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Mike-in-Scotland
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Left wing voter / Pro-republic / atheist. My interests include science, nature, good TV & books. ⛔️No fan of the right wing in whatever form they take ✅️ A Progressive Scotsman from the Highlands, supporting Scottish independence🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴 🚫 No DM
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His words of caution reaching out to us, across time, from 1940.
Has Charlie Chaplin's words ever been more relevant than today?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2G2...
The Great Dictator Speech - Charlie Chaplin
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Also interesting, is how long it's been since any poll, from any pollster, found above 50% support for the union. It's been 14 months since a poll 51% or more in support. In that time, there's been three for independence, at 51 and 52%.
Average support for the union has fallen around 10% since 2014
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🚨NEW POLL - Majority back Scottish independence!

YES - 55%
NO - 45%
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In memory of one of humanity’s greatest conservationists!

Dr. Jane Goodall
(April 3, 1934 - October 1, 2025)

#janegoodall #janegoodallinstitute
#RootsandShoots
#NonhumanRightsProject
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Speaking of Dylan Roof.

At the rate we’re going if you’re a registered Republican, you’re not gonna be allowed to come within 50 feet of a minor 🥴

#DylanRoof

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ABC just canceled Jimmy Kimmel for anti-Trump remarks. Paramount axed Colbert for the same.

People are losing jobs for eulogizing Charlie Kirk with his own words — the words of a bigot.

Independent journalism has never been more vital. We face threats daily, but truth depends on us.
It's now been over a year since the last opinion poll showed over 50% of the Scottish population supporting the continuation of the political union, the UK, when 'Don't knows', are counted.
On the other hand, there have been two polls showing more than 50% for independence, in between then and now.
Did he mean to say there was no intelligence there? He'd be right, though not in the way he probably meant.
Exactly. Westminster's either failing morally, or acting cowardly. It's one or the other, and people will view this appeasement of a fascist, the way they would if they were welcoming Hitler. They'll never live it down. One wouldn't expect any less than the DEform party. We can now add Labour to it
The photo is Elgin centre (not taken by me), but it's the town I was walking through yesterday, and saw how empty it was.
Is that a new thing? I know some shops in some places only do certain hours on Sundays. I never knew Monday was one of those days.
I remember when shopping centres were the big threat to town centres, now they're both struggling to survive.
I knew, or at least I'd heard that online shopping was hurting town centres, but because I've never been a big shopper, even before online shopping, the few times I've been into town, I'm used to seeing more people around. This time it was almost empty, at 2pm on a Monday afternoon.
I was walking through the town centre yesterday, at 2pm, and it was practically empty.
It's been a couple of years since I've been to any town/city centre, during the afternoon, is this how things are now in Scotland? I'm sure it used to be much busier in the afternoons.
#scotland
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Governor of Utah, "I was praying that it was an immigrant."

The USA is a hellhole, to smear immigrants like this on stage in front of the whole country when they had nothing to do with it.

This is disgusting.
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Clearest image of the surface of Venus. From soviet Venera 13 in 1982

For anyone interested: flight time - 4 months, lander mission duration - 127 minutes. The parachute detached at 31 mi above the surface; simple air braking was used for the