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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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lazybeds.bsky.social @lazybeds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here's hoping that the foiled attack on Fairford will make folk more aware that the UK is up to its neck in the war with Iran. And so "terrorists" disnae quite fit, does it?
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ICAN @nuclearban.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tomorrow the Spanish parliament is expected to decide whether #Spain will join the #nuclearban Padre Sánxez Castellón already questioned the reliability of #nucleardeterrence at the 2026 Munich Security Conference This could mark a historical moment for #NATO and for #nucleardisarmament in Europe.
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David Pratt @foreigncorr1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The unchecked rise of AI warfare is fast becoming a threat beyond control- Today’s in depth read 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2656529...
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The rise of AI warfare has become a threat beyond control
AS is now patently clear, drones are ubiquitous to both sides in the Russia-Ukraine war.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 18/09/2026
If protest did not work, they would not fight it so hard. Mass arrests, surveillance, and prison threats for peaceful activists. Governments and polluters are weaponising the law because they fear collective power. It's #TimeToResist
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securescotland.bsky.social @securescotland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Scotland is facing a rush of hyperscale AI datacentre proposals, without a strategy or understanding of their impact on our energy, water & communities. @scottishgreens are calling for a pause on new hyperscale datacentres — and on Wednesday we're bring that call to a vote in Parliament.
Graphic from Maggie Chapman MSP and the Scottish Greens calling for a pause on hyperscale AI datacentres. It features an aerial image of the proposed Blackdog datacentre site in the North East, with text highlighting concerns about impacts on energy, water, communities and nature, and stating that communities across Scotland deserve a say.
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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A year ago, the Scottish Parliament voted for action. The Scottish Government is still failing to deliver it. Today, I again stand with the BDS movement outside the Scottish Parliament, demanding that the Government acts on the will of Parliament. 1/4
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Ece Temelkuran @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
From Nation of Strangers (La Nación de los Extraños) : "A country is a table surrounded by loved ones to whom you don't have to explain your jokes, and the vast territory surrounding it—which is primarily your imagination." Gracias @octaviosb.bsky.social
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The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“The SNP calling for a 'ceasefire' and saying they 'advocate for peace, justice and human rights in Gaza' while using public money to fund businesses complicit in the Palestinian suffering is disingenuous" www.heraldscotland.com/news... @gabymckay.bsky.social
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AL Kennedy @writereralk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I can't believe this London-based landowner is putting the iconic Glenelg to Skye ferry at risk. Support the local community - not millionaire financiers - and save the world famous Glenelg to Skye ferry by joining me and signing the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save the Glenelg - Skye ferry!
This ten minute crossing is famous around the world - and is believed to be the last turntable style ferry anywhere. It's an iconic part of Skye's history, but it's under threat thanks to a wealthy la...
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lazybeds.bsky.social @lazybeds.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Tigray – the hidden genocide - Bylines Scotland
The International community must act now to prevent another genocide in Tigray, as conflict risks spreading across the Horn of Africa
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Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Cabinet Office is bringing back The War Book - plans for how the whole of these islands coordinate in the face of attack. & they want us punters to start stockpiling... How do Scots resist this creep to everyday militarisation? My @ScotNational column lnkd.in/eqFmYBV3
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Apart from ruining the study of the night sky and the increased risk of the Kessler sydrome . . . The average Starlink satellite lasts about *five years*. Think of the impact of constant rocket launches, and countless tonnes of precious and toxic materials being left to burn up in the atmosphere.
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ICAN @nuclearban.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
30 years ago, the ICJ issued a landmark advisory opinion on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons. It followed a major civil society campaign involving millions of petition signatures from concerned citizens globally: www.icanw.org/icj-advisory-opinion #NuclearBan
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David Pratt @foreigncorr1.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
‘Chemical courage’ Illegal narco trade that helps fuel Sudan’s recurring genocide- Today’s in depth international read 👇 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2627258...
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'Chemical courage' Illegal narco trade that helps fuel Sudan's recurring genocide
It generates cash for guns and drives a frenzy of killing that beggars belief. Foreign Editor David Pratt examines the devastating wartime impact of…
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securescotland.bsky.social @securescotland.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The UK government has been utterly dishonest about its part in this hideous war. It has allowed the US to use British airbases (and Prestwick airport!) for the transit of US warplanes to the Middle East. Whatever Keir Starmer is saying now the UK has been and continues to be a material accessory to the assault on Iran, with all the resulting death, mutilation, destruction and widening chaos.
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The Parallel Universe of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), Scotland’s Place in the Narrative bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/08/t...
