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Until Scottish Independence comes I’m growing and cooking veg, chatting to foxes and searching for a wormhole to the Neolithic. Ⓥ
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❗We have launched a new campaign alongside Scottish SPCA and Born Free to raise awareness of the widespread trade in & keeping of wild animals as pets in Scotland. 🦔Visit the Don't Pet Me website to learn more & sign the petition: dontpetme.org ❗Nearly 7,500 have already signed! #DontPetMe

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📰 The #DontPetMe campaign in @thirdforcenews.bsky.social: tfn.scot/news/new-cam...

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THIS WEEK'S CARTOON: Not a cartoon at all, but a docu-strip that's much longer than usual and took me a record 9 days to complete. Maybe I was obsessing. Please share. gregmoodie.com/ocd/

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social you asked why Scotland is different regarding immigration It’s leadership, this is from Nicola Sturgeon

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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

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Amazing!

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The immigration white paper. Another that ignores facts & evidence. It’s dishonest. It’s ugly When Starmer tweeted that “the Tories ran an immigration system that relied on cheap foreign labour”. It sounds plausible. There’s just one problem. It doesn’t fit the facts, and the govt knows it.

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“I woke up with a sense of dread…” A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging. Don’t miss this powerful open letter. 👇

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💥BREAKING NEWS 💥 THE VEGAN LAND MOVEMENT HAS REMOVED AN 8TH PLOT OF LAND FROM DAIRY FARMING 💥🥳🎉 This land will now be removed from dairy farming for good! @animalaid.org.uk @plantbasednews.bsky.social @petauk.bsky.social @herbivoreclub.bsky.social @deborahmeaden.bsky.social @dalevince.com

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I’m one of those dodgy immigrants who came here on a spouse visa and got indefinite leave to remain after 12 months. The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.

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Strangers to me are people who don’t share my values, who have no compassion for other human beings. People like members of the current Labour government.

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To Starmer's demand that migrants must speak English, Scotland says Thoir ort agus bruich do cheann / gaun byle yer heid.

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This is the second time that Labour have offered up a policy that ultimately will adversely affect the elderly and the disabled more than any other demographic There’s a pattern forming here. Sleepwalking the U.K. into a Farage led government. Grim viewing

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I take it that if the Home Secretary wants to get rid of lower skilled workers that’ll be most of the Cabinet away then?

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The shallow US - UK "deal" shows one thing. Trump & the Brexit eilte want to deepen the wedge between EU & UK. Trade between 🇬🇧🇪🇺 isn't growing at all! The EU - UK Summit is the chance to correct the ludicrous economic damage of Trump & Farage's Brexit. Boldness is required!

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I read that Musk is going to give away most of his fortune by 2045. Well I think that what it said. I was in a hurry and just skimming the news this morning but it seems like the kind of thing a decent man like him would do. 😼

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Scotland is a proud European nation - today on #EuropeDay and every day. We didn’t vote for Brexit which is causing so much damage to our economy and communities, but we know that a better future is possible. An independent Scotland in the EU, playing its full part. 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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NEWS FLASH 💥 Another parcel of land owned by dairy farmers is going up for auction next week.This field is used for grazing cows & would be perfect for planting another native mixed woodland - an ‘oasis’ for wildlife in a vast area of grazing 🐮 veganlandmovement.com/animal-agric...

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Under Labour’s welfare cuts, 1.3 million people with cancer, arthritis and other diseases could lose PIP. They could have just made the very wealthiest pay their fair share. What an absolute disgrace that they are choosing to make life harder for disabled people instead.

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staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

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Starmer says he respects and trusts Trump and there’s a dry boak building in the back of my throat …

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TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

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The reason the far right can grow with such virulence is: the transferability of hate. It's very easy to persuade your voters that they can get the same dopamine rush from hating this new thing as from the thing that gave them the hit yesterday. And so many things can be made objects of hatred.

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Surely deserves a drink.

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This shouldn’t have to be said in 2025, but climate change is real - and climate denial is dangerous. I’m determined that in our response, we bring people together, invest in green energy and create jobs. I’ll be setting out more on that in the Programme for Government on Tuesday.

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www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...

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Perfect

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This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it

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The SNP will confront Nigel Farage, not cosy up to him. With independence, people in Scotland would always be in charge of our future, not Westminster governments that ignore our values. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

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I have waited my whole life, for this moment....

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Starmer’s grovelling to Trump - “The Art of the Kneel”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Lovely day today planting out veg aided by my two besties 😻

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“There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as before an ancient friend.” ~ James Baldwin, No Name in the Street Saturna/Apr 2024

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Francis's favorite painting: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

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