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You also don’t like leaving the house at any other time of year tbf

There's a good @originstorypodcast.bsky.social episode about this that was just re-released last week and is worth 40 minutes of your time

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 7h

Not going to share the actual poster but “Don't stand by and watch as they kill and replace us” is not Reasonable Concerns

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 7h

Vile “Remigration” posters have started appearing on Argyle Street. Binned five of them just between TK Max and St Enoch square

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 9h

When did it become so normalised to describe often far right thugs attacking people as "scuffles" but make out anyone just trying to seek safety is a threat to national security?

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Anti-migrant protesters scuffle with police in Gosport after Channel rescue

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Protesters scuffle with police as migrants brought ashore on south coast

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Protesters Scuffle With Police as Migrants Brought Ashore

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Three arrested at Portsmouth anti-migrant protest as scuffles break out

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 13h

This is a good explainer of why the motion is a problem. www.linestotake.com/p/green-part...

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Jewishness itself is now the offence

The Green Party votes to say “Zionism is racism”

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 16h

This gaslighting is honestly jaw dropping. It’s not enough to take away our rights, but you also chide us for not pretending anything has changed?

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Any idea why there seems to be a pro-Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf cavalcade lapping Pollokshields rn?

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Visited the City of Empire exhibition. Was so angry about the fact the exhibition addressed empire that they wrote to the Herald to complain.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/10/2026

The kicker is *chef's kiss*

“You think we’re getting a little too close to Meta?” [John Georges, co-owner of Georges Media Group, the state’s largest media organization and parent company of the state’s largest newspaper, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate], asked. “I’m not afraid of the sun. You know — Icarus? I’ll get as close to the sun as I can.”

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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

'minister explore how to make devolution not really devolution'

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

From Politico. That motion is absolute fucking poison and by failing to stand up to it, the Greens have allowed that poison to seep into the party.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This week on Origin Story: The life & ideas of John Rawls, the most celebrated liberal philosopher of the post-war period. These are some of the most beautiful arguments in progressive thought. We do it as a one hour crash course. Everything you need to know. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...

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Devolved Election Projections @devolvedelections.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not only is SV not PR, it could be even less proportional than what we have now. SV is what you'd propose if you wanted to trick people into thinking you were doing something. I don't think Curtice will go along with it.

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Burnham has destroyed two of the main arguments of the Westminster parties. He's pensioned off the claim that Scottish state pensions can only be protected in the UK and by opening the door to an EU referendum he's blown up the argument against indyref2. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/b...

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Burnham pensions off two Better Together arguments

One of the ways in which the Better Together campaign won the referendum in 2014 was to successfully scaremonger Scotland’s pensioners into believing that their state pensions would not be sa…

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 02/10/2026

I worry that Labour are making a trap for themselves on electoral reform 1) SV *is not* a form of PR. So would do nothing to account for our fragmenting politics 2) Opting for SV would just rehash the referendum on AV, which reformers overwhelmingly lost www.politico.eu/article/andy...

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s been 9 full months since I’ve rewatched Borgen now which is the longest I’ve gone in quite several years

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’d give my eye teeth to be able to crack my own back

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bonus understanding of another language is even better, definitely take it!!

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There was a section of Burnham's speech that was eerily similar to Sunak's in 2023. Will he have any more luck in answering the question?

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Lesley Riddoch @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘Seismic’ Andy Burnham proposals already quite familiar for Scots. Right to buy abolished here 2016, free personal care 2001, comprehensives never axed, 62% Remain vote, water never privatised, PR standard. So what do Scots make of the PM’s big speech? Listen LesleyRiddoch.com/podcast

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MP Recall 🏛️ I named 35/649 current MPs in five minutes. 🟥 11/403 LAB 🟦 2/118 CON 🟧 8/71 LD 🩵 3/8 REF 🟨 8/8 SNP 🟢 1/5 GRN 🟪 2/2 YP Can you beat me? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mprecall/

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: ScotRail's minimum fare scheme has led to a major fall in ticketless travel and a significant uptick in revenue, The National can reveal

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How much money has ScotRail made from its minimum fare scheme?

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Three train stations in Scotland have been named in the UK’s top five as part of a new national study

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Three Scottish train stations named among five of the best in UK

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The National (🎤) or The National (📰)?

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Alice In Wunderland @aliceinwunderl3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The proposed bill does little to protect trans children from formalised conversion torture. Stella's complaint is that parents may face some scarce restrictions in meting out the torture themselves. Under the proposed legislation, they'd need to be guided in doing so by a quack.

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They’ve abolished it in Wales now

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Baffled by the complexity of this. You could go for a headline like "we're moving to an earnings lock" (although maybe that wouldn't save as much?) but instead we're keeping two-thirds of the triple lock and claiming that this will mean the other third still sort of applies?

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's a fair point actually

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sure, but say the Tories and Reform between them form the next government with the Tories as the senior partner - would Reform make PR a red line for joining the government?

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well indeed, having it in a manifesto there’s every chance you won’t actually get to implement is neither use nor ornament

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Andrew @andtgk.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Sophie Ridge was talking about how Andy Burnham's hands are tied by the manifesto yesterday. But at the same time, every journo says Labour won a "loveless majority" - so why not do big policies people will love?

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The article says he’s going to put it in the next manifesto

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You have a stonking majority. You can do electoral reform literally next week. “It wasn’t in the manifesto” when you weren’t on the ballot paper doesn’t really wash.

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“The plans… would then be put in Labour’s manifesto”. From reporting, this speech is just a list of things he’s not going to do for at least two and a half more years. Folk will be so scunnered of the wait by the time 2029 eventually rolls around.

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why Bsky doesn't have a remove follower button I will never know. Even blocking then unblocking doesn't get rid.

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Feeling something close to human again now and can even manage to read up to half a page at a time

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

electrification of transport and haulage would accelerate bringing forward decarbonisation and de-americanisation in Europe even faster

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