Rikki

Rikki

@rikkimaha.bsky.social

Ex Twitterist. Sweary type. Part keeper of @highlandjock.bsky.social & not unfamiliar with a good glass of Guinness. May try and behave better on this platform. Possibly...

137 Followers 257 Following 18 Posts Joined Oct 2024
3 months ago
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Statement on CDC autism website changes Our organizations, representing autistic individuals, their families, medical professionals and public health workers, are alarmed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is promoting the ...

It is unprecedented that 47 medical and public health organizations should come together to condemn the actions of the CDC.
www.apha.org/news-and-med...

1. American Academy of Pediatrics
2. Academic Pediatric Association
3. American Academy of Family Physicians ....

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4 months ago

BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.

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4 months ago

Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.

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4 months ago
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‘Scotland’s place is in Europe’: Guy Verhofstadt on Brexit and the way back to the EU

EXCLUSIVE: Former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt on Scottish independence and the UK in Europe

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7 months ago

Wind and Solar electricity are 8x cheaper than Fossil Fuel, but China is still building more renewable energy than the rest of the world COMBINED.

This is because most of that 8x cost is going to the $4tn a year Fossil Fuel profits, and they won't let their flow of money stop.

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7 months ago
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Welp

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Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

Deliberate, calculated murder 😡

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7 months ago
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If Keir Starmer wants a positive relationship with the Scottish Government, he needs to get his Environment Secretary to retract his totally inaccurate comments about Scotland’s water.

Our rivers are cleaner, our bills are lower - and public ownership delivers for people, not profit. 👇

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7 months ago
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The UK state pension, worst in the world.

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9 months ago

Quelle surprise... he has long had form for this... radio interviews on BBC Shortbread with him are often blighted (and usually unchallenged) by constant interruptions...

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10 months ago

Agreed! Farage is a destroyer not a fixer!

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1 year ago
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No second state visit for Trump This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

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1 year ago

Great news....problem is that he'll take his fascist dialogue elsewhere

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1 year ago
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Fourteen hours before the crash. 👇

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1 year ago

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.

Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.

While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant per person of £10tn.

That's how privatisation 'works'.

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1 year ago

Rachel Reeves has given Oxford & Cambridge 'the worlds best Universities' £200b, while the actual best university for the last 5 years, St Andrews gets nothing. Are you YES yet? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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1 year ago

Please sign. 👇👇

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1 year ago

Many Scots will be concerned re bbc, stv and sky news reporting critical incidents in UK hospital trusts. PLEASE BE ASSURED, TO DATE, THERE HAVE BEEN NO CRITICAL INCIDENTS IN SCOTTISH TRUSTS, THIS WINTER! THE SNP SUPPORTING THE SNHS.

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1 year ago
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Petition: Implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in Scottish legislation Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ensure that, prior to the next Holyrood parliamentary election, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) i...

To all Scotlands residents who want Independence:
Please sign:

petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

I am willing to buy more from Denmark if Trump hits them with tariffs.

Put me down for half a ton of bacon, 2 tubs of Lurpak and a Schmeichel.

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1 year ago
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Fact-Checking Trump’s Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago The president-elect made inaccurate claims about his predecessor’s energy policies and repeated familiar falsehoods on a number of topics.

President-elect Trump reprised familiar falsehoods in a news conference on Tuesday. Among them were inaccurate claims about the Jan. 6 attack, international affairs, trade and whale deaths. Here’s a fact-check.

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1 year ago
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Elon Musk Aims to Start a Race War in the United Kingdom. Is the United States His Next Target? Somehow this message isn’t crossing international boundaries with the alacrity or the urgency it needs to: Elon Musk is now a global threat, and his actions will cause mass violence in the near term.

This is a massive, urgent report. If you read it all and follow all the in-text citations, you will be as anxious as I am right now.

Not just America but the world is headed for ruin under the Trump-Musk autocracy we’re now just fourteen days away from.

These men aren’t well, and they intend evil.

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First pupils who don’t sit maths fail it, now bigger ferry to help with summer demand emits more than smaller one which islanders moaned about – BBC Scotland News goes full steam up a creek Two days ago BBC Scotland had ‘Worrying’ 40% of Scottish pupils passed maths’ (Now removed from web!) then we discovered elsewhere that 68% of those who actually sat it, had passe…

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/12/30/f...

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1 year ago

United States 2024:

499 mass shootings

16,576 deaths from guns (excluding suicides)

5,151 children and teens were shot
1,403 of those children and teens died

1,133 civilians were shot and killed by police, with Black American killed at twice the rate

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1 year ago
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Dishing the dirt on detox | Jay Rayner A self-confessed glutton, Jay Rayner has always been wary of the ‘January detox’. But after talking to experts and sampling some of the products, he’s discovered the truth is even worse than he imagin...

Perhaps you’re considering a January detox: herbal teas, mud baths and the like. By all means knock the booze on the head for a bit. But the rest of it? Total bollocks. Because you already have a liver and kidneys. Here’s something I wrote a while back.

www.theguardian.com/global/2017/...

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