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Punks With Purpose @punkswpurpose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

One of the guiding principles is that organistions treat your information with care and privacy, and do not share it with other entities without your permission*. Companies lay this out in their privacy statement, usually found on their website. *except under very specific circumstances

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Punks With Purpose @punkswpurpose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If you (or someone you know) suspects personal data has been mishandled, and contact details have been shared without consent, you have the right to submit a DSAR - a data subject access request - to the relevant organisation to find out what information they hold on you.

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Punks With Purpose @punkswpurpose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Personal data, such as your name, email address, age, phone number or home address, is protected by GDPR laws. Any company with access to your personal data has to follow strict, specific laws that determine how they may process this information.

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Gave @craftbeerncl.bsky.social a wee lick of digital paint. There’s some nice history behind the colour and typeface too!

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Craft Beer Newcastle @craftbeerncl.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Time to share our new logo After a decade of celebrating North East beer, we thought we should give things a bit of a refresh. Many thanks to Rob MacKay for being an awesome designer to work with!

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Everyone’s talking about whether Farage was racist to schoolchildren as a boy when he was racist to schoolchildren THIS WEEK. All the kids who are of reading age can read what he says about them.

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Stop what you’re doing and take a little time to check out @davidjesudason.bsky.social’s excellent piece on Hobgoblin!

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Since I turned forty I’ve started feeling like maybe I’m getting old. Every time I hear about a new policy or review that is clearly designed to appease right wing oldies, it reminds me that I am, in fact, still relatively young.

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Off to Belfast next week - any food and drink recommendations greatly appreciated! We were hoping to find someone kid-friendly with live music if possible…

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

About time I brought back the hero we all deserve, but the hero we didn’t need back then

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Fantastic piece on a takeaway I knew well during my first four years in Glasgow.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

On the same day in the Telegraph:

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Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement

Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty

Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence

[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]

Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent

29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph

Money > Property > Second homes

How to avoid tax on your second home

From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net

[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]

Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer

29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

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Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

One of the challenges we have as a publisher is balancing the narrative of supporting small independents with larger cultural impact stories that just feel ripe to be told. I think @rjm.bsky.social does a wonderful job with this long read on Tennent's Lager: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...

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The Vertigo of Bliss — Scotland’s Inseparable Relationship with Tennent’s Lager — Pellicle

It’s a Sunday, nearly midnight, and I’m in 8 Ball–a dilapidated yet bustling pool hall above the Scotia, an out-of-the-way folk bar in Glasgow city centre. Occasionally a buzzer sounds, signalling som...

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Honoured to be asked to revamp Tipple’s brand identity, and excited to use custom lettering, something that’s become a bigger part of my repertoire over the last few months.

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Bloody @northernmonk.bsky.social scooping up the best possible script font for their brand…

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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Here’s a story for Bluesky and thanks to @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social please attend her pride in solidarity tonight! Or RT

Pride still triggers homophobic pub goers
When Hazel Southwell took over the Royal Oak pub in Erith, south-east London, last December she feared the locals would shun a gay woman with Georgian heritage as she thought it was a Reform heartland.
The regulars surprised her, confrontations were rare and she secured a 400K in funds
for a renovation to change the decor and
60-year-old carpet. But when Hazel had to bar one drinker for posting online hate about a Pride party at the Oak, the bigot organised a boycott of the London pub.
Hazel then feared she would lose her job because of the drop in takings.
"It was difficult to secure the huge amount of funding to be spent on the pub," Hazel says. "It's a shame people have to spoil it by willing me to fail. Before this it was heartwarming that there was such good integration with LGTBQ+ [people], with everyone playing darts."

But the news of bigots trying to spoil this diversity sparked a huge amount of solidarity in the LGBTQ+ community and its allies with Hazel hoping that people all over London travel to Saturday's Pride event.
"The whole point of Pride is that people can celebrate themselves and feel good about themselves," said a member of the Oak's bar staff. "It's a show against bullies and people who'd rather not understand. It's the first time we've done this here and it's really important for everyone who feels like they ought to keep quiet or to live as someone else because of where they are living."
Most drinkers at the Oak are happy to show solidarity. "I'm really excited for it," a regular customer said, "it's not been done here and I hope it'll bring new people in. This pub's been waiting for a breath of life for donkey's years and you can't resuscitate it by doing the same things every week.
"Plus it'll be a proper party, what's to complain about?"

