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Alan

@anyoldshiz.bsky.social
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Grumpy old teacher, there is a lot wrong with this world but it can still be beautiful. He/Him "freedom is privilege extended, unless shared by one and all"

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 7h
"Let's Get Out Of Here" Nominated Instrumental Recording of the Year - by ALISON BROWN & STEVE MARTIN 🪕🎶 Actor and comedian Steve Martin plays a 5-string banjo during a live studio performance with Grammy-winning Alison Brown on SiriusXM's Bluegrass Junction. #music #banjo
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4h
Delighted that Navi Pillay, chair of the UN commission which found Israel guilty of genocide in Gaza, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Let Trump and Netanyahu splutter and fume: the truth becomes ever harder to deny.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 9h
Racist recruiter named & shamed "Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists" 'Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists
Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 8h
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 18h
Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 9h
THE FERRET: The company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal – and one of the largest in the world – is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via a Caribbean tax haven
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Melissa Eco Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @melissamary2012.bsky.social · 8h
Company behind AI data centre proposal for Chapelcross owned by Tory
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 9h
Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
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The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan
Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 9h
To everyone in the trans+ community: your existence is not something to be debated. These words come from cis women who simply want you to know that your lives matter, and that you deserve joy, safety, dignity and belonging. Love is a doing word. All our love, NION women 💜
I am so sorry that life is so tough right now.
Sadly it seems that the world has become filled with hate and division. People who have never had the wonderful opportunity to meet you or any of your trans siblings are only hearing from the noisy, hateful ones.
I want you to hear from some of the other people on this planet who don't use social media to shout and spread hate.
#WithTheTDear beautiful you...please know that in this crazy world there are folk who cheer you, love you and embrace you.
Hold tight to who you are, and know that you are beautiful, are worthy, and are seen and heard. May the winds of time bring quietitide to your world and fan the wings of peace so that you can keep being you... beautiful! Xx
#WithTheTThank you for enriching our world and teaching us that there are many ways to be fully human. I'm sorry you have to endure the misunderstanding & mistreatment of those who can only imagine life in narrow lines of conformity. I remember, not so long ago, those of us who knew we were lesbians were afraid to say it, watching in silence and fear as we were punished for our difference.
I promise you, these times will pass. The LGB community survived - we are here and proud.
For the T community suffering right now - you already belong with us, and I know that broader acceptance will follow. Until then, please know that you have our love, acceptance and support.
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#WithTheTI want you to know that I support you unequivocally and you must believe me when I say that there are many many people that share this view. Put simply - YOU matter, YOU are loved and YOU are supported.
Please, if you can, turn down the volume on those negative voices and amplify those who want you to hear messages of love and support. YOU are enough. YOU are valid.
YOU matter!
Best wishes,
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-bb...
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How the BBC sets a trap to make sure leftwing politicians never get a fair hearing
There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
At times like this, the mask really comes off the British media. There is no pretence - at all - about their impartiality or objectivity towards the Green Party. It is a blatant naked partisan cross-media assault against the Greens.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Watson might recognise Israeli Zionist genocide in Gaza, and the obliteration of an Iranian school - aided and abetted by Palantir - software as 'mob rule', if he wasn't paid so much in 'donations' ... "Lord Tom Watson says Palantir critics are ‘mob rule’" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lord...
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Lord Tom Watson says Palantir critics are ‘mob rule’
FORMER deputy leader of the Labour Party Lord Tom Watson sparked fresh outrage today as he dismissed critics of his new boss US spy tech Palantir’s controversial government contracts as “mob rule.”Co-...
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What amazing biased illogic that the only party which did better in the by-election is the one all the mass media are saying failed and it's leader should resign ... meme via Dianne Drew
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Alvaro the Spooky Jester @alvaroperez2000.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Demonstrators have taken part in a Scotland National March for Palestine in Edinburgh this afternoon to mark three years of genocide in Gaza 📸 Lesley Martin
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We TRIPLED our vote share. Second best byelection result in Green Party history. On a date that Labour chose to deliberately clash the same week as our conference. All with a brand new PM in previously a "safe" seat. Best response to all the absolute nonsense today? Join.greenparty.org.uk
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Israel's cheerleaders have lost. Deep down, that is driving them quite mad. And as reality brutally intrudes time and time again, that shows, writes Owen Jones ✍️
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In his report on Israels response to Pillay winning the Nobel peace prize Parsons reports "she is a divisive figure" You mean a regime (& its enablers) thats spent 3yrs bombing hospitals, murdering journalists, starving families & slaughtering thousands of kids doesnt like her?
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 09/10/2026
So a bunch of guys in plainclothes surrounded a man in a car and shot him, then the government disappeared him and refuses to release any information about his condition or whereabouts
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Rarely has a person been so enmeshed in the workings (or one might say, dysfunctions) of our current political-economic-media-influence system as Kimberly Guilfoyle. Let me explain...https://robertreich.substack.com/p/pay-to-play-to-play-to-pay
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Bonnie Raitt @bonnieraitt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Remembering my dear friend John Prine, on what would have been his 80th birthday this Saturday. I miss him deeply, as all of us who love him do. What a gift he will always be.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Funny how these errors always seem to head in the same direction. A bit like Richard Tice's tax mistakes.
