Trish
boboo52.bsky.social
Trish
@boboo52.bsky.social
Homesick Scot. Live in England. Left-leaning. Catholic by surprise. LGBT+ ally. Love languages. Still European at heart.(I/Ise)
Some might say US biggest contribution to 1914-18 World War was “Spanish flu”.
President Trump, "We won WWI, WWII, everything in between, everything before it.. Think of all the wars I ended, I should get a Nobel prize for each one"
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Live in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 now have difficulty getting flu jag as can’t get it in arm (3x breast cancer). Don’t call it “just the flu”. Every year it’s different. Sometimes really deadly.
Flu cases in Scotland are on the rise, health experts have warned
Fears for flu crisis as weekly cases skyrocket
www.thenational.scot
December 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
A global menace. A written constitution doesn’t seem like enough protection.
The U.S. has conducted 19 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing at least 76 people.

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.

He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

This is a danger to us all.
December 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
What’s happening in USA can happen anywhere since other countries’ leaders smarm up to him. For first time in a long life I read USA news daily.
Hear, hear! These raids must stop everywhere.
December 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Is treasa tuath na tighearna. Gaelic proverb. People are mightier than a lord. Learnt from Duolingo based in Pittsburgh.
The brutality. The corruption. The lies. Everything is on full display — and many Americans are beginning to learn an important lesson. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a01JFFB_aE4
What Trump’s Tyranny Is Revealing to America
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:36 AM
and Westminster blocked return & reuse in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. That was normal when I was wee. 3d back on return. Wee sister had good income returning bottles left by tourists on the beach.
December 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Kent CC’s Reform leader favours unitary Kent & Medway. Her talent seems to be for getting up folks’ noses.
December 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Imagine a world without vaccines but with the mobility of today!
A total of 64 cases were recorded. 53 confirmed and 11 probable. 45 people died.
Importantly 47000 people were vaccinated! A remarkable feat and a key piece that likely helped to stop the outbreak in it's tracks. Ebola is still deadly but we now have a vaccine to fight it.
December 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I couldn’t stand it either but some good folk still use it in preference to Bluesky.
‘The cruelty, brutality and ugliness was having a profound emotional effect on me. It was making me unhappy, making me see humanity as something disgusting’

Here’s the story of why I left Twitter, and why the world is a happier and more beautiful place without it

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
'I quit Twitter because the hate made my stomach heave'
Writer at Large Neil Mackay says that the hate and violence on Elon Musk’s X site was having a profoundly negative effect on him. Now he’s quit,…
www.heraldscotland.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
So we’re healthier (some might think living longer is a problem for everyone except themselves. )
Scotland's population is undergoing unprecedented change as it reaches a new high, according to new analysis from the National Records of Scotland

🗣️ 'Scotland’s population has never been so big or had as many people aged 75 and over'
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
If 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 fall for his patter I will despair.
December 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Isn’t it that anything he gets involved with…?
Elon Musk, "You know, I've generally found that when I get involved in politics it ends up badly"
December 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
3 days w/o water supply. We’ve got so soft since I grew up (b 1952). Bath & clothes wash once/wk. Boiling up water for washing hair & dishes. We must’ve smelled dreadful but so did everyone else & almost all adults smoked.
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A vague question was asked to calm right wing Tories. Nobody knew what was involved. Only 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in favour by tiny majority. (Wales changed its mind too late!)
A public inquiry on the management of Brexit would set the record straight, and maybe the BBC could run an impartial series for the 10th anniversary of the vote, making it easier for the government to show the courage and leadership to take us back into the EU.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A public inquiry on Brexit might make it easier for us to rejoin the EU | Letters
Letters: Let’s set the record straight on the cause of our economic woes and inability to control immigration, writes Robert Gildea. Plus a letter from Rachel Foggitt
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Our local NHS is planning to start using it. My health records shared with dodgy private IT provider??
The government handed an NHS data contract to Palantir – a spy-tech firm with links to war crimes and deportations.

We’re demanding that the NHS stops using Palantir’s toxic tech.

Find out if your local NHS Trust is using the software and say no to Palantir 👇
https://goodlaw.social/658abc
Say no to Palantir in the NHS - No to Palantir
goodlaw.social
December 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Do decent folk in USA experience “learned helplessness”? (Can be applied elsewhere too)
December 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
First world problem. No water supply for 48 hours. Maybe there’s silver lining to post-Covid anosmia. I don’t like smelling my un-showered body.
December 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
When I started learning my mother was horrified. Though it was her own mother’s first language.
I feel exactly the same. Pains me greatly that i'm not bilingual when i should be. My father was a native speaker and it was his first language growing up. Sadly it was never passed on because people like him were brainwashed into thinking their own culture was 'backward'.
December 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
@saulstaniforth.bsky.social A Gaelic proverb “Is treasa tuath na tighearna” The people are mightier than a lord.
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
You remain the only person who does the job they’re supposed to in Downing Street.
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
December 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This not-Labour govt gets something right! Testing for syphilis was routine for admissions to psychiatric care when I was young dr. (We didn’t ask consent in those far off days! Nobody talks about syphilis these days..)
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
@philippesands.bsky.social Any chance Trump gets his comeuppance for crimes against humanity? No, I thought not. Not even you..
December 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
You met Leonard Cohen!! He should’ve had Nobel Prize. Saw him on French TV speaking fluently though he was anglophone Québécois. « Un Canadien Errant » essential imperialism!
The human rights lawyer and The Poet!

@philippesands.bsky.social on his musical claim to fame.

Hear the whole amazing episode here…
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42L...

@globalplayer.com
#LeonardCohen
December 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM