Desk Nerd
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Ya hya chouhada
Luchd-ionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig
[EN] he/they [GD] e/iad
Luchd-ionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig
[EN] he/they [GD] e/iad
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while we are at it: regular reminder that in scotland, legally, both under older legislation and uncrc, parents do not have *rights* they have *responsibilities*. it's children who have rights.
"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
That MSPs are now openly saying stuff like this is chilling. "Controversial groups like LGBT Youth Scotland"? LGBTYS didn't need to be in my schools for me to be gay, but they sure as hell would have helped me avoid 9 years of fear and self-loathing if they had been. Despicable stuff.
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
while we are at it: regular reminder that in scotland, legally, both under older legislation and uncrc, parents do not have *rights* they have *responsibilities*. it's children who have rights.
"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
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Oh word?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_an...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_an...
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Oh word?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_an...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_an...
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🔥🔥🔥 While everyone is distracted by other budget news, Labour have just announced that they will allow more drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea 🔥🔥🔥
Genuinely catastrophic for our climate and further proof that Labour care more about corporate profits than people or planet.
Genuinely catastrophic for our climate and further proof that Labour care more about corporate profits than people or planet.
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🔥🔥🔥 While everyone is distracted by other budget news, Labour have just announced that they will allow more drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea 🔥🔥🔥
Genuinely catastrophic for our climate and further proof that Labour care more about corporate profits than people or planet.
Genuinely catastrophic for our climate and further proof that Labour care more about corporate profits than people or planet.
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Welcome to the UK, where minors are blocked from accessing porn but it's perfectly legal for a grown man to shout about sissy hypno porn in a minors face.
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Welcome to the UK, where minors are blocked from accessing porn but it's perfectly legal for a grown man to shout about sissy hypno porn in a minors face.
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If Dundee implodes, which seems to be simply accepted at this point, where were those workers go? Who will employ them? This government is either too stupid to think about that or too callous to care. Possibly both.
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
If Dundee implodes, which seems to be simply accepted at this point, where were those workers go? Who will employ them? This government is either too stupid to think about that or too callous to care. Possibly both.
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Obviously this government are wantonly reckless and idiotic and their treatment of universities, and see this as a disciplining of an out of touch elite.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Obviously this government are wantonly reckless and idiotic and their treatment of universities, and see this as a disciplining of an out of touch elite.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
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When your local council shuts all your libraries next year and the parks fall into disrepair, it will be because they have a legal duty to house homeless people in a city with a gigantic housing crisis, where all the worst accommodation is being rented back to councils by slum landlords.
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
When your local council shuts all your libraries next year and the parks fall into disrepair, it will be because they have a legal duty to house homeless people in a city with a gigantic housing crisis, where all the worst accommodation is being rented back to councils by slum landlords.
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Zooming out from the proximal causes of the housing crisis and council budgets, the UK's land ownership is monumentally unequal. 1% of the population owns 50% of the land, and we don't even know who owns 20% of Britain because the land hasn't been bought and sold for more than 100 years.
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Zooming out from the proximal causes of the housing crisis and council budgets, the UK's land ownership is monumentally unequal. 1% of the population owns 50% of the land, and we don't even know who owns 20% of Britain because the land hasn't been bought and sold for more than 100 years.
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Anyway time to post this again.
AI is a tool of fascism.
AI is a tool of fascism.
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Anyway time to post this again.
AI is a tool of fascism.
AI is a tool of fascism.
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It's depressing that all policy ideas start from the assumption that parents /family / communities could never because it's too embarrassing. Rather than understanding why this is the case and doing something about it.
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
It's depressing that all policy ideas start from the assumption that parents /family / communities could never because it's too embarrassing. Rather than understanding why this is the case and doing something about it.
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you wanna get real mad
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
you wanna get real mad
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Between Hit Man and Running Man, Glen Powell has now been in two movies where he gets to put on silly little disguises and goofy voices and I think it’s a niche he should keep doing in all his movies
November 19, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Between Hit Man and Running Man, Glen Powell has now been in two movies where he gets to put on silly little disguises and goofy voices and I think it’s a niche he should keep doing in all his movies
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Well, well, well.
Would you look who it is warning of "doom" if you don't invest in the world's most dangerous financial bubble ever.
Would you look who it is warning of "doom" if you don't invest in the world's most dangerous financial bubble ever.
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Well, well, well.
Would you look who it is warning of "doom" if you don't invest in the world's most dangerous financial bubble ever.
Would you look who it is warning of "doom" if you don't invest in the world's most dangerous financial bubble ever.
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Only a couple of major news outlets (CNN, USA) are covering this at all. You would think if the goal was clicks and views, this would be all over the media. If clicks are not the goal, it makes you think about: what is?
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Only a couple of major news outlets (CNN, USA) are covering this at all. You would think if the goal was clicks and views, this would be all over the media. If clicks are not the goal, it makes you think about: what is?
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People love to talk about how awful theater kids are, and they’re not wrong, but let’s be real, debate kids have made this country a lot worse
October 2, 2024 at 1:49 AM
People love to talk about how awful theater kids are, and they’re not wrong, but let’s be real, debate kids have made this country a lot worse
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"We're the best country in the world", starts this UK minister, "and we're going to reduce the reasons for people to want to come here." yes buddy UK politics has been doing great at making sure fewer people want to live there by just making the entire place more shit
Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.
November 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
"We're the best country in the world", starts this UK minister, "and we're going to reduce the reasons for people to want to come here." yes buddy UK politics has been doing great at making sure fewer people want to live there by just making the entire place more shit
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Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
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Confiscating the valuables of refugees and migrants at checkpoints is the sort of thing that militias in civil wars and corrupt cops in dictatorships do.
Not everything done by the Danish is moral or smart.
Not everything done by the Danish is moral or smart.
Ministers now appear to be confirming in broadcast interviews that they would audit and could confiscate assets (including jewellery) excepting wedding rings from the jewellery that they could confiscate.
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Confiscating the valuables of refugees and migrants at checkpoints is the sort of thing that militias in civil wars and corrupt cops in dictatorships do.
Not everything done by the Danish is moral or smart.
Not everything done by the Danish is moral or smart.
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
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At this moment, every single person supporting Labour is fighting for a far-right government in the UK.
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
At this moment, every single person supporting Labour is fighting for a far-right government in the UK.
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Appeasing the far-right gives the broader public the impression that their narrative is true. There is no way to stem support for Reform by endorsing their policies. Either you are fighting against them or you are, regardless of how you see yourself, fighting for them.
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Appeasing the far-right gives the broader public the impression that their narrative is true. There is no way to stem support for Reform by endorsing their policies. Either you are fighting against them or you are, regardless of how you see yourself, fighting for them.
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Labour are making the far right happy. Just not anyone else.
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Labour are making the far right happy. Just not anyone else.
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
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Reminder that temporary status for many refugees was already introduced under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 and then reversed. These proposals from the Labour government are re-heated hostility which has been extensively proven not to work. Labour remain Reform's most useful idiots.
November 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Reminder that temporary status for many refugees was already introduced under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 and then reversed. These proposals from the Labour government are re-heated hostility which has been extensively proven not to work. Labour remain Reform's most useful idiots.
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The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk