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@galleristocrat.bsky.social
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Recovering bookseller. Boats, Books, Battlestar Galactica. Scotland my home. Opinions my own.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is short essay contains important lessons. It is not enough to position ourselves. We should be actively confronting power. simonpearson1.substack.com/p/the-left-t...
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The Left That Talks to Itself
A Green Party victory statement shows how easily solidarity becomes political subculture when class, ownership and material power disappear from view.
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 10/06/2026
There are, in my view, 25 things everyone needs to understand in light of recent events: 1) Those out in our communities last night were not protestors, but organised far right extremists. 2) Their actions align with fascist ideologies. 3) So yes: these are fascist practices on our streets. 🧵
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Without stating your age, post your favourite film released the year you turned 18.
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Hey @jamiesmart.bsky.social - son Sandy has requested a Bunny vs Monkey card game please (he says he has a few ideas if you're stuck 😂😎)
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Hey! @jamiesmart.bsky.social - thanks for inspiring my 8yo this morning!
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Share an actor who nailed a role so hard that nobody else will ever be able to live up to it...
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a man with long hair and a beard is holding a flag that says ' freedom ' on it
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is holding a flag that says ' freedom ' on it
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This is inhumane and utterly disgraceful. The Nasty Party should be ashamed of it. British citizens being stripped of legal status and denied the social safety net. This is simply a racist way to disempower the poor and impoverish the working classes. It's a wedge and we'll all be next. ✊
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I've written to my (Labour) MP asking them to pressure the UK Government to leave X and insist that associated & funded organisations also leave. This hateful bs from Musk is completely unacceptable.
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Geographically, I wonder if the people of England know what shape their country is?! Only 53% of this illustration is England...
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Good to see today’s Guardian Editorial mention my story that women will lose out under the new PIP rules. If a system leaves women sitting in her bloodied underwear because she can no longer pay the care worker that used to help her get to the toilet, it is one no MP should be backing.
Higher thresholds for personal independence payments, which are expected to save £5bn and reduce claims by around 800,000 by 2030, are causing panic in vulnerable households. Among the latest warnings is one from charities that disabled women will lose out due to their higher personal care needs, including coping with menstruation, not being taken into account. Yet so far, the only concession from ministers has been an extension in the transition period for those losing benefits.
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Apart from being an inhuman policy, it fails to take into account employer attitudes to disability. Disabled people are often seen as an absence 'risk', especially by SMEs, so work prospects are lower than average. Disabled people want to work but the social security cliff-edge is a real problem.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 23/06/2025
Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
As Trump pulls the plug on free trade with Africa, China has stepped in with an offer of zero tariffs on trade with 53 African states. It's the latest example of China taking advantage of the US retreat from the Global South. Meanwhile, where's Europe? My latest (plus other good stuff...)
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Dire Straits
Thoughts on the economics of America's new Middle East war, what Pedro Sanchez gets right on NATO, why the West is being shut out of Africa, Brexit's 9th anniversary an Iranian history lessons
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
WTAF @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Utterly inhumane. Nobody voted for you with this horror in mind.
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Dangerous stuff and part of a pattern now. Not even showing basic regard to legal rights.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Lay the proud usurper low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! - Robbie Burns
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John Vibes @johnvibes.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I'll be using this a lot! From the strategic consultation to my 7yo son's breakfast : 'it lacks a level of sophistication' 😂 The shade!
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🔴The 'Gag Order': Trump Comes to Bury Free Speech, Not Defend It The most sinister instances of censorship and repression are happening in America right here, right now, says @alexhh.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/03/17/t...
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The 'Gag Order': Trump Comes to Bury Free Speech, Not Defend It
The most sinister instances of censorship and repression are happening in America right here, right now
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type. snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...
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The evil at your door
The deportation action as regime change
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The Times is free this weekend. Some good stuff, but also an interview with Farage (inc. technically great but ghastly portrait photo with union jack socks) and in-depth feature on Queen Camilla, plus an article about a family that has 'three properties but still feels poor'. Subscribe? No thanks.
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Subsidy junkies! '10% of lords made over half of all debate contributions. Removing the quietest half of peers would [...] reduce the allowances and expenses bill by 28% 😮 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Silent minority: 15 peers claimed £585k while not speaking in a single Lords debate
Analysis shows 10% of peers make half of all contributions to debates while others claim allowances but say nothing
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
In this current harsh world, let's warm a few hearts remembering the events of 7-8 March 1991, when the 90,000 people of Brindisi woke up to find 25,000 Albanians roaming the streets of their town. For perspective, that's roughly equivalent to 25k people suddenly landing in Hastings [Thread] >> 1
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A cartoon for #worldbookday (coming on Thursday 6th) for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
A small girl wearing a rabbit costume and blue coat carries a book as she walks to school. 

