Alison

Working mum, owner of a big black Labradoodle and a little Golden Cocker Spaniel, Independence for Scotland

[TWS @tws_pk2]

Good morning, it’s Connor here from TWS shelter

Our reach is down and many of our friends are not seeing our updates 😢.

Please help us beat the algorithm over the next few days: search our page, drop a heart ❤️, and leave a quick reply!

Every like and RT helps save lives 🙏🏼

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

This morning, the Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace performed a tribute to Dolly Parton.

The last time I remember the guards at the palace honoring the memory of an American entertainer was when they paid tribute to Aretha Franklin after she passed away.

Well deserved!

[Sam Rose @samwhoo]

This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026.

https://t.co/07BtpKswBu

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Yesterday we got a call out to a street dog. Her eye had been lost to a growth.

But that was 24 hours ago. You won’t believe what she looks like today (1/7) 🧵

[Steve Norris #powertaethepeople 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @gallowayscot]

And no thanks to the BBC, who shamefully did not cover the games.
And despite this dereliction of duty, BBC Scotland has the neck to ask if the Games were a success??
Never has a country been so ill-served by its public broadcaster.

[Gazberto @gazberto]

BBC Scotland refused to show any live coverage of the Commonwealth Games from Glasgow, we had to suffer live cricket for nearly seven and a half hours, what an absolute disgrace, but you’d expect nothing else from the BBC. #DefundTheBBC

[Julie Armstrong @jollyjamba]

@Wishitwasthewa1 So many organisations established for noble purposes are being exploited financially, politically or both: charities, care homes, food banks, state housing, welfare ...

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

This story is utterly horrifying, and 0% shocking. https://t.co/ABuPDGvZSe

[GDams @Gdams70]

🔥 🇪🇸Ça… ça me prend aux tripes.
Des pompiers qui passent la journée à lutter contre les flammes, épuisés, cramés… et qui trouvent ce cerf coincé, à bout de forces.
Ils s’arrêtent.
Ils lui donnent de l’eau.
Ils le caressent.
Ils le sauvent.
Pas de discours.
Pas de caméras politiques.
Juste des hommes qui respectent la vie.

Voila ce que ça donne, de vrais héros.
Ces gars-là, ils valent mille fois mieux que tous les ministres réunis.
Respect.
❤️🇫🇷
Like si t’as les yeux qui piquent.
RT pour faire circuler.

[Robert Burns @Nugent4nil]

Why in Scotland do we have live English super league rugby, cricket, netball, etc, but we can’t watch live coverage of the Commonwealth Games?
Surely given we contribute to the licence fee it should be broadcasted, we know it would be if it was being held in England.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Right now, the annual mass salmon migration is taking place at Brooks Falls in Alaska

During this period, dozens of Brown Bears gather at the waterfall, turning the area into a real feast.

You can watch the live cam at: https://t.co/i6h2RQDyDJ

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

POST OFFICE KNEW ITS TILL BUTTON WAS ROBBING PEOPLE SINCE 2019

A subpostmaster called Denis O'Donnell messaged me on @LinkedIn. He follows this page and asked me to help amplify a story he has spent six years trying to get anyone to take seriously. After checking it out I understand why he is still fighting.

In 2019 O'Donnell ran a Post Office branch in Prestatyn, Wales. He noticed something wrong with the till.

A screen icon on the Horizon system does two opposite jobs, take money and pay money.

When several transactions stack up together, Horizon can hand cash to a customer and then log it as a payment the other way, creating an instant shortfall the subpostmaster gets blamed for.

O'Donnell wrote to the top. He sent letters to then CEO Nick Read and communications boss Mark Davies. Post Office's answer was that it was a one off mistake, fixed within days. Convenient timing too, since this was 6 months after Post Office had just been humiliated in the High Court by subpostmasters who proved Horizon was faulty all along.

O'Donnell kept pushing for years. He eventually got the story to @ComputerWeekly and its reporter Karl Flinders @Karlfl, and to Ron Warmington, the forensic investigator at Second Sight who was one of the original people who blew open the whole Horizon scandal back in 2012.

Warmington called this new defect sufficiently serious to write directly to the public inquiry. He also called Post Office's first response to questions about it arrogant and dismissive, which by now is basically the company's official slogan.

