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Maggie Gordon

@farmqueen.bsky.social
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With more of my life behind me than ahead, still baking bread, still cooking and trying to find words to explain what’s going on in the world. I dislike inequality. Another new Leither.

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Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton didn’t spend her dollars on space travel or a trip to the titanic because she was writing checks to put over 330 million books in the hands of children. Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has confirmed it will continue to send out millions of books to children after her passing. R.I.P
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mactakeshi.bsky.social @mactakeshi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Scotlands education system did this. Louisiana man becomes functionally cured of sickle cell his hematopoietic stem cells were collected at Manning Family Children's Hospital in New Orleans and shipped directly to a specialized laboratory in Scotland to undergo CRISPR/Cas9 genetic modification
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Dorothy Bruce @dorothybruce.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
But the triple lock on state pensions cannot be afforded. The UK government's priorities are totally wrong. www.thenational.scot/news/2622945...
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'Out of control' royal budget to double to £100m in three years, files show
CAMPAIGNERS have raised serious concerns about royal finances as the palace publishes its latest figures – despite efforts by King Charles to…
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Trump and Republicans "Big Beautiful Bill" has already taken food assistance away from more than 770,000 American kids: www.propublica.org/article/snap...
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...
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Edinburgh O'Clock @edinburghclock.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train. A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social. Please repost with your own caption.
Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
More of this please.
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Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs
Exclusive: Veteran Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child attacks ‘performative cruelty’ of Shabana Mahmood’s policies
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
How do we protect young people online without shutting down the digital world? A new report from @Uni of Manchester offers recommendations on tackling misogyny, misinformation and online harms. share.google/FmqWdx8ALMb1...
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Bans alone won’t tackle online harm, Manchester experts tell ministers
New University of Manchester report makes a series of recommendations to tackle online misogyny and misinformation and strengthen young people’s di...
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
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UN says Israel committed genocide in Gaza by deliberately killing children
The independent study concludes that the aim of Israel was to destroy the ‘larger Palestinian group in Gaza’
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 20/05/2026
Join us in welcoming Internet Archive Switzerland!🇨🇭 This independent non profit foundation is a mission-aligned organization with Internet Archive, Internet Archive Canada & Internet Archive Europe, with the common goal of Universal Access to All Knowledge. Visit their website: internetarchive.ch
Screenshot of the Internet Archive Switzerland website (internetarchive.ch), showing the homepage with a mountain range illustration, a faint photo of a St. Gallen building, and introductory text about the foundation's mission of universal access to all knowledge.
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Lachie Mor @lachiemor.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Today is Norway’s 🇳🇴 Constitution Day it is the National Day of Norway and is an official public holiday observed on 17 May each year. Among Norwegians, the day is referred to as Syttende mai ('17th of May') Happy Birthday
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
73 pro‑independence MSPs. 73p for three months Back Scotland’s only daily pro‑independence newspaper and get full access 👉 thenational.scot/subscribe
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Small modular nuclear reactors are a dead end countercurrents.org/2026/05/smal...
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Small modular nuclear reactors are a dead end | Countercurrents
The nuclear power industry is currently promoting designs for small modular reactors (SMRs) that will supposedly be cheaper, safer, and faster to build than older nuclear power plants.
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Cat B 1 @catbe1.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We have a Lithium Battery plant headed to my county. Not a good fit. This is intriguing. Found it in LinkedIn Science account. #BlueCrew #Ecofriendlybatteries
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Jim Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. @jazzyrussell.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
BBC Scotland will run the same attack template for the food price cap as it did with Minimum Unit Pricing, DRS, Hate Crime Bill and Home Reports. All were going to fail, hit retailers, hit businesses, overwhelm the police and hit the property market. Time proved the scare stories were utter guff.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 17/05/2026
Coming very soon, no doubt, a follow-up article about why the SNP's inclusive nationalism beat Reform in Scotland 58 seats to 17. Sure. Sure. #NotHoldingMyBreath . www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Plaid Cymru has forged a brand of inclusive nationalism. That's why it beat Reform in Wales | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Growing up in Gwynedd, I was made to feel not ‘Welsh enough’. But things have changed – and the Senedd victory shows the politics of exclusion has no answer, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Coss...
