Sue Lyons
@squidge142.bsky.social
Me, Scotland, Independence, politics, peer support, recipes, history, academia, rural life, anti-poverty, recovery, trying to measure the magic
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Don't look away. If we don't look what we've become square in the eye, we have no hope of truly changing for the better.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"
July 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Don't look away. If we don't look what we've become square in the eye, we have no hope of truly changing for the better.
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The UK in 2025. The language of violence; followed by burning effigies; followed by attempting to burn down hotels & reception centres; all escalating to the next inevitable step. And all facilitated by the dehumanising, incendiary language of the right.
July 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The UK in 2025. The language of violence; followed by burning effigies; followed by attempting to burn down hotels & reception centres; all escalating to the next inevitable step. And all facilitated by the dehumanising, incendiary language of the right.
When your husband loves games and turns 50 you hire a house with a HUGE table for a few days and never see outside
July 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
When your husband loves games and turns 50 you hire a house with a HUGE table for a few days and never see outside
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"To equate a spray can of paint with a suicide bomb isn't just absurd, it is grotesque.
It is a deliberate distortion of the law to chill dissent, criminalise solidarity & suppress the truth about UK complicity in genocide."
@ZaraSultana
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It is a deliberate distortion of the law to chill dissent, criminalise solidarity & suppress the truth about UK complicity in genocide."
@ZaraSultana
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July 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"To equate a spray can of paint with a suicide bomb isn't just absurd, it is grotesque.
It is a deliberate distortion of the law to chill dissent, criminalise solidarity & suppress the truth about UK complicity in genocide."
@ZaraSultana
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It is a deliberate distortion of the law to chill dissent, criminalise solidarity & suppress the truth about UK complicity in genocide."
@ZaraSultana
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@frankrennie.bsky.social
Sitting right here listening to the Corncrake. Reminding me of your book - going to buy it for my husband when I get home
Sitting right here listening to the Corncrake. Reminding me of your book - going to buy it for my husband when I get home
July 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
@frankrennie.bsky.social
Sitting right here listening to the Corncrake. Reminding me of your book - going to buy it for my husband when I get home
Sitting right here listening to the Corncrake. Reminding me of your book - going to buy it for my husband when I get home
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Reeves asked about reducing money for unpaid carers repeated Labour mantra they were helping people into work. Carers are not in that position. The more I hear from this woman the more it's clear she is either in denial or clueless about the poorest in the UK. She is one of the pampered wealthy
March 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Reeves asked about reducing money for unpaid carers repeated Labour mantra they were helping people into work. Carers are not in that position. The more I hear from this woman the more it's clear she is either in denial or clueless about the poorest in the UK. She is one of the pampered wealthy
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“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism”
Hannah Arendt
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Hannah Arendt
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Elon Musk wants to save Western civilization from empathy | CNN Politics
Americans are still in the dark about the scope and scale of what Elon Musk is doing with DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, which is working to drastically shrink the size of government b...
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March 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism”
Hannah Arendt
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Hannah Arendt
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The inside story of the Scots scientists on the cusp of curing dementia
Soon we’ll have quick blood tests at your GP and affordable drugs which means we can arrest the disease early enough so patients live normal lives
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social Big Read
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2499288...
Soon we’ll have quick blood tests at your GP and affordable drugs which means we can arrest the disease early enough so patients live normal lives
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social Big Read
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2499288...
'We’re nearly there’ The inside story of the Scots scientists aiming to cure dementia
The Scottish Brain Sciences team are on the cusp of medical breakthroughs which will ‘cure’ the world’s most feared disease. They talk to our…
www.heraldscotland.com
March 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The inside story of the Scots scientists on the cusp of curing dementia
Soon we’ll have quick blood tests at your GP and affordable drugs which means we can arrest the disease early enough so patients live normal lives
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social Big Read
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2499288...
Soon we’ll have quick blood tests at your GP and affordable drugs which means we can arrest the disease early enough so patients live normal lives
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social Big Read
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2499288...
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Scotland's first drug consumption room has already seen over 1,000 visits, helping to tackle drug misuse in Scotland.
Addiction is a health crisis, and people deserve to be treated with empathy and support. Through this we can help them stay safe and find their road to recovery.
Addiction is a health crisis, and people deserve to be treated with empathy and support. Through this we can help them stay safe and find their road to recovery.
March 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Scotland's first drug consumption room has already seen over 1,000 visits, helping to tackle drug misuse in Scotland.
Addiction is a health crisis, and people deserve to be treated with empathy and support. Through this we can help them stay safe and find their road to recovery.
Addiction is a health crisis, and people deserve to be treated with empathy and support. Through this we can help them stay safe and find their road to recovery.
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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
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February 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
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🔥 If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu 🔥
🚨 It’s time to move beyond consultation.
🚨 It’s time to shift power.
🚨 It’s time for peer leaders to own the table.
Read our latest blog 👇
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#PeerLeadership #LivedExperienceLeadership #MentalHealth #PeerSupport
🚨 It’s time to move beyond consultation.
🚨 It’s time to shift power.
🚨 It’s time for peer leaders to own the table.
