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Only six words between "ludicrous accusations of antisemitism" and describing right wing media as "Britain's slaves of Israel". The right wing media aren't horrible because they are controlled by Israel [read: Jews]. (The rw media is evil, so it chooses to defend the worst actions of Israel)

Screenshot of a skeet dated 2026-10-05, by @george-t-truth2.bsky.social:

Instead of indulging in ludicrous accusations of antisemitism against the Green Party, why don't Britain's slaves of Israel at #gbnews, #talktv and #lbc engage in the intellectual argument about whether Zionism is racism or not?

An attempt to shutdown argument is pure cowardice

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 30/09/2026

Stop, I can only get so hard. 🇪🇺 FBPE 🇪🇺

Headline: Brexit referendum 'possible' in Labour election manifesto, says Burnham

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 19/09/2026

lol, we know our cat hunts mice, not birds, because he brings the mice inside and yowls because he's very proud of himself. (I wish he would eat them instead of leaving us dead mice as an offering.)

Screenshot of a skeet against letting cats go outdoors:

These people who allow their cats or force their cats to survive outdoors will be certain to tell you that they feed on mice. Bullshit.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 17/09/2026

Admittedly a funny paragraph.

In it, he criticised Anthropic for teaching its AI to have human-like qualities, a practice known as anthropomorphising [...]

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 17/09/2026

The computer is not sentient. LLM proponents want to use 150% of all electricity, but these are human decisions.

That would mean “essentjsllunseerinf a new silicon species”, he said, which could “no doubt compete with us for resources, no matter how much it cares about humanity and loves us”.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 14/09/2026

Yeah? OK, sure, all right, what, WHAT?

Screenshot of a paragraph from Wikipedia:

Human studies have shown that sweet taste receptors are not only found in the tongue, but also in the lining of the gastrointestinal tract as well as the nasal epithelium, pancreatic islet cells, sperm and testes.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 08/09/2026

I believe in territorial integrity but imho this was surprisingly positive about Iran

Skeet by Stats for Lefties, dated 17 June 2026:

🫡Glory to the Iranian resistance, whose courageous fight against the imperialist dogs of the USA has utterly humiliated the Great Satan✊

Inshallah Iran will fully repel US imperialism, Palestine will be freed from the bloodthirsty Zionist entity and Israel will be abolished✊

[picture of Iranian flag]

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 02/09/2026

The Royal Mail was such a British institution that there was this limitation in the 1914 Irish Home Rule Act!

(8) Any postal services and the rates of charge therefor (except postal communication between one place in Ireland and another such place, and any other postal service which is executed completely in Ireland); designs for stamps, whether for postal or revenue purposes; or

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 01/09/2026

Feel like pure shit just want her back x

Administrative map of Scotland, from 1975 until 1996.

There are two layers of councils. There are regional councils: Highland, Grampian, Tayside, Fife, Borders, Central, Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway.

Then there are district councils. For example, Central region contains Clackmannan, Stirling, and Falkirk district councils. Strathclyde region is infamously huge, consisting of 19 district councils.

The two layers of government have distinct responsibilities.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 31/08/2026

Using my Tofu Contaminator I will contaminate all the tofu in the tri-state area!

Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz from the cartoon Phineas and Ferb. He is standing next to an evil machine (an “inator”) and gleefully explaining its purpose.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 30/08/2026

I eagerly await the end of the Scottish Labour Party.

Headline: Scottish labour leadership contenders back North Sea drilling approval

Subtitle: The two candidates in the Scottish Labour leadership race have called for new drilling licences in the North Sea to be approved "as soon as possible".

[Photograph of Michael Marra and Joe Fagan]

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 23/08/2026

It was so good. I had to take a bite before photographing it.

A delicious crispy waffle on a plate. The waffle is covered in cream cheese, smoked salmon, lemon juice, black pepper and dill.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 18/08/2026

Pleasantly surprised this didn’t mean 24 hours cumulative total, and then you’re done.

BBC headline: Disabled people in England to get 24-hour free bus travel

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 12/08/2026

Birds going wild about 10 minutes before totality.

Wide picture of the sky. In the top left a solar eclipse approaches totality. A bird flys in front of too many clouds. In this light the bird is a black silhouette.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 28/07/2026

OK, but best joke of the Fringe goes to Joe Fagan, the newest candidate for Scottish Labour leader. (Are the lessons Scottish Labour learnt from losing in the room with us just now?)

Setting out his case for the leadership, Fagan said: "Scottish labour needs to learn lessons from where we have won, not just where we have lost."

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 22/07/2026

However, I appreciate this acknowledgement that Scotland is not in the UK.

