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Gavin McColl

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International Co-convenor @scottishgreens.org 🌻| he/him| autistic| bad buddhist☸ | Anti-Nazi| Dad of two amazing daughters| An odd mix of green politics and womens cricket

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11h
When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 10/10/2026
No human is illegal. Scotland must always remain a welcoming country for migrants and refugees. 💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
No human is illegal.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For Americans voting from abroad www.votefromabroad.org/request/your...
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Federal Post Card Application Form | VoteFromAbroad.org
Vote from Abroad: Step-by-step instructions to assist a voter to produce a Federal Post Card Application form suitable to send to the Local Election Official.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Gavin McColl @comradeigvan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just me back from picking up some old progs - nostalgic thrill power #dayofdredd
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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's The #DayofDredd, Earthlets! A day to celebrate the legendary lawman – how are you marking it? Don't miss one of our awesome signings 2000ad.com/news/the-day... And get up to 75% off selected collections of the Future's Greatest Lawman in our webshop sale shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/on...
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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A Happy #DayOfDredd to all who celebrate.
The album cover for 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' by The Beatles, except the Fab Four and their cardboard friends have been replaced by Judge Dredd and his impressive gallery of allies and enemies. No, I'm not going to name all of them, and yes, while it is quite possible that the character you really like isn't in there, I make no apology for their absence. Batman, Predator, Alien and The Biker Mice From Mars are all missing because I wanted this to be a tribute to Rebellion.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy weekend! 🦔 ❤️ Here’s a lovely ancient Egyptian blue faience hedgehog made some 3,800 years ago! Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a small ancient Egyptian turquoise-coloured blue faience hedgehog figurine, shown in 3/4 profile facing right. Dimensions: Height x width x depth: 5 x 5.5 x 9.3 cm. It has a rounded body densely covered with small raised pointed spines each of which are emphasised with black paint. It has a small wide face with a pointed snout. The snout has a small chip at the end. The eyes are highlighted with black pigment. It has relatively long oval-shaped ears, either side of the face. It has short stubby front legs. It sits on a pale display case surface at the Neues Museum in Berlin.
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Gavin McColl @comradeigvan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For me, Green politics should have little room for the language of betrayal, enemies, victory and defeat. Someone disagreeing with me does not make them my enemy, just as agreeing with me does not automatically make them my ally. Politics should be about finding common ground and making progress.
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Gavin McColl @comradeigvan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One state or two (ideally no state) matters less to me than the outcome: Palestinians and Israeli Jews sharing a peaceful future, with equal rights, security and a political voice, where neither depends on defeating the other. Peace isn’t easy, but it has to be the aim.
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday. They lost all six. Six contests. Six defeats. Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉 Have a great weekend comrades! #NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
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M Dv-us @drdvus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is not a dying planet. This is a planet being killed. There is a difference. And there are killers. #ClimateJustice
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nature doesn’t need us. We need nature. When the last forest falls and the last river is poisoned for profit, no amount of money will buy back the air we breathe, the food we eat, or the medicines that heal us. It’s time to shift from exploitation to stewardship. 🌱 #OnePlanet
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“This Labour Government is the worst thing to have ever happened to trans children. They have step by step dismantled every protection that supported my daughter […] At every point when the Labour Government could have made something better, they have turned around and given her another kick.”
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Glamorgan Cricket @glamcricket.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scotland’s finest in Wales 🤝 We’re thrilled to welcome Scottish international Megan McColl, who signs a professional deal after a standout Tier 2 season with us this summer ✍️ #OhGlammyGlammy
Megan McColl announcement graphic
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE IS SICKENING......
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An AI-enhanced version of a grainy image that appears to be authentic and shows several men being arrested in relation to the ongoing incident at RAF Fairford is currently being shared on multiple platforms. A SynthID check reveals that the enhanced image was generated with OpenAI.
AI-enhanced version of an authentic image showing arrests at RAF Fairford
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Canaries Caption It @canaries-captionit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Difficult to describe the level of idiocy of this post. As if Iran would risk its agents by sticking them in boats on a risky crossing. This MF is so thirsty to link this incident with migrants on boats it's embarrasing. Corrupt Farage needs to be expelled from Parliament.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Guardian had a lot of letters about Gabby Hinsliff’s article advocating a lower state pension. None had a comparison with the rest of Western Europe, which the rest of mainstream media also omitted. A media consensus of this kind is an abuse of power. This is the letter they didn’t publish.
Gaby Hinsliff's piece advocating cutting the UK state pension (ie abandoning the Triple Lock), avoided comparing the UK with our neighbours, a problematic contextualisation to leave out.
Below I provide a rough list of current state pensions in Western Europe, in pounds sterling;
Luxembourg: £2436
Switzerland: £2400
Norway: £2164
Denmark: £1822
Holland: £1403
The only country I could find with a lower state pension is Portugal at £815
As you can see the UK has the lowest state pension in Western Europe bar one, considerably undermining any arguments for abandoning the Triple Lock. In my opinion this information needs to be included in every article about this subject.

