A Scott

A Scottish words' illustrator, a cartoonist & designer interested in tech, software, art, design, life and the environment. Also on @[email protected]

[A Scott @stooryduster]

I’m not really on here any more. More informed thinking and opinion is to be found in more quantity elsewhere than here.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation.

In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills.

Privatisation has delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors.
https://t.co/2b9Hv8zS1I

[A Scott @stooryduster]

@fairfaaye Stooryduster Scottish Scots - hello. A duster full of dust.

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[Suffolk Broad 🇪🇺🇵🇱🇬🇧 @anna_damski]

The great thing about today’s protests is they weren’t just happening in “predictable“ places like DC and NYC, but there were huge crowds in the rubiest of ruby-red states like Utah and Idaho. And great turnout across Europe too.

I had friends joining in LA, SF & Eugene Oregon.

[richard brooks @rbrooks45]

More than 4 years ago @PrivateEyeNews published major report on Covid profiteering. Ministers and officials from the time finally having to answer some questions at the public inquiry. But the profiteers still exempt from all scrutiny.

[Anarchist Art @anarchistart_]

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[A Scott @stooryduster]

I’m not really on here any more. More informed thinking and opinion is to be found in more quantity elsewhere than here.

[Yellow Dot Studios @weareyellowdot]

"It’s beginning to look as if no one has our backs. Prepare for the worst."

A must-read PSA from @GeorgeMonbiot:
https://t.co/9HA3imPXin

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Tilda Swinton "The inhumane is being perpetrated on our watch. I’m here to name it without hesitation.. & to lend my unwavering solidarity to all those who recognise the unacceptable complacency of our greed addicted governments who make nice with planet wreckers & war criminals"

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

It’s all beginning to feel a bit 1984. We’re in a battle against autocrats and oligarchs who are using money and misinformation to dismantle democracies. That’s why we’re looking for 1,984 new monthly supporters to make our biggest and boldest plans a reality (see link in bio)

The tech barons are teaming up with the far right. We need to resist them with truth, creativity and humour. 100% of what we do is funded by small donors. Could you become one of them?

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[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall joined 1000 others today for an occupation of the road outside the Royal Courts of Justice, as the ‘Lord’ Walney 16 face a mass appeal against the extreme sentences handed to them for peaceful protest.

https://t.co/YlN77BH1ji #SackLordWalney

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

I was an eyewitness. Yesterday the Lebanese army just sat and watched the Israeli army massacre 23 Lebanese civilians and shoot another 109.
If the Lebanese army was protecting anybody, it was protecting the IDF.
The Lebanese army is completely a tool of the USA.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The Western ruling class considers China's technological development to be a threat because it undermines a core tenet of the imperial arrangement.

Here's how it works. The states and firms of the imperial core actively seek to prevent sovereign technological development in the global South, while establishing monopoly control over necessary technologies (capital goods, medicines, computers, etc, etc).

This forces the South into a position of dependency, such that they are compelled to export large quantities of (cheapened) industrial and agricultural goods to the core in order to pay for necessary imports.

The result is a massive net flow of material wealth from periphery to core that sustains high levels of material consumption in places like the US and Europe, overwhelmingly to the benefit of their ruling classes. And the core's technology firms enjoy monopoly profits.

But China's technological development is beginning to break Western monopolies, and may give developing countries alternative suppliers for necessary goods at more affordable prices. This poses a fundamental challenge to the imperial arrangement, and the net flow of goods - and profits - that the core enjoys.

The core states will not let this happen easily. All the US saber-rattling against China's development is *not* because China poses a military threat to the territorial United States (it does not), but because it poses a threat to imperial capital.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

'Crackdowns on benefit cheats' were announced by Peter Lilley in 1992. And Tony Blair in 1997. And James Purnell in 2009. And Iain Duncan Smith in 2013. And Jeremy Hunt in 2023. And Rachel Reeves in 2024. The soundbite never gets old.

[Bob Costello @bobcostello47]

The US is in shock regarding the massive damage to property in the fires raging in Los Angeles. The only thing shocking about it is the fact that Americans are shocked at wooden houses burning down in a fire risk area. Face it, you are fucking stupid.

[Guy Verhofstadt @guyverhofstadt]

A reminder, for those who are confused.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

In newsrooms in Britain and the US, journalists are seeing Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s healthcare, and just deciding not to cover it.

Some lives truly don’t matter.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

I’ll stop posting this when Israel stops attacking hospitals with full U.S. support…

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Water companies in England have been fined just £2 by Ofwat since 2021 for breaching regulations".

The whole thing is a total, complete and utter shambles.

https://t.co/aYr2PNlP4N