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joaokay.bsky.social
Lusitania, Caledonia, art, books, history and culture.
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Why the ‘red lines’, Keir Starmer? We should rejoin the EU, say MPs. 👏👏👏

submitted 10 hours ago • 18 comments

Which is precisely why millions of people are protesting against you.

submitted 10 hours ago • 781 comments

Loved @joaokay.bsky.social’sdelish take on Delia’s Chicken Paprika with a fruit ladened Castelão from Setubal across the Tagus from Lisboa - always a source of great value reds in Portugal: cherry brandy, chocolate & spice bouquet and bittersweet cherry flavours in the mouth. Braw.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Waiting on Pete Hegseth’s imminent deportation.

submitted 14 hours ago • 44 comments

The man just lies all the time and the UK media here just let him continue to do so. They haven't once called him out on a lie and highlighted it. It's all on video not like it would be hard

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Every time Farage opens his mouth this story should be rammed down his throat. "NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to Brexit costs, report finds" www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

This will be a lovely event in Lanarkshire. If you saw Robyn & I at the National Library or the Edinburgh Book Festival, you’ll know how special the mell of Scots story, memoir and song can be. librariesnl.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Cultural colonialism in a street sign. Think of the cringing, parochial mentality that allowed this and recognise that it is reborn in unionist politicians who want nothing less than an English province of Scotlandshire for the great European nation formerly known as Scotland.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Donald Trump is ramping up his trade wars and crashing the global economy. He's not sparing the UK from his new tariffs, so why should we roll out the red carpet for him with a second state visit? Join more than 200,000 of us & add your name to he petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

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Who would’ve thought we’d be living these books out? We are in perilous times.

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The Last Buffet

submitted 3 days ago • 226 comments

The cruelty is the point. The banal, vicious, performative cruelty. Turns out ‘anti-woke’ just meant anti-decency, anti-humanity & anti-rule of law.

submitted 2 days ago • 297 comments

🤣🤣

submitted 2 days ago • 432 comments

This is despicable. ICE is out of control.

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What RFK Jr. said was reprehensible. He should be ashamed of himself and step down.

submitted 2 days ago • 801 comments

London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥

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The SNP Government has explained to Ian Murray how devolved laws differ in Scotland after he called for them to keep pubs open for longer on VE Day – something they don't have the power to do www.thenational.scot/news/2510140...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?

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It turns out a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and financial fraudster does not make for a good President.

submitted 2 days ago • 906 comments

Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.

submitted 2 days ago • 334 comments

👏👏

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Courtesy of today’s GOP…👇 Enjoy. 😎✨

submitted 3 days ago • 157 comments

Friens, Fifers, countreymen, lend me yer lugs! Luikin forrit tae addressin a Yes audience in the kingdom in twa or three weeks. Tickets free, but register here. Gin ye’re no fae Fife, ye’re welcome tae jyne us…but be shuir an bring yer lang spuins.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely

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In a wealthy nation, poverty is a political choice. A wicked one, in my view.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Sadly yes

submitted 6 days ago • 808 comments

As Birmingham Labour and even a UK Labour government fail the people of the city, how Glasgow SNP does the job properly: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/20/g...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

What part of "get out of Ukraine" does Putin not comprehend?

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Yup!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Two weeks today I’m at Paisley Book Festival with James & Rab. Hope to see some of you Paisley buddies there. I’ll be reading from Born in Kyle and talking about the mining heritage there that I grew up with.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Nobody, absolutely no one, in the UK Parliament, mentions the EXISTING, 150% Scotch Whisky Tariff, with India. The biggest Whisky Market on Earth. When it's removed, Scotch Whisky will DOUBLE in size. It's why a Free Trade Agreement with India hasn't happened yet. Scottish Independence please!

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Nauseating #Maga greedy gangster. They’re all disgusting 🤮

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I will never trust a country that thought it was a good idea to elect this ridiculous, malevolent man as its leader.

submitted 7 days ago • 965 comments

They never don't look painfully stupid

submitted 8 days ago • 2758 comments

there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

submitted 7 days ago • 1044 comments

The White House is now saying that Donald Trump has no plans to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping about tariffs. Total clown show.

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A wheen Scots words yaised ilka day when I wis a wean growin up in Kyle in the 1950s lang syne. Lots mair tae prie an savour in ma book Born in Kyle that ye can get on Audible, Kindle, paperback or hardback fae me or fae Amazon.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Get back in your box Scotland, your unimportant, inconsequential & will never be recognised as equal to England by Westminster unionist party’s. 2026 #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

What a duo of tweets.

submitted 12 days ago • 243 comments

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

submitted 11 days ago • 3198 comments