Graeme
@graeme41.bsky.social
Edinburgh UK. Retired. Husband. Father. Lib Dem. Music. Books. Cinema. Tennis
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I don’t know why anybody finds this particular T-shirt objectionable, but here we are: y’all means all.
June 1, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I don’t know why anybody finds this particular T-shirt objectionable, but here we are: y’all means all.
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Scottish Liberal Democrats will keep fighting until we can finally build a society where everyone is free to be who they are.
June 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Scottish Liberal Democrats will keep fighting until we can finally build a society where everyone is free to be who they are.
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The gorgeous national bird of Singapore - Crimson sunbird. Absolutely stunning ❤️
April 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The gorgeous national bird of Singapore - Crimson sunbird. Absolutely stunning ❤️
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Striking miners and families gathering waste coal at Ince Colliery, near Wigan, 1893 (Illustrated London News/Manchester Archives+). Sixteen-week strike over threat to lower wages after fall in the price of coal.
April 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Striking miners and families gathering waste coal at Ince Colliery, near Wigan, 1893 (Illustrated London News/Manchester Archives+). Sixteen-week strike over threat to lower wages after fall in the price of coal.
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Resilience
Life in Cuba is harsh. The poverty all consuming, and the infrastructure chaotic. We may look at it as atmospheric and culturally engaging (which it is), but this is the life of the Cuban people. It is unnecessarily hard. Yet they are survivors and the most generous souls. 🇨🇺 #Cuba #life
Life in Cuba is harsh. The poverty all consuming, and the infrastructure chaotic. We may look at it as atmospheric and culturally engaging (which it is), but this is the life of the Cuban people. It is unnecessarily hard. Yet they are survivors and the most generous souls. 🇨🇺 #Cuba #life
April 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Five weeks to the UK-EU summit and it looks like the media reporting will be full of things that are more or less decided, which in a way is a good thing as it shows some level of coordination, but it also shows the limits of what is going to happen. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Post-Brexit youth mobility scheme with EU on the table under a different name
Exclusive: There is growing optimism that a fresh proposal for youth mobility across the UK and EU will be accepted by the government
www.independent.co.uk
April 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Five weeks to the UK-EU summit and it looks like the media reporting will be full of things that are more or less decided, which in a way is a good thing as it shows some level of coordination, but it also shows the limits of what is going to happen. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Family includes everyone! ❤️
November 17, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Family includes everyone! ❤️
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BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway…
LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨
LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨
April 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway…
LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨
LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨
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The truth has become basic. Trump is a fool who is fucking everything up. There's no more to it than that. But there's only so many times you can write that column. So people are forced to construct 'well actually he has a point' arguments and 'hidden strategy' think pieces.
April 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The truth has become basic. Trump is a fool who is fucking everything up. There's no more to it than that. But there's only so many times you can write that column. So people are forced to construct 'well actually he has a point' arguments and 'hidden strategy' think pieces.
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Celebration of the largely forgotten Emily Hobhouse who reported on British camps during the Anglo-Boer war but was initially dismissed as ‘hysterical’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Anglo-Boer war whistleblower Emily Hobhouse celebrated in Cornish home
Series of events mark 165th anniversary of birth of forgotten pacifist who exposed conditions in British concentration camps
www.theguardian.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Celebration of the largely forgotten Emily Hobhouse who reported on British camps during the Anglo-Boer war but was initially dismissed as ‘hysterical’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Just a reminder that transgender people are not causing Americans to lose their retirement savings.
April 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Just a reminder that transgender people are not causing Americans to lose their retirement savings.
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Libdems/ Greens for the win on May 1st.
You all voted tactically.
Now do so again.
.
You all voted tactically.
Now do so again.
.
April 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Libdems/ Greens for the win on May 1st.
You all voted tactically.
Now do so again.
.
You all voted tactically.
Now do so again.
.
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One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
April 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
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This is how Elephants suffer during "training" in order to be used for entertainment purposes and making money!
Tourists, don’t support any venue that abuses Elephants. Don't ride Elephants. Don’t give money to street begging Elephants' owners.
Please don’t support this cruelty!!
#Elephants 🐘
Tourists, don’t support any venue that abuses Elephants. Don't ride Elephants. Don’t give money to street begging Elephants' owners.
Please don’t support this cruelty!!
#Elephants 🐘
April 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
This is how Elephants suffer during "training" in order to be used for entertainment purposes and making money!
Tourists, don’t support any venue that abuses Elephants. Don't ride Elephants. Don’t give money to street begging Elephants' owners.
Please don’t support this cruelty!!
#Elephants 🐘
Tourists, don’t support any venue that abuses Elephants. Don't ride Elephants. Don’t give money to street begging Elephants' owners.
Please don’t support this cruelty!!
#Elephants 🐘
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These are the countries we should be racing to negotiate with. Not the one run by that psychopath
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Only job I know’: tiny Lesotho’s garment workers reel from Trump’s 50% tariffs
Impoverished African country is hit with highest tariff rate at 50%, overturning decades of global trade policy
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
These are the countries we should be racing to negotiate with. Not the one run by that psychopath
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Y’all gotta go read books. There’s no way around it.
Read books.
Form your own opinions.
LEARN THINGS.
READ BOOKS WHILE LIBRARIES ARE STILL AROUND
Read books.
Form your own opinions.
LEARN THINGS.
READ BOOKS WHILE LIBRARIES ARE STILL AROUND
April 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Y’all gotta go read books. There’s no way around it.
Read books.
Form your own opinions.
LEARN THINGS.
READ BOOKS WHILE LIBRARIES ARE STILL AROUND
Read books.
Form your own opinions.
LEARN THINGS.
READ BOOKS WHILE LIBRARIES ARE STILL AROUND
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“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), writer and Auschwitz survivor
#HandsOff ‼️
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), writer and Auschwitz survivor
#HandsOff ‼️
April 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), writer and Auschwitz survivor
#HandsOff ‼️
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), writer and Auschwitz survivor
#HandsOff ‼️
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The knock on effects of Trump's policies globally are going to be devastating for many of the most vulnerable.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
International aid groups axe thousands of jobs in wake of Trump funding freeze
Fears that cuts will ‘decimate’ ability to react to crises as sector loses expertise and skills at every level, report finds
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The knock on effects of Trump's policies globally are going to be devastating for many of the most vulnerable.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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First wild daff - this was yesterday evening. There have been some February Gold right against the house wall, but I count them as indoor!
February 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
First wild daff - this was yesterday evening. There have been some February Gold right against the house wall, but I count them as indoor!
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I don't want to be on ghastly x anymore but it's where a lot of my sales come from so this post is a brazen request for shares to spread the word about my work on a kinder platform that isn't run by a dangerous megalomaniac!
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Sara...
#selfemployedartist #ukgifthour #shopindie
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Sara...
#selfemployedartist #ukgifthour #shopindie
February 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I don't want to be on ghastly x anymore but it's where a lot of my sales come from so this post is a brazen request for shares to spread the word about my work on a kinder platform that isn't run by a dangerous megalomaniac!
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Sara...
#selfemployedartist #ukgifthour #shopindie
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Sara...
#selfemployedartist #ukgifthour #shopindie
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This one is for all of those who said there was no point in Labour trying to deepen EU ties with the red lines in place. Economically, there's a lot to gain from regulatory alignment.
Why? Because that gives companies the predictably to invest in the UK.
Why? Because that gives companies the predictably to invest in the UK.
🚨NEW RESEARCH🚨
Closer ties with the EU could deliver growth of up to 2.2%.
Clawing back up to half of the damage caused by Brexit.
Delivering double the impact of a UK-US trade deal, according to the govt's own analysis.
And all within Starmer's red lines.
www.thetimes.com/article/8423...
Closer ties with the EU could deliver growth of up to 2.2%.
Clawing back up to half of the damage caused by Brexit.
Delivering double the impact of a UK-US trade deal, according to the govt's own analysis.
And all within Starmer's red lines.
www.thetimes.com/article/8423...
Research claims EU deal will fuel growth — and Labour is listening
A report says Britain can mend some of the economic damage of Brexit without crossing the red lines set by Keir Starmer
www.thetimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This one is for all of those who said there was no point in Labour trying to deepen EU ties with the red lines in place. Economically, there's a lot to gain from regulatory alignment.
Why? Because that gives companies the predictably to invest in the UK.
Why? Because that gives companies the predictably to invest in the UK.
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Today at 4pm on BBC Radio 4x, the Fear on Four adaptation of my story By the River, Fontainebleau. A painter’s obsession over a young country girl shades into something more disturbing. Introduction by @tobyhadoke.bsky.social
February 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Today at 4pm on BBC Radio 4x, the Fear on Four adaptation of my story By the River, Fontainebleau. A painter’s obsession over a young country girl shades into something more disturbing. Introduction by @tobyhadoke.bsky.social