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Scott Hutchison
@freeebooter.bsky.social
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Film, architecture, theatre. Rebellious Scot. Pro-Independence, Pro-Europe, vehemently anti-Tory/Reform/Fascist. Oxford comma advocate. Currently helping to restore an Art Deco cinema in Prestwick. MBTI: ISTJ-T 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺
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johnswinney.bsky.social
I’m in politics to raise people’s living standards, but in the UK, they’re flat as a pancake.

Scotland can do so much better with independence.
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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montrose.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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glennyrodge.bsky.social
David Walliams. Wow. It’s always the ones you most suspect.
December 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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edwinhayward.com
Labour are launching an investigation into historical foreign interference in UK politics. But they are explicitly excluding the Brexit referendum from the investigation.

That's like pledging to investigate instances of arson while ignoring the wall of flames spanning the horizon.
December 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
freeebooter.bsky.social
#DeGoogle
urocklive1.bsky.social Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2d
Seems Russian pressure on Google has paid off, and they no longer identify Crimea as part of Ukraine.

What a huge disappointment Google has turned out to be, in so many ways.
Map of Ukraine with Crimea grayed out.
December 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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urocklive1.bsky.social
Seems Russian pressure on Google has paid off, and they no longer identify Crimea as part of Ukraine.

What a huge disappointment Google has turned out to be, in so many ways.
Map of Ukraine with Crimea grayed out.
December 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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solitudex.bsky.social
*The last couple of minutes for moi!!!
December 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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maureenpickering.bsky.social
Scots are kept in the dark deliberately. Westminster with its client journalists continues to mislead and misinform whilst they have stripped Holyrood of powers after Brexit. Wake up Scotland.
indyposterboy.scot Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 3d
Several years ago I designed a leaflet about the infamous Powergrab and Internal Market Bill. Still shocks me that so few people seem to have noticed that it happened (both the powergrab and my leaflet).
Leaflet design detailing the infamous Tory Powergrab which stripped 24+ devolved powers from Scotland. Did you even notice?
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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meownersclub.bsky.social
A virus may kill you quickly, but post-viral illness can destroy your family, your career, your bank balance, your trust in doctors,and ultimately it can take your life.

#ME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #PEM #LivesWeCannotLive
@meassociation.org.uk
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social
#Justice4ME
The cartoon series is called - This Week in Disbelief... Heading - Viral and post-viral illnesses can kill you There is a picture of a young woman dead in bed. And a voice from her phone on the floor is saying “Hello? Hello...?” The caption says ‘WEAR A MASK’ The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
December 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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denisedwheeler.bsky.social
Ahmed al Ahmed is a selfless Muslim man who nearly singlehandedly saved a Jewish community being attacked on the first day of Hanukkah.

And took two bullets while doing so.

A fucking hero.

#BondiShooting
sassy0210.bsky.social Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 5d
Ahmed Al Ahmed, is 43, a father of 2 and owner of a fruit shop in Sutherland, Australia.
Yesterday, he disarmed a terrorist targeting a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach where 12 humans were killed.

Ahmed was unarmed. He was shot twice and is expected to make a full recovery. Hero. 💔
December 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting. BBC 'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed Emily Atkinson Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST 2 min read A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed. Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat. Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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bruces.bsky.social
They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
freeebooter.bsky.social
And lo, it came to pass that the holy Christmas movie film binge of 2025 did commence this very night. Verily, tonight's offering shall be "Bad Santa".
#FilmSky
December 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
To the gun lobbyists who will inevitably claim the Bondi shootings show that Australia’s strict firearms laws are ineffective:

In 2023, the US had 4.42 gun homicides per 100,000 people.

Australia had 0.09 gun homicides per 100,000.

worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...
Gun Deaths by Country 2025
Data, information, and analysis regarding the number of gun deaths in every country of the world, including gun deaths in the United States.
worldpopulationreview.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Yeah! Because the climate emergency isn't nearly as important as Derek in Carshalton Beeches God given right to drive a diesel Mercedes through Sutton.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kemi Badenoch: Tories to scrap petrol ban if they win next election
The Conservative Party leader says the policy is
www.bbc.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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saintjavelin.bsky.social
Zelenskyy visited Kupiansk that Russia claimed was “encircled” by its army.
December 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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mkorolden.bsky.social
America doesn’t care about its children.

The gun-death rate for children is nearly five in every 100k. In 2014, the rate began to creep up, and by 2020 guns became the leading killer.
firearminjury.umich.edu/childhoods-g...
Media Mention: Childhood’s Greatest Danger: The Data on Kids and Gun Violence | Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention
firearminjury.umich.edu
December 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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nod-64.bsky.social
Just a reminder that Sawar is a grifter, and that Labour are now Tories.

#VoteLabourGetReform
#YouYesYet
#IndyRef2
December 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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bellacaledonia.bsky.social
The American novelist Sinclair Lewis famously said, “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” This is true of Britain too. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/13/t...
The Offord Apologists
The American novelist Sinclair Lewis famously said, “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” This is true of Britain too. This week saw the r…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
December 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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stepheharrop.bsky.social
Anyway, apropos nothing at all, I'm reading Robin Ince's Bibliomaniac today. It's great.

You should probably hurry out and buy copies for all your loved ones as Christmas (or godless midwinter) presents.

www.waterstones.com/book/bibliom...
Book cover: Bibliomaniac, by Robin Ince. Subtitle: An Obsessive's Tour of the Bookshops of Britain
December 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
freeebooter.bsky.social
Let them eat Christmas cake. Fucker.
helengoodman.bsky.social Helen Goodman @helengoodman.bsky.social · 7d
Striking BL staff, struggling to pay their rent, advised to consider not giving presents this year, and interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, has the nerve to tell them they ‘don’t live in a real world’. Only 17% of staff guaranteed the Living Wage (£14.80 ph) suggests acute familiarity with the ‘real world’.
anna-aslanyan.bsky.social Anna Aslanyan @anna-aslanyan.bsky.social · 9d
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
December 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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humanists.uk
Dragging terminally ill people from their death beds to appear in court to plead their case is objectively cruel.

Should peers cause the #AssistedDyingBill to fail, it would be unimaginably devastating for terminally ill people and their families.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Cruel’ amendments being used to thwart assisted dying bill, says lead MP
Kim Leadbeater warns 1,150 Lords amendments are ‘unnecessary’ and designed to run down the clock
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night
thegmcconnachie.bsky.social Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 6d
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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catrio.bsky.social
Not only did MacDonald Hotels host the Farage fascist rally today, they did it for £0.00

Take your business elsewhere

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December 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM