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Seonaidh

@macnabracha.bsky.social

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Tha #Gàidhlig agam | Poco de Español agus ein bisschen Deutsch. Infrequent writer. Clumsy corragan on a camera. Still one of the #MastoDaoine https://mastodon.scot/@MacNaBracha #HMFC #politics #ScottishIndependence #Gaelic #whisky

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Seonaidh @macnabracha.bsky.social · Nov 19

And the fierce flame of freedom that burns in our hearts...
The fire is still burning the future's still calling
To follow the dream till the end of my days
Wishing's for fools but dreams are for outlaws
Laughter's for lovers and tears for the brave

Dick Gaughan

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Dick Gaughan - Outlaws and Dreamers

YouTube video by 76AMD

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 5h

Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen shared his economic wisdom at the Tory conference. The Conservative party, he said, must be the party of “sound money”.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22h

The evil Green Party is going to tax the richest 0.3% of us.

Is really not going very well as an attack on the Green Party.

I'm sure they will come up with a new completely fake smear soon, like the antisemitism one from 2017-19.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22h

Journalist to EU spokesperson, "You say Russia should pay to rebuild Ukraine. Should Israel pay to rebuild Gaza?"

EU spokesperson, "Interesting question, no comment"

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Seonaidh @macnabracha.bsky.social · 2d

We need Internet!

Seonaidh @macnabracha.bsky.social · 2d

Vodafone down.

Its good to know private enterprise is so efficient...

www.techradar.com/news/live/vo...

Vodafone is down in a major outage – here's what we know

Vodafone is experiencing a nationwide wobble

www.techradar.com

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 NEW | Greens surge to 15% (2pts behind Lab)

➡️ REF – 32% (-3)
🔴 LAB – 17% (-2)
🔵 CON – 17% (+3)
🟢 GRN – 15% (+4)
🟠 LD – 12% (-)

Via @FindoutnowUK, 8 Oct (+/- vs 1 Oct)

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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 6d

www.thenational.scot/news/2553124...

“The regulation of medicine pricing is reserved to the UK Government through the Department of Health and Social Care.

“Any agreed price increases will apply UK-wide, including Scotland, so NHS Scotland would face higher costs.”

Labour to hike Scottish drug prices to 'appease' Donald Trump

LABOUR’S plans to "appease" Donald Trump will hike Scottish drug prices, The National can reveal.

www.thenational.scot

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 8d

Things Farage won’t answer:

1. Why did he lie about buying a house in Clacton?

2. What did he know about Welsh Reform Leader Nathan Gill’s Russian Bribes?

3. Why did he lie about meeting the Russian Ambassador?

4. Why is his flagship council Kent raising taxes and cutting services?

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 7d

Does Reform have a Russia problem?

Nigel Farage is ‘in bed with Putin’, claims Rachel Reeves, after party’s former leader in Wales pleaded guilty to taking bribes from the Kremlin

theweek.com

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 POLL | Reform lead by 7%

➡️ REF – 27% (-2)
🔴 LAB – 20% (-2)
🟠 LD – 17% (+2)
🔵 CON – 17% (+1)
🟢 GRN – 12% (+1)

Via @YouGov, 5-6 Oct (+/- vs 28-29 Sep)

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Hearts Standard @heartsstandard.bsky.social · 8d

🏅 Lawrence Shankland has been named Player of the Month.

⚽️ Three goals in September

Hearts captain Lawrence Shankland named Scottish Premiership player of the month

onlrl.co

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8d

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 8d

Absolutely disgraceful that BBC Scotland is giving airtime to an extremist Zionist commentator who is allowed to characterise anti-genocide protests as “celebrating the murder of Jews” without any pushback from the ‘interviewer’.

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Seonaidh @macnabracha.bsky.social · 7d

Heard that. The interview was a disgrace.

Seonaidh @macnabracha.bsky.social · 7d

Who would I listen to on both the questions of protest against genocide and hate against Jewish people... Starmer or @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social ?

I'm with the latter.

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 8d

If we're going with: democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect, and tolerance being the 'British' values; I would have thought sending arms to a genocidal state that has broken almost every international law and is ethnically cleansing illegally occupied land is 'un-British'!

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 9d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 9d

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters on.ft.com/4pTvJ62

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 10d

Another wee push for yesterday's analysis piece; if for some reason the inadvertently candy floss coloured map doesn't draw you in, there is a TL;DR version here, but if you do just read this screengrab you won't see my bit about Anas Sarwar's nightmares or a mildly spiced take on radicalisation.

1. Reform have absolutely devoured the Conservative’s 2021 support. This makes up by far the biggest portion of their voter base with reference to 2021, and combined with specific local reasons leads to especially strong backing in Banffshire, Buchan and Galloway.
2. Having effectively lost their entire gain in support compared to 2019 (and 2021), Labour’s voters are narrowly the biggest portion of Reform’s voter base with reference to 2024. This will reflect some 2021 Conservative to 2024 Labour to 2026 Reform movement. This is being seen most strongly in the mid-Central Belt, where Labour were historically highly successful.
3. Compared to the rest of the UK, where Labour’s losses are seemingly going 2-to-1 to broadly left wing parties versus right wing parties, in Scotland the two destinations are statistically tied. This is likely to reflect ongoing constitutional polarisation with a side helping of radicalisation, which isn’t unique to Scotland but has unique Scottish dimensions.
4. The SNP have lost relatively few of their 2021 voters base to Reform, but given how many voters they had at that election, they make up a sizeable chunk of Reform’s support. However, the past tense there is crucial. They are losing almost none of their 2024 support in that direction. That is made up for by 2024 Labour voters turning (or returning) to the SNP.
5. In general, the Lib Dems are not contributing much of the Reform vote regardless of what election you compare with. However, as a proportion of their own voter base, past Lib Dem voters are more likely than past SNP voters to vote for Reform. Overall, Reform support can therefore be said to be drawn overwhelmingly from the Pro-Union camp.

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Hearts Standard @heartsstandard.bsky.social · 10d

Derek McInnes said Hearts did try and find a way to win. And they did.

He spoke about the substitutions and the wonderful noise of the Hearts support.

🗣️ "We changed from matching up wing-back to wing-back on that side, to attacking wide player against outside centre-back."

Derek McInnes on 'beautiful' Tynecastle sight, Kerjota impact, Hearts excitement

Derek McInnes hailed the impact of his Albanian winger and the Tynecastle Park crowd after the win over Hibs.

www.heartsstandard.co.uk

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10d

JCB, the excavator maker controlled by Anthony Bamford and family paid £866m dividend.

Tory donor Bamford backed Brexit, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson.

Bamford dynasty subject to HMRC investigation for aggressively minimising UK taxes, using offshore trusts.
archive.ph/N7jdu

Wealthy UK Family Behind JCB Pays Itself $1.2 Billion Dividend

A billionaire Conservative Party donor and his family almost tripled the annual payout from their business empire, pocketing the windfall as fears grow over UK tax hikes.

www.bloomberg.com

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 11d

People from all walks of life — including many British Jews — are protesting against your government’s complicity in genocide and standing in solidarity with Palestine.

Conflating Israel’s genocide in Gaza with British Jews is deeply inappropriate and dangerous. Shame on you.

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 11d

Nathan Gill, Farage’s political crony from UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform, pled guilty to 8 counts of bribery. Briber? Oleg Voloshyn. And here’s Farage posing with Voloshyn’s wife. Pure coincidence, right? Farage stays mute. How much filth did he wallow in - and who else got paid off? #ukpolitics

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