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Edinburgh Council have completely and utterly failed residents over the closure of St Mark's Path bridge. They seem to think people just sit back and put up with the closure of a major route just because it's for pedestrians, wheelers and cyclists. www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/communi...

Good news is so rare now and this really is the good stuff. It's been a Weird Time™ for publishers but CSS-Tricks being back is only going to shift the momentum in the right direction.

Anyone else suspect racists trying to hide from history again? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I really struggle with how many progressive people use Instagram, which is essentially a closed platform and an anathema to the open web.

Protesters demand more spending on education and social services, but the government has struggled amid a fiscal crisis.

Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...

If you needed a win as badly as I have lately, mark this one down: CSS-Tricks is returning as an independent publication. Spread the word. wil.to/posts/taking...

Lothian region MSP, Kate Nevens, prevented from entering Palestine by illegal occupation forces. www.thenational.scot/news/2667202...

Seeing as I got tagged in the next post (and these are only my opinions): 1. We need people at all levels of organising to accept that antifascism inherently involves risk. Fascism is an ideology with violence built into it ideologically. Fascists will do violence, whether you choose it or not.

Surveillance footage shows Israeli forces entering a civilian home in Zowtar Al Sharqia, southern Lebanon, before destroying the property. Israeli forces continue to occupy more than 60 towns and villages across Lebanon, with 48 subjected to systematic demolition. Homes, schools, water facilities

Left wing leaders all over the world have congratulated Lula on his win over the Bolsonaro's, Trump, Israel and the fascist big tech billionaires. Silence from Andy Burnham.

Yay! Work is back to forcing the organisations website to be the default home page. It won't work, just like last time. It'll piss everyone off an ruin useful browser metrics but I'm sure they did it for a VERY GOOD REASON.

Where the rot started in the uk

Strong interview with Ben Moser, in which he describes Irish Pages author Avi Shlaim as part of “a hidden tradition” of anti-Zionist Jews: “people who, though long dismissed and despised, were ultimately proven right” 🌿 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... ‘Genocide in Gaza’ remains unreviewed 📚

This in the context of THOUSANDS of arrests over Palestine action which, no, I will not shut up about. The disparity is very clear and we all know why it exists.

First Orban, now Vučić. Both fundamentally undone by rank corruption of their regimes. Which is so often the reality of the authoritarian right in power. Really worth paying heed to in Western Europe right now

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Lula holds Brazil, Vučić defeated in Serbia. A bad day for the fascists. A good day for democracy. So it goes

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Attacks on trans people were never about protecting women, as they claimed. It was always about enforcing far right ideas about gender and sex on everyone.

Oh my god @nytpitchbot.bsky.social he did the thing. "Republicans are about to lose the midterms by 12 points. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats."

After the death of BBC Scotland, there’s only one possible course of action: the SNP must demand that broadcasting powers be devolved from Westminster to Holyrood. This country has been deliberately failed by London. So we need to take broadcasting into our own hands In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

Sure, we should, if we can (many cannot). But as I keep pointing out, the government itself is making no provision at all. No stockpiles, no back-up, no alternative sources. It's individuating the response to a collective problem, and that never ends well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘You nearly got me say ‘billionaires’… haha… No. Immigrants.’

Here's a photo of a helicopter landed on Joanne's 227 foot support yacht that follows around her 290 foot main yacht

Burnham’s government is telling people to stockpile food & water in case of a climate crisis/“technological dependency” while contributing to that climate crisis with Jackdaw & embedding *Palantir* into government systems. Labour is literally saying “protect yourselves from our bad decisions.” 1/2

Sainsbury's has posted an annual profit of £1.02bn. It current has 10,000 young people working for free, paid by you. With £1.02bn it could hire 105,905 people aged 18-20 for 16 hours a week all year. Why not MAKE the scumbags hire instead of giving them free workers?

Constructive meeting at @lothianbuses.bsky.social to discuss bus journey times, congestion blackspots, advertising, bus lane hours and more.

The reality of the UK's 27 rules on 'Antisemitism'. It's 27 rules to make it impossible to criticise Israel.

We need much stricter measures to prevent antisemitism because it’s not more prevalent than other forms of racism. Apparently, 95% of black kids have experienced racism at school, but they’re not top of the hierarchy so who cares? www.normalisland.co.uk/p/british-te...

This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com

Route announced for the Tour de France in Edinburgh and Midlothian The men's race in the Tour de France will start at Holyrood Palace and weave its way through the city streets next July when the cycle race comes to town....

Today's decision by Labour to approve new drilling in the North Sea is climate vandalism. It's a betrayal of all of our futures, and Labour has abandoned all credibility in the fight against climate change. This is a victory for Shell over the people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

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If Jewish pupils are feeling upset when they see a Palestinian badge, the correct response is not to erase Palestine from schools--it's to educate those kids that a genocide is taking place and the correct moral position is to oppose it. Anything less is a dereliction of duty.

London does it, Manchester does it, Liverpool does it. Wales and the West Midlands are about to do it. So why is it only in Scotland that the media loses its mind over plans to bring buses into public control? Answer: because it’s an SNP policy and the Scottish media has lost all sense of balance

On the morning JK Rowling calls those who have campaigned for the human rights of trans people "elitist", let's revisit her 300ft, $150m highly-polluting environment and climate wrecking machine. It says everything about who and what she is. Share far and wide.

It took me a while to realise the clear assumption here was: we have been in a temporary awkward patch that will be resolved in a near future when there are no Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank to have solidarity with. Once they’re gone, it’s back to “normal”.

US garment workers helped pioneer multi-ethnic labor unions, which united people across racial, religious, gender, linguistic, and cultural divides. Also native-born citizens and immigrants. I think about that sometimes when I see people suggest such divides are unbridgeable.