Fiona Sian
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Photographer, Company Director, Person. I thought this was a passing phase. In 1973. 🏳️⚧️🏴🇪🇺
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Kelly
about 21 hours ago
Finland ended homelessness with a housing first strategy that gave people apartments before they secured employment Now they’re proposing a 4 day work week and 6 hour work days True work life balance Meanwhile in the US, people work two jobs and can’t afford food or healthcare.
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Talking-up Scotland
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talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/08/s...
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‘Scottish’ Daily Express front page claim on grooming gangs loophole applies ONLY in England where things are less strict
John Robertson OBA The ‘Scottish’ Daily Express front page claim that ‘unregistered emergency carers are able to operate on a short-term basis with no regulatory oversight due to …
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/08/scottish-daily-express-front-page-claim-on-grooming-gangs-loophole-applies-only-in-england-where-things-are-less-strict/
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Talking-up Scotland
about 16 hours ago
Reposted to counter BBC Scotland's stop and search panic:
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/19/a...
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As Teachers’ Union estimates 30 000 violent incidents involving a pupil attacking a teacher with a weapon in England’s schools how knife possession in Scottish schools has plummeted
Professor John Robertson OBA In the Mail today: Teachers are quitting the profession en-masse, as they battle impossible workloads, toxic work environments, a ‘broken’ Special Education…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/19/as-teachers-union-estimates-30-000-violent-incidents-involving-a-pupil-attacking-a-teacher-with-a-weapon-in-englands-schools-how-knife-possession-in-scottish-schools-has-plummeted-2/
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Kirsty McTear
about 17 hours ago
But the wierdo “Gender Criticals” don‘t want to talk about this… PLEASE SHARE WIDELY, Especially to transphobes.
www.planetrans.org/2025/04/anti...
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Anti-Trans Activist Nicola Murray Found Guilty of Child Abuse
Nicola Murray who benefited monetarily from Scotland's "Let Women Speak" was found guilty of child abuse and listed as a child predator.
https://www.planetrans.org/2025/04/anti-trans-activist-nicola-murray-found.html#:~:text=Organisers%20claimed%20they%20funded%20the,rape%20crisis%20centre%20in%20Edinburgh
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Resolution Foundation
about 16 hours ago
🚨New research published today🚨 Reforms to Scottish disability payments suggest that the system can be kinder without being costlier. Full story 👉
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Abigail Thorn
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Max Colbert
1 day ago
Reform UK are running a “cash for access scheme in all but name”, a senior SNP MP has alleged after they launched a £10,000-per-year membership which comes with exclusive access to party leadership.
www.thenational.scot/news/2567713...
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'Cash for access' row as Reform UK open 'exclusive' £10k membership club
REFORM UK are running a “cash for access scheme in all but name”, a senior SNP MP has alleged ...
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25677131.cash-access-row-reform-uk-open-10k-membership-club/
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Helen 🏳️⚧️✊🏻💕
about 14 hours ago
Puberty blockers have only ever been recommended to be taken for 2-3 years. For a young person who started taking them at 12, the NHS is forcing trans kids to stay on them for over SIX YEARS!!! 😖 This is MEDICALLY NEGLIGENT and will absolutely have negative physical & mental side effects! 😣😤
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Robin Moira White
about 14 hours ago
Britain was backward in 2002 before Goodwin and the 2004 GRA. FWS in the Supreme Court has turned the clock back 23 years and confirmed Britain’s ‘banana republic’ status as far as the rights of transgender folk are concerned.
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Cold War Steve
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Helen 🏳️⚧️✊🏻💕
1 day ago
'This is an issue for everyone' – cyclists urged to join solidarity rides with trans community after exclusion from Cycling UK list Three rides will take place in Bristol, Edinburgh and London on 14 December 👏🏻💕🚲
www.cyclingweekly.com/news/this-is...
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'This is an issue for everyone' – cyclists urged to join solidarity rides with trans community after exclusion from Cycling UK list
Three rides will take place in Bristol, Edinburgh and London on 14 December
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/this-is-an-issue-for-everyone-cyclists-urged-to-take-part-in-solidarity-rides-with-trans-community-after-exclusion-from-cycling-uk-list
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And now it’s hoovering up all NHS England’s data. Streeting could have stopped this, but he and the rest of Labour are in thrall to the tech bros. Why else would they still be developing policy by Twitter trend?