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Moscow’s man takes to the streets of London…
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Tommy Robinson’s ties to Russia
The far-right agitator has regularly aped Putin’s propaganda.
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 11/05/2026
💚 Day one for our record-breaking team of new Scottish Green MSPs. greens.scot/join
Scottish Greens co-leaders Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay join Q Manivannan, Kristopher Leask, Cara McKee, Kayleigh Kinross-O'Neill, Laura Moodie, Holly Bruce and Iris Duane outside Holyrood.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
BREAKING: The Scottish Greens have demanded that the head of the Electoral Commission resign after it refused to investigate the far-right "party" Independent Green Voice 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2609542...
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Scottish Greens call for Electoral Commission boss to resign amid 'spoiler party' row
THE Scottish Greens have called for the chief executive of the Electoral Commission to resign over the watchdog’s handling of the far-right party…
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Broadcasting Scotland @broadcastingscotland.scot · 04/05/2026
BBC Scotland phone-in again pushing messages of 'they are all the same,' 'nobody at the door,' 'lacklustre campaign' and emphasising 'Westminster will say no to an independence referendum.' Imagine living in a democracy with fair and balanced independent media. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/donate/
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The need for a fair and balanced independent broadcaster in Scotland has never been greater. Please donate to Broadcasting Scotland.
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🇬🇧 It’s no longer even up for debate, the bbc british State Broadcaster is fully engaged in an information/disinformation Propaganda War on the campaign for Scottish independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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NHS Scotland has 46% more psychiatrists than NHS England, sees 82% on time, but their convener appears on Reporting Scotland Down with only 4 days to go to shout ‘CRISIS!’
mental state as physical health. Speaking ahead of Thursday’s Holyrood election, the Royal College say the current system is in crisis and that they’re prepared to work with all parties…
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Similar policy proposals by the uk Gov in 2023, and the Scottish Gov in 2026, reported entirely differently by the bbc british State Broadcaster🇬🇧 This is a perfect example of how the ‘bbc in Scotland’ twist their news reports to show negativity towards the SNP and Scottish independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎
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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Stop pretending the electoral commission sre going to do anything about reform. Just stick it on the enormous pile of British scandals, disasters, corruptions and fuck ups that have gone completely unpunished. And vote Plaid, Green or SNP.
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Excellent news as a new form of a checkpoint inhibitor drug to treat cancer enables the drug to be injected rather than intravenously infused ensuring the treatment is more accessible (as well as being very effective) for patients. 🧪
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Thousands of cancer patients in England to benefit from new immunotherapy jab
Injectable pembrolizumab can treat several types of cancer and can be administered in under two minutes
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 30/04/2026
We need independence because if Westminster can block even Scotland's bottle deposit scheme our other devolved choices on health, crime, NHS, etc, are living on borrowed time. #Scotland #SNP1SGP2 indyposterboy.scot/bottle-rocket/
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Bottle Rocket - Indy PosterBoy
Did you know that whilst Scotland’s bottle deposit scheme was blocked by Westminster, a similar scheme in Ireland has been a huge success with more than 1.2Bn
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AudibleSilence @audiblesilence1.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
👏👏👏 Great work by @ledbydonkeys.org
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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Eight prisoners die in cell-fires in England, none in Scotland after SNP implement wider ban on smoking
Thanks to Dottie for alerting me to this. In the Guardian today: Tens of thousands of prisoners in England and Wales at risk of cell fires – Earlier this week, the Guardian reported on the in…
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Great idea.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The Greens plan to put social media giants like X and Facebook on the same legal footing as all other publishers in order to regulate them using defamation laws. This is an important step forward. Everyone should back the move - even opponents of the Greens My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
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'Nobody with a brain goes to X seeking facts. X is for spreading disinformation'
The Greens want to make social media platforms subject to laws of defamation and libel just like publishers, newspapers and broadcasters. About…
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Unusual direction of travel but it does show what an independent Scotland would look like. People from right and left working towards building a better future for our country! Former leader of council Tory group confirms defection to SNP www.thenational.scot/news/2594371...
