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📚 Explore Agnes Owens’ life, work and archives with researchers and curators at NLS Kelvin Hall, Glasgow. 📅 4 Nov, 6–7pm. 🎟️ Booking essential via link 👉🏽 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agnes-owen...

Together with Just Good Work, we’ve developed a portal for people seeking asylum, refugees, and migrant workers to learn about work and life in the UK. It now supports 11 languages, making it even more accessible for those who need it most.

27th of Owltober! A burrito-wrapped Burrowing Owl was admitted to a wildlife clinic to treat eye ulcers from suspected head trauma. The sender (anonymous) said "his favorite meal in care is mice and mealworms and he is very vocal now that he’s feeling better!" #owlsintowels 💛🦉

Algebra is named after this guy Albert Gebber from Arkansas.

Not exactly charging on to the stage here. Looking somewhat embarrassed

By all accounts this is what most of the recent Reform media events have looked like. Bubble well and truly burst

"...there is no significant divide ... in Israel when it comes to the Palestinians, but rather many shades of right ...Eisenkot has not charted a significantly different path here than ... Netanyahu; he, too, has said he rejects Palestinian statehood". www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/o...

Glasgow’s tenements define the city—but many are crumbling. Join Niall Murphy to explore how we can secure their future. 🏘️ Saving Glasgow, One Tenement at a Time 📅 26 Nov, 7–9pm 📍 Glasgow & online 🎟️ £6 / £2 students buff.ly/unIi9K6

CEO of scandal-ridden Deloitte gets 45% pay rise to £7.1m, 1,360 jobs cut. CEO pay = 93 times median employee pay. Firm doesn't pay employer NIC on profits shared by partners, worth £150,000 for £1m profit shared. £899m shared. 108 govt contracts in 2026, worth £650m. Friends in high places.

Tonight we are witnessing a profound moral contradiction with an Israeli government facing credible allegations of genocide, being treated as a legitimate democratic partner by Western governments and endorsed by the USA for reelection.

These are the revolutionary scenes in Belgrade’s Slavija Square tonight as the Student List celebrates its victory over Aleksandar Vučić.

This is objectively very very funny

For 25 years, @greenparty.org.uk has been campaigning for car-free zones, cleaner air, and safer neighbourhoods for Londoners. Now in 2026, Labour is finally getting on board with major pedestrianisation projects. #OxfordStreet #LondonGreens #Pedestrianisation #CarFree

🚨 Israel has detained an SNP MP and a Greens MSP who were trying to enter Palestine 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

LOL. Works for me. 😎

🔴 NEW Mod-Backed Drone Maker Bought by US Group Is Now Developing Attack Drones for Israel By @nafeez.bsky.social Read below. ↓

Monday 26th October My first walk since Thursday and it felt good to get out even if the weather was miserable. I took it steady and i'm pleased to say there were no problems with either my knee or ankle. These were the only notables from said walk. #invertebrates #fungifriends

"The fact that you have all of these parties that are advocating major war crimes and nobody is blinking says something very deep about Israeli society, but also about an international community that has fostered this and that has allowed this to brew for all of these years."

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been reelected as Brazil’s president, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro in a runoff election. During his current term, Lula has supported democratic institutions and made important progress on protecting forest and local communities, but had a mixed record in other areas.

Why is Glasgow so prone to flooding and what does the multi-million pound fix look like? www.glasgowbell.co.uk/the-southsid...

No matter who wins Israel's elections, Palestinians are unlikely to see much change in policy. "The opposition is very much like Netanyahu," says Diana Buttu.

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Happy Intersex Awareness Day!

Fascism defeated. Humanity wins in Brazil. Same results needed across the globe.

26th of Owltober! A Barn Owl at Darling Range Wildlife Shelter suffered 2nd-hand SGAR (rat bait) poisoning last Nov. Thankfully Australian regulators have now restricted sales of over 160 SGAR products. To donate to DRWS: givenow.com.au/darlingrange... Source: fb.com/114727576077... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

NEW: Trump is a Russian asset. And the UK government is finally waking from its decade-long slumber Read this. And order a wind-up radio. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...

Insolvency scam The boss of twice-bust business back despite £3m debts. These people gut a company, HMRC and creditors not paid. Then buy assets cheaply from the administrator in pre-packs, and back in business. Gone on for decades. No transparency of administrator dealings. No investigation.

French police beating up an injured protestors right after being picked up by street medics. These people have no more limits, egged on by far right politicians and commentators, as well as benefitting from almost total impunity from prosecution.

Deborah Barros Leal Farias explains that Flavio Bolsonaro is saying the Brazilian presidential election should be annulled because voting hours were extended by 2 hours. But what he's not saying is that his own party was one of those asking for the extension!

Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Please listen. A real journalist #PeterOborne If Eisenkot wins the Israeli elections it will buy time to bring Israel back into the International fold, as the genocide & ethnic cleansing continues. Eisenkot policies are no different to Netanyahu's on International matters.

Congratulations to Lula and the people of Brasil. You taught the United States and the whole world a valuable lesson: when people come together, they will not tolerate fascism, corruption, inequality, and the destruction of nature and democracy.

Start calling the perpetrators by their real names. Claude is just a method, not the manager.

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Kevin Maguire is spot on, all this talk about people stocking up is part of a wider lobbying campaign to increase defence spending. And as Kevin points out, the UK is already the 6th biggest defence spender in the world.

*In an opinion piece published Sunday morning in El País, Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum wrote about the stakes of the presidential runoff and the wave of popular mobilization that emerged since the first round on October 4* cepr.net/publications...

BREAKING: Netanyahu has announced that Brazil is just three weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon 👀

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Just went to see NAZA. "My role was technical." "Just trust the system". Two awkward "I was just following orders" quotes with a strong Nazi vibe. Then some explicitly genocidal talk: "It's so insanely fun." Just horrific.

NEW: An MSP who quit Reform UK’s Scottish branch has claimed that being in the party made her feel like she was 'in a coercive relationship' as she alleged misogyny and hostility from the leadership 👇 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

So on-brand for the IDF to demolish the home of someone who exposed their war crimes. #PagerAttacks #Lebanon Criticism is really not their thing, is it? substack.com/@wyattreed/n...

A couple of weeks ago, I became a part-time wheelchair user. This has been met by people who know me with equal parts concern and relief, especially those who have seen the physical decline over the past year. Anyway, here are some things I have learned:

This is big news for the Balkans and Europe. Vučić gambled and lost to a young democratic student led movement. Could we finally see some progress toward Serbia and Bosnia joining the EU?

Wow. Vučić has conceded Serbian election. Massive moment for the entire Balkans

Polls just closed in the Brazilian presidential run off. Things are looking messy. Bolsonaro-affiliated mayors sabotaged public transport in at least ten states. São Paulo reportedly has 29% of buses out of service. The Brazilian ⁠Supreme Court has just ordered ⁠voting hours ⁠extended by ​2 hours.

Wow!!!

EXCLUSIVE: The Scottish Greens have condemned a far-right demonstration outside Edinburgh Castle after footage emerged showing upwards of 100 masked men dressed in black standing in military-style formation👇 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...