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Vambo Marble Eye

@vambomarbleeye.bsky.social
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Former Scottish economic migrant, retired Heidie, ex-NL. Now back in Scotland to be part of the final push for independence. 
Lover of rugby, DUFC and Scandi fiction.

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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dutch cattle farmers pivoting to paddy rice cultivation to combat sinking peatlands and rising temperatures shows the reality of climate adaptation in action. Re-wetting soils while maintaining agricultural yields is true innovation. Why resist sustainable farming shifts? (1/2) 🤔 #ClimateAction
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‘Extraordinary but scary’: Dutch farmers grow rice as climate warms
Dutch cattle farming dries out peatland and releases CO2. Is switching to Japanese rice-growing a solution?
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Burnham has destroyed two of the main arguments of the Westminster parties. He's pensioned off the claim that Scottish state pensions can only be protected in the UK and by opening the door to an EU referendum he's blown up the argument against indyref2. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/b...
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Burnham pensions off two Better Together arguments
One of the ways in which the Better Together campaign won the referendum in 2014 was to successfully scaremonger Scotland’s pensioners into believing that their state pensions would not be sa…
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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 02/10/2026
Europe didnt just experience an exceptionally hot summer in 2026. It experienced a summer where multiple climate extremes reinforced each other. First - temperature records were broken at daily, monthly and seasonal scales across Europe Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/summer-revie...
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
I have to agree with the study I can readily understand their motives for doing so Fortunately Scots aren't in a catch 22 situation like that
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
I was going on my experience with ppl who I met through work and socially probably mostly lower income groups like me - semi skilled manual workers and some professionals I guess there could be a backlash if they said they were English from poss racist types and it's a way to avoid uneasy situations
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ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
HOT TAKE: if you r@ped someone in 2016 and they chose to speak on it today, you're still a r@pist. “that was mad long ago” is not a plea deal. Post Anything Here: InteractInk.com
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Forget Milk Snatcher, Margaret Thatcher literally sold orphans for profits. She is the Child Snatcher. The forced privatisation of Children Home's is Margaret Thatcher's most evil legacy. Even though she has so, so many.
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Bridget 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @bridget1965.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Now we get down to it. This is the biggest problem with Labour re Scotland. Not breaking up their precious Union, not being the embodiment of what Labour used to be but are not; but that we're not eternally grateful they 'gave' us Devolution. That's Labour's true stance - Petty Spitefulness.
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The Socialist Dad @thesocialistdad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Burnham is simply Starmer with a better communication style
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Burnham.. is calling for greater control over water.. energy" Control not ownership "Hes also calling for electoral reform" After the next election "Hes calling for a tougher stance on Israel" He's not ending arms exports, isn't deproscribing PA, refuses to call it genocide
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Steve Turtle 🇬🇧🇦🇺🌮 @steve7a3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can remember 1979. I was in Australia where we were embarking on the fight for unionism. A fight that the unions won which gave Aus some of the best employee conditions and benefits in the world. In the UK, Thatcher was fighting against them. Sadly she won and the UK has, so far mostly missed out.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Deja vu ... "Remember the Golders Green terror attack? Well, we want you to forget about it now because the police have announced it wasn’t terrorism after all ..." via Normal Island News www.facebook.com/NormalIsland...
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
A genuine humanitarian. All those children. All those young refugees. Separated from their parents because the Daily Mail, politicians, and others in 1930s UK, refused refuge to their parents, thousands of whom died in the Holocaust.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s fascinating that English progressives seem so keen to celebrate Burnham as a leftwing hope whereas in Scotland the view is ‘nope, it’s just words - prove it or beat it’. Independence provides a completely different prism. I feel genuine sympathy that English progressives seem to feel so trapped
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Irish Unity @irishunity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It appears the Orange Order has rejected the Secretary of State's deal that had been accepted by the Garvaghy Road residents. As has been apparent from the start - the Orange Order caused the dispute and are prolonging the dispute. #Drumcree #GarvaghyRoad
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JCMartinofBA @jcmartinofba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This poor suffering girl in Gaza. Israel allows no painkillers or anesthesia in Gaza and the West Bank. The beautiful city of Rafah has been completely destroyed by Israel and the U.S.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
".. vandalism of the Lansley reforms.. fracturing the NHS & treating healthcare as a market chasing profit" So you're kicking out the private companies, abolishing trusts, scrapping the internal market & returning the NHS to being an integrated national health service, right?
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham's crude emotional manipulation in linking the death of his father to John Swinney's claim he will be the last UK PM inadvertently revealed the poverty of Westminster's arguments against Scottish independence. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/b...