Now, after nearly a decade in Holyrood, he is set to return to UK politics, not to the familiar House of Commons chamber, but next door to the House of Lords where he will be given a grand title and a ministerial role.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 22/07/2026

Incredible bio from the Beeb on Anas Sarwar. You could read it and think he won the 2021 Holyrood election. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The top job came up again in 2021, less than three months before the Holyrood election which he won.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 22/07/2026

But some of those who work forces Are the same that burn crosses?

Headline: Police station opens at Hitler's birthplace in bid to rid site of Nazi link

Photograph: two police officers outside a police station. A sign on the wall says "Polizei".

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 21/07/2026

Monica Lennon would be a improvement over Anas Sarwar. Nonetheless we should not forget she still ran on the Scottish Labour trans segregation manifesto.

Sarwar resigning from Holyrood will mean that the left-wing candidate he defeated in the previous Scottish Labour leadership election, Monica Lennon, automatically becomes an MSP on the Glasgow list.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 20/07/2026

some numpty has cut off the attribution, but this looks pertinent

climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 04/07/2026

Counterpoint: Glasgow Styles Better

A snippet from The Herald.

At the top is a photograph of somebody putting a traffic cone on a statute.

Below, the headline: ’Overplayed, tired, and twee’: It’s time to put down our traffic cones for good.

Author: Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 30/06/2026

I was browsing the Falkirk planning application page and

Heading: Building Standards
Email address: bdsm@falkirk.gov.uk

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 29/06/2026

You could complete two whole five year missions in that time.

The Enterprise (USS Enterprise NCC-1701) from the Star Trek (The Original Series) opening credits

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 28/06/2026

revised advertising campaign

Paint brushes in a glass jar.
The jar is labelled “not milk?” but is filled with a milky colour liquid.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 26/06/2026

“I want to take him with my own eyes.” Wow, Voyager was almost as sexy as Heated Rivalry.

Two Hirogen hunters with guns, wearing armour.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 26/06/2026

In maths, the Twin Prime Conjecture hypothesizes there are infinitely many pairs of primes separated by two (twin primes).

Screenshot of a skeet by Sooz Kempner:

My age when every time we got a new Prime Minister:

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 24/06/2026

🤔 But my journey started inside the European Union and I have nothing to declare.

Customs sign at the airport, explaining the lane to take.

1. Text on red background: Customs enquiries, Goods to declare.

If you have goods to declare or a customs enquiry.

2. Text on green background: Nothing to declare.

If your journey started outside the European Union and you have nothing to declare.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 22/06/2026

Did not know that the Belgians made Buckfast

Advert. Picture of a monk drinking beer from a glass.

Title: Brewed by monks.

Belgians take pride in their rich beer culture, with monk-brewed varieties adding tradition and craft.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 20/06/2026

The original french title for A Decent Man (2005) is more evocative. The literal translation: I Am Not A Bastard.

Movie poster. A picture of a grumpy character called Eddie.

Title in large capital yellow text: Je Ne Suis Pas Un Salaud

Starring: Nicolas Duvauchelle, Melanie Thierry. A film by: Emmanuel Finkiel.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 19/06/2026

I think it's unfair that Labour members will use the Single Transferrable Vote (STV) to elect Andy Burnham, despite electoral reform never having been part of a general election manifesto.

A diagram from the BBC titled “How would a Labour leadership contest work”.

Labour Party members and affiliate members vote, ranking candidates in order of preferences. Lower scoring candidates are eliminated, and preferences redistributed, until a candidate wins by having a majority. (This is STV with one winner).

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 12/06/2026

They should give Doctor Who to whoever came up with the Inspector Spacetime parody for Community

A black and white picture of the original Inspector Spacetime, and his assistant. They are in front of a telephone box.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 09/06/2026

There was incredible both sidesing from the BBC: “There were scenes of disorder in and around George Square on 19 September as rival supporters of the union and independence gathered in the city.”

Reuters photo of rioting in George Square, just after the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Police attempt to contain a dangerous crowd who are setting off fireworks. The same rioters are proudly waving giant Union Flags.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 01/06/2026

Glad to hear this from the LGBTIQA+ Greens. A year ago the weaker leadership candidates made this pledge. Time for the winner and losers of that campaign to step up, inside Westminster.

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In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling, to work with LGBTIQA+ Greens and wider queer society, organisations and allies to campaign to protect previously established trans rights and for any changes to legislation which might be needed to ensure this protection.

Ellie Chowns & Adrian Ramsay replied'

“Yes. We are concerned that the Supreme Court ruling is being interpreted – by the EHRC, in particular – in an insensitive and over-reaching way that impacts on the dignity and rights of trans people, and that has created real problems for many service providers. We would want to work with LGBTIQA+ Greens and other relevant organisations to stop this leading to the erosion of trans rights.”

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