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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · 4h

Nobody:

Irish News Media:
ALL OF THE ENOCH BURKE, ALL OF THE TIME!!
IT’S NON-STOP BURKE FAMILY UPDATES!!
[Look at his sister, she’s going to do something weird!!]
THE BURKE DRAMA IS OFFICIALLY GOING ON FOREVER!!

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Tamar @heartinamber.bsky.social · 9h

A lot of things click into place when you realise that, as much as people try to pretend otherwise, reducing immigration in the age of Ryanair is a significant spending commitment and therefore demands for lowering immigration or reducing migrants' rights are demands for a luxury good

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 9h

Not earth shattering by any means, but this means that in the best case scenario for the Greens, SNP and PC in the 2029 election we could see a bloc of 100ish MPs open to the idea of granting referendums on independence to Scotland and Wales in the next Parliament

Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 13h

Exclusive: @zackpolanski.bsky.social backs Scottish and Welsh independence in new interview with me: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

Exclusive: Zack Polanski backs Scottish and Welsh independence

The eco-populist Green leader has called for sweeping change to Britain's political system, and spoken about potentially leading an explicitly ‘English’ party for the first time.

open.substack.com

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 9h

"we're going to lie, and also do it in a way which makes us look bad" is definitely some kind of strategy

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 10h

Britain has lost control of its borders, home secretary admits on.ft.com/477w3pn

Britain has lost control of its borders, home secretary admits

Shabana Mahmood says public trust in state will be weakened unless politicians ‘bring order’ to immigration

on.ft.com

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Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 1d

This is also incoherent bollocks: you cannot establish international bodies that have a human rights remit and then complain when they raise concerns about your compliance with human rights! That's the point of them! There's no "um it's DOMESTIC" get our for rights, idiots
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck off!!!!

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 1d

Shabana Mahmood is a disgrace and her appointment as Home Secretary is a danger to all our rights.

The fact that the is the one alongside Streeting who the Labour Right are pushing as the next PM indicates a real moral bankruptcy.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

The Sensible Moderates, ladies and gentlemen

Geri Scott C @Geri_E_L_Scott
X.com
This has gone down *badly* with some in govt, amid push to reform the ECHR from the inside.
Shabana Mahmood especially is said to take a
"dim view" of arguments made and her allies say issue of trans rights after the Supreme Court's judgement is "beyond reproach".
Govt source says "it doesn't help sustain public confidence in the European Convention when the Council is seen to intervene in domestic politics and national security".
Steven Swinford • @Steven_Swinford • 5h
Breaking:
The government's treatment of trans people in the
UK could breach the European Convention on Human Rights, Europe's human right...

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1d

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Sinéad Collins @sinead1988.bsky.social · 1d

I'm of the view that it almost lets bad guys off the hook as saying they're just inherently bad is essentially saying "they just couldn't help it" or something along those lines

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 1d

Week in week out, signs of an electorate crying out for electoral reform.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

Our latest Westminster voting intention (12-13 Oct) has the Greens on their highest figure ever recorded by YouGov

Reform UK: 27% (no change from 5-6 Oct)
Labour: 20% (=)
Conservatives: 17% (=)
Lib Dems: 16% (-1)
Greens: 13% (+1)
SNP: 3% (-1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 2d

This is very annoying when it comes to kids book which are both frequently written by English people and full of rhymes. When one rhymed 'scarf' with 'giraffe' I absolutely lost all reason.

Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 2d

I keep forgetting that English people add a phoenetic 'r' where there's a vowel. That's why I didn't get that name 'Shaun the Sheep' was a pun for a good 10 years.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 2d

It's important to recognise the far-right's failures as much as its successes.

They're not inevitable. They're not unbeatable. Our Governments should be learning from the examples of the states across Europe beating them back.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections

Party hoped to take 30 municipalities but secured three after share of vote halved from parliamentary elections

www.theguardian.com

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 2d

Fucking BBC reporter reading the headline "the SNP deputy leader says they want MORE immigration??!" as if they've said they want to move Scotland to the moon rather than reiterated their long-time stance on immigration

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 2d

The older I get the more I appreciate when people say "oh I don't know the answer to that" or "actually I was wrong". It's probably the biggest shortcut to get me to trust you tbh.