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securescotland.bsky.social @securescotland.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/27/p... Janet Fenton: " . . it is maybe time for Members of the Scottish Parliament to be outside Queen Elizabeth House on 29th of November, at 1.00 pm joining in with writing a placard saying ‘I support Palestine Action’. "
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Police Scotland and Prosecuting Peace
The Scottish establishment’s response to the legal challenge offered on the proscription of Palestine Action is growing arms and legs.  After not following up the Metroplitan police’s very un…
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Nukewatch UK @nukewatchuk.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3fy... Nuclear weapon convoy near Polmadie in Glasgow today, heading for the bomb store at Coulport on Loch Long, having set out from Burghfield in England where the warheads are assembled. Info about these dangerous convoys here www.nukewatch.org.uk/convoys/
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YouTube video by Jamie Watson
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securescotland.bsky.social @securescotland.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
securescotland.substack.com/p/welcoming-refugees Responding to the UK government's cruel refugee policies.
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Welcoming Refugees
As Theresa May’s “hostile environment” hardens into Labour’s cruel environment this piece by Glyn Robbins captures perfectly the dread effect of these policies.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We need more honest language: Theft Tech (AI) Grift Tech (crypto) Death Tech (automated weapons and military surveillance)
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Nukewatch UK @nukewatchuk.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Report "Smoke and Mirrors" from NIS and Nukewatch UK exposes the muddled and illogical thinking behind the UK decision to buy nuclear-weapon capable aircraft from the US. Essential reading. nuclearinfo.org/wp-content/u...
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Nukewatch UK @nukewatchuk.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Our expert webinar on the risks and pitfalls of renuclearising the RAF takes place tomorrow. Register here: nuclearinfo-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @nuclearinfoservice.bsky.social @cnduk.bsky.social @scottishcnd.bsky.social @lakenheathalliance.bsky.social #nuclear #disarmament
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lazybeds.bsky.social @lazybeds.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
nuclearinfo-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Not to be missed, this webinar on 11th November about the UK acquiring nuclear-weapon capable jets - another step-up in dangerous escalation.
Fighter jet being prepared, with: "Smoke and Mirrors"
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Nukewatch UK @nukewatchuk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Come along to the webinar we are organising with @Nuclearinfo on 11 November to find out why government plans to renuclearise the RAF are nothing more than political smoke and mirrors. nuclearinfo-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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lazybeds.bsky.social @lazybeds.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Grimly accurate - we are in The Age of Mobsters
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Nukewatch UK @nukewatchuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
sgr.org.uk/resources/us-nuclear-weapons-return-uk-ready-raf Handy from @responsiblesci.bsky.social re US nukes in England, noting their role in dangerous escalation. For how their presence was spotted see nukewatch.org.uk/second-nucle...
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US nuclear weapons return to the UK ready for the RAF
The UK government has announced a new nuclear role for the Royal Air Force using US bombs and aircraft. Dr Philip Webber, SGR, explores the disturbing implications of this surprise announcement. Artic...
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lazybeds.bsky.social @lazybeds.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Cheers @yorkshirecnd.bsky.social for exposing this. SU Department for the Advancement of Mass Killing. cnduk.org/the-universi...
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The University of Sheffield's role in Britain's nuclear weapons - CND
Following revelations by the Sheffield Tribune detailing how the University of Sheffield is designing Britain’s next nuclear warhead, Yorkshire CND has been protesting. Sam Legg, Yorkshire CND Events ...
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Yorkshire CND @yorkshirecnd.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
On Saturday, peace activists went to U.S.A.F. Croughton for Keep Space For Peace Week. Read Dave Webb's speech here: www.cndsalisbury.org.uk/uploads/data...
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lazybeds.bsky.social @lazybeds.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
www.navylookout.com/royal-navy-v... Excessive pressure on the crews plus the obvious and serious risk around having nuclear reactors, missiles and nuclear warheads on board old and decrepit boats
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Royal Navy Vanguard-class submarine comes home after 203-day patrol - Navy Lookout
In what is becoming the new normal, an RN submarine returned to Faslane today after another lengthy patrol lasting more than six months, maintaining the nation's nuclear deterrent. This submarine left...
