Cairistiona
@caristiona.bsky.social
🏴 Loving life 🌻 grannie 👨❤️💋👨 cyclist 🚲 knitter 🧶 walker 👣 still learning 📚 retired teacher👩🎓bread maker 🍞 Scottish Independence 🏴
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How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
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The Labour Government seems unwilling to support Scottish industry, John Swinney has said ahead of meeting Keir Starmer 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2567441...
www.thenational.scot/news/2567441...
Labour 'unwilling' to support Scottish industry, John Swinney says
The Labour Government seems unwilling to support Scottish industry, John Swinney has said ahead of meeting Keir Starmer
www.thenational.scot
December 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The Labour Government seems unwilling to support Scottish industry, John Swinney has said ahead of meeting Keir Starmer 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2567441...
www.thenational.scot/news/2567441...
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The undecided are key to independence.
December 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
The undecided are key to independence.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...
Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder
Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...
www.alternet.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...
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"Foodbanks are at breaking point this winter.. [Trussell] expect to hand out an emergency food parcel every 10 seconds over the next 3 months"
The UK has the sixth largest economy in the world #GMB
The UK has the sixth largest economy in the world #GMB
December 3, 2025 at 6:24 AM
"Foodbanks are at breaking point this winter.. [Trussell] expect to hand out an emergency food parcel every 10 seconds over the next 3 months"
The UK has the sixth largest economy in the world #GMB
The UK has the sixth largest economy in the world #GMB
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The British government is considering a ban on cryptocurrency donations to political parties — in a move that could set off alarm bells in Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
UK mulls ban on crypto cash in politics — putting Farage in firing line
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK was the first U.K. political party to accept donations in cryptocurrency — and now the government is considering a ban.
www.politico.eu
December 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The British government is considering a ban on cryptocurrency donations to political parties — in a move that could set off alarm bells in Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
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What a fascinating article!
Tumour growth is reduced by exercise due to a shift in the body’s metabolism that means muscle cells outcompete cancer cells in the race to get sugar to grow
We now have a greater understanding of how exercise slows cancer
Tumour growth is reduced by exercise due to a shift in the body’s metabolism that means muscle cells outcompete cancer cells in the race to get sugar to grow
www.newscientist.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
What a fascinating article!
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Our media has become the story. What they decide is newsworthy, what they scream about, who they accuse, who they excuse, who they blame…
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Our media has become the story. What they decide is newsworthy, what they scream about, who they accuse, who they excuse, who they blame…
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
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This would be a wonderful positive AI use-case. Although a strange, difficult reality for a lot of people in 2025.
Mind-blowingly cool use of AI
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
This would be a wonderful positive AI use-case. Although a strange, difficult reality for a lot of people in 2025.
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Well, well, well ….. not even remotely surprised are you?
Surprise, surprise. UKIP #Scottish MEP - David Coburn, also implicated in Russian spy ring.
"WhatsApp messages recovered by police and cited by the CPS show Gill discussing “Arnott and Coburn” with Voloshyn, who praised the performances of Gill’s “friends”.
www.heraldscotland.com/newsletters/...
"WhatsApp messages recovered by police and cited by the CPS show Gill discussing “Arnott and Coburn” with Voloshyn, who praised the performances of Gill’s “friends”.
www.heraldscotland.com/newsletters/...
Newsletters On The Heraldscotland
Newsletters On The Heraldscotland
www.heraldscotland.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Well, well, well ….. not even remotely surprised are you?
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Why I don’t trust ai!! It hallucinates even the most basic info!
St Andrews Day, November the 30th 2025, is next SUNDAY and not YESTERDAY!
I mean if it can’t even track the basics like a calendar I’m
not sure I need it in my business
St Andrews Day, November the 30th 2025, is next SUNDAY and not YESTERDAY!
I mean if it can’t even track the basics like a calendar I’m
not sure I need it in my business
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Why I don’t trust ai!! It hallucinates even the most basic info!
St Andrews Day, November the 30th 2025, is next SUNDAY and not YESTERDAY!
I mean if it can’t even track the basics like a calendar I’m
not sure I need it in my business
St Andrews Day, November the 30th 2025, is next SUNDAY and not YESTERDAY!
