Fisherscot
@fisherscot.bsky.social
Actually Scottish, technically also American. Raging against the dying of the light. Also, birds are great. She/her.
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10 years ago the UK could boast about being the top ranked country in Europe for LGBT+ rights.
But Tory and Labour governments have undermined that position through their long campaign of misinformation and demonisation.
Scotland must always stand for equality, not hate.
But Tory and Labour governments have undermined that position through their long campaign of misinformation and demonisation.
Scotland must always stand for equality, not hate.
NEW: The UK has fallen to its lowest ever ranking on the European Rainbow Index of LGBT+ equality laws
UK hits bottom of European rankings for LGBT+ protections
www.thenational.scot
May 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
10 years ago the UK could boast about being the top ranked country in Europe for LGBT+ rights.
But Tory and Labour governments have undermined that position through their long campaign of misinformation and demonisation.
Scotland must always stand for equality, not hate.
But Tory and Labour governments have undermined that position through their long campaign of misinformation and demonisation.
Scotland must always stand for equality, not hate.
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Feels like Keir and co think the political capital is in alluding to cautious, grown up, backroom diplomacy and not big, bold leadership in a time of (trade and other) war. I fear the reverse is true, and an opportunity to shine, and rally the country, is being squandered.
April 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Feels like Keir and co think the political capital is in alluding to cautious, grown up, backroom diplomacy and not big, bold leadership in a time of (trade and other) war. I fear the reverse is true, and an opportunity to shine, and rally the country, is being squandered.
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Three headlines for the same story. Here’s how to read them.
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April 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Three headlines for the same story. Here’s how to read them.
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A full day in Parliament meeting many swift bricks MPs & Peers to try to find a solution for the birds reliant on our 🏡to breed. The more people tell their MPs about the unique importance of swift bricks, the better. Swift bricks are known within Parliament - gotta keep going!
March 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A full day in Parliament meeting many swift bricks MPs & Peers to try to find a solution for the birds reliant on our 🏡to breed. The more people tell their MPs about the unique importance of swift bricks, the better. Swift bricks are known within Parliament - gotta keep going!
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A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot
Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The scale of this horror must serve as a wake-up call.
Continuing to arm and support Israel only leads to further destruction and lost lives. It makes the UK complicit in war crimes and genocide.
It's a moral obligation for governments to hold Israel accountable for their actions.
Continuing to arm and support Israel only leads to further destruction and lost lives. It makes the UK complicit in war crimes and genocide.
It's a moral obligation for governments to hold Israel accountable for their actions.
March 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The scale of this horror must serve as a wake-up call.
Continuing to arm and support Israel only leads to further destruction and lost lives. It makes the UK complicit in war crimes and genocide.
It's a moral obligation for governments to hold Israel accountable for their actions.
Continuing to arm and support Israel only leads to further destruction and lost lives. It makes the UK complicit in war crimes and genocide.
It's a moral obligation for governments to hold Israel accountable for their actions.
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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Will you be this swift’s #Valentine ? And help its joy-bringing kind? ♥️♥️If you have a LABOUR MP and want to join the fight to save our swifts email me at [email protected] and I’ll reply with a template you can send.♥️♥️
February 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Will you be this swift’s #Valentine ? And help its joy-bringing kind? ♥️♥️If you have a LABOUR MP and want to join the fight to save our swifts email me at [email protected] and I’ll reply with a template you can send.♥️♥️
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GUESS WHAT? Strangers from across the flight path of swifts are telling me they are seeing them flying HOME!!
If you have a Labour MP, please join the fight to save our swifts by emailing [email protected] to receive an email template you can amend and send them.
If you have a Labour MP, please join the fight to save our swifts by emailing [email protected] to receive an email template you can amend and send them.
February 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
GUESS WHAT? Strangers from across the flight path of swifts are telling me they are seeing them flying HOME!!
If you have a Labour MP, please join the fight to save our swifts by emailing [email protected] to receive an email template you can amend and send them.
If you have a Labour MP, please join the fight to save our swifts by emailing [email protected] to receive an email template you can amend and send them.
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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
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is the goal merit or is the goal segregation?
