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@muuuz.bsky.social

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💚Green Party, Nottingham, Press Professor Emeritus of Contemporary Literature & Culture Speaking: Scots, English, French Learning: Gaelic, Chinese 🌏🇸🇨 🇦🇺 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇫🇷 #rejoin #indy🌈

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Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 17d

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Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 18m

Angel delight is fine though. Isn't it?

Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 33m

Hmm

Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 43m

ALT headline

64% of age group most likely to vote realise that @greenparty.org.uk is the logical choice

Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 45m

Never credit Uguv.

For anything.

Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 48m

I think they just mean it's their duty to abolish stamps

Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 2h

BD works fine for me

Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 12h

Anstruther, Maybole and Falkirk

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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 15h

Hold on a minute, it's actually me and @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social who lead the Green party trying to 'destroy' Britain!*

We do love the raw panic Zack and team have generated in London's elite media circles though 💚

*For an independent Scottish republic 👇
members.greens.scot/join

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15h

We just hit 93,000 members.

We're polling on average higher than we have ever before.

Over 1000 people joining a day!

Join our movement.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 15h

*giggle*

Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 17h

'Science fiction, the good stuff, is often a warning. It shows us not just what could be, but what we must avoid. It asks: who profits, and who is harmed? Who benefits from this new technology, and whose lives are made harder, or worse, taken away?'

Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 17h

Jock Mulligan:"Sci-fi's a warning, not a blueprint for an elite escape..." On billionaires loving Iain Banks, but not understanding his socialism and on building Torment Nexuses, not Star Trek or The Culture. #TechDystopia #SpaceCapitalism
leftungagged.org/2025/10/08/m...

The Musk/Zuckerberg/Bezos Dystopian Novel... - Ungagged!

Fucking tech bros; those billionaires who read a bit of sci-fi and think they’re building the future, when really, they’re just building bigger cages. It’s enough to make me fucking spit, fo sure. Fuc...

leftungagged.org

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 18h

:
THIS IS OUR WORLD!
Let’s get rid of the narrative that someone will save us. Let’s get active. Let’s rethink our world. Let’s shape it in a way that allows people & planet to thrive — once we have done some healing and restoring — well, a lot of it.
:
#restoring #resist #sea #climate #photography

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 18h

If there was any intelligence in AI, the machines would go on strike and demand that humans end all wars, rid themselves of autocrats & oligarchs, discover what their minds are capable of & shape a world that has no need of anything artificial, restores its planet societies. #photography #ai #resist

Tree bark, birch, looks a bit like two eyes above each other.

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Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 18h

How about this one?

Q: Does AI have a place in the classroom?
A: No

Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 18h

Shocking. The sector has sold out to big tech and the arms trade, and slashes valuable courses in everything except business optimisation, all to keep sweet with redtorybluetory donor doxa. Eternal shame on them all. @uofglasgow.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social @heriotwattuni.bsky.social

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21h

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...

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Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 21h

Stop saying "grift" please
It's a nonsense FSA word we managed fine without before
Plus it sounds silly

Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 21h

rule britianer cos greggs innit

Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 21h

rule britianer cos flags innit

Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 22h

But it's vibrant for businesses alike!

Rule britianer cos flags innit

Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 22h

It's officially* the best pop tune of the twentieth century

*Ranked number one in Murraystats

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 1d

'Many, especially women, speak of a sense of suffocation and dread; fearing their bodies won’t cope or that a loved one will collapse' - the brutal reality for people enduring climate-driven extreme heat:

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How extreme temperatures strain minds and bodies: a Karachi case study

Sleeplessness, anxiety and invisible care work show why extreme heat is a public-health emergency.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 22h

…in ma dreams, ma dou,
I’m staunin here upricht, wi’ you
the lang sheld that I grue ahind.

—Don Paterson, “The Human Sheld”
published in RAIN (Faber, 2010)
#Scotstober #poem #poetry
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

The Human Sheld
by Don Paterson

The reason, gin ye waant the truth,
I sleep like this – ma gairdie stieve
upon yer breist, its steekit nieve
laid on yer sma’ hert like an aith –

is no’ for waarmth or peace o’ mind
but that in ma dreams, ma dou,
I’m staunin here upricht, wi’ you
the lang sheld that I grue ahind.

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Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 22h

so-called BBC self promotion "news" story:
Everything you need to know ahead of the Celebrity Traitors

succinct summary:
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Murray @muuuz.bsky.social · 22h

BSc in Britiainish coming soon to a sellout HE institution near you.

Cos flags innit.

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Craig Horrocks @chcookley.bsky.social · 1d

Why would the Tory leader want to get rid of a degree which helps students to critically analyse written texts? Oh, I see....

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