@PostOffice finally agreed to investigate and warn branches in December 2025. Six years after O'Donnell first told them. Their own spokesperson said it is impossible to know the true impact but they believe it is limited, based on checking 1 year of error logs out of more than 24 years Horizon has been running.

O'Donnell calls that maths a joke, and it is hard to disagree when millions of transactions across two and a half decades got reduced to a single year sample.

O'Donnell is trying to warn other subpostmasters and their families that the Post Office Process Review scheme closes to new applications on 30 September 2026.

This scheme covers losses caused by Post Office products, policies or processes, separate from the Horizon Shortfall Scheme which already closed in January and the GLO scheme closing this month. If people affected by this specific defect do not apply before the deadline, they may lose the chance entirely.

Post Office spent over two decades telling subpostmasters the system never lies. Then it spent six more years telling one particular whistleblower his bug did not matter. Forgive people for not trusting the next apology on the first read.

If you are a current or former subpostmaster affected by this or unsure about the Process Review deadline, get proper advice before it closes.

SOURCES
@ComputerWeekly @Karlfl @PostOffice @PostOffInquiry @BBCNews

[Sovereign 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👑 @SovereignBain]

An Ayrshire farm boy who left school young came back from holiday, looked at a dish he had forgotten to clean, and quietly saved more human lives than any person who has ever lived. This depicts the real Alexander Fleming, not an actor.
Fleming was born in 1881 on a hill farm at Lochfield near Darvel in East Ayrshire, one of a large family, walking miles to a moorland school. That country childhood mattered. He grew up watching nature closely, noticing small things, and he never lost the habit. He trained as a doctor and bacteriologist in London, but the sharp observant eye was pure Scottish upbringing.
In September 1928, returning to his cluttered laboratory after a break, he noticed that a dish of bacteria had been spoiled by a stray blue-green mould, and that around the mould the bacteria had simply dissolved away. Most people would have thrown the dish out. Fleming stopped and looked. That mould was Penicillium, and the substance it made was penicillin, the first true antibiotic.
He understood he had found something extraordinary, though it took a decade and other brilliant minds to turn it into the medicine that would save millions of soldiers and civilians in the Second World War and every year since. When Fleming shared the Nobel Prize in 1945, he warned, with typical caution, that misusing the drug could breed resistant bacteria, a prophecy the world is still reckoning with.
He never grew rich from it. He believed the discovery belonged to humanity, and he refused to patent it. A Scottish farmer's son gave away the greatest medical gift of the century and asked for nothing back.
The next time an infection does not kill you, remember the boy from the Ayrshire moors who paused to look at a dirty dish. The blood remembers its own🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

The Norwegians have been brilliant. Love that US passport control even jumped on 😊👏👏
#ENGNOR

[Gina Bates Ⓥ 𓃟 Pigoneer™. @hilltopgina]

Breaking news 📢

There are now 543 people who care about the plight of these giant boars. (actually a lot less as so many have donated twice) Thank you 🙏

This is sadly shocking 😱

If we cannot secure safety for those who we save what are we doing? 🤦‍♀️

https://t.co/xlGWCKosY2

[Hy Bender @hybender]

Enjoys stealthily stealing carrots that were left out just for him

[Gina Bates Ⓥ 𓃟 Pigoneer™. @hilltopgina]

We really have no idea how to say this any clearer.

These giant boars were rescued from hell 6 years ago.

Their home is being sold & if @BTWsanctuary doesn't buy it its toast for these giant magnificent beauties.

If you care please donate & share 🙏

https://t.co/xlGWCKosY2

[Missing Pets GB @MissingPetsGB]

🐕 MISSY was lost with LEAD ATTACHED on 3 October 2025 in Gorton Park #Manchester #M12
She is a black cocker spaniel, very nervous, lead and harness still attached! Do not chase if seen! Please call number below. #stolendoghour

[Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF @tawf_uk]

Good morning from our happy little family at TAWF. ❤️

Every wagging tail, every playful moment and every peaceful face is a reminder of what love, patience and kindness can achieve.

Watching them enjoy life is the best way to start the day.

Wishing you all a beautiful day from our rescued dogs, cats and donkeys. 🐾🌿