People who harp on about immigrants must be lucky enough not to have recent contact with the NHS. A relative of mine is very unwell and 75% of her care is immigrants/first gen Scots. She wouldn’t have survived without them & would be surviving in an undignified, painful, way without them.

2 weeks today my ID.Buzz will finally arrive! Hope this sunny weather holds so I can can go a wee jaunt when it arrives.

Immigration make Britain brilliant

BREAKING: The Scottish Greens have demanded that the head of the Electoral Commission resign after it refused to investigate the far-right "party" Independent Green Voice 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2609542...

David Green, head of homicide & major crime, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 2019-23.What a misogynistic,insufferable man.He has chosen to be willfully ignorant to the impact of trauma on witnesses,trauma bonding & fear in maintaining relationships between victim-perpetrators. Intelligent women can’t be vulnerable people?! 🙄🙄🙄

Been trying to weed out buttercups and grass in the borders but the dug is insisting on “helping” #dogsofbluesky

Many of the places with the highest number of people claiming benefits and pensions voted Reform yesterday. Nigel Farage has pledged to cut all benefit spending by 1/3rd, far more than any other party. To do this he will have to slash and freeze ALL benefits including pensions.

Dear Reform-voting ladies… Do you know you’re voting for a party that wants to: ❌ Scrap the Equality Act - your legal protection against workplace discrimination & unequal pay ❌ Kill the Online Safety Act - the law protecting you from revenge porn

From facebook. If we had the same voting system as Westminster we would have 60 SNP 4 tories 4 Lib Dem 2 labour 2 greens. So, when Unionists start talking about majorities it's to muddy the waters. Look at the numbers above and tell me that's not a mandate for a referendum.

Depressing to see Reform get more than Greens. We need to do more to register and inspire the younguns vote.

Wasn’t sure what to expect from Gadd after Baby Reindeer but really enjoying the pretty dark ‘Half Man’ on BBC. Some good tunes in it too!

Six months ago, the federal government indicted me, my friend Andre, and four others for protesting ICE. Our trial is this month and we are facing up to $250k in legal debt. Please help us win our case and protect all of our rights by donating to our legal defense: tinyurl.com/katandre

Noooo. I really hoped this would be lower for Reform. It could be worse but less would’ve been better.

I really hope Reform stays at 0 for us 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Anyone who voted Reform don’t be coming up here when all your public services are in the shitter 😂 But also thank you for making a stronger case for independence. Save the NHS. Keep our water publicly owned. Get public transport back to public owned.

Labour do not have an account on Bluesky @georgemonbiot.bsky.social They never have. They remain on X. There is only an unofficial account with one post. It’s because they can’t be Reform 2.0 on Bluesky.

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

No matter where you live in Scotland, today you can vote Scottish Greens on your peach coloured ballot paper. And remember, look for the logo! 👇

Voted this afternoon and the polling place was the quietest I’ve ever seen it. No one else was in the room. When we left there was 2 people at the desk collecting ballots and no others waiting. A bit more worrying that right wing nuts will get in if turnout is low.

There is a definite concerted smear campaign against Polanski in Englandshire. It’s absolutely appalling but completely expected.

Just remember that this Independent Green Vouce party are disgusting fascists trying to trick you into voting for them so make sure that if you are voting Green you don’t accidentally vote for this scum www.thenational.scot/news/2599217...

Mark Zuckerberg built a massive data center in Georgia just hundreds of yards from people’s homes. Now the water pressure is gone. Sinks don’t run. Toilets won’t refill. Homes shake nonstop. Power outages are routine.

Gen Z is the first generation to be less cognitively capable than the one before them. A neuroscientist told Congress why: screens. I helped pass legislation to get phones out of classrooms and I have a plan to hold Big Tech accountable. My guiding principle will always be putting our kids first.

There’s an Epstein survivor almost no one talks about. Her name was Carolyn Andriano. A mother of five. She testified in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial using her real name—then died in a hotel room just two years later of an alleged drug overdose. Not everyone survived longer than a few years.

