Altnaharra
@altnaharra.bsky.social
Independence supporter living in the north east of Scotland #StillYes
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Dear God... Where are we going, what are we doing?
Somehow calling it GBeebies doesn't seem funny anymore. It's not the teletubbies, it's a far-right propaganda channel.
For all the BBC's many faults, we need it more than ever...
www.nationalworld.com/read-this/gb...
Somehow calling it GBeebies doesn't seem funny anymore. It's not the teletubbies, it's a far-right propaganda channel.
For all the BBC's many faults, we need it more than ever...
www.nationalworld.com/read-this/gb...
GB News overtakes Sky News to become Britain’s top commercial news channel this year
GB News has overtaken Sky News to become Britain’s number one commercial news channel, according to official data.
www.nationalworld.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Dear God... Where are we going, what are we doing?
Somehow calling it GBeebies doesn't seem funny anymore. It's not the teletubbies, it's a far-right propaganda channel.
For all the BBC's many faults, we need it more than ever...
www.nationalworld.com/read-this/gb...
Somehow calling it GBeebies doesn't seem funny anymore. It's not the teletubbies, it's a far-right propaganda channel.
For all the BBC's many faults, we need it more than ever...
www.nationalworld.com/read-this/gb...
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A few quick thoughts about this morning's decision. Don't believe the spin from various Russians & others: it's a big deal. The EU has now unambiguously demonstrated that it is able and willing to provide the external financial support Ukraine needs, for as long and as much as it takes. (1/N)
December 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
A few quick thoughts about this morning's decision. Don't believe the spin from various Russians & others: it's a big deal. The EU has now unambiguously demonstrated that it is able and willing to provide the external financial support Ukraine needs, for as long and as much as it takes. (1/N)
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Brexit Harmed British farming
December 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Brexit Harmed British farming
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Amazing but I do not trust those chairs.
Shirokuro, a Japanese restaurant in NYC's East Village, where the interior mimics a hand-drawn black-and-white sketchbook.
December 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Amazing but I do not trust those chairs.
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Today, lots of people will be flying away for the weekend. But some of them might even be flying for *the day*. Is the fad of 'extreme day tripping' really a part of the culture we want? If yes, why? If no, why not?
December 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Today, lots of people will be flying away for the weekend. But some of them might even be flying for *the day*. Is the fad of 'extreme day tripping' really a part of the culture we want? If yes, why? If no, why not?
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🎄 NEW EPISODE 🎄 Part 1 of our end-of-year review/group therapy session is out now, with @seththevoz.bsky.social @rostaylor.bsky.social @jonnelledge.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social
🎄 Includes reasons for optimism AND a ton of YOUR questions.
🎄 Listen on all platforms linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
🎄 Includes reasons for optimism AND a ton of YOUR questions.
🎄 Listen on all platforms linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
December 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
🎄 NEW EPISODE 🎄 Part 1 of our end-of-year review/group therapy session is out now, with @seththevoz.bsky.social @rostaylor.bsky.social @jonnelledge.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social
🎄 Includes reasons for optimism AND a ton of YOUR questions.
🎄 Listen on all platforms linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
🎄 Includes reasons for optimism AND a ton of YOUR questions.
🎄 Listen on all platforms linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
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"This raises bigger questions about the future. What do young Scots want beyond Brexit? Some see independence as the route back into Europe. Others want to focus on reforming Britain as a whole. What is clear is that young people do not want to be left out of the conversation again."
Brexit stole our future: young people are demanding it back
Scotland’s young people face limited opportunities after Brexit but could their vision for the future re-shape Scotland’s place in Europe?
bylines.scot
December 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"This raises bigger questions about the future. What do young Scots want beyond Brexit? Some see independence as the route back into Europe. Others want to focus on reforming Britain as a whole. What is clear is that young people do not want to be left out of the conversation again."
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Lord Offord's claims about historical immigration are mostly false | The Ferret.
Lord Offord's historical immigration claim is Mostly False
Reform UK's Malcolm Offord claimed one million people came to the UK in the 20th century, and seven million people have come to the UK since 2000. This is not accurate.
www.theferret.scot
December 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Lord Offord's claims about historical immigration are mostly false | The Ferret.
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This aspect of LLMs is worse than just cringy - it confirms biases leading to bad analysis. It's one of the things that makes me wary of using it for research.
i'm fascinated by how much people love and are amazed by chat gpt saying "nice catch!" and "great observation!" because i personally find the condescension and obsequiousness the most skin-crawling thing about how LLMs "talk"
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This aspect of LLMs is worse than just cringy - it confirms biases leading to bad analysis. It's one of the things that makes me wary of using it for research.
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A quick explanation of how this borrowing to assist Ukraine will work. "Enhanced cooperation" means EU law is being used, but some Member States opt out. The process has been applied a few times before, but never before re the EU budget. 1/
🚨 The latest conclusions say the EU will trigger Article 20 of enhanced cooperation to ensure that any mobilisation of EU resources to guarantee joint debt "will not have an impact on the financial obligations of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia," as previously reported by Euronews.
🚨 Bombshell at #EUCO at almost 2 am: António Costa has proposed to use common borrowing to meet Ukraine's most immediate financial needs while technical work on the reparations loan continues in the coming months.
Messy mix-match solution. Leaders are still discussing.
Messy mix-match solution. Leaders are still discussing.
December 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
A quick explanation of how this borrowing to assist Ukraine will work. "Enhanced cooperation" means EU law is being used, but some Member States opt out. The process has been applied a few times before, but never before re the EU budget. 1/
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Hugely important decision that essentially saves Ukraine from having to accept a bad deal through running out of money.
Eurobonds becoming the emergency funding mechanism of choice. Note too that this was (de facto?) enhanced co-operation.
www.ft.com/content/e569...
www.ft.com/content/e569...
EU agrees €90bn loan to Ukraine after frozen Russian asset plan fails
Money to be borrowed against bloc’s budget after leaders fail to agree on proposal using Moscow’s funds
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Hugely important decision that essentially saves Ukraine from having to accept a bad deal through running out of money.
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Hi I really need some follows to ensure I’m really getting the #Independence and #SNP word out there in #Scotland and the #EU.
It’s important that we #endtheunion and win the May’26 #election with a #SNP #majority and ensue #labourout and #reform out so please #followme
It’s important that we #endtheunion and win the May’26 #election with a #SNP #majority and ensue #labourout and #reform out so please #followme
December 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Hi I really need some follows to ensure I’m really getting the #Independence and #SNP word out there in #Scotland and the #EU.
It’s important that we #endtheunion and win the May’26 #election with a #SNP #majority and ensue #labourout and #reform out so please #followme
It’s important that we #endtheunion and win the May’26 #election with a #SNP #majority and ensue #labourout and #reform out so please #followme
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TL;DR: Russia has decided that the UK is Russia's enemy, and there's nothing we can do to change that as long as Putin is in power. The choice is whether to be an undefeated enemy or a defeated one. That's all the choice we get.
December 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
TL;DR: Russia has decided that the UK is Russia's enemy, and there's nothing we can do to change that as long as Putin is in power. The choice is whether to be an undefeated enemy or a defeated one. That's all the choice we get.
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On both right and left, there's anger about the recent assessments of Russia's threat to the UK and the rest of Europe, and about the need for us to prepare to meet it. There's a lot I could say here (as my students know), but most of it boils down to two things. 🧵
December 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
On both right and left, there's anger about the recent assessments of Russia's threat to the UK and the rest of Europe, and about the need for us to prepare to meet it. There's a lot I could say here (as my students know), but most of it boils down to two things. 🧵
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Farage has been fully aligned with, and amplified by, Putin’s propaganda machine for over 12 years now, ever since he met the Russian Ambassador and got a regular slot on Russia today. Leave EU synchronised their messaging with the Kremlin. It’s all here bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...
The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia
As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with
bylinetimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Farage has been fully aligned with, and amplified by, Putin’s propaganda machine for over 12 years now, ever since he met the Russian Ambassador and got a regular slot on Russia today. Leave EU synchronised their messaging with the Kremlin. It’s all here bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...
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The government's keenness to protect "good jobs" in manufacturing contrasts with its inaction in the face of the destruction of "good jobs" in universities. What's going on here is something other than economics.
December 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The government's keenness to protect "good jobs" in manufacturing contrasts with its inaction in the face of the destruction of "good jobs" in universities. What's going on here is something other than economics.
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One of the country's richest men, and a huge business apparently cant support one of their own plants, so the government agrees to subsidise it, presumably to avoid headlines about lost jobs. And yet - as pointed out here - universities are in crisis thanks to govt choices, but we dont care about it
The government's keenness to protect "good jobs" in manufacturing contrasts with its inaction in the face of the destruction of "good jobs" in universities. What's going on here is something other than economics.
Government invests £120m to save UK’s last ethylene plant
December 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
One of the country's richest men, and a huge business apparently cant support one of their own plants, so the government agrees to subsidise it, presumably to avoid headlines about lost jobs. And yet - as pointed out here - universities are in crisis thanks to govt choices, but we dont care about it
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This is powerful - I had similar thoughts in my post last week about the powerful but false nature of the Russia is winning narrative sianushka.substack.com/p/russias-gr...
December 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This is powerful - I had similar thoughts in my post last week about the powerful but false nature of the Russia is winning narrative sianushka.substack.com/p/russias-gr...
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The Trump administration’s new national security strategy is yet another warning for Europeans that this administration means them ill
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conservativehome.com/2025/12/18/g...
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Garvan Walshe: Trump’s new National Security Strategy - an unexploded bomb under the transatlantic alliance | Conservative Home
Traditional allies of the United States have, however, plenty of instruments to ensure it can be defused, while building up their independent military industrial base and armed forces.
conservativehome.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Trump administration’s new national security strategy is yet another warning for Europeans that this administration means them ill
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conservativehome.com/2025/12/18/g...
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Shackled, alone and scared: the grim reality for women forced to give birth in prison
Shackled, alone and scared: the grim reality for women forced to give birth in prison
Across the world, pregnant women held in prison are often kept in deplorable conditions, leading some to miscarry or give birth alone inside a cell, say campaigners
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Shackled, alone and scared: the grim reality for women forced to give birth in prison
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Odesa residents have now endured over 4 days of complete blackout.
russian strikes have once again targeted critical infrastructure, attempting to break the unbreakable.
Yet the city responds not with despair, but with ingenuity.
Help safeguard the sky over Ukraine: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
russian strikes have once again targeted critical infrastructure, attempting to break the unbreakable.
Yet the city responds not with despair, but with ingenuity.
Help safeguard the sky over Ukraine: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
December 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Odesa residents have now endured over 4 days of complete blackout.
russian strikes have once again targeted critical infrastructure, attempting to break the unbreakable.
Yet the city responds not with despair, but with ingenuity.
Help safeguard the sky over Ukraine: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
russian strikes have once again targeted critical infrastructure, attempting to break the unbreakable.
Yet the city responds not with despair, but with ingenuity.
Help safeguard the sky over Ukraine: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
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It is hard to believe that Suilven is actually real. But it is, as demonstrated here, with the Assynt Church of Scotland in Lochinver in front of it. Taken from across the loch with a long lens, making it look closer.
#Scotland #CanonR5ii
#Scotland #CanonR5ii
December 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
It is hard to believe that Suilven is actually real. But it is, as demonstrated here, with the Assynt Church of Scotland in Lochinver in front of it. Taken from across the loch with a long lens, making it look closer.
#Scotland #CanonR5ii
#Scotland #CanonR5ii
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Venezuela’s government has ordered its Navy to escort ships carrying oil out of port following Trump's blockade announcement.
This has the potential to go very badly.
This has the potential to go very badly.
December 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Venezuela’s government has ordered its Navy to escort ships carrying oil out of port following Trump's blockade announcement.
This has the potential to go very badly.
This has the potential to go very badly.
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Undoubtedly Star of the Kerridge Hill Waxcap Show, Rare encounter with most Beautiful Pink Ballerina Porpolomopsis calyptriformis I've ever seen, wonderful moist Lilac Pink, one of eight seen. Nearby another one with impressive gills tutu! #fungifriends
December 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Undoubtedly Star of the Kerridge Hill Waxcap Show, Rare encounter with most Beautiful Pink Ballerina Porpolomopsis calyptriformis I've ever seen, wonderful moist Lilac Pink, one of eight seen. Nearby another one with impressive gills tutu! #fungifriends