[email protected] are cunts. Theres no other way of putting it Clear union busting tactics, fired without process for what looks like a made-up reason. Just those forming a union being fired for supposed "Gross misconduct" They'll happily pay to stop it happening www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

We've launched a new Research Report today about how Trade Unions and Worker Co-ops work together in the UK. Read it here:- www.union-coops.uk/2025/10/new-...

LinkedIn's default permission for using your data for AI kicks in on November 3. Here's where to switch it off on your account: > Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement tuta.com/blog/linkedi...

Always worth reading @hildabast.bsky.social This time on a possible @bsky.app to Mastodon migration Network effects Fediverse The Academic addiction to @altmetric.bsky.social Much more thoughtful discussion absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/10/30/a... #AcademicSky

If anyone’s planning to give Mastodon a try, here’s my top tip: fedi.tips/its-a-really...

One feature of the British state’s undemocracy is that Whitehall departments have boards of directors, made up of ministers, civil servants and non-executive directors. I went through the CVs of all of the latter, and found extraordinary corporate capture: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Incidentally if you value the fact that I do things like "my normal day job, then a rare evening extended bit of day job, and then poll reporting immediately upon getting home despite it being after 10pm", why not chip a few quid into my donations pot? liberapay.com/BallotBoxScot

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

In the #GreenSurge of 2015, the biggest day saw 3,000 people join the party. Could you help us towards that today?

Tense scenes in Glasgow city centre right now as hundreds of anti immigration protesters gather at the top of Buchanan Street, with counter protesters from trade unions and other anti racist groups massing further down the precinct

Palantir just took over the CDC. The head of the UK branch of Palantir UK is Louis Mosley, grandson of renowned British fascist Oswald Mosley. Palantir has 24 contracts with key UK public institutions; the NHS, Ministry of Defence, the police force, the Cabinet Office, and the DLUHC.

How ‘hard working local MPs’ are facilitating a genocide: substack.com/home/post/p-... - by me

"He went out to get flour for his family, was shot in the stomach and then a tank ran over him" Humza Yousaf describes how his father-in-laws's cousin was killed in Gaza.

I don’t know how to wrap up the day and fall asleep. So many people died today. Again. A humanitarian aid line was attacked and five people killed. They needed that aid because of Russia’s war, and Russia killed them for trying to get it. 1/3

Post by @[email protected] that’s especially pertinent to UK folks on Bluesky: If any random app asks for government issued IDs with a selfie, it's a major red flag. 🚩 Do not provide them. Please share this warning with all your friends/family.

British surgeon Nick Maynard, who has just returned from volunteering in Gaza, explains to #GMB viewers how Israel confiscates all baby formula that doctors like him try to take with them. Why does Israel do this? Because they want to starve Palestinian babies to death.

These pictures will be remembered for centuries. Future generations will ask: "Who did what, and when? Who made this abomination possible? Who spoke out - and who remained silent?" Make sure you have good answers.

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

We are pleased to announce our candidates for the 2026 Scottish Parliamentary elections! 💚 Help us elect the most Green MSPs ever to Holyrood next year! members.greens.scot/join You can follow our lead candidates here: @lornaslater.bsky.social @katenevens.bsky.social @qmanivannan.bsky.social

Massive turnout at Parliament Square to say Stop the Genocide in Gaza

"A US based aid group, which runs a clinic in Gaza hit by the Israeli military, has told the BBC the site was a bloodbath. At least 15 Palestinians were killed, including at least 9 children, who were queuing outside the health clinic for maternal checks and supplements"

Hoping that my MP @chrismurraymp.bsky.social has a conscience and votes against the cuts to disability benefits which will drive my family and friends around the UK into poverty, making their lives virtually impossible.

Yesterday was our penultimate door-knocking session for Q's campaign - and was our biggest yet! One more to go - join us for our action day tomorrow at 10am! Let's get @qmanivannan.bsky.social elected 💚🌱

A different Steve West (independent socialist) is standing in the Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart by-election. I've met him and he's a decent guy. He wouldn't get my 1st preference vote if I lived in that ward though. I'm backing our Green candidate @qmanivannan.bsky.social to win next Thursday.

In my twenties, me and my friends set up Equinox Housing Co-op in Longsight, Manchester. It’s still going strong. We used the same principles of democratic, collective ownership as these brilliant 50 year old housing co-ops in Liverpool. www.livpost.co.uk/liverpool-ha...

