Elizabeth Rimmer

In case you missed it ...
Here's Dominic Cummings admitting that it was illicit data mining and an online propaganda blitz after Jo Cox's muder (when both sides had agreed to stop campaigning) that brought about the Leave referendum win. We now know it was financed illegally too.

#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

We get this sometimes too. I post a copy of Rascal Children of Gaza on my facebook page, that puts it into perspective!

'Cathartic': Indigenous Celtic heritage shines in Mairi Campbell’s Fringe show

Scots singer Mairi Campbell goes deep into indigenous Celtic heritage in her Edinburgh Fringe show

I know a bunch of people who clocked the unionist riot in George Square and thought what would they be like if they’d lost, and those people are still scared.

Screenshot of an email: Hi Rachel, Thank you for contacting us about the article you’ve seen. We want our stores to be inclusive and welcoming places for our colleagues and customers. We have written to this customer and explained that our colleagues typically work across all departments in our stores and customers can always ask to speak to the colleague they feel most comfortable with. We also explained that our colleague was asking a customer if they needed help; they were not working on bra fit or offering this. Thank you again for getting in touch.

I wrote to M&S about the stupid lingerie department story - confirms nobody offered a bra fitting to a teenage girl. The Telegraph and JK can (always) do one.

She wrote a novel which involved NI terrorists which was horrible horribly racist and imperialist.

Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."

Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well:

‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’

Wtf?

John Swinney to consider imposing state boycott on Israel

The Scottish Government is considering imposing a state boycott on Israel, The National can reveal

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

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This seems like a very good project if you can donate
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Weirdest stories I’ve come across all day and that includes nuclear fusion on the moon.

" ... a stain on humanity, which will endure for generations."

The before footage of a busy Gaza strip are an awful contrast to the bombed and obliterated hospitals, schools, old people's homes, housing and shops. "The most moral army."

A trans person being in the same room as you is not a violation of your privacy. Demanding to know whether a person in a room with you is trans or not IS a violation of their privacy. It's endemic of how fucking far the needle has moved that this simple fact is so lost on so many people.

The Sameer Project - Open Collective Palestinian-led mutual aid group supporting people in Gaza during the genocide.

As well as individual crowdfunders, if you want to support people in Gaza, this mutual aid group are feeding people on the ground. #FreePalestine opencollective.com/the-sameer-p...

We call them berry bugs in Scotland, and sometimes knicker elastic bugs. For reasons that will occur to you!

Good. I must admit they are largely readers of the mail of a certain age! But the official attitude to Ireland (why don’t they just rejoin the UK) from the previous government rather reflects it.

You’d think! The collective narcissism is something to behold!

Cannot tell you the number of English people who have said of ex-empire countries, ‘they really miss us’, ‘they say it was better when we were in charge’.

They really believe it but vanity cannot permit them to accept that we could manage without them, or that we might really want to.

Israel won't let them have food that contains seeds.

Seeds.

They're not allowed to plant something and water it and watch it grow.

They're not allowed to have hope for a future.

Israel won't let them have SEEDS.

Last time we got to this point the nuclear people put out a press release pretty much saying he’s only showing off in front of his friends and of course there’s a responsible adult in the room with him at al times.

Can't wait to celebrate the legacy of Mary Barbour this Sunday 💪

I am so sorry that you have to put up with this. I hope you are wrong, and I hope that you get to see this nonsense revoked very quickly.

I am considerably older than she is, and at no time referring to another person as ‘it’ would have been considered as acceptable.

Grasshopper Days Lughnasadh Greetings from The Hill of the PoetsI am thinking of the fable of the grasshopper and the ant - the grasshopper singing and playing music through...

A newsletter - a bit what I did on my holidays, but some poetry stuff too.
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It's an honour & a beautiful thing to have been invited to become *Poet in Residence* for the @insuhi.bsky.social this place of learning; research & its people, so dear to me & immensely formative in my writing of poetry in & of the Highlands & Islands www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...

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She was clearly an all-purpose bully from the get go. Culture wars just gave her another stick to wave at people.

Clearly the emergency is crisis of authority posed by the large number of MPs who have signed the protest letter demanding he recognise Palestine.