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Bravo! If a wee bit bleary-eyed.

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The ancient Byzantine Church of St Porphyrios, Gaza.
Founded 425CE.
Photographed by the Ecole Biblique 1922.
Bombed by the IDF 2024.

From the exhibition Trésors Sauvés de Gaza - 5000 ans d'histoire at L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

Excuse me, I think I have to vomit. 🤮

Me too! 🤮

Interestingly, just bought this in charity shop. Looks like a great read!

SCOTLAND - OUR LAND? A guest post by Kyle RentonThe Isle of Rona has been sold.The last two people living on the island - off the coast of Skye - are preparing to leave. The new owners? Daniel Luhde-Thompson, a hedge fund manager, based in England, and Cressida Pollock, a high-level financial consultant and former CEO of the English National Opera. The deal was done quietly, through a company called Fior Rona Ltd. The old owners? A Danish couple by the names of Dorte and Arne Jensen.Another island gone. Another comm

'This is how it happens: slowly, silently, legally. One island at a time. One estate at a time. One shell company at a time. Until Scotland becomes a patchwork of private retreats, corporate playgrounds, and sealed-off havens for the rich.'
Kyle Renton, via Scotland Decides
www.scotlanddecides....

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Britain?

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Do we know where these are?

Well, I’m gonna insist that you listen to this.

Definition of terms:

“these people” = Latino migrants

“Inner city people” = Black people

“We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping

A powerful anti-rights movement is growing in the UK A powerful anti-rights movement is growing in the UK, threatening to roll back our hard-won freedoms and rewrite the rules on whose rights, bodies and lives deserve protection. But - we refuse to be d...

Our analysis maps a web of 65 anti-rights groups operating across the UK, including anti-abortion organisations, groups promoting so-called "conversion therapy" & UK branches of powerful US organisations.

Read the analysis here 👇🏾 www.amnesty.org.uk/anti-rights

I know what it’s like to have no control over your body, your decisions or your future.

Now, powerful groups are spending hundreds of millions to bring that world to all of us.

Amnesty UK is exposing them. Don’t look away.

"What is happening may well come to define one of its [the world's] darkest eras. One that casts a stain on humanity which will endure for generations."

ITV News aerial footage of Gaza.

Why oh why are the SNP not all over this? It's the biggest gift Westminster could give them as it directly affects evety single person living, working, studying, holidaying, in Scotland.

C'mon @johnswinney.bsky.social - get on it!!!

🧵NEW: This is an unprecedented intervention.

Almost every single living, former head of the IDF, Mossad (Israeli foreign intelligence), Shin Bet (domestic intelligence) & Police Commissioner urges an end to Israel’s war in Gaza.

“This is an extremist government. It has taken us all hostage.”

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YouTube video by Octopus Energy Octopus CEO reacts to government dropping zonal electricity pricing

The CEO of Octopus Energy reacting to the rejection of zonal pricing by the Labour government in London.

It's going to cost £4bn a year, paid for by consumers, and the alternative pricing model doesn't actually exist.

Scottish consumers will be the biggest losers.

youtube.com/shorts/_-nZX...

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Three years ago today, the wonderful Isle of Gigha 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Parenthood review – one of the crabs in David Attenborough’s new naturefest is like a 1940s movie villain This tale of animals nurturing offspring runs from orphaned lion cubs to cannibal child spiders. It’s the crustaceans that make for some of the most ingenious footage, though

Parenthood review – one of the crabs in David Attenborough’s new naturefest is like a 1940s movie villain

If genocide isn't your redline, then you have no redlines.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge was closed temporarily as tens of thousands of Australians made their voices heard against Israel's genocide in Gaza. #FreePalestine #3E

Really? 🥱

View of Gaza taken from a Jordanian military aircraft.

Nothing justifies this. Where are people meant to go? What are they meant to do? 💔