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Hmm. Odd. It seems that when the Iranian regime shut down X in Iran a lot of the ScotNat Twitter accounts mysteriously went dark...

From Le Figaro (I haven't seen it reported in the British press, but apparently it's been in The Telegraph)

At the time of the national Internet outage imposed in Iran on January 8, many pro-Scottish pro-independence accounts on the social network X suddenly stopped, reports the British press. This temporal coincidence fuels suspicions of possible foreign interference from Tehran in the British political debate.
X accounts called "Scottish Lad" Jake or "Proud Scottish lass" Fiona have, in previous weeks, disseminated dozens of conspiracy theories as well as articles very critical of the United Kingdom and the debate on the independence of Scotland. Their abrupt stop at the time of the cut-off of the Iranian network has raised the hypothesis of false profiles presenting themselves as Scottish, but operated from abroad, possibly from Iran, with the aim of weakening the United Kingdom, explains the British newspaper The Telegraph.

(machine translation)

Not that odd. Entirely predictable.

Statistically, at least a couple of the regulars here will be either Russian or Iranian bots. Might even be a Mossad one lurking. I've had my eye on Abers for a while, now.

Oy vey ! My life, already !

I’m innocent, I tells ya !

Killer Whale wrote: ↑Wed Jan 14, 2026 7:30 pm Not that odd. Entirely predictable.

Statistically, at least a couple of the regulars here will be either Russian or Iranian bots. Might even be a Mossad one lurking. I've had my eye on Abers for a while, now.

Кошмар!

Is that from the French language or informing the French? Sacré синий!

Me and Kreuz have met so I can verify we are real.

mattomac wrote: ↑Wed Jan 14, 2026 10:46 pm Me and Kreuz have met so I can verify we are real.

That's exactly what a Bot would say.

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 14, 2026 11:16 pm

mattomac wrote: ↑Wed Jan 14, 2026 10:46 pm Me and Kreuz have met so I can verify we are real.

That's exactly what a Bot would say.

So is that.

Now my head hurts.

Killer Whale wrote: ↑Thu Jan 15, 2026 9:22 am

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 14, 2026 11:16 pm

mattomac wrote: ↑Wed Jan 14, 2026 10:46 pm Me and Kreuz have met so I can verify we are real.

That's exactly what a Bot would say.

So is that.

What if we are all Russian bots.


There's a possibly fictional anecdote by a recovering Neo Nazi during the 1980s.
He used to roll up to his meetings, pay his dues, have a few cans and get the latest news from the top.
Occasonally a fellow yob would take him aside and warn him to not say too much.

There's probably somebody here from Special Branch, CID, Red Action, MI5, Daily Mirror ...

A bit later a couple of the yobs get nicked on their way to commit an atrocity.
Next meeting here's only the storyteller and the bloke who pulled him aside.
He concluded that all the others (including the organisers) were moles from different organisations.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Thu Jan 15, 2026 10:09 am Now my head hurts.

You've been boozing with @mattomac too?



(Full disclosure: I wasn't exactly dragged, kicking and screaming...)

Hey I was going based on your Berlin recommendations (Again I was happy to go along with them)

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Wed Jan 14, 2026 5:47 pm Hmm. Odd. It seems that when the Iranian regime shut down X in Iran a lot of the ScotNat Twitter accounts mysteriously went dark...

From Le Figaro (I haven't seen it reported in the British press, but apparently it's been in The Telegraph)

At the time of the national Internet outage imposed in Iran on January 8, many pro-Scottish pro-independence accounts on the social network X suddenly stopped, reports the British press. This temporal coincidence fuels suspicions of possible foreign interference from Tehran in the British political debate.
X accounts called "Scottish Lad" Jake or "Proud Scottish lass" Fiona have, in previous weeks, disseminated dozens of conspiracy theories as well as articles very critical of the United Kingdom and the debate on the independence of Scotland. Their abrupt stop at the time of the cut-off of the Iranian network has raised the hypothesis of false profiles presenting themselves as Scottish, but operated from abroad, possibly from Iran, with the aim of weakening the United Kingdom, explains the British newspaper The Telegraph.

(machine translation)

Surprised the bots are Iranian, not Russian, but UK Defence Journal has independently tracked what look very like Iranian bots.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/iranian ... ent-again/

It's nice to see the National go after the big stories.