🏳️🌈🇪🇺Totally unapologetic eco ‘saboteur Remoaner’ and woke af. Outsider settled in Scotland🏴 and happy to help build the border wall with Perma-Tory™️ England once Scotland’s independence is regained 😘. My tolerance for ‘I reckon’ responses is microns thin — I block dribblers with alacrity, have even been known to block entire gammon shielding instances too…
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Last Notes npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Shits south of the Border, shits north of the border too - at least Conservatives are predictable in that respect… Scottish Tory MP hits out at party after being replaced by short arsed Douglas-I’m-Standing-Down-Ross https://news.stv.tv/politics/general-election-tory-mp-hits-out-at-party-after-being-replaced-by-ross npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 No Greens — who have more seats than the Limp Dems in Holyrood… Scotland is just a backwater to U.K. media https://news.stv.tv/west-central/scottish-party-leaders-set-for-stv-general-election-debate-in-glasgow-on-monday-night?utm_source=app npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 My office this evening #ForTheLoveOfScotland🏴 https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/537/969/198/524/555/original/003c6358db5a82c7.jpeg https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/537/969/218/970/272/original/8ffb38b46c327b13.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Labour or Tories — just as corrupt as each other. Labour figures who approved Gething's 'dodgy donations' now running election campaign. Starmer has packed the Party’s PPCs with lobbyists. He’s even more brazen than the Conservatives in polluting our politics. #WeDeserveBetter — so vote for it. Get rid of Labour and Tories for good. In #GE2024 vote for parties that support STV PR — vote Green, SNP, Plaid or Sinn Féin. Easy peasy. https://apple.news/AACtDm3z3SMyov7fteMx9ng npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 What a load of old bollocks. It’s the 21st Century people!!!?!?!?!!! We don’t need the made up delusions of a bunch of mentally ill people anymore. We can work shit out for ourselves — with science explaining the hard bits. https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/501/001/446/720/232/original/4ae8aa571ec36b2c.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 It’s a puzzle, Owen… 🤔 https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/500/988/734/484/234/original/e0eead82b680f8d6.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Have you noticed that those that bellow “don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress” at you are not only misquoting Voltaire but they’re also the most likely to be completely resistant to any shifts whatsoever away from the failing status quo? Ignore them. #WeDeserveBetter and we can vote for it. #GennyLecs24 #GE2024 https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/495/608/912/940/020/original/e85b902f7a81597d.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Have you noticed that those that bellow “don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress” at you are not only misquoting Voltaire but they’re also the most likely to be completely resistant to any shifts whatsoever away from the failing status quo? Ignore them. #WeDeserveBetter and we can vote for it. #GennyLecs24 #GE2024 https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/495/571/956/225/592/original/1883c304770c0b33.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Have you noticed that those that bellow “don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress” at you are not only misquoting Voltaire but they’re also the most likely to be completely resistant to any shifts whatsoever away from the failing status quo? Ignore them. #WeDeserveBetter and we can vote for it. #VoteGreen💚 at #GennyLecs24 #GE2024 npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Tycoon accused of bribery gave cash to Labour and Tories #WeDeserveBetter https://apple.news/An-I8wAyBQEO4nCHgcg_QIg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Humanity deserves everything coming its way… https://news.sky.com/story/beyond-ignorant-man-filmed-body-slamming-orca-in-new-zealand-is-fined-13141109 npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 British born baby told to leave Britain. Labour’s silence on these stories is deafening. #WeDeserveBetter — vote for it at #GennyLecs24, #VoteGreen💚 https://news.sky.com/story/one-year-old-massah-was-born-in-uk-now-shes-being-ordered-to-leave-to-maintain-integrity-of-immigration-laws-13142190 npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Nicola Sturgeon still being investigated over missing SNP funds Police Scotland confirm inquiries continuing as report is submitted to Crown Office on Peter Murrell, the former first minister’s husband, who has been charged with embezzlement