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Harry Rafferty

@hariborafferty.bsky.social
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Supermarket drudger, fan of Aberdeen, Stranraer and rabbits, vegan ecosocialist do-gooder, Scottish Green, he/him

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 4h
According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼
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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Edinburgh and surrounding areas cinemas. From the 1970 Edinburgh telephone directory. Pic: The Edinburgh Gig Archive
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her. RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.
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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I just bunged them a small, one-off donation. I think it's not just the money they could use right now but the love. rnli.org
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RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Nazi Mosley blackshirts, then and now.. If we don't crush fascists and nazis, they'll just raise their evil heads again and again
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Lucy ⟭⟬⁷🎤🎸🏴🌱🛸🔮 @kafkanlevity.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Are you gonna marry a carrot, Lisa!? Are you gonna marry a carrot!?" So fucking insecure and emotional, JFC, calm ur tits.... If Vegans can process the guilt of being brainwashed into thoughtless complicity with an atrocity and then refusing to engage in that atrocity any further, so TF can you.
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 27/08/2026
The SNP have long promised a ban on cruel conversion practices, but time and again they have delayed. We can't wait for, or trust Westminster to deliver a watertight ban on these abusive practices; we need a Scotland-specific ban now.
Ban Conversion Practices
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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 18/08/2026
I know I keep going on about this but it is deeply, deeply abnormal for a western European centre-left party to be so institutionally transphobic as to be presiding over the attempted elimination of trans people from public life, and thank goodness at least one of their MSPs is aware of that.
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Stranraer FC @stranraerfc.org · 18/08/2026
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 🤝 🆚 The Spartans 👶🏻 Youngest outfield player: 18 👴🏻 Oldest outfield player: 24 🎯 Goalscorer’s age: 23 👦🏻 Players used aged 21 & under: 7 ⌚️ Minutes for players 21 & under: 475 📊 Average age of starting XI: 21 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 💡
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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Isn't Zack Polanski a UK citizen and Israel a foreign state committing genocide and war crimes? How does his opposing such crimes make him a traitor? What do you want him to do? Shoot babies in the head and burn patients alive in a makeshift hospital then brag about it? Would that satisfy you?
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
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fraz44.bsky.social @fraz44.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Saw this peach on Facebook a few years ago
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
They’re literally rewarding Israel for destroying Gaza
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Are you even a vegan if you haven't been to the island? 🏝 🎨 VeganSideKick
A black-and-white comic by Vegan Sidekick. In the first panel, a person lies in bed saying, “From tomorrow morning, I’m going to go vegan. I have made up my mind.” In the second panel, they wake up to find themselves on a deserted island surrounded by a pig, cow, chicken, and sheep, saying, “Shit. I was worried this might happen.” The comic humorously mocks the cliché “what if you were stuck on a desert island” argument used against veganism.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Pro-Palestine protesters, who sprayed red paint and broke some windows, are about to be sentenced as *terrorists*. Neither they nor the jurors were told of this possibility during their trial for criminal damage. So they were unable to defend themselves against this far more serious charge.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Black kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE
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Football Action Network @footballactionnetwork.com · 20/07/2026
😤 Need to let off steam? Have your say on everything you didn't love about the #WorldCup in the Football Action Network survey! ➡️ forms.cloud.microsoft/e/r52HBVw8vW We'll share the findings soon... #WC2026 #WorldCupFinal #FIFA #FIFAWorldCup #Infantino #HydrationBreak
Picture of Infantino and Trump, sideways on, grinning and shaking hands

Text reads: LOVED THE HYDRATION BREAK, GUYS.

