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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 11h

Really hammer your reps about how catastrophic this is and how bad these laws are for peoples online safety

404 Media @404media.co · 13h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 7h

They do remember what Hitler ultimately did to his dog, right?

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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 10h

Be part of overturning a system rigged in favour of the super-rich

👉 members.greens.scot/join

Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 19h

Scotland generates huge amounts of cheap, clean electricity from renewables. That isn't reflected in our bills though, because the UK's energy system is rigged in favour of the corporations who control it, not the people who need it.

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David Lo Pun-ch Nazis @helpmeskeletor.bsky.social · 8h

See how Israel gets to have ‘families’ and Gazans get to be generically referred to as ‘people’.

It’s little digs like this that are designed to tell you where to position your sympathy.

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 11h

My statement on Middle East peace

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The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 13h

Male loneliness is pretty much entirely because of a combination of toxic masculinity and homophobia, generations of men being taught to suppress their feelings and that any sign of vulnerability is 'gay' has left them emotionally handicapped

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The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 13h

Okay, I agree with you on most of that, but sure as hell not on bacon being mid! You obviously haven't tried a double bacon wedge, a bacon sandwich with bacon instead of bread

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The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 13h

Trump claiming he could beat anyone at a sport is hilarious, dude would lose to a slight incline

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 15h

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 16h

Y'know you've got to think of how little folk like her care about their family and friends. Bigots like her are essentially saying they'd rather their loved ones suffer than be trans.

Honestly I don't think they're even capable of love.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 18h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 17h

TW: child suicide.

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The NHS continues to fail trans kids.

This child’s suicide was preventable, the coroner said, but not by the NHS as it is currently operating.

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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LiLBazula 👻 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 17h

If my family life consisted of outsourcing the care of my children to an entourage of maids, nannies & other staff before shipping them off to a boarding school, I would simply stfu about ordinary families being 'disconnected'

Sky News (Mirror) @skynews-m.bsky.social · 17h

Phones creating 'epidemic of disconnection' in families, says Kate
https://news.sky.com/story/phones-creating-epidemic-of-disconnection-in-families-says-princess-of-wales-13447487?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter

Phones creating 'epidemic of disconnection' in families, says Princess of Wales

"Our undivided attention is the most precious gift we can give another person. Yet, increasingly, it's the most difficult gift to offer," Kate writes in a joint essay.

news.sky.com

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 17h

Public services in public hands. 🙌

Scotland has a lower cancellation rate than every English region.

We must now invest in expanding the network, increasing capacity, and ensuring a reliable, affordable service is available for all. 🚆

Public ownership pays off. Cancellation rates 24/25. Scotland: 2%. England: 3.5%. Cancellation rates have been falling in Scotland since ScotRail was taken back into public ownership.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Despite getting whatever anti-trans narrative they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the American right is now blaming the Jews instead, because content must be created. It is almost like the "first they came for" thing is not hypothetical!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Have you seen 3D animations from the IDF showing secret Hamas hideouts?

According to Israel's +972 magazine, many have "serious spatial inaccuracies or prefabricated assets—sourced not from classified intelligence but rather from commercial libraries, content creators, and cultural institutions."

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda

An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

www.972mag.com

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 2d

🇬🇧 The brexity Telegraph are raging because EU countries are going to enforce their laws in relation to british “overstayers”

Or “ILLEGALS” as Reform, Blue Tories & Red Tories generally like to call them

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The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 1d

I'd say it's the hottest in the same manner as a fever or infection

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

ian dunt got the government we told him he'd be getting.

he's forever doing this. he calls the left stupid, hails every new pm as a return to grown-up politics, then starts complaining when it turns out the left were right all along.

he never acknowledges that we were right.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, but none of this is possible without hundreds of MPs and almost the entire national press screaming at the public that protestors are scum who must be stomped upon.

lan Dunt• @iandunt.bsky.social • 9m
It's properly unconscionable that the Home Office has created this situation. It should never have been allowed to happen and once it did happen it should have been immediately reversed.
The New World @thenewwo... • 10m
BREAKING: The metropolitan police arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

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The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 1d

Who is gonna tell him?

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 1d

You can lock up as many people as you want for chanting or protesting against genocide.

You will never scrub away the truth about that genocide - or your own complicity in it.

You are just ensuring that you will be damned all the more for what you have done.

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says

The government needs to

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The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 1d

a man says let them die in front of a white wall

ALT: a man says let them die in front of a white wall

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

standing in opposition to israel is not antisemitic. i don't fucking care what keir starmer says. he can fuck off forever.

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The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely handles the idea of the masquerade better than some other franchises

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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BonneFyre 🤍💛💙💕💜 @bonnefyre.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of the first things I mention when I talk to anyone about transition. Anyone who thinks people are being rushed through and pushed into decisions they might later regret is absolutely incorrect. Even going privately was a whole, long ordeal. Not to mention incredibly expensive.

QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 1d

Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get their first appointment at an NHS gender clinic, and some will never receive care, QueerAF can reveal 👇

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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