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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 23h

The fight itself is significant, but what's even more significant is what the fight says about my enemies

Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 23h

I like English degrees and I like apprenticeships. But which one is better? Only one way to find out: FIGHT.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 23h

Pitting English degrees against apprenticeships is so facile and reductive but everything has to be pitted against something else nowadays We live in the age of the zero-sum game.

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose you never know who's been on a journey and who's always believed it, but just now feels liberated to write it publicly

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Daisley's journey from funny blogs during the indyref to this stuff is really quite something

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 3d

www.buzzfeed.com/jamieross/it...

Jim Murphy: I'm Astonished By How Easy It's Been To Outwit The SNP

The leader of Scottish Labour told BuzzFeed News how he's leading the fightback against Nicola Sturgeon's SNP.

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Fourth Crown War FPV Drone Operator 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 6d

As Charli XCX and Taylor Swift are both descendants of the Scottish diaspora, this is actually a continuation of the Highland-Lowland divide, the eternal struggle between the Gael and the Gall, and as such

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 5d

I said no, because our bus was just down the road. He came back 5 mins later and threw an umbrella to us out his window. He was on the other side of the road so had to get it past a lane of traffic. Hannah watched on, rain hitting her face, chuckling. Presumably laughing at how weird people can be.

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 5d

Lot of judgement for taking a toddler home through a storm this evening. Naturally she refused to wear either her hood or have top of the pram up. Sat there cackling to herself at the rain, while I got looks. A private hire stopped & asked if we were ok (offered to cancel his job to take us)... 1/2

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 6d

I'd say the similarities with Dundee were reasonably limited though

Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 6d

I went to Nablus years ago - amazing place. Load of people tried to get me to come have dinner with them - though I had to say no because I didn't speak any Arabic and realised how awkward the chat would be

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Stephen Watt Poet @stephenwattpoet.bsky.social · 6d

Happy #NationalPoetryDay 📕 I have chosen the shortest poem in my book ‘Barbed Halo’ to share with you as it fits nicely with this most sinister of months. Viva October!

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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 7d

a spokesman for BrewDog said 'this is the one thing we didn't want to happen'

an excerpt from the National article reading 'the National reported in April this year that in a bid to help keep tree saplings alive by keeping deer out BrewDog erected a perimeter fence, but instead actually trapped the animals inside'

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 8d

I have to say I am ashamed of a lot of you. I thought we had moved past the point where we shame people simply for cutting the half time orange.

Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 10d

Did anyone ask why his dog shakes while it takes a shit? Hope its ok!

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 12d

The former leader of Reform in Wales has admitted taking bribes to make statements in support of Russia. This should be a massive story

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ceej @ceej.online · Jun 27

spending hours a day sucking the vacuum hose against my belly for as long as I can endure in preparation for the day I need to plug the missing door hole on a transatlantic flight

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 16d

Hey everyone, I'm reporting live from the new national seagull summit - there are so many seagulls here. They're pecking and biting at me. Why did we convene all these seagulls for talks? What did we think we would learn from this? It's just me trapped in a room with 10,000 seagulls.

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 17d

I see a lot of people laughing about the Jeremy Corbyn - Zahra Sultana fallout, all of it overplayed in my view. In years to come this will be seen as a hiccup in Your Party's rise to dominance. Why? Corbyn is simply too good at winning over internal party critics to let this escalate.

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Arlan Skellington (scary) 🦇 @thehell.zone · 17d

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

several SnailBonez™️ skeleton snails with a skull for a shell that actually look pretty sick but I mean,

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 18d

My latest column, about a seagull I found oddly captivating, as well as other seagulls I have seen in the past. There wasn't space to cover all the seagulls I have interacted with, because the column is meant to be about football, but it has a few seagulls www.nutmegmagazine.co.uk/issue-37/tan...

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 18d

My latest column, about a seagull I found oddly captivating, as well as other seagulls I have seen in the past. There wasn't space to cover all the seagulls I have interacted with, because the column is meant to be about football, but it has a few seagulls www.nutmegmagazine.co.uk/issue-37/tan...

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 18d

Touched hands with the woman working at the supermarket checkout, so unfortunately that means I will need to marry her now. The other option would be to flee the country and start over again somewhere else, but I think I need to do the right thing.

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 20d

My piece on seagulls, football, and overcoming our own anxieties. I'd like to make it clear I wrote this before seagulls entered the parliament yesterday (metaphorically) - though oddly it does cover both Douglas Ross and seagulls

Nutmeg Magazine @nutmegmagazine.bsky.social · 20d

How can seagulls be causing so much division?

Only a few weeks ago loving chants of “SeaGULL! Sea-GULL!! Sea-GULL!!!” were ringing out across Tannadice.

Probably just as well Douglas Ross wasn't running the line that night.

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www.nutmegmagazine.co.uk/issue-37/tan...

The seagull has landed | Nutmeg Magazine

An avian intruder on the Tannadice pitch summoned vicarious trauma and enriched what was already a surreal European night.

www.nutmegmagazine.co.uk

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 20d

I had hoped to divide them so they'd focus their ire at each other rather than me

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Ken Cheng @kenchengceo.bsky.social · 24d

would you still work for me if I were a worm?

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