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Fi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Independence For Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @asenathmagic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So, the Nobel Peace Prize of 2026 has been awarded to a woman of colour, from South Africa, who was on the ICC committee that declared Israel guilty of genocide. I don’t think even Trump is stupid enough to miss the message in this. Congratulations Navi Pillay. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...
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Nobel Peace Prize live: Navi Pillay wins for 'efforts to promote peace and international law'
Some 287 candidates have been nominated for the prestigious prize, which was won last year by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🇬🇧 This perfectly sums up Andy Burnham, Kemi Bad-Enoch, and the rest of the british politicians, parties and media 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ☘️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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LawrieBhoy 🍀 @lawriebhoy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yet Diane Abbott’s miscalculation over police numbers has been used to belittle her, for the last ten years.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Now it's gone way beyond that - if I use a female toilet in the workplace I risk being drawn into a public facing employment tribunal, where I'll be hounded by the press have people on the BBC payroll call me a rapist, and have a billionaire lawsuit funded against me that I will lose
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/10/2026
SC Dem Senate nominee Annie Andrews released an ad calling trans women "biological men." She embraces sports and surgery bans for youth. Her campaign even says she won't work to overturn the HRT/blocker trans youth ban. She once argued against capitulation. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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SC Dem Senate Candidate Annie Andrews Releases Ad Calling Trans Women “Biological Men”
She also said she would not change the youth HRT and puberty blocker ban in South Carolina.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ah yes, I remember when Trotsky wrote about how Russian workers should be replaced by low wage immigrants from China so that strong Russian boys would have more time to play girls ice hockey. It's right there in the manuscript.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Voting is open until 10pm in Holborn & St Pancras - and remember to take photo ID. Rent controls, water nationalisation, tackling the climate crisis - I'll be pushing on these issues from inside Parliament. Vote Green 💚
Group of doorknockers with Zack in Kentish Town Group of volunteers in St Pancras Gardens Zack with Domi and El in front of a treeGroup of doorknockers from all over the country!
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 08/10/2026
Investigative journalists found that the Scottish Government was lobbied by industry to use the phrase ‘green data centre’. The government must ensure the views of communities are listened to, not just lobbyists. #FMQs
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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It would be a shame if this Racist Thug’s real face was circulated far and wide.
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 07/10/2026
"Most benefits are being paid to people who work. The fact is that our employers don't pay wages that allow people to live a good quality of life any more." - @electlauramoodie.bsky.social
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#racism www.thecommunityreporter.co.uk/p/jason-arda...
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Jason Arday mentor says Britain should “hang its head in shame” after professor’s death.
When Professor Gus John received news of Jason’s death, he says he froze.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/10/2026
This is so damn bleak. "The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ruled this week the biological sex of a transgender woman fatally shot by Samuel Ward Jr. in June 2022 was not only relevant to Ward’s claim of self defense but supported it." jamiescoop.substack.com/p/court-judg...
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Court: Judge ‘misled’ jury on biological sex
Tennessee appellate court first to rule on gender identification ‘evidence’
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
With the Tories' foolish announcement to revisit the Scotland Act and claw back powers from Holyrood, Badenoch has killed off the 'once in a generation' claim as well as the assertion that the issue of independence was settled in 2014. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/b...
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Badenoch has killed off the once in a generation claim
The Tories have officially ripped up the Vow to which they were signatories in 2014. This was the panicked promise made by the Better Together parties – one of which was the Conservatives &#8…
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: The Tories would cut the SNP Government's planning powers in order to impose new nuclear in Scotland, the shadow energy secretary has said 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
Cis guy walks into a women's locker room and immediately proceeds to sexually assault women. JK Rowling: this is trans people's fault.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Why have the Greens given the establishment this ammunition?!" Yeah coz they really need ammunition don't they, prior to this they never accused the Greens of being antisemitic, this is a new thing, sure.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IDF came into my Twitter replies to try & boost their fake report accusing Palestinian journalists they murdered of being Hamas. But when Piers Morgan invited them to debate the so-called evidence with me, they didn't show up so... he empty-chaired them. And then I debunked their 'study':
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
youtu.be/ChFOFRGqwPM this came out real nice!
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the Mountain Goats – Trail Mix Session
YouTube video by Red Rocks Park & Amphitheatre
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 05/10/2026
Reasons not to vote Tory no.64
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Convicted Felon Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, know with the Midterms around the corner, DELAY is the name of the game
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David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s October and the Braves and Dodgers were playing in 100+ degree weather
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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Surely nobody is just noticing NOW that the Tories have a tendency towards vile racist anti-immigrant propaganda
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
TEDDY IS MISSING IN BROOKLYN: last seen near Myrtle, Lewis and Willoughby Avenues and Marcus Garvey Blvd, Teddy is 15 pounds and chipped: 985113014195789. If you've seen or found him please call 888-466-3242 and PLEASE RT TEDDY!
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A Growing Movement Is Working to Evict ICE From Its Buffalo Command Center truthout.org/articles/a-g...
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A Growing Movement Is Working to Evict ICE From Its Buffalo Command Center
Activists are pressuring Buffalo corporations to kick ICE out of the office building where it is imprisoning children.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The subjugation of women is part of a neo-fascist, warrior culture going all the way back to the 1930s. It was on full display during Pete Hegseth’s military speech this week.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.
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