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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🫂 Dyslexic, so not all typos will be caught. No DMs or chats. ‘Microdose Hope’, it’s all that’s left. Yes Scotland No Nazis

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 6h
Overcrowding in UK A&E depts and treating patients in corridors linked to hundreds of deaths. Neoliberals urge cuts in public spending, silence on human consequences. Delayed care leads to premature deaths People sacrificed to gods of fiscal policies.
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Overcrowding in A&E linked to 'hundreds of deaths a week', study finds
A review of more than 19,000 adult patients found that for every 10% increase in emergency department occupancy, the chance of dying in the following 28 days increased by 1%.
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flossyflook.bsky.social @flossyflook.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There’s been a lot of chat about scrapping the pension triple lock. It’s not good for Scotland - Heather, SNP explains why: 👇
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 4h
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 6h
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
Value of the
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Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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Monty @montywarden.bsky.social · 6h
I think this, from an official British perspective, is the best summary to date:
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Stewart Lee: Five Go Mad in Fairford is the worst Enid Blyton yet
The men arrived on small boats. No they didn’t. They’re Middle Eastern. Oh, they’re British. They’re dangerous. No, they’ve been bailed! What 10-year-old would take this seriously?
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PEEBleguese PEEBleguese @thehumancentipeeb.bsky.social · 15h
I was once caught dogging and caused the entire US B1 bomber fleet to leave the nearby RAF airbase
The legend Sir Bob Mortimer on would i lie to you
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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 6h
Shoutout to Britain's dogging community, truly our strongest soldiers
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 6h
Being banned by a genocidal apartheid state is an indication you're on the right side, I'd say.
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KD50s @annadickie56.bsky.social · 5h
He also finished with- ‘We can and will meet our obligations to our children….’ This should be the first thing out of every progressive person’s mouth on each & every issue and it doesn’t happen often enough.
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優noD🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 5h
'The built environment accounts for 37% of all global emissions, coming from the combination of the construction process itself and the energy required for heating, lighting and maintaining buildings over time. Between 7 and 8% of these total emissions are from concrete manufacturing alone.'
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 16h
The UK Daily Mail obviously did not like the results of its own poll. Its own graphic portrays 75% as less than 50%. #UKPolitics #Brexit #EuropeanUnion
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KD50s @annadickie56.bsky.social · 10h
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"Deep Unlearning": Timnit Gebru on AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h
It's only the first round but I can't believe Brazil did everything right going after Jair Bolsanaro over his attempted coup only to be on the verge of electing his corrupt dipshit son.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 18h
⚡️Plague death triggers quarantine, mask mandates in Russia's Irkutsk region in Siberia. The measures come after Darya Shipilova, a lab technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, died after reportedly contracting plague on Oct. 2.
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Plague death triggers quarantine, mask mandates in Russia's Irkutsk region in Siberia
The measures come after Darya Shipilova, a lab technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, died after reportedly contracting plague on Oct. 2.
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KD50s @annadickie56.bsky.social · 13h
The Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) is the Spanish government department responsible for national climate change, environmental protection, energy policy, and anti-depopulation strategies. Meanwhile in the UK Labour won’t even equip fire services properly…
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 18h
Spain is investing in renewable-powered desalination to help tackle growing water shortages in coastal regions. The initiative involves 14 desalination plants and has been reported as a €600 million effort with the potential to serve up to 4 million people. Sources: Below
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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 21h
Today's blog is all about a fantastic encounter with two flocks of Common Cranes yesterday over the Isle of May involving 26 birds! Check out the blog: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com Photos Bex Outram
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump redirected $176.9 million from a US human-rights fund towards global right wing groups, including $40 million for an “anti-communism” consortium and $1 million for fascist groups opposing Brazil’s Supreme Court days before the presidential election.
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Trump diverts $176.9m of Human Rights aid to far-right groups; targets Europe, Canada and South America
Marco Rubio overrode congressional holds, a Democratic aide said. The money funds opponents of Brazil's supreme court days before its vote and Europeans who reject "gender ideology", as Trump official...
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 04/10/2026
Brazil faces lackluster presidential campaign and uncertain vote amid concerns over US interference
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Brazil faces lackluster presidential campaign and uncertain vote amid concerns over US interference
Left-wing President Lula and his far-right rival Flavio Bolsonaro remain neck and neck in the polls ahead of the general election on Sunday, October 4.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
😂 Gotcha
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Absofreakinlutely They Should......
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Fiona McGregor @fionamcgregor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lovely pic of Marlene in the National today - pity they got her name wrong! 🙄
Pic of marlene halliday in the national but the caption reads rose jackson
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Love this 👇
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KD50s @annadickie56.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Burnham Bounce… Amazing given how little has actually been done bar some tinkering on Palestine/sanctions, but you can still get arrested here for protesting, a nibble at pensioners rather than the super rich & vague, warm words on Europe…..
