Iain Nicol
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oh no
ballotbox.scot
Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, candidate for SNP leader in 2023 and subsequently Alba leader in 2025, has now quit Alba citing it's "direction". She becomes an Independent and is re-standing as one next year. Alba's - never earned, only defected - parliamentary representation is ended.
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Absolutely. It's plain and simple bullying, justified with a veneer of progressive language. Sorry you were the victim of that.
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🙂 Union branch pushing to disaffiliate from Labour

🙃 Union branch pushing for closer links to Your Party
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amazingmikeyc.bsky.social
During the night one of our cats has got into this pack of cheese topped bread rolls and eaten the cheese off the top
Cheeseless bread rolls
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You know what might help is a mandatory digital ID card called a Brit Card.
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Well, interesting they're saying they didn't see a huge diff in indy support.

Long term, however, this can't be good for unionism. A lot of unionism (despite claiming otherwise) boils down to “I like Britain”.
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Damn, I'd missed that.
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If the agreement ends the immediate violence, and lets hostages and prisoners return to their families, we should all welcome it.

But it says nothing about the long term solution, or justice for Palestine. The occupation must end, and war criminals must face justice.
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Greens response to Gaza ceasefire agreement
Greens response to Gaza ceasefire agreement - Statement: Scottish Greens response to Gaza ceasefire
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rummlie.bsky.social
Pretending Covid was over, then refusing to give folk access to Covid vaccines, then forcing folk into work if they're infected, leading to folk having multiple Covid infections, which impacts longterm health, and increases the risk of Long Covid..

And this is how they deal with the aftermath. Cnts
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BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness
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Sabrina Carpenter did a clean version of Please, Please, Please for the BBC. I was impressed by her tweaking the lyrics, as opposed to simply bleeping out the swear word.
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🎵 Heartbreak is one thing, my ego’s another, I beg you

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/8QcIsk/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">don’t embarrass me like the others
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/8QcIsk/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">don’t embarrass me motherfucker

📊 Show results
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bluesky benefits:
- some cool people
- secondmost lowtax owner

tumblr benefits:
- gays
- art
- gay art

mastodon benefits:
- you default to being in the top 3 of funniest people on the site
- CWs to filter any mention of the UK

twitter benefits:
- adolf hitler
- the screams of unbaptized orphans
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a little more good faith and a little less giant accounts quoting smaller ones for kicks please
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well that escalated quickly
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Phew, misread that as Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris, Voyager).
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Beginning to wonder if the loud voices against some removable paint at Stonehenge were not, in fact, deeply and genuinely concerned for the rare lichen there.

Or something.
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I think everybody who accused Kevin McKenna of writing the same article every week owe him an apology. This is journalism you sit up and notice.
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'There’s a feeling too that the Orange Order has acted in good faith and in the spirit of One Scotland Many Cultures; that they’ve moved into those values and helped advance Scotland’s reputation as an inclusive, diverse and tolerant nation' || Kevin McKenna 👇
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pickwick.bsky.social
If you just started catching up on the synagogue attack news stories now, you would never ever find out that one of the victims was shot by the police
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rummlie.bsky.social
If you are abducted in international waters, the UK "government" will just abandon you.

British values, eh?
adambienkov.bsky.social
Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”