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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@dab13rp.bsky.social
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Grandad, retired, fae Edinburgh y’ken, Hibby. Dugs x 2. Music. Books. Reluctant gardener. Scottish and European.

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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 29m
Plunderer’s accuse EU of plundering. There’s a headline.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 57m
So, before I read the reports tomorrow, when I’m feeling ‘better’, I have to state my surprise that the people providing the links are so sanguine. Because it seems that Russian influence affected 2 referendums and some GE’s. But none of the results have been declared invalid.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 1h
Redacted to protect vulnerable sources or to avoid embarrassment/prosecution of politicians? Asking as I’ve been to the pub and won’t be reading it today 🥴
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 2h
Lovely. A bit light reading before bed.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 3h
I’m obliged. Full or redacted?
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 3h
If ukgov had published the report they would have to respond to it, but not wiki. Given that we all know Russia is tampering in elections, what I would really like to see is the full report on Food Security.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 3h
Aye, a truly awful film. With all that material you produce such arrant nonsense. Very much the shortarse despot with piles angle. I’m reading your Played in weeg book. Very good. Skipped rugby, skimmed golf, photies are brill. But, only a rube calls the Forth Bridge the Forth Rail Bridge 🤨
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 5h
Not so much a theory.
Jack White’s Operation Boris book.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 5h
Will Burnham release the Russia Report? Will he condemn Israeli interference in ScotGov GE? But really, hats off to Vladimir Putin, he slipped his agent slug into No.10 in perfect time to bury that Report. And he topped that with his agent orange’s dismantling of the USA government and military.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 6h
Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Equalities Act 2010. Also the Deposit Return Scheme blocked by ukgov (now going live next year). The same scheme is in use in several European countries. And check Offensive Behaviour at Football, and any other ScotGov legislation the media label ‘controversial’.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 6h
To see the pattern, check how the London parties and media reacted to The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Act, which was blocked by ukgov. The purpose was to ease the process for a transitioned person to gain a driving licence/passport to reflect the change. It complied with the/
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 6h
Well, I doubt it was because he invaded Russia and lost half his army, or was all too willing to accept high casualties in battles, or that he met his Waterloo. And I doubt it was commonly known that he shot his duff within seconds, so I’m going with he understood strategy.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 9h
There’s been t’landslide since t’Burnham gave t’game away. Also popping up frequently are scantily clad girls with suggestive messaging, the difference is that now they’re posting stock images of sunsets, landscapes etc to appear genuine 😂
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 9h
I despaired that my mum read that rag, the Scottish version is fucking awful! Its news output could be summarised as SNPbad and Scotland is shite. The sport pages are rangers, rangers, rangers.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 9h
That rhetoric is risible, if you’d lost a previously safe seat, that would be humiliating. But to come second beating the tories, Nigel’s and Rupert’s fascist parties, and whatever the libdums are is impressive. Bought by Israel extends to what passes for a media in the uk.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 9h
🇮🇪🇵🇸 Thousands filled the streets of Dublin, Ireland, marking three years for Gaza genocide
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 10h
The other week Labour were lauded for proposing better social care etc to ‘the nation’, there was no mention that Burnham was merely copying successful ScotGov policies. This is how what passes for a uk media operates.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 10h
Yes. The Greens will, the libdems will procrastinate and labour will prevaricate. I suppose a lot depends on if t’Burnham bounce has t’legs t’get t’May. All I hear is the same shite with a different accent.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 11h
In a short time the Greens have gone from a mere novelty at WM to being seen a threat to the establishment, hence the media response. Until 2015, the SNP was also treated as a novelty act at WM. Now that it’s seen as a threat the media bile is relentless. Take the positives from last week.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 11h
Brexit is the circle that won’t be squared and why we’re stuck with a PM carousel. On the one hand rejoining is a surefire vote winner, on the other ukgov has been bought by the right wing and they want Brexit. I think he’ll be wishy-washy and maybe, possibly, consider, thinking about a referendum.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 12h
And he can avoid the EU rejoin issue.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 21h
It’s more likely he’d be sent to a residential care home - they might even tell him it’s a presidential care home, with a dummy-phone to keep him occupied, an inflatable sex doll (Russian speaking) for companionship, and constant supervision to prevent him licking the windaes.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 22h
Are you, or anyone else for that matter, finding bot-like posts intruding on your timeline attempting to draw you into debating Scottish culture, ethnicity, history, as opposed to the standard too wee etc? Asking questions but never answering specifics, that sort of thing.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The ongoing tragedy that the only way to find out what’s happening in the uk is from foreign media.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Tom will get along fine with that other grifter Nigel.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If a country is conducting an illegal war, and supporting another country committing genocide, and if that country buys oil from yet another country conducting an illegal war, is it treachery or a war crime or both?
