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Maggie Gordon

@farmqueen.bsky.social

With more of my life behind me than ahead, still baking bread, still cooking and trying to find words to explain what’s going on in the world. I dislike inequality. Another new Leither.

1,106 Followers  |  1,043 Following  |  48 Posts  |  Joined: 14.11.2024  |  1.7908

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Thinking is an act of resistance Thinking is an act of resistance.

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26.02.2026 12:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Assisted dying law approved in Jersey The Jersey vote means five parliaments across the British Isles are now debating assisted dying.

BREAKING: Jersey approves assisted dying law which could come into force as early as next summer

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26.02.2026 11:47 — 👍 167    🔁 25    💬 8    📌 0
Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin

Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.

A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin

@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.

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26.02.2026 03:57 — 👍 42    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

A vote for Matt Goodwin/Reform in #GortonAndDenton is a vote for racism and misogyny. A vote to shame the constituency, to divide and fail it. It’s a vote that takes no responsibility for its consequences because it hasn’t thought about them and doesn’t care enough to do that.
Don’t be that voter.

26.02.2026 07:44 — 👍 1193    🔁 407    💬 44    📌 10
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Maternity negligence in NHS Scotland falls dramatically in last three years to only one seventh, per head, of that in NHS England but the Herald desperately tries to suggest a crisis here Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON The Herald front page today is frankly disgust…

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23.02.2026 13:45 — 👍 14    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0
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Scottish school kid creates tartan for Brazil to be used at World Cup

NEW: A pupil from North Ayrshire with an eye for design is set to have her creation showcased at the World Cup

17.02.2026 17:04 — 👍 23    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 3
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Murder by stabbing in Scotland has fallen in a steady trend to half of the level of 6 years ago but the Herald seeks to scare you Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. I am not, in any way, disputing the case for police officers confronted with a knife-wielding attacker to be able to protect themselves fully an…

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15.02.2026 09:50 — 👍 26    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 1
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Starmer allies hired investigators to look into author of McSweeney book KEIR Starmer's allies hired private investigators to explore the background of an author whose book led to the resignation of the Prime Minister's…

If you've seen the Sunday Times today you'll know Labour Together were secretly hiring people to investigate journalists.

Sadly you won't know that The National broke this story six months ago, since our work is not credited at all.

Here's the original 👇

www.thenational.scot/news/2550403...

15.02.2026 12:12 — 👍 337    🔁 175    💬 2    📌 12

30 000 views last week!

15.02.2026 12:40 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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Talking-up Scotland yesterday attracted more than eight thousand discrete visitors and more than ten thousand views yet….. Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Yesterday, in one day alone, Talking-up Scotland performed like this: The 6 posts, like those on almost every other day in the year took hours t…

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14.02.2026 12:19 — 👍 15    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 0

Well done to you all. Come on @labourhame.com get Jakey B to congratulate our marvellous SNHS

12.02.2026 16:32 — 👍 20    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

Today my students asked about AI advertising to student populations/campuses and I recommended that they read tech bro rhetoric about AI while swapping out "AI" for the terms "slavery," "pollution," "billionaire profits," or "deep state surveillance," and we had a great time. Highly recommend.

12.02.2026 01:25 — 👍 421    🔁 91    💬 17    📌 4
Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin

Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.

A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin

@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.

Please repost with your own caption.

12.02.2026 10:57 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Please help us with the cost of setting up our new studio. We have raised almost £9,000 of our £30k crowdfunder target, but we are still short of what is needed.

www.broadcastingscotland.scot/donate/

12.02.2026 08:50 — 👍 15    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 2

Ratcliffe is where populism leads. To multimillionaires spouting ignorant racist horseshit that divides us but unites the far right in their cynical bid to exploit prejudice for power. Ratcliffe will just shrug from his tax haven home. He doesn’t care. Farage laps it up. Everyone else loses.

12.02.2026 08:47 — 👍 910    🔁 276    💬 31    📌 7
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We are working hard to do our first broadcast from our new Stirling studio on Sunday. We have doors to the studio and control room now. Tomorrow we fit windows and accoustic panels in the studio. On Friday lighting rig and monitors get installed. This would be much easier if I was younger and fitter

11.02.2026 22:29 — 👍 37    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1

@labourhame.com if you really do care about Scotland you should be proud of this shouldn’t you?

11.02.2026 22:41 — 👍 19    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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Cambridge University museum set to return Benin bronzes to Nigeria A Cambridge University museum  will shortly return around 100 Benin bronzes to Nigeria as part of a major restitution initiative, the UK's weekly newspaper the Observer has reported.

Excellent choice!

11.02.2026 17:51 — 👍 565    🔁 125    💬 12    📌 3
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Mandelson, Palantir and the NHS What are the implications of the newest tranche of Epstein files for the NHS? Lucy Nichols examines Peter Mandelson’s close friendship with Jeffery Epstein has sparked a crisis in the heart of ...

Mandelson, Palantir and the NHS keepournhspublic.com/mandelson-pa...

11.02.2026 16:44 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag

www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...

11.02.2026 16:53 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Khanna: There were two rounds of redactions. There was the original FBI redactions… and they did a second round of redactions at the DOJ. What they’re showing members now is the unredacted version of the DOJ’s redactions—not the original FBI redactions. They’re in blatant violation of the law.

11.02.2026 00:50 — 👍 18211    🔁 5970    💬 355    📌 179
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Resident doctors in Scotland vote to accept pay offer and avoid strike action RESIDENT doctors have voted to accept a revised pay and contract reform offer and call off strike action

Strike action avoided in Scotland yet again but the English Health Secretary , Streeting doesn’t care about patients and waiting lists in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Well done the adults in the Scottish govt.
Resident doctors in Scotland vote to accept pay offer and avoid strike action
www.thenational.scot/news/2584444...

11.02.2026 15:22 — 👍 68    🔁 50    💬 0    📌 2
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Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"

www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...

#R4Today

11.02.2026 07:05 — 👍 3256    🔁 1627    💬 68    📌 312
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Labour sleaze and its dangerous association with Palantir To paraphrase Shakespeare, Oh what a revolting web we weave when we mire ourselves in sleaze. Labour’s self inflicted paedophile adjacent chaos continues. Starmer has now belatedly removed th…

Labour sleaze and its dangerous association with Palantir. Anas Sarwar's incessant attacks on NHS Scotland are an attempt to soften up the Scottish public for private company involvement in NHS Scotland. Only indy parties will protect NHS Scotland.

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11.02.2026 14:39 — 👍 71    🔁 52    💬 4    📌 3
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#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...

11.02.2026 08:48 — 👍 3934    🔁 828    💬 23    📌 21

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10.02.2026 11:35 — 👍 3    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Remember that when you're standing in the ballot box, a government that could do so much more with full power 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

10.02.2026 14:53 — 👍 30    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency.

She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.

10.02.2026 00:41 — 👍 23114    🔁 5623    💬 761    📌 293

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

10.02.2026 11:40 — 👍 3045    🔁 677    💬 63    📌 12
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Charity says worst form of homelessness in Scotland is about half as high as in England thanks to Scottish ministers having the “right political will” to tackle the problem. Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. The Daily Record’s Dan Vevers has been out in the streets of Glasgow finding out what it’s like for rough-sleepers. Ironically, the …

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/09/c...

09.02.2026 08:35 — 👍 27    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 0

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