Sybil Bacica 🎭📽️🏴🇪🇺
@squiddlediddle.bsky.social
Edinburgh seaside resident. Community cinema co-founder. Works at Portobello Town Hall. Can we please have some good people in charge of the world, huh?
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📚 Exclusive: One of Edinburgh’s leading bookshops is declaring victory after a three-week battle with Waterstones over a “baffling and shocking” decision to open a new store yards away. 📚
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2568157...
@heraldscotland.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2568157...
@heraldscotland.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
📚 Exclusive: One of Edinburgh’s leading bookshops is declaring victory after a three-week battle with Waterstones over a “baffling and shocking” decision to open a new store yards away. 📚
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2568157...
@heraldscotland.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2568157...
@heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it
Teaching when to trust
As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge
newhumanist.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop foreign interference in British politics
British politics has a foreign interference problem. An undercover investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys has revealed how shockingly easy it is for secretive Chinese interests to pene...
you.38degrees.org.uk
December 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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FM in Oct 24: “I’ve been very clear with the public that there are huge pressures on the public finances, so there could not be a call on the public finances for any financial support….there will be no call on the public purse…I am confident the public purse is protected.”
Can someone explain how the @scotgov can be spending £150,000 on this when we were repeatedly told there would be “no need for public funding”?
When is someone going to own up on exactly how much public money is being spent on the Commonwealth Games?
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2566753...
When is someone going to own up on exactly how much public money is being spent on the Commonwealth Games?
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2566753...
Scottish Government to take over Glasgow bar for Commonwealth Games
Health Secretary Neil Gray has outlined plans for the hub to help showcase Scotland and maximise the impact of the projected £150 million economic…
www.heraldscotland.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
FM in Oct 24: “I’ve been very clear with the public that there are huge pressures on the public finances, so there could not be a call on the public finances for any financial support….there will be no call on the public purse…I am confident the public purse is protected.”
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Also: where’s the fecking investigation, Keir Starmer?
The Welsh parliament, Nigel Farage, @prifweinidog.gov.wales @eddavey.libdems.org.uk & @zackpolanski.bsky.social are all now in agreement that we need a govt-led inquiry into Russian interference. So what on earth is the problem??
The Welsh parliament, Nigel Farage, @prifweinidog.gov.wales @eddavey.libdems.org.uk & @zackpolanski.bsky.social are all now in agreement that we need a govt-led inquiry into Russian interference. So what on earth is the problem??
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Also: where’s the fecking investigation, Keir Starmer?
The Welsh parliament, Nigel Farage, @prifweinidog.gov.wales @eddavey.libdems.org.uk & @zackpolanski.bsky.social are all now in agreement that we need a govt-led inquiry into Russian interference. So what on earth is the problem??
The Welsh parliament, Nigel Farage, @prifweinidog.gov.wales @eddavey.libdems.org.uk & @zackpolanski.bsky.social are all now in agreement that we need a govt-led inquiry into Russian interference. So what on earth is the problem??
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This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Arts industry leaders are campaigning for a new Culture Act to be introduced in the next term of the Scottish Parliament to boost the value of the £5.7bn industry & unleash a “wealth of untapped potential.” Current culture support is said to be “fragile.”
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2564349...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2564349...
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Arts industry leaders are campaigning for a new Culture Act to be introduced in the next term of the Scottish Parliament to boost the value of the £5.7bn industry & unleash a “wealth of untapped potential.” Current culture support is said to be “fragile.”
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2564349...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2564349...
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🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
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As you might imagine, this is very good. It is also very funny.
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
As you might imagine, this is very good. It is also very funny.
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Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
October 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
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Don't buy the canard that this is about Charlie Kirk. Abusing state power to lean on corporate leaders and get Jimmy Kimmel off the air because he told jokes about the president and made him feel bad was always the plan.
September 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Don't buy the canard that this is about Charlie Kirk. Abusing state power to lean on corporate leaders and get Jimmy Kimmel off the air because he told jokes about the president and made him feel bad was always the plan.
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Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson
Well worth a read
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Well worth a read
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f...
Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...
observer.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
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It's shocking how much consensus there is amongst tax policy wonks and economists of Left and Right on the tax reforms the UK needs to boost growth & make the tax system fairer
More shocking: they're reforms that are never mentioned by any politicians
buff.ly/rTfNmFC
More shocking: they're reforms that are never mentioned by any politicians
buff.ly/rTfNmFC
Stop talking about wealth taxes — make these reforms instead
Any sane discussion of changes that both right and left could agree on is being crowded out by tax populism
buff.ly
September 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
It's shocking how much consensus there is amongst tax policy wonks and economists of Left and Right on the tax reforms the UK needs to boost growth & make the tax system fairer
More shocking: they're reforms that are never mentioned by any politicians
buff.ly/rTfNmFC
More shocking: they're reforms that are never mentioned by any politicians
buff.ly/rTfNmFC
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"I am quite certain that this moment deserves real opposition — that Democrats, morally speaking, should not fund a government that Trump is turning into a tool of personal enrichment and power."
