John Erskine
@erskine.bsky.social
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Scottish. Supporter of Scottish independence. Twitter evacuee. Fond of mountains, lochs and bikes! Speaker of poor Gaelic. Chan eil mi a' bruidhinn Gàidhlig gu math.
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johnswinney.bsky.social
Really privileged to meet Sid Khan today - a remarkable Scot who joined the Global Sumud Flotilla in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

His compassion and courage in standing up for peace and justice speak to who we are as a nation. 🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
erskine.bsky.social
This guy even looks like someone from a bad horror movie.
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wearthepeace.bsky.social
FIFA is too cowardly to kick the occupation state from all competitions so countries are making sure they don’t advance by trashing them. Norway won their match today 5-0 and Norway’s soccer federation says it will donate all profits from this World Cup qualifying game to aid work in Gaza.
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scotnational.bsky.social
A first look at tomorrow's front page of The Sunday National 📰

Members back FM's indyref plan
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shieldaig.bsky.social
Low tide by the 'Bay of Deception'. The munro 'Liathach' behind.
October light on sea and mountain.
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gtconway.bsky.social
Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org
erskine.bsky.social
Interesting. It is not clarified if the proposed morning show with Geissler and MacIver would replace Adams or GMS. If it replaced Adams, then fine. That show badly needs to go. Stephen Jardine is fine, but Adams has been toiling for years and relies too heavily on anti-Scot Govt stuff.
erskine.bsky.social
I am a subscriber though. :(
erskine.bsky.social
For some time now I have found that comments in The National seem to be disabled. Is this right, or am I the only one seeing this?
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scotnational.bsky.social
EXC: SNP members will vote on the creation of a provisional government to run in parallel with the Scottish Parliament as part of a plan to push forward independence
SNP members to vote on 'provisional government' in independence strategy battle
www.thenational.scot
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indyvoices.bsky.social
This poll seems like a stretch, but SNP/ Green/ Plaid on 82 versus Labour & Tories on 77 falls into the category of ‘interesting times’.
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scotnational.bsky.social
Today's front page of The National is a special celebration of the opening of this year’s Mòd festival 👇
The National's front page celebrates the opening day of The Mòd 2025
www.thenational.scot
erskine.bsky.social
This estate has been at this for over 30 years at least. There were complaints and confrontations then. The guidebook used to, in fact, carry instructions on the restrictions, including the direction in which the mountains should be traversed. Nonsense nowadays. www.thenational.scot/news/2553126...
Scottish estate order to remove 'no walking' signs at popular Munros
A SCOTTISH estate has been ordered to remove “No Walking” signs aimed at stopping hillwalkers from accessing four popular Munros on its grounds…
www.thenational.scot
erskine.bsky.social
One tip..... Do not allow companies to force you into building up too much credit. Only they benefit from this. www.believeinscotland.org/scottish_cus...
Scottish customers are being ripped off by the UK energy system
www.believeinscotland.org
erskine.bsky.social
Shame on the Western Isles. An area where many incomers have improved the isles.
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newseye.bsky.social
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
erskine.bsky.social
Do you make people mortgage their houses to pay their medical bills and keep themselves alive? Do you also elect dictators who spread their Fascism across the globe pandering to racists and bigots?