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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 13h

How has the government got itself into the position of standing up for Israeli football hooligans, while criminalising peaceful supporters of Palestine Action?

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 1d

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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 1d

Stuart Bowman (b.1965 Dundee). Actor known for Gary: Tank Commander, Guilt, Rebus, Karen Pirie.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 1d

In a parallel universe the world's trillion-dollar energy-abusive Large Metal Mickey machines are focused on finding a cure for cancer and a substitute for antibiotics. Meanwhile, we have sophisticated porn, depopulated public spaces and 20,000 non-human novels a day. Machina ex Deo, amen. 🤖

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

Nightmare fuel.

“One in six bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO”

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One in six bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO

Levels of antimicrobial resistance highest in south-east Asia and eastern Mediterranean

on.ft.com

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 2d

The EHRC at this point is just an extension of the trans-eliminationist ("gender critical") movement. Just another "GC" group. But the Council of Europe's intervention clearly has them panicked and now they're scrambling to get their Labour lackeys to implement this despicable Code of Practice.

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 2d

The EHRC has written to the Minister for Women and Equalities, demanding that she rushes through their dreadful draft Code of Practice.

This is a bizarre intervention from a supposedly impartial public body.

Equalities watchdog urges UK ministers to ‘act with speed’ on trans guidance

EHRC writes to Bridget Phillipson over implementation of code on single-sex public spaces after supreme court ruling

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 2d

Exciting news that Friends Again are reforming to play the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow in January. Here they are on Switch in 1983
youtu.be/QSNVKH1M42E

Friends Again 1983 04 08 Live 3 tracks @ Switch

YouTube video by jeyem archives

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 2d

Also I want to pay no tax and decide who governs your countries

Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 2d

I've invented a new technology which electronically injects shit into your brain 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I'd like huge government subsidies to get my shit-injecting machine into the brain of every citizen on Earth, and no guardrails or legislation to inhibit my shit-injecting machine. OK?

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Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 6d

Google's search results are, sadly, damaging lots of websites. What does #Google actually want? And is it what a human being would want?
filmstories.co.uk/features/oka...

Okay then, Google: tell us what to do | The future of entertainment websites

Google's search results are, sadly, damaging lots of websites. What does Google actually want? And is it what a human being would want?

filmstories.co.uk

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Scott Myers @gointothestory.bsky.social · 3d

William Goldman: "I wrote a line once that caught on out there in Hollywood: ‘Nobody knows anything.’ And they don’t. If we knew what we were doing, every movie would be wonderful. It’s a crapshoot. It just is.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/screenwritin... #Hollywood #movies #screenwriting

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 4d

SETTING THE STAGE
New Wave Scottish Drama from the 1970s & 1980s

Featuring 5 exciting & experimental playscripts:

White Rose (Peter Arnott)
Mary (Ian Brown)
Playing With Fire (Jo Clifford)
An Island in Largo (Sue Glover)
The Way to Go Home (Rona Munro)

#drama #theatre
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Annual Volume 54 (2024)

Edited by Steven Cramer and John Corbett Paperback, 346 pages Association for Scottish Literature, September 2025 Price £19.95 ISBN: 9781906841652 Order from our bookshop These five plays address…

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 3d

“The UK stands at a crossroads. Are we going to be a nation that respects its human rights obligations, or are we going to abandon them whenever the rightwing press demands it? First immigrants, then trans people – who next, Sir Keir?” goodlaw.social/fs2m

European human rights chief warns against trans exclusion in the UK

Human rights commissioner calls on parliament to make sure guidance following the Supreme Court’s decision in April promotes inclusion.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 6d

In what may be the greatest sentence of the year, this article reports that “Plot details for The Resurrection of the Christ are under wraps.” So expect a twist, ladies and gentleman!

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‘Passion of the Christ’s Jim Caviezel & Monica Bellucci Not Returning For Mel Gibson’s Sequel

Although the son of God is finally getting his long-awaited sequel, 'The Resurrection of Christ' will not feature the return of Mel Gibson's original cast.

deadline.com

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 10d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 13d

“This new data confirms what we already knew: there is a trans+ healthcare crisis in the UK. But the actual numbers are stark. The system of NHS gender clinics, which is failing to give people an appointment in their entire lifetime, is limiting the number of people who can transition.”

