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dundeegael.bsky.social @dundeegael.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I stopped bothering years ago attending in person any meetings in London. Obviously, I am happy to attend online. Why should I incur huge travel & accommodation costs to do so? It's never worth it no matter how much BS people spout to try & convince you to get on that train south.

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dundeegael.bsky.social @dundeegael.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Didn't know Frosty was into mining? 🪓⚒️ Stripping operations, perhaps? No, wait, I got it.... ... Overburden 👌

David Frost image and headline to an opinion piece

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dundeegael.bsky.social @dundeegael.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A pause from work to appreciate her best ever album. For #Evermore. #TaylorSwift 🙏

Evermore LP and picture, on wooden table, red carpet can also be seen.

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dundeegael.bsky.social @dundeegael.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

1995 mag cover, just checked. Mental. Had assumed it'd be from '80s. I lived in Edinburgh in first 1/2 of '90s, & - yeah - bisexuality was absolutely a thing there & had clearly been for many years previously. There was simply nothing novel about it - "A New Sexual Identity Emerges", really ?!?

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dundeegael.bsky.social @dundeegael.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Serious talk, though? I am not convinced, but I've been totally wrong before.

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dundeegael.bsky.social @dundeegael.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Zephaniah 3:14-20 is one of the most hopeful & gladdening parts of the Holy Bible:

"Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. The Lord hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the Lord, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more. In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack. The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden. Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the Lord."

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dundeegael.bsky.social @dundeegael.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Was convinced this was Normandy when I first glanced at it.... (image CCO1 .0 Universal licence)

Map of some areas that are not in Normandy.

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dundeegael.bsky.social @dundeegael.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

England flag with "Caernarfon Town" prominently on display at the World Cup game yesterday #EngFra Since when was Caernafon in England? Last I checked it was in the heart of Welsh-speak #Wales #Cymru

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Prof. Pam Birtill @diervilla.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I’ll take this paragraph! Higher Education and Universities are a success story. The chaotic destruction of the sector is avoidable, undesirable, and self defeating.

Universities are illustrative of the wider problem. They are one of the few sectors in which Britain is unquestionably world-class: they are exporters, research institutions, civic anchors and drivers of local growth. A government that says it wants innovation while pursuing a policy of often malign neglect when it comes to universities’ funding model and international students is not being tough-minded. It is simply incoherent.

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eBay mugs & glasses @dangmugs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

the buck stops over there 👈🏻

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 01/07/2026

It's done. M58: The First Spiral 82x92cm 32.25x36.25in Oil on canvas 2026 It is available. DM for deets.

WIP Impressionist painting of swirling orange & red nebula with a center that's hazy bluish white and some swirls

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/06/2026

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has a massive problem with women, and @carolvorders.bsky.social helped expose exactly how deep it runs. No wonder they’re furious - she made them look small, cowardly and contemptuous.

bearlypolitics.co.uk

Sunday Long Read: Carol Vorderman Made Reform Look Small

One by-election exposed a wider pattern: contempt dressed as banter, grievance dressed as common sense, and "protection" offered without rights.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 27/06/2026

I visited Meta's metaverse on the day it was supposed to shut down. I ended up in a virtual reality off-brand McDonald's car park – "a horribly designed, ultra-capitalistic space—a car park with no cars, for a restaurant that can sell no food, an earthly purgatory we have built for ourselves".

prospectmagazine.co.uk

Life at the end of the metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

There are several flags in the Norway flag.

The flag of Norway, parts of which make up the flags of Indonesia (and Monaco), Finland, The Netherlands, Thailand, Poland and France.

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Often feels like Zack Polanski’s leftism doesn’t adjust for being in Britain rather than America, where defence spending is astronomical and there are hundreds of billionaires

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dundeegael.bsky.social @dundeegael.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Floral scene from this afternoon, Broughty Ferry, Scotland

Foreground: flower meadow. Figure in pink shorts, back to camera, upper right on image. Beach and see in near distance. Tentsmuir promontory and forest beyond that, framing the sky (blue + puffy clouds). Scottish scene on North Sea coast, county of Angus.

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Barry Masterson @barrymasterson.com · 23/06/2026

Thank you, helloooo Dunde!

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Barry Masterson @barrymasterson.com · 22/06/2026

It's my birthday today so you are legally obligated to share my work, and humor my need for validation. Pretty please? 🥹

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The nearest analogy - which no one is drawing - would be the Midlothian Campaign in 1880. Gladstone had retired in 1875 and his party had chosen new leaders. But in 1880 he roared back, contesting the Tory seat of Midlothian. When he won, the new leaders resigned & he returned to the premiership.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 27/04/2026

Nightwatch 22x44in 56x112cm Oil on Canvas 2023 Painted from the winning entry in the 2023 Storms, Transformed photo competition. #Art #Painting #Weather Original, canvas and paper prints available at earthskyart.ca/shop

Abstract landscape of a storm front at night with lightning in the distance

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 05/01/2026

I like nebulae. JWST style. The Cosmic Tornado 20×30″ 51×76 cm Oil on Canvas 2025 Image of Herbig-Haro 49/50 star forming region taken by JWST MIRI & NIRCam Original, paper & canvas prints available on my website.

Painting of a nebula with swirling clouds of orange and red on a blue black background with many stars & small galaxies

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dundeegael.bsky.social @dundeegael.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

BTW - I am Scots - I am not anti-English - No, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is not England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, call that "Scottish Exceptionalism" if you like. Or just: Reality - If you don't like me posting about how things are here, & explicitly or implicitly different to in England, that's fine: Just block me & we are both good 👍

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/06/2026

Breaking News: Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain announced he will resign, saying he will leave office by September. nyti.ms/4ginUVt

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dundeegael.bsky.social @dundeegael.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I highly recommend @21andsensory.bsky.social to everyone here, Emily is a brilliant podcaster - go see for yourself 😀

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dundeegael.bsky.social @dundeegael.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

🩵 @21andsensory.bsky.social al really loved listening to your culinary-focused interview below, episode 65 🩵 with author and journalist Lydia Wilkins - www.youtube.com/watch?v=84II...

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Episode 65: Special Guest, Author and Journalist Lydia Wilkins

YouTube video by Emily @21andsensory

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 21/06/2026

the Kyiv Pride march today is led by Ukrainian queer soldiers and vets carrying pictures and names of queer Ukrainian heroes killed while fighting homophobic russian empire. Ukraine fights for a better, dignified future for all of us.

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Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

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Anna Chapiron @thenest.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Bonjour mes papillons

Dessin d'une femme brune en tailleur sac et chaussures rouges assise sur un tabouret devant une table ronde avec nappe blanche.
Un homme avec cgapeau de paille, en salopette marron très clair et chemise beige lui sert du café avec un pistolet identique à celui des pompes à essence.
Il y a écrit rit coffe station en haut.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy Father's Day 🖤

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David Leask @leaskyd.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The Edinburgh attacks were page one or “top slice” stories across the Scottish media, including in the most right-wing news brands.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Rachel Sylvester in the Observer reports thst Keir Starmer is now expected to make a "clear statement" on Monday accepting the case for a transition of leadership, perhaps timed for the September party conference archive.is/YNb4S

archive.is

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Don't want to be picky, but isn't the Pope "America's most powerful Catholic" being as he is both American and - how to put it? - the actual Pope? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

theguardian.com

JD Vance, once an ‘angry atheist’, is America’s most powerful Catholic. How will he wield his faith?

In his new memoir, the vice-president covers his conversion and politics – at a time when hardline Catholicism is ascendant in the US

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

SO FOR THE FUTURE (LITERALLY) WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING AI POSTERS OR FLYERS FOR THE PUB.

We're right next to Ireland's biggest Art College, lads. It's not a good look.

WE UNDERSTAND BANDS CAN BE SKINT BUT RELYING ON SOME EARTH KILLING APP FROM SOME PAEDO ISLAND BILLIONAIRE IS NOT THE WAY. WE GOT BY WITHOUT IT AND WE'LL GET BY AGAIN.

IF YOU'RE STUCK WE'LL HELP. (YES IT HAS BEEN USED HERE BEFORE BUT CONSIDER THIS THE START OF THE END OF IT.)

THANKS, HUMANS.

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 19/06/2026

By-Election Result analysis: Aberdeen South A high profile move from Westminster to Holyrood leads to an absolutely huge loss for the SNP, as the Conservatives play a blinder of a tactical campaign.

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By-Election Result: Aberdeen South

A high profile move from Westminster to Holyrood leads to an absolutely huge loss for the SNP, as the Conservatives play a blinder of a tactical campaign.

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

"Possible that more Restore canvassers were sent to the constituency than votes gained" (3000 votes) is Conor Tomlinson's observation on why Restore did much worse than staff & activists thought It obvs feels empowering to field 1000 activists x.com/i/status/206...

x.com

Connor Tomlinson (@Con_Tomlinson) on X

Thoughts on the Makerfield by-election result: Burnham was smart choosing a seat which has only voted Labour in general elections for a century. But nobody expected this margin of victory. Reading M...

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dundeegael.bsky.social @dundeegael.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Great (& well done England). Please can she also do the same for Scotland in our upcoming match vs Morocco? 🙏

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dundeegael.bsky.social @dundeegael.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

@davidallengreen.bsky.social "If there were only an olde English legend about a foolish king who gave futile commands to large bodies of water" - Tide thing was other way around from its modern mis-telling. + He wasn't foolish, but a hugely impressive king of both (much of) Scandinavia & England.

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It's time for UK teenagers to go on an IT support strike: ❌ Don't tell your grandparents which of their 5 remotes actually turns on the TV ❌ Don't help your parents set up a secure password manager ❌ Don't explain crypto romance scams to your uncle

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 13/06/2026

Funny how the opposite of "Mostly Peaceful Immigration Concerns Protest" is "Anti-Fascist Protest"

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 13/06/2026

The scenes we saw in Glasgow earlier this week, as racists took to the streets to intimidate and threaten ethnic minority Glaswegians were despicable, and this afternoon we showed a tiny, outnumbered crowd of bigots that we don't want their hatred in our city.

A photo of the anti-racist crowd in Glaagow - a sign in the centre of the shot reads "Youse are aw boggin"

A photo showing the scale of the crowd at the anti-racist demo in Glasgow covering the top of Buchanan Street

A scene as the fascists are escorted out of the kettle by police, having been massively outnumbered and mocked for hours

A photo of the speakers at the anti-racist demo. Green MSP Iris Duane is speaking, behind her you can also see Labour MSPs Pauline McNeill and Paul Sweeney.

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Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

To say the fascist scum are outnumbered in Glasgow today would be an understatement, though I did see Manky Jaiket roaming about somehow outside the pen his Nazi pals are in before someone ran over and told him to fuck off

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

"Protestors"

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