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Janice 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Nana, book lover, birdwatcher, tennis geek. I still believe Scotland should be an independent country.

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jhd1591.bsky.social @jhd1591.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
www.believeinscotland.org/end_scotland...
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End Scotland's Energy Bill Rip-Off
Take action: End Scotland's Energy Bill Rip-Off
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Every one of these lives mattered but to see this includes eleven children is heartbreaking. The amount of national resource required to solve this problem is so relatively small that Government should just spend it immediately (as it has before!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high
Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
History repeats.
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Jim Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. @jazzyrussell.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Imagine if the SNP had failed to declare over £700,000 in donations? This is called electoral fraud & McSweeney was found guilty by the Electoral Commission. But no blue tents, no police enquiries, no interview under caution, no forensic search of his home..2-tier justice system.
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
That's a wrap on series 7 of Big Scottish Book Club. Now the only books show on British tv. Produced by IWC, commissioned by BBC Scotland, available to all on BBC iPlayer. Please share with the readers in your life. Feat Elif Shafak, Jackie Kay, Tash Aw & more. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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The Big Scottish Book Club - Series 7: Episode 3
Fresh from the Edinburgh International Book Festival and Fringe, Paula Hawkins, Chris McQueer and Rachel Parris join Damian Barr to discuss their latest books and favourite reads.
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 22/09/2025
SNP-run Falkirk council has only now succeeded in paying off Labour's PFI bill after 25 years, as its c£65m initial cost was bloated by pfi loan payments to more than 300m. Don't let Labour do it again. weownit.org.uk/act-now/new-...
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Say no to new PFI in our NHS - take action
The government’s new 10-Year Plan for Health is proposing to bring disastrous private finance deals back into our NHS.
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The UK Government’s recognition of Palestine is a welcome step, and one that is long overdue. But words alone will not stop the genocide in Gaza. Sanctions, an end to arms sales, a ban on goods from settlements, and the suspension of the UK–Israel trade deal must follow.
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jhd1591.bsky.social @jhd1591.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
#BelieveInScotland We welcomed Betsy Miller (local Councillor Jean McClung) today to our AIM for Yes Garnock Valley & West Kilbride Saltcoats street stall for Believe in Scotland’s national “Energy” Day of Action. Betsy, (1792 - 1864) was Britain’s first female sea captain.
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jhd1591.bsky.social @jhd1591.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
ALT #GetCounted #YesScots #Yes #SNP #Alba #ScottishGreens #LabourInScotland #LibDemsInScotland #ConservativesInScotland #TheNational Today’s THE NATIONAL. Get the paper at your paper shop or subscribe online at: thenational.scot
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North Ayrshire RSPB Local Group @rspbnorthayrshire.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
📅 When: Saturday 13 Sept 10am 📍 Where: Fairlie & Hunterston, meet at Fairlie Bay car park 🧣 Note: Prepare for any weather, bring snacks and/or lunch
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North Ayrshire RSPB Local Group @rspbnorthayrshire.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
First field trip of the season this weekend! This is the perfect trip to dip your toes in the water, an excellent site for beginners and experts alike! That’s why we keep going back 👀 And don’t miss out on our first meeting the evening before. 📷 Photos: Laura Montgomerie
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North Ayrshire RSPB Local Group @rspbnorthayrshire.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We made some changes to our social media channels over the summer - make sure you’re subscribing, following, and liking in all the right places! group.rspb.org.uk/northayrshir... #rspbgroup #rspb #ayrshirebirding #birdwatching #ayrshirewildlife
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Social Media Changes - North Ayrshire Local Group
While we try to ensure people can find our information and see what we are up to as a group, the webscape ebbs and flows just as tides do – so here is a reminder of the places you can find us online. ...
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Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
#WorldSuicidePreventionDay
World Suicide Prevention Day
10th September

MYTHS and FACTS about suicide

Myth: People who talk about suicide won't end their life, only those who never say anything will.

Fact: People who have thoughts of suicide are often torn between life and death, and can indicate to those around them they need support. People who have done so can still go on to end their life, so it's important they are always taken seriously and given the support they ask for.

Myth: If a person is serious about killing themselves then there's nothing you can do.

Fact: There is always hope. It is rare for someone to be fully decided on suicide. It is important to persevere when offering someone support and help.

Myth: Most suicides occur 'out of the blue'.

