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Linda

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I want Scotland to be a modern, independent democracy in the EU. proportional representation and a written constitution are essential

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
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AJ McTERROR @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ideal present for your dads who are fuming at the lifeboats shop.rnli.org/products/fla...
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RNLI Flag Code Mug
This fascinating mug displays the flags of the International Code with their meanings. Now you can brush up on your knowledge during your tea break.
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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Look. For £48 you can gift a friend or family member a year's membership of the RNLI. I know several people that would appreciate that. rnli.org/support-us/b...
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Gift RNLI Membership To Your Loved One
Give a special gift with RNLI membership. There’s something for all ages, from little lifesavers to grown-up lifeboats fans.
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Penncat @pennicat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
With alt text.
Lifeboats
The RNLI is a charity that exists to save lives at sea.
But recent events have generated deliberate misinformation and a misunderstanding about our purpose and our lifesaving work in the Channel.
As a result, some of our volunteers and staff have been the subject of online and, in some cases, physical abuse.
This is unacceptable.
The RNLI's people represent the very best of society. For over two hundred years they have dedicated themselves to rescuing people they've never met before, without judgment, fear or favour.
We are tasked by HM Coastguard to help those in distress, and we'll do so whenever, wherever and whoever they are.
We launched 9,058 times in 2025.
Only 109 of those launches were to those in distress in the Channel
- 1.2% of our total rescue work. Anyone rescued from a small boat by the RNLI is then taken into the care of the relevant UK authorities.
To those who stand with the RNLI, thank you. For more than two hundred years, we've saved lives at sea around the UK and Ireland, and that commitment remains unchanged.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 13/08/2026
Look, you can regulate things! "Anthropic explained its changes are designed to meet Article 50 of the EU AI Act, which mandates AI disclosures for generated or manipulated content."
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Linda @lindaler.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/open... This is Golden. Charles Windsor arrives at the side gate of the Scottish Parliament to be greeted by a bagpipe rendition of... Hamish Henderson's Freedom Come 'A Ye. Please tell me this was an official choice.
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Opening Ceremony to mark the Seventh Session of the Scottish Parliament | Scottish Parliament TV
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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Reform types getting all upset about new SNP Lara Bird MP being "disrespectful" by crossing her fingers while swearing an oath to the royals, having tattoos, & wearing a short skirt & boots. If you are annoying those people on day one, you are doing something right
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RescueJen @rescuejen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The unfortunate part is, it’s even worse than that: at the elite level, both sides of the Leave/Remain divide calculated that the Tories winning and forcing Brexit through was in their best interest, because they would worry about the details later. So they all worked to ensure that happened.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I’m seeing more ‘Starmer was a decent man’ takes this morning. You can’t even keep only think he was a decent man if you think immigrants don’t deserve decency, let alone trans people, protestors or disabled people.
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Aideen Blackwood @aideen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It's courageous for any victim of sexual abuse to go to trial, but when your abuser is a man as powerful as Jeffrey Donaldson, it is on another level. Solidarity to those women today
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The media silence over the Island of Strangers speech seems to be part of an overall consensus that it’s impossible for people *not* to be against immigration. The media won’t even consider that there are people upset by xenophobia.
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Indystitcher 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indystitcher.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I read somewhere that austerity is the midwife to fascism. Think that might be right.
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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 22/06/2026
For many LGBT folk like me, and especially trans folk, Keir Starmer will be remembered in the same way as Margaret Thatcher: with deep contempt for having overseen a deeply hostile, queerphobic government, which rolled back human rights and set society back by at least a decade. Good riddance.
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Linda @lindaler.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
www.thenational.scot/news/2621749...
thenational.scot
SNP to introduce Westminster bill to devolve indyref powers to Holyrood
THE SNP will introduce a bill in Westminster to devolve independence referendum powers to Holyrood ...
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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
You know that bit in Doctor Who, when he regenerates into the new doctor, who may look and act slightly differently but is somehow still the same person...?
Picture of Keir Starmer with Andy Burnham
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Adriana Prado @telerina.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Why aren't other politicians pointing this out? I don’t see any party leaders calling out the Islamophobia in the (lack of) media coverage on Friday’s terrorist attack in Edinburgh. Where’s @eddavey.libdems.org.uk? The @snp.org? The Tories? Why is @zackpolanski.bsky.social the only one?!?
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JC @jc12.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
www.thenational.scot/news/2621077...
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Scotland Office blocks release of files discussing Section 30 and independence
THE Scotland Office has admitted that it holds documents discussing Scottish independence and a Section 30 order – but has refused to release them.
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Linda @lindaler.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Always so inward looking, performing joyless nationalism with no thought of connecting with anyone else. Do they think this is dominant behaviour or something? chttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/z2t42-Vm6EM
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England fans chucked out of World Cup party by Dallas Police
YouTube video by The Scottish Sun
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
yeah unfortunately the point at which security agents started manufacturing crimes to so they could arrest people to support the delusions of a single personalist ruler was the point at which the story stopped being silly heavy-handed metaphor and started being of real concern
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MissMarplesBack @missmarplesback.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The FACT the BRITISH GOVERNMENT is still arrested peaceful protestors against ongoing GENOCIDES, whilst Ben Gvir is telling the world all Lebanese should be BURNED. WTF ? And the British GOVERNMENT are fine with that statement, apparently for £50k a pop made them let Israel just carry on. CUNTS.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Iranian singer sentenced to 74 lashes for performing without hijab, says human rights group. Solidarity with the women of Iran. State power and religion always make a toxic mix of intolerance and obedience. Yet the far-right in the USA, UK, West pursuing religious nationalism.
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Iranian singer sentenced to 74 lashes for performing without hijab - rights group
The 29-year-old and eight other musicians have been punished by the autocratic regime for sharing ‘vulgar and immoral content’
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Meet Congo‘s most dedicated World Cup fan. Michel Kuka Mboladinga: the man who stands as a statue for the entire match. [📹 romangabriel1933] Original post
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Paul @boipaul.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
We are digging coal
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
My favourite four frame story of all time. #WorldCup
1. an big bald england fan with lots of tattoos is in a crowd celebrating, shirt off, the lot.

