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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Farage really on the ropes there.

Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

‘You’ve Been Trumped’ - good movie/s. Locals near Aberdeen had the measure of him long ago. "the underlying message is that if you are rich and powerful enough, you can run roughshod over tradition and private property rights and buy your place at the table." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You've_...

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You've Been Trumped - Wikipedia

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Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

These guys did a brilliant gig at Mareel earlier, with @roseannewatt.bsky.social, great night of poetry and good patter, hilarious.

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Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

They must have been doing customer training with the Tesco staff again. They keep asking how I am and telling me to enjoy my day. Calm down guys, that’s a bit overly for the UK.

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God @thegodshow.com · 17/04/2025

"You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it." - John Adams He is repenting so hard right now.

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Since approximately 1966 we think, our Council gardeners have been taking care of these planters outside the Library. We rarely see them come and go - it’s like magic flowers just appear 🙂

Four square concrete planters full of red and pink tulips with a few yellow daffodils amidst green leaves.

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

☀️ We’re still smiling after our super Sunday event to launch the latest Shetland book for bairns from Peerie Oorick. 🥰 It was lovely to see so many families coming together to enjoy the space. 🖍️ There’s lots to see & do in the Library, particularly in the school holidays- why not pop along?

Hirda da Oorick by Ann Marie Anderson and Jenny Duncan.

Author Ann Marie Anderson reading from her new book.

Children enjoying the Oorick-themed activities.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I wondered for a while why Trump was so excited by Brexit, even to the point of getting Farage to fluff him. It was simple, really: proof that, with the support of enough bent media, bad people selling bigotry & lies really could persuade people to vote to punch themselves in the face forever.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I kind of want to go

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it

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Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Ha ha 🙂 If @anncleeves.bsky.social is taking Jimmy from us, we’re having Vera!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

This is the simplest and most obvious explanation.

The image is a screenshot of a post on X by a user named David Roberts (@volts
.wtf). The post reads: "The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It’s not a public act, it’s not a schtick, there’s not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people."

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

There are now just three types of media figures on both sides of the Atlantic: people clear-eyed & honest about the obvious evil of Trump; people explicitly supportive of Trump’s obvious evil & people implicitly supporting Trump’s obvious evil by ‘both sidesing’ every lurch further in to fascism…

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

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Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Airlines - why not flash up ‘final call’ in red half an hour before the plane is even ready to board, just to haul your passengers out of the warm bar into a drafty corridor? Oh, you already got that…

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ilovelibraries.bsky.social @ilovelibraries.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Library lovers, we need your help. A recent executive order calls for the elimination of IMLS, the only federal agency that funds libraries nationwide. Without IMLS, many of the resources and programs we love could be at risk. 📚 Learn what you can do to help: ilovelibraries.org/article/trum...

Trump Administration Calls for Elimination of Federal Agency that Funds Libraries. Photo of White House at night.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained

Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Massive anti-US invasion protest in Nuuk, Greenland outside the US consulate. "99% say no Trump" "no means no" ( 📹@OJoelsen ) #3E #EndImpunity #GreenlandProtests

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Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Restaurants - any chance we could have salt cellars back instead of a range of dodgy apparatus designed to spit giant rocks of salt at our food?

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Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I love to get a window seat on a clear day! A few photos from a London-Cyprus flight.

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 07/03/2025

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

7 months ago today I bombed that kids hospital in Kiev. But as Trump says, "it's what anyone would do".

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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/03/2025

For 250 years, the United States has supported democracy. Now, in the middle of a horrific war that Putin started, Trump is turning his back on Ukraine and democracy, all to the benefit of a brutal dictator in Moscow.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Just imagine a scenario in which PM Liz Truss was in charge now and then tell me that "all politicians are the same"

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Kate Macdonald 📚 🧶 @kateem.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What awful, awful people. Schoolboy bullies, hoping to get a grin from the big bully by piling on. What monsters.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The Johnson graph is very funny

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 27/02/2025

"daddy, what did you do in the war" son, i archived all 6,793 videos from the Kennedy Center before they disappeared from the internet we all did our part

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Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

‘If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.’ - Roald Dahl

Just be glad if you can’t see them. Farage, Tate, Trump, Musk, Bannon.

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

What first attracted Donald Trump to alleged rapist Andrew Tate?

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

French President Emmanuel Macron publicly interrupted Donald Trump to correct another of the US President’s falsehoods over Ukraine 👏

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Trump's face when Macron says the US should be compensated by Russia, not Ukraine, because they started the war. 😂😂

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Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

V. cheery man on radio speaking about #Celtic match last night, and I think ‘oh, good, who did they beat - Bayern Munich? Wow!’ Then it slowly becomes clear it was a draw and they are knocked out of a comp - but it was a great goal, a great match and they are very happy. Gotta love Scottish fitba 😃💕

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

For them, it seems, the only speech that should be free is hate speech.

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Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I won’t be listening to any speeches by Vance or his cohort because I studied the rise of the Nazis and already know the script.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion” From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This film sounds excellent - hope we get the chance to see it in the UK. Hail our brave US library comrades. #BannedBooks

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

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Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods

YouTube video by CBC News

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Of course, it’s possible that all of the people accused of ‘over-reacting’ were actually under-reacting all along…

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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The Librarians: Chilling new documentary at the Sundance film festival examines the phenomenon of book banning in US schools - ‘Civil rights fight of our time’. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

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‘Civil rights fight of our time’: new film explores the battle over US libraries

A Sarah Jessica Parker-produced documentary on the brave librarians fighting a wave of rightwing book bans has sparked conversation at Sundance

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Broadcasters who repeated this obvious bollocks are not required to make any correction or apologise to their listeners/viewers. And I saw at least two columnists making hay with it. They too will retract nothing.

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Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

John Swinney is right. Labour needs to make amends for appeasing the cult of Brexit.

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