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George McEwan

@coldclimbs.bsky.social
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Mountaineering Instructor (WMCI). Personal account. All views & opinions expressed my own. Native anarchist. He/him. #Scotland

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Doctor Of Music @doctorofmusic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Here you go George. With thanks for the good work which you do ;-)
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
**Breaking News** Danny Tommo has been arrested for criminal damage and recklessly endangering someone's life. Now, let's see what happens next.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This'll take quite a thread to explain. 1. Yesterday, possibly late morning, a dinghy departed from north of Caen. It seemed lost, and went east along the Baie de la Seine for a long time without pushing outwards towards the UK. It was followed by 4+ French rescue vessels.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 22/09/2026
The progress we made in moving away from higher emissions futures should tell us that progress is possible. But it shouldn't breed complacency; the risks remain far too high and grow with each molecule of carbon emitted. The world still isn’t nearly concerned enough.
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Opinion | Climate Catastrophe Is Still on the Table
Harrowing temperature increases remain unnervingly possible.
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Leona @editor.scot · 20/09/2026
The worst bit is that The Proclaimers are seen outside Scotland as a jokey band but they started out with pretty solid principles and wrote songs about being Scottish and working class, about Scottish identity, displacement, politics. They could and should have been so, so much better than this
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George McEwan @coldclimbs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So would be aggressors will know where all the sneaky pete and boom boom is. Would expect nothing else from a string and stable genius… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Trump says triumphal arch will be military complex
Trump said the updated plans were at the request of the US military and for national security purposes.
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Energy-rich Scotland has some of the highest energy prices in Europe - and they are set to rise again this winter. If the UK Government won’t cut energy bills as they promised, they should get out of the way for a Scottish Government that will.
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John Dalton - brain marinated in woke sauce. They/them @johndaledalton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One of the 'vox pops' from #newsnight last night was quite intelligent.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just hours after being branded a 'ghetto' by Reform UK's Thomas Kerr, Glasgow’s Govanhill has been named the fifth coolest neighbourhood in the world Govanhill placed higher than neighbourhoods in cities such as New York, Rio de Janeiro, and Bangkok
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dan Thomas? Didn't know him, never even met him.
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
A remarkable short thread. This object took skill, knowledge, and many days of work. The person making it did not need to spend the day hunting for food, water, or shelter, nor repelling invaders The desire to create this mace, a symbolic thing of beauty and meaning, was fulfilled #Ireland
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George McEwan @coldclimbs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Braw day up on the Costa Del Moray observing a #MountainTraining Rick Climbing Instructor training being run.
Photo shows a climber leading a rock climb on a sandstone cliff at Cummingston belayed by their buddy whilst the trainer looks on.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have an announcement.
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Cindy Michels 🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇦 @cindymichels.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is bloody excellent and from an excellent human being and #trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️♥️ Please sign up, you won't regret it ❤️🙏
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what the future looks like
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Brendan Paddy @bjpaddy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Govt to be more transparent in future about what a shitty deal student loans in England are, which I am sure will be a great comfort to the students who were 'mis-sold' loans and remain locked into them www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Student loan terms to be made clearer in England
Changes will spell out that governments can change rules and that career choices affect repayments.
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
4,000 years of carbon build up in the soil burned up in a single summer. And this is just the early stages of climate chaos www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Summer wildfires caused 'catastrophic' hidden damage, scientists warn
Bangor University researchers say the scale of damage is far greater than what is immediately visible.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why the sour puss? A woman he can’t lunge at or insult? Holding it in is a real bitch, eh?
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Lyam Mc @lyamelbandino.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It is the problem with England based journalism, they talk UK when they mean England. It is easy to distinguish but they don’t for whatever reason (🤨) I caught this recently on a discussion about Bus Passes, rambling on about over 65 (England), Scotland it’s over 60 and up to 22yo for young people.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Dear Diary, £72 million in 48 hours! It sounds a lot, but it's peanuts compared to what they'll make when I keep my promise to slash capital gains tax on crypto assets from 24% to 10% and set up a Bank of England Bitcoin Reserve Fund"
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Excellent idea sent in by follower this morning. Added the link to their shop for easy access to their cards 💚 shop.rnli.org?fbclid=IwVER...
