Cairistiona
@caristiona.bsky.social
🏴 Loving life 🌻 grannie 👨❤️💋👨 cyclist 🚲 knitter 🧶 walker 👣 still learning 📚 retired teacher👩🎓bread maker 🍞 Scottish Independence 🏴
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England wants to bypass holyrood to force new nuclear reactors in Scotland
ARE YOU YES YET🤬
ARE YOU YES YET🤬
October 8, 2026 at 12:27 AM
England wants to bypass holyrood to force new nuclear reactors in Scotland
ARE YOU YES YET🤬
ARE YOU YES YET🤬
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Things just get worse for Scotland under Westminster subjugation. Now the pension triple lock is being broken on what is already Europe’s lowest state pension.👇
October 7, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Things just get worse for Scotland under Westminster subjugation. Now the pension triple lock is being broken on what is already Europe’s lowest state pension.👇
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The ICE agent who shot and killed Houston resident Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was identified last week.
Accountability starts now. ICE must:
⚫️ Disclose the names of ALL officers involved.
⚫️ Cooperate with local investigators and public information requests.
⚫️ Return his wallet and phone to his family.
Accountability starts now. ICE must:
⚫️ Disclose the names of ALL officers involved.
⚫️ Cooperate with local investigators and public information requests.
⚫️ Return his wallet and phone to his family.
How the shooting death of a Houston father is igniting Latino politics in Texas
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot on his way to work by an ICE officer, after authorities say Salgado Araujo used his vehicle as a weapon. An outraged community is demanding justice — and change...
www.nbcnews.com
October 7, 2026 at 10:38 PM
The ICE agent who shot and killed Houston resident Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was identified last week.
Accountability starts now. ICE must:
⚫️ Disclose the names of ALL officers involved.
⚫️ Cooperate with local investigators and public information requests.
⚫️ Return his wallet and phone to his family.
Accountability starts now. ICE must:
⚫️ Disclose the names of ALL officers involved.
⚫️ Cooperate with local investigators and public information requests.
⚫️ Return his wallet and phone to his family.
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If you ever read my book THE FAMILY PLOT then you know *precisely* how amazingly shitty this is 👇👎
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center.
www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
www.gadgetreview.com
October 8, 2026 at 12:57 AM
If you ever read my book THE FAMILY PLOT then you know *precisely* how amazingly shitty this is 👇👎
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Trump: "Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles on the way. You want to see a horror show? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles. You want to see some bad things happen?"
October 8, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Trump: "Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles on the way. You want to see a horror show? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles. You want to see some bad things happen?"
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He wouldn't allow an attack on us right before midterms so he could stoke anti Muslim hatred, rally the stupids and have all manner of excuses to do whatever in the name of national security, would he?
Like, that would be too obvious, right?
Nobody would fall for that, right?
If you're still on
Like, that would be too obvious, right?
Nobody would fall for that, right?
If you're still on
Seems like a good time to post these texts between epstein and Bannon.
Re: Trump
assets.getkino.com/documents/vo...
Re: Trump
assets.getkino.com/documents/vo...
September 7, 2026 at 9:52 PM
He wouldn't allow an attack on us right before midterms so he could stoke anti Muslim hatred, rally the stupids and have all manner of excuses to do whatever in the name of national security, would he?
Like, that would be too obvious, right?
Nobody would fall for that, right?
If you're still on
Like, that would be too obvious, right?
Nobody would fall for that, right?
If you're still on
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Yeah, that coughing and "something going around" discussions is COVID. That nice low summer is over.
Toronto's wastewater viral load is showing a consistent upward trend in COVID-19 and nearly zero levels of influenza A & B and RSV.
wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...
Toronto's wastewater viral load is showing a consistent upward trend in COVID-19 and nearly zero levels of influenza A & B and RSV.
wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...
October 7, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Yeah, that coughing and "something going around" discussions is COVID. That nice low summer is over.
Toronto's wastewater viral load is showing a consistent upward trend in COVID-19 and nearly zero levels of influenza A & B and RSV.
wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...
Toronto's wastewater viral load is showing a consistent upward trend in COVID-19 and nearly zero levels of influenza A & B and RSV.
wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...
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CRANE, a UK cybersecurity research network, used AI to desk-reject 50% of proposals before human review, including one on the risks of trusting AI models in voice analysis from Lancaster University forensic linguist Claire Hardaker.
