Ian Mackay
@ianmackay.bsky.social
Former bar-keep. Occasional gardener up in the North Highlands. Independence for Scotland. Politics on the left. Love Celtic FC.
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"..the Lord said I was hungry and you told me I could make a meal for 30p, I was a stranger and you said 'fuck off back where you came from', I was sick and you said we should replace the NHS with private health insurance..."
December 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"..the Lord said I was hungry and you told me I could make a meal for 30p, I was a stranger and you said 'fuck off back where you came from', I was sick and you said we should replace the NHS with private health insurance..."
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The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
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I used to work for an American company and there was always the possibility of moving out there.
You honestly couldn't pay me enough to even try to visit there now
You honestly couldn't pay me enough to even try to visit there now
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I used to work for an American company and there was always the possibility of moving out there.
You honestly couldn't pay me enough to even try to visit there now
You honestly couldn't pay me enough to even try to visit there now
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Although many question the new league stage in UEFA competitions, it can be quite lucrative in terms of prize money (league & later rounds), ranking bonus and qualification. Here are the English clubs' earnings after match day six, based on their current positions.
December 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Although many question the new league stage in UEFA competitions, it can be quite lucrative in terms of prize money (league & later rounds), ranking bonus and qualification. Here are the English clubs' earnings after match day six, based on their current positions.
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🔴 A grandfather in northern Gaza says Israeli soldiers shot his 16-year-old grandson yesterday & then drove a tank over the child “four or five times,” crushing him in the street.
He says the family hasn’t known a moment of calm: “There are quadcopters every day and every night.”
X: @sahatenglish
He says the family hasn’t known a moment of calm: “There are quadcopters every day and every night.”
X: @sahatenglish
December 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
🔴 A grandfather in northern Gaza says Israeli soldiers shot his 16-year-old grandson yesterday & then drove a tank over the child “four or five times,” crushing him in the street.
He says the family hasn’t known a moment of calm: “There are quadcopters every day and every night.”
X: @sahatenglish
He says the family hasn’t known a moment of calm: “There are quadcopters every day and every night.”
X: @sahatenglish
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Tomorrow's front page 📰
'The UK is letting these people die'
'The UK is letting these people die'
December 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Tomorrow's front page 📰
'The UK is letting these people die'
'The UK is letting these people die'
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Machado parroting Trumps lines and refusing to condemn possible US military action against Venezuela.
Machado is nothing more than a US puppet.
Machado is nothing more than a US puppet.
December 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Machado parroting Trumps lines and refusing to condemn possible US military action against Venezuela.
Machado is nothing more than a US puppet.
Machado is nothing more than a US puppet.
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The full story of the world's first football club, founded #OTD in 1824 in Edinburgh, is told in this ground-breaking book. Price now just £10, post free, and available worldwide: www.amazon.co.uk/Worlds-First...
December 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The full story of the world's first football club, founded #OTD in 1824 in Edinburgh, is told in this ground-breaking book. Price now just £10, post free, and available worldwide: www.amazon.co.uk/Worlds-First...
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Their crime - being against genocide
"The legal limit for holding someone on remand is 6 months, yet 8 young activists have been locked up for over a year. They’ve been on hunger strike for more than 30 days, and you wouldn’t know it from our supposedly “trusted” BBC — total silence."
via Piara Mia
"The legal limit for holding someone on remand is 6 months, yet 8 young activists have been locked up for over a year. They’ve been on hunger strike for more than 30 days, and you wouldn’t know it from our supposedly “trusted” BBC — total silence."
via Piara Mia
December 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Their crime - being against genocide
"The legal limit for holding someone on remand is 6 months, yet 8 young activists have been locked up for over a year. They’ve been on hunger strike for more than 30 days, and you wouldn’t know it from our supposedly “trusted” BBC — total silence."
via Piara Mia
"The legal limit for holding someone on remand is 6 months, yet 8 young activists have been locked up for over a year. They’ve been on hunger strike for more than 30 days, and you wouldn’t know it from our supposedly “trusted” BBC — total silence."
via Piara Mia
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The IDF again claimed a “terrorist” posed an “imminent threat” to its troops — after shooting a child and running his body over with a tank.
This is the third case in two weeks in which Israeli soldiers have murdered young children and then issued the same justification.
This is the third case in two weeks in which Israeli soldiers have murdered young children and then issued the same justification.
December 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The IDF again claimed a “terrorist” posed an “imminent threat” to its troops — after shooting a child and running his body over with a tank.
This is the third case in two weeks in which Israeli soldiers have murdered young children and then issued the same justification.
This is the third case in two weeks in which Israeli soldiers have murdered young children and then issued the same justification.
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Critics argue that the ECHR stops us from being able to deport illegal migrants. In reality, in 75 years the ECHR has only ruled against the UK in 13 cases out of 500k: 0.000026%. The ECHR is being used a scapegoat for domestic challenges, and we must defend it.
Starmer urges European leaders to reform human rights laws to tackle immigration
The ECHR is seen by its critics as a major barrier to attempts to deport illegal migrants from the country.
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Critics argue that the ECHR stops us from being able to deport illegal migrants. In reality, in 75 years the ECHR has only ruled against the UK in 13 cases out of 500k: 0.000026%. The ECHR is being used a scapegoat for domestic challenges, and we must defend it.
Judging from some of the absolute fact-free trash i see getting posted on my Facebook timeline, it's older adults who need protected from social media much more than kids.
