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gender | housing | class | intimacy| squatting | anarchism | law | conflict | publishing @freedompress.bsky.social Edinburgh/Cornwall

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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 14/12/2025
🔴NEW: A body which sets environmental and welfare standards for fish farms took wholesale buyers to a Scottish salmon farm which broke its rules for 11 consecutive weeks. Our latest investigation: www.theferret.scot/a...
Aerial view of circular salmon fish farm pens in dark water. Overlaid text reads: “REVEALED: A fish farm breached animal welfare rules. The regulator still took firms there on a PR tour.” Smaller text explains that the Aquaculture Stewardship Council showcased a Scottish farm that had breached sea lice rules 11 times.
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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
"Saturday’s mobilisation highlights both the rising confidence of the far right in Scotland, as well as the desperate need for autonomous, grassroots antifascist organising." 💯
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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Projectiles were thrown back at the fascists, despite the protestations of SUTR/FFA, who would rather turn the other cheek and collaborate with the police than support antifascist self-defence. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/12/12/s...
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Scottish antifascists hold the line in Falkirk - Freedom News
The small town between Edinburgh and Glasgow has become fertile ground for the far right following years of cuts and collapsing local services ~ Sc…
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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
🚨 BREAKING: The 28 oil & gas exploration licences we legally challenged have just been ruled lawful by the High Court. This means exploration can go ahead, despite 3/4 of the licences sitting inside marine PROTECTED areas - wildlife havens home to porpoises, puffins & seals 🐬 🧵🔽
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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
@gregorsamsa have I found the job for you
job ad for director of transformation at charity called Buglife
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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🚨 1/6 of all UK commercial fish stocks are in an overfished state and STILL being overexploited ❌🐟 How can anyone justify overfishing these struggling stocks? It can only lead to empty seas, devoid of life 📉 Join us in calling on PM Keir Starmer to end overfishing: act.oceana.org/page/178303/...
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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🚨BREAKING🚨 WE’VE WON OUR CASE TO #DefendDemocracy The Court of Appeal has ruled that anti-protest laws which completely ignored the will of Parliament are unlawful
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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The small farmers of 2024 are not natural allies of the left and certainly not of the anarchists. But we may have more potential strength than we think in getting through to them. freedomnews.org.uk/2024/11/24/r...
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Return the common to the goose - Freedom News
Farmers’ protests over a velvety soft reduction of inheritance tax privileges may seem overblown, but there’s a kernel of something interesting there ~ Rob Ray ~ With tractors besieging Downing Street...
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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
MoH are rad, follow them 🫡
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Youth Legal @youthlegal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
YL is recruiting for a Housing/Community Care caseworker- amazing opportunity to provide young people and families w children access to their legal rights to housing and LA service provision more info at youthlegalresourcecentre.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/YouthL...
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Rebecca McCurdy @rebeccamccurdy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It's day two of @heraldscotland.bsky.social investigation into access to justice. Lawyers in Glasgow tell us there's an "impending disaster" in civil legal aid as 80% consider withdrawing from domestic abuse protective cases because of pay concerns. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2472546...
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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
god they are just so disingenuous "The evening spending that supports local businesses is at risk ... there is no upside to Edinburgh’s outlier approach to regulation, and we encourage the city to explore a more inclusive way forward." Residents literally don't exist to them
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Airbnb demands rethink of Edinburgh's 'draconian' curbs as slump in Fringe bookings is revealed
Visitors said to have cut back length of their festival stays by almost a fifth
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The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
You can find every article from day one of The Herald's in-depth investigation into Scotland's legal aid crisis HERE: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2472727... @andrewlearmonth.bsky.social @kathleennutt.bsky.social @rebeccamccurdy.bsky.social @hannahmargbrown.bsky.social
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Clapton CFC @claptoncfc.co.uk · 18/11/2024
Allow us to (re)introduce ourselves 👋 We are East London’s 100% fan-owned and fan-run football club, formed in 2018. We are proud owners of the Old Spotted Dog in Forest Gate, London’s oldest senior football ground. Our women’s first team play in tier 6. Our men’s first team are in tier 10.
