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Takeourblueback @takeourblueback.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just saying: Grangemouth Refinery spent decades keeping Scotland moving. Diesel was 24% of its output, supplying 65% of Scottish fuel. Then April 2025 hit. The UK Labour Government sat on its hands and let Scotland’s only crude refinery die. A catastrophic failure of energy security.
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 22h
And to top it off, Labour are mulling over a compulsory tax on all households to fund this bollox, payable even if you don't watch it.
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ve been techie since Acorns, Apples, & PCs first appeared. I’ve run networks, done development, been that goto guy for issues, & loved it. But, I’ve just had an ad pop up on YT about some AI stuff & I haven’t a scooby what it meant. And you know what? I couldn’t give less of a fuck If I tried.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 02/10/2026
Scotland needs it's own public broadcastor.
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The top story in Scotland is apparently a call to abolish Holyrood. It's a struggle to find any mention at all of UK Labours cash grab on Scottish pensions to fund care in England. #IndependenceNow #UDI
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Why should pensioners in Scotland have to pay for English pensioners to have care that Scots already have? Are we going to pay twice now? Is this the best the #AngloState can come up with?
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scottish pensioners to be penalised, in order to fund the English National Care Service 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 29/09/2026
The leader of a UK government elected on 32% is telling a Scottish government elected on 36% that a 56% pro-Indy Scottish parliament can't hold a referendum that 68% of Scots want. UK democracy, ladies and gentlemen.
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Leona Scream @editor.scot · 28/09/2026
Everything I’ve read about this supposed bomb plot makes me think it’s completely fake. This article basically insinuates the same thing in the strongest possible way it can
independent.co.uk
The RAF Fairford bomb plot was designed to fail. So who was behind it?
If this was a ploy to use old school techniques in the age of drones it was doomed from the start, says world affairs editor Sam Kiley
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We can but wish that if there were legions of Iranian agents in an armada of small boats, they'd be coming to do us all a favour...
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Tam @tammckenna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Westminster moving through the gears as it looks to undermine the alliance of Scotland, Wales & the North of Ireland, to protect their "union". You Yes Yet Scotland? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #SaorAlba #IndyClan #LiberationScotland #Salvo
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The only possible future for a continuing 'UK' would be for it to be truly voluntary, with *4* totally independent governments, agreed financial contributions, along with EU membership. There's no future for 1 of the 4 nations continuing to outvote, control, & asset strip the other 3. None.
nation.cymru
Is there a future for the UK?
Mick Antoniw The UK is slowly but assuredly fragmenting and its democratic structures are slowly disintegrating. The rise of nationalisms in all four countries is proof of that. Andy Burnham has ident...
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'Therefore, better identification and recording of the drugs involved in deaths in Scotland may be a reason for the higher rate of drug-induced deaths in Scotland compared with other countries.' www.nrscotland.gov.uk/publications...
nrscotland.gov.uk
Drug-related deaths in Scotland, 2025
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well,
The Tories said the reduced subsistence allowance would be loaded onto pre-paid card that would not allow cash withdrawals, and would "prevent spending" on alcohol, cigarettes, or gambling.
The party is yet to detail how its proposal would work, but shadow welfare secretary Helen Whately said it would be "a version" of the pre-paid Aspen card issued to asylum seekers living in government-funded accommodation.
These cards cannot be used to make contactless, telephone or internet payments, whilst asylum seekers whose applications have failed cannot withdraw cash.
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BBC Scotland only appear to have reported on this Scottish guy once, in this article in 2019. Since then he's been ripping it up, going on to win multiple World Championships. Does that not seem odd? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/scotla...
bbc.co.uk
Muay Thai: Nico Carrillo ditches job to follow fighting dream
Having ditched his electrical apprenticeship, Glasgow's Nico Carrillo heads to Sweden for a Muay Thai bout that could transform his career.
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Alan Ferrier @alanferrier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An oil-producing nation with no refinery. An exporting nation with no shipping routes. An electricity producer forced to pay to upload to the “national” grid. Welcome to our blessed "union of equals".
