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Andrew Sinclair

@bluesprints.bsky.social
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Older, maybe not wiser. Guitars (building & tweaking) 🎸 Music (made by guitars 😂) 🎶 EVs.(Ioniq 5 driver) Politics, Photography 📷 Coffee.... ☕ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (not always in that order) 🎶🎶 On, 🌏 off,

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“There is a harvest of greed and corruption and cruelty that’s cropped up in the last ten years, lovingly tended by those who were supposed to strike it down.” New interview! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zswl...
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Trump Created a CRISIS that Half the Country Doesn't Know About! (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Free book excerpt! From THEY KNEW, on paywalls, the loss of the public sphere, and the abandonment of accountability. Written in 2021, it explains much of the present political information crisis: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...
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A Public Flat Earth
How paywalls killed the public sphere.
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The daily grind begins again. Trying to alert the world to the crimes of an aggressor, terrorist nation in the hope the world can ensure justice and stabilise again. Even the dumbest or most ardent Russophile must now realise Putin leads a Terrorist State. Day 1679 of his war.
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Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There's a bunch of imposters wearing Scotland shirts in this second half. Scotland doesn't play exciting attacking football... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. It's glorious to watch!!! #NationsLeague #SlovSco
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Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The challenge is real!! 🤣🤣🤣
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thanks! Full article here: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
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Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So what odds are the bookies giving on the mid-terms actually happening? 👇👇👇
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thank you for this, @privateeyenews.bsky.social Farage needs ridiculing far more. It’s a form of scrutiny he can’t cope with and one he so richly - yes pun intended - deserves.
TV HIGHLIGHTS
72 Up
The award-winning documentary series continues, charting the progress of one posh little boy, Nigel, over the years.
The last time we saw him was over a week ago in 36
Up when he had been given £36 million out of the blue.
In the latest instalment Nigel is given another £36 million, making the total donation a jaw-dropping £72 million.
This is a life changing moment for the former prep school boy who was recorded in the first episode singing the Horst Wessel song and coming up with charming but embarrassing comments about admiring Hitler.
As the clock moves forward
to 72 Up, viewers now see a completely different Nigel from the one we have come to know so well over the years
- from Europe-hating MEP to Brexit-promoting campaigner to the triumphant bin-defeating statesman of today. It's been a roller-coaster ride for Nigel
- and indeed the viewer - and this remarkable series ends with a poignant and moving climax in a Clacton oyster bar, where the older but no wiser Nigel faces the prospect of being Prime Minister and/or going to jail after criminal proceedings.
EYE VERDICT: "Boring, boring, Boring! Nothing to see here
- put a sock in it, love." 

