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Mark<p>Scottish university agreed to monitor students for arms company</p><p>Extremely disappointing <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Heriot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Heriot</span></a>-Watt University doesn’t respect, prioritise <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>students</span></a> over corporations</p><p>The Uni will monitor student <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/chat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chat</span></a> groups and <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/discussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>discussion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/forums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forums</span></a> for talk of any planned <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a>, monitoring <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CCTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CCTV</span></a> for signs of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/groups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>groups</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/gathering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gathering</span></a>, and having an “enhanced” physical presence on the day to “help safeguard the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Raytheon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Raytheon</span></a> employees attending.”</p><p><a href="https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25308679.edinburgh-university-agreed-monitor-students-arms-company/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">heraldscotland.com/news/253086</span><span class="invisible">79.edinburgh-university-agreed-monitor-students-arms-company/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/spying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PeopleNotProfits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleNotProfits</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a></p>
Mark<p>No <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PFI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PFI</span></a> in Neighbourhood Health Services</p><p>We demand no “Public Private Partnership” (PFI) to finance Neighbourhood Health Centres</p><p>PFI's led to NHS paying up to 27x over for hospitals. Some <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NHS</span></a> Trusts STILL wasting 13% of their budgets on old PFI deals</p><p>Even the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservative</span></a> government said ‘goodbye to PFI’ because it is bad value for money.</p><p><a href="https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-new-pfi-in-neighbourhood-health-services" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-new-</span><span class="invisible">pfi-in-neighbourhood-health-services</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SaveOurNHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOurNHS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LabourLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LabourLies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PeopleNotProfits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleNotProfits</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NotLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NotLabour</span></a></p>
Mark<p>Living in the shadow: <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fear</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> policies</p><p>To <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> readers</p><p>Debates about <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NHS</span></a> &amp; social programmes aren’t trivial</p><p>I’ve seen what happens when <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/privatisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privatisation</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>political</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cruelty</span></a> masquerade as <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/reform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reform</span></a> (no pun). Fight for your public programmes</p><p>- Cherish your NHS<br>- Protect disability rights</p><p>Once they are gone, people most dependent on them don’t just fall through the cracks they disappear</p><p><a href="https://bylines.scot/politics/world-politics/living-in-the-shadow-fear-of-america-policies/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bylines.scot/politics/world-po</span><span class="invisible">litics/living-in-the-shadow-fear-of-america-policies/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Elite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elite</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DemocracyNOW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocracyNOW</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PeopleNotProfits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleNotProfits</span></a></p>
Mark<p>I’ve voiced <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScotRail</span></a> trains for 20 years. No one told me AI was replacing me</p><p>THE woman who has been the voice of ScotRail trains for 20 years only learned she was being replaced after a friend heard the new <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/synthetic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>synthetic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/voice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voice</span></a> onboard.</p><p><a href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/25204424.voice-scotrail-20-years-replaced-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenational.scot/news/25204424</span><span class="invisible">.voice-scotrail-20-years-replaced-ai/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/unemployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unemployment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/redundant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>redundant</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PeopleNotProfits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleNotProfits</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/VoiceOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceOver</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trains</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/railway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>railway</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/transport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transport</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greed</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CorporateGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateGreed</span></a></p>
Mark<p>Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> is the 6th largest economy in world. But huge amount of wealth is held by very small proportion of the population</p><p>Average wealth of top 10 richest people UK is now £21 billion, up nearly 50% in 5 years</p><p>If you earn £3600 every hour, it would take you over 665 years to save this amount</p><p>2% <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> on assets over £10 million could raise up to £24 billion/yr - just 20k of wealthiest </p><p><a href="https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/tax-the-super-rich-to-stop-cuts-to-public-services-1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions</span><span class="invisible">/tax-the-super-rich-to-stop-cuts-to-public-services-1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PeopleNotProfits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleNotProfits</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WealthTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WealthTax</span></a></p>
Mark<p>1 year on, we know this: <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Sweden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sweden</span></a>’s trade unions are more than a match for Elon Musk</p><p>It's the first &amp; only <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> against <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a> anywhere in the world. It has now become the longest-running strike in Sweden for a century. In April, six months into the dispute</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> said: “Actually, I think the storm has passed on that front, I think things are in reasonably good shape in Sweden.” That was not true then, and it is not true now</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/01/one-year-on-we-know-this-swedens-trade-unions-are-more-than-a-match-for-elon-musk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2024/nov/01/one-year-on-we-know-this-swedens-trade-unions-are-more-than-a-match-for-elon-musk</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PeopleNotProfits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleNotProfits</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>work</span></a></p>