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 12/09/2026
You can call this legal. You can call it a donation. But please don’t insult everyone’s intelligence by calling it a “level playing field”.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
£36 Million, to be precise. At least Reform are utterly shameless about what they're up to - attempting to subvert democracy by buying themselves power, courtesy of the very wealthy. #Trump would be proud of them... Are British people really going to let the filthy rich get away with this coup?
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We need to know if the BBC deliberately shafted Glasgow over the Commonwealth Games. First, we were told the BBC lost the bid to air the games in Glasgow. Now it’s claimed that there wasn’t even a bid. Something rotten is going on and people want the truth My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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'We need to know if the BBC deliberately shafted Glasgow over the Commonwealth Games'
First, we were told the BBC was outbid, then it was said the broadcaster only bid £900k, now it’s claimed there wasn’t even a bid. People need…
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
More comedy from Danny Tommo's Kneezi Shitler Youth
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Looks like Brexiteers 'Take back control' has become 'Take back control and give it to foreign billionaires who profiteer from UK violence and emergencies' meme via Bring back news to the UK
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
More evidence of fighting age men swarming uninvited into our towns.
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Irritated Llama @irritatedllama.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is generally what happens to criminals under investigation. They really think he should be treated differently to the rest of us. He's not special.
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Wonder Why🦆Ducky🦆 @duck-flying.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation If tech firms such as Meta, Google and TikTok did not give the option to turn off algorithms, they should face "substantial" penalties www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation
Firms like Meta, Google and TikTok should face "substantial" penalties if they don't give the option, minister says.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports
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Scottish Environment LINK @scotlink.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The results of our @survation.bsky.social survey on the state of nature and government performance add to the evidence that there's a high level of concern for the environment and a strong political incentive for government to act. Dan Paris looks at the findings in a new blog post shorturl.at/jmy7g
Text and a pie chart on a green background. The headline reads, ‘44% of people think Scotland’s natural environment has declined during their lifetime. The subheading reads, ‘Scotland’s natural environment has…’.
The pie chart shows 44% for ‘declined’, 31% for ‘not changed’, 16% for ‘improved’ and 9% for ‘don’t know’.
Below the pic chart is this text:
Source: Polling conducted by Survation, commissioned by Scottish Environment LINK. 2026 poll was conducted between 5th August –10th August 2026 with a sample size of 1007.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Violent thugs
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Andy Martell 🇯🇪 @andymartell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Instead of the headline… “Reform caught taking foreign donations”, the #BBC are introducing the element of doubt and suggesting it could all have been a silly mistake after all. See how it works yet?
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 06/09/2026
Patriot Platform, the far-right group whose black-clad masked members caused hours of disruption in Dover yesterday, calls itself a Christian “army of patriots” dedicated to protecting women and children. There’s a problem with that story.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"There's actually a wonderfully simple way to save Birmingham taxpayers the entire £2.6 million: Don't attach 20,000 bloody flags to council lamp posts without permission in the first place" via Truth Against Hate and bill Raise The Colours for their removal!
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon says she continues to be shut out of Hollywood and has “had movies taken away recently” for her views on Palestine but is happy that the world is waking up to the reality of what’s happening there.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A Reform government would force schools to sing the National Anthem and if they don't oblige parents will be encouraged to report them to the authorities. Yeah that's not like really scary and authoritarian schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-there...
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Reform: 'There will be consequences for not singing anthem'
Braverman believes parents will tip her off if heads don't follow her anthem and hymns rules
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4. Instead, it looks like this.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At the same time as banning myself and other journalists from their conference this week, this is who Reform laid out the red carpet for www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Raise the Colours leader given access to Reform UK conference while on bail
Ryan Bridge, arrested this year on suspicion of religiously and racially aggravated harassment, says party invited him
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In case you had any doubts about the judgement and moral standards of my (former) Chief of Staff, Dan Jukes, here he is with Andrew Tate.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If the police & security services didn't see this coming, it was a massive intelligence failure. If they did, but still gave the impression of being caught on the hop, it's something worse.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ready for Farage saying he's never met Cooling "This is Stephen Cooling from Sutton Coalfield a member of Reform UK which portrays itself as “protectors of women & girls” Here's Stephen Cooling attacking a woman with his walking stick while a female companion pulls her hair out" via Mike F Shaw
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Important thread.
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