(Insert photo of him slurping up oysters)
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 23/09/2026
Another company complicit in Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian land could be about to get a taxpayer funded contract! It's time for the SNP to finally match their words with actions, and fully implement a boycott of Israel.
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UM LEGACY PRESS LTD @umlegacypress.com · 23/09/2026
Section of M8 in North Lanarkshire closed after early morning crash  Junction 7A, near Shawhead, has been closed after a crash on Wednesday morning
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Section of M8 in North Lanarkshire closed after early morning crash 
Junction 7A, near Shawhead, has been closed after a crash on Wednesday morning
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Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There's no way that this can be good. 🔽🔽🔽
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Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Brilliant!! That's going to hurt his ego soooo much. And he won't be able to moan about it. 🔽🔽🔽
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Idiokratie @idiokratie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/sara...
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What did and didn’t happen about AI datacentres at Holyrood bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/09/20/w...
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What did and didn’t happen about AI datacentres at Holyrood
The Vote That Wasn’t a Moratorium: How Every Holyrood Party Actually Voted on Scotland’s Data Centres for Bella Caledonia. Prepared 19 September by Lustra Skye September 2026 as information for com…
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Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You must watch this. Get a tea/coffee and watch all 35 minutes of it. Jurassic Park was a parable (maybe a fable as it had dinosaurs) - a warning to us all. But did we see that? Do we see it now? youtu.be/RyOFDfpjR9U Watch it. Share it. Talk about it.
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Jurassic Park Was a Warning About A.I
YouTube video by Barry's Economics
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
President Obama, "Imagine if I had pulled Fox News's credentials from the White House Press corp. You're laughing but this is what's happening" "Who are we as a country and what values do we stand for?"
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Israeli attacks on Gaza since 2023 killed at least 73,795 people, wounded more than 174,800. More than 20,000 children killed, 44,000 injured. Thousands of children have lost limbs, while roughly 17,000 have been left unaccompanied or orphaned. The US is directly complicit in this atrocity.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Extrajudicial killing, often referred to as state killing, is the deliberate act of killing individuals by government authorities or with their approval, without any legal sanction or due process. (Mohn 2023)
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US military says four killed in Caribbean boat strike
The US military announced that four people had been killed in a strike on a boat it said was involved in drug smuggling in the Caribbean.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026
Obama just delivered a blunt warning about the AI boom, the money driving it, and the Trump administration’s response. Then he turned to voters with a message that deserves far more attention.
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Obama Calls for AI Regulation, Warns Tech Giants Can’t Police Themselves
At Colgate University, the former president called for federal AI regulation and urged voters to demand a serious plan from candidates.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Every word on Trump in this is bang on the money. Wake up Democrats & fight for truth, decency & standing for the working classes against the billionaire gangster class. And don't get obsessed with rules & procedures as a replacement for what you stand for as you have done. @walshfreedom.bsky.social
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Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think @chadbourn.bsky.social is onto what's really going on in Trumpland. The Tech-bros are circulating billions of wooden $$$s to & from each others companies. And that's the only thing propping up the US economy. If (When!) the bubble bursts the entire US economy is in the sh1t. Bingo 🔽🔽🔽
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026
Riyadh's on fire. The press just got banned from the White House. Meanwhile, Obama sounds off on AI regulation, Newsom signs new election security laws in CA, and much more. Everything you need to know:
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🚨 Saturday Updates: Riyadh Burns, Press Banned, Europe Prepares for War – 9/19/26
Saturday updates. Paywall free.
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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 18/09/2026
Heads Up #guitar nerds! Amp designer Chris Fantana of Rift Amplification needs help. He has had his Youtube channel hacked and 7 years of videos, subscriptions, and channel membership are GONE. It would be really helpful if you could subscribe to his new channel. 👇
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Welcome To The New Rift Channel
YouTube video by Rift Amplification
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Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Question of the day, week, month, year, decade. "Why does it have to be like this?"
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Seaside guy @seasideguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tom Watson the "socialist" folks. 🙄🤡
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
While Julian Assange was in prison he was rightly supported for being a Political Prisoner of the USA. Nicolás Maduro is just as much of a Political Prisoner, held in prison for the crime of refusing to let the US rob Venezuela He should have just as much support, not silence
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is an EXCELLENT interview. I cannot recommend it enough.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"The American age that followed World War II was bound to end eventually. What’s shocking is how suddenly that moment has arrived.”
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The American Age Is Over
A period of global dominance has ended in plain sight.
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Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Remember the ’Streisand Effect' ? Maybe needs re-naming as the ’Sheeran Effect'. 😂 I wonder if he's looking for new management, lawyers, etc 'coz whoever is advising him has really underestimated the visibility of this mess.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Observer announced another share issue today for an additional £10m funding as print circulation drops from 114k to 90k. It’s notable that in the same time period I have built a circulation of 124k for my personal Substack..having set it up amid fears I would lose my job (as I in fact did).
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Vandalism. #ETTD
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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Very grateful to Ian Ralby for contributing this authoritative and rather alarming piece on the unfolding crises caused first by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and now the Houthis control over the Bab al-Mandeb (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/houthis-ho...
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Houthis, Hormuz and the “chokepoint” threat to the global economy
Today and Thursday we have two posts addressing big risks facing the global economy.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What is capitalism? It's a much more complicated question than most people imagine. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09...
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Glossary entry: Capitalism
On Saturday, I wrote a piece entitled What is labour was not a cost? It generated a lot of comments, including one noting that I had never written a glossary entry on capitalism, although I had one on...
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Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Truth 🔽🔽🔽🔽
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Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And wages and income rose by what % ? Add to this the increasing profits of the energy companies and the supermarkets and it's no wonder there's a permanent cost of living crisis for most people. It's what the neoliberal capitalist system is designed to do.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A potted biography of Nigel Farage which needs to be seen widely especially by every Reform UK supporter
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Broadcasting Scotland @broadcastingscotland.scot · 10/09/2026
Please Support Scotland's Independent Broadcaster. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/donate/
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Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This.
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Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So the questions are: - is every American now so corrupt that they will take this illegal bribe? - Has Trump's oligarch mafia corrupted America so much that basic morality and democracy is dead and buried?
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This man just joined the Open AI board. He says: “I believe we would need domestic and international coordination to ensure global consistency and reduce risk to an acceptable level.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Rather than viewing the developing El Niño solely as an acute environmental disaster, we should also see it as a global stress test for marine ecosystems, management institutions, and scientific observing systems. As the ocean continues to warm,
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Marine ecosystems in peril: Time to prepare for super El Niño | PNAS
Marine ecosystems in peril: Time to prepare for super El Niño
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Five years ago today, I repainted my kitchen door with chalkboard paint
Door saying "It's a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government"
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Jon Gomm @jongomm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
First gig since Feb 5th elbowpocalypse this weekend, at Belfast Guitar Festival. I'm not nervous you're nervous
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Idiokratie @idiokratie.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Here's the Sarah Kendzior short primer for political rookies: Trump is merely a front. A bulldozer used by two GOP-linked networks that often collaborate. The first network are *hard right-wing ideologues* that have been gradually converting the USA to neo-fascism ever since the Reagan era.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is a good start. At last...
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Day 1658 of this terrorism being inflicted on an innocent country. Ukraine is fighting for its life & the lives of every one of its inhabitants. Just hours ago, this happened in Kyiv, a western-looking, freedom loving, European capital city. This may come to you soon. Today's🧵
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Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It's the interval at the gig in at tonight + Jaqui McShee's Pentangle. Brilliant band, great songs. Great stories. More jazzy than I expected, but thats not a bad thing. Well worth going to see if they play near you.
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Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This. 🔽🔽🔽
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🔴 NEW The BBC Is Just Nodding Along By Patrick Howse Read below. ↓
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The BBC Is Just Nodding Along
The corporation's news coverage has lost its soul as a bulwark against unaccountable power and extremism, writes a former BBC News producer
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