Boyan
@bkarb.bsky.social
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The Edinburgh Evening News printed these lines on a story about antisocial bike use.
‘police were allowed to run them off the road. Better still if other road users were allowed to do it’
I don’t think this is acceptable. The normalising, publishing, promoting of illegal acts towards a group.
‘police were allowed to run them off the road. Better still if other road users were allowed to do it’
I don’t think this is acceptable. The normalising, publishing, promoting of illegal acts towards a group.
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Edinburgh Evening News printed these lines on a story about antisocial bike use.
‘police were allowed to run them off the road. Better still if other road users were allowed to do it’
I don’t think this is acceptable. The normalising, publishing, promoting of illegal acts towards a group.
‘police were allowed to run them off the road. Better still if other road users were allowed to do it’
I don’t think this is acceptable. The normalising, publishing, promoting of illegal acts towards a group.
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Most Brits I know wash their dishes in soapy water and DON'T rinse them.
So the filthy bread knife is hardly surprising.
So the filthy bread knife is hardly surprising.
October 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Most Brits I know wash their dishes in soapy water and DON'T rinse them.
So the filthy bread knife is hardly surprising.
So the filthy bread knife is hardly surprising.
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if you tell me that protesting the government’s complicity in a genocide is unbritish then i’m afraid what i’m hearing is that britishness is bad
October 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
if you tell me that protesting the government’s complicity in a genocide is unbritish then i’m afraid what i’m hearing is that britishness is bad
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Israel is piling crime on top of crime on top of crime.
No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences.
Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.
No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences.
Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.
Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’
Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’
Exclusive: Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian.
According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Israel is piling crime on top of crime on top of crime.
No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences.
Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.
No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences.
Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.
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Over 200 of us have come together as Women Against the Far Right in Scotland and written an open letter rejecting the far right’s racist lies about “protecting” women and girls. news.stv.tv/politics/nic...
Join us and sign the letter here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/wo...
Join us and sign the letter here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/wo...
Sturgeon and McDermid among 200 to sign letter against far right
Nadia El-Nakla, Elaine C Smith, and Clare Grogan have also backed the letter.
news.stv.tv
September 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Over 200 of us have come together as Women Against the Far Right in Scotland and written an open letter rejecting the far right’s racist lies about “protecting” women and girls. news.stv.tv/politics/nic...
Join us and sign the letter here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/wo...
Join us and sign the letter here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/wo...
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Thanks to @edinburghminute.bsky.social and @edi.bike for the shout out to the work the @workersobservatory.org is doing in Edinburgh:
"It’s great to see a holistic approach to this issue..."
buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc...
"It’s great to see a holistic approach to this issue..."
buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc...
🚲 edi.bike | issue 106 | 18th Aug ‘25
your weekly edinburgh cycling digest
buttondown.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thanks to @edinburghminute.bsky.social and @edi.bike for the shout out to the work the @workersobservatory.org is doing in Edinburgh:
"It’s great to see a holistic approach to this issue..."
buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc...
"It’s great to see a holistic approach to this issue..."
buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc...
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Some big news:
@workersobservatory.org in alliance with/ Empowering Multicultural Communities Alliance (EMCA) & Citizens Rights Project (CRP) has been selected for the capacity-building phase of the Regenerative Future Funds in Edinburgh!
workersobservatory.org/the-workers-...
@workersobservatory.org in alliance with/ Empowering Multicultural Communities Alliance (EMCA) & Citizens Rights Project (CRP) has been selected for the capacity-building phase of the Regenerative Future Funds in Edinburgh!
workersobservatory.org/the-workers-...
Workers Observatory — We See The City
The Workers’ Observatory is an Edinburgh-based project run by workers to monitor new forms of work in the city and develop tools and tactics to take advantage of them
workersobservatory.org
August 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Some big news:
@workersobservatory.org in alliance with/ Empowering Multicultural Communities Alliance (EMCA) & Citizens Rights Project (CRP) has been selected for the capacity-building phase of the Regenerative Future Funds in Edinburgh!
workersobservatory.org/the-workers-...
@workersobservatory.org in alliance with/ Empowering Multicultural Communities Alliance (EMCA) & Citizens Rights Project (CRP) has been selected for the capacity-building phase of the Regenerative Future Funds in Edinburgh!
workersobservatory.org/the-workers-...
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i still remember Glasgow Labour complaining the LEZ was taking too long and should have come into force a year earlier, until a week before it was actually due to come into force when they immediately started demanding it be delayed by a year
August 13, 2025 at 7:41 AM
i still remember Glasgow Labour complaining the LEZ was taking too long and should have come into force a year earlier, until a week before it was actually due to come into force when they immediately started demanding it be delayed by a year
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Over-grazing means Scotland’s soil is rapidly eroding, damaging farming, destroying biodiversity, and contributing to the climate crisis. We need - urgently - to bring back wolves. By me: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/its-time-t...
'It's Time to Bring Back Scotland's Wolves'
As wolf populations grow in Europe, Adam Ramsay argues that reintroducing the apex predator could help control deer populations and rescue Scotland's ecology.
www.bylinesupplement.com
August 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Over-grazing means Scotland’s soil is rapidly eroding, damaging farming, destroying biodiversity, and contributing to the climate crisis. We need - urgently - to bring back wolves. By me: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/its-time-t...
