Stooryduster
@stooryduster.bsky.social
A Scottish words' illustrator, a cartoonist & designer interested in tech, software, art, design, life and the environment. Also on @[email protected] My drawings are at stooryduster.co.uk
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December 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Many of the hunger strikers have already been in prison for over a year - without trial or the option of bail. This isn't justice, it's a breach of their human rights.
The government must urgently ensure the prisoners receive the treatment they need and a fair trial.
The government must urgently ensure the prisoners receive the treatment they need and a fair trial.
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Many of the hunger strikers have already been in prison for over a year - without trial or the option of bail. This isn't justice, it's a breach of their human rights.
The government must urgently ensure the prisoners receive the treatment they need and a fair trial.
The government must urgently ensure the prisoners receive the treatment they need and a fair trial.
I get Redbubble to make stuff mainly for myself with no real markup – but if anyone else wants Scottish word based stuff like T-shirts, aprons and mugs have a look and see if you like anything. Up to 50% off is running on Redbubble at the moment. See my web page here: stooryduster.co.uk/blog/shop/
December 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I get Redbubble to make stuff mainly for myself with no real markup – but if anyone else wants Scottish word based stuff like T-shirts, aprons and mugs have a look and see if you like anything. Up to 50% off is running on Redbubble at the moment. See my web page here: stooryduster.co.uk/blog/shop/
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The BBC must join the growing list of broadcasters from across Europe in withdrawing from the Eurovision Song Contest.
Our artists must not share a stage with war criminals!
Our artists must not share a stage with war criminals!
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The BBC must join the growing list of broadcasters from across Europe in withdrawing from the Eurovision Song Contest.
Our artists must not share a stage with war criminals!
Our artists must not share a stage with war criminals!
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The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.
December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.
Don't feed the corporate machine. Black Friday encouraging us to buy more unnecessary tat. Don't. As for Christmas our neighbours have decided to put names in a hat and have a secret Santa instead of piles of presents (excepting the kids of course). We've decided to do the same. totallylocally.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Don't feed the corporate machine. Black Friday encouraging us to buy more unnecessary tat. Don't. As for Christmas our neighbours have decided to put names in a hat and have a secret Santa instead of piles of presents (excepting the kids of course). We've decided to do the same. totallylocally.org
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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Now over 61,000 🚀
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Now over 61,000 🚀
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Whilst most families see their household budgets stretched further every month, the richest in our country continue to increase and hoard their wealth.
The @scottishgreens.org proposed tax on the top 1% would see £70 BILLION for our public services.
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The @scottishgreens.org proposed tax on the top 1% would see £70 BILLION for our public services.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Whilst most families see their household budgets stretched further every month, the richest in our country continue to increase and hoard their wealth.
The @scottishgreens.org proposed tax on the top 1% would see £70 BILLION for our public services.
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The @scottishgreens.org proposed tax on the top 1% would see £70 BILLION for our public services.
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Commission of Tintin and the commissioner’s dog
November 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Commission of Tintin and the commissioner’s dog
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That’s correct.
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
That’s correct.
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This is very good. Reeves needs to set out her views both on the strategic purpose of the tax system (and the role of the state) as part of a plan to deliver fiscal consolidation. That requires both more political and communications skills than she’s displayed thus far. But we can live in hope.
Here’s this week’s column, in which I beg the chancellor to go big this week - on both headroom and narrative - so that by next year, if she’s still here to deliver it, the budget will be boring, because we all know the plan 🙏🏻
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Rachel Reeves, please, let’s make budgets boring again | Heather Stewart
Budgets need to be reassuringly dull with no repeat of this year’s long, drawn-out and chaotic buildup
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is very good. Reeves needs to set out her views both on the strategic purpose of the tax system (and the role of the state) as part of a plan to deliver fiscal consolidation. That requires both more political and communications skills than she’s displayed thus far. But we can live in hope.
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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
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The Demolition of the Crown Hotel, Edinburgh, 1925, by David Macbeth Sutherland.
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The Demolition of the Crown Hotel, Edinburgh, 1925, by David Macbeth Sutherland.
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Key points: Met police say investigation into other politicians is ongoing. Gill sought to recruit multiple MEPs including 4 British ones.
The judge gave strongest possible quotes about the gravity of the crime and the damage done to public trust.
The judge gave strongest possible quotes about the gravity of the crime and the damage done to public trust.
November 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Key points: Met police say investigation into other politicians is ongoing. Gill sought to recruit multiple MEPs including 4 British ones.
The judge gave strongest possible quotes about the gravity of the crime and the damage done to public trust.
The judge gave strongest possible quotes about the gravity of the crime and the damage done to public trust.
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🧵 Before Hollywood turned her green, L. Frank Baum’s Wicked Witch of the West looked very different… & she appears only briefly in the 1900 book. 📚
🧙🏼Check out her earliest depictions in these images, & explore more Oz history on our blog ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...
#PublicDomain #Oz #Wicked
🧙🏼Check out her earliest depictions in these images, & explore more Oz history on our blog ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...
#PublicDomain #Oz #Wicked
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🧵 Before Hollywood turned her green, L. Frank Baum’s Wicked Witch of the West looked very different… & she appears only briefly in the 1900 book. 📚
🧙🏼Check out her earliest depictions in these images, & explore more Oz history on our blog ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...
#PublicDomain #Oz #Wicked
🧙🏼Check out her earliest depictions in these images, & explore more Oz history on our blog ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...
#PublicDomain #Oz #Wicked
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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We do what we do on a shoestring - and it's enough to stake a flag in the ground alongside the billionaire-owned press.
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
Support powerful citizen journalism - we need it now, more than ever
At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater nee...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:57 AM
We do what we do on a shoestring - and it's enough to stake a flag in the ground alongside the billionaire-owned press.
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
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Migration globally is growing and coping with it is vital as @wanderinggaia.bsky.social says, but it is not the main reason "the public" are angry/disillusioned/hopeless and looking for targets.
The Tories did exactly the damage everyone predicted with austerity & Brexit, and this the result.
The Tories did exactly the damage everyone predicted with austerity & Brexit, and this the result.
November 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Migration globally is growing and coping with it is vital as @wanderinggaia.bsky.social says, but it is not the main reason "the public" are angry/disillusioned/hopeless and looking for targets.
The Tories did exactly the damage everyone predicted with austerity & Brexit, and this the result.
The Tories did exactly the damage everyone predicted with austerity & Brexit, and this the result.
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Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food.
@paneurope.bsky.social
@paneurope.bsky.social
Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food.
@paneurope.bsky.social
@paneurope.bsky.social
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We are living in a real-life episode of Black Mirror: an app dispatches workers, monitors their every move, while riders - some using rented identities - risk abuse, exhaustion and invisibility.
“We are a very modern kind of slave.”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
“We are a very modern kind of slave.”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Life as a food delivery worker: ‘Sometimes men open the door naked’
To earn a living as a delivery rider, some work 10-12 hour days, contending with low pay, exhaustion, accidents, injuries and harassment. Is this a new form of modern slavery?
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
We are living in a real-life episode of Black Mirror: an app dispatches workers, monitors their every move, while riders - some using rented identities - risk abuse, exhaustion and invisibility.
“We are a very modern kind of slave.”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
“We are a very modern kind of slave.”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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In fact, B&N has been expanding rather a bit recently; their sales are up and they've refreshed their stores. And independent books stores have been growing in numbers too! It's been quite a turnaround for brick and mortar bookstores in the last couple of years. I hope it lasts.
I'm more shocked they're still opening new B&Ns.
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
In fact, B&N has been expanding rather a bit recently; their sales are up and they've refreshed their stores. And independent books stores have been growing in numbers too! It's been quite a turnaround for brick and mortar bookstores in the last couple of years. I hope it lasts.
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The HRA publicly clarified that the study BBC journalists Deb Cohen and Hannah Barnes had criticised, had ethical approval.
Their page shows the BBC enquiry and the HRA response. No breach found, no withdrawn approval, no scandal. The BBC reporting misled people.
👉 www.hra.nhs.uk/about-us/new...
Their page shows the BBC enquiry and the HRA response. No breach found, no withdrawn approval, no scandal. The BBC reporting misled people.
👉 www.hra.nhs.uk/about-us/new...
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The HRA publicly clarified that the study BBC journalists Deb Cohen and Hannah Barnes had criticised, had ethical approval.
Their page shows the BBC enquiry and the HRA response. No breach found, no withdrawn approval, no scandal. The BBC reporting misled people.
👉 www.hra.nhs.uk/about-us/new...
Their page shows the BBC enquiry and the HRA response. No breach found, no withdrawn approval, no scandal. The BBC reporting misled people.
👉 www.hra.nhs.uk/about-us/new...
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'Small-scale fishermen using low-impact methods are...forced out by industrial vessels "that take more in a day than we can in a season...we are not asking for special treatment, only for rules that protect the ocean, reward those who fish responsibly, + give our communities a chance to survive"'.
Very encouraging to see small-scale fishermen demand better protections from bottom trawling
thefishingdaily.com/eu-fishing-i...
thefishingdaily.com/eu-fishing-i...
Small-Scale Fishermen Demand EU Ban On Bottom Trawling In MPAs - The Fishing Daily - Irish, UK and European Fishing Industry News
Small-scale fishermen urge Commissioner Kadis to ban bottom trawling in marine protected areas under the proposed EU Ocean Act
thefishingdaily.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
'Small-scale fishermen using low-impact methods are...forced out by industrial vessels "that take more in a day than we can in a season...we are not asking for special treatment, only for rules that protect the ocean, reward those who fish responsibly, + give our communities a chance to survive"'.