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Gavin Greig

@ggreig.com

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Software developer wha bides i the East Neuk. He/him. Likes 28/32mm models for role-playing games, especially pulp/steampunk/scientific romance. Thinks Scotland should be a normal country - independent. http://ggreig.com, https://mastodon.scot/@ggreig

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Gavin Greig @ggreig.com · Nov 16

Should probably do an "introductory" thread:

I work as a software developer, now for a company in London, but I live in a village in Fife, Scotland. Technically I've been on BlueSky for a bit over a year already but have only fully committed to the move since the US elected Trump for a second time.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 5h

Yes. It's very simple. You decide what you want, and then you fight for it. That's how politics works. That's how change happens. Anyone who throws hurdles in front of themself before they've even taken the first step is not passionate about doing anything. They're just self-defeatist time wasters.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 18h

Have you noticed?
Whenever the issue of rejoining either the Single Market, the Customs Union or the whole EU is mentioned, a number of supposedly "pro-EU" accounts immediately jump in as the first answers to tell people why it wouldn't be possible. They are never constructive, always destructive.

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John #GTTO #FBPE #REJOINEU #FBPPR @rcamatrix.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve got no time whatsoever for Tony Blair but the BBC scraping the bottom of the barrel for knocking copy on the LP is so on message for them. Compare this with the absolute silence over the relationship between Nathan Gill and Farage.

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister

The ex-PM confirms he met Epstein in 2002, six years before the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gavin Greig @ggreig.com · 10h

I wouldn't even bother putting them in a bag, TBH. Just chuck'em.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 19h

In the run-up to GE2026 the unionist parties are going to make all sorts of promises about how Scotland will benefit by staying in the UK. We've been there before. #DontGetFooledAgain #VoteForScotland2026 indyposterboy.scot/broken-promi...

Broken Promises - Indy PosterBoy

Download this design as a printable PDF document, perfect for printing using your home inkjet or laser colour printer at A5, A4 or even as big as A3 size.

indyposterboy.scot

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 1d

When "all of this" is over and the centrist pundits and politicians are kissing Musk's ass again, don't let them. Don't let anyone ignore that Musk is a mass murderer.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1d

given Labour's likely reliance on tactical voting next time out, it's not what I'd call a thing of beauty

Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 1d

Well, this is fun.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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National Yes Network @nationalyesnetwork.bsky.social · 1d

Scotland voted Remain, and were dragged out of the EU because our domineering neighbour forced us to leave, despite all the promises made in 2014.

For real change, we need #ScottishIndependence and a return to the EU.

European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 1d

From Sunday, travelling into Europe gets tougher for Brits.

New EU border rules mean fingerprint scans, photo registration and longer queues.

This is the real-world cost of Brexit - more hassle, more red tape, more delays.

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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 1d

This is what we need. No more pretending they're normal politicians. No borrowing their language and policies in the vain hope of picking up a few votes. Call them out, every single time.
Because if they ever get near power, it'll be far too late.

The Daily Politik @dailypolitik.bsky.social · 1d

Zack Polanski used the ‘F’ word twice on BBCQT last night… and the audience applauded him for it 👇

"You actually are a fascist from a far right party… this is racism, this is facism and we should call it out"

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

And it shall be known as: ‘The Nobel Peace Prize (That You Don’t Know Because It Goes To A Different School.’)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

They really are like children

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Gavin Greig @ggreig.com · 1d

I think the best future is one of small independent nations cooperating in confederations like the EU, for a balance of local solution building and consensual frameworks for scale and what you might call common decency.

Current events just add urgency.

Gavin Greig @ggreig.com · 1d

I genuinely hope the UK pulls back from that, and a saner Labour Party recovers, and there is some time for it to do so, but I’m not seeing a lot of hope at the moment that it actually will.

Gavin Greig @ggreig.com · 1d

It’s both. How governments are elected is the more important thing (and an independent Scotland could always go fascist in future, though I hope not), but you can’t ignore the UK’s direction of travel and how poorly that tallies with Scottish priorities.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2d

You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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Gavin Greig @ggreig.com · 1d

If things stay as they are, it looks increasingly likely to me that you can either vote for Scottish independence or you can vote to let fascism in. I don’t suppose Unionist parties will see it that way, but that’s how the numbers are stacking up.

Andrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social · 2d

Where are Reform’s Scottish votes coming from?

SP26: Where are Reform’s votes coming from?

With Reform on the rise, how has that affected other parties? In short, Reform are lapping up the 2021 Conservative and 2024 Labour votes, but barely registering amongst past SNP voters.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 2d

Every time he does this a calculator somewhere in the country spontaneously bursts into flames

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We're gonna be reducing the cost of medicines by 100%, 200%, 300%, 500% and even more than that."

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 2d

My God, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a political self-destruction as rapid as that of UK Labour.
Those still sipping the Koolaid need to reflect on how well playing to the far right’s agenda is working out.
UK Labour could be reduced to London and a few core seats in traditional strongholds.

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 NOWCAST | Reform to win majority of 108

➡️ REF – 379 seats (+374)
🟠 LD – 83 seats (+11)
🔴 LAB – 76 seats (-335)
🟡 SNP – 46 seats (+37)
🔵 CON – 21 seats (-100)
🟢 GRN – 5 seats (+1)

+/- vs GE2024

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 2d

This poll seems like a stretch, but SNP/ Green/ Plaid on 82 versus Labour & Tories on 77 falls into the category of ‘interesting times’.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d

Seat Projection:

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social · 2d

Ouch

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

Marvellous column by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social that absolutely nails Kemi Badenoch - who clearly very deeply believes that the mere act of 'well, I'm saying it' means that something must be thoughtful, even if it is just a more innumerate and caustic echo of Nigel Farage:

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr