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“A political establishment of ostensibly liberal, reliable custodians of stability that has no moral compass, and no care for the norms it constantly claims to uphold.” Brilliant from Nesrine Malik on the malign vacuum in “Western” politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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“This is unconstitutional! We need to make it legal, like all the previous ones. Then it’ll be fine.” Bombing with impunity since 1945…

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Have your wages increased by a third in five years? If so then you’ll have less problem than most tenants will in paying their spiralling rents. A Scottish government was formed in 2021 promising rent controls. These should have been delivered urgently. They still could be.

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the BBC is wayyy more interested in reproducing and overstating a culture war in universities, rather than reporting on the existential threat to their existence they are presently experiencing via funding crises #wato

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some serious Big Bomb tech porn on the BBC World at One rn #wato

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Ok, we give our profound gratitude to whoever it was from the Greater Glasgow Municipal Geoengineering Dept that rebelled and switched off the Overcast Iron Dome….😎

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The sort of “it’s GORGEOUS OUT THERE!” weather reporting from London based broadcasters that makes my overcast Scottish ass want to put on some woad and shout Freedom!

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Seriously, with the whole university system on the brink, this is what the OfS and the BBC focus on? A dereliction of duty. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Turning closed coalmines into solar energy plants ‘could add 300GW of renewables by 2030’, finds ‪@globalenergymon.bsky.social Story by @damiengayle.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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I was involved in creating this rubbish #Disclosure #Recycling #Scotland #Rubbish www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Now an AGE for bags. Plane landed here an hour ago. Still waiting to get out. Total shit. Maximum profit for someone making £££s from @edinburghairport.bsky.social Maximising “efficiency” the classically British way….

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Still no steps….embarrassing and shit. It’s just steps, FFS. And bridges are sitting empty. Scottish airports are appalling.

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Ah, @edinburghairport.bsky.social making everyone wait ages for a set of steps, making everyone - including old folks and kids - walk through rain, up 2 sets of stairs (with luggage) and miles from the exit. Always Always shit. Never changes. Embarrassingly so….

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The paragraph of questions for Infantino at the end of this excellent article by @maxrushden.bsky.social is 🔥. It should be asked of him every time he is interviewed. It should be put on a poster and dragged by a plane around the world. I don't care how long it is, I want it done.

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Gianni’s Club World Cup Panini sticker prompts yet another question for lofty Infantino | Max Rushden

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You absolute beee-yooo-teeee!!!!

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This is beyond depressing. It’s chilling. I’m assuming that someone in this ‘major Scottish institution’ has actually pre-approved this massive public advert for violence? What has this to do with sport? Embarrassing, worrying, vile. Why is this allowed?

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Cutting your council funds even closer to the bone (spare us the toxic “doge” import) and attacking working from home seems a totally moribund strategy to me. They’re really gonna run on Austerity Plus?

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Ladies and Gentlemen, UK infrastructure:

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Britain, where one broken down train - ONE - screws up the day of about 2000 people.....

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I'd just like to extend a special fuck you to Avanti West Coast who do their best to make train journeys totally fucking nightmarish. Sorry the swearing is actually required.

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First time back on Avanti West Coast for ages and what happens? The goddamn train gets cancelled at Preston. Just because a train at Beattock is broken down. Awful, but bloody typical.

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The same Tony Blair has been paid to advise oil rich autocratic states including Azerbaijan, UAE and Kazakhstan This should be included in every story about his net zero comments www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Tony Blair just gave license to Drill, Baby, Drill, right? Extraordinary. Clothed in his usual realpolitik advocating 'realism' as 'zero change' and arguably worse than the 'common sense' death drive emanating from the present US incumbent driller-in-chief.

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Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Oil dictators' butler decides that viewed from his private jet, climate change isn't that much of an issue really. Tony Blair really is consistently evil. I do worry that the Sensibles running Labour think his views aren't the output of an ATM.

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Big things are happening at EH!

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The OLH is thrilled to welcome Energy Humanities, a field-defining journal in #energystudies, to our portfolio of leading humanities and social sciences titles. The journal will begin publishing with the OLH in 2026. Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/811/ / @energyhumanities.bsky.social

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No. It should go down. Next.

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Full throttle energo-nihilism. Still incredible, despite all we know, to see this desire for wanton destruction. In a speech warning about “dark futures.”

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UK, 2095. Backdropped by the Thames swamplands, the great grandson of Jeremy Clarkson presents an enthusiastic piece to camera on how to retrofit an old '25 model heat pump....

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Extraordinary. A fulcrum issue for the notion of 'neutrality' on the transition. Given the decision seems based on the assumption of the perception of 'bias', how does the BBC now adjudicate on any emergent technology piece deemed 'controversial' in lieu of climate science? AI, for example?

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this is really stupid of the BBC though. Heat pumps are not controversial!

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Viva Palestina!

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The BBC radio news tells me that the US President will come to meet the King and as a result the country may receive less punitive tariffs. This is what the news tells us. It is April 18, 2025.

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🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from experienced presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future. Here's what he got wrong... 🧵

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I am looking forward to the forthcoming radical marxist Blue Origin crew. Bringing the Labour Theory of Value to Space Tourism.

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Weekend story was saving Scunthorpe steelworks - UK's last virgin steel smelting plant Challenged for years by cheap imports from Asia where energy & labour cost are lower There's been a concerted but erroneous attempt to link that to net zero efforts 🧵🧵 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Maybe we could de-extinct the Miller McLeish partnership from the 80s, like those dire wolves.

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Sir Grant Shapps. Sir. Grant. Shapps. Suck it Up, peasants!

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Love this new mural on an exposed tenement gable on Burghead Drive in the Linthouse area of Glasgow. Titled Guided by the Light, it was created by Jay Kaes in association with Yard Works. #glasgow #mural #streetart #tenement #glasgowtenements #linthouse #architecture #glasgowmural #glasgowstreetart

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