There must be lots of folks here who have a Windows 10 PC that can’t be “upgraded” to Windows 11. Several of my friends have grumbled that they will be forced by Microsoft to buy a new PC. Don’t do it! endof10.org

In #Edinburgh extending 20mph to more streets is being labeled as a “bad scheme” or “unnecessary”. What’s unnecessary about 40% fewer deaths and 75% fewer children killed on 20mph streets? Are such deaths and injuries worthy collateral for getting to the next traffic lights quicker?

🧵How can you help your migrant pals? If you don't know who I am, I am one of the people behind the @glasgowgreens.bsky.social comms/socials. I had some people ask me what they can do/particularly what they should say to their MPs/MSPs if they email them so I've put together a wee thread(1/7)

Workers of Edinburgh, join unions, @rtie.org @living-rent.bsky.social , Pro-Palestine demonstrators & @edinburghgreens.bsky.social tomorrow to march for a fairer future as a united front. Defy the billionaire class, we won't be divided by anti-minority toxicity. More than ever, Unity = Strength. 💚

Has anyone figured out who actually owns Bluesky yet? Are they good, evil or indifferent? How are they planning to recoup the millions they spent building it and the high running costs? Did that deal with Bain Capital happen?

The Arctic has been a massive store of carbon for thousands of years. Now it's warming between 3 and 7 times faster than the global average and that carbon is escaping into our atmosphere. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrS4...

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland demo tomorrow (Wednesday) in Edinburgh. 6pm outside the US Consulate at 3 Regent Terrace.

So still nobody knows who actually owns Bluesky

I won’t sugar coat it, today is one of worst of my lifetime. January temps 1.75C above pre-industrial levels, but eerie silence from those who’ve sneered at ‘alarmists’ like me for decades. Meanwhile, suicidal governments everywhere are sabotaging our chances of getting out of this mess. Bleak.

Cycle paths are pointless if women don't feel safe using them at night www.bikeradar.com/features/opi... Nearly a quarter of Transport for London cycleways are deemed socially unsafe after dark @infrasisters.bsky.social @InfraSisters.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy will tell you the same for Edinburgh

This is so sad

Bemused as to how people who claim to be anti-fascist are still posting on X after Musk’s salute at the inauguration yesterday Make it make sense

Some of the credit for saving The #Co-operative Bank must also go to the Customer Union for Ethical Banking @cuebcustomerunion.bsky.social (originally Save Our Bank and now a co-op society), which is I think the first ever Customer #Union to achieve a recognition agreement

If you use Instagram for photos, why not switch to Pixelfed? Federated, and with an app just launched that’s so good Facebook are banning mentions of it. No billionaires involved, and check out this iOS data collection notice. You won’t see that on Instagram.

I know a lot of you folks here at Bluesky haven’t been here long, having just arrived from Xitter. You probably aren’t thinking of setting up an account at another platform, but if you’re curious about the #fediverse and Mastodon, here’s some useful info.

Gaza death toll 40% higher than official number, Lancet study finds - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... "Analysis estimates death toll by end of June was 64,260, with 59% being women, children and people over 65" #gaza #israel

Meta's new content policy allows you to say that being gay or trans is "mental illness". www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally. Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially. theconversation.com/car-tyres-sh...

This is SHOCKING. Among everything else that’s despicable about this, ITS A CLEAR ADMISSION THAT THEY KNOW THAT DOING THIS WILL OBVIOUSLY ENDANGER LIVES. People rode bikes on these streets before the bike-lanes (albeit fewer) and they will again after. The inevitable blood will be on Ford’s hands.

I have to agree with everyone who has commented so far, that if it was a Just Stop Oil protester, or a black man, or a woman mourning Sarah Everard driving that tractor then the Met Police response would have been rather different…

A word of advice to the Pro-Palestinian and Just Stop Oil campaigns.... next time you protest make sure you take 100 tractors with you and you'll not only get wall to wall positive coverage from BBC news but they'll also lobby the government for you too.

According to @freedom.press : the press and public should proactively download records & datasets from agencies that will likely be targets of a 2nd Trump administration. This includes the EPA, NOAA, U.S. Census Bureau, the CDC & more. freedom.press/issues/trump...

Alt text on images makes a real difference for people with visual impairments and anyone that could do with a bit more context. If you go to menu > settings > accessibility you can “require alt text before posting” to basically force yourself to remember to do it.