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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · Aug 9

grateful as ever to the National for highlighting the important and impactful work @theseislands.bsky.social is doing to inform the constitutional debate - if you would like to support our ongoing efforts, you can donate to these Islands here > www.these-islands.co.uk/funding/d5/

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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · Aug 1

a masterclass in rhetorical deception

1. that a big new wind farm “could” be built has nothing to do with current electricity bills

2. Scotland is a “renewables superpower” because the “Westminster run” energy market offers price guarantees to wind farm developers (which impact all GB bill payers)

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Jul 26

whole lot of tension on social media comes from the fact, imo, that the Very Online are either 1) people who love The World and other people so much that IRL isn't enough and they must socialise on the computer as well 2) people who hate The World and other people IRL and only want the computer

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · Jul 26

Can't get over the fact that the world's largest collection of people who don't cook turned up in my mentions to demand housing policy be oriented around them first yesterday. There really is something about this website where it gathers antisocial weirdos who have no idea what an abnormity they are

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Wednesbury Addams @davidallengreen.bsky.social · Jun 24

Who would have guessed that someone for whom all business and legal negotiation is based on bluff and bluster would have had nothing other than bluff and bluster in international affairs.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · Jun 22

Keir Starmer’s statement is an exercise in saying as little as humanly possible. It’s three uncontentious general statements followed by a restatement of the existing UK position.

Yes, it’s not a condemnation of the USA’s actions, sure. But it’s not the endorsement some are claiming it is, either.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Jun 19

kindly: what the everliving fuck

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · Jun 19

Today’s London Standard has a big report on how the capital “isn’t working”. It blames immigrants, especially Muslims, and the lack of “White British”. It asks “if there’s a minimum number of natives” at which London must give it up its status as the UK capital. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/lond...

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Natalie Fleet MP @natalie-fleet-mp.bsky.social · Jun 19

“At 15, she began seeing an older man and conceived her beloved daughter. It was years before she properly understood it as abuse. Now she is working tirelessly in parliament for other survivors.”

Thanks Anna Moore for telling my story so sensitively.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘He just told me lies to have sex with a teenage girl’: Natalie Fleet MP on grooming, statutory rape and fighting back

At 15, she began seeing an older man and conceived her beloved daughter. It was years before she properly understood it as abuse. Now she is working tirelessly in parliament for other survivors

www.theguardian.com

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Cat Headley @catheadley.bsky.social · Jun 13

Indeed. I thought the article was perfectly nice,witty and with quintessential understatement.

I would also suggest that *especially* Americans should avoid the flat roofed variety of pubs.

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Cat Headley @catheadley.bsky.social · Jun 13

Tremendous

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Cat Headley @catheadley.bsky.social · Jun 11

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Cat Headley @catheadley.bsky.social · Jun 11

“Can we talk?”

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · Jun 10

Quote this with your most spine-chilling three-word phrase in the English language. I bet you can't beat "replacement bus service" or "family fun day".

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Cat Headley @catheadley.bsky.social · Jun 8

Was it the elderly hedgehogs trying to cross the road that was the first heartbreak?

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · Jun 6

Did a wee stint with @hannahbardell.bsky.social on GMS this morning talking about the by-election result and what it means for Scottish politics. Felt it important to remind folk aghast at the 7000 Reform votes that a million Scots voted Leave in 2016 and have been completely ignored ever since.

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · Jun 6

trying to think of an alternate universe where women in musk/trump positions would have a soap opera fight

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Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · Jun 6

Thrilled to see one such example talking about how a by-election win for ‘the governing party’ is very good news for them, which is of course true but suffers from the fact that Labour are not the governing party in this context.

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Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · Jun 6

If you are a Westminster-based analyst who has paid no heed to Scotland since 2014, please, I beseech you, there is no need to change that pattern today.

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Cat Headley @catheadley.bsky.social · Jun 6

Kate Watson is going to get this framed for her office.

George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · Jun 6

Imagine Scottish Labour will savour this.

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Cat Headley @catheadley.bsky.social · Jun 6

And this guy isn’t off the hook yet either.

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Cat Headley @catheadley.bsky.social · Jun 6

!!!!! Absolutely *phenomenal*. Every inch of credit goes to the Scottish labour ground operation,which truly is something to behold.

Record Politics @politics.dailyrecord.co.uk · Jun 6

Anas Sarwar has declared Scots have "had enough of the SNP" after Labour pulled off a shock victory in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election.

Anas Sarwar says Scots have 'had enough' of the SNP after by-election victory

Labour were 11/1 outsiders to win the Hamilton by-election but pulled off a stunning win that few pollsters saw coming.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Cat Headley @catheadley.bsky.social · Jun 1

Dept Q is great. Highly recommend. Hope there will be a good few more seasons to come!

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · Jun 1

Thank you so much, @heraldscotland.bsky.social, for making this into a graphic

AP MSP Ash Regan: "you cannot possibly drive prostitution underground. If you had women in underground cellars with a locked door, how would punters get to them?"

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · May 28

This is quite a Trumpian way to thank Whitmer for appearing at multiple events with him, despite the extensive blowback she got from Democrats for doing so.

Trump will *always* stab you in the back.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · May 28

Oh ffs. I hate this man.

Trump said Wednesday he would look at pardoning the men convicted in a scheme to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and swiped at the legitimacy of the case, which was brought during the first Trump administration.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump says he will look into possible pardons for the men convicted of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Whitmer, who met with Trump multiple times this year, once placed some of the blame for the plot on Trump's rhetoric.

www.nbcnews.com

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · May 28

Also it’s a dreadful term that sorts the world into (default) white and everyone else, which is takes the problems with “ethnic minority” (which is at least factual as applied nationally) and projects them globally.

It is a bad term on the merits.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · May 28

While campaigners are calling for the term "ethnic minorities" to be replaced with "global majority", just 7% of ethnic minority Britons say they have ever used the term

- 34% say they have ever heard the term
- 7% say they have ever used it

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

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