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Brian O'Halloran @playingwithdust.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This is an amazing read from The Oatmeal. Well worth a look. theoatmeal.com/comics/plane...

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It's going to be okay. - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about a plane crash.

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Doric Studio @doricstudio.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Fresh batch of Butteries are online noo. Sizes Medium to XXXL. Link. In. Bio. ✊

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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It’s nearly the four-year anniversary of this article some say changed the narrative of the IPA. (Although breweries still shy away from the truth) Sir Geoff Palmer died recently and he really inspired the article. RIP Sir Geoff www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2021/8/...

Meme I created based on Anakin Padme four-cell meme.

Anakin is depicted as Magic Rock Cannonball he says: Cannonball is an India Pale Ale in the true tradition, massively hopped to survive a long sea voyage

Padmé Amidala replies: ‘A voyage to where?’

Anakin: silence

Padmé Amidala: ‘To where?’

"I remember when I was getting my OBE. Just before my mother passed away. I told her there are people saying whether I should go to Buckingham Palace and take it. She said, 'We are of slave descent. People gave us nothing. Why should you not take it—you made the
empire.''
— SIR GEOFF PALMER, HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY

"If you go to Delhi, [British influence is] everywhere. It's [shown in] the buildings-there are many similarities from Connaught Place in Delhi to Regent Street in London, especially the part up near Piccadilly Circus. Being a Londoner, you do double-take when you see this, and you can't really put it aside. But I just hope that something like this never happens again."

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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 05/06/2025

when i joined bluesky two years ago people joked that it was a posting retirement home for 38 year olds but this place has undergone such massive change since then, like the average age is now 40

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Enjoying the little individual right wing unofficial efficiency departments springing up. Super efficient.

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Add a letter, ruin a movie. Emission Impossible

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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This tool is worth an estimated £30m and speaks on behalf of a company with assets of $223 billion. The average income of an author is £7000. But if he isn't allowed to steal our work, he won’t make enough money. Why can’t people like @teamlabouruk.bsky.social see how profoundly fucked up this is?

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Bollocks that the ship has sailed on refusing to use AI. The metaverse wasn’t inevitable. 3D films weren’t inevitable. People have agency in this www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

The people refusing to use AI

Worried about the environment and the loss of skills, some people are resisting the rise of AI.

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Who made this? (It was me, I made this.)

Tommy Tiernan appears as both the sad and the happy character in the bus meme, emulating his appearance as depressed priest Father Kevin in the show Father Ted.

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This has been bothering me for a while but I’m so used to it now that the idea of actually calling the anniversary of a brewery opening an “anniversary” sounds completely weird…

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 01/05/2025

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Here for your brewery design needs! 🖊️🎨🍻

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Tipple Marketing @tipplemarketing.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

There’s something we’ve been missing for a while: branding and graphic design. So we’re over the moon to announce that Rob MacKay has joined us on a freelance ad hoc basis to allow us to offer our clients even more!

A photo of Rob MacKay in a checked shirt with a yellow t-shirt underneath, holding a glass of dark beer

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The pope is such a suck-up, imagine dying at Easter just so he can show off when he sees his boss

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Coming soon - beer designer action figures! Features the grumpy face of a man who’s already seen too much genAI bullshit! Plus bad posture!

An illustration depicting me as an action figure, with a little pencil and paper and a laptop. It’s not made with genAI.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The British automotive industry contributes £22bn to the UK economy. The creative industries contribute £124bn. Fucksake. Stop AI copyright theft.

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Craft Beer Channel @craftbeerchannel.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

At some point around 8am we hit 2,000 signatures on our petition to get cask ale recognised as living heritage by the UK government. 8,000 to go to get an official response, 98,000 to get a debate in Parliament! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

petition.parliament.uk

Petition: Recognise the production and serving of cask ale as Intangible Cultural Heritage

Following the UK’s ratification of UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, we call on the Government to recognise production and serving of traditional British cask a...

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Queer Brewing @queerbrewing.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It’s #TransDayOfVisibility today, and we’re sending love and strength to our trans siblings everywhere. It feels like we’re in a time of a continual increase in transphobia, anti-trans rhetoric and legislation, and violence against trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people worldwide. /1

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

An overreaction on my part, having read the piece too fast. I would amend to, the purpose of the exercise appears to be creating a problem to justify AI as a solution.

