Edward Harkins
@edwardhar.bsky.social
Active citizen & writer, housing, economics, culture, politics, Company Member The Citizens theatre (Glasgow, Scotland).
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Look at what this garish, classless, tasteless fool has done to the People’s House.
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Look at what this garish, classless, tasteless fool has done to the People’s House.
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Left: Lisa Nandy, "At a time when the lines are being dangerously blurred between fact and opinion, the BBC stands apart"
Right: That time Lisa Nandy lied repeatedly in parliament about police advice on Maccabi, conflating public safety with antisemitism
Right: That time Lisa Nandy lied repeatedly in parliament about police advice on Maccabi, conflating public safety with antisemitism
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Left: Lisa Nandy, "At a time when the lines are being dangerously blurred between fact and opinion, the BBC stands apart"
Right: That time Lisa Nandy lied repeatedly in parliament about police advice on Maccabi, conflating public safety with antisemitism
Right: That time Lisa Nandy lied repeatedly in parliament about police advice on Maccabi, conflating public safety with antisemitism
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The sign of a complete and utter psychopath.
A man collapses in the White House. Trump pays zero attention. The cameras are more important.
A man collapses in the White House. Trump pays zero attention. The cameras are more important.
November 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The sign of a complete and utter psychopath.
A man collapses in the White House. Trump pays zero attention. The cameras are more important.
A man collapses in the White House. Trump pays zero attention. The cameras are more important.
& mushrooms are kept in the dark & fed bullsh*t. Some similarities there?
Mushroom spores have more charisma than Stephen Miller
November 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
& mushrooms are kept in the dark & fed bullsh*t. Some similarities there?
Unneeded ugly disfiguring new pylons are bad enough, but much worse is what 'Scottish' Labour supports Westminster in; wanting to impose new nuclear plants on Scotland: Unwanted; unneeded, risk-laden & unsustainable (untreatable radioactive toxic waste).
It's horrendous enough contemplating 105 miles of ugly pylons across the beautiful highlands without knowing that we generate more electricity in Scotland than we need or use.
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Unneeded ugly disfiguring new pylons are bad enough, but much worse is what 'Scottish' Labour supports Westminster in; wanting to impose new nuclear plants on Scotland: Unwanted; unneeded, risk-laden & unsustainable (untreatable radioactive toxic waste).
The state of the world? This is really, really worth bearing with (but probably not too near bed time) 'Bat shit' is the least of it?: 'Palantir CEO Alex Karp on AI bubble'. youtu.be/30u8X2P-wMM?... #EconSky
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on AI bubble: Depends whether GDP grows because of AI
YouTube video by CNBC Television
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The state of the world? This is really, really worth bearing with (but probably not too near bed time) 'Bat shit' is the least of it?: 'Palantir CEO Alex Karp on AI bubble'. youtu.be/30u8X2P-wMM?... #EconSky
The state of the world? This is really, really worth bearing with (but probably not too near bed time) 'Batshit' is the least of it?: 'Palantir CEO Alex Karp on AI bubble'. youtu.be/30u8X2P-wMM?...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on AI bubble: Depends whether GDP grows because of AI
YouTube video by CNBC Television
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The state of the world? This is really, really worth bearing with (but probably not too near bed time) 'Batshit' is the least of it?: 'Palantir CEO Alex Karp on AI bubble'. youtu.be/30u8X2P-wMM?...
The state of the world? This is really, really worth bearing with (but probably not too near bed time) 'Batshit' is the least of it?: 'Palantir CEO Alex Karp on AI bubble'. youtu.be/30u8X2P-wMM?... @bigtechalert.bsky.social
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on AI bubble: Depends whether GDP grows because of AI
YouTube video by CNBC Television
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The state of the world? This is really, really worth bearing with (but probably not too near bed time) 'Batshit' is the least of it?: 'Palantir CEO Alex Karp on AI bubble'. youtu.be/30u8X2P-wMM?... @bigtechalert.bsky.social
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You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
I admire the SLC HQ in Hamilton, including interiors, but in a way it symbolises the brutal inanity of much 1960s architecture & planning. It rendered the adjacent urban town centre environment as one of those intensely hostile to pedestrians areas in the UK. A virtual commuters’ car-speeding track.
Who knew? South Lanarkshire Council HQ, originally Lanark County Buildings (1963) was in part modelled on the United Nations secretariat building in New York City, designed by a team that included Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer (1952).