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source.
static.klipy.com
Matt Frewer as Max Headroom (1980s)
ALT: Matt Frewer as Max Headroom (1980s)
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 10/09/2026
Anyone venturing onto toxic platforms like Facebook and Twitter at the moment will see an endless wave of abuse of the RNLI. But on the plus side. The RNLI are reporting a "significant increase" in donations this week. Let's be part of it..... 👇
rnli.org
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Everything he touches turns to shit, which was fine when it was just his own casinos. But now like the proverbial bad kid who's ire has moved on to bigger things than pulling wings off insects or kicking puppies, it's savings, mortgages, stock markets, economies, countries, the world. Wanker.
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Believe in Scotland @believeinscotland.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
💬 “Burnham has made majority support his trigger for Indyref2. We don’t need to trust him, we need to hold him to his word. Let’s prove enough support exists. If he tries to block Scotland’s right to choose, there must be a political price to pay.” ✍️: www.believeinscotland.org/indyref_peti...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thanks Politico for the shout out to my story on Restore Britain today. You can read it here bylinetimes.com/2026/09/08/t...
DEFINITELY NOT A CULT: Josiah Mortimer from Byline Times FOI’d the Restore Britain constitution. He notes that despite Rupert Lowe’s apparent passion for direct democracy, “there is no mechanism for removing the Leader at all. Not by the members, not by the board, not by anyone.” See the original document here.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 08/09/2026
The Labour 🇬🇧 British government’s “Plan for Change” committed to “fast-tracking planning decisions on at least 150 major economic infrastructure projects, related to "Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects". None are in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland. fullfact.org/government-t...
fullfact.org
How many major economic infrastructure project decisions have been taken under this government? – Full Fact
Full Fact looks at the promise made in the government’s Plan for Change for decisions to be made on at least 150 major economic infrastructure projects.
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
And with the lunacy of the UK pegging electricity prices to that of gas, guess what's coming....again.
ft.com
EU enters winter with lowest gas stocks on record
Situation could become ‘problematic’, warns gas storage group head
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
USA. Quite apart from the tragic & needless human cost, I’m bored tae fuck of watching my very modest, but hard worked for, retirement investments behaving like a drunk Magic Roundabout Zebedee on acid. I’m sure your 401k’s are the same. Sort your orange felon out & restore some sanity to the world.
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Catriona @catrio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’m sure the BBC and channel 4 will be outraged by this and cover it for days 😱. Of course not he isn’t SNP www.thenational.scot/news/2650881...
thenational.scot
Labour minister bills taxpayer £34,000 for four-day trip to US during World Cup
A JUNIOR Labour minister billed the taxpayer £34,000 for a trip to the US during the World Cup ...
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Just did a search which ended up landing me on a personal finance UK Reddit. The only remotely useful thought after some brief reading is...and Labour wants to force people into Stocks & Shares ISAs. Jeez.
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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Millions of people rely on the information they obtain via a search engine corporation which just proved it would alter digital reality if instructed to do so by those in political power. That’s some crazy shit, Google.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Why are so many Data Centres being forced down our throat? #DataCenterMoratorium 🚫
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Having reached an age I can stop work I have just 2 kinds of stress. There's the Westminster robbing Scotland blind kind. And there's the I see there's butterflies roosting in the greenhouse, I must remember to get up early and open the doors to let them out kind. Soon there will be only one.
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
All nations should have written safeguarding rules that social media platforms must demonstrate that they can comply with. Existing platforms to be taken down if they can't & new ones stopped from launching at all in the nation if they can't. It's not the Wild West anymore.
amnesty.org.uk
USA: Meta's $18 billion settlement should be a turning point for child safety online
Child safety must be built into platforms from the start, not added as an afterthought once harms are identified
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Them: Please create a secure password 8-14 chars long. PW Manager: Hey, I've got this. It'll be random, secure, unguessable & you'll never need to remember it. Me: Cool. Crack on. Them: You're trying to login, please enter the 1st 8th & 14th chars of your password we told you not to write down.
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Jim Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. @jazzyrussell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I can't believe this London-based landowner is putting the iconic Glenelg to Skye ferry at risk. Support the local community - not millionaire financiers - and save the world famous Glenelg to Skye ferry by joining me and signing the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Save the Glenelg - Skye ferry!
