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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My goodness WHAT a reworking of the Great Maxim - compassion is misplaced by being used for the poor. Who would have thunk Dickens meant THAT.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

You can demand a return to "Christian values", or you can attack empathy as "suicidal". You cannot do both.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Right wing journalists and other hired guns. Stop paying them to be outrageous, stop giving them free publicity by sharing their views. They do it for money and fame and material rewards. Don’t gratify them, don’t pay them. Offer them pity and scorn.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The last of the summer shows and a rare picture of me showing, Veena, who won champion kid today and on 1 August at Dumfries. She is very genuinely my kid as she was born premature and unable to stand and I fed her every two hours. She now feeds from her dam as well. She’s very gentle.

Old lady in a white show coat and denim flat cap kneels beside a spotted lop eared goat.on a green field

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Apparently £5million can’t buy you enough security to protect you from an imaginary threat.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Before giving a reply and therefore credibility to the latest idiot, please remember that a significant minority of people thrive on stirring up notoriety and would much rather be attacked than ignored. There has always been a desire to shock, only now it’s done by cruelty not crudity.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Thrilled that all graduates are getting a ‘they/them’ pin badge IN LATIN at this week’s ceremonies. I have no truck with any cynics insisting that it’s the product of an institution that can’t spot a plural and doesn’t know that Latin is gendered and it should read ‘alumnus’ or ‘alumna’.

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David Leask @leaskyd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

There are people who object to the way we reporters use the term “far right” and to be fair the term has been abused. But don’t kid yourself on, the Glasgow “protests” on Sat were explicitly white nationalist with openly fascistic and neo-nazi elements. www.thetimes.com/article/a766...

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Arrests and mixed messages as far right clash with antiracists

Rival protesters gathered in Glasgow on Saturday in a jarring hotch-potch of rhetoric and symbols, as mounted police had to help keep order

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

When my grandson was young I was one of his main caregivers. I used to read to him a lot. Now fifteen, with toddler sisters, I watch him reading to them and it’s very heartwarming.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Especially on a plane where you absolutely certainly cannot take the baby outside. Everyone is as firmly stuck as the poor parents are at 2am.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Look, a very major trope of the Right in general, and Reform in particular, is that they are persecuted. Their followers are also persecuted. So if you can possibly manage it, don’t threaten. It’s perfectly easy to be very rude in a polite way.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The trouble is this: bullying. The entire force of the Right, and, in addition, many ordinary people worked up to fever pitch by deliberate lies and constant orchestration, will descend against this one point, shrieking their catch phrases and dog whistles, all rationality abandoned.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is where Catholics and Anglo-Catholics have one last trick to pull. The Confirmation Name. When you are confirmed you can choose to add another name, a saint’s name. I chose Vey, (aka Beya) who lived on Little Cumbrae and loved animals and gave advice. What a role model!

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I was 'slam dunk' for Humanist Society leadership until revealing what my job was

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Two things every Christian must find out? Just one, really, as a Christian. ‘Is this policy coherent with offering support to the poor, the sick, the stranger in our midst?’

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

To be entirely fair not only did she say I really ought not be married but the felt my grandchildren were bastards. That’s going it some as a leadership bid, isn’t it?

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Monksfield EmpressElvira stands confidently wearing her second place rosette at the Royal Highland Show last week. She has udder damage from an earlier mastitis infection which different judges evaluate differently. Both @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social and I are intensely proud of our home bred star.

A brown goat with white eyebrows stands before her white coated handler. The green field and grey stone wall show its Scottish setting.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It's like waking up one morning to discover that every single person above a certain pay grade now believes that cat vomit is yummy and nutritious, and cannot comprehend that not everyone agrees with them.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Right, I know it’s not the original intent, but wouldn’t the solution to the reflecting pool in Washington be to plant it up with filtering plants, stock it with fish, encourage wildlife, and consider that a big expanse of sterile shallow water is very boring and reflect on life’s richness?

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The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The Grauniad, 18 June 2026, Journal p5. @theguardian.com #corrections

Corrections and clarifications. Owing to incorrect information supplied by an agency, two of the images we captioned as showing the interior of 2-8A Rutland Place, London, were in fact of the palace of Versailles, France (This house cost £210m. Why does no one live in it?, 10 June, G2, p4).

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

👇 One of the truly remarkable things about the present political moment is that we have a prime minister and some of his few remaining loyalist MPs who are totally detached from what their policy choices actually *mean*. Starmer bragged that he had invested in public services *this week*!

