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When #Scotland adopts you she touches your soul and you can never again be free of her. #WeAreScotland

Travel to Scottish islands by sea is *always* going to be weather + technical services dependent ⛴️🌄 Brits media can have as many tantrums + histrionics as they wish but this will not change 🍼 Many Scottish islands border oceans or rough seas

Gaza: ▪️A peer-reviewed study in The Lancet Global Health estimated 75,200 violent deaths between October 7, 2023, and January 5, 2025. ▪️Over 65,000 additional deaths from starvation. ▪️Women and children comprise approximately 60% to 70% of total fatalities. ▪️An additional 10,000 people are estimated to be missing and presumed buried under rubble.  ▪️Over 80% of buildings in Gaza are reported to be damaged or destroyed, with an estimated 320,000+ housing units affected and over 60 million tonnes of rubble created. Hell on earth. And there is absolutely no justification for this scale of atrocity whatsoever.

@Nermeenalswaisi 🇵🇸💔💔😢

3 replies — even dots — can break the silence. chuffed.org/project/nermeen

We’ve just started working with three organic farms in the north of Scotland. All three were at risk. One had already lost their contract. Two others had been told their milk wouldn’t be collected anymore. Not because they were doing anything wrong - but because the system no longer works for farms like them. So we stepped in and asked them to collaborate with us. And they said yes. This is the biggest step we’ve taken so far towards building something better - not just for Mossgiel, but for small dairy farms that deserve a real future. But here’s the reality… With these farms now on board, we have more milk than we’re currently selling. Which means what happens next matters. If more people choose Mossgiel, we can support more farms like these. If they don’t, we can’t. But, the one reality is - we’d have done none of this without YOUR support. You made this happen, because without you we’d never have got off the ground. THANK YOU!! Bryce

Here is a shocker. The Scotland Act 1998 is an ordinary statute. It could be repealed as easily as the Dentists Act 1984. Yet the UK tells the United Nations that this flimsy, unentrenched arrangement gives Scotland genuine internal self-determination under Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). That claim is bogus. A parliament that Westminster can abolish tomorrow is not a foundation for self-determination but rather a concession, revocable at will. See this comparison with a few proper regional governments. History repeats itself, we might add. The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty is the work of the 19th century English jurist A. V. Dicey. His claim was more grandiose still; yet this pre-1707 English parliamentary import is now the UK constitutional orthodoxy. Dicey compared the Treaty of Union - the very fount of the British constitution on which the "voluntary partner" thesis rests - to the Dentists Act of the day: one could be repealed by ordinary statute as easily as the other. This is the legal absurdity of the child (the British parliament) conducting a pre-conception assassination on the parent (the international treaty which is parliament's creator). Here is Dicey: "The principle of parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament. The Act of Union with Scotland (1707) is, from a legal point of view, just as much an ordinary law as the Dentists Act (1878). It can be repealed by the same body and in the same manner as the Dentists Act."

Why is Israel still part of the United Nations? Why hasn't Israel been banned from all international organisations, sporting and cultural events and institutions? Why doesn't International law apply to Israel? 🤔

@DennisCanavan Well, the british nationalist bot farms have been busy - incredible how many new bot accounts are commenting. You've got them worried....

At his manifesto launch, Scottish Tory Leader Findlay said that the prospect of a referendum on independence is " not just concerning to me but terrifying". The cat's oot the bag. He's wetting his breeks about letting the people decide because he knows the verdict of the people.

AFTER CULLODEN The Jacobite defeat was not the end. It was the beginning of something far darker. The violence of Culloden expanded outward — into the Highlands, across Scotland, & then the British Empire. This is what happened next. #Culloden #Scotland #Decolonise 👇🧵1/

Please don’t forget Dr Hussam Please don’t forget Dr Hussam Please don’t forget Dr Hussam

The enemy of the Jews is not Iran, but Zionist Israel. In Tehran, the Jewish community gathered to pray for peace for their country, Iran. At a time of rising tensions, their voices carried an ancient message: “Guardian of one nation, Guardian of the remnant of one people. let not the one nation be lost. Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.” For more than 2,700 years, Jews have lived in Iran, making the Iranian Jewish community one of the oldest Jewish diaspora communities, with roots dating back to ancient Persia.

200%🤷‍♂️ and we,re still paying the highest bills in Europe no thanks to energy being reserved to another country. WM,s dependency on 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 would end with #Scottishindependence Make it happen ✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@Nermeenalswaisi 🇵🇸💔😢

The whole world has forgotten us in Gaza. WE NEED YOUR PRAYERS, WE NEED YOU.

Israel broke the ceasefire by committing massacres against civilians that Lebanese hospitals are calling for blood donations. Israel is committing genocide against the people of Lebanon.

Israel 🇮🇱 is never going to accept peace in Lebanon 🇱🇧, Gaza 🇵🇸 or the West Bank 🇵🇸 For 🇮🇱 this is about racism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, land theft & genocide It’s about a ‘Greater 🇮🇱’ Boycott 🇮🇱 now.

The @BBCNews has turned into an active & unrelenting propagandist for Netanyahu’s expansionist wars for a Greater Israel. They've abandoned any pretence of analysis & just read out IDF press releases as if they are objective truth. They've turned into Orwell’s Ministry of Truth

Islander: true fact. Amidst all the hoo-ha past decade ⛴️ Have never been without travel service longer than 24 hrs And that was due to bad weather The media make mountains out of molehills where truth is concerned 🤷‍♂️

As the pause in Israel-US military aggression on Iran takes effect, Israel escalates its war crimes in Lebanon with the same vindictiveness used for decades against Palestinians. Israeli crimes remain a threat to peace in the region and beyond. They must be stopped and punished.

Hospitals in Lebanon are pleading for blood donations. Lebanon’s ambulance and rescue teams are running non-stop — risking being targeted. Entire neighborhoods flattened. Children, families, civilians are trapped under rubble. This is how Israel abides by a “ceasefire.”