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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

It has been a while since I posted any of my work. Politics has increased my output of boxes. #woodworking #woodworker

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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

International students pay uni fees, rents, buy food & clothes & gifts in the local economy, they pay my salary of which around £25k pa goes to the gvt in income tax & NI and £3000 a year goes in council tax. This is what the government loses every time it refuses a student visa to appease Farage

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

#woodworker #woodworking #woodworkshop here are my newest boxes made from 1960s fir that was part of the New York Ballet stage. I love the “patina”!!

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#woodworker #woodworking made a little side table with some scrap wood from the community workshop. Finish is shellac all over then wire wooled then wax paste on table top and Danish Oil on the rest of the table.

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

#woodworker #woodworkshop #woodwork a friend at our community woodwork joinery gave me these large pieces of veneer. Any idea which species they are and any good ideas on how to use them??

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Shea Alexander @sheaalexander.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“Democracy is based on trust. If you systematically destroy trust in institutions - media, academia, justice - the only thing that can still work is a dictatorship.” - Yuval Noah Harari

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Our stock market is crashing. Our economy is contracting. Our government is dismantling. Our allies are fleeing. Our grocery prices are rising. But at least we now call it "The Gulf of America." So it all evens out.

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

#woodworker #woodworkingshops This is the box that I am still working on. Cut the top off with a bandsaw, glued in some silver birch bark from my garden and lined the bottom with purple felt (the colour of Scottish thistles!). This one will be going to my mum in Scotland. Almost finished.

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Kerry L @kerrymlove.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Worth pointing out he didn't do this just because he's a nice guy- he's making a really important point about the debt industry, and it shouldn't be missed!

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Nelson @nelsontherapycat.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Why go for the supporters and not the billionaires who engineered this? Seems tone deaf and entitled. Be more London

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cyditmoon.bsky.social @cyditmoon.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

The state of America's government. bsky.app/profile/jame...

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

#woodworker #woodworkshop Next stage of my current box. Trimmed the splin splines, sanded with 600, 1000 and 1200 grit then wiped on a small amount of shellac.

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Anyone else seeing a lot more new followers from North America but far fewer from the UK and rest of Europe? I despise Trump and his nationalistic bilge but my near exclusive focus on here is the campaign to start fixing the harm of Brexit and to secure a representative electoral system in the UK.

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

#woodworker #woodworking my next imperfect box in progress. Poplar sides, scrap top and walnut splines. Personally I love the hole in the top😂😂😂

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

#woodworking #woodworker My newest imperfect box - silver birch bark from my garden attached to poplar, zebra wood base, oak top with spalted maple self made veneer. Finish is Danish Oil.

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

#woodworking #charlesrenniemcintosh can anyone recommend books and other sources of plans?

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Saddletramp🇪🇺 @saddletramp.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Why did Trump think that negotiating a deal with Zelensky in front of the world’s press was a good idea. Maybe he thought that the occasion would over awe Zelensky and he would naïvely sign anything that was put in front of him. If so, it wasn’t Zelensky who was naïve. Art of The Deal, my arse!

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

#ukpolitics #uspolitics Dear UK Friends - I apologize for slightly more than 50%of the US electorate who did not elect the Dumpster.The horrific treatment of an ally yesterday and the US support of Russia at the UN reminds me of what isolationist USA did to the UK beginning of WW2. Apologies!!!!

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Kevin @plymouth-socialist.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Next time Badenoch says she wants the UK to leave the ECHR can someone show her this video: youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA?...

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Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?

YouTube video by The Guardian

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

#uspolitics #ukpolitics - even this very conservative tabloid in NYS gets it

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

#uspolitics #ukpolitics - a picture is definitely worth an infinite number of words as Trump turns to Judas over Ukraine

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Starmer doesn’t want an ambitious Brexit deal at all. He wants some marginal, piecemeal improvements he can (try to) sell as a new dawn while continuing his firm rejection of the single market and a customs union, which are the only advances that would really shift the dial. He takes us for fools.

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

#unitedkingdom #brexit #ukpolitics Don’t forget. UK don’t think this person is a reliable trading partner.

