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I've been a scientist all my life and I'm a proud Scot! I love all animals, astronomy, photography and much more. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h
UK PM Andy Burnham is now looking for a Brit company that can take over from Palantir.
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Andy Burnham searches for UK alternative to Palantir
Prime minister’s ‘buy British’ push triggers hunt to find replacement for controversial US tech group awarded health service and defence contracts
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5h
Hegseth hosts his first Project Meridian meeting with Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. They’re looking at ways to use tech to boost Hegseth’s agenda, most likely using AI for surveillance and weapons.
Bunch of white men in badly fitting suits sit around a table
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Mabel Logan @mabellogan.bsky.social · 22h
An Grianan from Fasnacloich, Glen Creran #Scotland #Invercreran #Appin #Argyll
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21h
This is horrendous. What a cruel practice.
theguardian.com
Tennessee woman on death row taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections
Christa Pike, sentenced to death over 1995 murder, was heard snoring 40 minutes after lethal doses administered, witnesses said
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Mabel Logan @mabellogan.bsky.social · 21h
Stop bankrolling the royals. Cut the half billion royal budget. Scrap the Sovereign Grant - it's that simple. #AbolishTheMonarchy
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump, also having a totally normal day, tells the White House press corps that an Israeli plumber who had never flown a plane saved the Flydubai plane earlier today by “lifting up a stick.”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The US has withdrawn from GRECO, the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption watchdog, which it has been a member of since 2000, ABC reports. Russia and Belarus are the only other countries to have left the group.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every month of 2026 has been warmer than average in the UK. #climatecrisis
bbc.co.uk
UK weather: Temperatures to hit 26C in burst of late September warmth
Temperatures are expected to rise well above the late September average on Tuesday with a very warm night to follow, as Simon King explains.
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Mabel Logan @mabellogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Sovereign Grant is going up by £50 million. That's another £50 million in royal funding, on top of the half a billion we already give them. It's time to scrap the grant, plain and simple. #AbolishTheMonarchy
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RUSSIA RATTLED BY UKRAINIAN ADVANCES Milbloggers have revealed far more than Ukraine has, down to quite detailed maps. They complain about the endless culture of lies about whats really going on and tell the leadership that its self defeating. Nobody is listening. Ukraines advances have been deep,
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Mabel Logan @mabellogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Loch Maree, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
TRUMP REGIMES GROTESQUE INTERFERENCE IN BALKANS OVER ENERGY The WSJ reported on a situation in Romania primarily, involving the collapse of the government in May this year.It was achieved by a democratic party allying with a fascist party and winning a vote of no confidence.It broke a long standing
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Simon Osborne Pitt the Younger @pitt-the-younger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good Morning 🙂! #stillgame #Scotland
The characters Jack and Victor from the sitcom Still Game.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exactly. As he becomes more deranged and politically weaker, he will become more desperate and more dangerous.
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Doug Engstrom @dougengstrom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Atlantic Birding’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Seabirds; any bird found at sea or the coast. Here's my encounter with a seagull on Race Point Beach on Cape Cod. 📷 #CanonR7 #Tamron18-300 #photography #birdphoto #wildlife #ECK #gulls
Seagull shown heading directly at the camera with its wings spread diagonally across the frame. The bird's head is aligned with the ground rather than its wings. The wing tops, just barely visible, are gray and black while the head is gray and white.
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Mabel Logan @mabellogan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isle of Rum from singing sands beach on the Isle of Eigg Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💙 🌊
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Mabel Logan @mabellogan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isle of Rum from singing sands beach on the Isle of Eigg Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💙 🌊
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Latvian authorities say there’s been deliberate damage to surveillance cables and equipment along the Latvia-Belarus border. Border Guard chief Guntis Pujāts called it a targeted action to disrupt border surveillance.
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DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
‼️ There are 9 lessons contained in Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit. Even in 2026 it is essential for helping guide people down the path of critical thinking, and inoculating themselves against grifters, frauds, and charlatans. bigthink.com/starts-with-... 👇
bigthink.com
Carl Sagan's 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney
Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit taught us how to separate good science from the work of charlatans. In 2026, that matters more than ever.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The school notebook of the 14-year-old boy killed by Russia in Kyiv today. The Russian strike killed him in the middle of the day, in his own room. His desk still had the notebook with unfinished homework.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He’s a weak little man.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Why should perpetrators of FAKE NEWS, like CNN and MSDNC, be allowed access to a very sacred place, the White House?
Despite my big Election Win, almost 100% of "TRUMP" coverage is negative, and has been for years!
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THE CASE OF THE UNSANCTIONED OLIGARCHS, AZERI CORRUPTION AND FRANCE Azerbaijan is run like an unsavoury mix of the Sopranos and Game of Thrones. The Aliyevs are a presidential monarchy family awash with oil money, a rigorous security state apparatus to protect them and they have their own agenda.
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Mabel Logan @mabellogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why do the royals need a penny of our money? #AbolishTheMonarchy
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Pentagon cover-up of US military casualties in Trump’s catastrophic Iran War continues. 37 troops have been quietly added to the public tally of wounded personnel bringing the total to 861.
WaPo: Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
US SUPREME COURT THROWS GIANT SPANNER INTO ELECTIONS In a 6:3 ruling today, SCOTUS ruled in favour of a Trump database that will allow Republicans to utilise it to withdraw the right to vote for potentially millions of people - even though voting has already begun. Under the Purcell Doctrine no
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Private Eye:
London Fascist
Week begins
YES, it's that time again when the Fascism scene returns to London and this year black is very much in vogue.
Our models are sporting trademark black shirts twinned with black shorts and the very latest in balaclava chic.
