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27 Nov 2024
"Nothing but the best and brightest"
27 Nov 2024
The former Conservative leader Lord William Hague has been elected as Oxford University's next Chancellor.
Lord Hague will start a ten-year term as the University's 160th Chancellor.
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25 Nov 2024
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25 Nov 2024
Labour have:
- Taken away the Winter Fuel Payment.
- Underfunded the Scottish Parliament to the tune of £200m accounting for UK Parliament tax rises.
- Demanded the Scottish Parliament reinstates the Winter Fuel Payment.
They just don't get Scotland.
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20 Nov 2024
Check out the latest short film from @ScotLDO following on from #ThisIsMe22 & sharing some of the work @UofGlasgow & partners have been doing to continue to tackle inequalities & barriers to inclusion faced by people with #learningdisabilities zurl.co/kPKx
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19 Nov 2024
This is bullshit.
19 Nov 2024
"The inheritance tax may mean the I'm the last generation farmer."
Farmer Judith says Labour's inheritance tax plan could be the end of her family farm.
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14 Nov 2024
I simply cannot believe that the time available to MPs to debate a decision that could led to thousands of people receiving state assistance in ending their lives prematurely is… 5 hours.
Nor that an argument currently doing the rounds in parliament to win over uncertain MPs is that we “already have” outstanding palliative care in the UK, so nobody fails to receive the best care. We do not. We are so, so far from it. UK palliative care in 2024 is a desperately under-resourced Cinderella service and this is causing untold avoidable suffering for patients who sometimes long to end their lives because WE failed to fund the care that might make life still worth living.
Fix that first - please - then talk about assisted dying.
Please don’t ignore or disbelieve what those of us who work in palliative care witness daily.
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13 Nov 2024
Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X theguardian.com/media/2024/n…
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12 Nov 2024
I once believed that the Israeli government's slaughter of civilians was indiscriminate. I was completely wrong. It is deliberate, massive and plainly genocidal.
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13 Nov 2024
Quite.
12 Nov 2024
“How would anyone know if someone had been coerced [into assisted dying]?”
@vicderbyshire presses Christine Jardine, Lib Dem MP for Edinburgh West and supporter of the latest assisted dying bill, about the safeguards for the proposed new law.
#Newsnight
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13 Nov 2024
🗞️Midweek read!
🚶♀️The upper end of High Street sees hundreds of thousands pass by every year on their way to Glasgow Cathedral. It should be stuffed with independent shops and cafes.
Instead traders say they've literally been left to rot. But, by who? glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgows-o…
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12 Nov 2024
That only people from a demographic can write about it. I think it's a pretty destructive pov.
Btw the term 'leftist' is fucking bullshit too
8 Nov 2024
As a leftist, is there anything you’ve seen that can be considered woke that you actually think is bad?
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12 Nov 2024
Weird how our associations are built up. Most people associate silent film as just amusing comedy & short films of trains
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11 Nov 2024
That is sad af news. Bought ny first jumping beans here
11 Nov 2024
Tam Shepherds, a Glasgow institution since 1886, have closed their joke shop, believed to be the world's oldest, due to high costs and redevelopment in the area. The good news is their online shop remains open. I'm sure many of you have fond memories of visiting this wee place.
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10 Nov 2024
Lol
For once I say 'good on you Apple'
9 Nov 2024
Update: confirmed Apple quietly introduced code that reboots iPhones after not being interacted with after a period of time. That's what is locking out cops 404media.co/apple-quietly-in…
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9 Nov 2024
Google took it on by using the worst tactics of the crapware crowd. And now Chrome is everywhere & Google are using that market dominance to take control of your browsing.
I still use Firefox
9 Nov 2024
On November 9, 2004, Mozilla Corporation released a multiplatform web browser, Firefox 1.0.
Firefox gained major popularity among users and exceeded 1 billion downloads between 2004 and 2009.
#WebDesignHistory
ALT Web browser Firefox 1.0 in 2004
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8 Nov 2024
I'm not big on 38 Degress but at least someone is trying to do something to protest at the proposed #Edinburgh council cuts to Educational Support (eg ASL) here.
This doesn't just affect the disabled, it affects everyone.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio…
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7 Nov 2024
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6 Nov 2024
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.
And they’re right.
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7 Nov 2024
Scottish Water has said no. Drowning in profits & with a Chief Exec who makes hundreds of thousands of pounds pa they've DMd me saying restoring beautiful pumps would cost too much.
I think Parliament should compel them. What do you think?
@scottish_water
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7 Nov 2024
Maybe don't support genocide, and maybe try making people's lives materially better. Stuff like that.
Maybe don't tell people they're wrong for caring about others
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7 Nov 2024
Good. Maybe ban everyone else too
7 Nov 2024
Australia says it will ban children aged under 16 from using social media, with penalties for platforms which fail to comply.
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