Don (Dhómhnall) Canning
@donmorcan.bsky.social
I stop & I stare too much. Afraid that I care too much. Occasionally you might get into my head! Bristol via Wishae (& a few other places!) 🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
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Dounreay nuclear power station last produced electricity 30+ years ago, yet decontamination is expected to last until the 2070s and cost £8Bn, with full decontamination of the site estimated to take more than 300 years. Now Westminster wants to build *more* nuclear power stations in Scotland.
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Dounreay nuclear power station last produced electricity 30+ years ago, yet decontamination is expected to last until the 2070s and cost £8Bn, with full decontamination of the site estimated to take more than 300 years. Now Westminster wants to build *more* nuclear power stations in Scotland.
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We finally managed to watch @realgdt.bsky.social’s Frankenstein on @netflix.com last night and it is a brilliant adaptation, loving especially that his laboratory is so obviously based on Stirling’s own Wallace Monument! Great to see @stirlingcouncil.bsky.social on screen!
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We finally managed to watch @realgdt.bsky.social’s Frankenstein on @netflix.com last night and it is a brilliant adaptation, loving especially that his laboratory is so obviously based on Stirling’s own Wallace Monument! Great to see @stirlingcouncil.bsky.social on screen!
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🥀Labour are launching another vile attack on fundamental human rights.
It is not illegal to seek asylum and refuge here, no matter the circumstances. No human is illegal.
We strongly oppose Labour's Trump-style plans.
It is not illegal to seek asylum and refuge here, no matter the circumstances. No human is illegal.
We strongly oppose Labour's Trump-style plans.
November 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
🥀Labour are launching another vile attack on fundamental human rights.
It is not illegal to seek asylum and refuge here, no matter the circumstances. No human is illegal.
We strongly oppose Labour's Trump-style plans.
It is not illegal to seek asylum and refuge here, no matter the circumstances. No human is illegal.
We strongly oppose Labour's Trump-style plans.
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Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
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Every time I hear about Jackie Baillie of Labour's Scottish branch office attacking Scotland's health services, I recall the time she and Sarah Boyack were given free beer by Peroni for helping to block life-saving minimum pricing for years. How many more lives could have been saved?
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Every time I hear about Jackie Baillie of Labour's Scottish branch office attacking Scotland's health services, I recall the time she and Sarah Boyack were given free beer by Peroni for helping to block life-saving minimum pricing for years. How many more lives could have been saved?
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I find myself in agreement.
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I find myself in agreement.
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Man of the people or privately educated, rich, greedy, entitled, selfish, bone-idle, divisive grifting gobshite?
November 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Man of the people or privately educated, rich, greedy, entitled, selfish, bone-idle, divisive grifting gobshite?
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Morning all.
Let’s start the day with yet another example of hackneyed patronising tripe from the English press.
Have a nice day!
Let’s start the day with yet another example of hackneyed patronising tripe from the English press.
Have a nice day!
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Morning all.
Let’s start the day with yet another example of hackneyed patronising tripe from the English press.
Have a nice day!
Let’s start the day with yet another example of hackneyed patronising tripe from the English press.
Have a nice day!
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🇬🇧 👑 The one on the right has come as an Air Stewardess, but I’m not sure about the others
The Three Musketeers? 🤔
#NotMyKing 🏴🇪🇺
The Three Musketeers? 🤔
#NotMyKing 🏴🇪🇺
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
🇬🇧 👑 The one on the right has come as an Air Stewardess, but I’m not sure about the others
The Three Musketeers? 🤔
#NotMyKing 🏴🇪🇺
The Three Musketeers? 🤔
#NotMyKing 🏴🇪🇺
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Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails (Yanis Varoufakis)
#gaza
#gaza
November 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails (Yanis Varoufakis)
#gaza
#gaza
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BBC
Bias is often in the eye of the beholder
So let’s stick to measurable facts
During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times
Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority
47 were from UKIP/BP
23 times Farage
Bias is often in the eye of the beholder
So let’s stick to measurable facts
During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times
Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority
47 were from UKIP/BP
23 times Farage
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
BBC
Bias is often in the eye of the beholder
So let’s stick to measurable facts
During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times
Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority
47 were from UKIP/BP
23 times Farage
Bias is often in the eye of the beholder
So let’s stick to measurable facts
During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times
Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority
47 were from UKIP/BP
23 times Farage
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PERSON OF THE DAY. 15 November 1897. Aneurin Bevan was born in Tredegar, Wales. He spearheaded the creation of the NHS in 1948 by the Labour government. It offered treatment free at the point of delivery to all citizens, irrespective of income. It’s one of the key social reforms in British history.
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
PERSON OF THE DAY. 15 November 1897. Aneurin Bevan was born in Tredegar, Wales. He spearheaded the creation of the NHS in 1948 by the Labour government. It offered treatment free at the point of delivery to all citizens, irrespective of income. It’s one of the key social reforms in British history.
