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jhd1591.bsky.social @jhd1591.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
See letter from Scottish Parliament’s "Public Petitions team” to Leah Gunn Barrett of “Respect Scottish Sovereignty (RSS)” advising RSS’s petition calling for a “Scottish People’s Assembly on Self-Determination" is published & ready for signatures at: petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Have you never read the ministerial code?"
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Suella Braverman humiliated by James Cleverly in row over her asylum policy
Suella Braverman was slapped down by James Cleverly as the pair got involved in a social media spat about asylum policy.
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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b3ta @b3ta.com · 05/07/2026
MULTI POST! Artist: christhebarker b3ta.com/board/11429218 From the 'Comedy Art' challenge b3ta.com/challenge/comedyart/popular #ComedyArt
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Subject: MULTI POST!

Body: I thought I'd get all these out of the way in one go rather than spam the board relentlessly. As some of you may know I did a book of exactly this subject a couple of years ago. 
It's still available here and it's bloody great quality:

shop.printtrail.com/product/chris-barker-brush-strokes-book/
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Kemi Badenoch suggests the Tories would enter a coalition with Reform UK if Nigel Farage fell short of a majority "This country cannot have another left-wing Government"👇
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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
There were two tiers of possible response to the express wishes of Henry Nowak's dignified family in the light of his traumatic murder. One humane and empathetic, the other inhumane and exploitative. This version of "Lyin' Eyes" (Eagles) is for JD Vance and those in the second. youtu.be/2J95CTmZUUM
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"Bile and Lies" - Marsh Family parody of The Eagles "Lyin' Eyes" about JD Vance views on Henry Nowak
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 04/06/2026
⚡️Full text of Zelensky's open letter to Putin. The letter lays out Putin's increasingly apparent vulnerabilities, Ukraine's growing strength, and the case for an immediate reopening of peace negotiations.
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Full text of Zelensky's open letter to Putin
The letter lays out Putin's increasingly apparent vulnerabilities, Ukraine's growing strength, and the case for an immediate reopening of peace negotiations.
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Queen B @beansiemcbeans.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Let's get this trending. Srarmer said this on STV in 2020. We need to hold him to it. #IndependenceNow
A photo and quote from Keir Starmer saying on STV in 2020, if Scotland return an SNP government then it would be a mandate for a second referendum. It's not up to the likes of me who live in England. This is a decision for the people of Scotland to make.
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The Daily Star have bought another lettuce 👀
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andyhales.bsky.social @andyhales.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
youtube.com/shorts/SU7n3...
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Iran Ceasefire Explained
YouTube video by Dave Columbo
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SHARE THIS …..AND SHARE IT AGAIN !!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🤬 🇬🇧 british government confirm that Scotland is a prisoner in their british union🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Pharrell Williams said he initially wrote “seven to nine” versions of his hit song “Happy”, and “none of it was working .. “.. It was only until I was tapped out that I had to ask myself the question: ‘What does .. a good mood FEEL like?’” Born today in 1973. 🙏🏼
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Fake news!
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a woman wearing a red dress and a necklace smiles in front of a blue background
ALT: a woman wearing a red dress and a necklace smiles in front of a blue background
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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You  know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Here's a short happy-go-lucky 🎶 parody about the way that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard". youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."
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"Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard" - Marsh Family parody of Paul Simon "Me and Julio" on RFK
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/08/2025
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
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Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000 Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare. As of May, 19 months into the war, Israeli intelligence officials listed 8,900 named fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as dead or “probably dead”, a joint investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has found. 8,900 Named fighters listed as dead or ‘probably dead’ in Israeli database as of May 2025 Continue reading...
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WhatDoesGodNeedWith @wdgnw.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
www.thenational.scot/politics/253...
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Why I'm wearing this simple T-shirt to my Edinburgh Festival events
ALL the palaver over a black T-shirt with the words “Genocide in Palestine, time to Take Action” ...
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Ekō @eko.org · 11/08/2025
No more statements of condemnation. No more “keeping dialogue open” to allow trickles of aid deliveries. No more complicity in ethnic cleansing and genocide. We call on every government in the world to urgently suspend trade and sanction Israel NOW. action.eko.org/a/gaza-invas...
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URGENT: No more statements of condemnation. Sanction Israel NOW.
The Israeli government has announced a complete invasion of the Gaza Strip, and last night the IDF murdered five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza including its most prominent reporter Anas Al Sharif. We are w
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This is 30 years old...
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Goodnight 😴
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Maga cracking up pluralistic.net/2025/07/18/w...
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Pluralistic: MAGA crackup (18 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Labour's Collapse Could End the Union open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...
