Geraldine Murray
@msgeraldinemurray.bsky.social
Named by Oxford English Dictionary as the first recorded user of “dad-dancing”. Highlands. Work with fish and Europe. Cat staff.
Pretty much a year ago since I discovered sea buttons for the first time while looking for pepper dulse to make a paste to make lavercakes
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Pretty much a year ago since I discovered sea buttons for the first time while looking for pepper dulse to make a paste to make lavercakes
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Guardian editorial on Land Reform (Scotland) Bill www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on Scottish land reform: vast estates remain feudal in scale | Editorial
Editorial: Half of the country’s privately owned countryside is held by just 421 owners. New legislation suggests democrats still fear powerful interests
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Guardian editorial on Land Reform (Scotland) Bill www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
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Good morning & good week, from me in Greece!
Lets 'lift off' and make Monday a good one.
📷 Swallowtail aloft Woody Fleabane flowers
Lets 'lift off' and make Monday a good one.
📷 Swallowtail aloft Woody Fleabane flowers
November 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Good morning & good week, from me in Greece!
Lets 'lift off' and make Monday a good one.
📷 Swallowtail aloft Woody Fleabane flowers
Lets 'lift off' and make Monday a good one.
📷 Swallowtail aloft Woody Fleabane flowers
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This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).
October 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).
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"If you don't see it, let me cross. I negotiate with you."
The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, experienced a frustration that many New Yorkers know all too well. He got stuck on a Manhattan street corner. It had been closed off for President Trump’s motorcade during the UN General Assembly. nyti.ms/46F5esx
September 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"If you don't see it, let me cross. I negotiate with you."
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James Barr, Labour MP, United Free Church of Scotland Minister, pacifist, and socialist, debating the Hydro-Electric Development (Scotland) Bill in 1943.
September 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
James Barr, Labour MP, United Free Church of Scotland Minister, pacifist, and socialist, debating the Hydro-Electric Development (Scotland) Bill in 1943.
@nataliehaynes.bsky.social Teenage daughter’s first ‘handbag’ bought on current holiday in Crete. Chosen after we silently listened enthralled in the car to Medusa in Pandora’s Jar. She is her favourite.
September 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
@nataliehaynes.bsky.social Teenage daughter’s first ‘handbag’ bought on current holiday in Crete. Chosen after we silently listened enthralled in the car to Medusa in Pandora’s Jar. She is her favourite.
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I went to the Andy Goldsworthy exhibition in Edinburgh today and it was rather fabulous. But no surprise that I was mesmerised by the installation called ‘Gravestones’
August 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I went to the Andy Goldsworthy exhibition in Edinburgh today and it was rather fabulous. But no surprise that I was mesmerised by the installation called ‘Gravestones’
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Refreshingly brisk on farming & inheritance tax from Guy Singh-Watson, hitherto owner of Riverford Farm. Riverford, now owned by its employees, had a turnover of £113m in 2023-24 and made a profit of £5.7m. He’s been awarded farmer of the year by the BBC twice.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain
The organic veg pioneer talks to the Guardian about being unemployable, his unconventional father and his recent autism diagnosis
www.theguardian.com
August 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Refreshingly brisk on farming & inheritance tax from Guy Singh-Watson, hitherto owner of Riverford Farm. Riverford, now owned by its employees, had a turnover of £113m in 2023-24 and made a profit of £5.7m. He’s been awarded farmer of the year by the BBC twice.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Hertling: When you saw Trump talking about how this is Biden’s war, saying it could have been prevented if Zelensky had just done X, Y, or Z — it’s ludicrous.
This is a war that Putin has been planning and carried out on his own.
This is a war that Putin has been planning and carried out on his own.
August 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Hertling: When you saw Trump talking about how this is Biden’s war, saying it could have been prevented if Zelensky had just done X, Y, or Z — it’s ludicrous.
This is a war that Putin has been planning and carried out on his own.
This is a war that Putin has been planning and carried out on his own.
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I am still semi-convinced that if we rejoin the EU it will be driven by an argument that it will reduce migration.
One odd thing that is left out of the small boats discourse is how much the problem was directly caused by Conservative policy – specifically Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.
2018: 299 small boat arrivals
2019: 1,843 arrivals
Truss’s 49-day premiership: 10,523 small boat arrivals
2018: 299 small boat arrivals
2019: 1,843 arrivals
Truss’s 49-day premiership: 10,523 small boat arrivals
“The right wing of Britain’s commentariat and its politicians have embraced an agenda they would have condemned just 18 months ago, out of expediency and self-interest. If the UK is on the verge of a crisis, it is this – more than those risking their lives on small boats – that is behind it.”
August 16, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I am still semi-convinced that if we rejoin the EU it will be driven by an argument that it will reduce migration.
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wow, all it took was one week of restricted access to porn.
August 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
wow, all it took was one week of restricted access to porn.
