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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 6h

I should have located it on a map but there was no internet back then.

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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 6h

Edinburgh's Lawnmarket in infrared. At the top of the Royal Mile.

The infrared view makes people's clothes a uniform shade of pale grey.

DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 6h

“It’s the Telly Man!”

A snip from my Telly Man page:
www.henniker.scot/the-telly-man/

DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 6h

Saltire Street statues 'Going to the Beach'.

Waterfront Avenue is the street in the background. American influence in that street name.

Granton area in Edinburgh.

Statues of a family 'Going to the Beach' including a dog with a ball, a boy with a model boat and parents carrying a baby.

DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 6h

A lorry trailer parked beside some derelict tenements in Leith. Photographed in 1978 on my Yashica SLR. The trailer has text on it saying CIRCUS HOFFMAN ELEPHANT TRANSPORTER.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 12h

Whisky, Irn Bru and Scottish tap water – same tier, right? 🤔

We react to a bombshell report over false claims former environment secretary made about water pollution in Scotland

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 1d

Who's got the biggest, tallest, longest? Welcome to the juvenile world of tech-bro architecture

Phin Harper reports

www.thenerve.news/p/tech-bro-a...

New Google headquarters in King's Cross, London. Getty image. Headline: Who's got the biggest, tallest, longest? Welcome to the juvenile world of tech-bro architecture

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 1d

Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s Nobel laureate, our patron, and one of the world’s foremost writers and humanist thinkers, has said that his US visa has been revoked and that he is now banned from entering the country.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says his US visa revoked

The 91-year-old Nobel laureate in literature has been a critic of Trump's immigration policy.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 1d

Glad I wasn't due to fly to #Iceland today - most of the flights were cancelled with heavy early snows. Quite unusual. Hoping things will be back to normal for my flight in 72 hours' time (yes, I'm counting!) so I can go and look for some more weird & wonderful things like this :)

Grey pebbles on a black sand beach. Each pebble has some sand dotted on it, and sits on a little peak, sculpted by the wind.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: A private jet tax could have raised around £20 million for Scotland so far this year, new research suggests

Private jet tax 'could have raised £20m for Scotland so far in 2025', campaigners say

www.thenational.scot

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 2d

If you support Reform - a party that wants to strip Indefinite Leave to Remain from people who have lived in the UK for decades, working, paying taxes, and raising families. You do not "have legitimate concerns about illegal immigration". You're just a racist and a tool of the super rich.

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 2d

Wanting Scottish or Welsh independence is not reactionary nationalism. Reactionary nationalism is wrapping yourself in British flags, supporting Brexit & banging on about immigration.

You don't get a free pass from reactionary nationalism because you're British.

Keir Starmer speaking at the Labour confderence in front of a huge British flag.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 3d

Farage: epic grifter

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3d

Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman have bought a £10 million home on America’s 'billionaire island'

Michelle Mone buys £10 million flat on Florida’s ‘billionaire island’

www.thenational.scot

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The BBC is facing criticism over not including Plaid Cymru on its flagship Sunday politics programme, despite the party securing a seismic election win

BBC under fire as Plaid Cymru missing from Laura Kuenssberg show despite election win

www.thenational.scot

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 4d

Two people have been arrested over daylight crown jewel heist at the world’s most-visited museum, French media have reported 🚨

Two arrested over Louvre museum daylight crown jewel heist

www.thenational.scot

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 4d

Want something scary for Halloween? Try my chilling psychological thriller. It's set in a remote Scottish island where a terrible secret lurks within a small community. (For extra chills, listen to the audiobook and hear my terrifying Scottish accents.)

www.amazon.co.uk/Stone-Heart-...

Stone Heart Deep

Stone Heart Deep : Paul Bassett Davies: Amazon.co.uk: Books

www.amazon.co.uk

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 5d

The best thing about the clocks going back and getting an extra hour in bed is that when you wake up as usual, paralysed by dread at 3am, you find it’s only 2am and oh god the aching void of night will never end.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 9d

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media — the 30-second sound bite (now down to 10 seconds kind of celebration of ignorance.”

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11d

Seven million. “One of the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in US history.”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 18, 2025
Media Contact: media@nokings.org
Nearly 7 Million Attend Overwhelmingly Peaceful No Kings Day of Action
WASHINGTON, DC - In one of the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history, nearly seven million Americans gathered today, 2 million more than June, in over 2,700 cities and towns for the No Kings Day of Peaceful Action, standing together in nonviolent defiance of authoritarianism and affirming that this nation belongs to its people, not to kings.
With more than 2,700 lawful and peaceful protests across all 50 states, today's mobilization was 14 times larger than both of President Trump's presidential inaugurations combined, marking a historic moment of unity and resistance. From rural communities to major metropolitan centers, the message was clear: America will not be ruled by fear, force, or one man's power grab.
While the Republican-led government shutdown continues to wreak havoc, forcing hundreds of thousands of families to go without pay and cutting off critical services, the people they represent are stepping up to lead. Across districts, neighbors are organizing, marching, and demanding a government that serves the many, not the powerful few.
Our work continues in big cities and small towns around this country and we will not back down to President Trump's continued abuse of power. There will be regular opportunities in the coming days and weeks to take action with No Kings and we will be regularly sharing community rights resources.
In response to this historic day of action, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statements:
*Today, millions of Americans stood together to reject authoritarianism and remind the world that our democracy belongs to the people, not to one man's ambition," said Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg, Co-Founders, Indivisible. "Authoritarians want us to believe resistance is futile, but every person who turned out today proved the opposite. This movement isn't about a single…

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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 12d

No Kings protests draw huge crowds as anti-Trump rallies sweep across US
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No Kings protests across US kick off with National Guard on standby

Protests are planned in over 2,500 cities across the US, including New York, DC, Atlanta and Los Angeles.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 12d

Which reminds me of the #Edinburgh St. Trinnean’s - a progressive, liberal school founded by headmistress Catherine Fraser Lee in 1922. @threadinburgh.scot reveals all.
threadinburgh.scot/2022/09/27/t...

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 12d

Watch as Scottish Greens co-leader Ross Greer responds to Prince Andrew handing back his title of Earl of Inverness

Disgraced Andrew revoked several titles just days before his accuser Virginia Giuffre's memoir is set to be released 👇

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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 12d

Two more of the same police box with graffiti.

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