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James T. Harding

@empowermint.bsky.social

Liable to tweet about books (SFF), RPGs, queer politics, Edinburgh, TypeScript, and my cats. Former publisher now working as a software engineer. He/him

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A torn-paper effect separates this from the bottom half, which features a green-tinted photograph of Scottish Green supporters. Overlaid in large, white, capital letters is the message: "HELP US FIGHT BACK BY SUPPORTING OUR CROWDFUNDER." The poster includes a QR code, the URL "edinburgh.greens.scot/fund-2026," and the Edinburgh Greens logo in the bottom right corner.

A torn-paper effect separates this from the bottom half, which features a green-tinted photograph of Scottish Green supporters. Overlaid in large, white, capital letters is the message: "HELP US FIGHT BACK BY SUPPORTING OUR CROWDFUNDER." The poster includes a QR code, the URL "edinburgh.greens.scot/fund-2026," and the Edinburgh Greens logo in the bottom right corner.

Reform’s billionaire backers want to fill Holyrood with MSPs that will do their bidding.

@scottishgreens.org are different.

Our MSPs are not for sale. We don’t have billionaires or oil and gas barons writing our policies. Our donations come from ordinary people like you.

04.03.2026 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Labour is so scared of the Green Party | The News Agents New polling shows the Green Party closing on Reform’s lead in popularity with UK voters, despite growing right-wing attacks on the party and its surging numbers. Is Labour struggling to respond to a n...

β€œWhen it was Reform winning, he treated those voters with respect”

Excellent points here about why Greens are surging and why the Labour leadership and the Conservatives are losing the plot. www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...

04.03.2026 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Spanish PM Pedro SΓ‘nchez on Iran: β€œSpain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

1/2

04.03.2026 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5001    πŸ” 1614    πŸ’¬ 105    πŸ“Œ 211
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1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

03.03.2026 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2250    πŸ” 822    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 134

I am begging you, everyone, please do not use LLMs as a source of information for anything important

02.03.2026 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The UK's permission for the US to use its bases in attacking Iran amounts to complicity in the crime of aggression. It drags us into what could be an endless war, without democratic or even parliamentary consent.

02.03.2026 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1609    πŸ” 425    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 28

No, Shabana Mahmood, people seeing failing state support and crumbing infrastructure don't have either legitimate concerns or a legitimate grievance against immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers.

They have a legitimate grievance against governments.

02.03.2026 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 921    πŸ” 258    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 10
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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

28.02.2026 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 12927    πŸ” 5236    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 178

β€œThe forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

28.02.2026 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2624    πŸ” 1127    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 32

The amount of joy and positivity in the U.K. this morning is wonderful. People voted for community, for inclusion, for collectivism and togetherness. This election has been a complete rejection of division, othering and nasty politics

27.02.2026 07:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2396    πŸ” 248    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 15

Hilarious that the β€œisland of strangers” man is coming for the most inclusive electoral coalition going

27.02.2026 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our party has just come third in Gorton and Denton, a previously safe Labour seat - an area where we haven't lost an election since 1931.

It is those running our party who are to blame. We need change at the top and serious lessons need to be learnt:

27.02.2026 07:38 β€” πŸ‘ 981    πŸ” 196    πŸ’¬ 180    πŸ“Œ 92

Good morning.

If you've just woken up, the politics of hope just crushed the politics of fear and hatred (Labour-Reform).

It wasn't even close.

40.6% for the Greens. Reform second on 28.7%, Labour third on 25.4%.

27.02.2026 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2038    πŸ” 372    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 36
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Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here

26.02.2026 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3371    πŸ” 601    πŸ’¬ 220    πŸ“Œ 383

It’d be one thing if deceptive campaigning only rebounded on the offending party, but in practice voters’ trust in politics as a whole is undermined

26.02.2026 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

On the same day as the G&D by-election 😬

26.02.2026 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The privatisation of public services is a failed Thatcherite experiment.

We need to de-privatise all our essential services so they can be run in the public interest and not just for shareholder profits.

26.02.2026 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
We've saved Loch Lomond. Flamingo Land Rejected! Scottish Greens.

We've saved Loch Lomond. Flamingo Land Rejected! Scottish Greens.

We've saved Loch Lomond!

For the last decade, we have fought to save Loch Lomond from Flamingo Land's destructive mega-resort plan. Today, their plans have been rejected!

#SaveLochLomond 🚫🦩

24.02.2026 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 345    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 20
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I find it very strange to think about lost civilizations where people just had quite a chill time for generations and generations across millennia, living lives as if their world was eternal.

23.02.2026 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 222    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 1
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Water company bosses rake in Β£15million bonanza while bills and pollution soar Before a hard-hitting Channel 4 television drama about the water industry hits our screens, research has shown the ongoing rewards for company bosses and their owners

England water company bosses raked in Β£15m+ in pay/perks last yr.

Β£900m dividends paid. Customer bills up 26%.

Companies have 1200 criminal convictions. Fines not collected.

Sewage dumping killing people.

No exec prosecuted.

End the scam. Must Nationalise.

22.02.2026 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 579    πŸ” 313    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 16

Worth noting that they’ve used personal names instead of β€˜The Labour Party’ on the imprint, making it harder to see this is a Labour-funded ad

22.02.2026 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.

www.therage.co/persona-age-...

21.02.2026 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1228    πŸ” 606    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 58
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πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈβœ¨ TRANS PRIDE SCOTLAND 2026 - EDINBURGH βœ¨πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

Trans Pride Scotland will be held in Edinburgh at 12:30pm on Saturday 28th March!

This year, we're taking the form of a static protest outside of the Scottish Parliament. Let's show them that we are NEVER going away.

GET UP, GET LOUD, GET LIBERATED.

19.02.2026 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Labour appear to be more interested in suppressing the left than they are in protecting the UK from the far right

22.02.2026 10:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.

WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out

17.02.2026 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 717    πŸ” 273    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 630

Well there's a graph for you.

20.02.2026 08:11 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 13

The entire UK diplomatic budget is about Β£1.4 billion a year. That’s pretty much precisely 0.1% of government spending.

BBC World Service is about Β£0.25 billion (it should be higher), or 0.02%.

These are rounding errors on rounding errors. Double each and public expenditure wouldn’t twitch.

Mad.

15.02.2026 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 253    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 6

The lack of branding difference between the Guardian and the Guardian’s spinoff US edition is really very unhelpful.

Measles is sweeping the nation…

Which nation?

It’s quite important you tell us which nation!

16.02.2026 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Starting the day side-eyeing Labour people pretending not to understand that all the β€˜step down to avoid splitting the left’ comments are satirising their own electoral strategy

16.02.2026 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0