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From the west coast of Scotland, now living in the heart of Europe. Photography, history, and screaming into the void. And yes, I miss the sea.
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Irish gyms, pubs and restaurants are prepared to turn away people wearing so-called 'pervert glasses' as patrons worry about their privacy. I spoke to some of them for today's Irish Times ... www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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When I think about Brexit harms I think about @gailmyerscough.co.uk and the damage it did to her ability to sell to customers in Europe. She has exactly the sort of small business politicians all love to say they support.
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Crazy to see how a democracy with rule of law works…
Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...
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Landowners could scupper free Land Registry access plans, campaigners warn
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The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.
Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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⚡️️️️️️️Update: Russia launches 2nd wave of ballistic missiles at Kyiv. Explosions rocked the city again at around 3:30 a.m., according to reporters on the ground. Earlier in the night, Russian missiles hit a university and city medical centers, killing at least one person and injuring 10 others.
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⚡️️️️️️️New report tracks how Russia helps China build better drones. The investigation found that Russian designs for rocket-launched drones likely shaped weapons China unveiled in 2025 and that Russian wind tunnels kept testing aircraft models for China's top arms maker after the invasion of Ukraine.
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“Eighty per cent of Reform donations in past two years from overseas donors In comparison, Labour and the Conservatives received just 0.15 per cent and 3.57 per cent during the same period” app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
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The cuts being made at the BBC are unforgivable. They are putting it into a death spiral. The weaker it gets, the less people will want to support it. And yes, this is an issue for the Government, which likes to pretend it's not their problem. It is.
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What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?
BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY
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Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean) – one of the greatest European poets of the 20th century – was born #OTD, 26 Oct A 🎂🧵 Watch “Sorley MacLean’s Island” via @natlibscot.bsky.social – Sorley MacLean in conversation with fellow writer Iain Crichton Smith #poetry movingimage.nls.uk/film/3141
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“Our way of life is besieged by the forces of international big business, our country’s beggared by bad communication, the iniquities of land ownership, the failures and unconcern of central government…” —Sorley MacLean, from the film “Sorley MacLean’s Island” ☝️ #Gaelic #history
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⚡️️ Exclusive: Russia significantly expands glide-bomb production, research shows.
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That sizeable gap between the first and second round in the Brazil elections is fascinating because it gives you a trailer of what each leader will be like in power. Lula was saying, how can we move forward as a nation. Bolsonaro’s message was “look who we will get to hurt once we are in charge“.
Owner at my local cafe in Berlin came to take my order and within a minute she was saying “oh my god Brazil gives me hope”. She was overflowing with joy. Something extraordinary happened last night. I keep thinking about the alternate timeline, if Bolsonaro had won, and I shudder.
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If anyone would be kind enough to furnish me with some of the other examples of the "CEOs Guide To Robot Parenting" ouevre, I'd be much obliged. I know I've seen at least half a dozen more in tweets or LinkedIn posts.
gotta say hats off to all the writers pretending to do profiles of Silicon Valley CEOs just so they can add that one same paragraph, every single time, that demonstrates they're all insane freaks who do not know or like their own kids.
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Meanwhile, Orbán, his family, and his allies have been lining their pockets through a system that funnels public money, including EU funds, to a closed circle of allies and their families. The country was not merely corrupt; it was built around a system that abused public funds.
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EXCLUSIVE: US political candidates tailor messages for AI models used by voters reut.rs/4srgwem
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Claude Ai is out there committing election related crimes and no one gives a shit. www.reuters.com/world/us/ant...
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It's impossible to imagine a Conservative leader having made better decisions over the past two years than the ones Kemi Badenoch has, apparently:
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I could post photos post storm, broken trees and overflowing rivers, but you can see all that on the news, so instead... here's some uplifting colourful sunrises instead. stevecarter.com/latest/sunri...
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@bloomberg.com has this same bullshit and it pisses me off to no end
Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.
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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted
We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.
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One of the world's rarest types of river flows through Norwich. Yet the Wensum and neighbouring Yare may be in their worst ever condition. Restoration could take 30 years and cost hundreds of millions. Who's going to pay? @eastangliabylines.co.uk @celinawords.bsky.social