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Burnham’s crude emotional manipulation reveals the poverty of Westminster’s case
The only living politician mentioned by Andy Burnham during his jam tomorrow speech to the Labour party conference was John Swinney, and that was only in order to take a nasty, underhanded and emot…
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm afraid this is the type of petty pedantic rubbish we have to endure He's right of course but it changes nothing in reality
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blueskyredhawk @blueskyredhawk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is very important
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SaltBAE Systems @jumpeduptelex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think Burnham learned a lesson from the clean air zone episode. In the face of criticism, he backed down in Manchester, whilst Sadiq Khan pressed ahead in London and was ultimately vindicated. A reminder that politicians can shape public sentiment rather than just following it.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Imagine the front page outrage if 7 gay men drugged and raped a straight man for 7 hours. I expect the victim in that case would be believed without question. #Cornell7 #CornellUniversity #sexism #misogyny #VAW
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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's also understanding that autism is an intrinsic part of human diversity, of autistic people. You don't get autism outside of autistic people, and we should value and cherish them (cherish *you*) as we would any precious member of our family and society.
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Laura Moodie MSP @electlauramoodie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The proposals at Chapelcross will make it the largest data centre in the world. At its peak, it could be consuming the same amount of electricity as more than 2 million homes. Chapelcross cannot be built. The Government and Dumfries & Galloway Council must reject it. @scottishgreens.org
A graphic that reads “reject chapelcross data centre” “the world’s largest data centre must not be built in Scotland”. Below the text is the Scottish greens logo.
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Grenobob @grenowl82.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ok, so Burnham has proved that he can talk the talk. But will he walk the walk?
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Gerry Flynn @gerryflynn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Thought from a colonised land🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The UK Government unreservedly supports self-determination, stating is a fundamental right of all people, to choose their political status & govern their economic, social, & cultural development free of outside control. That apply to Scots‽ UKG: Nope. Not allowed!
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Bloomarosa @bloomarosa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Bloomarosa @bloomarosa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good evening
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Manucobra @cobramanu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Westminster factually treat Scot’s as a resource to improve the quality of English lives. I will never understand those who see it differently.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
True…. #BookSky
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William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'The mistake is treating government finances as though they work like household finances. Households need income or credit before they can spend. A currency-issuing government operates differently.' Richard Murphy
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There is no such thing as taxpayers’ money
Politicians and economic commentators constantly talk about “taxpayers’ money”. In this video, I argue that this phrase fundamentally misrepresents how government spending and taxation work. The conventional story says that the government collects taxes and then uses that money to pay for schools, hospitals, pensions and other public services. I argue...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After heavy lobbying and huge donations from Big Tech, Trump killed a proposed Biden-era rule requiring AI companies to disclose their riskiest experiments to federal officials. Everything is for sale. This is worth a read: www.levernews.com/ai-regulation-was…
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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest
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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not a binary between him and those lunatics though is it. And promising some things in 3 years maybe if you vote for me again is not really doing anything or offering anything at all.
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 29/09/2026
The leader of a UK government elected on 32% is telling a Scottish government elected on 36% that a 56% pro-Indy Scottish parliament can't hold a referendum that 68% of Scots want. UK democracy, ladies and gentlemen.
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Reagan and Thatcher reduced taxes for wealthy ppl In the USA from 70% to 30% now it's a lot less with all the avoidance schemes In the UK it went from 90% to 40% and again the use of tax avoidance schemes has reduced that even further Why keep coming for poor working class ppl? Political donations?
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Fi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Independence For Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @asenathmagic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I feel like I’m going insane sometimes. Burnham talking about tough conversations & implying we all need to pay more, while the super wealthy pay single digit tax, is bewildering. We’re already worse off in real terms than 10 years ago, but sure, ask us to pay even more. 😒
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not pensions you can't afford. It's not immigrants. It's not Disabled People. Or University educations. Or Healthcare. Or Housing. It's billionaires you can't afford, they are stealing all of this and much more.
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Mike @mycams.me.uk · 29/09/2026
The benefits and pensions systems are like a waterbed. Push down in one area and costs go up in another.
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Nurse Chapel 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇺 @nurse-chapel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RepubliKKKlan Family Values
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neilp @neilp78.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dear #BBCbreakfast would it at all possible to report on the UK news rather than speculate on a Budget which will not happen for another month.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All medical staff have been forced to withdraw from Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza as Israeli tanks move towards the facility. There is supposed to be a ceasefire in Gaza, but War Criminal Israel will level one of the last hospitals with its tanks and no one will even say anything
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why women choose the 🐻
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the dead Seven people - three men, one woman & three children - were killed by loyalist terrorists because of Drumcree in the 1990s. I covered the terrible events. Is this forgotten? What’s happening now mocks their loss. In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Shame on them: Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the dead
Our Writer at Large covered the Northern Ireland Troubles extensively. Here, he remembers the lives lost over Drumcree and says Loyalist protestors…
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