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🚨🚨This is a very heavy but absolutely brilliant and nuanced conversation between Philippe Sands and Ezra Klein on the meaning of #genocide, particularly within the context of Israel's attacks, killings and starvation of the #Gazan population.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
Opinion | When Is It Genocide?
www.nytimes.com
August 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🚨🚨This is a very heavy but absolutely brilliant and nuanced conversation between Philippe Sands and Ezra Klein on the meaning of #genocide, particularly within the context of Israel's attacks, killings and starvation of the #Gazan population.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
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Six years ago I asked the Scottish Environment Protection Agency for files on radioactive problems at the Clyde nuclear bomb bases. After three more #FoI requests, multiple reviews, two appeals and opposition from the Ministry of Defence (MoD), they released them.
theferret.scot/radioactive-...
theferret.scot/radioactive-...
Loch polluted by radioactive waste from nuclear bomb plant
Loch Long on the Clyde has been contaminated by radioactive waste from the UK’s nuclear bomb store, official files reveal.
theferret.scot
August 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Six years ago I asked the Scottish Environment Protection Agency for files on radioactive problems at the Clyde nuclear bomb bases. After three more #FoI requests, multiple reviews, two appeals and opposition from the Ministry of Defence (MoD), they released them.
theferret.scot/radioactive-...
theferret.scot/radioactive-...
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We may have our differences, but at the end of the day when we take off our pillow cases we all have upsettingly yellow pillows
August 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
We may have our differences, but at the end of the day when we take off our pillow cases we all have upsettingly yellow pillows
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'At the start of one posting, she was given an armoured car and became the first officer in the service to ask where the Isofix points were so she could insert her baby’s carseat.'
The FT conducted extensive interviews with Metreweli and her senior female SIS colleagues for this piece three years ago on the top women spies at MI6. To protect her identity, Metreweli chose the pseudonym 'Ada' for the story (free to read)
www.ft.com/content/7417...
www.ft.com/content/7417...
The secret lives of MI6’s top female spies
For the first time ever, SIS officers reveal why women often make the best spies for our times
www.ft.com
June 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
'At the start of one posting, she was given an armoured car and became the first officer in the service to ask where the Isofix points were so she could insert her baby’s carseat.'
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EveryDoctor has found that 14 government ministers have taken donations from people+companies linked to the private healthcare sector. I’ll share examples each day this week. This shouldn’t be allowed!
Please repost this+follow me if you agree- let’s tell everyone what’s happening🚨
Please repost this+follow me if you agree- let’s tell everyone what’s happening🚨
June 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
EveryDoctor has found that 14 government ministers have taken donations from people+companies linked to the private healthcare sector. I’ll share examples each day this week. This shouldn’t be allowed!
Please repost this+follow me if you agree- let’s tell everyone what’s happening🚨
Please repost this+follow me if you agree- let’s tell everyone what’s happening🚨
Public flower display in Inverness really lifted my spirits this week despite carbon footprint.
June 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Public flower display in Inverness really lifted my spirits this week despite carbon footprint.
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Brazil to auction oil exploration rights months before hosting climate summit #COP30
- Sale covering 56,000 square miles set to go ahead despite opposition from Indigenous and environmental groups
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Sale covering 56,000 square miles set to go ahead despite opposition from Indigenous and environmental groups
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Brazil to auction oil exploration rights months before hosting Cop30
Sale covering 56,000 square miles to go ahead despite opposition Indigenous and environmental groups
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Brazil to auction oil exploration rights months before hosting climate summit #COP30
- Sale covering 56,000 square miles set to go ahead despite opposition from Indigenous and environmental groups
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Sale covering 56,000 square miles set to go ahead despite opposition from Indigenous and environmental groups
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Sending my best to David, though that typeface doesn’t bode well.
June 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Sending my best to David, though that typeface doesn’t bode well.
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🔴 NEW: Five freshwater lochs in the Highlands and Islands have been damaged by pollution from fish farms, a scientific study found — but the names were kept secret. Now, after a freedom of information battle, they’ve been revealed.
Find out more: theferret.scot/fish-...
Find out more: theferret.scot/fish-...
May 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🔴 NEW: Five freshwater lochs in the Highlands and Islands have been damaged by pollution from fish farms, a scientific study found — but the names were kept secret. Now, after a freedom of information battle, they’ve been revealed.
Find out more: theferret.scot/fish-...
Find out more: theferret.scot/fish-...
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This Archie Bland piece is such a thing. Beautifully written, heartfelt, triumphant. He's on Bluesky but not active. He should know this is a lovely masterpiece.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max
It was, we were told, a case of sudden infant death syndrome interrupted. What followed would transform my understanding of parenting, disability and the breadth of what makes a meaningful life
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
This Archie Bland piece is such a thing. Beautifully written, heartfelt, triumphant. He's on Bluesky but not active. He should know this is a lovely masterpiece.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...