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The oligarchs liking our planet have names and addresses and it’s time to stand up and fight for it. Why I think @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s right that we need an eco-populism, in @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...
It’s time for angry left populism
In a time of oligarchy and climate breakdown, politics must be oppositional.
www.newstatesman.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
The oligarchs liking our planet have names and addresses and it’s time to stand up and fight for it. Why I think @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s right that we need an eco-populism, in @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...
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More than 100 members of my nephew’s extended family have been murdered in Gaza. His surviving cousins are being starved. Britain is still providing material assistance to Israel. But when @ChrisMurrayMP canvassed us today, he didn’t want to talk about it: substack.com/inbox/post/1...
A 'good constituency MP'? how ‘hard working local politicians’ are facilitating a genocide
I ran into my MP today...
substack.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
More than 100 members of my nephew’s extended family have been murdered in Gaza. His surviving cousins are being starved. Britain is still providing material assistance to Israel. But when @ChrisMurrayMP canvassed us today, he didn’t want to talk about it: substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Rose Street pedestrianisation was always meant to leave the street "open to... cyclists". The one way flow is a legacy of the fact cars and commercial vehicle access was never fully or properly implemented and too many "access" provisions remained (📰Evening News, 4/1/1990)
July 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Rose Street pedestrianisation was always meant to leave the street "open to... cyclists". The one way flow is a legacy of the fact cars and commercial vehicle access was never fully or properly implemented and too many "access" provisions remained (📰Evening News, 4/1/1990)
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New, fully accessible toilets are now open on Leith Links, in the north of the park 🎉 Each toilet has individual, private access and the unit includes a Changing Places toilet. Find out about our project to improve public toilets in parks www.thrivinggreenspaces.scot/project/publ...
July 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New, fully accessible toilets are now open on Leith Links, in the north of the park 🎉 Each toilet has individual, private access and the unit includes a Changing Places toilet. Find out about our project to improve public toilets in parks www.thrivinggreenspaces.scot/project/publ...
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"Why Keir Starmer won't win his new war against food delivery cyclists" - a piece by Cailean Gallagher from @workersobservatory.org
www.thenational.scot/politics/253...
www.thenational.scot/politics/253...
Why Keir Starmer won't win his new war against food delivery cyclists
The UK Government seems to be cooking up a nasty new slogan: stop the bikes.
www.thenational.scot
July 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"Why Keir Starmer won't win his new war against food delivery cyclists" - a piece by Cailean Gallagher from @workersobservatory.org
www.thenational.scot/politics/253...
www.thenational.scot/politics/253...
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In a country that already has experienced a concerted summer of riots, this language and imagery is just deeply irresponsible. Many people ride for these companies every day and they deserve to get home safely and without harassment or fear.
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July 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
In a country that already has experienced a concerted summer of riots, this language and imagery is just deeply irresponsible. Many people ride for these companies every day and they deserve to get home safely and without harassment or fear.
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cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...
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Do this and get rid of exclusionary classist and racist voter ID laws.
It’s about time!
Scotland lowered our voting age to 16 over a decade ago, and it's been a great success. But 16 and 17 year olds were still unable to vote in Westminster elections.
This will strengthen democracy and give young people the power build their own future.
Scotland lowered our voting age to 16 over a decade ago, and it's been a great success. But 16 and 17 year olds were still unable to vote in Westminster elections.
This will strengthen democracy and give young people the power build their own future.
NEW: 16-year-olds will able to vote for the first time at the next General Election, ministers have confirmed in wide-ranging plans to 'modernise our democracy'
July 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Do this and get rid of exclusionary classist and racist voter ID laws.
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Watch to the end and ask yourself: is there any bigger hypocrite than Keir Starmer?
Bravo @zoejardiniere.bsky.social 👏
Bravo @zoejardiniere.bsky.social 👏
July 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Watch to the end and ask yourself: is there any bigger hypocrite than Keir Starmer?
Bravo @zoejardiniere.bsky.social 👏
Bravo @zoejardiniere.bsky.social 👏
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There’s this circular logic thing that happens frequently in Labour circles where they go “we are the party that’s good on welfare so anything we do on welfare must be good because we’re doing it”.
June 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
There’s this circular logic thing that happens frequently in Labour circles where they go “we are the party that’s good on welfare so anything we do on welfare must be good because we’re doing it”.
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EXCLUSIVE: Scottish Labour councillors have failed in their attempt to block a motion condemning the UK Government's decision to proscribe Palestine Action 👇
Scottish Labour councillors fail to block motion in support of Palestine Action
www.thenational.scot
June 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Scottish Labour councillors have failed in their attempt to block a motion condemning the UK Government's decision to proscribe Palestine Action 👇
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Indian court rules trans women are women and ‘legally entitled to recognition’
Indian court rules trans women are women
A High Court in India has ruled that trans women are women despite what India law may say in a landmark decision for the country.
www.thepinknews.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Indian court rules trans women are women and ‘legally entitled to recognition’