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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27d

I guess I should link to the video for posterity. Normalizing a guy like Jack Posobiec is a really dark place to be as a country.

Jack Posobiec reflects on the life of his friend Charlie Kirk

YouTube video by Face the Nation

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Rob McDowall AMRSPH MIHSCM FRSA @mcdowall.me · 17h

This morning I have written to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice @angelaconstance.bsky.social MSP to register our concern over plans by the Home Secretary to provide new protest policing powers to police forces in England and Wales and to ascertain if the CabSec intends to mirror this in Scots law.

Audio version of letter is linked on the second post. The link to the audio version is: https://tinyurl.com/cabsecjustice

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AyeforScotland @ayeforscotland.bsky.social · 9h

We're fundraising for @samaritans.bsky.social and I'm getting some new Halloween face art every £50 raised!

www.twitch.tv/ayeforscotland

AyeforScotland - Twitch

EMOTIONLESS - Spooky Horror | !charity | !AMD - This Is Why We Game

www.twitch.tv

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Rob McDowall AMRSPH MIHSCM FRSA @mcdowall.me · 9h

No problem. I cannot find you on FB but if tomorrow you just ping me a hello on FB I’ll reply to you. Nothing urgent. Just a check in.

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Rob McDowall AMRSPH MIHSCM FRSA @mcdowall.me · 9h

No worries at all. I forgot about FB. Would it be okay for me to message you now and you can read it tomorrow? Nothing urgent. Or if you would prefer I wait until tomorrow and I message on FB I can do that no problem. Either way I know not to expect any reply tonight.

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Rob McDowall AMRSPH MIHSCM FRSA @mcdowall.me · 9h

Hey Jojo, can you send me a DM as I don’t have the option to send you one. Or if you don’t use DM here ping me a WhatsApp.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 1d

Jamie Buchan, Sarah Anderson, and Katrina Morrison have published a 'Criminal Justice in Scotland' textbook 📚🍷📖👏

I had the joy of chairing their well attended book launch today.

It has gone straight onto #Criminology Uni reading lists.
🔗
www.routledge.com/Criminal-Jus...
@kmmorrison.bsky.social

Photo of one of the three book authors, Dr Jamie Buchan, signing a copy of his new book for someone who just bought it at the book launch in Edinburgh Napier University.

Photo of two copies of the paperback book with a red cover and black inky silhouette imagery.

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 17h

My new online poetry course starts in two weeks!

✅ Six-week course, two-hour sessions

✅ Imaginative exercises

✅ Creative strategies

✅ Supportive, informal environment

✅ Feedback from a professional published poet

✅ Weds evenings, 6-8pm GMT, starting Oct 22nd

www.stefmo.co.uk/service-page...

Poetry and Play - Online Course | Stefan Mohamed

It's important to take your writing craft seriously - but it's all too easy to forget that it should be fun too. 'Poetry and Play' invites you to stretch your creative muscles, experiment and have fu...

www.stefmo.co.uk

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 18h

I'm sure we don't need to be in any way concerned that the US economy is currently propped-up by a handful of AI corps just passing $1trn in cash around, burning $bns every day, whilst gold rushes to a record high price as investors free market vulnerability...

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Rob McDowall AMRSPH MIHSCM FRSA @mcdowall.me · 17h

Audio version of letter:

tinyurl.com/cabsecjustice

Letter to Angela Constance MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice

Letter from Rob McDowall of Welfare Scotland to Angela Constance MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice

whyp.it

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Rob McDowall AMRSPH MIHSCM FRSA @mcdowall.me · 17h

This morning I have written to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice @angelaconstance.bsky.social MSP to register our concern over plans by the Home Secretary to provide new protest policing powers to police forces in England and Wales and to ascertain if the CabSec intends to mirror this in Scots law.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

Trump followed through on repeated threats and authorized hundreds of National Guard troops for deployment to Chicago Saturday, making it the fifth time the president has federalized state Guard troops against Democratic-led cities.
https://bit.ly/46QfL5v

Trump Authorizes 300 Guard Troops for Deployment in Chicago Over Governor’s Objections

Read more here.

bit.ly

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Rob McDowall AMRSPH MIHSCM FRSA @mcdowall.me · 1d

What’s he done now

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 2d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 2d

Cass Review full of ‘stigma and misinformation’ and should not guide trans youth care, say experts
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/06/cass-review-misinformation-study/?utm_content=1759771204&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Cass Review full of 'stigma' and should not guide trans youth care, say experts

A newly published study has argued the Cass Review into trans youth care, published in April 2024, is full of 'stigma' and 'misinformation'.

www.thepinknews.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

15 UK banks ordered to snoop on state pensioners and other benefit claimants under DWP crackdown.

No court order needed. No right of appeal.

Banks will pass cost to other customers.

Those accused of fraud won't get legal advice. The making of another Post Office type scandal.

15 banks ordered to snoop on state pensioners under DWP crackdown

The Telegraph newspaper reports banks will be required to monitor pensioners’ bank accounts and share payments data

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly dangerous for a senior politician to suggest that there's some zero-sum game to be played between mourning the losses of Oct7 and protesting an ongoing genocide. And incredibly cynical given that the protests are directed at his own complicity

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’

Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel

www.theguardian.com

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Rob McDowall AMRSPH MIHSCM FRSA @mcdowall.me · 1d

Fantastic! Hope all goes well. Don’t work too hard! :)

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Rob McDowall AMRSPH MIHSCM FRSA @mcdowall.me · 1d

They are chasing this biscuit tin Britain scene that just doesn’t exist.

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Rob McDowall AMRSPH MIHSCM FRSA @mcdowall.me · 1d

Gooooood morning! Hope your day is as interesting as it is productive.

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Rob McDowall AMRSPH MIHSCM FRSA @mcdowall.me · 1d

History shows us, time and again, that real, meaningful and lasting change cannot be secured at the end of a barrel.

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Rob McDowall AMRSPH MIHSCM FRSA @mcdowall.me · 1d

The violence of 7th October robbed Israeli families of loved ones. The violence that followed has done the same to Palestinian families and communities. You can’t bomb your way to peace.

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