Donald Trump is a convicted fraudster, and the evidence suggests that he's been ripping Scotland off. Yet the Scottish and UK governments have fawned over him because he's rich, powerful and owns a couple of golf courses. That has to end. Nobody should be above the law.

Don't vote tory/reform.

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Impatiently waiting on a delivery date for my ID Buzz still. Started buying more camping bits & accessories and the all important new car keyring 😂 Next up, midge curtains! The news and politics is so depressing, so am looking forward to more weekends away to disconnect in the wee Buzz.

The Epstein files release had emails saying Peter Mandleson gave secret UK information to Epstein and received money from Epstein. He was appointed to the position after failing to get a security clearance. He was someone they warned could leak or sell high-level info. That's the scandal.

This needs to be the response consistently from Democrats. We’ve been too weak for too long.

Thrilled to be getting this show on the road tomorrow evening in Glasgow. The only venue with tickets left is Bonar Hall in Dundee! Join us there on Thursday with @assasr.bsky.social hosting @georgemonbiot.bsky.social It's going to be a fantastic night! makehopepossible.org/event/an-eve...

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Eh what did I do to deserve both these cretins in my mailbox on the same day? #Scottishpolitics

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The BBC’s ‘ideological conformity’ makes it pro-Israel, biased against the SNP, tilted to the rightwing and a megaphone for ‘big business’ rather than the people That’s what Scotland’s leading academic on the media told me when I spoke to her for my Sunday Big Read In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

America is screwed. Largest military budget of all time. Hundreds of millions of guns in circulation. Not one cunt can aim properly.

😂😂😂 He is an absolute lying lecherous grifting pos.

It’s this homophobic hate group who overturned Roe v Wade who are helping Sharron Davies go after parkrun. What a coincidence that she was sharing debunked anti-abortion disinformation while decriminalisation was going through the Lords. www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...

The man behind an infamous Willy Wonka Experience event is to stand trial charged with sex attacks on a woman and two teenagers

Remembering Amal Khalil

Last year I got kilner glass jars (to collect my garden fruit in) + storage bottles etc. for my emergency supplies & was accused of “wasting money” 😱 OH comes in from Costco with 5l of olive oil. “Oh no I don’t have a small bottle for this” he says. I was so smug handing him a nice 1l glass one 😂

For fuck's sake, sign up for The Onion, and get a free limited edition IW tote. A share of merch sales will go to the Sandy Hook families, which will be the first time they get any money since they filed this lawsuit eight years ago. Legal fees have been insane. Please sign up and help us out!

Yesss! The Sandy Hook families have been put through so much by Alex Jones & Infowar disinformation and then put through a horrible legal battle to boot. I hope this outcome and seeing Alex unravel in real time is a small comfort to them. Hopefully karma still has plans for him.

BBC News - Woman, 82, murdered in street as hunt for 'dangerous' man continues www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Registration to vote closes 11.59 tomorrow night ⚠️ Many 16/17 years olds olds in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 are not registered even though they can vote. www.gov.uk/register-to-...

Ordered my new ID Buzz & now impatiently waiting on a delivery date. If you’d asked our petrolhead household 4 years ago if we would be on EV number 2, be unwilling to go back to petrol as a daily driver, and persuading others to try EV, we would have scoffed. Why do we fight the future? 😂

At some point the sycophants will surely realise you cannot appease an abuser and your butt kissing wont earn you an exception from the hate you wished on others.

"Nigel Farage reported to Parliament over alleged ‘undeclared donations’" “... Nigel Farage [enjoyed] a range of hospitality & logistics support from US PR firm, CapitalHQ, [Feb 2023 to 25] Mr Farage has not declared any .. on his register of interests" www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nig...

Truly remarkable how many people have told the Pope, in some way or another, to "shut up and dribble." Or corrected him on the Bible, despite their thin education on theology. Or told him to stay out of US affairs, despite him being a US citizen. The hubris is amazing.

This is less than 1 minute. Short discussion with Alan Cumming highlights that SNP 1 and 2 will benefit Reform. Give your second vote to a different progressive party. Reform know they can benefit from the second vote. But most importantly, VOTE on 7th May! 🗳️ Spread the word 📣