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Former Tory councillor confirms defection to SNP
The former leader of Midlothian Council’s Conservative group has confirmed he has joined the SNP after describing the UK union as ‘no longer…
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This is beautiful and as an Irishman it nearly made me cry. That the Mayor of New York understands more about the history, soul and experience of Ireland and the Irish than anyone I’ve ever met from England tells us everything we need to know about the history of these islands. Thank you, Zohran
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Believe in Scotland @believeinscotland.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
📣 We’re delighted to welcome the Yes Bikers as a participant. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland, will you march with us? 📅 28th March • 12:00pm • Parliament Square, High Street, Edinburgh.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Thousands more taxpayers are moving to Scotland from the rest of the UK every year than leaving, a stark change which is boosting Scotland’s tax base by hundreds of millions of pounds
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Five key points as new UK data debunks right-wing claims about tax in Scotland
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
97% of Britons work jobs which force them to pay all the tax they should. 3% of Britons who get 50% of the money can choose to dodge almost all the tax if they want. That 3% of tax dodging wankers is who Reform work for.
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This would be the same kind of grassroots impersonators as Offord’s ‘ Scotland no Borders’ which he funded and set up during the referendum which got heavily aired by the BBC. Fake organisations both funded by big money!
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
THE FERRET: Britain Remade is the apparently 'grassroots' group leading the push to overturn Scotland’s ban on nuclear power. But The Ferret has found that two of its directors come from a firm which lobbies for the UK’s biggest nuclear company
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Broadcasting Scotland @broadcastingscotland.scot · 15/03/2026
Join us midday for this week's #FullScottish with @islabarker.bsky.social and @lindafab.bsky.social discuss the week's top Scottish and international news. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/full-scottis...
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Full Scottish - 15/03/2026 - Broadcasting Scotland
On this week's Full Scottish, Isla Barker and Linda Fabiani discuss the week's top Scottish and international news.
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
All right everyone- save this quickly before they take it down! Scotland’s contribution to the U.K. exchequer is £204bn - from the U.K. government’s Scotland office! We are being robbed!
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
One of the striking things about packing up to move is how many boxes of documents I have pertaining to libel threats that were made and never came to court All the thousands of hours of my life wasted with dealing with it all And I’m far from the only one
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I’ve never started a petition but I’d like to launch one to stop this. How do I do that?
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Elon Musk’s Tesla given go-ahead to supply electricity in Great Britain
Ofgem licence means firm can replicate Texas setup of powering homes, businesses and EVs
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 12/03/2026
40% of musicians in the UK have lost work because of Brexit red tape, and UK artists have lost an average of £11,545 of income since the UK left the EU. European Movement UK are calling for a reciprocated agreement and a review of the 90/180 rule for artists and support workers working in the EU.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 11/03/2026
Analysis: Why clean energy will cut UK gas imports by (much) more than North Sea drilling The latest debate over new licenses has been lacking one key ingredient: Perspective Here's our take in chart form – and I'm happy to debate the numbers www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Daisy Dunne @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org · 12/03/2026
NEW: More North Sea drilling would do far less to reduce the UK's reliance on volatile gas imports than the continued expansion of renewables and clean tech Full analysis by me, @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social and @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org ⬇️ www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why...
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Dawn Robertson 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷 @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Scotland is 14th richest country in the world per GDP & has assets N of a trillion. This information from French TV & pointed out by (Wee G) Wake Up Scotland
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
It's genuinely hilarious to read the Telegraph's claim IPSO - by finding that they lied about foreign nationals on benefits - is threatening "free speech." This in the same week they were forced to admit that they had published a whole story about an entirely fictional family. archive.ph/CtClm
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Sharon Somerville #IAmAntifa @arcticlass.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Raging, so I am 😡🤬
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