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The very last thing the U.K. needs is a bad actor like Musk with a toe hold control in our energy supply market.

12.03.2026 20:25 👍 116 🔁 50 💬 3 📌 0
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08.03.2026 23:43 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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Keir Starmer accused of ‘mimicking Trump’ with Middle East crisis TikTok post PM justifies position on US-Israel war on Iran in social media post using the Dire Straits song Money for Nothing

They played a bit of the US one on Radio4 yesterday, and I thought how obscene Trump's America has become, and was wondering how it got so bad so fast. Then they played a bit of this. And I can't even...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

07.03.2026 06:51 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Love is in the air at Edinburgh zoo. Pebbling marks the start of the breeding season for Gentoo penguins.

Kids at Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity painted pebbles for the penguins to choose from and present to their mates.

07.03.2026 17:01 👍 960 🔁 309 💬 28 📌 64
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We're living in a very odd UK.

Any Scot who doesn't want to get the fuck out of it, is totally bonkers.

Or, very racist.

07.03.2026 22:16 👍 19 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1
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It will never stop until Putin is stopped.

07.03.2026 21:18 👍 49 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 0
Hutton's outcrops in Glen Tilt
Hutton's outcrops in Glen Tilt YouTube video by Rob Butler

A video explaining the outcrop of Glen Tilt, following the observations made by James Hutton in 1785 in demonstrating that granite is an intrusive igneous rock 🌋
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-bP...

07.03.2026 14:15 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Men who shout at hotels are not protecting women Far-right groups protest about asylum accommodation in Aberdeen, claiming to be protecting women, but they regularly target women for abuse

Far-right groups protest about asylum accommodation in Aberdeen, claiming to be protecting women, but they regularly target women for abuse | Fiona Robertson

07.03.2026 07:43 👍 178 🔁 84 💬 14 📌 4
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If the US and Israel’s illegal campaign of aggression against Iran has been a crash course in imperial hubris, the UK mainstream media’s reporting has been a crash course in complicity, writes Hamza Yusuf ✍️

🔗 www.thenational.scot/politics/25916525.uks-mainstream-media-complicit-war/

07.03.2026 08:41 👍 36 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 1
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#OscarsMonth
#filmsky #moviesky

Day 7- G
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Oscars 2015
4 Academy Awards:
Best Production Design, Costume Design, Makeup & Hairstyling, and Original Score

06.03.2026 22:01 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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It’s hard to explain the excitement and trepidation of that moment when people get to read the book you just spent years putting together…

06.03.2026 07:42 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

Well deserved!

05.03.2026 23:14 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Something a bit different, but there are just not enough mundane to beautiful transformations in this world. Streamline vans made at Holland Coachcraft of Govan, Glasgow. The company was established around 1930, the war ended production in 1940. Fine things.

05.03.2026 12:18 👍 32 🔁 7 💬 7 📌 1
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RIP Walker Brothers drummer Gary Leeds, who died on Sunday. Will post a teatime tune from his solo lp this evening.

03.03.2026 13:49 👍 39 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

If you flee a war zone on a private A320, you are welcome with open arms. If you flee in a leaky raft, you are scum.

02.03.2026 13:02 👍 27 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

Written by Dick Gaughan. (His version is the best - though the Dropkick Murphys are great) 🙂

02.03.2026 15:50 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬’ 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 (𝐌𝐂𝐉𝐍) 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐫𝐨𝐲.

Rest in peace Paul @reflextv.bsky.social. 🕊️
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01.03.2026 18:40 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

May he win his peace and have the long life of friendships and love he deserves. Outstanding human being.

28.02.2026 19:33 👍 399 🔁 36 💬 11 📌 1

@ramblingidiot.bsky.social for lovely prints

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You have got to try this.

Honestly.
You want to.

26.02.2026 12:27 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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This month our #LEGO display cases have been full of brilliantly bright LEGO models for our #OrkneyLibraryLego YEAR OF THE HORSE theme! 🐎🈲️🎊

All made by library users using our #Lego collection. Thanks to everyone who made us a model! ❤️

Our next theme is WORLD BOOK DAY! 📚🦸‍♂️🧙‍♀️👦👧

26.02.2026 12:29 👍 165 🔁 22 💬 4 📌 1

⬇️⬇️
💯

24.02.2026 18:56 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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24.02.2026 17:39 👍 42 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 2

Yeah, you're gonna want to separate your phrts from your poking.

24.02.2026 17:04 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin

Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.

A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin

@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.

Please repost with your own caption.

21.02.2026 14:57 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Reform’s leader in Scotland has called for a “dialogue” on introducing patient charges & moving away from a purely tax-funded NHS model. He also believes in private companies delivering more services.

The SNP will always protect our NHS & its founding principles. 👇

20.02.2026 15:06 👍 60 🔁 56 💬 9 📌 0
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Never forget…

20.02.2026 10:14 👍 66 🔁 43 💬 1 📌 0

Very good!

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