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

On the subject of Brexshit this is the wife of Reform MP Richard Tice. Brexit supporting fascist former right wing journalist and author of Tory supporting books including David Cameron's biography. So proud of Britain she lives in Dubai.

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

When will Labour listen to the people or confront the Elephant in the room over the Economy ?

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Steve Fifield @stevefifield.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

Tax Justice UK say: There are 55 billionaires in the UK. A 1% wealth tax on them and the very richest could raise £22bn a year. Enough to pay 276,000 nurses AND double dental funding in England, with change to spare. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/ap... HT @garyseconomics.bsky.social

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Taxing the wealth of UK’s richest would raise billions for public services | Letters

Letter: Reforming the tax system is the smart solution to meet the societal challenges of today, says Robert Palmer

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

#politics can anyone explain to me why tariffs or “emergency tariffs” are going to worry Colombia? I am willing to learn if someone can give me a clear explanation. Just seeking to understand this policy move by the new US Administration.

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

#woodworker #woodworking #woodworkingshop My next experiment is to glue some silver birch bark onto poplar and make a rustic little box. Here is the stage after soaking and flattening the bark.

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

#woodworker #wood #woodworking #woodworkshop This is a box for a friend in Scotland who asked for it after seeing the other boxes that I have made. I like it the best because it is made of firewood (the spalted maple) and wastewood. The “brass” fittings are cheap stuff from Home Depot. Love it!

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

#woodworker #wood #woodworkshop This is a box for a friend in Scotland who asked for it after seeing the other boxes that I have made. I like it the best because it is made of firewood (the spalted maple) and wastewood. The “brass” fittings are cheap stuff from Home Depot. Love it!

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Dan DaN DAN @keepinfairlieweird.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Some (though not the right wing papers) in the UK don't hold back. From Scotland:

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Thank the lord for Private Eye

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I've now complained to @ipso.co.uk & expect in due course Telegraph will be forced to correct this BS. They couldn’t even get London’s overall population right, let alone migration stats. But what are the "right" numbers? [1/n]

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Pabloite. @pabloite.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Imperialists now directly plotting overthrow of UK government. Britain used to be good at these things, in the days of the Empire. Now the Yankees have beaten us yet again!

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Chris @cjnmcg.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Bloody hell! The reform numbers are scary, only just in 3rd place behind Labour!

Results from Scottish council by-election.
SNP 565 votes
Labour 376
Reform 358
Tories 169.

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I am working on my newest box. The splines are maple. The sides are sapele and the top is poplar. I do have the idea of creating an inset disc veneered with silver birch bark. Just picked up some bark on a walk and have it soaking in warm water. Maybe I could drink the “tea” as well🤓? Laxative

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Doesn't leave much time for popping in to the House of Commons

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flossyflook.bsky.social @flossyflook.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Just a reminder that the last time Farage & his right-wing mates in Reform visited Scotland they had to barricade themselves in a pub before being rescued & driven away in a Police riot van. He hasn't been back since & he & his ilk will never be welcome in Scotland Vote SNP

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The next use of my spalted maple self sliced veneer! I was thinking about half filling the top with clear epoxy. What do you think? I have no experience with epoxy.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I don’t know how the UK government can continue to use X as a communication platform.

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Industrious Dog Woodcraft @industriousdog.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Osmo satin is comparably priced but one of my favorites. Daly’s products are less expensive but just as reliable.

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Steven Alleyn @stevenalleyn.ca · 29/12/2024

Our countries keep voting for Tories and Republicans but name one fucking time either party made things better for anyone who wasn’t rich I’m so frustrated

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Curt @mstinkerson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Did you know that Bluesky has auto-updating curated block lists? I use these four, and they work great. Click a link, click "Subscribe", then select "Block Accounts." Poof - no more MAGA. #DemVoice1 bsky.app/profile/skyw... bsky.app/profile/skys... bsky.app/profile/skyw... bsky.app/profile/anti...

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Jock Tamson @jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

#woodworker #woodworking My homemade veneer project is finished! I will try out Watco Danish oil on the next one!

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