Beg to differ? Share your thoughts on the FIFA World Cup in the Football Action Network survey.
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 22/07/2026
Failed politicians shouldn't become unelected, unaccountable law makers for the rest of their lives. This is a fundamental principle of democracy. The House of Lords is a relic long past its sell by date.
Abolish the Lords. The words are over an image of Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar.
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Atari Amstradsen @amstradsen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Why was Ann Widdecombe not charged for a number of offensive comments?
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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“While he carried a fearsome reputation as Führer of the Third Reich, whose policies were not to everyone’s liking, Herr Hitler the man was personally kind: a dog lover with an artistic sensibility.” [British centrist] “Very nuanced obituary here, something we need more of in these divisive times.”
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
One of the best ideas Ralph Nader ever had is the concept of a corporate death penalty. At some point when a company has so rotted out society we should have an option to just kill the whole thing. Hi Meta/Facebook.
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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I don't cover USA (UK politics is horrifying enough), but this guy should have been booted months ago when he said that he found it "fun" to slaughter people of colour
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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Tenement housing, Spa Street, Aberdeen. (1965) Pic: Douglas Campbell
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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I voted for you. I won't be again. Your attacks on net zero disgust me. And if you are rightly drawing attention to rising work place temperatures, why are you sabotaging efforts to cut climate change emissions.
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 01/07/2026
Scotland should not allow war criminals or fascists to profit from our land or our people. It's time to seize Trump's golf courses.
An image of Donald Trump and a golf ball.
Text reads: Seize his courses.
Scottish Greens.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 01/07/2026
Analysis: UK newspapers have already printed 63 editorials in 2026 backing North Sea drilling ✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/TlR4Ovg
Cumulative number of UK newspaper editorials supporting more fossil-fuel extraction in the North Sea in 2025 (blue) and January-June 2026 (red). Source: Carbon Brief analysis.
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man" - Mahatma Gandhi 🐷
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Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🤨 Mmhhmmm When someone tells you who they are, believe them
Screenshot of a post from bluesky 

Photo of politician kate forbes speaking 

"Kate Forbes has shared a stage with hard-right politicians and influencers at an 'anti-woke' conference in London.

The former SNP deputy first minister spoke at the event co-founded by Jordan Peterson and attended by far-right European parties"
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Heatwaves are no mystery. It is what happens when societies keep protecting the industries destroying the conditions life depends on. Animal agriculture is one of them. Stop funding it.
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The UK Is Burning For Burgers
When red heat-health alerts are issued across large parts of the country, we are no longer talking about “nice weather.” We are talking about a public health threat.
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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 22/06/2026
Decided to write to Heir Harmer one final letter after he announced his resignation
Dear Keir,

I was sorry to hear of your resignation as Prime Minister. Not because I wanted you to remain in office, obviously. That would be a strange hobby, akin to collecting wasps or voluntarily doing EHRC consultations.

Still, it feels only right to write to you as one of the trans women your government spent several years treating as a constitutional emergency. We have, after all, shared a relationship of sorts. You attempted to erase me from public life, and I stubbornly continued existing, which must have been enormously frustrating.

When you first became Labour leader, many of us made the mistake of assuming you possessed political principles. This now feels rather like buying a ticket for a train that turns out to be a bus, except the bus is on fire and is being driven by a chimpanzee.

Your government discovered a remarkable political strategy: identify one of the smallest, least powerful minorities in the country, blame them for absolutely everything, and then act surprised when none of the country's actual problems disappear. The NHS remained broken. Housing remained unaffordable. Public services continued to collapse. Rivers still contained more sewage than fish. Yet somewhere in Whitehall, somebody was apparently convinced that the real barrier to national renewal was me quietly trying to buy shampoo.

I particularly admired the constant insistence that none of this was about trans people. Restricting our healthcare was not about trans people. Restricting our rights was not about trans people. Removing us from public life was not about trans people. It was an impressive achievement in political communication, rather like insisting that rain is not about getting wet.

You spent years assuring the public that trans women represented a danger to women, despite the complete absence of evidence that people like me posed any threat whatsoever...Meanwhile, the actual violence women experience remained stubbornly committed by the same men it has always been committed by. Hell you even hired some of them. Somehow, however, I became the problem because I have the audacity to want to take a piss in peace.

The strange thing about being the target of a moral panic is that one eventually develops a certain affection for one's own resilience. Every newspaper column predicting my disappearance merely confirmed that I was still here. Every speech about "common sense" served mainly to demonstrate how uncommon it had become. Every attempt to legislate me out of existence required first acknowledging that I exist.

This must have been tremendously irritating.

Your political career increasingly resembled a man attempting to extinguish a fire by pouring petrol on it while insisting that he was merely asking difficult questions. The result was neither clarity, nor public confidence, nor social cohesion. It was simply a great deal of cruelty dressed up as moderation.

The irony, of course, is that governments come and go. Prime ministers resign. Cabinet ministers vanish into consultancy firms...

Trans people remain.

We remained before your government. We remained during it. We will remain long after your speeches have been archived and your former colleagues have started appearing on panel shows explaining why they privately disagreed with everything all along.