https://apple.news/ApmKlaqVfRwOpHnYrdMw2gw npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Oh dear. What a shame. Never mind. Baby serial killer Lucy Letby loses bid to challenge murder convictions https://apple.news/A5nRgJ63XRhaiOX1X04pDsg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Like the UK America operates under the false premise of being a democracy. Neither country with winner takes all gerrymandered voting blocks that don’t represent the people but are stacked to favour the rightwing is anywhere near being a democracy. America adds on the anti-democratic Electoral College. Both countries need STV PR. Let the people speak and decide. #MakeVotesMatter #FairVotes https://apple.news/AZOIMen_YQhub0FEgW1pjfA npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Michael Gove flirts with the toxic fantasies of the hard right at his peril https://apple.news/AqtyEZg2fTVefUfySPkq5BA https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/495/185/264/393/292/original/4c852520868ffd77.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Is your local pub ripping you off? TLDR: Yes, over 90% of beer short measured… #RipOffBritain https://apple.news/AkNqzIQFoSJ6xFTbgUOiYWg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 What an odious entitled arsehole. Then again he is #ToryScum so it’s probably genetic… Veterans minister Jonny Mercer defends taking shoes and socks off on train https://apple.news/Az13xL9CaRh2y0H83ensJqQ npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Jeremy Corbyn confirms he will run against Labour as an independent in Islington North https://apple.news/ARVW5dZe-Qk-H0MDUyFD50Q npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Because gammon tends to live in England: https://news.stv.tv/scotland/new-poll-shows-increasing-support-for-low-emission-zones-across-scotland?utm_source=app npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Puppers and cooking… npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Majority of Brits favour a #WealthTax. Why doesn’t Labour? #WeDeserveBetter — #VoteGreen💚 https://www.taxjustice.uk/blog/majority-back-higher-taxes-on-wealthiest-new-research?link_id=2&can_id=a277cd86e2ef80da1b94f7e48ebffe7f&source=email-ask-your-mp-to-end-tax-havens&email_referrer=email_2321685&email_subject=tax-the-wealth-of-the-super-rich npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 UN court begins hearing call for Israel to halt offensive in Rafah #FreePalestine #EmbargoIsrael #BoycottIsrael https://www.thenational.scot/news/24324978.icj-hearing-begins-israels-offensive-rafah/?ref=psapp https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/452/653/041/965/333/original/d710f0c40e747c36.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Labour considers Genghis Khan and Donald Trump for new border security role https://www.thenational.scot/news/24312548.labour-considers-genghis-khan-new-border-security-role/?ref=psapp https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/421/439/200/434/468/original/14e8922f63d9fd0c.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 More babies will die from whooping cough if UK vaccination rates don’t rise, says expert https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/10/more-babies-will-die-from-whooping-cough-if-uk-vaccination-rates-dont-rise-says-expert?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Why is Elphicke dressed up like 1970’s BA cabin crew anyway? npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 New Labour is so last century. Welcome to the New Conservatives https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/405/859/980/275/400/original/4d955dec3f8eb409.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Tells you all you need to know: “A FORMER Tory minister has introduced a speech on the economy by Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves.” Never voted Conservative? Then why the heck are you even contemplating voting Labour? https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/401/462/070/123/189/original/9503cc66a8f88c20.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 You can almost smell the establishment desperation… Of course Khan has actually won a historic 3rd term, with an increased vote. Turns out putting up a batshit crazy racist woman as your candidate isn’t that attractive. Who knew? https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/383/544/637/665/152/original/d5e1c3a980310f11.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Smiling photo of Princess Charlotte taken by Kate released to mark ninth birthday https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/371/362/181/284/331/original/d365237485d890e6.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Meanwhile — it’s a shambles… Nominations open in SNP leadership race but *no candidates have declared*🤡 Labour’s no-confidence motion against the Scottish Government will be voted on this Wednesday
npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Conservative Party operatives are running a network of Facebook groups opposing London’s ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) that have become a platform for widespread racism and Islamophobia, as well as conspiracy theories and celebrations of criminal damage. #ClimateEmergency #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCrisis https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/04/27/conservative-run-anti-ulez-facebook-groups-hosted-racist-and-islamophobic-posts/ npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 The Nixon administration’s health department sponsored a study—blocked from publication but leaked to journalists—that found young people’s use of psychedelics can be “highly moral, productive, and personally fulfilling.” Do Americans Have a Constitutional Right to Use Drugs? - TIME https://apple.news/A7SMLzthORNefncRIAuqk7g npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 You can trust tech-bros promises. Exclusive: Tesla scraps low-cost car plans https://apple.news/Aycbh0DIWTnW8zrtd9m_MDw npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 If you need something to cheer you up… Turns out a company run by a white supremacist racist and neo-Nazi conspriracy theory peddling spoilt brat isn’t that attractive to normal, rational people. Which is nice. #BoycottTesla https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musks-tesla-suffers-sales-slump-in-unmitigated-disaster-for-billionaire-13106943 npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 We call out Conservative transphobic bigots this side of the border.. #TransRights🏳️⚧️ https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/167/325/168/302/721/original/243a2caa2ae9ad34.jpeg https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/167/334/219/403/350/original/2e045207ff57d50b.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 What’s the point of Starmer’s Labour if it won’t stand up for poor, sick or disabled people? https://apple.news/AGD7XKm1uSGyyCXjLotrfuQ npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Thai election authorities seek to dissolve poll-winning Move Forward Party https://apple.news/AwcLR_E-lQoG7bOjw1Y50TQ npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Thailand is a lost cause. Thai election body to ask court to disband Move Forward party https://apple.news/AsYA3RQ79QmSqq50hNhwGJQ npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 EU to treat 5.5 million Deliveroo, Uber Eats, Bolt and other gig economy workers as employees after Belgium breaks deadlock https://apple.news/Aqs-MGJL8QgG7UBxK7BTTxQ npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Banned pesticide given the green light by Tory government https://apple.news/An9jYFHYKS2KrAgOLkbRBsw npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Dawkins wept: Migrants to be paid thousands to move to Rwanda under new Tory scam https://apple.news/ArK41NWgFScOfNTuy6YLAyw npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 'Way over the line': Torygraph tried to link Humza Yousaf to terrorism https://www.thenational.scot/news/24180066.telegraph-explicitly-tried-link-humza-yousaf-terrorism/?ref=psapp https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/084/424/963/848/920/original/1d49bc5e246a05b4.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Inside the crucial life-saving work in Gaza your donations go towards https://www.thenational.scot/news/24180108.crucial-life-saving-work-gaza-donations-go-towards/?ref=psapp https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/084/420/125/861/776/original/8d88b55e98f606ee.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Scottish Tory's politicking over Gaza aid backfires Which is nice… https://www.thenational.scot/news/24178024.scottish-tory-msps-politicking-gaza-aid-backfires/?ref=psapp https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/084/367/203/997/042/original/d77313b0a7f58550.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Keir Starmer 'supports' a ban on transgender women competing in women's sport https://www.thenational.scot/news/24179099.keir-starmer-supports-ban-trans-women-competing-womens-sport/?ref=psapp https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/084/347/315/669/309/original/be1584961f540a83.