This ten minute crossing is famous around the world - and is believed to be the last turntable style ferry anywhere. It's an iconic part of Skye's history, but it's under threat thanks to a wealthy la...
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Wullie @wullieforindy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Good morning 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 London govs choices, especially since July 2024, we,ve lost Grangemouth, Mossmorran, Harbour Energy, Ardesier and others. They would let 1000,s of jobs in critical infrastructure in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 go just to screw over the SNP. Time to go our own way #Scottishindependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Shortbreadfairy©️ @shortbreadfairy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
And Milliband just did it without giving 'twa hoots' aboot the impact on Scotland, us and the North East. The UK Government glossed over and dodged any accountability for his actions just like an overlord 🙄
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I've been reading Reform UK's constitution so you don't have to. The party’s founding documents reveal the extraordinary levels of power Nigel Farage wields over Reform UK, making it all but impossible for party members to remove him: bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/c...
bylinetimes.com
Chairman Farage: How Reform UK Operates as a Democratic Party in Name Only
The party's founding documents reveal the extraordinary levels of power Nigel Farage wields over Reform UK, making it all but impossible for party members to remove him
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Just finished re-watching #TheExpanse, again. So many awesome character arcs. If you‘ve never watched, or only watched it once, do yourself a favour. & watch or re-watch.
How many characters from other awesome TV & Movies can you spot in the finale battle lineup?
Such a nice touch.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20/02/2026
Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter -
PAUL McMULLAN:
Oh, yeah -
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- which is one case that you truly do regret.
PAUL McMULLAN:
I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station.
Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.BROOKE GLADSTONE:
And you offered her 50 pounds -
PAUL MCMULLAN:
Yeah.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for.
PAUL McMULLAN:
No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.BROOKE GLADSTONE:
So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless?
PAUL McMULLAN:
I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I?
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself.
PAUL McMULLAN:
Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.
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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is what BBC Shortbread do with every red yellow and blue tory press release up here. Struggling to give a shit now it's becoming convenient to notice that it happens in England too.
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. 'Hi, I was the frayed electric extension lead in the mid 70s car showroom that you were running your hand along that resulted in lifelong scarring. I'm your Nemesis, responsible for all your many other near death experiences, and I'll get you yet'
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In an alternate, sane, timeline the headline might have been, 'Zero hours contract employees stand to gain £2.9bn'
bbc.co.uk
Zero hours crackdown could cost firms £2.9bn a year
Labour's employment rights bill crackdown on zero hours contracts could cost businesses up to £2.9bn a year, new official analysis has found.
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Gerry Flynn @gerryflynn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
What gives a Government in one nation the right to remove EU Citizenship, legal protections & rights from another, when that nation had emphatically said No‽ There is no equality in that relationship. Only empirical subordination, imposed subjugation, expected acquiescence & demanded subservience!
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A new academic study by economists at the Universities of Bath and Warwick has found that Brexit is costing Scotland almost £30 billion a year, making Scotland the most economically damaged of all the UK's devolved nations. 👇
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D Mcguire @dmcguirecfc67.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New guy same as the old Guy ! If you have nothing to hide release the Files !
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Not one of seven major new hospitals in England has been built in an industrial setting next to a major sewage works but Scottish Labour thought that was good enough for its loyal voters 👇 talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/08/10/n...
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
Not one of seven major new hospitals in England has been built in an industrial setting next to a major sewage works but Scottish Labour thought that was good enough for its loyal voters
Thanks again now to several readers for this link. I see little media coverage of the shocking evidence that emerges in this. Glasgow City Council approved the location for the new QEUH on 16 Janua…
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Oh, yay.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Jeremy Clarkson thinks people who receive benefits should have to send a weekly thank you email to a randomly chosen working person, explaining what they did with the money, or have their payments stopped So here is mine If you’d like to give it a share to help Jeremy see it, that would be great👇
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abigdoob @abigdoob.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Rod Liddle may be dead, but you just know that Rupert Murdoch will dredge up some equally vile pos to take his place.
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Let's think about this sudden "50 000 migrants invading Spain/Europe" event. Why now? Who benefits? What is happening and how it is being used? Good points made here.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Oh look, the UK does have helicopters to fight wildfires 🔥, just not in Scotland!!👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...
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