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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 2d

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 3d

does anyone remember that young communist league article from a few years back which lambasted the left about not not looking “normal”

Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 3d

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

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eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 3d

this was a subtweet to the person i was sat next to on the train 🤗

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eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 3d

i don’t doubt AI has some wonderful uses but if you’re using AI to write the most basic emails you need to get a grip

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eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 3d

you need to try them

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eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 3d

digital social cleansing - but i guess influencers would call that aesthetic

maximum robespierre @seeemilyplay.bsky.social · 4d

okay you’ve got to admit: edinburgh influencers using ai to literally erase the people of edinburgh is so spectacularly on the nose

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eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 9d

reddit reviews of taylor’s new album are great

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 11d

Apparently Israel’s genocidal acts are just “daft”.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 11d

NEW: Rent controls are set to be introduced in Scotland after the Government’s housing reform legislation passed at Holyrood

'Important step forwards' as Housing Bill passes with plan for rent controls

www.thenational.scot

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eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 11d

looking forward to sleeping properly for the first time in years :-) rent controls also lower cortisol :-)

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eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 11d

anyway bill passed! scotland has rent controls! onwards comrades

eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 11d

watching the rent control vote by myself in a hotel at labour conference which is just such a depressing and also comically evil end to years of organising for this moment lmao

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eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 11d

watching the rent control vote by myself in a hotel at labour conference which is just such a depressing and also comically evil end to years of organising for this moment lmao

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eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 17d

i just want to know how she got the heart into the wedding cake

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 17d

it was his own staffer 💀

Nick Sortor & @nicksortor • 16h
* BREAKING: The Secret Service has launched an investigation into the escalator situation at the United Nations today, per Karoline Leavitt
If someone did this intentionally, they should be
CRIMINALLY charged.
It put President Trump is a VERY compromising position.
"If we find that these were UN staffers who were purposefully trying to trip up President Trump and FLOTUS well, there better be accountability for those people," Leavitt said

Steve Cortes @CortesSteve
Follow S *
Considering the recent trend of left wing violence, including Pres Trump taking a bullet to the head, crap stunts like this one cannot be tolerated.
Get the UN the hell out of America!

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eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 17d

i may be dumb but i ain’t stupid

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eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 17d

i’m not losing another fiver to the your party wars. you have fun though

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eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 19d

from our final rally for rent controls last night. debate is today and the vote is tomorrow - then towards a future of permanent rent controls in scotland. up the might living rent 💚

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josh @lobstereo.bsky.social · 20d

also engenders a dangerous complacency where the mass civil society response that is required to actually push back on this stuff doesn‘t happen because people convince themselves “it won’t happen so why should they have to put their heads above water on it“

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 20d

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 21d

We are going to avoid worst case climate projections because of them…but at what cost?

The New York Times
What Will China's Green-Tech
Ambitions Cost the World?
3 days ago

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eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 21d

have two hot leads only works when they have chemistry!!

eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 21d

big bold beautiful journey was terrible btw. farrell and robbie both being hot still doesn’t redeem it

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eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 21d

one of the fash kept showing a pic of a cross on their phone to me and kat so every time he did we’d would roll our eyes back and act like we were going through an exorcism lmao

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 23d

NEW

Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action?

A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak

By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

The New York Times has now published a document which sets out the government’s basis for the proscription. This is the “open” version of the MI5 assessment that has been placed before the courts in litigation challenging the proscription. The judges would also see a “closed” version with material not to be placed in the public domain.

One hopes the “closed” version is a far more impressive document than the one published, which is a flimsy and unconvincing piece of work. The assessment even admits—twice—that most of the activity of Palestine Action cannot be called terrorism.

The document overall reads as if it has been compiled backwards, intending to justify a conclusion that needed to be reached. If so, it will not be the first intelligence document to have been created in such a way.

The assessment relies on the group having caused “serious” property damage, which is the relevant statutory test. The problem here is that the spraying of paint and graffiti by the group does not meet the threshold of seriousness.

The document also relies on “open source” estimates of the cost of damage which, if one looks at the cited sources, trace back to a claim which the police themselves put to arrested protesters in interview. As such there is a certain circularity: the state is relying on the state claiming the damage is serious.

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eilidh @eilidh.bsky.social · 23d

he is a campaigner not a leader!!!

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.bsky.social · 23d

your party changing its avatar to a black circle and doing a notes apology

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