Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialHK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses 121691451
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialDean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026You would never get the "£50 doesn't even buy a meal quote if the topic was the benefit system, then you would have a guy going "sack of potatoes and a carrot, and you can feed a child for a month at just 3.2 pence per meal" 241683464
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialSteve Williams @iloatheskies.bsky.social · 16/05/2026A very useful map this one, serving as it does as a stand-in metric for working out which parts of the UK have the weakest patter. And to no-one's surprise at all, it's the South outside London 1327
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialBallot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 08/05/2026Edinburgh Central (Edinburgh and Lothians East) Constituency Vote (vs 2021 notional): GRN: 12680 (36%, +29.2) LAB: 8098 (23%, -7.6) SNP: 7702 (21.9%, -19.3) CON: 2262 (6.4%, -10.3) LD: 2168 (6.2%, +2.7) RUK: 1876 (5.3%, New) OTHx5: 455 (1.3%) Valid Turnout: 54.5% Green GAIN from SNP - LL 517463
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Our aid cuts have been just as severe. It won't kill as many people because we spent less to start with, and focused a bit less on health/food programmes. But we've got nothing to be proud of here. 16783226
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialIain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 04/05/2026As a Jew, I would prefer that media and Prime Minister use their platforms and power to oppose and prevent concentration camps, rather than accuse a Jewish party leader of anti-Semitism. 05622
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialLaurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 01/05/2026“Voters are blameless and pure and it is 100% on the campaign to win them over” is a view that political campaigns have to hold, but the rest of society absolutely should not. 411600238
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialTom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/04/2026*hammering on child’s door* “Turn that racket off! You are actively decreasing the share of my monthly subscription fee that goes to The National!” 2658087
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/04/2026the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner 4456481180
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialSen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 26/04/2026the president of the united states has plot armor 626421
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 25/04/2026checking in on The Discourse 727745
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 18/04/2026Your landlord is voting. Your boss is voting. Make sure you vote as well. No matter where you live in Scotland, you can vote Scottish Greens on the peach ballot paper. 👉 www.gov.uk/register-to-vote. 112968
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialMike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 14/04/2026MIKE D: Cranial hemorrhage means we got a brain EVERY BEASTIE BOY: BLAND MIKE D: It impairs cognition of the words we EVERY BEASTIE BOY: LUNG 655899
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialPatrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I know passionate supporters of LGBTQ+ equality in Labour who have felt increasingly marginalised in the party and unable to support the leadership's view. But to see the manifesto include anti-trans policies rejected by their own party conference must surely be the last straw for many. 1024982
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialEuan @euan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them 561898684
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 03/04/2026If people were truly committed to their views on the Edward Colston statue they'd be demanding this be reinstated. 411840
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialGlobe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 31/03/2026trans day of visibility is weird in light of current uk state policy. it's essential on a day to day basis that I'm not noticed as trans, as this would put me at risk if I need to pee. I currently pee several times a day. 07113
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 24/03/2026This is heartbreaking. Please stop for a moment and consider the children caught up in this. Imagine you're a trans child - already a difficult experience, to put it mildly - and you've found a hobby you enjoy with friends, and now you're being kicked out for being trans. It's cruel. 6364137
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 20/03/2026While this would be an unusual outcome for a civil fraud trial, I believe he should be given the death penalty 14076731355
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 14/03/2026really cannot be overstated how much contempt the Israeli government has for left wing Jews in the diaspora Bibi et al would, by and large, actually like us to be targeted so that either we’ll get in line or our corpses will further their political goals 7796165
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialSam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response? 3452811132
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialAndyInBrum @andyinbrum.bsky.social · 01/03/2026She’s learnt her lesson about wanting hotels full of foreigners and immigrants being burnt down. See. Prison does work 9644156
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialKieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Oh look, a PM looking to drag us into a catastrophic illegal war in the Middle East under spurious talk of a secret nuclear weapons programme, in order to demonstrate unflinching fealty to a US President widely regarded by the entire world as a bufoon and a moron? Must be a Labour government 16517
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialEuan @euan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026British people moving back from Dubai should be taxed at 100% until we’ve made up the difference 223448
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/02/2026obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :) 884230788
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialCasey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 20/02/2026The Supreme Court: 171234894781
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialbrian pillion @anaphoristand.bsky.social · 11/02/2026This is some genuinely psycho shit... 18081232175
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialkrat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor 109207734671
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialBen Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this 15166182072
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialraymz @raymz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026[Erika Kirk leaps onto the stage in diamond encrusted tactical gear and begins sweeping the orchestra section with automatic fire] 015411
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 15/01/2026They’re calling it the most divorced anyone has ever been 71112071275
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialRob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 12/01/2026🕯️My cousin Brian passed away last night. After a courageous 3 wk stint with ICE. He slipped on a fellow agent’s frozen peepee puddle & somersaulted many times in the air, yelling “yabbada yabbada yabbada” & tragically aspirating (a different) agent’s pee he’d been gargling. He hated women🇺🇸💔 12677651117
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/01/2026Again, "I only make CSAM for money" would not help an ordinary person's defence, but would aggravate their sentencing. 201379387
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Every one of us has had a car momentarily drive near us without us shooting the driver three times in the head. It is a level of bravery children possess wandering a parking lot. Even chickens cross the road. 684896
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialScott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 08/01/2026A country that blows up foreign fishing boats for no reason is one that will shoot its own citizens for no reason. 253229786
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I’ve been reading about influential new “conservative intellectuals” or “post-liberals” for at least a decade now and every time it’s just racism with a different hat on. Whatever the spin, it’s always fundamentally the same idea 631551
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialr_ephemeral @rephemeral.bsky.social · 03/01/2026apotheosis of US conservatism 633331
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialPeople's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 02/01/2026how do racists in england insist that zarah sultana can't be english when she has just done the most english thing someone could do - Anglosplain Scotland to Scottish people 010117
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Biden was the kind of old where you take away the car keys. Trump is the kind of old where you don't let him near the grandchildren 393095508
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialXANwithaplan 🍉 @xanwithaplan.bsky.social · 11/12/2025We need a word for the English language to describe feeling like you're in a history book. When a trend, technology, or event is so numbingly idiotic that you can immediately envision someone 50 or 100 years from now learning about this and saying "What the fuck was wrong with people back then?" 1952864
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 03/12/2025A Labour government passed the Equality Act. A Labour government was in power when the Supreme Court interpreted it to not mean what ministers at the time were clear it was intended to mean. The Labour government response should have been to legislate to fix it. Not doing so was a cowardly betrayal. 16399107
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialdr. pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 02/12/2025i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-... 7639991772
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Christmas at the BBC 7342109
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialCitizens Advice Scotland @citizensadvicescot.bsky.social · 12/11/2025We’ve joined 100+ others in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the UK government can deliver a decisive shift in children’s opportunities, and in the UK's potential. 🧵(1/2) 23811
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/11/2025it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance 8483811943
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/11/2025mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one 3242856110193
Reposted by @colinmackay89.bsky.socialAllan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 15/11/2025To be absolutely clear, this government is evil, and if you are still knocking doors for this party this is basically the last moment for you to stop if you don't want to be seen as evil on a personal basis. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUK set to limit refugees to temporary staysShabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system. 27019