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Labour just don't get it. They don't get how scared people are with extreme weather becoming our new normal. We need voices in parliament that will force them to take wildfires seriously, not quietly shirk responsibility.
Revealed: government quietly dropped plan to orepare England for wildfires
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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John Brophy @jk001-ie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Are Croatia boycotting the England match? #CROENG
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KD50s @annadickie56.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
youtu.be/F0rQlYyjx3o?...
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Erin Brockovich: 4,000 People Asked Me To Investigate Data Centers. Here's What I Found.
YouTube video by Offline with Jon Favreau
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Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Please, if you have a vote on Thursday, vote for Zack. Whatever progress ‘Labour’ has shown, ditching Starmer included, has happened not because people have suddenly found their inner conscience , but because of pressure from the left: from the Greens, PC, SNP: all of us. Don’t give up now.
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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We've had several Short-eared and Long-eared Owls (pictured) on the island of recent (photo Aaron Nugent) as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com
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KD50s @annadickie56.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
‘Almost half of all voters’ - joyful news for Eng re rejoining the EU - (Scotland was never the problem) but when it’s almost half of Scotland wants Indy apparently that’s a conversation that can’t be had in the much vaunted union of nations… #DoubleStandards
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優noD🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 02/10/2026
Data Centres in Scotland: Gold Rush or Bubble? yescowal.podbean.com/e/ai-data-ce... With Dr Craig Dalzell, Head of Policy at the Scottish Common Weal, on the most pressing question facing Scotland's energy-rich future and the real economics behind the hype.
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Data Centres: Fracking All Over Again? | Scottish Independence Podcasts
Data Centres in Scotland: Gold Rush or Bubble?  We join campaign group Pensioners for Independence at the Bacchus Bar in Glasgow to find out more.   Dr Craig Dalzell, Head of Policy at the Scottish Co...
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Dr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If GB News were a normal commercial venture, like Talk TV, it would have been binned long ago. Since September 2020, it has spewed out hateful far-right propaganda, paying high salaries to people such as Nigel Farage. Ofcom has abjectly failed to address this threat to democracy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Imagine four of the most frighteningly irresponsible people in America deciding how AI will be put to use in the most frighteningly irresponsible way. Well, no need to imagine it — because it's happening now. Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/autowar
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"We want Adnan, a talented voluntary medic at Nasser Hospital, to take his unconditional place to study Public Health in the UK this year." Get Adnan out of Gaza to Sheffield University, UK www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/get-adnan-...
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Get Adnan out of Gaza to Sheffield University, UK
We want Adnan, a talented voluntary medic at Nasser Hospital, to take his unconditional place to study Public Health in the UK this year.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICE arrested the mom of a 9-year-old at a school bus stop in Austin, leaving him alone and crying. The video has profanity and is heartbreaking to watch, but it shows the fear/pain of what happened. This is evil. This is wrong. And it has to stop.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dividends paid to UK citizens taxed at rates of 8.75% to 39.35%, lower rate than wages. Dividends mostly go to the top 1%. £6bn a year raised if dividends taxed at the same rate as wages. More if NIC levied. Unlike the US, France, Germany, no UK tax levied on dividends paid to foreign investors.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Geneva 🇨🇦 @geneva1111.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Post by Benny Johnson below 👇
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The decline in visitors travelling to the U.S. would have been much bigger without the World Cup this year (1.24 million international World Cup visitors). Without the World Cup, the decline in international visitors would have been 3+ million. bsky.app/profile/sema...
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Gregory Andrews @lyrebirddream.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
THEY KNEW THE RISK. FOI documents obtained by Declassified Australia show DFAT received UN warnings in Feb & June 2024 over arms transfers to Israel and possible complicity in international crimes, including genocide. declassifiedaus.org/2024/09/03/a...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve been a media witness to two federal executions. One was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The other, a week later, was a drug kingpin named Juan Raul Garza. My conclusion after watching both men die: The death penalty should not exist. Period. It fixes nothing, and it erodes our souls.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Imagine being a healthcare provider and a botched “death penalty” victim is brought into your ER. This is so depraved
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Wullie @wullieforindy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On this day…in 1960 Nigeria celebrated its freedom from British Colonial rule. To this day, 65 countries within the last 100 yrs have also celebrated their freedom, it’s significant that none have returned. #Scottishindependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 historicalnigeria.com/nigerias-ind...
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Nigeria’s Independence Day: History, Ceremony, and National Meaning | Historical Nigeria
A factual history of Nigeria’s Independence Day, examining its origins, ceremonies, and evolving political and civic significance.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 30/09/2026
Not only do 🇬🇧 British Governments these days ignore 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland and any priorities we have that are different to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England's, but they're so defensive they refuse to acknowledge where we succeed, and how they might learn from our experience. They deliver worse outcomes for England as a result.
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These aren't 'spills', they are deliberate releases of sewage to protect profits. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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South West Water fined £8m for hundreds of sewage spills in Cornwall and Devon
District judge orders record fine for region and says incidents of pollution cannot be tolerated
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