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Charles Harper
@chaharper.bsky.social
Scotsman, European, Humanist, synaesthete. Retired from Education. Walker and culture lover. Co-own and help run a guesthouse on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Many enthusiasms cluding the fox-red Labrador called Brodie. I post my own photographs.
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🚨 EXPOSED: Every #NHS patient needs to watch this...⬇️

Palantir CEO Alex Karp bragged about scaring enemies & neutralising them - whilst his spy tech company has a £330m contract to handle our NHS patient records.

Get Palantir & its CEO away from our NHS!

youtube.com/shorts/tXdCA...
Every NHS patient needs to see this. #nhs #politics #viral #data #news #nhsprivatisation #trump #uk
YouTube video by Just Treatment
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February 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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An artificial intelligence system used by the UK government to detect welfare fraud is showing bias according to people’s age, disability, marital status and nationality prompting fears of ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Revealed: bias found in AI system used to detect UK benefits fraud
Exclusive: Age, disability, marital status and nationality influence decisions to investigate claims, prompting fears of ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:27 AM
“Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was one of Britain’s best 20th century artists. Scottish born, she was a sublime painter, draughtswoman, printmaker and a brilliant colourist.”

I was on Lanzarote last week. ‘Willy’ came here 5 times. Her work inspired me to make photographs of the landscape. This is one:
December 3, 2024 at 5:59 AM
I’m on a walking holiday in the Canary Isles:

“Las Montañas del Fuego are the unusual result of the eruptions in the south of  Lanzarote in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 
It is part of the Timanfaya National Park.”
#lanzarote
November 28, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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Kemi Badenoch promising to cut immigration if you vote Tory again, immediately after the Tories allowed record levels of immigration during 14 years in power.

She thinks you hate foreigners so much you developed amnesia.
November 27, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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Now THIS is a very thorough starter pack.

Highly recommend that you hit “follow all” on this lot. 👍

go.bsky.app/FpbsVro
November 20, 2024 at 9:15 PM
First snow of the winter. Always a thrill, even more so when the sun shines from a blue sky.

#November #firstsnow #LochBracadale #IsleofSkye #Scotland
November 19, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Brodie the red fox Labrador Retriever is a bringer of much joy. He needs a daily walk and one of our favourites is to climb this hill overlooking Dunvegan and the Loch. We go up there in all weathers.

#IsleofSkye #Scotland #LabradorRetriever #dailywalk #uplifting #joy
November 17, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Saint Martin's Day or Martinmas is the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours on the 11th November.
Martinmas In Scotland was one of the half yearly quarter days when landlords’ rents were paid, and new hands were hired.
#sunset #scotland #isleofskye
November 13, 2024 at 12:52 AM
The soothing colours at sunset bring out feelings if peace…
Another day, another sunset…the world turns and day turns to night, night turns to day. Then there’s the cycle of the year. The seasons are marked with celebrations and light is very often featured. We are well into that season now…
November 9, 2024 at 4:18 AM