Italy: Men £1437, Women £1056
Belgium: £1401


Malta: £1400 - £1600
Spain: £1341

France: £1296


Germany: £1281
Sweden: £1226


Austria: £1121 (min)

Ireland: £1115 (min)
UK: £1045
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We don’t face a climate emergency. We face a greed emergency. Earth is not collapsing on its own. It’s being destroyed by people with names, titles, and boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.
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James Hance @jameshance.com · 27/01/2025
Gouache, color pencil, jelly babies ✨🎨
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trans women in sport: This table shows how massively out of place the UK is in Europe. The UK is the only country that bans trans women from most sport. Even recently-fascist Hungary is fairer than the UK. Britain is a transphobic outlier.
Trans Legal Recognition and Amateur Sport in Europe
Adult amateur women's competition • September 2026
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Equality-law sex


Adult amateur women's category

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Hockey
Cricket
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Sport: adult amateur women's competition. HRT/estosterone eligibility requirements count as not excluded.
UK 2024/ UK 2026 comparison reflects the pre- and post-2025 Equality Act interpretation.
Sources: ILGA-Eurooe (2026): national aovemina-body policies: UK Supreme Court 120251 UKSC 16: EHRC Code (2026)
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Patrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
There are few things as pathetic as the insecure whining of the super rich. To sit there on top of such a vast pile of wealth, complaining that it's all so unfair. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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European Movement in Scotland @euromovescotland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
UK Support for rejoining the EU at its highest level. Join EMiS today at euromovescotland.org.uk/join-us/ #Brexit #rejoin #poll #uk #theindependent
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There's only one solution to the danger of an AI-triggered nuclear war: decommission all nuclear weapons everywhere. On paper, the major powers are signed up to this objective. Now they need to do something about it.
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Gavin McColl @comradeigvan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Solidarity and best wishes from Scotland to our friends @miljopartiet.bsky.social for today’s election. 💚🇸🇪 At a time when the far right is gaining ground across Europe, we need strong Green voices standing for climate justice, equality, democracy and hope. Lycka till! 💚🌻
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Caroline Keep @ka83k.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Finding it really telling right now we CAN arrest people holding signs peacefully about their political views. But we CAN'T arrest men beating women with literal sticks at Reform UK for expressing their views. So freedom of speech includes violence now for certain groups?
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Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is a truly historic day for Edinburgh and the @scottishgreens.org💚 Portobello-Craigmillar is now the first ward in Edinburgh to be represented by two Green Councillors. Residents there will benefit hugely from Lorenzo being their new local Councillor.
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European Greens @europeangreens.eu · 04/09/2026
Bad news for the polluters in Belgium! Thanks to @zakia.bsky.social from @ecolo.be who worked to introduce this law in the previous government, destroying nature is now considered a crime in Belgium. All EU countries must follow their example and make polluters pay for their crimes.
Photo of worker cleaning up an oil spill with text on top:
Belgian flag: Green win!
 In Belgium ecocide is now recognised as a crime
Up to 20 years of prison
Up to 1.6 million euros fine
This is a first in Europe
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/09/2026
Are you optimistic about Burnham? Could Reform form the next government? Which are the three most important issues facing the country at this time? Take our survey here 👇 goodlaw.social/kn91
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Supporter Survey 2026
GLP's annual supporter survey.
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 28/08/2026
No candidate in Israeli election backs a Palestinian state. The EU’s answer is more ‘reforms’, not pressure
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No candidate in Israeli election backs a Palestinian state. The EU’s answer is more ‘reforms’, not pressure
Whether Benjamin Netanyahu, Gadi Eisenkot, or Naftali Bennett becomes the next Israeli prime minister, the differences will concern the degree of ethnic cleansing, annexation, colonial-settler expansion, and the number of settler attacks that will be tolerated — not the end of such policies and practices. For Palestinians, no matter who wins, statehood will still be denied.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We have had this conversation so many times. You do not have to platform/debate obscene views that are also false. I wrote during a wave of pressure on progressives to compromise with far-right haters:
I can comprehend, and do, that lots of people don’t believe climate change is real, but is there some great benefit in me listening, again, to those who refuse to listen to the global community of scientists and see the evidence before our eyes? A lot of why the right doesn’t “understand” climate change is that climate change tells us everything is connected, everything we do has far-reaching repercussions, and we’re responsible for the whole, a message at odds with their idealization of a version of freedom that smells a lot like disconnection and irresponsibility. But also climate denial is the result of fossil fuel companies and the politicians they bought spreading propaganda and lies for profit, and I understand that better than the people who believe it. If half of us believe the earth is flat, we do not make peace by settling on it being halfway between round and flat.
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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I googled her name and she’s a health policy researcher who writes think tank reports about gambling harms, we have found the patron saint of UK Bluesky
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Every technology that allows one worker to produce what once required ten should be fantastic news. We could all work less. Instead the owner discovers he can sack nine people and keep the extra wealth. Technology isn't stealing our future. Ownership is.
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 17/08/2026
"international human rights law requires that such measures are inclusive of all women and girls, including transgender and intersex women, and respect the rights of all persons without discrimination.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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UK: Revised Code of Practice risks institutionalising discrimination against transgender and gender-diverse persons, warn UN experts
GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today warned that the UK’s revised Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions, and Associations, in force as of 5 August, may place transgender and gender-divers...
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Barry Combo @barry-combo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Jimmy Saville carried out the most reviled crimes at a historically significant level for decades across multiple organisations. He had about two-minutes uncomfortable questioning in TV shows he agreed to. That's how seriously you should take the British media's claims to hold people to account.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So often what are called “culture wars” are one set of people saying “please can we live without perpetual persecution” and another saying “no, f*** you” but the press considering the latter group have “legitimate concerns” and must be perpetually platformed
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Marina Purkiss, "188 articles on this man, Jason Arday, who was not a public figure, over 9 days" "It was a blood sport for The Telegraph, The Times, The Spectator" "They have blood on their hands for this man"
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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womaninterrupted.bsky.social @womaninterrupted.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Come on Clacton! Bin him!
Pic of Nigel Farage alongside stats that show, when an MEP for British Fisheries he attended 1 of 42 Fisheries meetings.
As an MP he's voted once of 77 votes in Parliament . He's hel 0 surgeries in Clacton since becoming MP 2yrs ago
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans
Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford
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