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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That is sad news. Off to join his mate Barry Cryer at the great comedy festival in the sky. The line-up keeps getting better and better.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I went to see a Mercury Music Prize nominated Scottish “genre-spanning”/jazz outfit called corto.alto at the Edinburgh International Festival a few days ago. Is he (he has regular collaborators but not a permanent band) on your radar? The second album comes out in a couple of weeks.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New Balearic dream pop from a real blast from the past sounds just the ticket.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What a vile comment. It has nothing to do with Muslims or any preference they may have and everything to do with the UK having gun laws that are among the strictest in the world. THAT is a “British thing”.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

15.05 is a very convenient time (less competition) and I do love the little encampment at the Potterrow underpass. I’ll put your show on my list.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I love this. Was she ever foolish enough to go up in one of his kites?

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Artist or no artist, I like to see the poster (I live in Edinburgh, very much the epicentre of shows with posters in August).

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

You’ve started me thinking about my lovely Scottish Granny, who was the first person who I thought of when you mentioned dear. Now feeling warm and fuzzy.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Essentially, yes. But it’s also about a culture difference between medicine/health care and social work. There’s something special about the doctor-patient relationship that is lost in the translation to client, which sounds, as you say, transactional.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Did you leave before the patient vs client debate began within certain community teams in mental health? Health and social work - can’t live with each other, can’t live without each other.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Individual innovators and entrepreneurs may well have generated the original idea but investors will only part with their cash for profit. If the ideas will best serve the greater good of society and are not profitable, they can only do so with government funding and infrastructure.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Don’t fly Ryanair if you can avoid it (sometimes difficult if you want a direct flight).

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hence functional cognitive impairment.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Enjoy the beautiful Scottish scenery man! It won’t look like this for long if AMOC collapses.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It’s actually very good if you have a taste for Guinness.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"Countries that relied only on the normal tools (voting, suing, legislating) climbed back to democracy seven percent of the time... But! Countries that added a civil resistance movement on top of that... climbed back fifty-one percent of the time."

thefarce.org

Why Just Voting Isn’t Enough to Stop a Dictator

Three reasons to remember we are the only guardrails we have.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Two clear & colossal threats: 1) Palantir (especially under the US CLOUD Act 2018) and 2) the UK-US pharmaceutical deal of Dec 2025 where UK govt, without scrutiny, changed NHS pricing rules at Trump’s behest. Both must go. #NHS #Burnham #Palantir #Trump

youtu.be

UK must end US interference in NHS

YouTube video by Scientists for EU

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

His mother was from the Western Isles. Pining for the old country?

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I did not think that this creep could sink lower in my estimation. The man is a menace to public health among many other things.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Hanging out at the Royal Concert Hall with Weegies of a certain age again. #lastchancetosee(probably)

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I caught your segment. It’s a pity that you didn’t mention “cuts” to USAID delaying the response. This is an action of the current US administration that is not well publicised in the UK.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Vanta black is made from carbon nanotubes, and absorbs something like 99.965% of all the light falling on it. It creates a sense of total absence, with no hint of the topography of the surface it's on. Is it suspended in space? Painted on the wall? Flat or concave?

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It’s football. This isn’t the “soccer World Cup”.

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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Green and Black Cross are offering trans-specific know your rights protest training this Friday. The link to sign up is here, and I’d appreciate it if you could share this widely.

greenandblackcross.org

Trans-Specific Know Your Rights Training – 12th June, 6.30pm-8.30pm (ONLINE) | Green and Black Cross

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Is that Eric Sykes, Wanda Sykes or Sykes the dog actor whose real name was Harvey?

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Incompetent bee-keeping which chimes with every other aspect of this administration. I spent 3 afternoons with a friend who keeps bees and even I know how this happened.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

New research from Yale and Johns Hopkins identifies microvascular endotheliopathy (inflammation and damage to small blood vessels) as a primary driver of long COVID brain fog. The study indicates that vascular damage from the initial infection leads to long-term neuroinflammation.

healthrising.org

Inflamed Blood Vessels Appear to be Causing Brain Fog in Long COVID - Health Rising

Yale researchers find that inflamed blood vessels are associated with cognitive declines in long COVID.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

What’s this thing that you have with large breasts inevitably causing back pain? Some women do have that issue but not everyone does.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The choice of bras becomes progressively more limited with increasing cup size and less and less cute.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Did you miss the joke or did I? Also, “oversight”.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I got as far as putting some knickers on my bottom half but no further. Classic pandemic era video meeting dress code.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Went to see Basement Jaxx play live recently. Great show.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

There were some top-notch gags on tonight’s show, delivered with precision by Sue Perkins.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It’s worth noting that the comment appears to have been made by a woman. Women are not well known for their sexual interest in prepubescent girls.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Perfect name for a tribute band = Angina Pectoris

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/04/2026

One of the most enraging aspects of [waves hands] all this is that the assholes dismantling America's government *do not understand it*. They are stupid, incurious people who've spent their lives marinating in RW agitprop. They have no idea what they are destroying.

thehandbasket.co

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book

Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

If you wrapped that in a luscious slice of freshly baked bread (à la a crisp sandwich), would it fulfil Michael Gove’s definition of a substantial meal? Absolute heaven one way or the other.

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Bill Hicks. I once saw him perform at the Edinburgh Fringe.

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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A bit like the Russians, if there's a war, you're one of the ones who started and fed it. So you can end your "special military operation" against trans people any time you like.

Jenny Lindsay: one year on from supreme court victory, I'm still hoping for an end to 'gender wars'

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Caroline Ritchie @nanonanu.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I’ve just read Ms Lindsay’s piece in The Scotsman. As a woman & a feminist, doing so made me feel both enraged & judged. She has no answers for trans-people & seems to want to legislate them out of existence. Many of them are, like me, neurodivergent & I feel as much kinship with them as with women.

scotsman.as

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