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Garry Nicoll

@garryn.bsky.social
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿I would talk to the mirror if I wanted an echo chamber, want to hear different views but free speech has boundaries.

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Harry Scarfe 🎙️ @harryscarfe.bsky.social · 20h
We are coming together for what matters most: achieving change. By working together, we can strengthen the message, reach more people and make a greater impact. This is about collaboration and not competition. No self-interest. We’re stronger together. 🤝 #AutismAcceptance @bencanham.bsky.social
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Ben Canham @bencanham.bsky.social · 19h
There is power in standing together. One voice can be heard. But when people come together, those voices can become impossible to ignore. We all have different stories, different experiences and different challenges. But we don’t have to face them alone.
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
A genuine humanitarian. All those children. All those young refugees. Separated from their parents because the Daily Mail, politicians, and others in 1930s UK, refused refuge to their parents, thousands of whom died in the Holocaust.
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Alf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm so very sad to hear of the death of Esther Ranzen who played an important role in reuniting me with Nicky Winton - the man who saved my life. It's so desperately sad that she couldn't choose assisted dying as was her wish.
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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thinking about the impact of the triple lock on the state pension can be confusing as there's a number of interacting moving parts (earnings, inflation, 2.5%). 🤷‍♂️❓ But here's a visualisation that hopefully might help...1/5
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good morning & welcome to Whiskers Wednesday Never let an opportunity pass to tell someone they matter. You never know how much they might need to hear it that day. A little appreciation can brighten someone’s whole day.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also bizarre that the #BBC & ##Newsnight present the papers without ever calling the right-wing papers what they are: right-wing papers. Presenting them as somehow neutral judges.
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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 28/09/2026
I am a barrister who once spent time seconded to the CPS serious crimes unit making charging decisions. Today, you can pretend to be one too and work through the decision-making framework in a very serious case. The police have multiple suspects in custody and the phone just rang. 👨 👨 👨 👨 👨 📱 👮‍♀️ 🚨
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The hilarious truth from Denmark about the new Greenland deal with Trump! 😂 🇩🇰 🇬🇱
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Hoby @hobycartoons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Strictly
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Dr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And they thought Muslim women choosing to wear hijabs (headscarves) and niqabs (face veil) was a threat to British values lol
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Almost everything I write nowadays exists either in paid for print or behind a pay wall. I'm a writer and need to make a living out of it but for some reason people think that writers - and artists generally - unlike just about every other career should work for free ... it's slightly infuriating.
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Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New designs available in my @threadless.bsky.social shop 💝 lizclimo.threadless.com
Pomeranian dog wearing a pink cowboy hat is looking in a hand mirror. Text says “Find out who you are and do it on purpose -Dolly Parton”
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I only want to hear from Hampshire Police when they have nicked Danny Tommo and had him remanded in custody. There are so MANY criminal offences - including very serious ones- caught on video It would be utterly inexcusable not to act and charge him appropriately.
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Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
cryptids have entered the chat 🎃🖤
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21/09/2026
Liz Truss has received £319,925 in ‘public duty allowance’ since her exit from Downing Street, figures from the Cabinet Office annual reports show.
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👻BOOryan BlessDEAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x
The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Monday
Ruth Davidson on a bull buffalo
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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Which matters more - whether Trump says something disobliging about Burnham...or the Burnham government rolling out specialist courtrooms to tackle the appalling backlog in hearing rape cases? And which will get more coverage?
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Mike Batt @mikebatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A little conversation I had on Twitter 🙂
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 18/09/2026
Worried about AI Robots? All you need is more ram, and a dogged determination to overcome.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
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Sarah Millican @sarahmillican.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today is my 22nd comedy anniversary! Thank God for divorce. For writing. For laughing. For Kate Fox for getting me on a stage the first time. Thanks to everyone who has ever booked me, everyone who’s laughed, everyone who’s liked or commented or shared a clip, who’s bought a ticket… 1/2
I’m on stage at the Birmingham Glee club at their new material gig, Rough Works. I have short blonde hair and I’m wearing a black speckled dress. I’m holding notes and laughing.
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hello police? I'd like to report an assassination. Brutal 😂🤣😂
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Garry Nicoll @garryn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dragons Den is one of the few things I still watch on BBC. I know it's edited for dramatic effect but I can't help getting emotionally involved and I'm so happy for Bella tonight!
