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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 19h

Anas Sarwar was confronted at a Labour event by a Labour party member who was *furious* at Labour's plans to open up the NHS to the private sector. Of course the BBC in Scotland refused to pick up this story.

(video: MSM Monitor)

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 19h

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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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 13h

Chatbots and AI slop are going to ruin countless brains. Yours doesn't have to be one of them. Study history. Read poetry. Get acquainted with Bach, Shakespeare, George Eliot. In a time when people are rapidly getting dumber, we need communities devoted to the life of the mind.

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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 3h

(Aye, I was being cheeky) 😉

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 15h

"The UK’s national security is under severe threat from the climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away"

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Believe in Scotland @believeinscotland.bsky.social · 22h

⚡ Every year, we generate enough cheap renewable energy to cover Scotland’s needs. Yet our bills are sky high!

🔎 Here is how Scottish customers are being ripped off by the UK energy system: www.believeinscotland.org/scottish_cus...

❌ End Scotland's energy bill rip off! #BelieveinScotland

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 3d

My latest blog post on the Scottish Greens' new assertive independence strategy and the agreement between the SNP and Believe in Scotland

weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/g...

Getting the indy band back together

It’s been a good couple of weeks for hopes of Scottish independence, with some very positive opinion poll results, and signs of a new assertiveness amongst the main pro-independence parties. …

weegingerdug.wordpress.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15h

Just your latest reminder that, although everyone has decided to stop talking about climate change, it is still very much happening -- worse and faster than predicted.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 21h

If you can’t run a business without stealing you don’t have a business, you have a criminal organisation.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 20h

What’s “British Haggis”?

Williebhoy1956 @williebhoy1956.bsky.social · 23h

British haggis! It's fecking treason! 😡😡

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 1d

Please hold in mind, and help others to hold in mind, they #ScottishIndependence is bigger than the SNP, or any one party for that matter. If not, it may never become the settled will of the people . #defacto26 cannot mean “Vote SNP”; it must be a strategic push to get the most pro-Indy seats.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

We all work within a system predicated on greed, short-term profit, exploitation and environmental destruction, designed to make a tiny minority richer than Croesus

Capitalism is an obscenity that will be terminated by the climate catastrophe it has caused

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

www.theguardian.com

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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 1d

I notice she didn’t ACTUALLY say she’d READ them.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly

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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 1d

There’s one for Alanis Morrisette.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

A source within MI6 has revealed that MI6 are unhappy with the Palestine Action ban because they are not terrorists and the drain on staff is making the UK more vulnerable to actual terrorist attacks.

End the ridiculous ban.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

A source within MI6 has revealed that MI6 are unhappy with the Palestine Action ban because they are not terrorists and the drain on staff is making the UK more vulnerable to actual terrorist attacks.

End the ridiculous ban.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

How the Far Right Project 2025 is going to be brought to the UK through the Reform Trojan horse.

Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)

A Cambridge academic, a YouTube influencer, and Reform UK’s old HQ - the ingredients for our own Project 2025 are already mixed.

open.substack.com

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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 1d

Is Bill also on the list?

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glassrod57.bsky.social @glassrod57.bsky.social · 2d

Why on earth would you not be for Independence! Come on folks vote SNP 1 Scottish Greens 2 in 2026!!

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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 1d

As Upton Sinclair said, “It is difficult to get a man (sic) to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

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Janet Westerhof @janetw65.bsky.social · 1d

UK Government arms exports to Israel hit a "record high" in recent months, analysis has found.

www.thenational.scot/news/2552258...

UK arms exports to Israel 'hit record high' in recent months

UK Government arms exports to Israel hit a "record high" in recent months, analysis has found.

www.thenational.scot

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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 1d

I thought to myself,” He’ll go far.” Westminster politics seems to favour chinless wonders who’ve had their emotions cauterised.

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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 1d

I will always remember the Jenrick who sat in a room of very very angry Grenfell residents in stunned silence. He didn’t have any empathic response, looked like a public school boy being told off and completely unaware of what he’d done wrong . He probably shat himself slightly.

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 2d

New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.

We surveyed British MPs – most don’t know how urgent climate action is

New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.

tcnv.link

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