Appalling.

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 10d

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 10d

Head up UK screenwriters! Very important dates for your diary. This year’s annual BBC Writers Room Open Call for TV drama or comedy/drama submissions window - noon Tuesday 4th November to noon Tuesday 2nd December.

Details here: www.bbc.co.uk/writers/oppo...

#ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky

How to submit a script to us

Open Call is our system for receiving unsolicited original scripts.

www.bbc.co.uk

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 10d

"Let us not pretend that we are talking about ways of reversing the genocide...Rather, the discussion is about more or less murderous ways of completing the destruction and replacement of Palestinian Gaza"
@martinshaw.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/d...

'Donald Trump's Plan Will Not End the Gaza Genocide'

The author of The New Age of Genocide, Martin Shaw, on why Trump's 'peace' plan will allow the ongoing destruction and replacement of a Palestinian Gaza

bylinetimes.com

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Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 11d

The Pillar of Mad Geo.
A line of sight.

Papay - Orkney.
Stonebuilt.

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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 11d

1979, Clyde Walkway bandstand, Glasgow📸John Sturrock

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 11d

Raymond Depardon.

“Depardon’s geography is unique, arbitrary, personal, deliberately born of ‘the pain of the frame’ and ‘the joy of light,’” writes Bruno Racine in the introduction to Raymond Depardon’s La France, a photobook and ode to his native country, published in 2010.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 11d

This should concern everyone.

Protest is a cornerstone of our democracy - without it, we wouldn’t have the right to vote. We must protect it at all costs.

After years of the Tories attacking our right to protest, this Labour government should strengthen our rights, not restrict them even further.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 11d

Tom Leonard’s 1984 poetry collection INTIMATE VOICES was banned in Scotland’s Central Region school libraries. The Education Committee said

“There are some harmful words in it … Sometimes the naked truth has to be clothed”

But Leonard had anticipated this sort of reaction…
#BannedBooksWeek
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A pale green book cover. In the middle is a white rectangle. A large red stamp displays the book title: TOM LEONARD: INTIMATE VOICES: 1965–1983. Above the stamp is a poem, set as if typed on a typewriter:

in the beginning was the word
in thi beginning was thi wurd
in thi beginnin was thi wurd
in thi biginnin was thi wurd
n thi biginnin wuz thi wurd
nthi biginnin wuz thi wurd
nthi biginnin wuzthi wurd
nthibiginnin wuzthiwurd
nthibiginninwuzthiwurd
in the beginning was the sound

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16d

extremely well put

An actual pragmatist would evaluate and change course. Someone who understood public opinion might notice that anti-immigrant sentiment responds to media coverage, not objective reality. They might reason that this is not a problem that can be addressed by policy concessions because policy is not what is causing it. They might even consider offering a different narrative and seeing whether that makes a dent. A truly daring politician might consider telling the British public the truth: that they are being lied to by the right-wing press about the cause of the country's problems, and that Reform is capitalising on this for political gain.

The government does not seem inclined to do any of this. Despite understanding themselves as critical thinkers, reactionary centrists are conformists at heart. And they are so unmoored in our current age because, increasingly, there is no social consensus for them to conform to. Affluent countries the world over are balkanising into fascist and anti-fascist factions. One must simply pick a side. There is no longer such a thing as “British public opinion” (if there ever was). Rather, half the country supports socially illiberal parties and half supports (broadly speaking) liberal ones, similar to the split in the Brexit referendum. If we follow international trends, the values of these two sides will only grow more irreconcilable. Starmer is—though you would never guess it—the captain of the liberal team. His job is not to find consensus, but to hold his own coalition together.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16d

"In 2012, 60 trans-related articles were published by Britain’s media. By 2022, it was more than 7,500, according to figures from Trans Media Watch. The media is not responding to public rage against vulnerable minorities; it is helping to create it." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?

A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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