CCFC women’s first team players huddle in front of the Scaffold stand at the Old Spotted Dog ground
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Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com · 18/11/2024
A very important read and it's desperately annoying that it's a taboo even in most parts of the left! For all abstract definitions of "class" it's clearly the case that it's essentially inheritance and / or easy access to capital. Once defined can be reformed! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Bank of Mum and Dad: why we all now live in an ‘inheritocracy’
Family wealth dictates our life choices. So is the Bank of Mum and Dad now behind so many of society’s growing inequalities?
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This is a great mod/extension for Bluesky, hides or labels AI generated imagery bsky.app/profile/aimo...
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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Interesting report on the collapse of the Scottish courts due to staff overwork, backlogs, outsources, etc etc all coming to a boiling point letting down those engaged in the criminal justice system - often having to wait 3+ years for a trial www.heraldscotland.com/news/2472916...
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Justice in the dock: Why Scotland's courts are broken and set to collapse
In a special report our Writer at Large investigates the delivery of justice in Scotland, and uncovers a litany of failures, mistakes and disasters…
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Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com · 13/11/2024
London friends, this is tonight! ✨
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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
rearranging the furniture in your study can bring such a sense of optimism and being in control of your own life. brutal when it turns it it doesnt lead directly to any work actually getting done
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Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com · 12/11/2024
Hey new BlueSkyers! Here goes the inevitable "this is who you followed" 🧵. A Lithuanian-Tatar who fled for UK after '08 economic crash, but now lives in Copenhagen. My latest big project "Everything To Play For" is out worldwide with Verso @versobooks.bsky.social. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Olle Folke @ollefolke.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
My and @johannarickne.bsky.social 's paper on the ”Class Ceiling in Politics” is now out in the APSR with open access! We describe the key findings below. 1/9
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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
hello bluesky! Im Ro, I write about housing, gender, class, squatting, conflict, solidarity, and anarchism. PhD graduate in geography, looking at the gender and class politics of squatting, now happy teaching housing rights in the charity sector. Here's a wee thread of some of my writing:
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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
the view from my desk right now is the one perk of living somewhere where it gets dark at 3.30pm
photo of a red a blue sunset with a ringlight in front
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I wrote a piece about what I'm seeing, what I'm worried about, and the emotional space we need to make for ourselves and others right now.
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Beyond the Blame: Fighting for Each Other in the Face of Fascism
"In dark times, people have always found ways to make their own light. That work is now upon us."
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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
One note, just to be safe: BlueSky's DMs aren't encrypted. Don't put stuff there that you wouldn't want to be made public.
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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
as an obsessive nosy follower of various 'room to rent' fb pages this doesnt surprise me at all. riddled with scams, some really nasty and well hidden, preying on peoples desperation/vulnerability, the fact that places get snapped up so fast so they dont/cant do physical viewings etc...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Did you vote in America yesterday? If so, you just got doxed This site takes voter records that can be hard to source and puts them all into one place. Name, address, voter history, for free. It turns voting into a privacy and security risk www.404media.co/voted-in-ame...
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Voted in America? This Site Doxed You
Voting rolls are technically public records but can be laborious to get hold of. A right-wing site weaponizes that information by allowing anyone, anywhere, to search for a voter’s physical address an...
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Those who blame the people over the politicians and the institutions have already given up on hope for better. They have accepted fascism as part of the natural order.
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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
barely slept, drunk too much, completely wired, and have to take a two hour exam in a couple of hours. wish me luck
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Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
I'm never going to have a better use for this meme.
Tintin strikes again.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/11/2024
Save Page Now is back online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/save Web pages archived since October 9 will start being added to the Wayback Machine.
Save Page Now
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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
can imagine few things more stressful than being a llama in an airport
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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
GOOD that landlords are being fined but IMO the fines should be larger and there should be way more severe penalties for repeat offenders
text from article: Severe maladministration made up 7% of all findings, jumping from 131 to 856. Landlords with 10,000 homes made up 88% of all severe maladministration findings.
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
We’re recruiting a Senior Delivery and Partnership Lead (maternity cover) 🔎 We're looking for someone with strong project and/or delivery management skills who is passionate about our mission and committed to contributing to social change. Apply here: jrf.octo-firstclass.co.uk/candidates/c....
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Octo Candidates - Application Form - Vacancy Details
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Karen Buck @queensparkkaren.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Absolutely delighted to be taking the role of Chair of @generationrent.bsky.social and working with their brilliant team. The Renters’ Rights Bill makes long overdue progress towards tackling insecurity and is very welcome, but there’s plenty more to do in response to the housing crisis we face.
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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Tonight: Our weekly news review, starting after our editorial meeting (so probably around half seven)! Subscribe to our Youtube for the reminders: www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
Freedom News Review November 5
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
The Royal Family is charging the RNLI to launch their boats This is a disgrace. For how much longer will the public tolerate this disgusting archaic system. #AbolishTheMonarchy www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/the-roy...
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The Royal Family is charging the RNLI to launch their boats
The boats have to pay a fee to cross 'Duchy beaches' in Salcombe, Sennen Cove, the Lizard, Rock, Penlee and St Mary’s.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
Care leavers are at particular risk of being abandoned by local authorities, but it can happen to anyone. There are hundreds of thousands of long term vacant homes, and the number's rising. There's no reason people are left in situations like this #r4today news.sky.com/story/where-...
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'Where am I going to go with the kids?' Mum-of-three left homeless after reporting threats to police
Danielle's story exemplifies a national housing crisis where more than 150,000 children in England are living in temporary accommodation.
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 02/11/2024
“In the US, Canada and Australia, #Covid boosters are free for everyone, regardless of immigration or insurance status… Looking at other countries’ policies, the UK is the outlier in continuing to restrict free boosters to certain groups.” #LongCovid www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain has closed its eyes to long Covid – which means it will ravage even more lives and livelihoods | Devi Sridhar
Unlike the US, Canada and Australia, the UK is only giving free boosters to some. But the cost of restricting them could be huge, says Devi Sridhar of Edinburgh University
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/11/2024
The National Archives are pivoting heavily into open white supremacy. Stuff like this has been happening at an increased clip for several years now. The fascism is baked into our institutions. We need to recognize that. They argue that ‘Visitors shouldn't feel confronted’. This is pure erasure.
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WS reports that the National Archives museum has removed references to Martin Luther King, Japanese internment, Native Americans, union organizers, and birth control, because presenting American history honestly would make Republicans uncomfortableNathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson
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An exhibit dedicated to "patents that changed the world" replaced the birth control pill with, of all things, the bump stock. And King was replaced with Elvis!
Incredibly, this is a Biden appointee who is apparently trying to make sure the facts don't hurt right-wing feelings.THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan and her top advisers at the National Archives and Records Administration, which operates a popular museum on the National Mall, have sought to de-emphasize negative parts of U.S. history. She has ordered the removal of prominent references to such landmark events as the government's displacement of indigenous tribes and the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II from planned exhibits.
Visitors shouldn't feel confronted, a senior official told employees, they should feel welcomed. Shogan and her senior advisers also have raised concerns that planned exhibits and educational displays expected to open next year might anger Republican lawmakers— who share control of the agency's budget-or a potential Trump administration.Dr. King to the king
Shogan's aides offered several explanations for removing the photograph of Dr. King and adding one of Nixon clasping hands with Elvis. One was a reluctance to feature activists.
Senior officials also raised concerns that visitors might not recognize King, and they said there were too many other people in the photo, current and former staff said.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
#Israel detonated the entire town of Marwahin in south #Lebanon while its soldiers celebrate on camera
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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
it cant be getting dark at 2.30 can it?? is that possible?? been in scotland for 3 years now and still as appalled as day 1
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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Starting now, the Freedom Anarchist News Review! www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2xH...
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Freedom anarchist news review: October 29
YouTube video by Freedom
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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
absolutely gutted to announce i had no trick or treaters so will have to eat all the sweeties myself
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spurtle.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
ISSUE 345 PUBLISHED TODAY.—Also available as a waterproof pdf here: www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news
Front page of the November 2024 Spurtle.
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Edward Tissiman @edtiss.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
I've measured the primary cycle routes and paths in Edinburgh and found that Leith Walk has the worst surface out of all them. Full article here (and thread below). medium.com/@edward.tiss...
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Paths for posteriors
An assessment of Edinburgh’s cycling infrastructure
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Youth Legal @youthlegal.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Still time, deadline the 4th Nov.
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Advocate @weareadvocate.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
📢 Calling legal aid practitioners! Young Legal Aid Lawyers is seeking mentors to support the next generation of passionate legal aid lawyers. Offer a few hours to make a big impact! ➡️ bit.ly/YLALMentor #BarInTheCommunity
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