Important from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. Hope Senate Dems listen to him.
Important from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. Hope Senate Dems listen to him.
Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"I am quite certain that this moment deserves real opposition — that Democrats, morally speaking, should not fund a government that Trump is turning into a tool of personal enrichment and power."
Important from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. Hope Senate Dems listen to him.
Important from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. Hope Senate Dems listen to him.
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Excellent interview, highly recommended.
This was excellent. Dan Pfeiffer & @hcrichardson.bsky.social just schooled the hell out of me. I might need a 2nd go in case I missed anything. 😳
youtu.be/JSDXB8L7WNM?...
youtu.be/JSDXB8L7WNM?...
Heather Cox Richardson on Donald Trump, MAGA and How We Fight Back
Podcast Episode · Pod Save America · 09/07/2025 · 1h 8m
podcasts.apple.com
September 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Excellent interview, highly recommended.
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What an extraordinary - not to mention most excellent - collision of two of my all-time favourite cultural phenomena. Dudes.
September 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
What an extraordinary - not to mention most excellent - collision of two of my all-time favourite cultural phenomena. Dudes.
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'The whole point of their existence is to feed off of dismay and problems'
On #BBCBreakfast Darren Jones, chief secretary to the Prime Minister, was asked about the challenge from Reform UK
On #BBCBreakfast Darren Jones, chief secretary to the Prime Minister, was asked about the challenge from Reform UK
September 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
'The whole point of their existence is to feed off of dismay and problems'
On #BBCBreakfast Darren Jones, chief secretary to the Prime Minister, was asked about the challenge from Reform UK
On #BBCBreakfast Darren Jones, chief secretary to the Prime Minister, was asked about the challenge from Reform UK
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The gun that was used to kill Emmett Till goes on display today in Mississippi. Wright Thompson on how it got there—and why it’s a rebuke of attempts to erase history:
Seeing Emmett Till’s Murder Weapon
On the 70th anniversary of his death, a haunting artifact goes on display in Mississippi.
bit.ly
September 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
The gun that was used to kill Emmett Till goes on display today in Mississippi. Wright Thompson on how it got there—and why it’s a rebuke of attempts to erase history:
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Asylum seekers are not “illegal migrants”. Under international law, people have the right to seek asylum — even if they arrive via small boat. Ferret Fact Service explains the law and the stats behind the claim: theferret.scot/glasg...
September 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Asylum seekers are not “illegal migrants”. Under international law, people have the right to seek asylum — even if they arrive via small boat. Ferret Fact Service explains the law and the stats behind the claim: theferret.scot/glasg...
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The billionaire press barons must be having a right laugh…
Here we are distracted & arguing over asylum seekers (0.2% of the population)
Meanwhile, billionaires (just 0.0002% of the population) hoard more wealth than half the UK
Immigration isn’t draining us
Inequality is.
Here we are distracted & arguing over asylum seekers (0.2% of the population)
Meanwhile, billionaires (just 0.0002% of the population) hoard more wealth than half the UK
Immigration isn’t draining us
Inequality is.
August 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The billionaire press barons must be having a right laugh…
Here we are distracted & arguing over asylum seekers (0.2% of the population)
Meanwhile, billionaires (just 0.0002% of the population) hoard more wealth than half the UK
Immigration isn’t draining us
Inequality is.
Here we are distracted & arguing over asylum seekers (0.2% of the population)
Meanwhile, billionaires (just 0.0002% of the population) hoard more wealth than half the UK
Immigration isn’t draining us
Inequality is.
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Six months ago. I meant it. Do it now if you haven’t.
ATTN: it might be a good idea to freeze your credit with all three agencies now that Musk has all your info. I froze mine long ago and it’s pretty easy to unfreeze temporarily if you need to.
August 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Six months ago. I meant it. Do it now if you haven’t.
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Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
August 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
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You may never have heard of Ithaca Energy. But this North Sea oil firm could become the UK’s biggest fossil fuel producer by 2030. It’s majority-owned by a company accused of complicity in Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
Read the full story: theferret.scot/ithac...
Read the full story: theferret.scot/ithac...
August 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
You may never have heard of Ithaca Energy. But this North Sea oil firm could become the UK’s biggest fossil fuel producer by 2030. It’s majority-owned by a company accused of complicity in Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
Read the full story: theferret.scot/ithac...
Read the full story: theferret.scot/ithac...
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Anas al-Sharif, the Al Jazeera journalist accused by the IDF of working for Hamas, was previously part of a Reuters group which won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage. I haven’t seen any accusations against the other reporters and cameramen who were killed with him.
August 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Anas al-Sharif, the Al Jazeera journalist accused by the IDF of working for Hamas, was previously part of a Reuters group which won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage. I haven’t seen any accusations against the other reporters and cameramen who were killed with him.