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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 8h

Getting pissed and missing work the next day won’t help growth…

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 8h

Strachan, Finzean, Findochty, Garioch.

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 10h

The level of destruction and erasure in the Gaza Strip is simply incredible. North Gaza, before and after:

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 9h

😭😭🤬

LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 10h

a cartoon of a man with a ring in his nose screaming

ALT: a cartoon of a man with a ring in his nose screaming

media.tenor.com

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Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 13h

15 years of Austerity for YOU.

15 years of Increased wealth for those already wealthy enough not to be bothered by Austerity.

Blaming the immigrants gets stupider by the day.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 15h

And by the halie tree
In the leaman licht o the wuid,
Squired by a houlet, a hawk and a doo,
Wes his Euridikee…

—“Orpheus”, by Tom Scott (1918–1995)
from A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS
#Scotstober #poem #poetry
asls.org.uk/publications...

Tom Scott
Orpheus

Ye think thon wes the end?
Yon meetin in the wuids
When Thracian Orpheus heard the drum, the cries,
The whud o the bacchantes’ thrangan feet
And, seik in saul,
Mad to be jyned for aye to his Eurydikee,
Strung his harp
And gaed to meet them wi a sang.
Ye think thon wes the end?

Na. Eftir the thrang breeled on, red
Fingert, bluidie-mawed, the riven limbs
Quiveran aye amang the mairtyred gress,
There wes a lull
And throu it syne a roun
And syne as muckle’s a moan
And syne a voice,
Yon voice o his
That quietit the forest and its fowk,
That reconcilit lion and lamb,
Ordert the rain,
Spoke frae the grund
And threept in the greitan tree
‘Euridikee! Euridikee!’

And at the name
A ferlie thing wes duin.
Thir broken bits o bodie, bits o bane,
Brisket, gash, airm and droukit hair
Cam thegither as gin some will
Mair nor the merely real
Had wrocht on them.
And on yon slauchtert grund was formed
Orpheus anew,
Orpheus the singer, Orpheus the makar,
Orpheus cleansed o the auld despair.
And by the halie tree
In the leaman licht o the wuid,
Squired by a houlet, a hawk and a doo,
Wes his Euridikee.

They say he made a new sang,
A nobler nor the auld,
And sings it aye in the great haa o the warld.

They say it will nevir end.

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 12h

I’d say most do. It’s bound to manifest itself physically. Whether sore backs from holding tension to bad stomachs from the same.

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 12h

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 15h

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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 16h

18,457 children. Murdered by Israel.

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Gillian Ashton @ladystardust31.bsky.social · 16h

#80sTop30
#MusicChallenge

Day 8 (Random Order)

That Petrol Emotion - Big Decision ❤️🎶🎵

youtu.be/B53ll27bBJQ?...

That Petrol Emotion - Big Decision (1987)

YouTube video by ClassicVideos80s

youtu.be

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 15h

God, yes…

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 16h

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 17h

The costs are not high due to green initiatives. They’re high due to our country having a weird way of calculating the electricity rates.

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 17h

Wow

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 17h

I only came across Baldwin a few years ago, seems to have been quite a man.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 18h

"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
James Baldwin.

In front of the “coloreds only” entrance of an ice cream shop, taken in 1963. Photographrt Steve Schapiro.

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 19h

Aye, Bob seems to actually give a shit about who’s buying the tickets. Mental, eh?

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HeavenlyCharm @heavenly-charm.bsky.social · 21h

In the gairdens o Cringletie House stauns the auld doocot

#Scotstober #Day8 #Doocot

Doon by the gairdens in the wuid - Cringletie ahint the trees

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 21h

“Immigrants! Learn English!”

“Wait. No. Not like that….”

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HeavenlyCharm @heavenly-charm.bsky.social · 1d

Kinnens aw ower,
hidin in gress an tree ruits,
Gie me choccy yins 😋

#Scotstober #Day7 #Kinnen #Poyum #Haiku

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 1d

Noo Maunsie’s wis as guid a tongue
As ever psalm o’ Dauvid sung.
It fittit weel a godly mooth,
And said few wirds ’at wirna truth,
An’ never swöre by Guid or Deil
Excep’ whan kyunnens ate his kail…

—from “Auld Maunsie’s Crü”, by Shetland poet Basil Ramsay Anderson (1861–1888)
#Scotstober #poem

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 23h

The Drookit Doo’s a daft yin,
And no that guid at singin.
It stauns up on the auld belltooer
In rain, its feathers wringin.

Read aboot mair Fykie Fleein Things here: www.scotshooseyaldi.com/primary/poem... and listen tae actor Michael McHardie read the poem oot. #Scotstober

Fykie Fleein Things – ScotsHoose Yaldi

www.scotshooseyaldi.com

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Dr Michael Dempster @drmdempster.bsky.social · 21h

Its day echt o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: doo

Dr Michael Dempster @drmdempster.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨Annooncement!🚨

Here yer #Scotstober 2025 wirds!

A'm sharin on aw platforms, but maistly follaein on BlueSky this year.

A'm luikin forret tae yer warks 😁

Wirds as text ablow

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 21h

Tried to get tickets. Every time I pressed ‘buy’ it said they were already gone. Stupid system.

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