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Robert Reich
2 days ago
Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data. It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.
https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1
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The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
Robert Reich
https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1
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Jolyon Maugham KC
about 18 hours ago
This is NOT FUNNY AT ALL (
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Lee Hurley
1 day ago
They're going to find it much harder to Cass their way to an adhd ban, but they're going to give it a go anyway. Once again, overplaying their hand. Far more people with kids with adhd than with trans kids. This will hopefully show more people who they really are
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GHC Has Gorra Lorra Fings On (the radio)
1 day ago
Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year
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Robin Ince
1 day ago
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
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Mike Small
1 day ago
Re-sharing this piece from 2021 in light of the gushing praise for Reform UK’s new recruit | Bankrupt Britain and the Offord Affair
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/10/03/b...
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Bankrupt Britain and the Offord Affair
Re-sharing this piece from 2021 in light of the gushing praise for Reform UK’s new recruit … It’s routine and monotonous to write about and point at corruption in British politics…
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/10/03/bankrupt-britain-and-the-offord-affair/
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Yay, Merry Christmas from HMRC….. they can’t get their act together on coding so I get a big bill… 🤬
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Bylines Scotland
1 day ago
"No citizens anywhere else in the world own so little of their own country. Scotland is a nation which has turned its own people into tenants."
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Land is power – Scotland’s people have none
Land isn't just about wealth and justice, it's about power. Scotland is cut off from its own land resources and hence is poorer as a nation
https://bylines.scot/politics/land-is-power-scotlands-people-have-none/
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Greg Sargent
1 day ago
This is so perfect. No one have any doubts at this point about what Elon Musk really represents.
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Amazing to see so much evidence of Beavers at Glenmore.
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Mia Farrow
2 days ago
Trump shd visit other countries & learn if hes gonna make these pronouncement. There is no genocide of Whites in South Africa. Fighting in eastern Congo continues w forces from Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi Northern Nigeria is plagued by Boko Haram plus splinter gangs Ive spent time in these areas
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JR Tomlin (she/her)
2 days ago
I made a new X account to see if it promotes the far-right
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
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I made a new X account to see if it promotes the far-right. Here's what happened
ZERO. That is how many posts my brand-new account on Elon Musk’s X – ostensibly belonging to a 15-year-old named Jake – had to scroll through…
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25677417.made-new-x-account-see-promotes-far-right/?ref=li
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Robin Moira White
5 days ago
Good news for trans workers After the Girl guiding and WI announcements, some comfort for trans workers. A Scottish tribunal has ruled that a trans-inclusive workplace policy is NOT discriminatory against a woman with gender critical views in the workplace.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Woman loses sex discrimination case after toilet complaint - BBC News
Maria Kelly took legal action against Leonardo UK alleging harassment and discrimination after seeing a trans colleague in female toilets.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ge29yl7zdo.amp
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Indy lass
2 days ago
Well done Everyone 👏 Falkirk antiracists stop the Unity March to have a minute’s silence for all victims of sexual violence and assault. 1000 come to reject the weaponising of women’s suffering by far-right men. Women Against the Far-Right lead the March!
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weegingerdug
2 days ago
Millionaire Tory peer defects to "anti-elite" party Reform UK. Offord was behind the Vote No Borders astroturfing campaign during the 2014 indyref which was mysteriously given massive publicity by the "impartial" BBC.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2567804...
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Millionaire Tory donor Malcolm Offord defects to Reform
The millionaire peer was announced by Nigel Farage as the party’s latest high-profile member during a rally in Falkirk.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25678040.millionaire-tory-donor-malcolm-offord-defects-reform/
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Alan Driscoll
2 days ago
From 2023. Should I have clarified that Opium Tea is satire, not a manifesto?
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Julia Serano
2 days ago
I see ppl sharing this this morning so thought I'd re-up it too – it's a good read IMHO!
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Neil Mackay
3 days ago
Farage arrives in Scotland today, and it should make our collective stomach heave that this repulsive, dangerous extremist has crossed the border. Amid scapegoating schoolkids and allegations of antisemitism anyone who supports this man is morally in the gutter My
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"Farage in Falkirk? It should make our stomachs heave to have him in Scotland"
Nigel Farage’s Falkirk visit sparks outrage, with many Scots saying his presence north of the border should make “our stomachs heave”.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/viewpoint/25677369.farage-falkirk-idea-alone-make-us-heave/
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Caroline Dodds Pennock
3 days ago
I realise this isn’t the worst of it., but this article’s characterisation of anti-trans groups as ‘women’s rights campaigners’ makes me want to scream.
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Good Law Project
4 days ago
The Supreme Court only ruled on whether people with a GRC count as women under the Equality Act. You have to be 18 to get a GRC. But the Guides say they’re kicking out trans girls – under 18s – as a result. It doesn’t track. So why are they doing it?
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
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Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
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weegingerdug
3 days ago
The FIFA Peace Prize The Love Island Prize for Particle Physics The RuPaul's Drag Race Prize for Applied Mathematics The Strictly Come Dancing Prize for Economic Theory The Never Mind the Buzzcocks Prize for Architecture The Farage Prize for Anti-Racism The Eurovision Prize for Moral Philosophy
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Acyn
8 months ago
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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weegingerdug
8 months ago
My piece for today's
@scotnational.bsky.social
sex and gender are far more complex than the simplistic binary imposed by the Supreme Court, plus Sarwar rewriting history
www.thenational.scot/news/2509980...
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Labour's Scottish branch manager is rewriting history
Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman overturned twenty years of understanding of the legal significance of a Gender…
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25099802.labours-scottish-branch-manager-rewriting-history/
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weegingerdug
8 months ago
You know what to do. Get making those Janey Godley signs
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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weegingerdug
8 months ago
A person's biological sex is not always apparent at birth when legal gender is assigned. The Supreme Court ruling took no account of intersex people and ignored the existence of transmen. That's what happens when judges listen only to one side in a debate.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BC...
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Güevedoce - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCevedoce
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Steve C
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Richard Murphy
8 months ago
Support for independence in Scotland is rising rapidly. There is a UK political crisis brewing as a result. Westminster might think it has the right to rule Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland forever. It's increasingly likely that they do not agree.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
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Scotland will not wait forever to become independent
As The National newspaper in Scotland has reported: HOLYROOD will see a huge pro-independence majority of 29 MSPs after next year's elections, according to an exclusive new poll for The National. ...
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04/16/scotland-will-not-wait-forever-to-become-independent/
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Talking-up Scotland
8 months ago
As an English newspaper, The Telegraph, attempts to blame the SNP for inaction on the current 'turf war', the facts they'll never tell you:
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/10/31/l...
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Latest survey update of how Scots actually experience crime levels confirms huge falls including in violent crime and improved clear-up rates in last 17 years to lowest levels in the UK
By Professor John Robertson OBA Many of us, understandably are skeptical about the picture of falling crime painted by statistics based on police recording. Correctly, we point to the fac…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/10/31/latest-survey-update-of-how-scots-actually-experience-crime-levels-confirms-huge-falls-in-including-in-violent-crime-and-improved-clear-up-rates-in-last-17-years/
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺
8 months ago
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
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Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-redefined-the-idea-of-2-sexes-is-overly-simplistic1/
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗
8 months ago
My biological sex is female. It has changed Phenotype is orders of magnitude more important than genotype for everything from discrimination to healthcare to sexuality Chromosomes are meaningless and any law treating them as all sex is is wrong
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Mark Hamill
9 months ago
I remember it being unpleasant & a lot less fudge-y.
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Bylines Scotland
9 months ago
Previously on Bylines Scotland... "The vast majority of private healthcare profit comes directly from the NHS budget. That is, we are paying private healthcare services directly from the public services budget."
@dangoyal.bsky.social
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Labour’s vision for the NHS is getting grim
As Labour tries to please both private and public interests, its policies for the NHS are in danger of costing a lot and achieving little
https://bylines.scot/health/labours-vision-for-the-nhs-is-getting-grim/
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Bylines Scotland
9 months ago
Well stop leaking it! "I am concerned about the level of anxiety that has been around over recent weeks … and I’m sad that that has happened, and that people have been concerned." | Stephen Timms, the social security and disability minister
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Minister refuses to say disability benefits for people unable to work won’t be cut – UK politics live
Stephen Timms, social security and disability minister, says government is ‘fully supporting’ people who would always be unable to work
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/mar/17/keir-starmer-labour-welfare-disability-cuts-latest-live-politics-news
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weegingerdug
9 months ago
It's the 51st anniversary of the McCrone report when Westminster covered up the true extent of Scotland's oil wealth. Now they're downplaying Scotland's renewable energy wealth & exporting it while Scotland has some of the highest fuel bills in Europe.
www.thenational.scot/business/174...
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This is what Westminster doesn't want you to read: The McCrone Report in full
IMPORTANT: The McCrone Report has no paywall today. We believe it is vitally important that everybody can access it. You can support us with a…
https://www.thenational.scot/business/17461406.westminster-doesnt-want-read-mccrone-report-full/
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Krassensteins
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Thank God for Monkey Cage, I need something that isn’t politics. Science and laughter, thank you
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10 months ago
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Sophie Molly
10 months ago
My formal invitation for Anas Sarwar (Scottish Labour Leader) to meet with trans people.
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