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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 06/10/2026

The typical household gas bill has gone up by 33% since April. Clean renewable energy generation is Scotland's best path to energy security and lower bills.

Carbon Brief. Wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis. Wind and solar have generated a record 41% share of the UK’s electricity needs in 2026 to date, compared with 25% from gas.

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 17h

AFP photographer hospitalized by armed settlers as he worked recording disruptions to olive harvest in the West Bank. Israeli soldiers look on and do nothing. Presumably it’s all Zack Polanski’s fault? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Israeli settlers beat press photographer as soldiers watch in West Bank

Jaafar Ashtiyeh was covering violence against olive farmers when settlers set upon him with the butts of their rifles

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The darlings of the British establishment clutching their pearls over the Greens and their anti-Zionist motion whilst Palestinians clutch the mutilated, burned bodies of thousands upon thousands of their loved ones

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 17h

7 October 1919. Netherlands airline company Royal Dutch Airlines- KLM was founded. 1st flight was on 17 May 1920 (flying from London to Amsterdam). It’s the oldest airline company in the world and is still operating under its original name.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Knowingly doing crime to develop your product.

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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not a single care.. 😊

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Bristol24/7 @bristol247.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A plaque has been unveiled to mark the first spacecraft to successfully land on another planet and the Bristolian behind it

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Plaque honouring space 'visionary' unveiled

Colin Pillinger was the chief scientist on the Beagle 2 mission

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A welcome addition to the long list of Jeffrey Arsehole stories

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“The estimate of the total amount of rubble in Gaza is 61 million tonnes. It is approximately 20 times the amount of rubble generated in all wars across the world over the last 18 years,” says Jaco Cilliers, the UNDP’s special representative in Palestine. www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

5 October 1922. Celtic and Scotland manager Jock Stein was born in Burnbank, Scotland. He was the 1st British-born manager to win the European Cup in 1967 with Celtic. Stein also led Celtic to 9 successive Scottish League championships between 1966 and 1974.

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

EU super election year - with elections scheduled in France, Poland, Italy, Spain plus more equalling about a third of the EU - has been moved forward and is now starting in November 2026:

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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Goatfell, Isle of Arran. Pic: James Raeburn

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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For centuries, the winding path of the Avon (coupled with the river’s massive tidal range) has beached countless vessels. Navigating the waterway requires a ship which is well balanced and precisely ordered - leading to the phrase “shipshape and Bristol fashion”.

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

After the Green Party not being on BBC QT this week despite it being the week of their party conference + them going head to head with Labour in a by-election next week (Reform were on obvs), guess who didn't have them on her "flagship" politics show today either? #fucktheBBC

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Fury as BBC's Laura Kuenssberg snubs Greens on party conference weekend

The BBC's flagship Sunday politics programme failed to include a Green Party representative – despite the party's conference taking place this weekend

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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

View from Sgùrr Alasdair, Isle of Skye. Pic: Anna Lubomirska

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 October 1957. Space Age began when Soviet Union launched the satellite Sputnik I into orbit around the Earth. It was a 58 centremetre-wide polished metal sphere, with 4 external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A relief sculpture of Orpheus playing a lyre on the McLennan Arch in Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #mclennanarch #glasgowgreen

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Tony @antonyillahiwarren.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the 1970s over 30% of the population lived in council housing, and I was one of them. In 1978 we could easily run a household on £60 a week, took regular holidays, and had zero personal debt. All because the landlord didn't take most of our income.

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Joe Brown @joebrownlondon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#OnThisDay 50 years ago BR introduced their revolutionary InterCity 125 on regular services between London Paddington and Bristol/South Wales. Video clip from the BBC Archive from a couple of weeks before the launch previewing the new trains, full video: buff.ly/QGnH3Et

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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This appointment tells you everything you need to know about the BBC.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Newspaper clipping of Cocteau Twins, taken from Los Angeles Times, September 7, 1985.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

3 October 1283. Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Gwynedd, the last independent ruler of Wales, was executed for allegedly plotting to kill Edward I. His execution was particularly gruesome.

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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Loch Trool, Galloway Forest Park. Pic: IG/peterdinsmore

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

18 years since the 2008 financial crisis. The “maxed out credit card” line is almost old enough to legally buy a pint in a pub.

