Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Stephen James @stephen5150.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Find the beauty anywhere you can. Let it sustain you for a day, an hour, even a minute. Because that's all we really have. 151185109
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Andrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 14/06/2025So let me get this right: the British Government wants to raise taxes and spend more on "defence" so it can send fighter jets to defend genocidal Middle Eastern governments when they preemptively attack their neighbours, and those neighbours retaliate? 811753
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦ShropshireGreenMan @shropshiregreenman.bsky.social · 14/06/2025BBC Newswatch desperately trying to justify their excessive exposure of ReformUK today, but every argument only supports the complaints. Of course, their support will grow if the other parties don't even get the airtime to promote their own policies! Absolutely outrageous bias from the BBC. 😡 731251361
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦RD @rylandawson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025By Israel logic; does this not give licence for EU & the UK to bomb indiscriminately into Tel Aviv to retrieve the hostages? 31178
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Which makes government’s refusal to even consider it all the more reckless @weownit.org.uk👇theguardian.comPublic ownership of England’s water companies could cost close to zero, says thinktankExclusive: Common Wealth report argues debt, pollution and underinvestment justify process known as special administration 327684
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 09/06/2025David Attenborough's #OceanFilm reminds us that our oceans are intricately connected to all life on Earth. As the final report of GCEW shows, we must govern the entire hydrological cycle—from oceans to soil—as a global common good. An economics of water must recognise these planetary connections.watercommission.orgThe Economics of Water - Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common GoodWater is essential for life. It moves in complex, often invisible ways, all around us. And this water is under threat. 1229
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Unless the most recent position updates were wrong (they won’t have been) I don’t believe Madleen could have reached Israeli waters by the time she was boarded. In which case this is an act of piracy on a British vessel. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk please raise in HoC and with PM directly. 386
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 09/06/2025Update from the Madleen Freedom Flotilla 151177460
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 09/06/2025#freedomflotilla #madleen #gaza #palestine #greta 0940475
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 07/06/2025They’re not behaving as if they’re in a four-year term. They’re behaving as if they’re in an everlasting dictatorship. Are we all clear on this? 563133903669
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Arcas De Disco @puckarks.bsky.social · 08/06/2025The new link to track Madleen. please circulate it all over the internet so ALL EYES stay on MADLEEN. live.garmin.com/session/b2e0...live.garmin.comJun 8, 2025 | LiveTrackLiveTrack creates a real-time view of your location during an activity, so friends and family can follow along. 0711
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Andrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 20/04/2025"It is down to Britain’s reliance on gas". Again, @theguardian.com , you mean England's reliance on gas. With Westminster setting prices for Scotland based on England's energy reliance, we pay far more than is necessary. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comWhy the UK’s electricity costs are so high – and what can be done about itFrom nationalising gas plants to boosting renewables, how soaring prices could be tackled 39251
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 20/04/2025A brand new piece on Starmer’s refusal to consider rejoining the EU and what MPs really think about this. /2 #TruthToPower @sussexbylines.co.uk sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/why...sussexbylines.co.ukWhy the ‘red lines’, Keir Starmer? We should rejoin the EU, say MPsDespite Trump's tariffs, No.10 is still opposed to joining a customs union 1117673
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Disgraceful 761091259
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Colin Dunn 🏴 @indyposterboy.scot · 17/04/2025Yup. Scotland produces the cheapest electricity in Europe, yet pays the very high electricity bills that the UK decides. Scotland is subsidising England's electricity bills. 0174
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Colin Dunn 🏴 @indyposterboy.scot · 17/04/2025A tactic used by unionists on twitter for many years, and now becoming much more common on BlueSky, is for them to tie up indy supporters in pointless hair-splitting arguments. It's a waste of our valuable campaigning time. Resist the impulse to do it. If you manage this, tell me how. 3912227
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Wow--the collapse of Europeans visiting the USA in one search. Mid June is usually one of the busiest and most expensive times of the year to travel from London to New York. I just went and did a search, and economy fares are widely available for fewer than £400. 3548079
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Les Blair @lesblair53.bsky.social · 17/04/2025#ScottishIndependence 16625
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 17/04/2025April 16, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comApril 16, 2025In El Salvador today, authorities denied Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) a meeting or a phone call with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the Trump regime sent by “administrative error” to the terrorist p... 431503437
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Repeated again as BBC Scotland link the privately-owned and neglected Ardrossan Harbour to the Scottish Government: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/11/w...talkingupscotlandtwo.comWhy should we, the Scottish taxpayer, pay for the upgrade to Ardrossan dock, fully owned and neglected by a Manchester billionaire tax exile ?The Ardrossan to Arran dock Image: secretlondon123, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order … 03920
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 16/04/2025Why are Cayman-registered companies getting UK farm subsidies? Norfolk’s biggest landowners include foreign billionaires exploiting loopholes while farmers lose their land. @owensennitt.bsky.social reports #FairFarmingeastangliabylines.co.ukThe super rich are “hoovering up” Norfolk landItalian counts, Dubai royals, and German heirs now own swathes of Norfolk. Family farms can’t compete 34627
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 17/04/2025You know the idea is good when you’ve finally gone to bed and you’re typing it on your phone in the dark at 4:30 am. Let’s hope the inspiration is still here in the morning. Er… later in the morning. 1446072272
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦The City of Edinburgh Council @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social · 15/04/2025The North Bridge’s cast iron façade is one of the most impressive elements of the Category A Listed Structure. These images show some of the expert work that we're carrying out to ensure that this piece of Edinburgh's heritage is preserved for future generations. 14910
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The US is now working with a dictatorship to kill Ukrainian civilians. It is a conscious enemy of freedom and democracy in Europe. Here is the conclusion of the piece. 8404133
