Peter Lloyd
@maltapar.bsky.social
Treasurer @cyrenians.bsky.social
Chair at Dunfermline Foodbank @trussellscot.bsky.social
Former Chair @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social
#labradoodle #malta #pars #photography
All views personal
Chair at Dunfermline Foodbank @trussellscot.bsky.social
Former Chair @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social
#labradoodle #malta #pars #photography
All views personal
Great photo by Ian - love the light and the reflections of the trees on the water - #photography
#337 Ellesmere Arm, Shropshire, 03/12/2025
Cold first thing but with a hint of cold in the air I decided to head off down the canal with the camera, the end of the arm was just getting the first of the sunlight.
#photography #ellesmere #canal #shropshire #photooftheday
Cold first thing but with a hint of cold in the air I decided to head off down the canal with the camera, the end of the arm was just getting the first of the sunlight.
#photography #ellesmere #canal #shropshire #photooftheday
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Great photo by Ian - love the light and the reflections of the trees on the water - #photography
This will be Barney in another month or so - #labradoodle - I remember the snow sticking to his fur last year.
❄️✨ Enough snow already!
Our fluffy golden doodle girl stepped outside for 5 minutes and returned looking like a walking snowball collection.
Nothing sticks to snow quite like doodle fur — she’s nature’s Velcro! Stay cozy, friends… may your snowballs be few and your zoomies be many. 🐶❤️⛄️#DogsOfBlueSky
Our fluffy golden doodle girl stepped outside for 5 minutes and returned looking like a walking snowball collection.
Nothing sticks to snow quite like doodle fur — she’s nature’s Velcro! Stay cozy, friends… may your snowballs be few and your zoomies be many. 🐶❤️⛄️#DogsOfBlueSky
December 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This will be Barney in another month or so - #labradoodle - I remember the snow sticking to his fur last year.
@graemedowniemp.bsky.social @melanieward.bsky.social
There is a more effective way of destroying the business model of the smugglers and that is the creation of accessible routes that allow refugees fleeing persecution legally seeking asylum, to arrive safely and have their claims quickly assessed.
There is a more effective way of destroying the business model of the smugglers and that is the creation of accessible routes that allow refugees fleeing persecution legally seeking asylum, to arrive safely and have their claims quickly assessed.
The Home Secretary’s sweeping new immigration plans have been praised by Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage.
We can't accept a system that exposes people to hostility and hatred.
Please ask your MP to choose compassion, not cruelty and oppose these harsh proposals
scottishrefugeecounc...
We can't accept a system that exposes people to hostility and hatred.
Please ask your MP to choose compassion, not cruelty and oppose these harsh proposals
scottishrefugeecounc...
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
@graemedowniemp.bsky.social @melanieward.bsky.social
There is a more effective way of destroying the business model of the smugglers and that is the creation of accessible routes that allow refugees fleeing persecution legally seeking asylum, to arrive safely and have their claims quickly assessed.
There is a more effective way of destroying the business model of the smugglers and that is the creation of accessible routes that allow refugees fleeing persecution legally seeking asylum, to arrive safely and have their claims quickly assessed.
Nobody cares about a football team's third strip which is just a means to bring in some extra money for the club. Yet the #pars have based their strips on a Skids album and it seems that fans (of the club but also of the group) keep buying them with stock running out and more to be ordered - again!
December 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Nobody cares about a football team's third strip which is just a means to bring in some extra money for the club. Yet the #pars have based their strips on a Skids album and it seems that fans (of the club but also of the group) keep buying them with stock running out and more to be ordered - again!
Reposted by Peter Lloyd
A new report from Shelter Scotland and CRER reveals systemic racism in our housing system: BPoC are more likely to become homeless, face unlawful refusals, and wait longer for a social home.
The Scottish Government must start tackling racism in housing it at its roots. shelterscotland.org/CRER-BPoC
The Scottish Government must start tackling racism in housing it at its roots. shelterscotland.org/CRER-BPoC
December 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
A new report from Shelter Scotland and CRER reveals systemic racism in our housing system: BPoC are more likely to become homeless, face unlawful refusals, and wait longer for a social home.