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The purpose of the exercise appears to be, “can AI design a beer that will please everyone”, to which of course the answer is “no”.

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Star Wars did a phenomenal job of feeling like an inhabited, used universe full of interesting background characters. It all went wrong the second they allowed anyone to build on that universe outside of the movies.

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Do I need to listen to INay on the Hombre all the way through to VIIINay on the Hombre, or can I just start with the ninth one?

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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Nominated ‘best managed pub company’ despite this open letter in April 2024 www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2025...

Dear BrewDog,
In the past weeks, we have been given a platform to tell our stories anonymously and now we can reveal that the unnamed pub (in the link below) is BrewDog Waterloo.
We are the workers who have endured such a horrific time by management and the poor practices they have forced upon us.
Most people until now will have been previously unaware of our plight and they will now be shocked by how far removed it is compared to the PR gloss pushed by BrewDog's corporate team on Linkedin and on Twitter.
To come forward in this way took a lot of bravery as we feel that management has instilled a culture of fear in our workplace especially when we attempt to fix some of the disgraceful practices that put us and our customers at risk.
The BBC Disclosure documentary in 2022 unearthed systemic examples of poor practices. We feel that our accounts at BrewDog Waterloo show that not only has the company not taken any reforms but the situation has become worse, with a profits and growth model followed at the cost of our mental and physical health.
Our accounts are totally at odds with the steps that James Watt, co-founder of BrewDog, said would be made in 2021 by the company after 61 former BrewDog workers said "growth, at all costs, has always been perceived as the number one focus for the company. Being treated like a human being was sadly not always a given for those working at BrewDog."
Instead, we are united in our message that we are being mistreated because of the way BrewDog values profits over people.
BrewDog Waterloo was meant to be a new start when it opened in August 2022 but instead trusting its management with a new pub - said to be the largest in the

We have had to work in unsafe conditions and until recently there has never been anyone monitoring door numbers at the pub. On numerous occasions managers have told us that the building is "hundreds over capacity" and these dangerous conditions involve young children, many of whom have been injured by the freedom they have been given late at night in what should be an adult space. We begged management for more fire training, fire marshals and first aid equipment and were continually ignored.
We have had to tolerate managers who boast about employing homeless people to collect glasses in exchange for inedible food - a charge management yet again ignored, which emails show. And we have had to work in an environment so toxic many of us have cried in the workplace or suffered mental health issues, due to the trauma.
The profits before people business model has seen us forced by management into selling beer towers to intoxicated customers at 11pm. This is not only dangerous but creates a situation where customers refuse to leave and we work late in an unsafe environment. We have had to call the police on numerous occasions when management has forced us to serve customers who should be refused alcohol.
Aside from our safety, this shows the management is not a responsible licensee and we should not be pushing irresponsible drinks promotions to intoxicated customers.
We also have urged management to put in place a curfew for families, but instead intoxicated customers are often in the presence of young children.
The list of poor practices goes on and on. In fact, there are too many to list here.
When the pub first opened, we were given perks such as free drinks and meals, and free merchandise to wear, but these benefits started to be taken from us. We endured our breaks being cut, and were forced to work extra shifts when we were exhausted at busy periods, such as Christmas and during the World Cup.

We clung on because we were paid the living wage and living in London in 2024 is hugely expensive. Now the only perk that made working at BrewDog Waterloo bearable has been taken away from us despite management telling us regularly that we've had record-breaking months. Asking for this measure to be reinstated is not a demand but something we feel would only be just because of the work we do, and the conditions we work in.
As well as having the living wage reinstated it is just too that you enact the reforms you pledged in June 2021. There should be an anonymous - and crucially - independent bullying helpline, and major retraining of all managers.
James, we know this is your favourite pub as you visit it most weeks. Is there any chance you could make the situation more equitable by acknowledging our plight?
We urge people to RT this and the article below in solidarity with the workers of BrewDog Waterloo by using the #WithoutUsWeAreNothing hashtag.
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Free log-ins today at the Sunday Times! Which means you can read my piece on beers in Waitrose. (Pubs and independent bottle shops are also available.) If you like beer being in the broadsheets, please click, dwell and comments! Ta. www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

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Which supermarket has the best beer? Here’s our expert’s choice

‘Last year, this supermarket’s beer buyer even co-created a new coffee pale ale with a brewery in Bristol’

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