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James Gillies
@jamesagillies.bsky.social
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Audiobook Narrator & Producer. At times I am just all talk.
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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 9h
We are supposed to be in some sort of a union of nations, but if you are Scots, Welsh or from Northern Ireland there is little point turning on pan UK TV news. Our experience is rarely reported. It is as if we don’t exist.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 18h
Homelessness deaths in Scotland are down 18%. Thery're up in England. Guess how the BBC national news covered this.

(video: MSM Monitor)
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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 17h
Clegg is a paid shill for Meta and it’s contemporaries.

The billionaires behind AI are like a gang who rob shops until they go out of business, and then move on to their next get rich quick scheme.

AI is supposed to embrace the drudgery so we can be creative, not the other way around.
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 22h
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 20h
🇩🇪 Germany will give police the power to shoot down or disable rogue drones threatening security or air traffic, - Reiters

The new law, awaiting parliament approval, allows methods like jamming or lasers and follows major disruptions at Munich Airport.
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the 1st rule of Wife Club @cpi.pinball.horse · 1d
#conversiontherapy
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Iris Cook @montrose.bsky.social · 1d
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China has Found a Way to Bypass US Sanctions on Iran – And Trump is Having a Meltdown!
YouTube video by KernowDamo
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social
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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 1d
Universal Basic Income has to start somewhere. So why not with that most economically precarious of sectors, the arts.
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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 1d
It has been shown time, and time again, that when you are able to provide basic support for folks, such as UBI, not only are they able to thrive, but there are significant increases in measurable indicators of economic health, such as purchasing power.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 2d
Dutch supermarkets to stop selling Atlantic mackerel due to overfishing concerns 🚨

Northeast Atlantic mackerel is on the brink & experts have warned catch limits must be slashed by 70% to save them

This is serious. If we don't respect the science, our seas will suffer.
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Dutch supermarkets halt Atlantic mackerel sales amid overfishing concerns
Albert Heijn, Lidl, and Jumbo, the Netherlands’ largest supermarket chains, are halting sales of Atlantic mackerel due to overfishing concerns, NOS reports.Current stock will still be sold, but Lidl p...
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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 1d
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11K views · 549 reactions | The tyranny of machines! Stewart Lee joined Armando Iannuci where he shares the ridiculous story of not being able to catch a coach despite it being at the station as the ...
The tyranny of machines! Stewart Lee joined Armando Iannuci where he shares the ridiculous story of not being able to catch a coach despite it being at the station as the app had already declared it....
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d
There it is
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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 2d
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#بهائیان_ایران #زنان_بهائی #زندانیان_بهائی #فریبا_کمالآبادی | Foaad Haghighi
فریبا کمال‌آبادی، شهروند بهائی، چهارده سال است که زندانی است، نرگس محمدی، برنده جایزه صلح نوبل، ضمن انتشار این ویدیو نوشت: «برای فریبا، در چهاردهمین فصل اسارتش در قتلگاه قرچک» می‌خواهم درباره زنی بنوی...
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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 2d
Mixed blessings.

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 4d
Helpful to explain what £169/patient/year pays for (this is £40 less than 2015 in real terms funding & only £123 is patient care)

380million appts in GP practices - half with GPs

But there is more to General Practice than just appts

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Iceberg of work in GP practices
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6d
“They” is not a “made-up pronoun.” It has been in use since the 13th century. And has been used by the likes of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen.

“Them" is also not a “made-up pronoun.” It has been in constant usage since before the 12th century.

Chaya Raichik is a dangerous, bigoted fool.
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James FBSI 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Extremist) @toplandscaper.bsky.social · 7d
Tell me the system isn't rigged against consumers! Scotland has the highest electricity bills in the UK. We're also the coldest country in the UK.
We are being taken for mugs!
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The SNP @snp.org · 7d
Imagine being so out of touch you don't even know folks energy bills have shot up again.
Tweet from Keir Starmer promising Great British Energy will cut bills for schools and hospitals and create clean energy jobs, followed by STV News reporting a 2% rise in energy price cap minutes later.
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duncan2024.bsky.social @duncan2024.bsky.social · 6d
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‘Scotland has lost no protected natural land in the last 5 years’ as ‘UK’ loses equivalent of 1 680 football pitches
By Professor John Robertson, OBA In an all-too-typical Guardian report today, even four authors are unable to find or mention anything about Scotland, it seems, for their ‘UK’ report. S…
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Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · Sep 9
Everybody has now seen who Starmer is. Nobody likes what they see but it took him winning a General election to get there.

Must we really make the same mistake with Farage?
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Cindy Michels 🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇦 @cindymichels.bsky.social · 28d
How many #BBC journalists does it take to change a light bulb? 🤔

100

1 to change the light buld and 99 to ask Nigel what he thinks 😅
a woman wearing a hard hat is holding a light bulb
ALT: a woman wearing a hard hat is holding a light bulb
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16d
Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"

"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people"

-Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats
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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 6d
My opinion and unwillingness to familiarise myself with the issue clearly trump the facts every time.

Bloviation beats actual knowledge or experience.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 7d
Apparently Israel’s genocidal acts are just “daft”.
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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 6d
Who wrote the words below the picture? That’s not a monkey. It’s an ape.

How to ignore a lifetime of research in one sentence.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 7d
They didn’t have MedBeds in Starfleet until well after warp drive was discovered.
A screenshot of an X post by @ZacksJerryRig mocking a supposed AI-generated video of Donald Trump announcing a "miracle cure bed" for all diseases. The post includes a sarcastic comment about Joe Biden and Trump, suggesting the announcement will erode trust in government. Below it, a retweeted post from @realDonaldTrump shows an image of Trump at a desk with a Fox News chyron reading "MEDBED HOSPITALS: THE NEW ERA IN HEALTHCARE" and "MY VIEW WITH LARA TRUMP," dated Sep 27, 2025, with 1.12K reTruths and 3.09K likes. The original post is credited to Alex Kaplan.
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James Gillies @jamesagillies.bsky.social · 7d
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The Dark Shadow of the Residential Schools Remain
Last Wednesday, I stood at the gates of the abandoned Fort Qu’Appelle Residential School in Saskatchewan.
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John Dabell @johndabell.bsky.social · 7d
Brush it off, hue got this!
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 7d
The SNP delivering for Scotland 👏
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 8d
Delighted that our Housing Bill was just passed by the Scottish Parliament.

It will deliver a fairer deal for tenants - more affordable rents, safer homes, stronger protections.

It will help prevent homelessness, and ultimately, change lives.

And it will bring new investment in housing.
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