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I admire the SLC HQ in Hamilton, including interiors, but in a way it symbolises the brutal inanity of much 1960s architecture & planning. It rendered the adjacent urban town centre environment as one of those intensely hostile to pedestrians areas in the UK. A virtual commuters’ car-speeding track.
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"exododus"
The New York Post: Come for the shameless propaganda, stay for the embarrassing illiteracy.
The New York Post: Come for the shameless propaganda, stay for the embarrassing illiteracy.
November 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"exododus"
The New York Post: Come for the shameless propaganda, stay for the embarrassing illiteracy.
The New York Post: Come for the shameless propaganda, stay for the embarrassing illiteracy.
Aye, Mike Johnson does seem a bit of a turkey as a House Speaker…
I’m not going to take the turkey out of the freezer until it’s defrosted.
Mike Johnson says he will not bring the House back in session until the government reopens
October 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Aye, Mike Johnson does seem a bit of a turkey as a House Speaker…
Demonstrating that there‘s no need to be a conventional profit-maximising, margins-chasing, short-term predatory opportunist in order to attract substantial & sustained private sector institutional funding. Well done the Scottish social housing sector.
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Demonstrating that there‘s no need to be a conventional profit-maximising, margins-chasing, short-term predatory opportunist in order to attract substantial & sustained private sector institutional funding. Well done the Scottish social housing sector.
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Zia Yusuf complaining about councils being underfunded
While sitting next to Danny Kruger who since 2019 was part of the government that underfunded the councils Yusuf is complaining about
While sitting next to Danny Kruger who since 2019 was part of the government that underfunded the councils Yusuf is complaining about
October 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Zia Yusuf complaining about councils being underfunded
While sitting next to Danny Kruger who since 2019 was part of the government that underfunded the councils Yusuf is complaining about
While sitting next to Danny Kruger who since 2019 was part of the government that underfunded the councils Yusuf is complaining about
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Danny Kruger, "In 2016 people voted for Brexit, in 2019 with Boris Johnson, people voted for change but they got chaos"
Danny Kruger voted for Brexit
Danny Kruger voted for Boris Johnson
Danny Kruger voted for Brexit
Danny Kruger voted for Boris Johnson
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Danny Kruger, "In 2016 people voted for Brexit, in 2019 with Boris Johnson, people voted for change but they got chaos"
Danny Kruger voted for Brexit
Danny Kruger voted for Boris Johnson
Danny Kruger voted for Brexit
Danny Kruger voted for Boris Johnson
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Welcome to Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit founded by @jennefer.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee that investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
Welcome to Decoherence Media!
We're an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Welcome to Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit founded by @jennefer.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee that investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
Is there *any* industry corporate lobby that the ’Sir’ Keir Starmer UK Govt doesn’t seem to exist to serve?
October 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Is there *any* industry corporate lobby that the ’Sir’ Keir Starmer UK Govt doesn’t seem to exist to serve?
Really, seriously? An ‘ex-SNP Minister’, from long ago, who’s a seriously aggrieved individual with an anti-SNP axe to grind & who’s gone on to join… Alba?!? Sorta reason that almost anything from a ‘Scottish’ Labour source just shouldn’t be taken seriously. I’m now out of this one thanks.
October 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Really, seriously? An ‘ex-SNP Minister’, from long ago, who’s a seriously aggrieved individual with an anti-SNP axe to grind & who’s gone on to join… Alba?!? Sorta reason that almost anything from a ‘Scottish’ Labour source just shouldn’t be taken seriously. I’m now out of this one thanks.
A huge lie was that Brexit was ‘the will of the people’. Labour politicians should seek to reverse Brexit, not perpetuate the lie. Got through on a small majority, more voted against it or abstained than voted for it, on an *advisory* referendum, corrupted by dark money & illegal electoral activity.
Left: Labour's Rosie Wrighting, "I voted to remain, I respect the decision of the vote.. Shouldn't reverse Brexit as its a decision made by the public"
Right: The public have recognised Brexit was a mistake, so why is Labour living in the past?
Right: The public have recognised Brexit was a mistake, so why is Labour living in the past?
October 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A huge lie was that Brexit was ‘the will of the people’. Labour politicians should seek to reverse Brexit, not perpetuate the lie. Got through on a small majority, more voted against it or abstained than voted for it, on an *advisory* referendum, corrupted by dark money & illegal electoral activity.
