Harry Rafferty
@hariborafferty.bsky.social
Supermarket drudger, fan of Aberdeen, Stranraer and rabbits, vegan ecosocialist do-gooder, Scottish Green, he/him
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Bellslea Park, Fraserburgh. Home of Fraserburgh FC. Pic: Joris van de Wier
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Bellslea Park, Fraserburgh. Home of Fraserburgh FC. Pic: Joris van de Wier
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I was lost for words yesterday during Trans Day of Remembrance. The EHRC guidance, transphobic but also deeply misogynistic, and the Herald political awards… the timing was something.
Warm words won’t cut it. People in positions of power need to take action.
Warm words won’t cut it. People in positions of power need to take action.
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I was lost for words yesterday during Trans Day of Remembrance. The EHRC guidance, transphobic but also deeply misogynistic, and the Herald political awards… the timing was something.
Warm words won’t cut it. People in positions of power need to take action.
Warm words won’t cut it. People in positions of power need to take action.
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Today we remember all those who have lost their lives for being who they are.
Today and every day we stand with trans people as we work to build a more inclusive, welcoming Scotland. 🏳️⚧️
Today and every day we stand with trans people as we work to build a more inclusive, welcoming Scotland. 🏳️⚧️
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Today we remember all those who have lost their lives for being who they are.
Today and every day we stand with trans people as we work to build a more inclusive, welcoming Scotland. 🏳️⚧️
Today and every day we stand with trans people as we work to build a more inclusive, welcoming Scotland. 🏳️⚧️
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We don't need to "protect our borders"
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
November 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
We don't need to "protect our borders"
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
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This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country
A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country
A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
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The Scottish Greens stand with trans people this week, next week and always. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Scottish Greens stand with trans people this week, next week and always. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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🚨 BREAKING
The SNP have just blocked our motion, confirming they no longer oppose the Rosebank oil field application.
If Rosebank goes ahead it'll be a grave act of environmental vandalism. This is a huge step backwards for Scotland's climate action.
The SNP have just blocked our motion, confirming they no longer oppose the Rosebank oil field application.
If Rosebank goes ahead it'll be a grave act of environmental vandalism. This is a huge step backwards for Scotland's climate action.
Today the Scottish Parliament will vote on our motion opposing Rosebank.
The oil field would release a massive 250 million tonnes of new carbon emissions into our atmosphere, 50 times as much as previously admitted!
We must put people and planet first, not corporate profits.
The oil field would release a massive 250 million tonnes of new carbon emissions into our atmosphere, 50 times as much as previously admitted!
We must put people and planet first, not corporate profits.
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🚨 BREAKING
The SNP have just blocked our motion, confirming they no longer oppose the Rosebank oil field application.
If Rosebank goes ahead it'll be a grave act of environmental vandalism. This is a huge step backwards for Scotland's climate action.
The SNP have just blocked our motion, confirming they no longer oppose the Rosebank oil field application.
If Rosebank goes ahead it'll be a grave act of environmental vandalism. This is a huge step backwards for Scotland's climate action.
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Today the Scottish Parliament will vote on our motion opposing Rosebank.
The oil field would release a massive 250 million tonnes of new carbon emissions into our atmosphere, 50 times as much as previously admitted!
We must put people and planet first, not corporate profits.
The oil field would release a massive 250 million tonnes of new carbon emissions into our atmosphere, 50 times as much as previously admitted!
We must put people and planet first, not corporate profits.
November 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Today the Scottish Parliament will vote on our motion opposing Rosebank.
The oil field would release a massive 250 million tonnes of new carbon emissions into our atmosphere, 50 times as much as previously admitted!
We must put people and planet first, not corporate profits.
The oil field would release a massive 250 million tonnes of new carbon emissions into our atmosphere, 50 times as much as previously admitted!
We must put people and planet first, not corporate profits.
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Once you populist, you can’t stopulist
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Once you populist, you can’t stopulist
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When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
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These highly intelligent beings, capable of complex problem-solving, play, and dreams, are being captured en masse and sold for profit.
If octopuses are truly recognised as sentient, as the UK government claims, then this should be a scandal, not a celebration 🐙
The Great British Cephalopod Slaughter
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November 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
These highly intelligent beings, capable of complex problem-solving, play, and dreams, are being captured en masse and sold for profit.
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Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
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Aberdeen's Stuart Kennedy with Burt Lancaster at the Gleneagles Hotel in 1982. Pic: Donald Stewart
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Aberdeen's Stuart Kennedy with Burt Lancaster at the Gleneagles Hotel in 1982. Pic: Donald Stewart
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November 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Even I thought this was one of mine!
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Even I thought this was one of mine!
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Aberdeen return home with the European Cup Winners' Cup after defeating Real Madrid in Gothenburg. (1983)
November 4, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Aberdeen return home with the European Cup Winners' Cup after defeating Real Madrid in Gothenburg. (1983)
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EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish-based oil firm has been condemned for working with Israel to extract gas from Palestinian waters
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
November 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish-based oil firm has been condemned for working with Israel to extract gas from Palestinian waters
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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This is the real legacy of For Women Scotland: mass harassment of women, overwhelmingly cisgender women, from people embolded by transphobia.
A new report from TransActual looks at the impact of the 2025 EHRC interim update on access to, and experiences within, gendered spaces in the UK.
Read the full report here: transactual.org.uk/gendered-spa...
#TransRights #EHRC #ScrapTheBathroomBan #EqualityAct
Read the full report here: transactual.org.uk/gendered-spa...
#TransRights #EHRC #ScrapTheBathroomBan #EqualityAct
October 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is the real legacy of For Women Scotland: mass harassment of women, overwhelmingly cisgender women, from people embolded by transphobia.
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We think blanket, unjustified bans on trans participation in grassroots sport are unlawful.
So we're going to bat for trans people in amateur cricket 🏏
So we're going to bat for trans people in amateur cricket 🏏
We’re going to bat for trans people in amateur cricket | Good Law Project
Good Law Project are fighting back against the blanket exclusion of trans people from grassroots sports.
goodlaw.social
October 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
We think blanket, unjustified bans on trans participation in grassroots sport are unlawful.
So we're going to bat for trans people in amateur cricket 🏏
So we're going to bat for trans people in amateur cricket 🏏
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We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak".
But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
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‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe
YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK
goodlaw.social
October 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak".
But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
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Listen to 🏳️⚧️ trans people.
84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people in a YouGov poll commissioned by @goodlawproject.org.
49% said they found it difficult to access appropriate toilets when out in public.
This is a shameful human rights (and public health) emergency.
84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people in a YouGov poll commissioned by @goodlawproject.org.
49% said they found it difficult to access appropriate toilets when out in public.
This is a shameful human rights (and public health) emergency.
In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
goodlaw.social/ncfw
goodlaw.social/ncfw
‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe
YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK
goodlaw.social
October 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Listen to 🏳️⚧️ trans people.
84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people in a YouGov poll commissioned by @goodlawproject.org.
49% said they found it difficult to access appropriate toilets when out in public.
This is a shameful human rights (and public health) emergency.
84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people in a YouGov poll commissioned by @goodlawproject.org.
49% said they found it difficult to access appropriate toilets when out in public.
This is a shameful human rights (and public health) emergency.
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October 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM