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Utopia V's Dystopia. Which side you on?
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Energy security and Scotland's abundance of it (both traditional and renewable) should not only be protecting us, but also enriching us, offsetting the supply side (inflation) shocks globally. We should be a haven of stability (energywise) in an unstable world.
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THE 2nd GREAT BRITISH ENERGY HEIST
YouTube video by The Scotland Channel
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Far from cutting energy bills as they promised, the Labour government is hiking the bills of Scots to pay for nuclear plants in England.

In Scotland, we have vast renewable resources - and with the powers of independence, we can use them to lower bills.
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Ahem! Scotland?
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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This is who is advising the president of the United States
September 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.

This is getting very dark, very quick.
September 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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“The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to some form of right-wing extremism. That is also true for 2024: for the third year in a row, all the murders identified were tied to right-wing extremism.”

www.adl.org/resources/re...
www.adl.org
September 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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New paper co-authored by CCAP Curator Ceci Rad Menéndez: "Evolution of far-red light photoacclimation in cyanobacteria"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Evolution of far-red light photoacclimation in cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteria oxygenated the atmosphere of early Earth and continue to be key players in global carbon and nitrogen cycles. A phylogenetically diverse…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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CCAP and @samsocean.bsky.social are attending the Preserving What Matters: Scotland's National Collections exhibition on Tuesday 27th May - at the RSE, George Street in Edinburgh.

If you're in the area come along to see our stand 🧪

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preserving...
Preserving what matters: Scotland's national collections | In person
What do collections tell us about Scotland's history and future? And are they at risk?  Join to ask questions and hear from our experts.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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May 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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India carried out strikes early on Wednesday against Pakistan, two weeks after an attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam.

Here is what we know aje.io/84hvaa
May 7, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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#Israel is slaughtering #Palestinians

Moving the survivors into camps and ghettos.

Occupying their land.

Committing genocide and other war crimes.

There will be a reckoning.

The world must act.
This is incredibly powerful from the WHO’s Emergencies Director, Dr Mike Ryan, on the world doing nothing as the children of Gaza die.

“This is an abomination.”

(🎥 Middle East Eye)
May 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
April 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
And just a reminder on this St.George's day that Farage leads in the polls in England, despite Brexit consequences and seeing the shit show across the Atlantic. 🤷‍♂️
Idiot America never learns any lessons.
April 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Good morning.

Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.

It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
April 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Protesters in Turkey
March 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It is quite an image.
"The dervishes' black cloaks symbolize tombs, and long headgear symbolizes tombstones, all representing the journey from the physical world to the spiritual realm."🥺
March 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I’ve never forgotten meeting Aberdeen trade unionist Ron Webster, just months before his death at 96. Ron was proudly, passionately left-wing and railed against increasing poverty in his home city. He would have been appalled by today’s spring statement! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...
Aberdeen trade unionist Ron Webster wonders where all the money went from the oil boom
The veteran union figure met everybody from Fidel Castro to Nelson Mandela and led the anti-poll tax campaign in Scotland in the 1980s.
www.pressandjournal.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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The number of Islamophobic posts about London Mayor Sadiq Khan has risen from 12,000 to 28,000 over the last 12 months, according to a GLA report.

They’re nearly all on TwitterX and more than half come from the US and India.
March 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Not the biggest issue here by any means, but does Trump think the European Union is just one country?
More deranged 2:00am tariff poasting from grandpa
March 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Pikachu suits could be the new uniforms for fighting the rise of authoritarianism in the modern surveillance state. Ridicule the autocrats.
March 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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What if the secret to winning elections is somehow Trump's syntax. We need a guy to say stuff like "But we're going to abolish billionaires and we'll be doing it very soon. They'll be paying very high taxes but it'll be very fair. And frankly they haven't paid taxes in a very long time"
March 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Armenia National Assembly votes for starting EU accession bid,,,
March 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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WM Government feared the prospect of Scottish independence why the contents of the McCrone report was classified and only came to light in 2005 However Scotland was not allowed to know that it would have been one of the wealthiest countries in the world
www.livebreathescotland.com/would-englan...
Would England be richer without Scotland? No, it would be poorer!
If Scotland voted for independence, would England be richer? Let's look at Scottish industries and what it contributes to the UK finances.
www.livebreathescotland.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Any Scot not now wanting independence cares absolutely nothing for our people, our communities our country our future. The time is now.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
I am staggered by this. WM knows no shame. Billions lost in PPE and no police tents in sight. Now the Tories are saying that the Scottish justice system is unacceptable and needs changed by WM. Obviously Branchform produced the wrong result. Where does this end? It is time for indy.
Scottish Tory MP raises police probe into SNP at Prime Minister's Questions
A SCOTTISH Tory MP has raised the police probe into the SNP at Westminster, asking the Prime Minister to step in and change the role of Scotland’s…
www.thenational.scot
March 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM