Vicki White
@violaoutside.bsky.social
Working in (and for!) active travel. I like running. Also here for animal content.
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WELCOME TO THE UK DONALD TRUMP 🇬🇧
The British public welcomed him with THIS gigantic banner right outside Windsor Castle where he is staying with the King this week.
Paid for by 1770 members of the British public.
The British public welcomed him with THIS gigantic banner right outside Windsor Castle where he is staying with the King this week.
Paid for by 1770 members of the British public.
September 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
WELCOME TO THE UK DONALD TRUMP 🇬🇧
The British public welcomed him with THIS gigantic banner right outside Windsor Castle where he is staying with the King this week.
Paid for by 1770 members of the British public.
The British public welcomed him with THIS gigantic banner right outside Windsor Castle where he is staying with the King this week.
Paid for by 1770 members of the British public.
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Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
September 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
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James has read the Trump vs NYT lawsuit so you don't have to 🧵
Suspect the NYT lawsuit is very different to those brought against TV news networks. The NYT isn't part of a much larger corporate group, and it interacts much less with federal regulators. Their incentives to fight are much stronger (and it's *such* a flimsy lawsuit).
September 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
James has read the Trump vs NYT lawsuit so you don't have to 🧵
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STOP APPEASING FASCISTS.
Just sums up everything wrong with this government's approach at the moment, encouraging division rather than finding ways to bring the vast majority together.
Just sums up everything wrong with this government's approach at the moment, encouraging division rather than finding ways to bring the vast majority together.
September 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
STOP APPEASING FASCISTS.
Just sums up everything wrong with this government's approach at the moment, encouraging division rather than finding ways to bring the vast majority together.
Just sums up everything wrong with this government's approach at the moment, encouraging division rather than finding ways to bring the vast majority together.
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EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge.
750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms
Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge.
750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
September 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
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Chris Mason reporting on Reform like a six-year-old seeing a tractor is not good when you've got a sizable proportion of the press nakedly cheerleading.
September 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Chris Mason reporting on Reform like a six-year-old seeing a tractor is not good when you've got a sizable proportion of the press nakedly cheerleading.
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Create the sound of a coconut by banging two horses together.
September 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Create the sound of a coconut by banging two horses together.
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This review is bang on. It’s a beautiful novel, which is crying out to be read again. The rich detail and amazing imagery is so densely packed that I’m sure my first reading has skimmed past a huge amount of connectivity, wit, and general awesomeness.
The first review of Everything Will Swallow You is in, and it's a very nice one! From this week's The New World (formerly The New European).
![Every new book by Tom Cox is a treat, and this, his third novel, confirms his stature as one of our very best authors. No less than Cox himself (who also writes a fine newsletter), Eric is obsessed by music. In the 1970s, we learn, he played in a band called Witch Fuzz Magic - not to be confused with Prestigious Woodland Village or Pudding Lane and “their still largely neglected Plague Prevention Committee LP”. Musical genres tumble through the pages of the novel - notably “slightlydelic pop” and ”gangster folk” - and the DJ at one party calls himself the “Weymouth Unabomber”.
Cox has long been a laureate of the rural landscape, its mysteries and its folkloric magic: what the late Mark Fisher called “the weird and the eerie”. Every landmark is “an arrow, a direct line into the fathoms of history.”
Carl is visited, intermittently and in particular locations, by consuming visions of the past. These haunting passages reminded me of Peter Ackroyd’s observation in 1993 that “[w]e must not think of time as some continually flowing stream moving in one direction. Think of it more as a lava flow from some unknown source of fire.” In similar spirit, Cox writes of “the craftsmanship of time”.
Everything Will Swallow You is populated by a busy cast of characters – friends, lovers, eccentrics and a fitness-conscious crow – seeking to make sense of life’s crooked path and to find a way, as one of them reflects, of “surrounding yourself with all that was positive and curious and erudite”.
It is a very funny, very moving novel. To borrow the words Eric writes to Carl, it is a soulful exploration of “all the limitations that come from being mortal, and all the magic that results from that.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w6k5ff2uuowtlofdmmjwujcr/bafkreie5t3ljfackck7vno5btzq7ru2ijsem75h4faayhwq43hdk753kqy@jpeg)
September 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This review is bang on. It’s a beautiful novel, which is crying out to be read again. The rich detail and amazing imagery is so densely packed that I’m sure my first reading has skimmed past a huge amount of connectivity, wit, and general awesomeness.
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Nigel Farage says Glasgow is the “asylum capital of the UK” — housing 50% more “illegal” migrants than any other area. Ferret Fact Service dug into the numbers. The verdict? Mostly False.
Find out more: theferret.scot/glasg...
Find out more: theferret.scot/glasg...
September 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Nigel Farage says Glasgow is the “asylum capital of the UK” — housing 50% more “illegal” migrants than any other area. Ferret Fact Service dug into the numbers. The verdict? Mostly False.
Find out more: theferret.scot/glasg...
Find out more: theferret.scot/glasg...
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September 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . .
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Cooper in 2021: "If there arent the safe legal routes for family reunion we end up with more people being driven into the arms of criminal gangs"
Cooper yesterday: "we are bringing forward new rules to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route"
Cooper yesterday: "we are bringing forward new rules to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route"
September 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Cooper in 2021: "If there arent the safe legal routes for family reunion we end up with more people being driven into the arms of criminal gangs"
Cooper yesterday: "we are bringing forward new rules to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route"
Cooper yesterday: "we are bringing forward new rules to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route"
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September 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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I understand Hugh Hall, the chairman of Historic Environment Scotland, resigned last week.
It comes amid a Scottish Government investigation into governance at the quango, which is responsible for the upkeep of hundreds of sites across the country.
It comes amid a Scottish Government investigation into governance at the quango, which is responsible for the upkeep of hundreds of sites across the country.
September 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I understand Hugh Hall, the chairman of Historic Environment Scotland, resigned last week.
It comes amid a Scottish Government investigation into governance at the quango, which is responsible for the upkeep of hundreds of sites across the country.
It comes amid a Scottish Government investigation into governance at the quango, which is responsible for the upkeep of hundreds of sites across the country.
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Spontaneous cycling lessons after a road resurfacing closure last night. If only it was always like this? @edi.bike @violaoutside.bsky.social @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk
August 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Spontaneous cycling lessons after a road resurfacing closure last night. If only it was always like this? @edi.bike @violaoutside.bsky.social @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk
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NEW: In 40 cities across Australia, an estimated one million people have been on the streets calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza.
These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
August 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
NEW: In 40 cities across Australia, an estimated one million people have been on the streets calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza.
These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
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The mainstreaming of far right discourse 2015 to 2025 in two pictures. The first is from a right wing troll that caused widespread outrage. The second is a supposedly serious journalist just asking questions
August 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The mainstreaming of far right discourse 2015 to 2025 in two pictures. The first is from a right wing troll that caused widespread outrage. The second is a supposedly serious journalist just asking questions
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In this clip, Rory says “Labour MPs put their careers on the line to stop (Old Jezza) becoming Prime Minister”, a thing that up until last year was an absolutely deranged conspiracy theory, but has now become an obvious fact, somehow without anyone having been wrong about anything at any point.
August 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
In this clip, Rory says “Labour MPs put their careers on the line to stop (Old Jezza) becoming Prime Minister”, a thing that up until last year was an absolutely deranged conspiracy theory, but has now become an obvious fact, somehow without anyone having been wrong about anything at any point.
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Petition to have this close the Proms instead of Rule Britannia
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
August 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Petition to have this close the Proms instead of Rule Britannia
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“Smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too.”
It was awesome collaborating with @tomflood.bsky.social on this project. So cool to see this up!
August 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“Smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too.”
“It is a famine within a few hundred metres of food in a fertile land”
Israel’s actions are truly wicked and we should do all we can to stop these monstrous acts
Israel’s actions are truly wicked and we should do all we can to stop these monstrous acts
NEW: “It is a famine. Everyone owns this.”
UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza.
The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes.
(🎥 BBC News)
UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza.
The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes.
(🎥 BBC News)
August 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“It is a famine within a few hundred metres of food in a fertile land”
Israel’s actions are truly wicked and we should do all we can to stop these monstrous acts
Israel’s actions are truly wicked and we should do all we can to stop these monstrous acts
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NEW: “It is a famine. Everyone owns this.”
UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza.
The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes.
(🎥 BBC News)
UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza.
The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes.
(🎥 BBC News)
August 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
NEW: “It is a famine. Everyone owns this.”
UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza.
The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes.
(🎥 BBC News)
UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza.
The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes.
(🎥 BBC News)
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I’m so frigging sick of right wing people and what they think of everything. Asylum seekers, transphobia, Israeli genocide, Brexit. The politics of evil. I wish they’d all just eff off and the media would stop banging on about their faux-concerns and we could just be fucking nice to each other
August 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I’m so frigging sick of right wing people and what they think of everything. Asylum seekers, transphobia, Israeli genocide, Brexit. The politics of evil. I wish they’d all just eff off and the media would stop banging on about their faux-concerns and we could just be fucking nice to each other
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Hundreds of people from across Scotland will meet their MSPs on 18th Sept to call for practical leadership to build a fairer, climate-safe future 🌍
We're offering training, support with travel costs, and other activities on the day ✍️
👉 Register at bit.ly/44TiTfB
#ActNowChangeForever
We're offering training, support with travel costs, and other activities on the day ✍️
👉 Register at bit.ly/44TiTfB
#ActNowChangeForever
August 18, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Hundreds of people from across Scotland will meet their MSPs on 18th Sept to call for practical leadership to build a fairer, climate-safe future 🌍
We're offering training, support with travel costs, and other activities on the day ✍️
👉 Register at bit.ly/44TiTfB
#ActNowChangeForever
We're offering training, support with travel costs, and other activities on the day ✍️
👉 Register at bit.ly/44TiTfB
#ActNowChangeForever
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Well, here we are...
August 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Well, here we are...