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Straight Edge guy who talks about gaming mostly but with some politics and anything else that comes to mind. http://Linktr.ee/Born2beSlicker

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Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · Oct 17

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Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 7h

When you grow up with almost every institution of your life that you’re meant to trust tells you something is bad, the majority of people are going to take it at face value. A lot was the fear of the unknown - if our tiny population could fund/do everything we want without the UK’s money

Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 7h

Even John Oliver who the left love to boast is on the right side of history did a Last Week Tonight on the Indy Ref and argued that we should stay in the UK and it played on our national TV before the vote.

youtu.be/-YkLPxQp_y0

Scottish Independence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 7h

Our national media is pro-UK, Westminster is pro-UK, the national political parties are pro-UK, the Supreme Court is pro-UK, the Monarchy is pro-UK, the military is pro-UK, the banks are pro-UK

Pro-Indy voices are pushed down, a lot

Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 7h

Honestly, yes. There’s a guy two doors down from me who is military and he purposely flies a 🇬🇧 out his house everyday rather than a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.

Despite what people might think there’s a lot of people who are proudly monarchists. And the UK benefits keeping Scotland in so we see institutional oppression

Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 7h

The app has it in accessibility settings. I assume the website will be similar

Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 7h

I mean, an extreme case it would be possible to spark civil war. As by law the Monarchy can recall the Government and the Government can utilise the army against traitors of the crown (Scottish government)

But we’re frankly not going to do that as the army is UK not per region, so we have no army

Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 7h

They’re nations within the internationally UN recognised country of the United Kingdom. Honestly, it’s a fucking mess but it’s the result of over a thousand years of war and monarchy

Same as how Ireland and Nothern Ireland are different countries but only one is British

Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 8h

It’s tiny country syndrome. There’s legit economic and legal arguments that we’re better with the UK financially but politically, Scotland is centre-left and England is right wing, so there’s culture clash that’s gotten wider

The US meddles a lot in Scottish politics. Russia was disinfo warfare

Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 8h

We’re a country of 5mil+ who’s biggest trading partner is England then the EU. The UK is one of the permanent security council of the EU and UN. Leaving would lose a lot of international power for Scotland and we’d have to adopt a new currency, legal system and trade system if we left the UK

Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 8h

As of now, it’s a rumour about Fortnite so it’s best to try and ignore it until an announcement is made

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Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 8h

But fundamentally, Scotland can’t push a law that causes a legal imbalance between Scotland and the rest of the UK

You can see more here www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scot...

Why does the Scottish government keep losing court cases?

The failed challenge over the fate of Holyrood's gender reform bill is the latest in a series of legal setbacks.

www.bbc.co.uk

Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 8h

England, Russia, the US all separately worked on propaganda campaigns to scare Scottish voters into voting no as at the time, ironically, it meant we’d need to reapply to the EU. Then 2 years later, England dragged us out of the EU anyway.

Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 8h

This caused the Indy Ref of 2014 as the Scottish National Party dominated Scottish elections for a decade, using that as a mandate to vote for freedom from the UK

They lost. 55-45% voted No, so we stayed in the UK.

Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 8h

However, England has the highest population so what England votes for tends to be how things play out. Unfortunately, Scotland/England have different national interests but England has the power due to population and how the system was agreed upon, that London was final say…

Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 8h

The United Kingdom is an agreement that England, Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland collectively form a UK Government in Westminster, this is the highest level

Wales/Scotland/NI have Governments thanks to devolution which is basically “regional/local” issues are handled independently…

Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 8h

The law, really. Scots law is lower than UK law in priority. Scotland defying that would cause a constitutional crisis when the independence vote floats around 50/50%.

Westminster can sue and the Monarchy can push to abolish the Scots government if the violate the devolution agreement

Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 11h

I’m not thrilled about my most active post on BlueSky being about Harry Potter/JKR. Hopefully we can beat it one day with something not terrible.

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Notable Tree @dirtynerdy.bsky.social · 13h

with alt-text

pro-tip: when posting a picture of an article/headline/text, you can click the little square in the bottom right of the picture and choose “copy all”, then paste the text into the alt text box

J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-trans organisation

Alice Linehan
Fri, 30 May 2025 at 12:12 pm BST
An image of J.K. Rowling. @ik_rowling via X

J.K. Rowling is using her wealth to finance an organisation dedicated to removing trans rights. The Harry Potter author has an…

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Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 11h

Fair. I haven’t done that.

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Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 11h

Totally fair

Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 11h

I’d say just keep an eye on it. The leakers always find this stuff eventually if it’s real. Lines of code doesn’t always mean it will go ahead. They found Yakuza references last year and there’s still no sign of it.

But as of now, there is HP references in the game’s code.

Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you. I posted it in the spur of the moment and failed to alt-text. That’s my failing.

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Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 11h

Personally, I feel that you can play the game and not buying specific collabs sends a message in itself. Low sales in turn means less repeats as they track that data.

Still, it’s justifiable to just nope out entirely

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Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 11h

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Mark Lawson @born2beslicker.bsky.social · 19h

Allegedly, leakers are finding HP traces in the game’s code much like how every other collab leaks months in advance.

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