I mean if it can’t even track the basics like a calendar I’m
not sure I need it in my business
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Just how cuntish do you want to appear to be, Starmer?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Just how cuntish do you want to appear to be, Starmer?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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"Asylum seekers are unable to travel to any country. Similarly, refugees face lengthy travel restrictions and a lengthy wait to settle in the UK, making them feel unwelcome and unsafe. This constant threat of deportation leaves them feeling like they no longer have a home."
#Asylum
#Immigration
#Asylum
#Immigration
New changes in the immigration system: scapegoating asylum seekers?
New UK migration rules double settlement time, risking decades of family separation and leaving asylum seekers in prolonged fear and heartbreak
bylines.scot
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"Asylum seekers are unable to travel to any country. Similarly, refugees face lengthy travel restrictions and a lengthy wait to settle in the UK, making them feel unwelcome and unsafe. This constant threat of deportation leaves them feeling like they no longer have a home."
#Asylum
#Immigration
#Asylum
#Immigration
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Scots taxpayers to pay £200 million for new nuclear power stations in England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/29/s...
Scots taxpayers to pay £200 million for new nuclear power stations in England
Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Dorothy for alerting me to this. In the Guardian today, the above and: UK energy bill payers will hand over £2bn a year in subsidies to EDF, the French compan…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Scots taxpayers to pay £200 million for new nuclear power stations in England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/29/s...
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If the Telegraph can do this, why can’t #BBC journalists challenge all politicians who bemoan our lack of growth on the elephant in the room: the damage of #Brexit+what can be done to repair it? @omrgriffiths @Nshallice @dianamartinbbc @JonathanAspinw1 @JohntNeal @jonathancmunro
November 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
If the Telegraph can do this, why can’t #BBC journalists challenge all politicians who bemoan our lack of growth on the elephant in the room: the damage of #Brexit+what can be done to repair it? @omrgriffiths @Nshallice @dianamartinbbc @JonathanAspinw1 @JohntNeal @jonathancmunro
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More progress internationally on next generation Covid vaccines – with a setback in the US:
- More good news on the vaccine for people with immunosuppression
- Progress in intranasal vaccine trials in France & the US ....1/2
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/30/m...
- More good news on the vaccine for people with immunosuppression
- Progress in intranasal vaccine trials in France & the US ....1/2
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/30/m...
More Progress on Next Generation Covid Vaccines, and a Setback in the US (Update No 35) - Absolutely Maybe
Last month’s update ran long, so this one covers less than a month – but there’s still a lot of news. There…
absolutelymaybe.plos.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 AM
More progress internationally on next generation Covid vaccines – with a setback in the US:
- More good news on the vaccine for people with immunosuppression
- Progress in intranasal vaccine trials in France & the US ....1/2
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/30/m...
- More good news on the vaccine for people with immunosuppression
- Progress in intranasal vaccine trials in France & the US ....1/2
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/30/m...
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Frontline staff having to wear bin bags. Unpreparedness. 23,000 preventable deaths. Reopen Covid crime case.
megaphone.link/BYLINEMEDIAH...
megaphone.link/BYLINEMEDIAH...
Michael Mansfield KC: "Police should reopen Covid crime case." by Byline Podcast
megaphone.link
November 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Frontline staff having to wear bin bags. Unpreparedness. 23,000 preventable deaths. Reopen Covid crime case.
megaphone.link/BYLINEMEDIAH...
megaphone.link/BYLINEMEDIAH...
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“Scotland accounts for more than 60% of the UK’s fishing capacity – yet this UK Labour Government thinks it is acceptable to give us just 7.78% of the funding. It is completely unjustifiable and an insult to the sector in Scotland."
#Fishing
#Economy
#Scotland🏴
#Fishing
#Economy
#Scotland🏴
Scottish Parliament overwhelmingly supports Scottish fishing
The UK Government’s decision to allocate Scotland only £28mn of the £360mn Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund is condemned in the Scottish Parliament
bylines.scot
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 AM
“Scotland accounts for more than 60% of the UK’s fishing capacity – yet this UK Labour Government thinks it is acceptable to give us just 7.78% of the funding. It is completely unjustifiable and an insult to the sector in Scotland."
#Fishing
#Economy
#Scotland🏴
#Fishing
#Economy
#Scotland🏴
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Every 7 years in the GFA... Why the difference in Scotland?
Rachel Reeves says no independence referendum 🚫 The Chancellor said 2014 was once-in-a-generation, but that line is getting pretty tired #scotland #ukpolitics #scottishindependence #labour
November 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Every 7 years in the GFA... Why the difference in Scotland?