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Scotland ‘one of safest places in world’, say BBC - The story BBC Scotland hid but BBC Spanish spread globally www.snp.org/scotland-one...
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Scotland ‘one of safest places in world’, say BBC — Scottish National Party
The evidence on justice is in, the results are clear, and the conclusion is inescapable: Scotland makes better decisions when Scotland decides for itself.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Are we expecting smoke and mirrors?
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This result shows rising support for The Greens. Again, from Scotland: SNP has won every SGE since 2011, but labour shills carp that this years win was with a lower % on a low turnout, whilst ignoring they won a landslide in 2024 with a dismal 34%, on a low turnout. The uk media defies logic.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Labour will slide when people realise Burnham’s promises are just wind and pish.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And why we have extras from a Deliverance remake demanding the right to march in Scottish cities that haven’t seen OO walks in decades.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I have a bridges over The Forth to sell. If you buy 2, I’ll throw in a 3rd free.
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The real lesson from Nazism youtube.com/shorts/tRN1q...
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The REAL Lesson of Nazism
YouTube video by Novara Media
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’m pushing 70 and feel uneasy about the impending climate disaster and cost of living crisis, it must be worse for the young. It’s heartening to see them protesting about it.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Those particular windows cost a fortune. After windows were installed it was decided they needed to be bombproof. Those windows were ripped out and the building redesigned to support the extra weight of new windows. Interference by politicians is one reason the cost of Holyrood spiralled.
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Catherine Demetriadi @ccdemetriadi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The next time anyone in the media or your acquaintance rants about Glasgow's poor health and deprivation, throw this article in their face. What these polluting, soulless, exploitative, heartless industrial barons did echoes to this very day. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/toxic-indust...
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From Stinky Ocean to Sugarolly Mountain: counting the toxic cost of Glasgow’s industrial boom
Pollution so bad people’s septums fell out
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That’ll be why Trump says tons/tonnes instead of barrels. Big numbers, big lies.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yes, but all they have to do is board a plane.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is where the Greens can learn from the SNP: with what passes for media in Scotland, every SNP policy is controversial/deeply unpopular, the FM is constantly under pressure/fighting for his political life, the party is always divided/on the verge of ‘civil war’. It’s relentless. It’s fear.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ah fuck off, wank.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Eh what?
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A surge to 2nd in a safe labour seat and Polanski is being hounded by his own side.
I smell shite.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It certainly seems across Europe maga’s are taken aback by the open hostility to them and Trump. They haven’t even learned to keep their gubs shut about it.
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
He dishonours the Saltire by wearing it whilst being a racist cnut This is not who we are
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Argentina?
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wow, not only has trumpy sent the petrodollar into a tailspin, he wants to replace it with the paedollar . Is there anyone in the Whitehouse that’s even heard of karma?
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I saw a stat, 7% US citizens suffer food poisoning p/a. That would be 23,800,000 people (will that figure be taken from healthcare providers?). From watching Bernie Sanders posts that number is unlikely to include 70,000,000 people with no, or inadequate, healthcare. It must be a lot worse than 7%.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Billy and Rikki, off to a flyer.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The optimist in me likes to believe that people aren’t born bad, it’s a choice.
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And 5/5? Hem, hem 🤷🏻‍♂️
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