The Scottish Government must start tackling racism in housing it at its roots. shelterscotland.org/CRER-BPoC
The Scottish Government must start tackling racism in housing it at its roots. shelterscotland.org/CRER-BPoC
Reposted by Peter Lloyd
🚨 JUST IN: tens of thousands of people will need to turn to a food bank for the very first time this winter.
We expect to provide an emergency food parcel EVERY 10 SECONDS.
We expect to provide an emergency food parcel EVERY 10 SECONDS.
December 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
🚨 JUST IN: tens of thousands of people will need to turn to a food bank for the very first time this winter.
We expect to provide an emergency food parcel EVERY 10 SECONDS.
We expect to provide an emergency food parcel EVERY 10 SECONDS.
Such a tranquil scene to enjoy on BlueSky - #photography
Good morning @Bluesky 🦋🫶🦋
Einen schönen Mittwochmorgen wünsche ich euch ❄️❄️☕️☕️☕️❄️❄️
Werde nachher für die staatliche Anerkennung ein erweitertes Führungszeugnis beantragen, später gehts ein bisschen feiern mit einer früheren Nachbarin.
Heute habe ich euch ein Foto vom Oktober mitgebracht
Einen schönen Mittwochmorgen wünsche ich euch ❄️❄️☕️☕️☕️❄️❄️
Werde nachher für die staatliche Anerkennung ein erweitertes Führungszeugnis beantragen, später gehts ein bisschen feiern mit einer früheren Nachbarin.
Heute habe ich euch ein Foto vom Oktober mitgebracht
December 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Such a tranquil scene to enjoy on BlueSky - #photography
I wish I could be with you in your worship. It engages with all the senses from the gentle light and smell of the lit candles, the touch of the wood of the Celtic cross, the sight of the holy icons and hearing the beautiful Taize chants that you will be singing later as you meditate on the Lord.
Taizé service tonight at First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor.
December 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I wish I could be with you in your worship. It engages with all the senses from the gentle light and smell of the lit candles, the touch of the wood of the Celtic cross, the sight of the holy icons and hearing the beautiful Taize chants that you will be singing later as you meditate on the Lord.
Reposted by Peter Lloyd
“When you don’t know where to go next, you just keep moving,” Ryan says. “Stopping feels risky. You don’t want to draw attention. You don’t want to be noticed.”
Find out more about what homelessness can look like when everything falls through.
Please donate to today: buff.ly/8YWvX5e
Find out more about what homelessness can look like when everything falls through.
Please donate to today: buff.ly/8YWvX5e
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“When you don’t know where to go next, you just keep moving,” Ryan says. “Stopping feels risky. You don’t want to draw attention. You don’t want to be noticed.”
Find out more about what homelessness can look like when everything falls through.
Please donate to today: buff.ly/8YWvX5e
Find out more about what homelessness can look like when everything falls through.
Please donate to today: buff.ly/8YWvX5e
Somebody else who has fallen in love with the beauty of #malta second island Gozo. @usmansmith.bsky.social
Hab das echte selten, dass ich nach einem Urlaub am liebsten dahinziehen würde. Seit Juni denke ich ständig an die unfassbare Schönheit von Malta. 😭
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Somebody else who has fallen in love with the beauty of #malta second island Gozo. @usmansmith.bsky.social
Not Barney but a great picture by Steve of his golden retriever swimming. #photography
An afternoon swim at a nearby park.
#DogsofBlueSky #GoldenRetrievers #GoldenRetriever #DogPhotography #Photography #Canon #DogRescue #SOBPhotography
#DogsofBlueSky #GoldenRetrievers #GoldenRetriever #DogPhotography #Photography #Canon #DogRescue #SOBPhotography
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Not Barney but a great picture by Steve of his golden retriever swimming. #photography
Unusual problem for the #pars in that we are losing our midfielder Alfons Amade as he heads off to represent Mozambique in the African Nations Cup with matches against Ivory Coast, Gabon and Cameroon to be played on 24th, 28th and 31st December.
December 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Unusual problem for the #pars in that we are losing our midfielder Alfons Amade as he heads off to represent Mozambique in the African Nations Cup with matches against Ivory Coast, Gabon and Cameroon to be played on 24th, 28th and 31st December.