Are Australian kids breaking the law if they sneak on to social media? – video
Are Australian kids breaking the law if they sneak on to social media? – video
Whether you’re a parent of a child, or a child watching this on a VPN, Guardian Australia’s Matilda Boseley is here to clear up what the social media ban means
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Judging from some of the absolute fact-free trash i see getting posted on my Facebook timeline, it's older adults who need protected from social media much more than kids.
The board lock out of the room the very people who care passionately about the club, preferring to talk to the media who want to attack them every chance they get. Make that make sense. #celticfc
PJ Dykes sets the record straight as #Celtic fan media comes under attack (VideoCelts) https://www.celticnewsnow.com/news/pj-dykes-sets-the-record-straight-as-celtic-fan-media-comes-under-attack/678786/ #celtic #celticfc
PJ Dykes sets the record straight as Celtic fan media comes under attack
The ACSOM host provides free daily content that brings in a bigger audience than anything on You Tube from legacy outlets...
www.celticnewsnow.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The board lock out of the room the very people who care passionately about the club, preferring to talk to the media who want to attack them every chance they get. Make that make sense. #celticfc
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Refaat showed me how brave Gaza City was, as well as how funny its people were, despite decades of war, isolation and imprisonment.
Refaat Alareer and the online culture war
Western media institutions excused the intellectual's murder by deeming him "controversial."
electronicintifada.net
December 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Refaat showed me how brave Gaza City was, as well as how funny its people were, despite decades of war, isolation and imprisonment.
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Why should young people participate in an economy that offers them no hope for the future?
The inter-generational bargain that kept British capitalism afloat has collapsed - and Labour is too busy listening to corporate lobbyists to do anything about it.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/generation...
The inter-generational bargain that kept British capitalism afloat has collapsed - and Labour is too busy listening to corporate lobbyists to do anything about it.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/generation...
Generation Despair
Work doesn’t pay, housing is a trap, and life has been enshittified — why should young people keep propping up a system rigged against them?
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Why should young people participate in an economy that offers them no hope for the future?
The inter-generational bargain that kept British capitalism afloat has collapsed - and Labour is too busy listening to corporate lobbyists to do anything about it.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/generation...
The inter-generational bargain that kept British capitalism afloat has collapsed - and Labour is too busy listening to corporate lobbyists to do anything about it.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/generation...
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"As of 2013, the State of Israel had been condemned in 45 resolutions by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
but 'the United States blocked all efforts to adopt sanctions against Israel'
meme via Palestinian Historiographical Research
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
but 'the United States blocked all efforts to adopt sanctions against Israel'
meme via Palestinian Historiographical Research
December 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"As of 2013, the State of Israel had been condemned in 45 resolutions by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
but 'the United States blocked all efforts to adopt sanctions against Israel'
meme via Palestinian Historiographical Research
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
but 'the United States blocked all efforts to adopt sanctions against Israel'
meme via Palestinian Historiographical Research
To be fair to Farage, he probably just got a bit confused over the Ruble to Sterling exchange rate.
December 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
To be fair to Farage, he probably just got a bit confused over the Ruble to Sterling exchange rate.
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UK Reform is proving a useful vehicle for Putin to steer the UK under his direction. #r4today
Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM
UK Reform is proving a useful vehicle for Putin to steer the UK under his direction. #r4today
A fairly long - but brilliant - read on the population (or rather depopulation) issues surrounding humanity.
5. Intervention today (or in any recent decades), if it has any effect at all, will instead hasten the depopulation dive on the other side of the peak: a trend that is just as inevitable, whose impacts are brilliantly summarised here by David Runciman: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A fairly long - but brilliant - read on the population (or rather depopulation) issues surrounding humanity.
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Scotland games
13 June, 9pm v Haiti, Boston
19 June, 6pm v Morocco, Boston
24 June, 6pm v Brazil, Miami
All local times
13 June, 9pm v Haiti, Boston
19 June, 6pm v Morocco, Boston
24 June, 6pm v Brazil, Miami
All local times
December 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Scotland games
13 June, 9pm v Haiti, Boston
19 June, 6pm v Morocco, Boston
24 June, 6pm v Brazil, Miami
All local times
13 June, 9pm v Haiti, Boston
19 June, 6pm v Morocco, Boston
24 June, 6pm v Brazil, Miami
All local times
Where's all the 'two-state solution' warriors amongst our political class when the one-man who could help bring it about is being tortured in an Israeli prison? Surely it's not all just a ruse for them to do nothing other than support genociders? 😒
Barghouti torture exposed: Released detainee reveals Israel’s brutal assaults on political prisoner...
Barghouti torture exposed: Released detainee reveals Israel’s brutal assault on political prisoner
Barghouti’s torture is brutal—Israel broke his ribs, teeth, and fingers. A released detainee lifts the lid on Israel’s terrorism
www.thecanary.co
December 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Where's all the 'two-state solution' warriors amongst our political class when the one-man who could help bring it about is being tortured in an Israeli prison? Surely it's not all just a ruse for them to do nothing other than support genociders? 😒
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Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child
December 6, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child
Turns out fascists are really bad at running world cup draws. No way these useless cunts are running trains - or anything else - on time.
December 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Turns out fascists are really bad at running world cup draws. No way these useless cunts are running trains - or anything else - on time.
Football used to be called 'the theatre of the working class'. This 'draw' shows it's now become the pantomime of the oligarchs.
December 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Football used to be called 'the theatre of the working class'. This 'draw' shows it's now become the pantomime of the oligarchs.