Her mother (head out of shot) wheels her baby brother along in a pushchair. 

The baby says "Peter Rabbit may be the 'Hero' of the story, but surely the obedient, widowed Mrs Rabbit is a more effective symbol of the oppression inherent within Mister McGregor's regime"

The girls looks furious and snaps "Mum!! He's critiquing my world book day costume from a marxist perspective again!"
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"Do the Shake n' Vac and put the freshness back"
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Who does this serve? Not justice, not taxpayers, not the prison service, and surely not the government? It's inhumane. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found
Exclusive: Gaie Delap told she will have to serve 20 more days that correspond to period of time at home after recall
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17/01/2025
Donald Tusk: "I am aware this is a dream: that instead of a #Brexit, we will have a #Breturn. Perhaps I am labouring under an illusion. But I'd rather be an optimist and harbour these dreams in my heart. Sometimes they come true in politics." ~AA
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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
The Barras Market is a hybrid of historic attraction and functioning market. While it's got a new lease of life, there's a whole generation of old school traders slowly fading away. Which is why photographer Stuart Edwards set out to capture them. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/the-barras-m...
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Photographing a disappearing generation of Glasgow market traders
Stuart Edwards is on a mission to capture the Barras
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
THE TOP 50 GUARDIAN HEADLINES 2024 - RANKED! part 2, 25-1 25. Let's call war what it really is - an egregious sad-choice macro-aggression 24. Curate yourself into an insufferable yet adorable niche expert in 100 days 23. As baby pygmy hippo crypto fades, tradwife memecoin is a mindful snap
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
THE TOP 50 GUARDIAN HEADLINES 2024 - RANKED! part 1, 50-26 50. How I turned my gap year into an ethical-criminal "dementerprise" 49. Could Trump's war on NATO's "Axis of Woke" save the marmoset? 48. Microdosed and hairless in the bath, I sang old CND protest songs
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
If, like me, you’re worried about the role of money in British politics and the threat of foreign influence, do take Democracy for Sale’s survey on this Only take a few minutes and really useful to have data to back up public concern about this. Thanks! democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard
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Democracy For Sale - Safeguard Democracy
A survey to make a people-powered plan to safeguard Britain's democracy from leading investigative journalists who write about lobbying and dark money
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
'the shooting [...] was reported by a second grader, who would generally be 7 or 8 years old' - this actually makes me feel a bit sick tbh. As does yet another school shooting. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Three dead in Wisconsin Christian school shooting, including teen suspect
Shooter killed teacher and teenage student, with six others wounded in attack at Abundant Life Christian, say police
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All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.com · 16/12/2024
LOTR: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING was released 23 years ago today. An adaptation of Tolkien’s classic novel, and the first entry in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the story of how it was made is proof that one does not simply walk into Mordor… 1/76
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Including students in immigration numbers is ridiculous. They're here for a ltd time due to our hugely successful universities, they're economically essential and instrumental in our future R&D and international relations. We might as well include tourists. This thread is great... 👇
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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🚨 Big day for The Bell: we've launched paying subs! To ease you in, we're kicking off with a special 20% discount which works out at just over £1.79 a week. Members get all four editions (yes, four!), plus access to exclusive events & more. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/your-time-ha...
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Your time has come
Join up as a paying member of The Bell
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Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I’m in a queue at an airport so I thought I’d kill time by signing up to this. I hope it’s more successful than my experiment with Threads a while back…
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Gotta hand it to ol' Dunty. He nails the blue bird to the wall as it squawks its last mainstream warble. Excellent, considered work @iandunt.bsky.social 😃
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Never mind the amazing #catsofbluesky - the Glasgow Penguins have arrived! Huzzah! #Glasgow #Scotland
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
To all the newly-arrived Twitter refugees, I've created a starter pack of UK political journalists, experts, commentators and politicos to follow here go.bsky.app/2CwmVfN
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Sharing this terrible advert in case anyone is disorientated that nothing here is clogging up their feed. I can do some Temu ads later if everyone wants? #yourewelcome
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Apropos of nothing, here's a nice picture of the sky over #Aberdeen last week. Taken from the Art Gallery cafe terrace. You should visit! #Scotland
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MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
By January I'll have left the charred remains of Twitter. I support free speech and robust debate but now 'X' has neither thanks to blue ticks, AI replies, OF accounts, cheap ads, wall-to-wall bots and the godforsaken algorithm. I will not support Musk or Trump by association so here I am #MyTedTalk
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Joshua Libling @jjl.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I found this helpful. It's a searchable list of starter packs. blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A foggy morning on Argyle Street in the West End of Glasgow. #glasgow #argylestreet #glasgowtoday #glasgowweather #fog #autumnmist
Looking along a street lined with sandstone tenements, which disappear into rhe fog in the distance.
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