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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 5h

A gorgeous autumn
has come to Kyiv.
All scents of gold
are breathing on the trees.

How’s the weather
where you are?

muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 4h

It's Banned Books Week! If you love books, and you believe in freedom of thought and belief, check one of these out.

www.facebook.com/share/166nqw...

muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 10h

The Annual Fall Fashion Show is back, with leaves wearing their most spectacular colours! Get out to your local park today - entry is free!

muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 10h

The GERS system is the British government's way of trying to keep Scots both ignorant and docile, many honestly believing they're 'too poor, too wee, too daft' to have a real country.

No one ever asks, if true, why on earth does the UK government do everything in its power to prevent us leaving? 🤔

Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 21h

This means that e.g. duty from spirits like whisky; oil & gas; and renewable energy very largley are collected from Scotland, but we only get about 8% of it back. So no wonder GERS under-estimates Scottish revenues! I refer you to analysis by Andrew Sharpe using ONS data.

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 10h

One of the simple ways that the UK government hides Scotland’s wealth is by using a dodgy two-tier tax formula called GERS. Sadly, simple people still fall for it.

Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 21h

“Scottish" tax revenue (GERS means collected in Scotland) and 2) what is a "UK" tax revenue (collected from Scotland by Westminster). "UK" taxes are allocated on a "national" basis (pro rata based on number population), irrespective of the actual spread of the revenue.

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 10h

The Latin American Community in Edinburgh are holding a free face painting workshop at Ocean Terminal on the 25th, just in time for Halloween parties!

muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 1d

One of the miraculous things about the internet is the way it's transformed people with possession of a keyboard into experts with university degrees. Think of how much time, effort and money I could have saved! 😆

muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 1d

Wee Scots language poyum fir the wimmin

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 1d

It's a wonder we're not whippet-thin!

muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 1d

muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 2d

This is everything art ought to be imho: unique, colourful, engaging, beautifully executed - but it still gives me the heebie-jeebies! 😆

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Elin Thomas, UK textile artist who uses embroidery/crochet to create unique work resembling petri dishes and bacteria spores #womensart

Photo looking down on four petri dishes, neatly arranged, with what resembles bacteria and mould growing inside created with crochet and embroidery

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 2d

The story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Movement is more important now than ever. This is an important book for young people - and maybe you'll want to read it with them.

www.facebook.com/share/1MEejf...

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 3d

If stress caused me to de-age, I'd be an embryo by now... If I got to add pulsating colours and bioluminescence, I'd definitely sign up to be a jellyfish. 🪼

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 3d

Scottish independence may be the last chance we have of protecting democracy - but we need to achieve it soon, before the UK government decides that people who advocate our right to choose are labelled 'domestic terrorists'.

www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 3d

Time for Scotland to say enough is enough.

www.thenational.scot/news/2551844...

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 3d

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 4d

The Sunflower Dreams Project exhibition has opened at Edinburgh Central Library, a collection of Ukranian children's paintings, allowing us to see the beauty and peace of the better world they can imagine.

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 4d

Yesterday's exhibition opening at Edinburgh Central Library, a collection of Ukranian children's paintings. They depict both the reality of war from a child's perspective, and the beauty and peace of the better world they can imagine.

muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 4d

Yesterday's exhibition opening at Edinburgh Central Library, a collection of Ukranian children's paintings. They depict the reality of war from a child's perspective.

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 4d

I was today years old before I discovered the instant photo translation function on Google Translate. 😊

This is Ukrainian foraged herbal tea, prized by the front line troops and full of health-boosting properties.

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 4d

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