I'm blaming @nessofbrodgar.bsky.social for the weather today in #Orkney 😆

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If you're just realising how corrupt FIFA and Trump are then you've been deliberately blinkered for a long time. Maybe this will open some eyes, doubt it will change much apart from setting a precedent for any government to challenge the decisions of the officials.

Ness of Brodgar Re-opens for July The Ness of Brodgar will re-open tomorrow, 6 July, for a short exploratory archaeological excavation into a large circular feature which was revealed after a geophysical survey was conducted last year....

For 1000 days Israel has barred international media from Gaza, this despite several so-called "ceasefires". Fantastically wealthy and influential international media has never attempted to defy Israel's ban. They can't possibly be afraid Hamas will shoot them. What is going on?

Reminder that the idea of a boycott targeting *only* Israeli settlements in the West Bank makes no sense. The government subsidizes the development of settlements & collects taxes on economic activity there, and Israeli society as a whole benefits from it. The boycott must be against all of Israel

The NHS was founded 78 years ago today. It was built after the devastation of the Second World War when the country was bankrupt - but when the people demanded a society built on fairness and dignity for all. Today, we must defend the right to healthcare and rebuild our social security system.

I don’t give a shit if “Reform denies rules were broken” because the rules are that u have to declare any gifts over £300 for 12 months prior to becoming an MP. So unless they’re saying the Times fabricated the entire story (they’re not), then the rules were very much broken. Denial is irrelevant.

They made the Iran team go straight to the airport or bus out of the country after every game, this isn't even the least corrupt thing FIFA done this tournament. It's bad but if this is the first time you're talking about FIFA corruption with this tourney I'm side eyeing you.

💔 #FreeDrAbuSafia 😞

🇵🇸 A four-month-old Palestinian infant died Sun. evening after Israeli soldiers blocked his urgent medical transfer at the military checkpoint sealing his village of Deir Ammar, west of Ramallah, according to Ramallah Governor Laila Ghannam. Ahmad Ma’rouf Zeid was in critical condition and needed...

Israeli settlers intensify attacks in West Bank, targeting water supplies https://aje.news/u3z07x

‘Why Andy Burnham Must Break With Israel’ The likely incoming Prime Minister must break with Keir Starmer's "morally bankrupt" legacy on Gaza in order to restore his party's reputation with the public, argues genocide… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/07/03/why-andy-burnham-must-break-with-israel/

Since the hard-won, fragile, and crucial consensus on climate change was unpicked by the right wing, some on the left are happy to join this regressive attack. What does Graham tell her members about failing crops, coastal erosion, and global instability? Tough tits? It is so disheartening to see.

Louay: "One thousand days of genocide. I won't focus on my own feelings, but I will honour those that are not here and those that continue to struggle for liberation , bu their freedom we open out own caged hearts. I want to know them in peace, not as a memory." tiny.cc/louayfam

I’ve spent the past week in the Highlands surrounded by nature. I also picked up the beautiful Wildful by Kengo Kurimoto. It got me thinking about books that forefront our connection with nature. What books about connecting with nature would you add? #KidsBooksFriday #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

It has been 1000 days since October 7th 2023, 262 days since the last Israeli hostage was freed. But still the Genocide in Gaza continues.

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Done 😴😵‍💫😴😵‍💫😴😵‍💫😴 Lots of lovely moments today but Oh My Word I'm glad that's it! ( Says I needing to go in tomorrow to finish dismantling the class and switching rooms but still) #ScoEdu #EduSky

Israel is preparing to begin moving Palestinians into CONCENTRATION CAMPS in Gaza within weeks. According to Israel Hayom, unarmed civilians would be directed into a fenced camp in Tel al Sultan near Rafah, while a foreign force operating under the Trump administration’s “Board of Peace”

The Israeli Govt never ceases to find new depravities. youtube.com/post/UgkxBGr...

I don't mind the English football team, I really can't stand English football pundits (and I'm half Geordie raised to view Shearer as almost godlike in the reverence given to him).

🚨 BREAKING: Health workers and activists took over Brighton beach this evening to demand the UK Government terminates Palantir’s contract with NHS England.

We are now one secondary piece of statutory cruelty away from debt servitude and wage garnishing indenture for all asylum seekers. In 2026. Under Labour.

Taxing vulnerable people for the crime of fleeing from war, torture and persecution. A new low from Shabana Mahmood

For those thinking there is still hope to be found in the 'Labour' party, here is the proof that it's pointless. This is a vile scheme that not even the last bunch of Tories tried to enact! 🤬🤬🤬 Being a refugee is not a privilege nor should it carry yet more financial burdens in the UK! #Refugees

Love for everyone is not something that should be limited to Pride Month. It’s always Pride Month. Love yourself and others, always!

Why are we standing by and watching this happen? “Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an ⁠independent UN inquiry has found…. about 30% of the people killed by Israeli forces have been children.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Pre-orders are now open for The Kirk, the Deil and the Grue Atween by Orkadian scholar Barbara Stevenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 What defines Scottish Gothic, specifically, what separates it from traditional Gothic fiction yet keeps it in that mould? @booksfromscotland.bsky.social

Today has been a day of good food! My parents and honorary auntie are up so we went to Sheila Fleet Kirk Cafe & Gallery for lunch and then had a cheeseboard this evening 🤤 4 more days till we break up for the summer, we can do this! 💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ScoEdu #EduSky #Cheese #Foodie #SelfCare

Steve Clarke took the Scottish mens football team from a joke with no hope to the World Cup Finals. I'm not sure how many people genuinely thought we'd get beyond the group stages. Personally I think he should have stayed on because he has done great things and seems well respected, win or lose.

And I'm the Queen of Sheba 🙄 It would be more accurate to say that Wes is a right-winger attempting to present as a centrist

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Alt text (so everyone can have a laugh) Telegraph headline - Wes Streeting is a ‘Left-winger’ presenting as a centrist with a photo of Streeting looking like he is in on the joke

FFS. Stop. Burning. Carbon.

Again I have the thought that I'd make a brilliant dictator. I'd push net zero, tax the rich (stinking rich) invest in the NHS, bitch slap the EHCR, re-nationalise water in England...anyway I'd dictate but on an environmental, socialist, social justice agenda.

Like flies to shit our ruling politicians always swarm around wherever the money comes from to get their big fat snouts as deep as possible in the troughs. Labour would have you believe this happened only during the Tories 14 yrs of misrule, but they took no time in following suit.

The 🇺🇸 Christofascist org who ended Roe v Wade have poured MILLIONS into 🇪🇺 & 🇬🇧 to try and do the same to us. Alarm bells should be ringing 🚨 Many American women, and disproportionately Black women, have already been killed because of them www.thenational.scot/news/2622576...

Why did Keir go from a "landslide victory" to being so disliked? Trevor says its because he scrapped the 2 child benefit cap, didnt cut welfare & wasnt tough enough on migrants No mention of freebies, Mandelson, genocide, being a compulsive liar or the complicity of our msm

Always grateful to @theorkneynews.bsky.social for speaking out every week for Palestinians. This week's report from the UN makes harrowing reading although it's what many of us already knew. Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted and killed Palestinian children.

“Protecting children cannot be a peripheral concern of peace and security. It must be central to it.” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell's full remarks at the United Nations Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict: https://unicef.link/4eMeRcT

Right. Come on Scotland, don't break the hearts of all the primary school kids watching too badly! Signed Scottish teachers who don't want exhausted AND disappointed kids tomorrow morning. (Nope I don't think we have a chance really but I'd be happy to be proven wrong) #SCOBRA 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤞

My class has been learning this on the guitar in music this term!

🤬🤬🤬 excuse me while I swear curses down on Burnham's head and start making a voodoo doll!

Almost 5,000 people have joined the call for a halt to new hyperscale data centres in Scotland. The 24 applications in so far would require 1.5 times as much energy as all of Scotland uses at peak demand. We can't let this free-for-all continue. Please sign and share widely greens.scot/datacentres

Talk to me some more about climate change being a hoax…

A major change in the way we organise classes due to dropping a class (decreasing roll) means that as I'm taking on a composite P2/3 class & passing on my current class to 3 different classes, I have 8 transition meetings to complete this year 😬 midway through process I wouldn't recommend! #ScoEdu

Israel tells people to flee to 'safety' Then bombs the 'safe' areas.

I'm old enough to remember when the IDF blew up a Gaza hospital after October 7th and if you said "Israel did it" you got called a hateful antisemitic crank. Soon it was "yeah they did it by ACCIDENT" followed by "yeah they did it on purpose and it was GOOD!" There's no limit to what is accepted.

"The hardest decision we had to make in completing this report was.. not to name the Palestinian children, whose deaths, injuries & suffering we describe.. we didn't name them because we feared the consequences for their families" He means Israel would go after them too.