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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A landowner is putting the iconic Glenelg to Skye ferry at risk. Support the local community and save the world famous Glenelg to Skye ferry by 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 the ferry's operator says its futur...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm organising a Remembrance Lecture on Mon 9 November at Edinburgh Napier's Craiglockhart Campus- as a War Hospital, this was where Wilfred Owen & Siegfried Sassoon met. This year David Goldie will talk about Scottish Poetry of the First World War. Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/MTEHXf41Mf

The ubiquitous photo of the staff, nurses and patients of the Craiglockhart War Hospital on the lawn outside the historic front of the building, from 1917. The men are in their khaki uniforms, with hats, and the women are in their nurses's uniforms and headdresses, flowing white.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Image: In a childrens library, a small boy contentedly reads a small picture book, while an angry-looking small girl storms past, carrying a very heavy book.

Caption:
Unfortunately for Charlotte, the adjudication committee decides that, for the purposes of the under-nines summer reading challenge, the six volumes of proust's 'in search of lost time' is considered to be one single narrative, whereas each of Roger hargreaves' mister men' books is a distinct work, thereby awarding the library's 'top reader' sticker to her brother Toby.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

As ever, happy birthday to all June-14th-ers, except one.

Unhappy Birthday to Me

It’s important to share, or so I’ve been taught,
to show kindness to others, to be a good sport.
But all of those teachings have taken a bump –
for I share my birthday with Donald Trump.

For years I knew not of this dark, dreadful fate,
and with ignorant bliss I honoured the date –
but then it got hijacked, sullied, gazumped
by a self-serving bigot, a foul gibberlump.

With him, I would share an infectious disease,
a mouldy bread roll, an infestation of fleas,
a romantic weekend at a toxic waste dump –
but please, not my birthday, Mr. Tangerine Chump.

Alternative dates he’s welcome to try –
12th Febtember, 33rd July.
But 14th June? In a lake, take a jump
and find a new date, you deranged sewage pump.

Brian Bilston

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🚨 World Press Freedom Index 2026 just dropped The US is now placed 64 in the world. Between Panama and Botswana. #pressfreedom rsf.org/en

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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The Scottish Fire & Rescue Service has issued wildfire warnings for various parts of the country this weekend. We support their #NoHarmlessFires campaign. Most wildfires are easily started, human caused, and preventable. Protect our landscape, wildlife, and communities. 👉 buff.ly/o9yWES1

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Scottish Wildlife Trust @scotwildlife.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Wildfires can spread quickly and cause immeasurable damage to our precious wildlife. Avoid lighting a fire outdoors during high-risk periods or when a wildfire danger alert is in place for your area. Remember, there’s no such thing as a harmless fire. #NoHarmlessFires

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 29/01/2026

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Amount of blood US has expended defending Greenland: zero. Amount of blood Denmark has expended defending the US: 43 Danish soldiers gave their lives in Afghanistan, responding to a US appeal under article 5 of NATO. Ogles has no idea about any of this, because he's an incompetent buffoon.

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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

This is the best thread ever. It makes me happy every time I see it. Lots of absolutely brilliant ones but my personal favourite is Bridget with the skating minister on Duddingston Loch. Her expression is priceless - like 'what on earth are you doing?'. Thank you.

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

This 🇫🇷 Christmas advert for the Intermarché supermarket is so charming and also pokes gentle fun at the French image as a nation of voracious carnivores . . . Made by a Montpellier-based animation studio

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Intermarché - Unloved

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.

The Good Old Days

Pity the poor children
of today, with their calendars
stuffed with chocolates,

never to know the thrill
of opening a small cardboard door
and discovering behind it

a picture of a bell.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 19/11/2025

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Bid for decorated envelopes in this charity auction for the Alzheimer society. I've contributed one of them. astarauction.com/getsmart25

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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️BOOK GIVEAWAY⭐️⭐️⭐️ To celebrate the return of #Shetland detective series I am giving away 2 signed copies of Ponies at the Edge of the World with 2 wish bottles with Shetland shells or seaglass. To enter just like, share and comment on this post

Image shows hands with blue nail Polish holding a copy of Ponies at the Edge of the World

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025

Farage: epic grifter

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 02/10/2025

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Edinburgh O'Clock @edinburghclock.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train. A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social. Please repost with your own caption.

Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin

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The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Pipers and drummers from Skye play in Barga, the most Scottish town in Italy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇹 Read @danigaravelli.bsky.social on why Barga is Italy's Scottish city: www.heraldscotland.com/life... 𝘝𝘐𝘋: 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵

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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

It's the first cold morning of Autumn, and it's welcome.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/09/2025

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events: "I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This week’s Sunday @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

This. Vance wasn’t here for a holiday.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

These two things cannot both be true: 1: throwing a sandwich at a federal officer is a violent assault worthy of prosecution. 2: raiding the Capitol grounds, assaulting police offices & vandalizing federal property in an effort to interfere with an election is a harmless protest worthy of pardons.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Happy National Relaxation Day to all those who celebrate.

Early Morning Karma

Weary
of its buzzing,

he smashed up
his alarm,

with his cherished
bedside copy

of The Little Book
of Calm.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.

Poem title: At the Intersection

The poem is divided into two overlapping circles.

The left-hand circle is titled ‘me’ and the text reads:
the day we
went out to have
an ice-cream, we said nothing
just let our silence melt in
the air as we walked across the common
our love never tiring at all

The right-hand circle is titled ‘you’ and the text reads:
we should
have talked it over but
nothing ever seems to get
in your fat head. You are so
common that I wish we’d never met
at all and I’d married Tim instead

In the intersection of the poem (where the two circles overlap), the text reads:
we
have
nothing
in
common
at all

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

a thin white woman in head to toe lululemon screaming at these thugs makes me think ICE has jumped the shark

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

How fortunate that the US has its own climate, insulated from the rest of the world. How unfortunate that it’s a climate of festering resentment and bitter self-righteousness.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

President Macron speaking at Guildhall, "The European Union was stronger with the UK, and the UK was stronger with the European Union" "We want to write our future and not be the story written by another continent.. The only way to chose our future is to do it together"

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

And now for today’s climate forecast …

Today’s Climate Forecast

And onto today’s climate forecast,
where we can expect to see a prolonged spell of inaction,
interspersed with patches of hazy promises
across many areas.

Over Westminster and other centres of government,
a build-up of hot air will cause inactivity to soar
to record levels over the coming days,
in spite of the high pressure.

Elsewhere, a front of chronic misinformation
will sweep in from the east,
bringing with it a thick band of climate change deniers
and the chance of scattered falsehoods,

while powerful gusts of idiocy and ignorance
look set to blow across social media.
Outbreaks of ‘We just got on with it in 1976’
and ‘It’s called the British summer, mate’ are likely.

In summary: unsettling.

Brian Bilston

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The Welcoming Edinburgh @welcomingedinburgh.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Hello Bluesky! 👋 We’re The Welcoming Association, a charity supporting New Scots in Edinburgh with free English classes, social groups, job support and more. We’ll be sharing updates from our community, celebrating New Scots’ voices, and standing for dignity, inclusion and connection in our city.

Men and women in a colourful classroom looking and smiling at the camera at The Welcoming Association.

Men and women outside on Arthurs Seat looking and smiling at the camera with The Welcoming Association.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Government by Troll. I remember when America was a serious country.

White House post with Trump next to alligators in ICE caps

ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ
MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN

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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

These fires are devastating to wildlife. The fire service, farm workers and gamekeepers (amongst others) have been working flat out for days trying to contain them. While we'll have to wait to find out the cause I really wish people would heed the notices asking them not to light fires or bbqs.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Time to pick a side, America. Is this the future you want for us?

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Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Happy 14th June to all those (except one) who celebrate.

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