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 The day the Tories announce they’re shackling us to polluting fossil fuels and permanently high fuel bills to please their gas producing donors and try to gaslight us over existing renewables tech and the abundance of energy storage solutions we already have for when the sun don’t shine or the wind blow: London’s Paddington Station forced to shut down amid heavy flooding #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateEmergency https://apple.news/Akqg1OH6gSOyoDOp28P2Thw npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Scottish Tories in hiding over Conservative donor Frank Hester's 'racist' comments https://www.thenational.scot/news/24180321.scottish-tories-refuse-condemn-frank-hesters-racist-comments/?ref=psapp npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Ouch! My jaw hurts having plummeted to the floor… BREAKING: Kemi Badenoch breaks ranks to say Tory donor's comments about Diane Abbott are racist #TorySleaze #ToryRacism #GTTO https://apple.news/AHPZuK-BMSi2AgEEsry0l9A npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Another stitch up. Quelle surprise… Keir Starmer will NOT face Commons investigation over Lindsay Hoyle allegations https://www.thenational.scot/news/24180290.keir-starmer-avoids-investigation-lindsay-hoyle-allegations/?ref=psapp npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Unionists are losing their minds while frenetically clutching at their pearls again as a First Minister elected by the Scottish people to represent them in their own Scottish Parliament doesn’t bow to the will of a Parliament in Westminster he has no duty to report to. Their favourite rag even seems confused about who has or hasn’t responded to the demand to appear 🤷 #IndependenceIsNormal #IndyRef2🏴 #YouYesYet? https://apple.news/Amx-T2OaiQeeRY1htGj77YA npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Oh do fuck off Dyson with your overpriced shite https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/083/292/327/074/204/original/a64e6271fede751a.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Religion. A cancerous debilitating growth on humanity we should have cut out long ago. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68542378 npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Privatised social care — a grifter’s wet dream for decades. We can’t go on like this. Make General Election 2024 the time this bullshit stops. Vote Green in England Vote SNP in Scotland Vote Plaid in Wales Vote Sinn Féinn in Northern Ireland https://news.sky.com/story/three-arrested-in-76m-luxury-care-homes-fraud-investigation-13093000 npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Unionists are losing their minds because Scotland🏴 regaining its independence would prove once and for all what a catastrophic self inflicted mess Labour backed Tory Brexit is — especially as Scotland rejoining the EU will be a top priority… #ReallyTakeBackControl #IndependenceIsNormal #YouYesYet? https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/westminster/24177780.yousaf-slated-independence-condemns-parties-brexit/ npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 “As Sunak signals a further squeeze on benefits to fund tax cuts, the prime minister today faces warnings about the unintended consequences of a previous crackdown. Experts say years of toughening the benefits system for those seeking a job has been a “false economy’, pushing people towards more expensive health-related benefits.” Which begs the question: why are Labour wedded to the same failed policy? You want change this year? #VoteGreen in England. https://apple.news/AsH_TSy63SJKaB2MRfc7V5Q npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Another Boeing falls out of the sky… ‘Felt like an earthquake’: passengers recall moment of terror on Latam flight as investigation launched https://apple.news/A2qOB54yxT260wQ0RXxgcrg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 My current energy rate using Octopus Agile is 15.88p per kWh. Perfect for putting the dishwasher on (should have done it half an hour ago, doh!) Normal ‘variable’ rate is ~29p per kWh — so nearly half price leccy for shifting use to when its cheapest. A no brainer 🤷♂️ Fancy saving a bundle on electricity? Use my link to sign up to Octopus and get a £50 welcome bill credit -- https://share.octopus.energy/lush-leaf-269 https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/082/863/629/486/306/original/a2ab12a145b52232.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 “We had John Cena on stage naked and somehow Donald Trump still managed to be the biggest dick of the night.” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/12/jimmy-kimmel-oscars-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Why are Tories and Labour wed to the white elephants of carbon capture and storage, nuclear power and hydrogen as solutions to the climate crisis? Because they can be controlled by big business and supply rationed to drive profits. Renewables break that grift because they enable dirt cheap local generation not dependent on massive costly grids of pipes and cables. Net Zero is a con and a scam designed to keep energy supplier profits flowing. We need True Zero if we’re to survive npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Scots would have some of the 'cheapest electricity in Europe' under zonal pricing Be even cheaper if we were independent and not paying multi-nationals £ms over the odds exporting power to England only to reimport it. https://www.thenational.scot/news/24178863.zonal-pricing-give-scots-cheapest-energy-europe/?ref=psapp https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/082/586/231/690/772/original/85004fd6bc97d1fd.