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Labour's Collapse Could End the Union
Labour's collapse has deeper implications for Britain.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
useful!
add"-ai" to the end of your google search and no a.i. query will be initiated.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
BREAKING: Bird Flu Virus Mutating Rapidly Scientists Warn Current Vaccines May Fall Short H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to humans.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is great Be sure to give @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social a follow www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvT3...
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"Puppets on a Kremlin String?" - Marsh Family adaptation of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" on Trump/Vance
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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andyhales.bsky.social @andyhales.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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SKETCH - THE SCOTTISH LABOUR REVIVAL!
YouTube video by Shauny Boy
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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"Trump the lame duck issues his clarion call, and his very-much-not-lame duck colleagues have to throw their weight behind his policies because they’ve contracted their power to him." open.substack.com/pub/briantyl...
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Trump hangs his own party out to dry
Trump just ensured that the GOP would own all of his unpopular moves.
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Greg Moodie @gregmoodie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
You all know about The McCrone Report, right? But have you ever seen it tackled in a comic strip? Please share widely and be warned: THIS WILL TEND TO MAKE YOU ANGRY. gregmoodie.com/the-illustra...
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The Illustrated McCrone
It's the 51st anniversary of the publication of The McCrone Report. Please share widely.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Posted without comment for the late, great Janey Godley
Combination of Scottish and Ukrainian flags with legend Trump is a c*nt
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Jón Frímann @jonfr500.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This is not good news. Since this cornoavirus has already crossed into humans.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
bonk
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andyhales.bsky.social @andyhales.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
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No second state visit for Trump
This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
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Lisa the Leftist @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
spot on, Shaggy #RealMonsters #MonstersInc
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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
#YouYesNow #IndyClan? It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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andyhales.bsky.social @andyhales.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
so now that storm eowyn has passed, what am i supposed to do with this dead nazgul in the garden?
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
ADL seeing students wearing a keffiyeh: "This is like wearing a Nazi uniform and marching in to Poland arrest them all" ADL seeing Elon Musk doing multiple Nazi salutes: "Calm down lol he's a good guy trust us"
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Ron Wilson @tartanseer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Keep reposting this folks, don’t let Sarwar or 'Scottish' Labour off the hook. ‘‘CM: This is about central Scotland as well, Grangemouth for example, would you step in to save the refinery? AS: We would step in to save the jobs at the refinery.’’
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JPC @jpc7.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Can we all commit to posting this relentlessly next Monday 🤷‍♀️ It’s what she’d have wanted
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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 13/01/2025
Facebook reminded me of this #Scottishmeme from four years ago and it's still so funny ;-)
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Greg Moodie @gregmoodie.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
And so to this week's cartoon, 'A Grand Adventure', featuring the moron's moron, Liz Truss. Here, Lizzy explains how, rather than crashing the economy, she liberated it. You will share, and remember that I'm your best. gregmoodie.com/a-grand-adve...
Head of lettuce and Liz Truss.
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andyhales.bsky.social @andyhales.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Pecksniff: So concerned were Reform MPs at child abuse, none turned up to the Commons debate eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
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Pecksniff: So concerned were Reform MPs at child abuse, none turned up to the Commons debate
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
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Chickyholic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @chickyholic.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Signatures over 1k in less than 24 hrs. There's a lot more in the Indy movement who should be signing so keep circulating! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Introduce statutory provision for independence referendums in Scotland & Wales.
It has been stated that the UK is a voluntary union. If this is democratically the case I think there should be a legal mechanism for any part of the union to decide whether or not to leave that union...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Car crash briefing with Kemi Badenoch spokesman in which he - Couldn't say if she'd ever raised grooming inside govt (having never mentioned it in the House) - Admitted she hasn't spoken to any survivors - Refused to condemn Elon Musk for attacks on Jess Phillips and said she's still a "fan" of his
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Hey, anyone remember just before New Year 2020?
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Bird flu mutations show potential for easier human spread. What is the pandemic risk?
Genetic analysis suggests the H5N1 virus has the capacity to mutate in ways that could make it more transmissible to humans.
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 16/12/2024
A wee reminder… As Labour tries to please both private and public interests, its policies for the NHS are in danger of costing a lot and achieving little | Dr Daniel Goyal @dangoyal.bsky.social #health #NHS
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Labour’s vision for the NHS is getting grim
As Labour tries to please both private and public interests, its policies for the NHS are in danger of costing a lot and achieving little
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Mike 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @1tutree.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Researchers find UK Government's austerity policies 'murders' 335 000 across the UK and inadvertently reveal SNP mitigation saved more than 8 000 lives talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/12/09/r...
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Researchers find UK Government’s austerity policies ‘murders’ 335 000 across the UK and inadvertently reveal SNP mitigation saved more than 8 000 lives
Professor John Robertson OBA I’ve already recommended the excellent, highly researched, ‘Social Murder? Austerity and Life Expectancy in the UK’ by David Walsh and Gerry McCartney…
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