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Maria João Kay

@joaokay.bsky.social

Lusitania, Caledonia, art, books, history and culture.

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15.02.2026 01:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Melania's film is so bad, They've released some of the Epstein files as a distraction.

Melania's film is so bad, They've released some of the Epstein files as a distraction.

It's still a cover-up
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche admits that the DOJ excluded all images showing “death, physical abuse, or injury” from Epstein files release.
DEATH? The truth is probably far worse than anyone can imagine.

14.02.2026 18:58 — 👍 1007    🔁 308    💬 53    📌 0
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Thinkin o ma late faither Alexander Kay on this his birthday. A passionate Scot - he gied us aw pride in oor Ayrshire heritage, oor leid, oor leiterature, and oor kintrae, Scotland.
Delighted tae that his name is reborn in oor wee grandson Alexander Kay Dawson.

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“We don’t need Englishmen to rule us. We can do that for ourselves.”

Powerful words from Pat Cullen MP speaking in Westminster during a debate on the rising support for independence parties across Ireland, Scotland and Wales.👇
www.facebook.com/share/r/17o6...

14.02.2026 13:35 — 👍 45    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 0
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Oh wow Jim Crow!

14.02.2026 17:21 — 👍 450    🔁 210    💬 18    📌 12
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The USA today. #MAGA
By Jesse Duquette

14.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Another loathsome billionaire. So stupid too! They’re a sickness in the modern world, deceiving people and feeding their worse instincts.

14.02.2026 12:36 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The best! 💖💖

14.02.2026 11:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New name for tax evasion.

14.02.2026 08:25 — 👍 48    🔁 30    💬 6    📌 4
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We are still waiting for the rest of the Epstein files. Stop breaking the law, #pambondi

14.02.2026 02:13 — 👍 5140    🔁 1923    💬 154    📌 63
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Translation: I will steal this election, and my lawyers will find a thin excuse to justify it.

13.02.2026 23:03 — 👍 11230    🔁 3525    💬 1603    📌 427

Which good human wouldn’t?

14.02.2026 11:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is fae the chapter The Last Gemme in ma memoir Born in Kyle. The Cuban Missile crisis wis ragin in 1962 sae me an ma pals decidit we’d organise ae last gemme, jist in case! Later in life I learned it wis a fellow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 nationalist, Paul Scott wha defused the tension in Cuba. It’s aw on Audible.

14.02.2026 11:29 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

💖💖🎂

12.02.2026 18:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy birthday tae ma braw lad Euan - the best boay in the haill wide warld. @joaokay.bsky.social

12.02.2026 14:09 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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“I thought Anas saying that he liked Keir but he had to put Scotland first was priceless - comedy gold in fact - because on talking to them both on the phone last night the one thing we all agree upon is that none of us gives a flying f**k about Scotland. We had such a good laugh!”

10.02.2026 18:59 — 👍 29    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0
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3/3 All the Scots writers engaged in a balancing act between the two cultures, but it was only when Ramsay, Fergusson & Burns wrote in Scots that the balance tilted from precious gentility towards greatness ‑ proof that Scots still held the heart if not the mind of the intelligentsia of the period.

09.02.2026 16:30 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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2 / 3 Fortunately, Burns was enough of his own man to ignore the advice of the literary elite to write solely in English; otherwise he would have been just another obscure, stilted versifier like Blacklock or Beattie, instead of one of the world's genuinely popular yet great poets

09.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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1 of 3 Henry MacKenzie's important review of Burns in The Lounger is favourable up to a point, but the
fashion for English propriety is gets in the way of objective criticism:

One bar indeed, his birth and education have opposed to his fame - the language in which most of his poems are written.

09.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

09.02.2026 16:07 — 👍 32550    🔁 9755    💬 536    📌 353
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Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

09.02.2026 15:55 — 👍 56287    🔁 18243    💬 1293    📌 971
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Howard Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations Recently disclosed records suggest a closer relationship than the Commerce secretary previously indicated.

Secretary Howard Lutnick lied to the country about his ties to Epstein.

Now we learned that they were in business together.

He has no business being our Commerce Secretary.

He should resign.
www.politico.com/live-updates...

09.02.2026 18:19 — 👍 13803    🔁 4571    💬 845    📌 264

Howard Lutnick continues to hide from the media since the last Epstein release.

09.02.2026 17:52 — 👍 8760    🔁 1994    💬 423    📌 105
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#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

07.02.2026 15:07 — 👍 2269    🔁 579    💬 54    📌 15
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A passage from my memoir Born in Kyle on our Scottish identity in the 1960s before the rise of the modern national movement. My dad had a dry wit that told it like it was. A true TV memory. You can get the book on Amazon & Kindle. I can even whisper it aw in yer lugs on Audible!

08.02.2026 10:03 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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