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Kenneth MacLean @kennethmaclean.bsky.social · 3h

Reminds me of www.bbc.com/news/technol...

Sail-powered cargo ship 'shows potential of wind'

Using sails reduced ship's fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions, company data indicates.

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Kenneth MacLean @kennethmaclean.bsky.social · 22h

While the Reform polling is terrifying, it's good to see LDs and Greens breaking through in England. Finally breaking the stranglehold of the big two.

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Kenneth MacLean @kennethmaclean.bsky.social · 7d

This is a good thing, don't get me wrong, but the talk of adjusting it, keeping it in some silly wee way to save what is relativity speaking for a country with our wealth, pennies, is daft and immoral.

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Kenneth MacLean @kennethmaclean.bsky.social · 7d

My one grandparent from Glasgow was telling me about moving out here in the 60s and how she felt it was so poor and alien. The alien I get, different language, traditions etc. The poor though always confused me as Glasgow was pretty rough too. (that or Na h-Eileanan Siar was somehow worse)

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Kenneth MacLean @kennethmaclean.bsky.social · 7d

(BuT tHe R*pE clAusE) yes a crime with famously low conviction rates lumped in with forcing women to out themselves/relive the experience.

Kenneth MacLean @kennethmaclean.bsky.social · 7d

two kids. A couple might be able to afford X number now, but you could become ill, death, they could be living in a country run by idiots who caused a cost of living crisis, religious and cultural pressures not to have an abortion, R*pe

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Kenneth MacLean @kennethmaclean.bsky.social · 7d

Punishing children by keeping them hungry won't fix the fact their parents might have made a daft decision, and it won't magically make the kid disappear(well...). Lift the 2 child cap properly, none of this half-baked nonsense. This is excluding all the other reasons folk might have more than

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Kenneth MacLean @kennethmaclean.bsky.social · 7d

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Thank fucking feck. *reads details* Oh fuck off you heartless ghouls.

Rachel Reeves to lift two-child benefit cap in November budget

Exclusive: Officials exploring options to change rule that affected 1.7 million children in Great Britain last year

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Kenneth MacLean @kennethmaclean.bsky.social · 8d

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Kenneth MacLean @kennethmaclean.bsky.social · 10d

Left, right, centre, pro inde, pro union, favourite flavour of crisp being ready salted, cheese/onion. Surely we can all agree, child poverty is something we should do our upmost to tackle. Time and time again, experts have pointed out this is the most cost-effective change that could happen.

Child Poverty Action Group @cpaguk.bsky.social · 18d

Hopefully there is now a clear understanding across govt that unless the two-child limit is scrapped, there will be more kids in poverty at the end of this parliament than when Labour took office. The policy must go in the child poverty strategy before the life chances of many more kids are damaged.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19d

Scrapping of two-child benefit cap closer as Bridget Phillipson attacks ‘spiteful’ policy

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Kenneth MacLean @kennethmaclean.bsky.social · 16d

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/star... So more surveillance shite on top of the online safety nonsense. Remember the next time they say they don't have money to remove the 2 child cap, or how they need to take more money from disabled folk they found money for this dodgy crap.

Starmer set to announce digital ID cards ‘within days’ to curb illegal migration

Plans for digital ID cards could be unveiled at the next Labour Party Conference

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Kenneth MacLean @kennethmaclean.bsky.social · 20d

Heartening (for the most part) to see some cross party cooperation.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 24d

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Kenneth MacLean @kennethmaclean.bsky.social · 27d

On the same day he defended Peter Mandelson aka one of Jeffery Epsteins close pals. Somewhere in Whitehall a Malcolm Tucker-esque character has thrown an inkjet printer out a window in a fit of rage as he has to now try and spin this.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28d

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has welcomed Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Downing Street 📸

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Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · 28d

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · Sep 7

So pleased these terrifying retired teachers, vicars and disabled blind men are off the streets.

Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · Sep 7

Arrests at rally against Palestine Action ban rise to 890 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Arrests at rally against Palestine Action ban rise to 890

The majority of the arrests were for supporting a proscribed group, police say.

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Kenneth MacLean @kennethmaclean.bsky.social · Sep 1

Just you wait until the inevitable mass data breach happens. Wont it be fun when an entire nation is doxxed at the same time! Anyway I'm totally not in the UK, I'm very much in Ireland (until they do the same then I'll be errr...Kazakh?)

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The Ferret @theferret.scot · Aug 24

🔴 NEW: Thousands marched for Palestine in London last month. But a smaller protest on Whitehall raised another question. Should UK and Scottish oil profits flow to a company linked to Israel’s war on Gaza?

Our latest investigation: theferret.scot/ithac...

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · Aug 21

It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.

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Kenneth MacLean @kennethmaclean.bsky.social · Aug 21

Try getting it out in rural areas. Tried to help a number of people claim it but when calling the solicitors 90% of the time it’s a no soon as you tell them the postcode. Have you imagine it’s the same down your end, Highlands, Orkney and Shetland.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · Aug 18

Churchill could have ended the war in 1940 if he wanted to, too.

Sky News @news.sky.com · Aug 18

Donald Trump says Volodymyr Zelenskyy 'could end war with Russia' if he wanted to - ahead of crucial White House meeting

Volodymyr Zelenskyy could "end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to", Donald Trump has said - ahead of crucial White House talks on the future of Ukraine.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Aug 16

Keep in mind that EVERYTHING he says or does going forward is to distract from the EPSTEIN files.

E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · Aug 13

Defender Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire. Invader Russia rejected it.

Trump said he would impose sanctions on Russia if it didn't stop the killing. Then he chickened out. Then he agreed to a meeting with the war criminal Putin.

Ukraine keeps fighting but the U.S. has surrendered.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · Aug 8

Netanyahu’s plan to occupy Gaza is abhorrent and it's increasingly clear that his goal is ethnic cleansing.

The UK can't just sit on its hands. The Prime Minister must stop all arms exports to Israel and sanction Netanyahu and his cabinet.

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Kenneth MacLean @kennethmaclean.bsky.social · Aug 6

Not to be a downer, but if I were a scientist, I would avoid the UK. We are hurtling towards a Reform gov, and Labour seem hell-bent on delivering it.

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