This seems like AI doing the right thing in protecting itself. 🙃
This seems like AI doing the right thing in protecting itself. 🙃
U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed
The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns
www.science.org
October 5, 2026 at 6:55 AM
CRANE, a UK cybersecurity research network, used AI to desk-reject 50% of proposals before human review, including one on the risks of trusting AI models in voice analysis from Lancaster University forensic linguist Claire Hardaker.
This seems like AI doing the right thing in protecting itself. 🙃
This seems like AI doing the right thing in protecting itself. 🙃
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INDY LIVE RADIO - a new voice for a new Scotland
Today's schedule, Mon 5 Oct 2026
View the full schedule
How to listen
Get the iOS app
Get the Android app
or say 'ALEXA, play Independence Live Radio Scotland'
Today's schedule, Mon 5 Oct 2026
View the full schedule
How to listen
Get the iOS app
Get the Android app
or say 'ALEXA, play Independence Live Radio Scotland'
October 5, 2026 at 6:55 AM
INDY LIVE RADIO - a new voice for a new Scotland
Today's schedule, Mon 5 Oct 2026
View the full schedule
How to listen
Get the iOS app
Get the Android app
or say 'ALEXA, play Independence Live Radio Scotland'
Today's schedule, Mon 5 Oct 2026
View the full schedule
How to listen
Get the iOS app
Get the Android app
or say 'ALEXA, play Independence Live Radio Scotland'
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NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
October 4, 2026 at 10:14 AM
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
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Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor.
www.ft.com/content/38a5...
www.ft.com/content/38a5...
Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor
British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor
www.ft.com
October 5, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor.
www.ft.com/content/38a5...
www.ft.com/content/38a5...
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The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic
October 5, 2026 at 2:09 AM
The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic
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Why on EARTH is the Scotch Whisky Association not talking about Scotland being Independent?
73% of a bottle of Whisky's price is 'duty'(tax) and VAT. On a typical bottle of Scotch, roughly £11.40.
Eh?
To end this Government exploitation, we need a DIFFERENT Tax regime. It's very obvious?
73% of a bottle of Whisky's price is 'duty'(tax) and VAT. On a typical bottle of Scotch, roughly £11.40.
Eh?
To end this Government exploitation, we need a DIFFERENT Tax regime. It's very obvious?
October 4, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Why on EARTH is the Scotch Whisky Association not talking about Scotland being Independent?
73% of a bottle of Whisky's price is 'duty'(tax) and VAT. On a typical bottle of Scotch, roughly £11.40.
Eh?
To end this Government exploitation, we need a DIFFERENT Tax regime. It's very obvious?
73% of a bottle of Whisky's price is 'duty'(tax) and VAT. On a typical bottle of Scotch, roughly £11.40.
Eh?
To end this Government exploitation, we need a DIFFERENT Tax regime. It's very obvious?
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'The mistaken belief that only Westminster can safeguard the incomes of Scottish pensioners is one of the important reasons why opposition to Scottish independence is highest amongst the oldest age cohorts in Scotland.'
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Burnham pensions off two Better Together arguments
One of the ways in which the Better Together campaign won the referendum in 2014 was to successfully scaremonger Scotland’s pensioners into believing that their state pensions would not be sa…
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October 4, 2026 at 10:00 AM
'The mistaken belief that only Westminster can safeguard the incomes of Scottish pensioners is one of the important reasons why opposition to Scottish independence is highest amongst the oldest age cohorts in Scotland.'
weegingerdug
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John Swinney has called on Andy Burnham to row back from his proposed changes to the triple lock, after official analysis showed the cost to Scotland’s pensioners would be £4 billion by 2049
John Swinney urges Andy Burnham to rethink triple lock changes after shock analysis
www.thenational.scot
October 1, 2026 at 11:23 AM
John Swinney has called on Andy Burnham to row back from his proposed changes to the triple lock, after official analysis showed the cost to Scotland’s pensioners would be £4 billion by 2049
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"Flooding the zone" with this stuff might be in order.
October 3, 2026 at 3:23 PM
"Flooding the zone" with this stuff might be in order.
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Post Partum Deppression
October 3, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Post Partum Deppression
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October 3, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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