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Meanwhile yet more Conservative Party racism: Sunak should block racist bigot Stephen Kerr candidacy [in my constituency] after Gaza funding smear https://www.thenational.scot/news/24176009.keith-brown-calls-block-scottish-tory-msp-westminster-bid/?ref=psapp https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/082/574/120/802/665/original/7e8baab992b8f858.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Rishi Sunak told to hand back millions after top Conservative Party donor's 'racist' [and misogynist] comments https://www.thenational.scot/news/24178080.tories-told-hand-back-millions-top-donors-racist-comments/?ref=psapp https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/082/559/673/099/774/original/f0ecf67c03b651da.jpeg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Doctored photo of Kate Middleton is credibility blow for royal family in crisis https://apple.news/A5PnWbqvSScOFlw11-Axyjw npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 War crime on top of war crime on top of war crime. Israel is an extremist, racist apartheid pariah state that no civilised country should want to be associated with — let alone actively funding and giving diplomatic cover to. #DefundIsrael #BoycottIsrael #FreePalestine https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68513408 npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 The Republican Party is now 100% a Trump vehicle as a bloodbath at the RNC ensures grovelling MAGAts are the only ones in control https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/11/bloodbath-at-rnc-trump-team-slashes-staff-at-committee-00146368 npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Can’t withdraw if you’re the subject of a cultural embargo — which genocidal Israel should be. #FreePalestine #BoycottIsrael #EmbargoIsrael https://apple.news/AWqqtigzQSYqx1cRigo4pCQ npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Labour withdraws support for Rochdale candidate after Israel-Gaza remarks Spineless. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/12/labour-withdraws-support-for-rochdale-candidate-after-israel-gaza-remarks?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 It’s that time of the month when one lucky lover can enjoy a full 30 days access to the Washington Post online free and for nowt, on me. Be quick! It’s a one click and it’s gone kinda thang: https://wapo.st/30-day-pass?redemptionCode=30DPN-GKU-MUV-UZZ-NLD npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Weak, weak, weak: needy Rish! makes a spectacle of himself at PMQs https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/07/weak-weak-weak-needy-rish-makes-a-spectacle-of-himself-at-pmqs?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Let’s stop the courts being used to shut down secret filming on fish farms! https://bylines.scot/environment/lets-stop-the-courts-being-used-to-shut-down-secret-filming-on-fish-farms/ npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 A U.N. office said Israel’s detention and treatment of detainees might amount to torture. It estimated thousands had been detained and held in “horrific” conditions. Some were freed wearing only diapers. #BoycottIsrael #BDS #FreePalestine https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-palestinian-detainees.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk0.5rqa.PTGhixwJ2O1c&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 “That? That’s a model of a windmill, you fecking moron” https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/111/813/327/110/618/830/original/a71e7d1b222ab711.png npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Nothing illustrates Conservatives ongoing meltdown better than their obsession with a scheme that is never going to work #Rwanda #RefugeesWelcome https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/16/tories-reach-new-levels-of-derangement-as-mps-debate-rwanda-bill npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Tornado warning for huge 260-mile stretch of UK Still think #ClimateChange is a leftist plot to take your tinfoil hat off you so your brains can be scrambled by the nearest 5G enabled ULEZ camera? #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateEmergency https://apple.news/AfO64zoMLTiqux4bKYzj6dw npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Fuck Biden. Doddery old fool. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/12/13/world/israel-hamas-gaza-war-news/a-white-house-spokesman-plays-down-bidens-reference-to-indiscriminate-bombing-in-gaza?