Pete Hegseth's DOD has decided to recruit at an NRA event rather than a Black Engineering event.
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
February 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
is the goal merit or is the goal segregation?
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It's the worst-kept secret on these islands that the UK Government is complicit in Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestine.
Selling weapons and giving diplomatic support to war criminals is never acceptable.
Selling weapons and giving diplomatic support to war criminals is never acceptable.
February 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It's the worst-kept secret on these islands that the UK Government is complicit in Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestine.
Selling weapons and giving diplomatic support to war criminals is never acceptable.
Selling weapons and giving diplomatic support to war criminals is never acceptable.
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We might yearn for paradise, temporal or spiritual. But to our descendents our habitable planet will look like an almost unimaginable paradise. No tech fantasy, no space station or controlled environment will ever compare.
Fight for what we have. This is our heaven, and there can be no other.
Fight for what we have. This is our heaven, and there can be no other.
February 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We might yearn for paradise, temporal or spiritual. But to our descendents our habitable planet will look like an almost unimaginable paradise. No tech fantasy, no space station or controlled environment will ever compare.
Fight for what we have. This is our heaven, and there can be no other.
Fight for what we have. This is our heaven, and there can be no other.
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2 years ago, Scotland overwhelmingly passed a bill to make Trans people's lives a little easier.
❌But the Tories used an undemocratic backdoor to block it.
🥀Now, Labour plans to abandon the LGBTQ+ community and uphold the undemocratic block on Scotland's bill.
❌But the Tories used an undemocratic backdoor to block it.
🥀Now, Labour plans to abandon the LGBTQ+ community and uphold the undemocratic block on Scotland's bill.
February 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
2 years ago, Scotland overwhelmingly passed a bill to make Trans people's lives a little easier.
❌But the Tories used an undemocratic backdoor to block it.
🥀Now, Labour plans to abandon the LGBTQ+ community and uphold the undemocratic block on Scotland's bill.
❌But the Tories used an undemocratic backdoor to block it.
🥀Now, Labour plans to abandon the LGBTQ+ community and uphold the undemocratic block on Scotland's bill.
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My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.
The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
#severance #spoilers The Narnia parallels are driving me nuts, is this a secret homage? Four protagonists with two separate lives, the bad guys have magic & a cult, endless winter, a traitor is bribed, and fur coats in the woods! Next: dead hero resurrected and Mr Seth T. defects?
February 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
#severance #spoilers The Narnia parallels are driving me nuts, is this a secret homage? Four protagonists with two separate lives, the bad guys have magic & a cult, endless winter, a traitor is bribed, and fur coats in the woods! Next: dead hero resurrected and Mr Seth T. defects?
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Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.
February 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.
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This NYT sleight-of-hand is part of why Trump’s insane racism flourishes. The implication is that it’s possible to “attack diversity” WITHOUT a “racist undercurrent.”
And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.
And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.
February 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This NYT sleight-of-hand is part of why Trump’s insane racism flourishes. The implication is that it’s possible to “attack diversity” WITHOUT a “racist undercurrent.”
And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.
And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.
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A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times
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February 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times
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This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
February 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
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I've been in rehearsal rooms with men like Wynne Evans, men who are just a bit cheeky, it's all a laugh, ha ha, he's always standing a bit too close to you, lol lmao, he's putting his arm round you while he's talking but it's all just friendly, at the beginning of the day when you arrive he
January 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I've been in rehearsal rooms with men like Wynne Evans, men who are just a bit cheeky, it's all a laugh, ha ha, he's always standing a bit too close to you, lol lmao, he's putting his arm round you while he's talking but it's all just friendly, at the beginning of the day when you arrive he
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Genuinely insane that a major newsroom isn't running a live post today trying to verify what is and what isn't being impacted by the federal funding freeze. Embarrassing how bad the media response is to this.
Based on the frantic questions I've googled recently — "how do executive orders works," "can gay marriage be repealed," "what is the Office of Personnel Management," "do food stamps still work," — only to find nothing from media outlets, I'm ready to say the mainstream media is in serious trouble.
January 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Genuinely insane that a major newsroom isn't running a live post today trying to verify what is and what isn't being impacted by the federal funding freeze. Embarrassing how bad the media response is to this.