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Adele Sneddon

@adelesneddon.bsky.social

Good morning #Edinburgh #Sunrise

Photo of a beautiful purple sky sunrise in South West Edinburgh looking north east with the Pentland Hills in the background

November 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM

Adele Sneddon

@adelesneddon.bsky.social

The Israeli govt's terrible actions in Gaza have done NOTHING to make Israeli citizens safer in the long run. They will have served to harden the hearts of traumatised children who have seen their families and lives destroyed. Guarantees a generation susceptible to recruitment by Iranian proxies.

Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 7d

“Soldiers testify that they have been told to burn down houses they have stayed in by pouring oil on curtains, books and mattresses.”

Read @aloner.bsky.social’s report on the destruction of Gaza’s cities.

‘The directive was nothing left’: How Gaza’s cities were destroyed

Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

November 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM

Adele Sneddon

@adelesneddon.bsky.social

He never fails to take the opportunity to remind us all what a classless jerk he is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "I was gonna talk about Pritzker and size. But when I talk about Pritzker I get angry because he's not letting us do the job. So I'm not gonna tell my Pritzker joke. You know, some speechwriter wrote a joke about his weight ... I refuse to talk about the fact he's a fat slob"

November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM

Adele Sneddon

@adelesneddon.bsky.social

🚨 Cat in the garden! I repeat, cat in the garden! This is not a drill. 🚨

Photo of my labradoodle perched on the back of a leather wing chair looking out through the windows at our garden.

November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM

Adele Sneddon

@adelesneddon.bsky.social

The richest guy in the 🌍 folks! He could use a just a fraction of his💰 to ease suffering throughout the most deprived areas on the globe. Instead he…giggles like a Beavis & Butthead character about creating a Roast Machine to use at parties cos he lacks the wit to think of insults by himself. Ugh! 🙄

Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 9d

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

November 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM

Adele Sneddon

@adelesneddon.bsky.social

Spot on!

Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10d

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

November 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM

Adele Sneddon

@adelesneddon.bsky.social

Members of the Trans community & allies have been saying all along that these stupid, transphobic rules do NOT make women safer.

Awful, cruel & unneccessary, for both trans men & women plus anyone who doesn't conform to stereotypes of what moronic bigots believe women/men should look like.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · May 9

I see the EHRC, Bridget Phillipson and the Supreme Court are #MakingWomenSafe

"I said: “Would you like to see my tits?”
"I started unzipping my hoodie. He panicked: 'No no no, don’t do that!'"

Facebook post from Caz Coronel.

TRANS AGGRESSION POST
This photo of me was taken a few days ago. This is what I look like, not that it matters, but to set the scene…
I was at the Festival Hall. Toilets on either side of two lifts - men’s on one side, women’s on the other. I was in the queue for the women’s. Men were queueing across from me.
I was facing into the bathroom, so from behind, you couldn’t see my face. I was just standing there, minding my business, when I heard someone shout,
“The men’s toilets are over here!”
I ignored it at first thinking someone was letting their mate know. But he kept shouting it "The men's toilet are this side!". Then I felt a tap on my shoulder. He walked up, poked me and said:
“Do you realise this is the women’s toilet?!”
Up to that point, he hadn’t seen my face. So what was he judging me on? My haircut? My hoodie?
Also, I was surrounded by women. It was pretty obvious I knew which toilet it was.
His energy was aggressive. I was shocked. I looked him straight in the face and asked: “What sex do you think I am?” Affronted he said: “I don’t know!”
Here’s where I wish I’d said, “If you don’t know, then shut the f**k up!”
But instead, I said: “Would you like to see my tits?”
I started unzipping my hoodie. He panicked: “No no no, don’t do that!”
His wife came out of the loo and saw what was going down and said with urgency, “Let’s go now!.”
She rushed him away before all the ladies around me properly kicked off. They were horrified by what they saw. One lovely lady said to me “You are welcome here” and another was like I am so so sorry you had to experience that. I can’t believe what I just saw. Another lady said you must report him and get him kicked out! I stood there shocked and unfortunately didn’t react quickly enough.
What’s interesting is that he wasn’t a staff member. He was just a random member of the public.

Also, my attire was masculine. So if he thought I was a trans woman, why would I be dressing like a man? If he thought I was a trans man, then under the new rules, I was in the right toilet!
His policing was based on my hair? My clothes? Maybe I had cancer? Or maybe I just like my hair that way. What makes him think any of that gives him the right to behave like that?!

For the record, I’m not offended by being thought to be a man. I have a strong male energy, (female too sometimes!). However I often feel if I could press a button and turn into a man, I probably would. I don’t feel like I’ve earned the right to call myself trans, given the immense things people go through to be right in their body… but in spirit perhaps I am.
What was offensive was his assumption that this kind of behaviour is OK.
This is what these new laws and rules are doing — they’re not making it safer for everyone. They’re fuelling public entitlement and policing of gender expression.
Afterwards, I tried to find them. I thought maybe it would help to have a conversation. To understand. Did he think he was protecting his wife? What made him do that?
I’ve been meaning to speak out on this issue (and others that are super important) for a while. But I’ve had a lot going on, it’s been a difficult time and I haven’t felt I had the head space.
In a strange way, I’m grateful for this moment. It gave me the push I needed to finally say something.
I genuinely believe there’s a lot of misunderstanding from a few of the older cis community about what it means to be trans. I wish I’d got to talk to that guy… open conversations are needed to understand what fear is fuelling their prejudice. More on that in another post.

Photo of Caz Coronel.

