Melissa Eco Zealot 🏴🏴🏴
@melissamary2012.bsky.social
Due to IT nightmare, new account Scottish Independence 🏴🏴🏴 Dumfries and Galloway 🏴🏴🏴
Palantir made £247m in UK revenue in 2024, including £25m in profit, but paid just £2m in corporation tax. But middle income earners get hit for 40% income tax, stopped at source.
Yes. UK Westminster Govt legislation for Smart Meters is a complete failure. Policy =install SM not that they function accurately. Result= Scotland, and lots of other areas have no functioning SM = PAY premium for electricity and no access to EV or solar tarriffs UK fail again. Independence.
Andrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺@andrew.sharpe.scot · 2h agoTotally agree, although in our case the symptoms of the SM not communicating with the LRRN turned out to be an incomplete database update by one of the many private suppliers in this second rate UK infrastructure solution. Took mths of effort to sort. In the meantime we couldn't access an EV tariff.
Zack Polanksi, "We need to look at the £2.7 billion in tax breaks that is given to fossil fuel companies, that should go into jobs in renewables, in nature, in care"
Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🇬🇱🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter@maniisnala.bsky.social · 4h agoThe UK's biggest climate polluter, Drax Power Station, wants to build a massive 100MW data centre powered by burning trees. I've emailed North Yorkshire Council demanding a full assessment of the environmental impact of these plans. Please email them too. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/dr...
These eejits have (quite cleverly) hiijacked our flag to use it in their thinly based ideology that the whole of Scotland is behind their cause. The Saltire is NOT wholly owned by the Independence movement, But it is wholly owned by the people of Scotland who stand up for social justice & democracy
Blackrock US Billionaire is using 13,000 gallons of water a day to keep his grass green and trees watered in Wessex, England, where drought has been declared. They just think they can use everything up because the rules only apply to you.
Amazon take government money willingly, and a good percentage of their staff are on Universal credit (another government subsidy) instead of paying a decent wage. They pay a paltry amount of tax compared to us. Horrible company and not the only one! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m
Tech company received infrastructure relief as its five biggest UK divisions generate £32bn in revenues
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1/2 Record Danube drought forcing Hungary's Paks nuclear plant offline—cutting nearly half the nation's power during 40°C heat—proves river-cooled nuclear isn't climate-proof. Relying on vulnerable freshwater in an overheating world is fatal. How will grids survive extreme weather? 🌡️ #ClimateCrisis
Hungary: Prime minister flags 'critical' days ahead as country's nuclear power plant goes offline
YouTube video by DW News
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All this begins to make the UK (or England at least) a modern day version of 1930s Germany. God forbid.
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 6h agoOrganisers of far-right groups are attempting to build a 'street army', leading human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar has said Disorder and protests across Scotland have left the police with an overtime bill of £1.1million, it has been estimated
Regulation of mobile phone operators in Scotland is controlled by British governments in England. This is the result.
Andrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺@andrew.sharpe.scot · 7h ago5G access is increasingly useful - if you have it. Cell sites are smaller so they tend to start in cities and along motorways. Countries like 🏴 Scotland have little coverage. But contrast with France with aggressive legally mandated investment.. it's also much cheaper. www.nperf.com/en/map/FR/-/...
So we’re going to see this success highlighted on the BBC when they are praising Burnhams “great initiative “
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 8h agoDespite only being rolled out for a few months, the £2 bus fare cap trial in the Highlands and Islands is already being hailed as a 'great success' with transport firms already seeing a surge in passengers Here's our special report 👇
Reform are presently using the smart propaganda tactics of the far right. The intent is confusion, making people hesitate before, for example, calling Reform 'Nazis' even when the evidence of their own eyes sees a Nazi salute, writes Alison Phipps ✍️ www.thenational.scot/politi...
SNP and Greens to deliver an extra 45k hours of social care for Scotland. Swinney states "meaningful reform requires a workforce to deliver it. I urge Andy Burnham to reconsider and to reverse the harm done by the UK Government" Are you Yes yet? news.stv.tv/scotland/dis...
Displaced workers scheme to create 45,000 extra hours of social care each month
The scheme covers the additional costs of hiring so-called displaced workers, which often prevent employers from taking them on.
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The Scottish Daily Mail's Michael BlackLIE, a bitter and unashamedly right-wing hack, thinks it's news that a "tycoon" who runs care homes opposes a plan for a national care service. The Daily Mail (the Izal of the press world) agrees and features it.
A sweet little girl with autism brought her stuffed puppy to the dog show. One of the judges noticed her, came over, and asked if she’d like to show her dog too. What followed was pure magic. Original post
A Scottish Government scheme to sponsor 'displaced' international care workers has helped employers recruit more than 100 staff
Scottish Government scheme recruits more than 100 care workers amid UK visa ban
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Here is a clear example of how corporate capitalist forces (and their media) try to undermine science & create their own counterfactuals (and enemies) - in this case using useful idiots. A clear example of false consciousness - where publics must be deceived to protect corporate capital accumulation
Good news that you won’t read in crooked BBC Scotland talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/08/04/d...
Drug-related hospital admissions plummet to lowest level since records began, treatment service meets 90% target for last 15 years and world-first opioid overdose reversal programme enters 8th year bu...
From BBC Scotland this morning, the above and: A residential drug service in Glasgow is to close its doors after a long-running financial dispute with its council-owned landlord. The service run by…
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Animal dewormer and a drug used to treat scabies are being sold and promoted as unproven cancer treatments. Amazon withdrew drugs after being exposed. Others still selling. Profiteering from vulnerable people. Yet neoliberals oppose regulation.
Undercover reporter offered fenbendazole and ivermectin as cancer treatment
A terminally ill man was offered the drugs by a stair lift salesman claiming they could shrink tumours.
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Eight of the world's biggest oil companies made a combined $93bn in just three months as the Iran war sent oil prices soaring. Europe and the UK are literally on fire from climate change caused by their product. And yet conservatives and right wing media view them as heroes. 🧵 #r4today
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