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Campbell Owens and Roddy Frame of East Kilbride band Aztec Camera. Six Top 40 hits in UK. (1980-1995)
Pic: Brian McCloskey
Pic: Brian McCloskey
November 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Campbell Owens and Roddy Frame of East Kilbride band Aztec Camera. Six Top 40 hits in UK. (1980-1995)
Pic: Brian McCloskey
Pic: Brian McCloskey
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Even when Scotland is praised on the world stage the SNP gets no credit
Financial agencies applaud Scotland’s economy, but all we get is sneering. Govts need held to account but credit where credit is due
It shows how meaningless the quality of our debate has become
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Financial agencies applaud Scotland’s economy, but all we get is sneering. Govts need held to account but credit where credit is due
It shows how meaningless the quality of our debate has become
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Even when Scotland gets a global thumbs-up financially the SNP get zero credit
In Scotland, any news – even good news – is subjected to partisan point-scoring. It means we repeatedly fail to have the debates we really need,…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Even when Scotland is praised on the world stage the SNP gets no credit
Financial agencies applaud Scotland’s economy, but all we get is sneering. Govts need held to account but credit where credit is due
It shows how meaningless the quality of our debate has become
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Financial agencies applaud Scotland’s economy, but all we get is sneering. Govts need held to account but credit where credit is due
It shows how meaningless the quality of our debate has become
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Reform Ltd on BBC Question Time again tonight.
Tell me again how the BBC isn’t the marketing arm of Farage’s party?
Tell me again how the BBC isn’t the marketing arm of Farage’s party?
November 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Reform Ltd on BBC Question Time again tonight.
Tell me again how the BBC isn’t the marketing arm of Farage’s party?
Tell me again how the BBC isn’t the marketing arm of Farage’s party?
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When someone says it clearly like this, echoing what everyone says in private, the sycophancy and double-speak of other political leaders becomes all the more intolerable.
Zack Polanski on President Trump, "It's difficult to call him anything other than a fool"
"This is sociopathic behaviour"
"He is toxic, misogynistic, racist"
"I'm not a fan of Trump"
Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"
"This is sociopathic behaviour"
"He is toxic, misogynistic, racist"
"I'm not a fan of Trump"
Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
When someone says it clearly like this, echoing what everyone says in private, the sycophancy and double-speak of other political leaders becomes all the more intolerable.
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FIFTY SIX PERCENT
Congratulations to our newest Green councillor, Cllr Mike Dunn, on winning the Long Ashton ward by-election in North Somerset with a huge Green vote!
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
FIFTY SIX PERCENT
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This NOT “a Brexit win” it is a commitment to start negotiating an electricity trading agreement with the U.K. The need for such negotiations is BECAUSE of Brexit…
UK scores Brexit win as EU fast-tracks electricity trading talks
The breakthrough comes after days of wrangling in Brussels over the extent to which London might be expected to pay for access to the EU’s single market.
www.politico.eu
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This NOT “a Brexit win” it is a commitment to start negotiating an electricity trading agreement with the U.K. The need for such negotiations is BECAUSE of Brexit…
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Meanwhile
‼️EXTRAORDINARY DAY: 30 DEGREES IN FRANCE
One of the most insane events Europe has ever lived
29.8 Trois Villes HOTTEST NOVEMBER DAY IN FRENCH HISTORY
29.3 Oloron
29.2 Lanne en Baretous
20 stations >27C !
SPAIN 29.4 Granada
Next days
THOUSANDS OF RECORDS allover Europe except Central Mediterranean
One of the most insane events Europe has ever lived
29.8 Trois Villes HOTTEST NOVEMBER DAY IN FRENCH HISTORY
29.3 Oloron
29.2 Lanne en Baretous
20 stations >27C !
SPAIN 29.4 Granada
Next days
THOUSANDS OF RECORDS allover Europe except Central Mediterranean
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Meanwhile
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PERSON OF THE DAY. 14 November 1889. Investigative journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochran) began an attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days in emulation of Jules Verne’s fictional character, Phileas Fogg, in Around The World in Eighty Days. Bly took 72 days on same journey.
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
PERSON OF THE DAY. 14 November 1889. Investigative journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochran) began an attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days in emulation of Jules Verne’s fictional character, Phileas Fogg, in Around The World in Eighty Days. Bly took 72 days on same journey.
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This is *not* because they want to improve infrastructure for Scotland's benefit, but to make it even easier to send Scotland's abundant and cheap renewable power to the south of England. Don't expect it to mean fairer prices in Scotland. It won't.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
SSE to invest £33bn in upgrading Scotland's electricity grid
The company plans to spend two-thirds of that to upgrade wiring and increase high-voltage grid capacity to get power from the north to customers in the south.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This is *not* because they want to improve infrastructure for Scotland's benefit, but to make it even easier to send Scotland's abundant and cheap renewable power to the south of England. Don't expect it to mean fairer prices in Scotland. It won't.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I suspect that the trial against Peter Murrell will be gearing up in the next few months, timed to coincide with the election in 2026?
OR, it will be quietly forgotten about, since they know it will be kicked out of court for wasting police time?
Either way, it will be framed for max SNP damage.
OR, it will be quietly forgotten about, since they know it will be kicked out of court for wasting police time?
Either way, it will be framed for max SNP damage.
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I suspect that the trial against Peter Murrell will be gearing up in the next few months, timed to coincide with the election in 2026?
OR, it will be quietly forgotten about, since they know it will be kicked out of court for wasting police time?
Either way, it will be framed for max SNP damage.
OR, it will be quietly forgotten about, since they know it will be kicked out of court for wasting police time?
Either way, it will be framed for max SNP damage.
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