PaganMagick (She/Her)🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

@paganmagick.bsky.social

Pagan, gothic, hippy, cat person. I am neurodivergent and disabled. I believe in human rights, respecting the natural environment and making the world a better place. I do not tolerate the far right or fascists. Member of the Scottish Greens.

High-stakes exams are not a fair way of evaluating young people's ability. One bad day, an illness, or challenges beyond their control can ruin a year of work. Scottish Greens want to build a fairer, more modern system built around continuous assessment.

Nothing could be more damaging to our climate and the future of the North East than offering up even more of our North Sea to oil and gas giants. To create well-paid, long-term jobs in the North East and tackle the climate emergency, we must invest in renewables.

Scottish Labour leadership candidate backs North Sea jobs and calls for Rosebank and Jackdaw developments to be approved

Damaging new guidance from the EHRC will shut out Trans people from daily life simply for existing, and anyone who doesn't conform to narrow ideas of how people should look could face suspicion and confrontation. We are taking a stand against this attack on human rights.

Central government has never felt more out of touch with reality. If our farmers can’t grow food what will we eat? And if our children can’t learn and patients get ill because their hospitals are too hot, how can we live as normal?

You have got to be shitting me. The BBC only does transcripts for the podcast about disability. Because disabled people only care about benefits and shit, why would we ever want to learn about other things?

Well done Rayner Burnham and Labour you fucking idiots Here we are experiencing the climate crises with full on blistering heatwaves crops going without water and you approve another fucking datacenter Thick as fuck no joined up thinking whatsoever www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy

Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes

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Echo the Australian magpie annoying a tuxedo cat named Gilbert in Thames, New Zealand. The pair are known to be friends, though the magpie is often described as an annoying sibling that frequently pushes limits. They are part of a group called "Tuxedoes Unite" located in Karangahake, New Zealand.

Rod Liddle spent years spouting divisive and hateful rhetoric - turning other people’s lives into clickbait, culture wars and newspaper copy for money. Now the privileged media class are passing judgment from the safety of their TV studios and opinion pages on the very people who he targeted

Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.so... • 14h
Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died
yesterday.
If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social • 13h
I am saddened by the tone of commentary in this place about my former BBC colleague.
The level of vitriol seems more suited to the other place. I worked with Rod at the Today programme. He took no prisoners, but he was witty and personally capable of genuine warmth. My sympathy to his family.
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OF COURSE NOT. HE'S NEVER BOTHERED ME.
EXACTLY.
NO IDEA WHAT
MR. MOUSE WAS
GOING ON ABOUT.

The new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

As Rod Liddle has died, I notice this column I wrote in 2019 about his attacks on people with M.E. is on the most read again. Rebekah Brooks, of News UK, described Liddle today as “provocative”. In reality, he spread lies about very sick people for cash. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rod Liddle vilifies disabled people. I’m tired of the hate. We all should be | Frances Ryan

Whether it is ME patients or another target, huge swathes of the media have normalised hatred of minorities for years, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Very disappointing from the new Prime Minister, very much sounding like the previous PM. These are among the world’s most vulnerable and desparate people. They need safe routes and humanity from responsible politicians, not grandstanding. This isn’t doing politics differently.

Burnham pledges to be "relentless" in curbing small boat crossings

Seema Misra ran the post office in West Byfleet. In 2008, she was suspended over a £74,000 shortfall that did not exist. On 11 November 2010, she was sentenced to fifteen months in prison. She was eight weeks pregnant. She served four and a half months. Her conviction was overturned in 2021.

Across Britain’s quango state, hundreds of individuals hold multiple public appointments at once, and there is no central register showing how many also sit in firms that bid for, advise on, or benefit from public contracts. Parliament does not see the full map because no official map exists. FFS

This is What Corruption Looks Like in The UK Lord Allen of Kensington chairs Balfour Beatty, recipient of approximately £5 billion in HS2 contracts, while simultaneously sitting in the House of Lords voting on transport legislation. FFS it's so blatant

HERE’S WHAT REALLY HAPPENED The Met Police are desperate to save face following their unjustified attack on peaceful protesters yesterday. 152 people were arrested outside Westminster Magistrates Court, most of whom had a court listing in their name for a “terrorism” charge.

In UK's two-tier justice system it's jail-time for petty theft to eat, a slap on the wrist and more lucrative contracts for £billion PPE, Covid loans, postmaster targeting fraudsters ‘Scandal within a scandal’: DWP fails to begin Post Office convictions review www.thecanary.co/uk/2026/07/3...

'Scandal within a scandal': DWP fails to begin Post Office convictions review

The Department for Work and Pensions is still failing Post Office families nearly a year after promising a prosecutions review

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