Watching the scenes of aggressive protesters outside the Falkirk hotel on the BBC disclosure programme there is clearly a need for a safe access zone. Exclusion zones have worked successfully around hospitals and it now needs done around hotels housing asylum seekers.
@johnswinneysnp.bsky.social
@johnswinneysnp.bsky.social
Safe access zones have hugely reduced the number of anti-choice protests near hospitals.
It is something that government should look at in relation to hotels.
These protests are designed to spread fear.
They don’t reflect the community that I represent.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...
It is something that government should look at in relation to hotels.
These protests are designed to spread fear.
They don’t reflect the community that I represent.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...
SNP Government urged to consider asylum seeker hotel protest curbs
EXCLUSIVE: Gillian Mackay was responsible for safe access zones for women outside clinics and said asylum seekers may need similar protections.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Watching the scenes of aggressive protesters outside the Falkirk hotel on the BBC disclosure programme there is clearly a need for a safe access zone. Exclusion zones have worked successfully around hospitals and it now needs done around hotels housing asylum seekers.
@johnswinneysnp.bsky.social
@johnswinneysnp.bsky.social
Thanks to the ferret for covering this story. I always find it interesting how the anti-immigration demonstrators claim to be protecting women and children when so many of them have convictions for violence against women and children.
“He was covered in blood. He was shaking, grey and traumatised. But he didn’t want to report it to the police in case there were repercussions and he also thought it might affect his claim for asylum”
www.theferret.scot/f...
www.theferret.scot/f...
Far-right agitators stand accused of stirring up trouble at asylum hotel protests. But anti-racists are standing firm
Following a sharp rise in far right activity, we’ve spent the last three months attending protests, speaking to activists under threat, and tracking anti-asylum seeker demonstrations across Scotland.
www.theferret.scot
December 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Thanks to the ferret for covering this story. I always find it interesting how the anti-immigration demonstrators claim to be protecting women and children when so many of them have convictions for violence against women and children.
Reposted by Peter Lloyd
We’re looking for volunteer ESOL teachers to support New Scots learning English!
📅 Wed 2pm (St Martin's Resource Centre) – Beginners
📅 Wed 6–8pm (Edinburgh Uni) – Intermediate
📅 Thurs 2–4pm (The Welcoming) – Complete Beginners
Make a real impact in Edinburgh, email david@thewelcoming.org
📅 Wed 2pm (St Martin's Resource Centre) – Beginners
📅 Wed 6–8pm (Edinburgh Uni) – Intermediate
📅 Thurs 2–4pm (The Welcoming) – Complete Beginners
Make a real impact in Edinburgh, email david@thewelcoming.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We’re looking for volunteer ESOL teachers to support New Scots learning English!
📅 Wed 2pm (St Martin's Resource Centre) – Beginners
📅 Wed 6–8pm (Edinburgh Uni) – Intermediate
📅 Thurs 2–4pm (The Welcoming) – Complete Beginners
Make a real impact in Edinburgh, email david@thewelcoming.org
📅 Wed 2pm (St Martin's Resource Centre) – Beginners
📅 Wed 6–8pm (Edinburgh Uni) – Intermediate
📅 Thurs 2–4pm (The Welcoming) – Complete Beginners
Make a real impact in Edinburgh, email david@thewelcoming.org
Church windows can be so beautiful with the light shining through with the reflections from the stained glass. Lovely #photography by Heather. Great name as the church of the storms reflecting its role in providing shelter in spiritual as well as physical storms.
#WeekWForWindows
#AlphabetChallenge
St Winwaloe, Gunwalloe, Cornwall, also known as the church of the storms.
#AlphabetChallenge
St Winwaloe, Gunwalloe, Cornwall, also known as the church of the storms.
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Church windows can be so beautiful with the light shining through with the reflections from the stained glass. Lovely #photography by Heather. Great name as the church of the storms reflecting its role in providing shelter in spiritual as well as physical storms.
Thanks to everyone who donated to the food collections over Thursday to Saturday. Over half a tonne of food was donated to Dunfermline Foodbank which provides a much needed boost to our stocks coming up to Christmas. @trussellscot.bsky.social Thanks also to all the volunteers who made it possible.
