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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 11h

Look at this albino squirrel we saw near our flat!!!

WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 59m

This is one story of inhumanity, violence and loss. One. Amidst two million people, each with similar or worse stories, each denied the humanity often given in Western media to Israelis, each expected to be happy to be alive and just accept this genocide as the natural order of things.

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 1h

Naseem Al-Radee - a 33-year old government worker abducted by Israel and held without charges for 22 months, spending 100 days in an undergeound cell, losing one third of his body weight and suffering beatings and abuse.

The day he was freed he found out his wife & children had been massacred.

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Le Dog @ledog.bsky.social · 14h

Love your work. So honoured to have received this wonderful gift from an amazing colleague.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 13h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 11h

Look at this albino squirrel we saw near our flat!!!

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 5d

Have a look through my website wgsaraband.com and get yourself some handmade, unique art made with all the strengths, faults and emotions of an actual human being.

Added bonus of supporting an independent Portuguese-Scottish artist 😉

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 13h

Aw thanks, very glad you liked it! All credit to Andy for his excellent taste of course 😅 hope things are going well with all the changes at work x

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 2d

Cannot stop thinking of Palestinians returning to the rubble of their old lives, only to dig through the bodies trapped underneath. I will never, ever, forget how this genocide was not just allowed to unfold before our eyes, but emphatically supported by our Western governments.

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 5d

Have a look through my website wgsaraband.com and get yourself some handmade, unique art made with all the strengths, faults and emotions of an actual human being.

Added bonus of supporting an independent Portuguese-Scottish artist 😉

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 7d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 8d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 7d

Also, telling it to my face, seeing my reaction and immediately saying "I don't mean you" regarding said migrants

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 7d

The logical conclusion is that, for these people, one non-white person is one too many, but we also need more white people ("proper white", you know, not like Eastern Europeans or something...)

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 7d

Within a 10min chat with a neighbour she managed to complain that the UK is too tiny for all these migrants but also say that most of Scotland is empty & desolate of people 🤷‍♂️

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 8d

You cannot atone for a genocide by supporting another, it was supposed to be "Never Again"

Euronews @euronews.com · 8d

Chancellor Friedrich Merz says that if Israel is excluded from Eurovision 2026, Germany will not take part.

German chancellor threatens to boycott Eurovision if Israel excluded

Chancellor Friedrich Merz says that if Israel is excluded from Eurovision 2026, Germany will not take part.

l.euronews.com

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 9d

Flatbread at Haymarket in Edinburgh for anyone wondering!

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 9d

Just had the most delicious pide bread with za'atar and cheese, accompanied by Turkish coffee

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 10d

Hummm, I wonder what you'd call this

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 10d

BREAKING: The Home Office is giving police new powers to restrict repeat protests like pro-Palestine marches.

Police can consider the ‘cumulative impact’ of protests on an area and could ban the protest / force it to move elsewhere.

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 11d

A friend's birthday was coming up and I challenged myself to paint her wee pug as a surprise gift. A big departure from my usual abstract work but she was quite emotional upon receiving it, so, success!

Have a look & support my work here: wgsaraband.com

"Winnie" - 30x30cm, watercolour on paper

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 11d

A friend's birthday was coming up and I challenged myself to paint her wee pug as a surprise gift. A big departure from my usual abstract work but she was quite emotional upon receiving it, so, success!

Have a look & support my work here: wgsaraband.com

"Winnie" - 30x30cm, watercolour on paper

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 13d

Double win for the far right as Labour becomes their handmaiden before Farage swoops into Westminster on a huge majority because Starmer helped legitimise their poison

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 13d

Refugees will be stripped of their automatic right to bring over family members under harsh new immigration rules unveiled by Labour

Labour strip refugees of family reunion rights in 'abhorrent' new policy

www.thenational.scot

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 13d

Double win for the far right as Labour becomes their handmaiden before Farage swoops into Westminster on a huge majority because Starmer helped legitimise their poison

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 13d

Refugees will be stripped of their automatic right to bring over family members under harsh new immigration rules unveiled by Labour

Labour strip refugees of family reunion rights in 'abhorrent' new policy

www.thenational.scot

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 14d

Dragging us down a fucking race to the bottom

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14d

Starmer to rethink human rights law to tackle ‘Farage boats’

Starmer blames Brexit for surge in numbers of small boat crossings but defends UK’s membership of ECHR Keir Starmer has said he will look at how international law is being interpreted by British courts in an effort to tackle small boats, which he branded “Farage boats” because of their increase in number since Brexit. Speaking after the Labour party conference, the prime minister signalled his unhappiness with how the European convention of human rights was being interpreted by judges making decisions about deportations. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 14d

Here's our Labour prime minister throwing the Labour Mayor of London, along with the entire British Muslim community, under the bus so as to not upset America's fascist president.

Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 14d

Hahaha yesssss

Sir Keir Starmer has said he does not believe Nigel Farage or Reform voters are racist - and also refused to label Donald Trump's claim that London wants "Sharia law" as such.

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 15d

The implication from Labour is that we, migrants, don't contribute enough, don't integrate enough, don't work enough.

Meanwhile I've volunteered in political activism for no pay, I've taken Gàidhlig evening classes, I make a living as an artist creating abstract renditions of Scottish landscapes.

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