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Hi All, just sent out this free piece. Trump is actively working with Putin to see Ukrainian civilians killed, some now and more in the future. He is depriving Ukraine of vital anti air defense, which the Ukrainians are willing to buy (helping the US economy) open.substack.com/pub/phillips...open.substack.comTrump Is Helping Putin Kill UkrainiansThe USA Is Running Down Ukrainian Air Defense in Coordination With Russia 381276546
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Chap from Energy UK on #Wato explaining that it's the price of wholesale gas which sets the wholesale electricity price. And we are uniquely vulnerable to shocks in the gas market. Montagu brings up the net zero canard, but Energy UK rejects this suggestion. Will Nick Robinson be listening? 2112
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Jess Ralston @jessralston.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Robinson isn't the only one to incorrectly blame net zero for steel industry chaos Lack of industrial strategy & high gas prices, which remain volatile, are the final straw Robinson should focus on these facts, not try to be sensationalist about new coal mines and score cheap headlines. 2144272
hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦 @hgs702.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Anyone still wondering whether to believe the “net zero is expensive” misinformation needs to read this series of rebuttals. 042
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Let’s GTF out of the (dis-)UK @rrdb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025@anassarwar.bsky.social @ianmurraymp.bsky.social what say you? 67529
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Aroh Wendelin @aroh-w.bsky.social · 14/04/2025No, no, it's resisting invasion that starts the war. And why were you invaded? Because you asked for it, by wearing those revealing clothes.. And if you hasn't resisted, it wouldn't be rape. 21323
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦herooftheday @heroftheday.bsky.social · 14/04/2025www.politico.com/magazine/sto...politico.comThe Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to MoscowIn 1987, a young real estate developer traveled to the Soviet Union. The KGB almost certainly made the trip happen. 68019
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Another court order that Trump is now openly defying. Republicans in Congress assured us repeatedly that Trump would never defy a court order. It is obvious that he simply doesn’t care though after the Supreme Court gave him immunity. 15540051250
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Wow. Harvard University says they will not comply with Trump’s demand to “audit” the viewpoints of their student body or else be defunded. More of this.bostonglobe.comHarvard says it will not yield to Trump’s demands - The Boston GlobeLawyers for Harvard University said Monday the school will not comply with a list of expanded demands from the Trump administration. 285104561807
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/04/2025There we go. Support this man. 985480829922
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Shortbreadfairy©️ @shortbreadfairy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025The Union Dividend for Scotland is 'jam tomorrow'whilst oor resources are plundered and extracted. Yet simultaneously, Scotland is undergoing a forced decline in what's left of oor industrial base whilst 'cables' & ships can at source carry away the 'goods' of Scotlands old & new Energy Revolution 1135
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Chasbell 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Just like Farage in Little England. 410541
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 14/04/2025russia invaded Ukraine. Twice. russia launches missiles at Ukrainian cities. Daily. russia murders, tortures and kidnaps Ukrainians. Hourly. Unprovoked and unjustified. Stand with the victim, blame the aggressor. We are stronger when united. #StandWithUkraine 151222356
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Trump to Bukele on Salvadoran concentration camps: “Home-growns are next. You’re going to have to build about five more places.” 1271520765
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025A PDF of the study is also available on Congress' website at this link: docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/... The point isn't that these studies are no longer available anywhere. It's that the Trump administration is trying to hide them. This is knowledge you ought to have and share widely. (4)docs.house.gov 8673202
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social · 14/04/2025🧵 Let's talk about hunger in the UK. Parents are skipping meals so their kids can eat. People are frightened about rising energy bills. We've even heard from people who are surviving on sugary tea for days because they don't have enough money for food. This isn't right. 1121584
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Michael de Podesta @protons4b.bsky.social · 14/04/2025protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/t... I used a model by @daanwalt3r.bsky.social (Daan Walters) to investigate how the cost of 1 GW of firm electricity varies in a plant with various combinations of gas, solar PV and batteries. Adding Solar PV makes electricity cheaper!protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.comThe cost of electricity: a modelFriends, the other day I came across an interesting article by Daan Walter: Renewables allow us to pay less, not twice. What Kemi Badenoch, and many others, get wrong about renewables. The article … 183
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦The SNP @snp.org · 14/04/2025If Labour at Westminster can nationalise British Steel, why not the same for Grangemouth? If it can fund London’s supercomputer, it can reinstate Edinburgh’s. If it green-lights carbon capture in England, the north-east of Scotland must follow. Scotland’s people deserve better. 23252117
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Andrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 14/04/2025Scotland’s people deserve better. 🏴|🇪🇺 #ScottishIndependence 02818
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 13/04/2025World leaders have responded to russia's brutal attack on Sumy, condemning the aggressive act, expressing their condolences, and calling for increased pressure on the terrorist state. We thank them for their support. #StandWithUkraine 711226301
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Wullie @wullieforindy.bsky.social · 13/04/2025NHS for sale in 🏴 If Labour get their way in 🏴 next year the same will happen, guaranteed. Another reason not to vote for them.. 31712
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Don't visit the USA, don't buy from the USA, they have no respect for anyone, lets have no respect for them until they get rid of that orange moron. 61717174
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/04/2025It's a straightforward relationship: high #inequality leads to the triumph of the far right. It will keep winning until governments deliberately seek to make societies more equal. I'm looking at you, Keir Starmer. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comRightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George MonbiotEconomic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 882622901
Reposted by hgs702 🏴🇪🇺🇨🇦Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 13/04/2025Forget about the legal case. A man was wrongly deported and placed in a notorious prison with leaders of a gang out to get him. Anyone with an ounce of basic human decency would fix the mistake and return that man to the United States 864149573563