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Thanks to everyone who donated to the food collections over Thursday to Saturday. Over half a tonne of food was donated to Dunfermline Foodbank which provides a much needed boost to our stocks coming up to Christmas. @trussellscot.bsky.social Thanks also to all the volunteers who made it possible.
Such a contrast when they interviewed the two refugees in Aberdeen who had converted to Christianity for whom staying in Iran meant they would be executed.
Tonight's BBC #Disclosure programme 'Are refugees welcome here?' is a tough watch. It is very concerning to see the racism, Islamophobia, vigilante abuse and intimidation happening at anti-migrant protests and across public places in Aberdeen and Falkirk.
#BBCDisclosure
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#BBCDisclosure
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC One - Disclosure, Are Refugees Welcome Here?
As tensions over immigration rise, reporter Mark Daly meets people on both sides.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Such a contrast when they interviewed the two refugees in Aberdeen who had converted to Christianity for whom staying in Iran meant they would be executed.
"Not a single hospital in Gaza has returned to being fully operational. The onset of rain and cooling weather has left thousands exposed in dilapidated tents. Since the ceasefire almost 6,500 tonnes of UN-coordinated relief materials have been denied entry into Gaza by Israeli authorities."
It's not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel's onslaught continues | Nesrine Malik
It's not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel's onslaught continues | Nesrine Malik
Broken ceasefires, bombing, ground incursions and mounting deaths: Israeli imperialism is now expanding across the region, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"Not a single hospital in Gaza has returned to being fully operational. The onset of rain and cooling weather has left thousands exposed in dilapidated tents. Since the ceasefire almost 6,500 tonnes of UN-coordinated relief materials have been denied entry into Gaza by Israeli authorities."
Roddy Smith of Essential Edinburgh acknowledged the stark reality facing the city noting that 80,000 residents in Edinburgh live in relative poverty, 10,000 rely on food banks, and homelessness in Scotland is rising sharply, with 38,674 adults and 15,046 children assessed as homeless in 2024/25.
December 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Roddy Smith of Essential Edinburgh acknowledged the stark reality facing the city noting that 80,000 residents in Edinburgh live in relative poverty, 10,000 rely on food banks, and homelessness in Scotland is rising sharply, with 38,674 adults and 15,046 children assessed as homeless in 2024/25.
The triton fountain marks the entrance to Valletta in #malta and the area around it was redeveloped a few years ago.
🐦A bird`s eye view of the 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻⛲️and Valletta, Malta🇲🇹
📷iamchrisborg
#łovemalta #malta #visitmalta #valletta
📷iamchrisborg
#łovemalta #malta #visitmalta #valletta
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The triton fountain marks the entrance to Valletta in #malta and the area around it was redeveloped a few years ago.
Reposted by Peter Lloyd
Those of us who have been working with safe routes have watched them vanish. There is no safe route out of Sudan for example yet the ForeignSec says its worst of war-induced humanitarian diasters
Try being from Eritrea … or DRC
And don’t get me started on Gaza
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Try being from Eritrea … or DRC
And don’t get me started on Gaza
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of refugees allowed to settle in UK under UN schemes falls 26% in a year
Refugee Council says Home Office figures show safe and legal pathways are ‘disappearing when most needed’
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Those of us who have been working with safe routes have watched them vanish. There is no safe route out of Sudan for example yet the ForeignSec says its worst of war-induced humanitarian diasters
Try being from Eritrea … or DRC
And don’t get me started on Gaza
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Try being from Eritrea … or DRC
And don’t get me started on Gaza
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reposted by Peter Lloyd
Please support if you can 🙏🏽
Today we launch our winter appeal.
For those starting again in Scotland this winter, let’s make sure they begin their new chapter with safety, dignity, love & solidarity.
Donate today & help us support those seeking safety as they rebuild their lives here in Scotland.🧡
🔗 ow.ly/szZE50XyG4S
For those starting again in Scotland this winter, let’s make sure they begin their new chapter with safety, dignity, love & solidarity.
Donate today & help us support those seeking safety as they rebuild their lives here in Scotland.🧡
🔗 ow.ly/szZE50XyG4S
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Please support if you can 🙏🏽