On SkyNews today didn’t Labour Minister (for education!) Bridget Phillipson imply that Senior police officers at West Midland Police were ‘banning football fans because they were Jewish’? Disturbing in the light of events & the facts?
Labour deputy leadership contest may only cause more trouble for Starmer
Labour deputy leadership contest may only cause more trouble for Starmer
Victory for Lucy Powell or Bridget Phillipson, the rivals at the centre of the race, could be reckoning for the party
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
On SkyNews today didn’t Labour Minister (for education!) Bridget Phillipson imply that Senior police officers at West Midland Police were ‘banning football fans because they were Jewish’? Disturbing in the light of events & the facts?
Yes, ‘ex’ Minister. On trustworthy sources, oh you know, not like Scottish Labour - MP Micheal Shanks, reportedly now denying up to 1,000 GB Energy jobs were promised for Aberdeen…despite sitting in a HoCs select committee when the GB Energy CEO stated so. Then Sarwar on Grangemouth, plant or jobs.
What would you call a trustworthy source?
October 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Yes, ‘ex’ Minister. On trustworthy sources, oh you know, not like Scottish Labour - MP Micheal Shanks, reportedly now denying up to 1,000 GB Energy jobs were promised for Aberdeen…despite sitting in a HoCs select committee when the GB Energy CEO stated so. Then Sarwar on Grangemouth, plant or jobs.
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Reform have suspended 4 cllrs on Kent CC after the leaked video exposing their divisions.
Lib Dems say Reform's meetings "sound more like an episode of The Traitors than the running of a major council."
"All that's missing is for Claudia Winkleman to appear & ask who they're going to banish next."
Lib Dems say Reform's meetings "sound more like an episode of The Traitors than the running of a major council."
"All that's missing is for Claudia Winkleman to appear & ask who they're going to banish next."
October 20, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Reform have suspended 4 cllrs on Kent CC after the leaked video exposing their divisions.
Lib Dems say Reform's meetings "sound more like an episode of The Traitors than the running of a major council."
"All that's missing is for Claudia Winkleman to appear & ask who they're going to banish next."
Lib Dems say Reform's meetings "sound more like an episode of The Traitors than the running of a major council."
"All that's missing is for Claudia Winkleman to appear & ask who they're going to banish next."
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🕢 23 Oct, 7.30pm | The Renfield Centre
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October 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
📅 This Thursday! Join the AHSS Strathclyde Group for a special Glasgow 850 lecture exploring the city’s changing heritage.
🕢 23 Oct, 7.30pm | The Renfield Centre
🎟️
🕢 23 Oct, 7.30pm | The Renfield Centre
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Thanks but I’ll check out that ‘claim’ about something ‘expected’ at some trustworthy source, not the Unionist Herald in its current reduced condition. On competence & UK Govt: vast sums still to be wasted on over-budget & over-timescale nuclear power, untested carbon capture ‘tech’; GE Energy etc
I agree that the SG should be involved.
If only to keep them inside the tent.....
But if you expect added competence from that fact ... www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenew...
If only to keep them inside the tent.....
But if you expect added competence from that fact ... www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenew...
'Financial disaster': Scotland faces loss of £60bn in new offshore windfarms
SCOTLAND is expected to lose £60bn including billions from the public purse through the surrender of nearly two thirds of the potential supply…
www.heraldscotland.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Thanks but I’ll check out that ‘claim’ about something ‘expected’ at some trustworthy source, not the Unionist Herald in its current reduced condition. On competence & UK Govt: vast sums still to be wasted on over-budget & over-timescale nuclear power, untested carbon capture ‘tech’; GE Energy etc
Yet more Labour plans, ‘targets’ & promises on thousands & thousands of energy jobs for Scotland. Not to be taken seriously this time around? At least the Scottish Govt involved, so some hope.
UK Labour announces its Green Energy Plan, with a target of 40,000 new jobs in Scotland.
www.holyrood.com/news/view,jo...
www.holyrood.com/news/view,jo...
Green energy jobs plan launched UK government
The Scottish Government has announced £9m extra, matched by the UK Government, for its oil and gas transition training f...
www.holyrood.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Yet more Labour plans, ‘targets’ & promises on thousands & thousands of energy jobs for Scotland. Not to be taken seriously this time around? At least the Scottish Govt involved, so some hope.