You attempted to make my existence negotiable. Unfortunately for you, I never signed the contract.

So enjoy your retirement. Take up gardening. Learn pottery. Perhaps finally visit one of these women's toilets that apparently determined the fate of the nation, because after years of hearing about them, I assume they must contain either the Ark of the Covenant or the Crown Jewels.

As for me, I intend to continue doing the one thing your politics could never quite account for: existing.

Yours sincerely,

A trans woman who declined to comply with the bullshit
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21/06/2026
One the one hand, we should be nicer to people. On the other, Keir Starmer's government has banned me from public toilets.
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 22/06/2026
Burnham has refused to call the horrific war crimes in Gaza a genocide, and he has promised to build heinous Trump-style immigration detention camps. This is not a man who will deliver change, it's just more of the same from a failed Labour Party. It's time for real change.
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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Sharon Graham is up for re-election, hope she loses! #ClimateChange #BurningPlanet
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Prof Stephen Whittle @profstephenwhittle.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
As a matter of URGENCY, PLEASE could 100,000 of you sign this petition in the next week: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
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Petition: Disapprove the draft Equality Act 2010 guidance laid on 21 May 2026
I want the House of Commons to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations, 2026 laid on 21 May 2026.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
What you have to understand is that for Starmer's team, the right is not the enemy. The left is. Its driving mission, from the moment Starmer took over, was to stamp out first the Labour left, then the wider left. It hates us, deeply and viscerally, with a passion never directed at the right.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Meanwhile, not one of the groups so far known to have been orchestrating the violence in Belfast and Southampton has been banned as a terrorist organisation.
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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The horrific sentences handed to the Filton 4 (8, 6 and 5 years) are gut-wrenching injustices; the reaction of a fascist regime determined to stamp out all dissent and exert control over a population that increasingly refuses to let genocide take place in our name Free them ALL
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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Aberdeen Station platform indicator board. (1982) Pic: David Christie
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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“We have many migrants who make a deeply valuable contribution to our country, including in our healthcare & hospitality sectors. We don't want this to be used to divide people/fuel hostility." Why is it being left to affected families to say this while politicians talk about "legitimate concerns"?
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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Kittybrewster railway station, Aberdeen. Recommended for closure by Dr Beeching's report 'The Reshaping of British Railways' and closed on 6 May 1968. Pic: David Lauder
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If you go around claiming humans need to eat animals to survive you have zero right to be mad at climate deniers or laugh at flat earthers, you're in the same category.
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Free range German shepherd anyone? #EndSpeciesism
A screenshot of text discussing the inconsistency in attitudes towards animal slaughter. It questions why anti-Yulin and anti-dog meat campaigns do not advocate for "humane" slaughter, "organic" dog meat, or "free range certified" dog meat, and why celebrities do not call for better treatment of dogs used for meat. Instead, such campaigns demand the complete abolition of the dog meat industry. The text contrasts this with the widespread acceptance of terms like "happy beef," "humane pork," and "free range chickens" in Western societies, highlighting the lack of similar outrage or calls for abolition in the treatment of other animals used for meat.
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 02/06/2026
When we say they are coming for everyone's rights, we mean it. This was not hyperbole. The systems you think protect everyone only exist until we are inconvenient.
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Guy Ingerson @guyingerson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Aberdeen is getting hit with job cuts across the board. Oil & gas is in terminal decline, college and uni cuts limit transition opportunities, and our media is becoming further centralised in Glasgow and, to a lesser extent, Edinburgh. This is not just or sustainable. Where is the action plan?
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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
George Street, Aberdeen in 1959.
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Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌍 @foescot.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
1/ A new report has put a number on what Reform UK's climate policy rollback would actually cost: nearly 500,000 jobs destroyed within 3 years. That's comparable to almost every teacher in the UK losing their job. Here's what the research with @oilchange.org found 👇
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 24/05/2026
Trade Unions should put their money where their mouth is and sue the British Government over the unworkable EHRC guidance. Guidance that will be devastating for the workers' they represent and especially the small businesses who employ them. Force Labour to legislate to fix it.
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Ripperley @ripperley.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Congratulations to @houstinium.bsky.social on winning the selection vote to represent @scottishgreens.org in the upcoming Aberdeen South by-election! Think @scottishgreens.org messed up the announcement email though, they listed Jorg who you beat in the democratic vote in the email instead of you?
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