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk0.Xcr4.ScYt-D_SX0f8&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Filthy fossil fuel influence on education: Shell, BP and Equinor among fossil fuel giants given direct influence over British universities https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/shell-bp-equinor-totalenergies-oxford-cambridge-bristol-ucl-big-oil-gas-fossil-fuels-158m/?utm_source=SEGMENT%20-%20Newsletter%3A%20oD%20weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Big%20Oil%20given%20direct%20influence%20over%20degree%20courses&_kx=nk9FgYO-G2WovqUc4gNd_Vk_8jmCzZqz4qmvpu7T2M1l6KlQFey312WGAlYe6UZ_.YjCYwm npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Israel-Hamas war live updates: Israel resumes its genocide in Gaza. Join the BDS Movement (link in bio) —If our Governments won’t reign in Israel’s war crimes we have to. Boycott Israel, totally. #FreePalestine #FromTheRiverToTheSea #CeaseFireNow https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-rcna127335 npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Israeli war crimes aren’t limited to Gaza — they’re murdering children in the Occupied West Bank too while everyone’s distracted and horrified by their atrocities at the Al-Shifa hospital Join the BDS Movement today. #BDS #FreePalestine #CeaseFireNow https://news.sky.com/story/they-are-killing-children-west-bank-family-see-their-son-shot-dead-by-israeli-troops-outside-their-home-13010553 npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Donald Trump supporter who bear-sprayed several police officers during Capitol riots is jailed Which is nice https://apple.news/A3Nxe-Tv2Srm-QiKx4OO6cg npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Customers at ASDA, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons wouldn’t tolerate being charged wildly different prices for a loaf of bread or a bottle of wine or beer solely based on where the supermarket thought it could gouge its customers the most and get away with it… So why on earth do millions of them put up with being fleeced at the petrol pump day in day out? #FilthyFossilFuelCartel #PetrolPrices npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Supreme Court blocks restrictions on Biden administration efforts to remove contentious social media posts https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-blocks-biden-social-media-curbs-rcna105785 npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 #StormBabet: how to prepare for heavy rain and strong winds #RedCross #Flooding #StayHome https://www.redcross.org.uk/stories/disasters-and-emergencies/uk/storm-babet-2023 npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 One of the biggest benefits of Apple Hide My Email is you can track which companies you interact with that are actually scummy shysters who sell on your private data. In this case the Hide My Email address I used to interact with shambolic shitshower of a company Lustalux was sold off to spam merchants who then did what they do — inundated me with spam, like this email. Couple of clicks and the email address is gone. Enjoy the email bounce backs spammy scumbags. https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/111/256/104/740/572/832/original/25efe10dabf76ab1.png npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 What Israelis have suffered over the past 48 hours is what Palestinians have lived with the 56 years. End Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory and most, if not all, of the flash points will melt away. It really is that simple. npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Flooding hits Sukhothai and Northern provinces #Thailand https://www.pattayamail.com/thailandnews/flooding-hits-sukhothai-and-northern-provinces-thailand-442056 npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Meanwhile in #England🏴 … Labour leadership accused of U-turn over rent controls 🤷♂️ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/28/labour-leadership-lisa-nandy-accused-u-turn-rent-controls Yeah, we don’t need Labour in Scotland🏴 ta very much. England are welcome to them… #RentControls #LivingRent npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Throughout October, the Scottish government is surveying tenants and landlords on their views on rent controls in #Scotland🏴 This survey will feed into legislation that has the potential to ensure that tenants across Scotland have the security of being able to afford their homes. If you’re a tenant — please use this webpage to endorse the Living Rent response to that consultation. Even if you’re not, please boost so people get to see it 🥰 #RentControls #LivingRent https://www.livingrent.org/demand_rent_controls npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 South East Asia is looking for ways to cope with the extreme temperatures #ClimateChange is already inflicting on the region. Long forgotten ancient grains could provide a sustainable solution to impending food scarcity as the planet