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Nicky @nickyzog.bsky.social · Nov 27

Energy security and Scotland's abundance of it (both traditional and renewable) should not only be protecting us, but also enriching us, offsetting the supply side (inflation) shocks globally. We should be a haven of stability (energywise) in an unstable world.
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THE 2nd GREAT BRITISH ENERGY HEIST

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 19d

This is who is advising the president of the United States

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 24d

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.

This is getting very dark, very quick.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24d

“The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to some form of right-wing extremism. That is also true for 2024: for the third year in a row, all the murders identified were tied to right-wing extremism.”

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CCAP @ccapoban.bsky.social · May 14

New paper co-authored by CCAP Curator Ceci Rad Menéndez: "Evolution of far-red light photoacclimation in cyanobacteria"
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Evolution of far-red light photoacclimation in cyanobacteria

Cyanobacteria oxygenated the atmosphere of early Earth and continue to be key players in global carbon and nitrogen cycles. A phylogenetically diverse…

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CCAP @ccapoban.bsky.social · May 23

CCAP and @samsocean.bsky.social are attending the Preserving What Matters: Scotland's National Collections exhibition on Tuesday 27th May - at the RSE, George Street in Edinburgh.

If you're in the area come along to see our stand 🧪

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Preserving what matters: Scotland's national collections | In person

What do collections tell us about Scotland's history and future? And are they at risk? Join to ask questions and hear from our experts.

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Nicky @nickyzog.bsky.social · May 7

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Full interview: "Godfather of AI" shares prediction for future of AI, issues warnings

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · May 7

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · May 7

India carried out strikes early on Wednesday against Pakistan, two weeks after an attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam.

Here is what we know aje.io/84hvaa

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · May 6

#Israel is slaughtering #Palestinians

Moving the survivors into camps and ghettos.

Occupying their land.

Committing genocide and other war crimes.

There will be a reckoning.

The world must act.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · May 5

This is incredibly powerful from the WHO’s Emergencies Director, Dr Mike Ryan, on the world doing nothing as the children of Gaza die.

“This is an abomination.”

(🎥 Middle East Eye)

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Nicky @nickyzog.bsky.social · May 7

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Full interview: "Godfather of AI" shares prediction for future of AI, issues warnings

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 23

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

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The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully.
He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family.
This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements.

In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.

"You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.

The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had
it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document.
Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained
"at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error.
Hermosillo said he was detained with about
15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because
"they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.

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Nicky @nickyzog.bsky.social · Apr 23

And just a reminder on this St.George's day that Farage leads in the polls in England, despite Brexit consequences and seeing the shit show across the Atlantic. 🤷‍♂️

God @thegodpodcast.com · Apr 22

Idiot America never learns any lessons.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · Apr 9

Good morning.

Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.

It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

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Nicky @nickyzog.bsky.social · Mar 29

Pulitzer worthy.

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Nicky @nickyzog.bsky.social · Mar 29

Yes, I saw that regards the Picachu ones, but hope it inspires a movement and not quite as dark and foreboding as the Whirling Dervish one.
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How Trump Is Inspiring Wannabe Authoritarians Everywhere

President Trump has turned a central precept of American diplomacy on its head, embracing fellow leaders who abandon democratic principles.

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Peggy Louise @peggylou2024.bsky.social · Mar 29

Protesters in Turkey

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Nicky @nickyzog.bsky.social · Mar 29

It is quite an image.
"The dervishes' black cloaks symbolize tombs, and long headgear symbolizes tombstones, all representing the journey from the physical world to the spiritual realm."🥺

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Neil Drysdale @neildrysdale.bsky.social · Mar 26

I’ve never forgotten meeting Aberdeen trade unionist Ron Webster, just months before his death at 96. Ron was proudly, passionately left-wing and railed against increasing poverty in his home city. He would have been appalled by today’s spring statement! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...

Aberdeen trade unionist Ron Webster wonders where all the money went from the oil boom

The veteran union figure met everybody from Fidel Castro to Nelson Mandela and led the anti-poll tax campaign in Scotland in the 1980s.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Mar 27

The number of Islamophobic posts about London Mayor Sadiq Khan has risen from 12,000 to 28,000 over the last 12 months, according to a GLA report.

They’re nearly all on TwitterX and more than half come from the US and India.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Mar 27

Not the biggest issue here by any means, but does Trump think the European Union is just one country?

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Mar 27

More deranged 2:00am tariff poasting from grandpa

A tweet from Donald Trump that reads “If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large scale Tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had!”

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Nicky @nickyzog.bsky.social · Mar 27

Pikachu suits could be the new uniforms for fighting the rise of authoritarianism in the modern surveillance state. Ridicule the autocrats.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Mar 27

What if the secret to winning elections is somehow Trump's syntax. We need a guy to say stuff like "But we're going to abolish billionaires and we'll be doing it very soon. They'll be paying very high taxes but it'll be very fair. And frankly they haven't paid taxes in a very long time"

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Nicky @nickyzog.bsky.social · Mar 26

God, even Armenia is going to be in the EU before Scotland.

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Hayloft Publishing @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · Mar 26

Armenia National Assembly votes for starting EU accession bid,,,

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