d

yeah I saw one the other day where it was explicitly advertising that they'd build an 'AI girlfriend' based on pictures of your real life 'crush' - but apparently google doesnt think there's anything wrong with that from the response I got when I reported it

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 18d

If we let this shit slide it'll get bedded in alongside "whataboutery", the unforgivable sin of identifying the obvious hypocrisies in anticommunist polemic

Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 18d

"popularism" is the vile communist crime of having people like and agree with you

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18d

I think any fair reading of the polls at this point, particularly among the electorate he’s trying to win, would have to conclude that this, in fact, popularism.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18d

As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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Cameron Scally @cameronws.bsky.social · 18d

*who is learning

It's a lifelong journey!

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