boils: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/forgotten-palate/search-resilient-crops-3816106 npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Your loved one did enough damage to the planet while they were alive, don’t fuck it over again by buggering up fragile ecosystems with their ashes — there’s a love… #Ecology https://apple.news/AHNuDRYQMQyGBzXncvpjUow npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Thick wankers of the world, unite. These pathetic pricks really have way too much time on their terminally thick hands… #ULEZ https://apple.news/A1hrqaXm8RJymapariHBUsw npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Before you start cheering on the coming mini-heatwave in October, here’s a reminder of just how close humans have pushed our one planet towards a mass extinction event — our own. Risk of mass deaths as heatwaves start to pass survivability threshold #ClimateCollapse #ClimateBreakdown #LeaveItInTheGround #ClimateCrisis #GlobalBoiling https://www.newscientist.com/article/2391326-risk-of-mass-deaths-as-heatwaves-start-to-pass-survivability-threshold/ npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Why September’s record-warm temperatures have scientists so worried #ClimateCollapse #ClimateCrisis https://apple.news/A6kIkRMwwQgGHaBCz5wjR2Q npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Turns out the ‘libs’ in America are triggered when you ask them why they think a man who falls over his words reading from a teleprompter at the UN is the best person for the top of the Democrat Presidential ticket in 2024. Really quite pathetic. Explains why America is disintegrating though. Change has to be fought for — just meekly accepting a shit sandwich of Old and insane vs Older and doddery isn’t progressive in the least. #Gerontocracy https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/111/113/220/509/482/990/original/319ce8f410a23522.png npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Not just MAGA Republicans that are bent as $9 bills — Democrats equally happy to shovel the bribes into their pockets by the look of it… Mind you, given that the dark money is king in US politics its hardly surprising there are now so many grifters with their snouts in the trough in the US Congress: New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez and wife indicted on federal charges https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-menendez-indicted-bribery/ npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Yet Sunak says he can’t lead on the #ClimateEmergency and reduce the risk of flooding and wildfires for fear of upsetting some lunatic morons on his backbenches? Be nice if England roared back at him and put the tax evading Green Card holding twat out on his ear. #London #floods: Roads turn into rivers after ‘monsoon’ rain with more coming from Hurricane Nigel https://apple.news/Ah0LawwA0QTe0tD61CV9IEA npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 @npub1r22…wlde @npub1k5t…xvs6 that said the onus is on people living in England. Scotland has proportional representation for its Parliament and votes for 14 yrs old upwards. We need independence to cut ourselves free right enough, but people in England need to gain STV PR to avoid being trapped in a never ending Tory Government once we’re gone. FPTP without Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland = PermaTory™️ Rule npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 @npub1r22…wlde @npub1k5t…xvs6 there’s very little option. We live in a non-representative sham of an electoral system that labels itself a democracy but is just about as far from being that as is possible. FPTP here and the Electoral College in the US are both modelled on what protects the landed gentry the best. If our governance has failed then we have to #TakeBackControl from those we lend it to. We need full single transferable votes for all elections, including Lords, and three term limits. npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 Up till today I’ve been ambivalent at best over #JustStopOil chucking paint over artwork or blocking motorways. Given the Conservatives and Labour positions on #ClimateCrisis and their totally inadequate policies to address the #1 threat to human survival I’m coming to the view that we *all* need to be chucking orange paint over artworks and blocking every single road in England. It’s all we have left given our politicians are ignoring the people that elect them. #CivilDisobedience #RiseUp npub1ag29mpmlqgmgkc7t5q6hphhq0v0gsrnatrpcvvj594mltu55qv9quvp8du Andy_S_64🏴 This morning the lies just keep on tumbling out of Sunak’s mouth. He’s lying to the country because his far right extremist backbenches have his shrivelled teeny balls in a vice of his own making. #EnoughIsEnough #RiseUp #ClimateEmergency https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/111/102/020/113/926/427/original/f1e77abc42dacf35.jpeg