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Maggie Neilson

@maggieneilson.bsky.social
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Scot in Highlands/Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retired 👩‍💼 cat lover 🐈‍⬛ outdoorsy 🏔️ Francophile 🇫🇷 pro Europe 🇪🇺 pro Canada 🇨🇦 I try and avoid politics until I can’t any more 🇺🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱

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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’d somehow missed seeing anything about this until now so had to look it up. WTAF are they thinking?
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You'd think so...🙄
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The people who assisted the emergency services in the Glasgow airport attack were in a different category altogether. Extremely brave men who put their lives in danger when they didn't know what they were facing. Awarded medals and commendations for bravery afterwards. Anything but twee.
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good grief! Why do people do this?
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🥺
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think the inhabitants of Piddington will eventually regret their actions. A few days ago no one had heard of Piddington but now they'll forever be associated with the actions of this clown.
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here’s hoping you’re right
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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...
you.38degrees.org.uk
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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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Rank hypocrisy?
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A friend who is a judge in a different jurisdiction tried this with copilot recently. On her own laptop the response was utter bilge. On the laptop provided by the tribunal the response was ok(ish).
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Me too!
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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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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I mean obviously it’s appalling but is it not also politically stupid in the sense that in the future any journalist can ask him if he still supports violence against women? It will play well with real Reform junkies but presumably not so well with the Tories they’ll be trying to win over?
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Mind you, remember Andrew Mountbatten Windsor...
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’m Scottish and got Massachusetts
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ah, I was unaware of this. Why have they done this and have other institutions done the same?
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Indeed. You’d have thought they might have learned from Scotland. Labour took it for granted for decades and look what happened there.
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
So sorry to hear this. What a lovely picture. 💔
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Because of course it works famously well when you irritate the people you’re negotiating with. 🤣🙄 🤡
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Oh lucky Steve! ❤️
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Loved this shop!
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What a country
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sad face rather than grumpy face?
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Save the world famous Glenelg to Skye ferry by signing the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
you.38degrees.org.uk
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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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
On Radio Scotland a Reform spokesman said it was Farage's own security team who advised him not to go. Changing tack already?
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
On Radio Scotland a few minutes ago some Reform bod (no idea who - deputy leader in Scotland maybe?) said it was Farage's own security team who advised him not to go so they seem to be changing tack already.
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Yeah we preferred the atmospheric eclipse vibe we got in Edinburgh. Who wants completely clear skies anyway!
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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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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Please don’t restrict it to the All Blacks. I’m sure all the other countries in the 6 nations would love to see it at the start of the matches.
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
That too!
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It’s commonly known as the turd
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The more the merrier!
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Try being Scottish and typing a word doc! No, I meant to use ‘which’ not ‘that’ thanks very much. And actually ’outwith’ is a word (an essential one at that - no idea how non Scots manage without it).
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What an utterly pathetic whiny man
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
As a young lawyer I shared a flat with a Norwegian lawyer who shadowed me for a few weeks. She was astonished that people were taken to prison immediately upon sentencing. She was very concerned that people wouldn’t have time to get their affairs in order before their sentence started.
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is brilliant. Thank you for sharing it.
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I love his side eyes!
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
So pleased to see him looking so happy and healthy. Have followed his story from the start. What a great outcome. 👏🏼 ❤️
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
And I suspect irreversible too...
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I just have - and it’s excellent!
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Ban on sale of disposable BBQs
We want the Government to introduce a nationwide ban on the sale of single-use disposable barbecues. Disposable BBQs are increasingly linked to preventable wildfires, which poses a serious risk to pu...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🚨 Major Investigation: George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster and long-time Farage ally, has influenced Reform UK’s finances through an apparent act of identity fraud. Thread on the key findings below 👇 bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...
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‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures
Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Excellent article. Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive...
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Obviously I was aware of the Epstein stuff but wasn’t aware just how much grifting went on before that. The book title is perfect. Entitled, unpleasant and greedy people.
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Yet they never stop lecturing Europe on freedom of speech…🤔
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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Avoch
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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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Maggie Neilson @maggieneilson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
2 utterly corrupt entities - FIFA and Trump’s USA. Absolutely disgusting.
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