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Nukewatch UK @nukewatchuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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View of Coulport armament store with: Navy told to remove radioactve waste from nuclear bomb base
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Nukewatch UK @nukewatchuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
These lorries carry the most deadly load on British roads, taking warheads to and from the atomic weapon factories Berkshire and Coulport on Loch Long. see nukewatch.org.uk
Large military trucks in convoy formation on a steep descent
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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
📢New event We see growing hostility & racism in our politics and streets, climate breakdown across the globe, and ongoing war & genocide. Competition & militarism are not the answer. Join our discussion on 08 October to share ideas for a counter-narrative. rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/home/events/
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
"For anyone committed to social justice, the saga of the Kirkgate benches is an affront to community diversity and integration. It was a violent act of social cleansing, a silent declaration that some people’s comfort is more valuable than other people’s survival" www.discontent.wtf/news/holding...
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Holding the Line: Gentrification and the Dispossession of the Kirkgate Benches
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 04/09/2025
“[Sudan] has been used as a tool to prove that concern for genocide elsewhere is motivated by…nefarious actors.” Sudanese journalist and author @nesrinemalik.bsky.social responds to Western media using the Sudanese civil war to deflect from Gaza. Watch the full panel: zeteo.com/p/genocide-i...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
I went to see @writereralk.bsky.social at the Edinburgh Book festival and at the end she read out an incredible poem. I asked her afterwards if I could set it to music. She agreed, and this is the result:
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No Thrones, A Pledge | Daily Reckless
words: A.L. Kennedy I hereby pledge allegiance to Utopia That place without an anthem, Its flag a turn of sunlight Rising over any nation, With no precise location on a map. And as I pledge, I kneel t...
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art www.npr.org/2025/08/24/n...
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Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art
A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Someone tell me, what is the point of being a Labour MP? What is it for?
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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
What happened to us? Scotland used to be a warm & welcoming place. Increasing hostility against migrants is making us cold. On Saturday, we said no to racism, no to xenophobia, & showed solidarity with the minoritised & the scapegoated in Aberdeen✊
ALT TEXT: Maggie Chapman MSP stands in a crowd, most of who are wearing black hoodies. There is a light blue and yellow sunset sky behind them. Standing close to Maggie is a person in a black cardigan, black and white keffiyeh, keffiyeh-style mask and sunglasses, holding a sign which reads "Refugees Welcome" above their head. Maggie is wearing a bright green t-shirt, a black, white and green keffiyeh, and has cropped grey-brown hair, tanned white skin and thin framed glasses.ALT TEXT: The person holding the sign in the previous image holds it in one hand with their other around Maggie Chapman's shoulder. Their face is mostly blocked by the sign. Maggie is smiling widely, looking into the camera.
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securescotland.bsky.social @securescotland.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Large Mural at St John's kirk in Edinburgh's West End
Painting shows woman holding starving child above a pile of empty pots and pans and before a devastated landscape, with caption: John 21 15-17 FEED MY SHEEP
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
An hour of not feeling complicit in the genocide bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/08/10/a...
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An hour of not feeling complicit in the genocide
Almost 500 people were arrested in London yesterday for holding placards supporting ‘Palestine Action’ which the UK government has declared a ‘terrorist organisation’ despite it never harming anyon…
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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament @cnduk.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
US nuclear flights landed at Lakenheath last month indicating that US nukes are in Britain for the first time since 2008. CND calls on the UK government to make an urgent statement and allow for a transparent debate and vote in Parliament. Find out more: cnduk.org/lakenheath
CND demonstrators outside the main gate of RAF Lakenheath standing behind a banner reading: "No US nukes in Britain"
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
A protest is planned at Faslane this weekend to make a fresh call for a world free of nuclear weapons
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Peaceful protest planned at Faslane ahead of 80th anniversary of atomic bomb
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AL Kennedy @writereralk.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Here's to him. Glorious writer and funny guy.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
An activist group are set to stage an emergency demonstration in Edinburgh on Friday evening
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Emergency Gaza protest planned for Ian Murray’s Edinburgh office
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AL Kennedy @writereralk.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Nah, mate. We're just of a stranger island. Stranger every feckin day.
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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
When Rachel Reeves backs trickledown economics and deregulation of financial sector she is all of the below: Using discredited ideology. Ignoring economic evidence. Scared of the City. Desperate. A Tory.
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AL Kennedy @writereralk.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Unless otherwise marked, please know all messages here are certified 'human written '.
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lazybeds.bsky.social @lazybeds.bsky.social · 09/07/2025



As the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki looms and the world shuffles carelessly towards nuclear catastrophe, there’s this: US Strategic Bombing Survey July 1946: “Japan would have surrendered even if atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs did not defeat Japan, nor by the testimony of the enemy leaders who ended the war did they persuade Japan to accept unconditional surrender.”
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