Read our latest blog 👇
bit.ly/437waAW
#PeerLeadership #LivedExperienceLeadership #MentalHealth #PeerSupport
If You’re Not at the Table, You’re on the Menu<br/>Why Lived Experience Leadership in Mental Health Must Take Centre Stage — Habitus
This phrase is a call to action, a demand for agency. Nowhere is this more urgent than in mental health, where decisions about policies, funding, and services often shape the lives of those with lived...
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February 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🔥 If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu 🔥
🚨 It’s time to move beyond consultation.
🚨 It’s time to shift power.
🚨 It’s time for peer leaders to own the table.
Read our latest blog 👇
bit.ly/437waAW
#PeerLeadership #LivedExperienceLeadership #MentalHealth #PeerSupport
🚨 It’s time to move beyond consultation.
🚨 It’s time to shift power.
🚨 It’s time for peer leaders to own the table.
Read our latest blog 👇
bit.ly/437waAW
#PeerLeadership #LivedExperienceLeadership #MentalHealth #PeerSupport
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Child Poverty % (children living in households below the minimum wage)
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
All four of those countries have child benefits, paid by taxing the rich, that make it almost impossible for a child to be in poverty.
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
All four of those countries have child benefits, paid by taxing the rich, that make it almost impossible for a child to be in poverty.
December 9, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Child Poverty % (children living in households below the minimum wage)
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
All four of those countries have child benefits, paid by taxing the rich, that make it almost impossible for a child to be in poverty.
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
All four of those countries have child benefits, paid by taxing the rich, that make it almost impossible for a child to be in poverty.
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Farage is using Trump to stab Britain in the back as he sniffs power
My Friday night column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Here’s a link www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
And a sting
My Friday night column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Here’s a link www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
And a sting
November 29, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Farage is using Trump to stab Britain in the back as he sniffs power
My Friday night column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Here’s a link www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
And a sting
My Friday night column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Here’s a link www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
And a sting
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“Eight restorers will begin "Operation Night Watch" by removing the varnish from the painting - in full view of the public, within the glass-enclosed space in The Night Watch Room."
Rembrandt's Night Watch: Major restoration begins in Amsterdam
After several years of painstaking research, the masterpiece's most extensive restoration begins.
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November 14, 2024 at 7:19 AM
“Eight restorers will begin "Operation Night Watch" by removing the varnish from the painting - in full view of the public, within the glass-enclosed space in The Night Watch Room."
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Most Scots still think there is stigmatisation around severe mental illness | STV News
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Most Scots think there is 'stigmatisation around severe mental illness'
YouGov poll reveals less than half of Scots think public understanding about severe mental illness is better now than it was five years ago.
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November 13, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Most Scots still think there is stigmatisation around severe mental illness | STV News
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Give us a wee boost if you are left, pro lgbt, pro blm, anti fascist, back Ukraine's fight against ultra capitalist Putin, pro Palestine, pro Scottish independence...
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November 12, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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“There are a lot of people in the world who are not loved, and we must make an inconspicuous dash to them to save them, to help them. To live a life and not be loved is a terrible thing. And we can spare them that if we are attentive.” — Quentin Crisp
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November 13, 2024 at 1:20 AM
“There are a lot of people in the world who are not loved, and we must make an inconspicuous dash to them to save them, to help them. To live a life and not be loved is a terrible thing. And we can spare them that if we are attentive.” — Quentin Crisp
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Welcome to oligarchy. The richest man on Earth bought the global town square and swung the world’s most important election for a billionaire. Now every billionaire is cheering. But sure, let’s pretend Trump is taking on elites and sticking up for the little guy www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
Just how many concentration camps will you need, Mr President?
Donald Trump promises mass deportations of 21 million illegal immigrants - assisted by private industry, of course. Here’s one reality that…
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November 12, 2024 at 8:43 AM
Welcome to oligarchy. The richest man on Earth bought the global town square and swung the world’s most important election for a billionaire. Now every billionaire is cheering. But sure, let’s pretend Trump is taking on elites and sticking up for the little guy www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
@emmaknox4u.bsky.social hahaah here you are!
November 12, 2024 at 8:46 PM
@emmaknox4u.bsky.social hahaah here you are!
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going to once again suggest that if you are a political junkie you should get off of social media and find the opportunity to talk to a voter from outside of your immediate social circle
October 21, 2024 at 5:04 PM
going to once again suggest that if you are a political junkie you should get off of social media and find the opportunity to talk to a voter from outside of your immediate social circle
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We in Scotland feel every minute
October 19, 2024 at 8:11 AM
We in Scotland feel every minute
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Nothing positive comes from Brexit. You would think our governments would have learnt that lesson by now. 🤷♂️
www.politico.eu/article/uk-h...
www.politico.eu/article/uk-h...
UK fudge on Horizon Brexit deal risks killing new research
Researchers celebrated a big post-Brexit deal to rejoin Horizon. Now they fear they will end up footing the bill.
www.politico.eu
October 20, 2024 at 8:25 AM
Nothing positive comes from Brexit. You would think our governments would have learnt that lesson by now. 🤷♂️
www.politico.eu/article/uk-h...
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