Thank you to everyone who voted my fox image won the People’s Choice Award in the Professional Wildlife category #redfox #wildlife #nature #awardwinningimage refocus-awards.com/contests/win...

The US is adopting a strategy of attacking water storage and desalination plants designed to render the region uninhabitable. If continued, this strategy will make the Gulf littoral uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet there is no discussion of these tactics and their repercussion in the US.

'We will never achieve independence by waiting for it as the motor of change. Independence has to be understood as the accelerator of change.' Jim Osborne, via The National archive.is/Jb0yq

Our actions today will shape Earth's climate until the year 3000. A new study in Earth's Future warns we've entered "Anthropocene quicksand": every tonne of CO₂ sinks us deeper, while only rapid action can pull us out. This is civilisational suicide.

Did you know? Scotland’s allocated share of UK defence spending is £5.1 billion, yet only £2.1 billion is actually spent directly within Scotland. The remaining £3 billion goes toward bases, shipyards, and contracts located in England, yet it is still counted toward Scotland's calculated...........

Scotland soon to produce enough electricity from wind to power between 4 and 6 times as many homes as we actually have talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/07/18/s...

In Richmond, the Lib Dems won every single council seat, leaving nearly half of all voters without the representation they asked for. It's great to see the council recognise that this is not what a healthy democracy looks like. Good work 💯

Andy Burnham accepted a trip to Israel paid by its foreign ministry/Labour Friends of Israel in 2004, after becoming an MP in 2001. He later visited Palestine at the invitation of a pro-Palestine group. He joined LFI a decade ago. LFI now "look forward" to working with him. 👇

Been a quiet news day, given that this news is gonna impact news organisations significantly - or maybe that’s why this story is getting so little coverage…..At least the G have put it out there and we’re trending on X..:). www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Jk Rowling wants so badly to be a redhead, sorry Joanne you were assigned mousy at birth

May I take this Bastille Day to inform you of the fun fact that the French do not and have never called it 'Bastille Day'. They just call it 'le quatorze juillet' Found this out recently and have not stopped telling anyone who is listening

Even those in the Labour Party when claim to care about the climate crisis are set to bring about our destruction for profit. They must be replaced with people who care about our planet. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Heather Today, Scottish Borders, Scotland!💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

They can’t be bothered to hide the fact that much of the far right is a Putin funded op at this point: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

We exist in a society where the same people who believe a man built a boat big enough for two of every animal in the world don't believe in climate science because it’s “unproven.”

Imagine suddenly having to sneeze in front of this shop 😱

The SNP needs a more independent *foreign* policy BUT Scotland has less poverty, lower crime, better education, a stronger NHS & across the board better public services than the other parts of the UK after nearly 20 years of a centre-left SNP Scottish Govt protecting it, & with very limited powers.

SNP’s progressive policies have not destroyed growth and may have helped talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/07/11/s...

Building on fire is part of 109-112 Princes Street complex, ex River Island + Levi's (next to Debenhams), all closed. Site owner Criterion Capital plans to build Zedwell hotel there. Linked to row of tax-evading gift shops: edinburghminute.com/tax-evading-... exposed by @jim.londoncentric.media:

Marie Claire actually left a prompt from an AI in one of their recent articles. While there’s still some great journalists and publications left, this is utterly shocking. No wonder I’m trying to pivot.

As Andy Burnham is so confident of becoming PM he's ALREADY said Scotland can't have another referendum, here's the UK prime minister explaining why (for the nth time) youtube.com/shorts/z_XRI...

Standing up against the establishment on behalf of *checks notes* "a very successful aristocratic family".

Spare a thought for Rupert Lowe. 16 kids and their teacher were slaughtered in Dunblane, another 15 were shot and wounded. Hundreds more were traumatised and grief stricken, but Rupert's dad had to give up his shooting hobby. There's no violin small enough.

"Cambridge University has consistently ignored Byline Times’ confidential queries about the concerns raised by James Orr’s activities. Instead, its press office has passed them on directly to Orr’s lawyers."

Some crucial points here on the great Carbon Capture and Storage con by @sioldridge.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

There is no inevitability about the quality of the spaces and transport in your town or city. It's always a choice.

The supposed free speech absolutist censors checkable facts from being shared.

CATL unveiled new truck commercial #EV battery that can recharge from 20% to FULL in just 8 minutes! as fast as you could fill a truck with diesel! oh, it has a 1,000,000 Km warranty. #trucks

Alister 'Union' Jack wants Westminster to strip Holyrood of even more powers? I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

The National Crime Agency have been "unable to identify the original source" of a £1m donation to a Reform fundraising vehicle. The NCA is now "seeking help from a foreign partner" in order to identify it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Quite a significant Brexit moment happening, with the removal of Spain-Gibraltar border posts in preparation for the UK-EU agreement being signed & implemented next week. Effectively, this marks the end of the process triggered by invoking Article 50 in 2017: etias.com/articles/spa... 1/3

Reform UK wants MORE privatisation of the Britain's NHS, social care and public services ... meme via Michael Taylor

Man who received a few thousand votes from the people of Makerfield decides that the people of Scotland have no right to choose self-determination 🙄

Kinnock warns incoming PM should not be ‘constrained’ by party’s Brexit ‘red lines’ – and says those who ‘love their country’ will want to return to the bloc. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

"Seventy years after the Clean Air Act, the lessons are clear. Disasters should not be required to trigger action. The Great Smog forced change. But policy should anticipate risk, not respond to tragedy." - Ian Williams on the Clean Air Act. theconversation.com/70-years-on-...

Some interesting comments from Labour's Monica Lennon www.thenational.scot/news/2623461...

"how can we incentivize public transport usage" make it free "but who will pay for it" the taxpayer "but won't that make people have less money" not if they use public transport "but doesn't that punish motorists" that is the incentive yeah

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

Wishing the Scotland squad all the best for tonight's match against Brazil. They've done the country proud so far. Let's make history!

It's officially the hottest June day ever. We know who is to blame. Fossil fuel firms. The billionaire media. Weak politicians. We know what we must do. Rapid decarbonisation & adaptation for a healthier, wealthier country safe for future generations.

Questions to answer for Burnham before he becomes PM. If Burnham wants to abolish the Barnett formula, Scotland must get full control over tax and spending.

It will be much easier to radically change the pattern of private landownership in Scotland, when Scotland is an independent, sovereign country. ✅

Rising energy bills, a genocide in Gaza, racist anti-migrant laws and the punishment of disabled people, this isn't a legacy to be proud of. Scotland deserves better than just another Westminster leader; it's time for independence.

Advanced Geothermal Energy Is Widely Available, Clean, and Maybe Cheap Enough to Make a Big Impact

Rosebank contains enough to produce over 200 million tonnes of CO2, more than the combined annual emissions of 28 countries. Opening up these oilfields will do nothing to improve energy security or bring down bills, as any fuels will be sold at global prices on the world market.

“30 women have been murdered in the north in the last six years […] not one road was closed, not one protest. What was the connection? They were all murdered by white locals.”