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.bsky.social · 3d

one thing i will never forget and forever be sickened by was that the leader of the SNP's, the First Minister's, in-laws were literally being bombed in an active genocide and the press and most of the political establishment just didn't care

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3d

Husam Zomlot thanked the people of Scotland in a rousing speech to SNP conference

🗣️ 'The Palestinian people will never forget the support of the people of Scotland when we needed it most'

Husam Zomlot thanks people of Scotland in rousing speech to SNP conference

www.thenational.scot

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Gray Frights! @clickgate.bsky.social · 4d

Shoutout to one of my fave tweets ever of all time

Martin Leahy tweets:

“There was a bus going through Béal na Bláth once and the bus driver announced to the passengers, 'This is where Michael Collins died' and someone on the bus said 'Tis a bad bend alright'.”

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Neil Hegarty @neilhegarty.bsky.social · 4d

'In Fermanagh, the almost total disappearance of greys and re-emergence of red squirrels is being largely put down to pine martens.' This is a great story.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pine martens on the move in Northern Ireland

One of Northern Ireland's rarest native mammals have been turning up in some unusual places.

www.bbc.com

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 4d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 4d

People surprised that some formerly sensible left-leaning or liberal women are now apparently full of admiration for white supremacists, rapists and genocide might note that their entry point for far right radicalisation was invariably a belief that transphobia is ‘feminist’. Just saying.

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 5d

In the SNP's long, gradualist moment (yet to terminate), a whole generation of fundamentalists has emerged, fucked it, and vanished.

Those challenging Swinney this weekend represent a political afterthought.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 5d

Apropos of nothing, with Ash Regan's hilarious defection to the Ash Regan Party, we can bid a final, deeply belated farewell forever to the highly irritating fundy-nat streak in fringe Scottish politics. It has been slain almost inhumanely, a sort of death by a thousand cuts.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 5d

That was not the act of a child, it’s an insult to call it childish - it was triple distilled misogynistic behaviour.

Irish Independent @independent.ie · 5d

Joe Brolly says he regrets a 'childish, crude and inappropriate gesture' made on a podcast while talking about the presidential election campaign.

It came after Fine Gael’s candidate Heather Humphreys said the video was 'very misogynistic' and was 'targeted at women'

Joe Brolly regrets ‘childish, crude gesture’ on podcast about the presidency

Joe Brolly says he regrets a “childish, crude and inappropriate gesture” made on a podcast while talking about the presidential election campaign.

www.independent.ie

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GT @granitetide.bsky.social · 5d

Ash Regan announces her intention to run as leader of Your Party Scotland

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Ash Regan has quit the Alba Party

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Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 5d

Obviously she was doomed in Alba anyway and was never getting back in but now she's really sealed the deal, RIP to the political career of the person who gave us the finest bit of complete gormlessness, never before seen lack of gorm, total absence of gorm, unparalleled non-gorm in history.

Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · Jun 1

"How would the punters get to them?" absolutely entering my political meme lexicon, thanks Ash

Section of an interview - a real interview in a real paper - with Ash Regan MSP

Asked about concerns her bill could drive prostitution to an unregulated and underground system, Ms Regan said: "There is no basis for any of those assertions.

"If you even think for one second, you cannot possibly drive prostitution underground.

"If you had a lot of women in underground cellars with a locked door, how would the punters get to them?"

The Herald clarified that the point being made was that if someone wants to buy sex, they would simply do so illegally.

Asked if that made sense, Ms Regan said: "No. It does not really make sense whatsoever."

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 5d

if i had a nickel for every time Ash Regan had run for leadership of a party, lost, and then quit that party entirely i’d have two nickels, etc, etc

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 5d

hahahahahahahahahaha

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Ash Regan has quit the Alba Party

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