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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 3h

Access rights, the Auchreoch sign, and the Orwellian world of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority.
#PublicAccess
#LochLomond&Trossachs

Access rights, the Auchreoch sign & the Orwellian world of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority - parkswatchscotland

On 20th September I wrote about the sign above in a post on Scotland’s free trade in land & its consequences – Coille Coire Chuilc and Auchreoch. I reported the sign that same evening to the Access T...

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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 5h

You can hear Scots being spoken in the streets, on the buses, and in the pubs and shops of Edinburgh any day of the week - and certainly in the Oxford Bar! 🤨

Rankin can construct interesting plots, but his dialogue and characterisations are unimpressive. He doesn't seem to have an ear for Scots.

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 1d

think I'd be risking a blood pressure incident if I actually read this book. but good that it's out there I guess, not that the perpetrators are ever going to suffer the consequences they deserve

How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate

Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Wolverinethad (Boo Thad) @lettersfromthewasteland.org · 1d

Corbyn was driven out over this complete and utter bullshit. Cynical to the core. Starmer got power, too, and can't even wield it semi-competently! What the fuck was even the point??

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 1d

Re: the Labour shenanigans detailed in The Fraud. "Gordstein", it should be noted, was not a real person but an invention of Euan Philipps of Labour Against Antisemitism, who is not Jewish but made complaints under what he obviously considered to be a 'Jewish-sounding' name

Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 1d

particularly callous and inhumane detail here. these people never gave a fuck about Jews

"In September 2020 “Gordstein” was one of three complainants against Riva Joffe, an 80-year-old Jewish veteran of the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa.

Her sin was to have described Israel as an Apartheid state (a view shared by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the Israeli human rights organisation B’tselem) and to have urged Jeremy Corbyn to stand up to the “Zionist lobby.”

The Labour Party opened a formal investigation and Joffe spent the closing days of her life penning an immensely dignified response from her death bed. “This frenzy of purging you are driven to – it’s not the behaviour of mature adults. It smacks of desperation, fear and panic,” she wrote.

Joffe lived in Starmer’s constituency and knew him personally. But a direct request on behalf of her son that the charges against her be posthumously dropped did not even elicit a response."

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

I would bet my flat that not a single person proposing this has an A-level in English language.

(In literature possibly, but language, very unlikely).

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 7h

So why isn't Labour prepared to take the UK back into the EU? 🧐

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tommywheatear.bsky.social @tommywheatear.bsky.social · 1d

#Reformski are not the patriots they claim to be ... don't buy their snake oil, don't buy their lies.
#RejectReform #ReformLies

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 1d

'The people who make our lives more difficult arrive in private jets, not dinghies.'

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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 8h

Trump and Blair's 'Peace Plan' | Mike Small in 'Bella Caledonia'.
#GazaGenocide

Trump and Blair’s ‘Peace Plan’

The ceasefire and the release of hostages and the possibility of aid getting through to a deliberately starved population are all to be welcomed. Still, significant questions remain about what happ…

bellacaledonia.org.uk

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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 8h

My review of Rupert Ferguson's 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrel Tradition' (2001):
#BookSky 💙📚

Graeme's review of The Lay of the Last Minstrel

3/5: Rupert Ferguson's thesis is that elements of the cultures of the post-Roman Celtic and Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Britain have been transmitted through Medieval chivalric romance to the Scottish Bor...

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 1d

Ardura Community Forest, Mull 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Mull & Iona Community Trust engaged us to find out the age of oaks which had been felled in the 1960s when the Sitka spruce plantation was created by the Forestry Commission. They were mostly around 200 years old.
#dendrochronology #ThickTrunkTuesday #Mull

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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 1d

He's clearly a genius.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

futurism.com

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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 1d

How old are you? Seven?

You appear to know nothing about the histories of Palestine, Zionism or the Nakba.

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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 1d

Denying that it is a genocide while at the same time claiming that it has stopped doesn't really work! 😀

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Israeli MP for Hadash Ofer Cassif: "[Trump] is not the saviour. He is part and parcel, totally complicit in the genocide that Israel carried out for almost 2 years"

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Pos1tive3nergy.bsky.social @pos1tive3nergy.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't protest, but I believe those that did, were not just wanting the killing to stop, but for the Palestinians to have basic rights as well as the land that was stolen given back. So I can understand why the protests are likely to continue. Isn't that what Corbyn wanted, only he was called AS?

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PindsvineCorp 🎃 🏳️‍🌈🎃 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @pindsvinecorp.bsky.social · 1d

Almost like she's missing a massive point as well:
Protests began to support Palestine
Additional protests began against the proscribing of Palestine Action
Now more are joining because of her attempts to quash peaceful protest
But, yeah, more inflammatory comments will definitely help...
🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 1d

You have the right to protest.
But not like that.
Not about this.
Not then.
Not there.
Not now.

Democratastic

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Concerned about what the peace means for Palestinians? Concerned whether there will be peace at all? Concerned about accountability for the Israeli genocide? Shabana Mahmood has this to say to you.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Blair took us to war on a lie, a war that killed a million Iraqis & destabilised the entire region. And the reason he's now being touted for a role governing Gaza (and allowed to swan around the world making millions from dictators) is because there's been no accountability #GMB

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

The EPA has said that although there has been a reduction in levels of excess phosphorous and nitrogen in Ireland's rivers and lakes, the overall water quality of surface water is continuing to decline

Quality of surface water continues to decline, says EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency has said that although there has been a reduction in levels of excess phosphorous and nitrogen in Ireland's rivers and lakes, the overall water quality of surface w...

www.rte.ie

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Chickyholic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @chickyholic.bsky.social · 1d

The bombing and laying waste of Gaza may have stopped at last but where on earth are the poor Palestinians going to live in the short term and then permanently - and indeed will they live when the whole of their homeland is now just s pule of rubble (until the Costa del Gaza is built).

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

BBC News's John Simpson hitting the nail on the head:

"What this doesn't do in any way is sort out the Palestinian question"

"What it does is stop the agony that people in Gaza have been suffering for two years"

"But it doesn't create a future path for them"

"Maybe that can come"

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