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THIS IS NOT A CEASEFIRE www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

This is the most folk I can remember coming to an East Lothian campaign day - @scottishgreens.org are on the up and ready to work for the best election results yet come May 2026! Greens.scot/join

Great, inclusive atmosphere at the #ScotlandDemandsBetter rally today, always love a Venn diagram that includes kids’ activities, antifascism and Trade Union speeches. #TaxtheRich #NaePaseran @povertyalliance.org

What a privilege to join absolute gent Sha Qadir on the East Lothian leg of his Glasgow to Gaza journey. You can donate to his campaign here www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Difficult to understand why Labour get more unpopular with every poll when they’re doing such a good job clearing the streets of dangerous terrorists like <checks notes> young women quietly protesting the mass murder of children. 🤷

If you are free next Wednesday evening, 1st October, why not join the fantastic folks at the East Lothian Climate Hub for food, music and activist chat?! #ScotClimateWeek Tickets here: eastlothianclimatehub.org/events/

There is no illegal way to claim asylum. The UK does not provide “safe, legal” routes to claim asylum from abroad for all but a few nationalities, like Ukraine. Everyone else has to be in the UK. No human is illegal. Want a just, ethical asylum system? Join us. greens.scot

For a few weeks I have been organising a Friday evening protest at Musselburgh Old Town Hall - we bang pots and pans at 5pm to highlight the forced starvation still taking place in Gaza. I’ve not been great at publicising it but still we are more each week…

Really moving and powerful day with @magscotland.bsky.social bringing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿children’s kites to Holyrood to commemorate the thousands of 🇵🇸 children murdered so far. We came together with love to call for peace and justice. Free Palestine ✊🏽

Eleven years after I got swimming lessons at the commie pool because I wanted to try a triathlon… here I go!

Start the weekend off by standing against genocide: Musselburgh protest, bring a pot and a pan. Old Town Hall steps on the high Street, 5pm on Fridays STARTS TOMORROW 🇵🇸✊🏻🫕🍳📣

We have joined Bluesky! Please give us a follow and find out how to get involved in our campaigns and protests. Give us a follow on our instagram @mothersagainstgenocidescotland

Every Labour MP "You cannot say you didn’t know" via Red Labour

The killing of animals is not a sport! ❌ Loopholes in new licensing laws allow this barbaric practice to continue in Scotland's countryside. It's time to end grouse shooting for good.

Old Craighall Gate to Dalkeith Country Park is now open for walking, wheeling and cycling! If you use this gate please stick to the 10mph speed limit though I know the thrill seekers among you may wish to go faster on the gravel hills (I didn’t, on this bike…) - working farm and all that 🐴🐄🦙🐣

Great to join the noise-making action at Portobello Town Hall last night. Child 1’s sign reads ‘Let the Food In’ which I think sums it up entirely.

Think I’m nearly ready for a sneaky last minute entry to the @spokes.org.uk favourite bike ride competition. In other news, two out of two Achilles tendons surveyed say they prefer triathlon training to marathon training 💪

That’s the 2025 #MusselburghFestival off to a lovely, if refreshing, start. Pleased to get the trophy for first local runner in the 10k and both my kids had a blast at the children’s fun run. Let’s hope for a little more ☀️the rest of the week.

Slightly damp ride into John Muir House brightened by a tiny girl on her balance bike waving at me while we both waited at a road crossing. Will hold onto that wee moment of joy all through today’s Full Council meeting #GirlsOnBikes #ActiveTravel

Thoroughly agree this should be brought in asap. Either passed onto customers, as a nudge to stay local, or charged as tax on the retailers helping to rebalance profits if they *do* get a sales boost from the parking (which I am skeptical of - see below)

What a perfect evening to chap doors in beautiful East Lothian! We heard concerns about global events, unsustainable shopping, where your plastic really goes when you recycle it, and local water pollution. Also in peak green fashion we stopped to admire this SuDs pond. #VoteGreen #ActiveGreens

#AllEyesOnDeck #GazaFreedomFlotilla #Heroes 🍉🇵🇸✊🏽

Aye cos Starmer would never let on that the emperor has no clothes… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Indication of what they could do Israel if there was the slightest bit of political will to, you know, prevent genocide in line with the Geneva Convention

I was so gladdened and relieved to see rain last night, which I think is the first time I’ve ever felt like that. Scary to wonder how frequently this will happen in future or how bad it might get.

So we’re still aiding and abetting the genocide, basically.

Email your MP. This impunity for genocide must end.

Celebrating 12 years married with an absolute belter of a gig at the best venue in the world. @mogwai.scot are still sublime 24 years since I first saw them at T in the Park!

Labour are running scared of Reform and have nothing left but dog whistles. Our crumbling infrastructure & failing public services are the fault of the politicians who gave us austerity, NOT people who moved here for a better life and deliver those public services, run businesses and create jobs.

I had a great morning celebrating a new home for #CyclingWithoutAgeMusselburgh. They’re all good to go at the Fisherrow Centre with a lovely new, solar-powered bike shed thanks to #GensourceUK. Tried a bike both as a pilot and passenger, and got to cut the ribbon on the shed! Happy riding!

FUN FACT: Since 2019, Nigel Farage's Reform has taken more than £2.3 MILLION from oil and gas interests - making up an astonishing 92% of the party's donations. Reform are NOT for ordinary people. They're in the pockets of the big oil lobby.

Lovely to drop into the Porty Pals of Palestine’s tent on the beach yesterday to chat solidarity and how we can keep Gaza in our hearts. #StopArmingIsrael #EndGenocide #FreePalestine

Reason to love cargo bikes #734: you can use them to take your slightly broken other bikes to local bike shops for repair! Looking forward to getting this 1980 mixte-frame beaut back and rideable for summer

If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there. (Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...

Gideon Saar and his accomplices should be in prison cells in The Hague for the rest of their lives, not swanning around Europe pretending to be normal politicians. Shame on our gov for enabling this visit.

As a cis woman, I completely reject the idea that my equality or freedoms are any way enhanced by excluding a minority of other women. We *all* lose when we allow the far right to police categories like this. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Huge love, respect and gratitude to @patrickharvie.bsky.social for 17 years of remarkable co-leadership of the @scottishgreens.org. You'll be a hard act to follow. 💚

Just imagine the nationalities had been reversed here, and Israeli medics had been murdered like this by Palestinians - the uproar, headlines, detail the media would have gone into on all the lives lost and the devastated loved ones left behind. Dehumanisation enables genocide. Free Palestine🇵🇸

✨🚲 My Ride. Our Right. 🚲✨ Women cycle half as often as men, often held back by poor infrastructure, imagine if every ride felt like the image on the right. Our right. Today we launch #MyRideOurRight because safer cycling for women means safer cycling for all. Join us: cyclinguk.org/myrideourright

Literally imagine spending your afternoon at work plunging 400000 people into poverty and thinking, yeah I’m great at my job, I totally deserve to be in this position of power. Shame on these Red Tories 🤢

Can you unite people? Be a Councillor! You could make the difference. Be a champion for your community. Our partners are running 3 💥 events this week to demystify the world of councillors! Our 1st event is today! Two tomorrow - find out more 👉 www.elect-her.org.uk/be-a-council...

Great morning at Edinburgh City Chambers with #ParentsForFutureScotland celebrating the clean air programme delivered in schools and hearing from pupils about their ideas. Thanks @cllrbenparker.bsky.social for sponsoring!

About 1/6 of the total population of Serbia protested government malfeasance today. In the US that would be more than fifty million people.

HAPPENING NOW Climate protests at Carbon Capture “Greenwash Fest” in Edinburgh. Carbon capture is a con trick being pushed by fossil fuel giants & politicians are falling for it!

Incredibly disappointing and disingenuous from the Scottish Government. Fossil fuel capitalism is what drives poverty, and energy independence will only come from renewables. The individual cost *is* a barrier - so we need commitment to large scale district heating www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The European Commission has just made it clear that the rigid constraints they had placed on public finance were totally artificial. They have now lifted them to enable massive military production.

This was a frankly bizarre decision and one I hope the Ministers will reverse! Pass it on @threadinburgh.scot @historicscotland.bsky.social