2. an official approaches...

3. the official has a hand up and the fan looks sheepish

4. the official continues to admonish while the england fan quietly puts his shirt back on
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Posted on the biggest anti-Muslim hatred site on the planet.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Let's be very clear that vicious anti Muslim hatred by politicians and their trillionaire mate Elon Musk create the conditions for this kind of vile attack. Sending huge solidarity to the Muslim community in Edinburgh and beyond.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This story currently leads BBC Scotland. But down here in London you have to scroll all the way down past the London news, the World Cup, whatever the BBC calls its Reels equivalent, more World Cup, weekend picks and 'lazy summer recipes' to the 'around the UK' to see it
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
We need to talk about the revolving door… 🚨🚨🚨 Click here to read: open.substack.com/pub/jujuliag...
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D Mcguire @dmcguirecfc67.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Some guy has written a song about the Scottish fans
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
“restrictions on pro-Palestinian speech and protest, when justified by invocations of Jewish safety, will backfire and weaken social cohesion and potentially increase antisemitism”. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
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Conflation of Jewish identity with Israel driving antisemitism, Jewish Council says in submission to royal commission
Progressive Jewish group calls for more focus on the threat from the far right and the recognition of a diversity of views within the community
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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
www.thenational.scot/news/2621113...
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Former New York lawyer jailed for three years for targeting Nadia El-Nakla
A MAN convicted of threatening or abusive behaviour towards Scotland's senior law officer and the wife of a former Scottish First Minister was…
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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
What two scenes have the same vibe. I'll go first:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
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Gavin Greig @ggreig.com · 17/06/2026
Shakespeare could write histories on the parallel tragedies of Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer - both desperate to have power, but no idea how to use it for the betterment of the people.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Roy Hodrien (British Artist, born 1957) "Still Life with Lemon and Grapes", n.d. Oil on Canvas Painting, 41 × 30 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Chainsaws speak louder than words.
Social media post:
Elon Musk @elonmusk
Believe what you see, not what you're told

the ben keeps the flores @limitlessjest
Ok. I've been told you're a genius but I've only
ever seen you behave like a fucking moron
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This Governments branding of protest as 'terrorism' has seen grandparents arrested and dragged through the courts simply for holding up signs. It's deeply authoritarian when people are speaking out against a genocide and for a free Palestine.
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Blairer @haggisblarer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
How Farage broke Britain. #Brexit 👇
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Creativity is what makes you different: Charpai texture [📹 varma.vinodkumar] Original post
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The Little Milk Carrier, 1844 by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austria, 1793 -1869). Oil on canvas | 79.5 x 62.5 cm. Location: Belvedere, Vienna, Austria. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Ron Lawson (Scottish Artist, born 1960) "Old Phonebox, Tiree", 2019. Watercolour and Gouache, 16 × 30 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Hippos can’t technically swim. The perfect combination of buoyancy and bone density allows them to “fly” thorough water at speeds of 5mph, (8 kph), propelling themselves using intermittent ground contact, like astronauts on a moon walk. Original post
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Er. I hope someone has reported this to the police because I really feel this should be reported to the police
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Ole Sanvig @sanvig.dk · 12/06/2026
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It’s so strange that Starmer is unpopular. Completely incomprehensible.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 11/06/2026
They say banning trail hunting will mean thousands of hounds have to die. But they already kill them. Our hidden camera footage shows hunt staff tossing the bodies of healthy dogs into skips like rubbish. Routinely. Casually.
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Dave Mac/ Dàibhidh MacDhòmhnaill @davemac1112.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Lesley McG @lesleymac.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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