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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The thing is that parish councils do not have the power to call a vote on seceding from the UK. It's not a 'symbolic referendum', it's a dumb stunt and a waste of the precept.
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Scottish Construction Now @scottishconstructionnow.com · 15/09/2026
Aberdour’s Silver Sands now has enhanced facilities and better access to the beach for visitors following a £1.3 million transformation.
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£1.3m Silver Sands transformation in Aberdour reaches completion
Aberdour’s Silver Sands now has enhanced facilities and better access to the beach for visitors following a £1.3 million transformation.
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Stephen Boyd @stephenboydippr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
All the usual caveats regarding data quality but the significant fall in Scotland's 16-64 employment rate - and concomitant increase in unemployment - over the past year isn't great news. Employment rate now lower, and unemployment rate higher, than the UK
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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Good morning and welcome to Marvellous Marmalade Monday 🧡 If something brings you happiness, it’s never a waste of time. Fill your days with more of what makes you smile, because a positive life begins with the thoughts you choose to nurture
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Glen Darroch @glendarroch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
They aren't after justice, they're after revenge. And they will bleat on about cancel culture. www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/1681542...
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Ex-NHS boss who suspended Sandie Peggie rebrands as PERSONAL TRAINER
THE ex-NHS boss who oversaw the suspension of trans row nurse Sandie Peggie has rebranded herself as a personal trainer. Carol Potter – slammed for her “dire handling” of Ms Peggi…
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優noD🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 13/09/2026
I didn't realise that there was a consultation currently open regarding the implementation of the Scottish equivalent to the Passivhaus standard. It closes on 16 Oct. 👇 Building Regulations: The Scottish equivalent to the Passivhaus standard: Stage 2 consultation consult.gov.scot/local-govern...
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Building Regulations: The Scottish equivalent to the Passivhaus standard: Stage 2 - Scottish Government consultations - Citizen Space
Find and participate in consultations run by The Scottish Government
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The inside story of the ordinary men and women fighting the far right on the streets of Scotland While rightwing extremists dominate the news we never hear from the folk who are facing down fascism despite threats and violence To even the scales I tell their stories In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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'It beggars belief': The inside story of Scots fighting the far-right on the streets
With right-wing extremists dominating the news, our Writer at Large talks to the ordinary men and women standing up to racists and defending their…
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Ricky Gervais @mrrickygervais.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
28 years ago, I was made redundant and given a few grand. I decided that if I was careful, I could live off the money for 6 months trying to become a comedian before I had to get another job. I was 37. Worth a punt.
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Emathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.
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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 12/09/2026
Here it is: the Lite version of my New Municipalism project. There's an opportunity for local government reform that nobody expected, but it needs to be genuinely local and democratic. Informal and thus unaccountable regionalisation and mergers won't cut it. newmunicipalism.ballotbox.scot/lite
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NM Lite – New Municipalism Scotland
When I’ve published successive versions of New Municipalism, it’s always been with the understanding that I was presenting a somewhat utopian vision with little prospect of implementation. Wholesale…
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My 2008 essay that started it all (nice to see here; over on FB the AI clickbait spammy recaps of the story, sometimes with terrible AI photos, always with inaccuracies, circulate).
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Ben Canham @bencanham.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today on #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, I want anyone who is struggling to know that I understand. I know what it feels like to believe the pain will never end. Eight years ago, I couldn’t see past mine. Today, I’m grateful I stayed long enough to see what came next. 😊
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Mutuals from twitter times will remember my very dark yrs of Long Covid 😵‍💫 I lost so much, but found a wonderful silver lining to the dark cloud: I decided to use all the time in bed to v slowly write a book. It took 3yrs. I can't quite believe that tomorrow is publication day & Fri is book launch! 🥹
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 09/09/2026
Reform has a far too casual attitude to rules - “get a life” says Jenrick after protesters are assaulted at last weeks conference, women beaten with sticks, hair pulled and mouths covered by hands - just for speaking out, sounds like Afghanistan…..not Birmingham. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Nigel, the Met Police are at the front door"
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Why do they call it baby shampoo and not heir freshener
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Alan Davies @alandaviescomic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just another day at work….
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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Torridon, Highlands. Pic: IG/jasoncharleshill
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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Squirrel trouble.
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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
r/Edinburgh has been full of reports of a gang of teenagers harassing people in the city centre all summer, and I can’t decide what’s more depressing: the fact that the police don’t seem able or willing to stop them, or the dehumanising language people use to talk about them.
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