Nicky
@nickyzog.bsky.social
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Utopia V's Dystopia. Which side you on?
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Energy security and Scotland's abundance of it (both traditional and renewable) should not only be protecting us, but also enriching us, offsetting the supply side (inflation) shocks globally. We should be a haven of stability (energywise) in an unstable world.
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THE 2nd GREAT BRITISH ENERGY HEIST
YouTube video by The Scotland Channel
https://youtu.be/GZs4taICTso?si=j57z8bewxfF9wkkF
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Alexander Clarkson
about 2 hours ago
A lot of geopolitical analysis underprices the risks to global stability from ageing leaders turning into senile fruitcakes
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Bylines Scotland
10 days ago
“I suspect that Shetlanders will be bemused to learn that the Isle of Man is considered to be part of the UK in the eyes of GB Energy, while Shetland is not...”
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Shetland omitted from GB Energy map of UK
GB Energy sparks outrage after omitting Shetland – home to major wind farms and oil hubs – from its UK onshore renewables map
https://bylines.scot/news/scotland/shetland-omitted-from-gb-energy-map-of-uk/
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John Swinney
19 days ago
🏴🇮🇪 Before I went to Dublin this week, I was interviewed by Mark Paul of the Irish Times. You might like a read:
www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland
24 days ago
🏴£1.5bn Land Rover £500m Port Talbot £100m Britishvolt 🏴 £0 Mossmorran £0 Grangemouth £0 Alexander Dennis No care. No support. No shame. Quick to spend in England, quicker to abandon Scotland and brass neck to blame ScotGov. Shameless.
#VoteSNP
#SNP26👇
#nevertrustlabour
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John Swinney
about 1 month ago
Far from cutting energy bills as they promised, the Labour government is hiking the bills of Scots to pay for nuclear plants in England. In Scotland, we have vast renewable resources - and with the powers of independence, we can use them to lower bills.
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JC Stephenson 🏴
about 1 month ago
Ahem! Scotland?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
2 months ago
Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide.
@donwinslow.bsky.social
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Krassensteins
3 months ago
This is who is advising the president of the United States
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Peter Geoghegan
3 months ago
Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.
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Mehdi Hasan
3 months ago
“The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to some form of right-wing extremism. That is also true for 2024: for the third year in a row, all the murders identified were tied to right-wing extremism.”
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https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2024
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CCAP
7 months ago
New paper co-authored by CCAP Curator Ceci Rad Menéndez: "Evolution of far-red light photoacclimation in cyanobacteria"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Evolution of far-red light photoacclimation in cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteria oxygenated the atmosphere of early Earth and continue to be key players in global carbon and nitrogen cycles. A phylogenetically diverse…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225005020
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CCAP
7 months ago
CCAP and
@samsocean.bsky.social
are attending the Preserving What Matters: Scotland's National Collections exhibition on Tuesday 27th May - at the RSE, George Street in Edinburgh. If you're in the area come along to see our stand 🧪
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preserving...
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Preserving what matters: Scotland's national collections | In person
What do collections tell us about Scotland's history and future? And are they at risk? Join to ask questions and hear from our experts.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preserving-what-matters-scotlands-national-collections-in-person-tickets-1342102808629
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UBI Works
7 months ago
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Al Jazeera English
7 months ago
India carried out strikes early on Wednesday against Pakistan, two weeks after an attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam. Here is what we know
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Ruth Watson
8 months ago
#Israel
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#Palestinians
Moving the survivors into camps and ghettos. Occupying their land. Committing genocide and other war crimes. There will be a reckoning. The world must act.
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Full interview: "Godfather of AI" shares prediction for future of AI, issues warnings
YouTube video by CBS Mornings
https://youtu.be/qyH3NxFz3Aw?si=0dy8auXu_6aNbdvx
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southpaw
8 months ago
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large.
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And just a reminder on this St.George's day that Farage leads in the polls in England, despite Brexit consequences and seeing the shit show across the Atlantic. 🤷♂️
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Chris Murphy
8 months ago
Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
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Peggy Louise
9 months ago
Protesters in Turkey
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It is quite an image. "The dervishes' black cloaks symbolize tombs, and long headgear symbolizes tombstones, all representing the journey from the physical world to the spiritual realm."🥺
9 months ago
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Neil Drysdale
9 months ago
I’ve never forgotten meeting Aberdeen trade unionist Ron Webster, just months before his death at 96. Ron was proudly, passionately left-wing and railed against increasing poverty in his home city. He would have been appalled by today’s spring statement!
www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...
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Aberdeen trade unionist Ron Webster wonders where all the money went from the oil boom
The veteran union figure met everybody from Fidel Castro to Nelson Mandela and led the anti-poll tax campaign in Scotland in the 1980s.
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-times/4163483/ron-webster-aberdeen-trams/
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Mark Chadbourn
9 months ago
The number of Islamophobic posts about London Mayor Sadiq Khan has risen from 12,000 to 28,000 over the last 12 months, according to a GLA report. They’re nearly all on TwitterX and more than half come from the US and India.
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Dan Sohege
9 months ago
Not the biggest issue here by any means, but does Trump think the European Union is just one country?
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Pikachu suits could be the new uniforms for fighting the rise of authoritarianism in the modern surveillance state. Ridicule the autocrats.
9 months ago
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Better Things Are Possible
9 months ago
What if the secret to winning elections is somehow Trump's syntax. We need a guy to say stuff like "But we're going to abolish billionaires and we'll be doing it very soon. They'll be paying very high taxes but it'll be very fair. And frankly they haven't paid taxes in a very long time"
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Dawn Robertson
9 months ago
Armenia National Assembly votes for starting EU accession bid,,,
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland
9 months ago
WM Government feared the prospect of Scottish independence why the contents of the McCrone report was classified and only came to light in 2005 However Scotland was not allowed to know that it would have been one of the wealthiest countries in the world
www.livebreathescotland.com/would-englan...
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Would England be richer without Scotland? No, it would be poorer!
If Scotland voted for independence, would England be richer? Let's look at Scottish industries and what it contributes to the UK finances.
https://www.livebreathescotland.com/would-england-be-richer-without-scotland/
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Felix Sylvestris
9 months ago
Any Scot not now wanting independence cares absolutely nothing for our people, our communities our country our future. The time is now.🏴
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California Dreamin’… 😎
9 months ago
FROM THE MASTER INVESTOR HIMSELF…👇 Thoughts?! 🤔
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BladeoftheSun
9 months ago
The Government have decided that the two biggest sources of money, ending Brexit £42bn a year, or taxing the richest 1% the same 47% as everyone else £250bn a year, are not an option. But there is loads of money and they are choosing not to take it.
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Rockin’ Robin 🎶 🐦🪺 🎼
9 months ago
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Andre Pagliarini
9 months ago
Brazil's Supreme Court decides unanimously that Bolsonaro must stand trial, paving the way (a ways away yet) for his arrest. Becomes first Brazilian president charged with attempting a coup.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Bolsonaro must stand trial over alleged coup attempt, Brazil’s top court rules
Supreme court judges decide former president should face criminal prosecution alongside seven close allies
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/26/bolsonaro-trial-coup-brazil-supreme-court
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Jerry Chen
9 months ago
hey did anyone else get invited to "blame canada/land invasion" nextdoor group chat too
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ian bremmer
9 months ago
atlantic editor jeffrey goldberg when asked about publishing the full text from leaked signal group chat “just because they're irresponsible with material, doesn't mean i am.”
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Cold War Steve
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YouGov
9 months ago
Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention (23-24 Mar) Lab: 23% (-3 from 16-17 Mar) Ref: 22% (-2) Con: 22% (=) Lib Dem: 16% (+2) Green: 10% (+1) SNP: 3% (=)
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Tom King
9 months ago
It turns out that saying 'this is not austerity' while simultaneously making and defending spending cuts... does not work.
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Fred Wellman
9 months ago
Some breaking news in my latest. Others pointed out that Witkoff appeared to be in Moscow when he joined the Houthi PC Group chat. Sky News has a detailed story on his timeline in Moscow. I ran that against the timeline from the Atlantic article. Witkoff was waiting for Putin when he was added.(1/2)
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Seth Abramson
9 months ago
I don't know about you all, but I sleep better at night knowing that the Secretary of Defense is an alcoholic frat bro who accidentally texted a reporter, in the midst of a classified group chat about an imminent military strike in the Middle East, "We are currently clean on operational security"
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Kevin M. Kruse
9 months ago
If the White House is insisting that there was no classified or secret information in the Signal chat, does that mean Jeffrey Goldberg can publish it all?
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Andrew Sparrow
9 months ago
Only 21% of Britons believe Labour's claim it's not returning to austerity, poll suggests -
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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No 10 says White House leak won’t stop UK sharing secrets with US, but pushes back at ‘freeloading’ claims – UK politics live
Downing Street has rejected suggestions that Britain is a “freeloading” country that expects the US to meet its defence needs.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/mar/25/labour-spring-statement-rachel-reeves-keir-starmer-latest-politics-live-news?page=with%3Ablock-67e2e0c68f08f13b630d5f89#block-67e2e0c68f08f13b630d5f89
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Aaron Rupar
9 months ago
It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein
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28,000 Popehat Victims Per Year
9 months ago
There is absolutely no way Greenland should let in a representative of an overtly hostile nation, in fact the wife of someone explicitly threatening to “take” it. Turn her plane back.
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Otto English
9 months ago
Xavier transitioned and became Vivian Jenna Wilson. She is alive and well and lives in Japan. No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.
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Kara Swisher
9 months ago
World’s worst parent and it’s a high bar.
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Scotland voted to remain in the EU, but not one shit was given.
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Graham Simpson
9 months ago
Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says
Nuffield Trust says supply chains have shifted, with medicines for epilepsy and cystic fibrosis among those now scarce
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/22/brexit-key-factor-worst-uk-drug-shortages-in-four-years?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Robert Reich
9 months ago
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937
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