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Grumpy old woman living in Scotland. Has a working brain and an internet connection. The personal IS political!
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Whilst following up a constituents enquiry regarding ploughing I accidentally Googled a website that showed a form of ploughing I was hitherto unfamiliar with. I was amazed to find this was porn as the opening credits said that it featured Massive Ferguson #Tractorgate
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Today marks 23 years since the bombing of gay pub the Admiral Duncan. I was there with my gf at the time who was seriously hurt
Yet not a word from Stonewall or PinkNews to remember the dead
So RIP
Andrea Dykes
John Light
Nick Moore
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We won’t be bombed back into the closet
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Having had a quick look I don’t think that there is a single genuinely working class person on the board of trustees of any of the national museums and galleries in the U.K. Hard to see how these institutions can claim to be representative when they so clearly aren’t.
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PSA counter.social has an incoming DDOS in progress. If it overwhelms us - I'll be right here on twitter spouting situational updates.
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For the benefit of all the people who became overnight experts on freedom of speech & international content moderation standards this week, here is a 41-part podcast series on how we arrived at the norms we use offline and on. It starts in ancient Greece.
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Nice hat worn by the woman holding the invisible anti-Kremlin poster.
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From a police protocol of the Russians arrested by militiamen outside the Kremlin 
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"...the detainees were holding invisible posters with anti-government slogans."
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"...the detainees were holding invisible posters with anti-government slogans."
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It has been 224 days since young Afghan girls were last allowed entry to school. Since the Taliban took over, girls have been forced to remain at home. The Taliban administration continues ignoring the continuous protests against this ban. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn
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In #LesbianVisibilityWeek, we continue to celebrate amazing and inspirational women
Today, it’s Lianne Timmerman - “Lesbian NOT Queer” campaigner with
Women do not come much more iconic than Lianne!
#WomensRightsNetwork
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Some are more protected than others. Entire car park to park in. Chooses to straddle 3 disabled places.
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Here's some background info on the site and its creator, in case you want to know:
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This is your occasional reminder that Agatha Christie came up with her ingenious plots by sitting in an old-fashioned bathtub eating apples.
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I just subscribed to Natalia Mitigates The Apocalypse
Welp just signed up to counter.social - the site is still being upgraded so that's all you can do for now.
I'll be interested to see what it's like. Apparently, it started as a Mastodon fork - I really do hope it's a better user experience than that mess.
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A 5m tall puppet has been “washed up” on to the beach at Cleethorpes. As the day goes on it will be making its way further up the beach. It’s also making its way to Hornsea, Whitby, Filey, Brid and Scarborough over next 8 days.
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rabbitaway.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-mo
Part 3 from Rabbit.
What I find astonishing is how so many ask how Savile fooled everyone, how no one saw anything, but eventually develop some junk theory.
Some don't seem to understand that even if a million people told the same lie, it'd still be a lie.
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So I've started a government petition, which has five supporters to get it to become live, the cause being "Ban the sale of alcohol at the Palace of Westminster"
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I've started a government petition, I need at least 5 UK supporters for it to go live. Please read/RT/sign etc
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6158
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Don't threaten me with a good time!
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Found it. It is Edinburgh Napier University.
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Holy shit they really did it
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On Tues, spoke to man who lost most of brother’s family after Russians opened fire on convoy. One 7 year old grandkid survived: “He told me he saw granddad in flames, mummy in flames and brother in flames, and he couldn’t help them. What can I tell him?” What can anyone tell him
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People with penises don't have babies, by
Happy birthday Terry Pratchett: how well do you know his books? – quiz
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To be fair to male MPs, maybe real, live women having legs *is* a massive distraction when you're just trying to watch your porn in peace
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Just had this month's heating oil bill. It's nearly double January's bill, even though I was running the heating 24/7 back then, while I've had it on for only 8 hours a day this month and last month.
I am so FUCKING ANGRY, I want to go down to London and kick some politicians!
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Here is me taking his autograph. This is not a sign of admiration, no. I needed his signature to be able to verify that it matches the one on the title deed for a New York penthouse worth $5m.
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Just had this month's heating oil bill. It's nearly double January's bill, even though I was running the heating 24/7 back then, while I've had it on for only 8 hours a day this month and last month.
I am so FUCKING ANGRY, I want to go down to London and kick some politicians!
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A mysterious one-day directorship, a £491k loan, a Cayman Island firm specifically designed to keep banking bonuses offshore and a flat refusal to answer the Eye’s question about any of it: the new Eye attempts to untangle the issues around Sajid Javid’s dubious non-dom status.
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absolutely sickening, can’t believe you’d post this vile stuff on my Good Christian Twitter Feed
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Just joined SHARE, so I am already helping health research with the NHS in Scotland. Why don’t you join too ?
Today ships were spotted near #Odesa. These are unmanaged barges that are wandering at sea and a tanker Millenial spirit (Moldova) that russia shot at the beginning of March.
Tanker had about 1,000 tons of diesel fuel and a few tons oil. 1/2 🧵
#UkraineRussiaWar
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LTCs are much higher in more deprived groups. Apparently the poor and marginal don't matter.
According to this argument the only lives that matter are those of the privileged, young and fit. Everyone else is unfit can die without regret.
We all know where such views lead.
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Are we sure Armando Iannuci and Chris Morris didn't do the graphics for this?
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Honestly, the opening titles to P**** M*****’s show is the most #AccidentalPartridge thing I have seen in ages. It could be ripped from The Day Today.
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Today I have enhanced a great autochrome by Alfred Stieglitz, taken 115 years ago in June 1907. Two men are playing chess in Hoboken, New Jersey, in what is probably the earliest colour photo of a chess match! This is an original colour photo, not colourised.
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The Op-Ed That Went Viral And The Trans Woman Who Wrote It, by
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Luna gently reminds Jamie that (a) she wants the stick, (b) she has a mouthful of big, white teeth and (c) she can jump as high as his face. #Malinois
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"This government will always stand up for the rule of law." Said with a straight face, at that.
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I expect no assistance from @10DowningStreet on upholding the rule of law, when they can’t be trusted to obey the law themselves.
Since Franco, Spain has operated as a rogue state declaring war on #Catalonia & its leaders
#PhoneHacking #Pegasus
#PhoneHacking #Pegasus
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