The models sashayed through
London to the Daily Mail offices where they showed off the best of British Fascism for the World to see. A leading Fascism designer says, "You'll see this great new totally unthreatening look everywhere - Portsmouth, Dover, London. It's coming to a town near you soon, and we know where you live!"
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One failed war isn’t good enough - Trump is now preparing for possible military action in Cuba.
cbsnews.com
U.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around Cuba
Some units would "possibly [be] needed in 90-120 days," according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News.
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Chris and his farmily of forever farm friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Best of friends Muscovy duckling Moja and kittens Beatrix & Coral
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Netanyahu was booed as he began his United Nations General Assembly speech. Many delegations walked out of the hall. Netanyahu: “Before I begin, just a quick announcement: if there are any other moral cowards who haven't yet left this hall, please do so now.”
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Mabel Logan @mabellogan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wee white hoose house at Camusdarach Beach, Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🏠
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ZELENSKY MADE AN IMPASSIONED SPEECH AT THE UN BUT NOBODY HEARS HIM It really is as though other than Europe+ nobody cares what happens, but he let the Russians have it and was remarkably lucid with more fluency than usual, especially when it came to the kidnapped children issue. Meanwhile Russia is
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
❗️The 🇷🇺Russians have received a new batch of freshly manufactured 5th-generation Su-57 fighter jets.
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TRUMPS UN SPEECH FALLS FLAT AFTER IRAN THREATS Expecting applause having declared how powerful the US was with him in charge, and getting a stony silence, Trump threatened to annihilate Iran - their delegation promptly walked out. So did Cubas when they were told they were a failed state. Trump
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nearly half a million deaths in the next six months expected from a climate crisis-powered super-El Niño, according to the University of Chicago's Climate Impact Lab.
reuters.com
'Super' El Niño could cause 451,000 excess deaths, researchers say
Extreme heat caused by this year's "super-El Niño" could result in as many as 451,000 excess deaths across the ​globe in the six months through February 2027, ‌researchers with the University of Chica...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Putin has been invited to the G20 summit in Miami in December. “We think it’s an opportunity for him to engage not just with the President, but with other world leaders.” The Trump team is working so hard for Putin they deserve a medal.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Quite remarkable for a party leader to say this of a man arrested on suspicion of assault & coercive control. Or should be... Farage: “I am sorry for his personal difficulties that he is going through. No one’s life is ever seamless and I am quite sure he will come out of these before too long."
theguardian.com
Helen Jenner unveiled as Reform UK’s new leader in Wales after arrest of Dan Thomas
Nigel Farage dismisses loss of previous leader as ‘bump in the road’ and says party will ‘carry on as if nothing has happened’
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The ultra-Far Right/neo-Nazis are joining forces in Europe, which should worry anyone with even a passing acquaintance with history. Germany’s AfD and Italy’s Future Nationale have announced a partnership. Everything old is new again.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This year’s El Niño is on course to be the largest in at least *1,000* years. That’s going to drive excess heat into the atmosphere and combined with man-made heating will make 2027 the hottest year ever recorded. #climatecrisis
theguardian.com
‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump comes up hard against facts again: Bloomberg analysis shows the Iran war has removed significantly more diesel supply from the market than Russia-Ukraine. Trump caused the global energy crisis all on his own - no wriggling out of that.
bloomberg.com
Iran War Drives Bigger Diesel Supply Loss Despite Trump’s Claims
Diesel prices have never been higher. US President Donald Trump contends that’s not because of the war he started nearly seven months ago.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
China's Foreign Ministry: “China extends congratulations on the smooth conclusion of the Russian State Duma elections. “The results represent the will of the Russian people. “China firmly supports the Russian people’s independent choice.”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"This is all about the substance, to build an alliance of the future. The world has changed. America has changed. So we need to change."
bbc.co.uk
UK should 'team up' with Canada in new Europe alliance, Canadian minister says
It comes after European Commission President proposed "opening the door" for Canada to become an associate member of the EU.
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
RUSSIAN ELECTIONS DIDN'T GO SO WELL The scale of spoilt papers, low turnout, and obvious manipulation meant that it was a little too difficult to pretend everything was perfectly fine. Russian citizens made a quite an effort in many places to register there disquiet. The local election officials
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump is increasingly frustrated by political and legal setbacks and says not enough people are publicly defending his second-term record, the WSJ reports. He’s also complained that leading figures haven’t thanked him for his attempted overhaul of the Kennedy Center.
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
GERMANY'S CHANCELLOR DECLARES UNCONDITIONAL FRIENDSHIP WITH AMERICA IS OVER Its a shocking speech to have made. It comes in a week where Canada is unequivocally aligning itself with the EU. The reality is that we are now seeing a political and economic decoupling of Europe+ from the United States
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Harbinger of Doom Liz Truss has come out in support of Ed Sheeran.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump is afraid his vulgar, aggrandising Triumphal Arch is going to get blocked so he’s pivoted to a military use to get it through on National Security grounds.
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Donald J. Trump
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At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at the Receptive Circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage. There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World.
Out of the 59 top cities and Capitals, Washington, D.C., IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE A TRIUMPHAL ARCH, but it will now and, by far, the greatest of them all! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A Brexit-supporting billionaire who fled abroad so he didn’t have to pay any tax to help the people of his country says he’s lost confidence in the UK.
bbc.co.uk
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
THE DRUMS OF WAR ARE BEATING IN THE WEST Across Europe the warnings are being sounded on a daily basis. British generals and academics warniing the country isn't psychologically ready for wsr in any way and that government is not doing enough to prepare us. It would find it hard to persuade people
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The fascists have been successful in getting Portsmouth lifeboat station closed down because they hate brown people being saved from dying.
independent.co.uk
RNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests
RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore
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