November 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM

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Aaron Parnas

@aaronparnas.bsky.social

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM

Reposted by Adele Sneddon

EdinburghMinute.com

@edinburghminute.bsky.social

🌤️ Good morning Edinburgh. The headlines: Final day to have your say on trams, 7,000 consultation responses so far, quad bike hit-and-run, more uni strikes + Creative Edinburgh Award winners

⏰ Edinburgh’s ad-free local news: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...

Photo: @chrisdonia.bsky.social

People on a stage being given an award. Text over reads: The Edinburgh Minute - Monday 17 November 2025: Final day to have your say on trams, 7,000 consultation responses so far, quad bike hit-and-run, three days of uni strikes begin + Creative Edinburgh Award winners

November 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM

Adele Sneddon

@adelesneddon.bsky.social

These folk getting kidnapped are simply numbers on a quota sheet to ICE & MAGA bigots. But they're NOT just numbers - they're individuals, human beings who deserve compassion and dignity. They have heartbroken families & loved ones. MSM needs to show the suffering caused by this dehumanisation,

His Royal Huwness 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐸🇵🇸🇪🇺 @litterygeniarse.bsky.social · 17d

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social
When I see some of the trivia in your news shows I am doubly incensed that the MAGA invasion of the USA is so little reported.
Fascism can only gain power with the complicity of the media. So reporet the hell out of this.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17d

The aftermath of an ICE raid on a church in Charlotte, North Carolina, has devastated families, leaving them heartbroken by the separations caused by the raid.
November 15, 2025

November 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM

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Creative UK

@creativeuk.bsky.social

🎬 The arts aren’t a luxury - they’re an export.

At #Lab25, @aiannucci.bsky.social reminds us that the UK’s Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy and 7% of our workforce - the GDP equivalent of oil + car industries combined.

🎥 Watch more clips from the Creative UK Pavilion hubs.ly/Q03QVhV90

November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM

Adele Sneddon

@adelesneddon.bsky.social

Saw Hamilton the musical in Glasgow last night with my daughter (An early Christmas present for her as she is OBSESSED with the show). Bloody brilliant! #hamilton #hamiltonthemusical #hamiltontour

Photo of me and my daughter in front of a Hamilton poster

Photo of a Hamilton poster for the UK & Ireland tour in gold with silhouettes of female cast members

Photo of the stage at the Theatre Royal Glasgow with the set of Hamilton the musical

November 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM

Adele Sneddon

@adelesneddon.bsky.social

Nothing to see here, just the President of the USA saying that they're "just gonna kill people" in international waters with no due process. Americans seem to be more appalled at the demise of the White House's East Wing than the actual threats of terrorism coming out of this criminal's mouth.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 23

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

October 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM

Adele Sneddon

@adelesneddon.bsky.social

Beautiful #Edinburgh #Sunset this evening!

Photo of a colourful sunset with trees underneath. Taken from my hall window in Edinburgh

October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM

Adele Sneddon

@adelesneddon.bsky.social

OMG is anyone listening to this speech? Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace prize, but so much shade is being thrown at the Trump administration. Highlighting the importance of democracy, a free press and the rights of the individual - all things being threatened by Trump. #Nobel

Photo of Sky News on TV showing the Nobel Committee announcing the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

October 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM

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Michael de Adder

@deadder.bsky.social

October 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM

Adele Sneddon

@adelesneddon.bsky.social

As Mum to a rugby-playing 14 year old daughter, I absolutely love that Mattel are making these athletic rugby playing Barbie dolls - although I think that Canada should be miffed to be excluded from this set. (Wld love to see a Scotland player too!) #rugby #barbie #girlsinsport #womensrugby

England Rugby World Cup winner made into a Barbie doll

Ellie Kildunne says rugby being represented in Barbie form is ‘very inspiring to see’

www.independent.co.uk

October 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM

Adele Sneddon

@adelesneddon.bsky.social

Ok Max, I'll hold your paw ❤️🐾 (he's not going to be happy with me later as I'm taking him to the vet for his annual vaccinations this afternoon 🙈)

#dogs #dogsofbluesky #labradoodle

Photo of my curly cream labradoodle sitting on the back of a sofa by our dining room window holding my hand in between his paws.

October 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM

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Pat Bagley

@bagleycartoons.bsky.social

They own the sanctioned institutions of state violence (army, police)

They own the press (5 corps own 80% of news outlets)

It’s fascism from here on out until deprived of those two things

October 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM

Adele Sneddon

@adelesneddon.bsky.social

After watching that awful Hegseth & Trump duet, I can't help but think again of Adama's conversation in Battlestar Galactica... #USArmy #ICE #NationalGuard

Adele Sneddon @adelesneddon.bsky.social · Jun 17

Rewatching Battlestar Galactica, and this conversation struck me as eerily relevant just now. #Trump #ICE #NationalGuard #LA #BattlestarGalactica

September 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM

Adele Sneddon

@adelesneddon.bsky.social

Well done to the English Roses, and commiserations to Canada who had a great tournament. Fantastic to see a packed Twickenham for the match.

Right, I'm off to my local club to watch my 14 yo play for Currie Chieftains U16 Girls! 🖤💛#WeAreChieftains
Grassroots girls' rugby going strong in Scotland!

Sky News @news.sky.com · Sep 27

England crowned Women's Rugby World Cup champions after emphatic win over Canada

England have been crowned Women's Rugby World Cup champions for the third time after crushing Canada 33-13.

news.sky.com

September 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM

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Ausome Charlie AuDHD

@ausomecharlie.bsky.social

Oi!
Stop trying to eliminate autism!
We are human beings,
not problems to solve!
Start accepting us,
and supporting us...
not distressing us!

#Autism #ASD #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Neurodiversity #AutismAcceptance #FuckTrump