Fact: Most individuals with thoughts of suicide will invite others around them to notice they are unhappy or distressed, through verbal or behavioural cues.
Education/training can raise awareness of what these invitations are.

FACT:
Asking about suicide does not put the idea of suicide into someones mind

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Thoughts of suicide are not uncommon.
1 in 5 adults will think about suicide at some point in their life

FACT:
Suicide is not a selfish act.
In fact, many individuals feel they are a burden to others, and would be doing the right thing for others, by ending their life.
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
If you vote Reform you will be voting against women’s equality, for more harassment in the workplace and beyond (as if there isn’t enough) Remember 41% of the Farage Foot Soldiers arrested in last summer’s disgraceful riots had already been REPORTED FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE
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North Ayrshire RSPB Local Group @rspbnorthayrshire.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Get all the details of the first meeting: group.rspb.org.uk/northayrshir... And our first field trip on Sat 14 Sept: group.rspb.org.uk/northayrshir...
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Indoor meeting: Wildlife and Culture on the Brahmaputra River with Liz Leyden - North Ayrshire Local Group
When: Friday 12 September 2025, 7.15pm for 7.30pm startWhere: Ardrossan Civic Centre, Glasgow Street, Ardrossan Liz has been interested in wildlife since she watched Peter Scott’s Look programmes as a...
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North Ayrshire RSPB Local Group @rspbnorthayrshire.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
We are heading for our season start and we put together a little video to give you a taste of what’s coming up! 🦆🌳🦋 We would love to see you there, so put that date in your diary 📔✍️ Friday 12 September youtu.be/8n5DkIoj508?...
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Join us in celebrating our 50th anniversary season
YouTube video by North Ayrshire RSPB Local Group
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Replacing a man who sold out his principles with one who never had any. The sacking of Ian Murray as Scotland Secretary weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/s...
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Settling old scores, there’s no grudge like a Labour grudge
Following the findings of an investigation into her evasion of tax on a property she purchased in Brighton and the ruling that she had broken the Ministerial Code, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayn…
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yesgvandwk.bsky.social @yesgvandwk.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
gofund.me/77832d29
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Donate to YES Action litter picking initiative., organized by Peter Laing
Hi, My names Peter Laing & following the success of Yes Action’s first National … Peter Laing needs your support for YES Action litter picking initiative.
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David Pratt @foreigncorr1.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
With every social media post I read, those that should be totally behind the independence cause are now so preoccupied with petty/personal score settling, I can’t help feel the Scottish people are being sold down the river. Narcissism has replaced national aspiration. Pic Reuters
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 09/08/2025
This thread is both terrifying and tragic for this girl and her family. #Abortion is essential healthcare. It should be provided quickly and safely through healthcare facilities, with non-coercive counselling and support available. Women should not be forced into desperate, dangerous decisions.
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 09/08/2025
Backlisted is a great podcast which has given me much needed comfort and distraction during the last two years of cancer treatment in particular. Andy is a mensch and I would strongly encourage people to subscribe, sign up to the Patreon and enjoy Backlisted and Locklisted.
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
@essj.bsky.social You disabled replies so just to say, Backlisted has been independent of Unbound for several years, and John Mitchinson doesn’t present it anymore. It’s been very tough for them to be associated with this as it’s nothing to do with them.
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
University tuition fees in England and Wales, as of today: £9,535 Tuition fees in Scotland: £0 That’s the difference the SNP makes. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tuition fees in England and Wales rise to £9,535
Maintenance loans have also gone up, meaning students can borrow more to help with living costs.
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jhd1591.bsky.social @jhd1591.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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Folk on Foot @folkonfoot.com · 22/07/2025
“This is where my ashes are going to be scattered….” @chrisgpackham.bsky.social shows Martin Simpson his final resting place, before Martin sings “Ridgeway” in our new episode, out now. 🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/2fdf4a
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Lesley Riddoch @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Unbelievable exchange this morning on Radio Scotland between presenter and economist @RichardJMurphy, with presenter interrupting & conducting an interview with barely concealed contempt. Really bad.
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Folk on Foot @folkonfoot.com · 18/07/2025
🆕 New episode out now - @chrisgpackham.bsky.social and Martin Simpson on an emotional and evocative musical walk in the New Forest. 🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/2fdf4a
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Sheep are destroying precious British habitats – and we taxpayers are footing the bill to the tune of millions in a climate and biodiversity emergency - it’s bad and bonkers ! ⁦Me for The Guardian . . . @wildjustice.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Sheep are destroying precious British habitats – and we taxpayers are footing the bill | Chris Packham
Large parts of Dartmoor have been denuded of wildlife, harmed by farming and a mess of government schemes that are costly in every way, says naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham
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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Day 33: Gretna! Niall has reached Scotland. Do chuck in some pennies if you can, and please RT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD4_...
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Land’s End to John O’Groats. Day 33, Near Calthwaite to Gretna.
YouTube video by Niall McCormack Land’s End-John O’Groats Te Araroa
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Lesley Riddoch @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Ed Miliband won’t give renewables-rich Scots cheaper bills. The Scottish Government should be fighting for zonal pricing & listening to community protests across the Highlands about more wind farms than Scotland or the grid can handle. But they're not. Why not? www.thenational.scot/politics/253...
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Lesley Riddoch: The SNP must take up zonal pricing fight – why aren't they?
THE Daily Mail headline says it all: “Ed Miliband ‘abandons zonal electricity pricing’ plan that would charge people in southern England more…
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 10/07/2025
Alongside the bombs and shooting, starvation and disease are rife in Gaza, with most buildings now destroyed and temperatures soaring | Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social
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Two years of hell and there are those who think it’s not genocide
Alongside the bombs and shooting, starvation and disease are rife in Gaza, with most buildings now destroyed and temperatures soaring
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Len Pennie @lenniesaurus.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Here's to the next five years. youtu.be/W2h7TgutuCU?...
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Here's to the next 5 years. 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
YouTube video by Miss PunnyPennie
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2025
Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Catriona @catrio.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Well worth listening to this and also joining women for independence 👍
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Rod Stewart, the ageing millionaire rocker, asks Britons to vote for Farage/Reform. Millionaires won't suffer effects of racism; loss of human/worker rights, public services; destruction of the NHS, economic mayhem. Just binned a CD collection.
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Rod Stewart tells country to ‘give Farage a chance’
British rocker claimed that the Reform UK leader is ‘coming across well’ when asked about the political future of the UK
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Women for Independence @womenforindy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Our National Committee member Fatima talking about Women for Independence on the Scottish Independence Podcast.
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Women for Independence @womenforindy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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Len Pennie @lenniesaurus.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A common myth! youtu.be/r3arw0cmIBE?...
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A common myth we should bust. 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
YouTube video by Miss PunnyPennie
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Women for Independence @womenforindy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
UK Government looking as sending asylum seekers abroad again, seems they did they not learn anything from the Sunak's failed Rwanda plan. Scotland can do better! #Independence #HumanRights
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left? All the shifts are in just one direction. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
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BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
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North Ayrshire RSPB Local Group @rspbnorthayrshire.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Laura and Hazel completed their Big Birding Bonanza and filmed a wrap up video to let you know how they did! 🥳 #BigBirdingBonanza25 #BirdingScotland #RSPBfundraising The justgiving page is still open for anyone who would still like to donate - justgiving.com/page/big-birding-bonanza-25
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
A powerful letter: Too often, words have been used to justify the unjustifiable, deny the undeniable, defend the indefensible. Too often, too, the right words — the ones that mattered — have been eradicated, along with those who might have written them. How to sign? medium.com/@horatioclar...
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Writers Demand Immediate Gaza Ceasefire
We, the undersigned writers of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, ask our nations and the peoples of…
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Miss Jingles 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸💙🌞💫 @solarstarry.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The amount of Scottish Labour voters who STILL dont know this is baffling. I mean, there's actually folk out there who think SLab would have autonomy if elected & believe all the lies they spout to try get elected? 🤯 Cant they see, if elected, they'd simply have to do as their telt from Westminster?
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jhd1591.bsky.social @jhd1591.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
As BBC 'UK' report even worse levels of school exclusions, the successes in Scotland's schools you never hear of: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/04/14/w...
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With 5 to 6 times as many temporary school exclusions and 900 times as many permanent exclusions, per head, than Scotland, England’s schools are in a deep crisis fuelling County Lines gangs and street...
No childish images required here Professor John Robertson OBA From my previous post, you’ll see there were 11 676 temporary and 1 permanent exclusion from Scotland’s school in 2022/2023…
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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
"If ever you’re in need as I was may you have an island of strangers like I had" @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds
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