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

One of the nastiest things that happened to me was trying to talk a former friend out of ‘whatever did I do wrong that my daughter is a lesbian?’ I think that at least part of the enthusiasm for the social media ban is ‘Already she’s turning into a person I don’t recognise.’

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Brianna Ghey was not a suicide. She was murdered by people she knew in real life.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Unfortunately other people are paid to ensure it isn’t a big story. And you can quite easily pay people to influence. Or you can make it seem quite obvious that all sensible people think something, or because someone is gathering influence and you need to be in on the ground floor or or.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This BBC story on the Buchanan Street demo is like a tutorial on ill-faith framing, btw. Thousands on one side and dozens on the other, but it's the dozens to whom the headline and photo give agency, and who they suggest won a tactical victory here.

BBC headline "Anti-racism rally disrupted by masked group in Glasgow", with a picture of a bawling penis in a balaclava.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

“Their names are Ignorance and Want” The two great enemies, and we like to keep them around. All the same, we cannot afford the hideous creatures and we cannot let sympathy for the poor sods in whom they have fixed their claws affect our opposition.

The Ghost of Christmas Present takes leave of Scrooge, revealing Ignorance and Want as two clinging children. ‘Beware them both’ says the Spirit.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Sophie and I are the acceptable face of a same sex couple. We are older, we live in an agricultural community that accepts and supports us. We are actually married and there is nothing wild about us. And I worry.

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Elinor Elliot @elinorelliot.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

They are wildly, wildly complicit in the catastrophe that is unfolding. The only possible reason for foregrounding Lowe's posts is to incite violence. The media have lost all sense of proportion, civic responsibility, and sobriety.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

It’s deeply unfortunate that we share a common language with the USA. It’s time we stopped thinking of them as a friend, and started thinking of whether particular agreements with them were helpful to us, or not.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Well, yes, that IS exactly what history degrees teach you. What they quite explicitly set out to teach.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Now tell me that opera is expensive and elitist.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The Effects of Cheese Making and Dairy Produce on the Status of Women in Farming in the 19th c

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Let’s be clear. What Farage has done is immoral and almost certainly illegal. He’s taken 5 million. It’s a huge sum of money. He didn’t declare it. 5 million buys a LOT.

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Marcy Gall @marcygall.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“We can disagree and still be friends.” Yeah, about whether pineapple belongs on pizza. Not racism and homophobia.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every year I re read this and it’s essential to have it clear in your head

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This. Also: if you’re cis? Prefer not to say.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

So what do cis allies do? I write, I argue, and I’m naturally outspoken, so that, obviously. But is there any practical action I can take? (MP is gender critical and yes I’ve written).

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Recalls the old gag: "What's England's second city?" Manc: "Manchester". Brummie: "Birmingham". Geordie: "Newcastle". Scouser: "London".

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Can we all take another deep breath and remember that the Odyssey isn’t history? It’s myth. Helen of Troy looks stunningly beautiful. That’s it. End of.

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Margaret McG🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @caledoni4.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Meanwhile in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⬇️ Under 22’s and over 60’s (SIXTIES) already have free bus travel in Scotland. Three areas in Scotland currently have a trial £2 limit on ANY bus journey. The SNP Scottish Government proposes to extend it nationwide. No peak rail fares, on publicly owned ScotRail and ⬇️

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Corruption is the guiding principle of the administration and has been from day 1. What is happening now is nothing new, it’s par for the course. It is what the USA is now. Face it squarely.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

There are a lot of people feeling cheated and aggrieved. This is partly because they haven’t the courage/education/mental flexibility to seize the opportunities they still have, partly because they are told outright but attractive lies. Shut down the lies, educate and empower. Tough but possible.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I suspect that carping about rose species may be peak 🦋but, the ‘small white rose of Scotland is presumably the Burnett or Scotch rose, either single or double. Though the Old Yellow Scotch is the rose also clearly identified as Scottish.

Headlined Stephen Flynn fluffs his lines, the BBC show Flynn wearing a modest sized white rose.

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Johnny Ninefingers @johnnyninefingers.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Given the new Nigel Farage/Boris Johnson revelations/accusations and the gravity of them, what does it say about the pathetic reporting of UK media organisations that I've seen nothing about it on any major news network? The media are all complicit in this whitewashing of Farage and Johnson.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I don’t like Starmer or his government. I really detest Streeting. Just NO.

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