BBC Newsnight •
@BBCNewsnight • 1h
"The credit card is maxed out... my fear come
28 October is that they look to the endless piggy bank of business."
Lord Walker, executive chairman of Iceland, looks ahead to the Autumn Budget.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 02/10/2026

👀 "Nearly 10 years ago, Nigel Farage told LBC he would leave the country if Brexit were not a stunning success. For reasons that no one can quite fathom, he is still here."

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Welcome to the new Reform roadshow. Same as the last but more desperate | John Crace

Nige is not rattled that the UK likes its new PM. Or that Reform is second in the polls. Oh no. Because Nige believes in

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2 October 1976. 1st episode of the popular BBC1 Saturday morning children’s show Multi-Coloured Swap Shop presented by Noel Edmonds was broadcast. It ran for 146 live episodes until 27 March 1982. youtube.com/watch?v=ZzvI...

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Multi Coloured Swap Shop - opening titles

YouTube video by flares

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2 October 1925. John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer and inventor, performed 1st test of a working TV system in his London lab where he successfully transmitted the 1st TV picture which was a greyscale image of the head of a ventriloquist’s dummy.

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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He has basically copied his new policies from Scotland and made them look like his own the mans just another fraud, instead of being honest and saying these are good policies in use in Scotland and we should adopt them in England, they can’t have Scotland looking more progressive than England.

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trump threatens export ban of diesel www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... In other news, Grangemouth Refinery produced 36,000 barrels per day (2.4 million tonnes per year) of diesel before it ceased crude oil processing in April 2025. 12% of UK consumption Not rescued

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US pressures Europe over diesel reserves as Trump threatens export ban

President Donald Trump has threatened to ban diesel exports in a bid to ease prices in the US ahead of the November elections.

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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yet another INTENDED consequence of the Thatcher regime. Lest we forgot: To end the social care crisis and renationalise social care #SocialCareShouldNotWipeOutAllOnesAssets #UncaringUK

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This week's BBC Question Time is from N London. There's a by-election there next week, which looks to be a closely-fought contest between Labour and the Greens. One of those parties is not represented on the QT panel this week. Can you guess which one, boys and girls? Can you?

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The SNP @snp.org · 01/10/2026

Andy Burnham's "National Care Service" turns out to be Free Personal Care in England. Inspired by a policy already delivered in Scotland by the SNP.

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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Loch Lomond in autumn. Pic: IG/nomadlad

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whose legs is Trump standing on and why are they attached the wrong way round?

Donald Trump in a mid-blue suit, swivelling his body awkwardly to the right to speak with reporters. His legs look like they've been borrowed from a mannequin and stuck on the wrong way round

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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Baby elephant taking a bath.. 😊

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh I could not be sadder at this news. An incredible campaigning broadcaster. I remember vividly the impact of Childline when I was very young, and recently Dame Esther was a dedicated supporter of the assisted dying work I was involved in. Huge love to all her family. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...

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Dame Esther Rantzen dies aged 86

Her family paid tribute to her in a statement calling her the "most wonderful mother" and a "cherished grandmother".

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What they told us v what was always going to happen in an energynation 🙄

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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our pensioners are at present, even under the triple lock considerably worse off than our fellow Europeans- & many others. Why is it always pensions & welfare benefits that are singled out? Bring in a wealth tax to fund the national social care service. ##labourisntlabouranymore

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

30 September 1921. Deborah Kerr was born in Glasgow, Scotland. One of her best performances was in the musical The King and I. She was nominated 6 times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, but never won. This ranks her 2nd behind Glenn Close, nominated 8 times without a win.

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wouldn’t disagree with much that Burnham said today in what was an excellent speech. But… 90% of the substance is focused on England catching up with Scotland (Bus fares, rail nationalisation, water in public control, free social care and PR in elections). Not much for Scotland except Unionism!

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most of Burnham's promises were for policies to be introduced after the next GE, the national care service, reform of the voting system, closer ties with the EU, all put off until after the next GE - political code for ‘never’. It was a very traditional Labour speech, the jam is always tomorrow.

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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This (now defunct) contraption in Millennium Square is the Space Signpost. Installed in 2006 it allowed users to pinpoint the realtime location of planets and celestial bodies with the use of a robotic arm and an LED touchscreen. 1/2

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What Newsnight should have taken away was that it shouldn't adopt tabloid narratives unquestioningly and made the appropriate correction. What it did instead was to report the correction as if it were gossip and go "OOOOOH! THEY'RE VERY SENSITIVE!" What? To accuracy? You used to be, too, BBC.

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