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Aerial view of circular salmon fish farm pens in dark water. Overlaid text reads: “REVEALED: A fish farm breached animal welfare rules. The regulator still took firms there on a PR tour.” Smaller text explains that the Aquaculture Stewardship Council showcased a Scottish farm that had breached sea lice rules 11 times.

🔴NEW: A body which sets environmental and welfare standards for fish farms took wholesale buyers to a Scottish salmon farm which broke its rules for 11 consecutive weeks.

Our latest investigation: www.theferret.scot/a...

"Saturday’s mobilisation highlights both the rising confidence of the far right in Scotland, as well as the desperate need for autonomous, grassroots antifascist organising."

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Scottish antifascists hold the line in Falkirk - Freedom News The small town between Edinburgh and Glasgow has become fertile ground for the far right following years of cuts and collapsing local services ~ Sc…

Projectiles were thrown back at the fascists, despite the protestations of SUTR/FFA, who would rather turn the other cheek and collaborate with the police than support antifascist self-defence.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/12/12/s...

Stop Palantir in the NHS | Good Law Project NHS trusts are rolling out Palantir software, but we’re fighting back

We've created a simple tool so you can find out whether your local NHS trust is using Palantir's software and asking them to resist Wes Streeting's push to sign up for it. goodlaw.social/zr8w

🚨 BREAKING: The 28 oil & gas exploration licences we legally challenged have just been ruled lawful by the High Court. This means exploration can go ahead, despite 3/4 of the licences sitting inside marine PROTECTED areas - wildlife havens home to porpoises, puffins & seals 🐬
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job ad for director of transformation at charity called Buglife

@gregorsamsa have I found the job for you

bell hooks talks about this in aint i a woman in the chapter on the 1980s feminist movement iirc also reni eddo lodge why im no longer talking to white people about race discusses this but i dont think either of those are originators of the idea

🚨 1/6 of all UK commercial fish stocks are in an overfished state and STILL being overexploited ❌🐟

How can anyone justify overfishing these struggling stocks? It can only lead to empty seas, devoid of life 📉

Join us in calling on PM Keir Starmer to end overfishing: act.oceana.org/page/178303/...

🚨BREAKING🚨

WE’VE WON OUR CASE TO #DefendDemocracy

The Court of Appeal has ruled that anti-protest laws which completely ignored the will of Parliament are unlawful

Return the common to the goose - Freedom News Farmers’ protests over a velvety soft reduction of inheritance tax privileges may seem overblown, but there’s a kernel of something interesting there ~ Rob Ray ~ With tractors besieging Downing Street...

The small farmers of 2024 are not natural allies of the left and certainly not of the anarchists. But we may have more potential strength than we think in getting through to them.
freedomnews.org.uk/2024/11/24/r...

MoH are rad, follow them 🫡

YL is recruiting for a Housing/Community Care caseworker- amazing opportunity to provide young people and families w children access to their legal rights to housing and LA service provision more info at youthlegalresourcecentre.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/YouthL...

It's day two of @heraldscotland.bsky.social investigation into access to justice.

Lawyers in Glasgow tell us there's an "impending disaster" in civil legal aid as 80% consider withdrawing from domestic abuse protective cases because of pay concerns.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2472546...

Airbnb demands rethink of Edinburgh's 'draconian' curbs as slump in Fringe bookings is revealed Visitors said to have cut back length of their festival stays by almost a fifth

god they are just so disingenuous
"The evening spending that supports local businesses is at risk ... there is no upside to Edinburgh’s outlier approach to regulation, and we encourage the city to explore a more inclusive way forward."
Residents literally don't exist to them

You can find every article from day one of The Herald's in-depth investigation into Scotland's legal aid crisis HERE: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2472727...

@andrewlearmonth.bsky.social @kathleennutt.bsky.social @rebeccamccurdy.bsky.social @hannahmargbrown.bsky.social

CCFC women’s first team players huddle in front of the Scaffold stand at the Old Spotted Dog ground

Allow us to (re)introduce ourselves 👋

We are East London’s 100% fan-owned and fan-run football club, formed in 2018.

We are proud owners of the Old Spotted Dog in Forest Gate, London’s oldest senior football ground.

Our women’s first team play in tier 6. Our men’s first team are in tier 10.

Bank of Mum and Dad: why we all now live in an ‘inheritocracy’ Family wealth dictates our life choices. So is the Bank of Mum and Dad now behind so many of society’s growing inequalities?

A very important read and it's desperately annoying that it's a taboo even in most parts of the left!
For all abstract definitions of "class" it's clearly the case that it's essentially inheritance and / or easy access to capital.
Once defined can be reformed!
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

really good! this is key "I realised not just how unfair this lottery of birth is, but how bad we all are at talking about it, within our friendship groups, families, society, even to ourselves"
I think at least in my/our? friendship groups we do talk about it - even if uneasily. its so important!

This is a great mod/extension for Bluesky, hides or labels AI generated imagery
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Interesting report on the collapse of the Scottish courts due to staff overwork, backlogs, outsources, etc etc all coming to a boiling point letting down those engaged in the criminal justice system - often having to wait 3+ years for a trial

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2472916...

London friends, this is tonight! ✨

And the amount of something doesn't effect the vermin designation? Bc it seems more like a value judgement term than a legal (or taxonomical) one!

Is there an argument that the number of animals/insects etc is part of what qualifies something as an infestation? I find it hard to believe that if there was e.g. a secret attic full of hundreds of rabid dogs they would be classed as pets

rearranging the furniture in your study can bring such a sense of optimism and being in control of your own life.
brutal when it turns it it doesnt lead directly to any work actually getting done

Hey new BlueSkyers! Here goes the inevitable "this is who you followed" 🧵.
A Lithuanian-Tatar who fled for UK after '08 economic crash, but now lives in Copenhagen.
My latest big project "Everything To Play For" is out worldwide with Verso @versobooks.bsky.social.
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

My and @johannarickne.bsky.social 's paper on the ”Class Ceiling in Politics” is now out in the APSR with open access! We describe the key findings below. 1/9

managed to put the wrong link AGAIN, here's my review! anarchiststudies.noblogs.org/article-invi...

Review: Skint Estate - Freedom News Women like me: Carraway’s memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival is “the most important book on the impacts of austerity I have ever read”, writes Rowan Tallis Milligan. by Cash CarrawayEbury Pres...

managed to include the wrong link to this one! 🤦‍♀️it is: freedomnews.org.uk/2019/12/08/r...

And of course, because great minds think alike and we are doing our intro posts at PRECISELY the same time (!) my amazing project I did with @marijamdid.bsky.social !

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Invisible: A Diary of Rough Sleeping in Britain - Freedom Press by Andrew Fraser edited by Rob Ray ISBN 978-1-904491-31-6 Paperback: 208pp Freedom Press, 2019 Many writers and books talk about the homeless. Andrew has direct experience. His writing on life as a ro...

My review of Invisible: a diary of rough sleeping in Britain! A must read, get it at freedom press, in @anarchiststudies.bsky.social
freedompress.org.uk/product/invi...