BREAKING 🚨: Equinor has admitted the Rosebank oil field would result in 249 million tonnes of CO2. That's more than the combined annual emissions of Ireland, Belgium and Greece. But Equinor says that's not their problem. They profit, everyone else pays the price.

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

This single story is worth the cost of my year's subscription to @wired.com

🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨 The Land Question October 30-31, 2025 Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come! criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...

The richest man on the planet is paying for Tommy Robinson's legal fees. The UK's problems are not caused by migrants or refugees. They are caused by billionaires like Elon Musk.

One campaigner said the spread of industrial chemicals to some of Scotland’s most remote waters was “really heartbreaking” theferret.scot/orkne...

I am so sick of living in a world where certain groups insist art & culture be re-oriented to serve their tastes and whims when their own pitiful inability or unwillingness to critically engage with and contemplate creativity clearly demonstrate that art & culture are too good for them.

The blurbs for my book are in. It's out March 26th 2026. Since I don't have a publicist let me know if you have any interest in reviewing it. Also more than happy to talk about it in a class, seminar series, or podcast.

This is very insightful from Max Horkheimer. I can really feel what he means here, not only understand it. This text taken from @jamescrane.bsky.social's blog here: jamescrane.substack.com/p/max-horkhe...

It’s happened again

🔴NEW: At least 20 racist incidents took place in Scotland last month including attacks on mosques and asylum hotels, alleged assaults – and the jailing of a neo-Nazi for slashing a student in the face with a knife. Find out more: bit.ly/477AYHY

Who Owns ScotWind? Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social reveals who owns Scotland’s offshore wind resources — and who stands to benefit Spoiler alert: it isn’t the people of Scotland 👇

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor

Just the worst people imaginable: hurling the most insane, deliberately inflammatory drivel they can and then, at the slightest sign of pushback, hurling themselves squealing to the pitch clutching their shins, rolling around pretending to be injured, shouting for a red card.

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

It‘s my birthday so im asking you to send money to help people out in Gaza www.gofundme.com/f/help-tasne...

Road Casualties data for 2024 in Great Britain published this week: www.gov.uk/government/s... Thanks to @pactsuk.bsky.social, there is an important new chart on the vehicles involved in fatal crashes:

trump speeches vary between something from a history textbook about 1930s germany and something from the histories of suetonius about what the emperor calligula supposedly said to his horse while drunk

That show is so good *because* its writers clearly read a ton of revolutionary literature - novels, history books, theory - and used it for their narrative. "Read revolutionary leftist lit" is cringe, but we have literally two centuries of very popular novels and films conveying these messages.

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

The UK and Scottish LibDems have both labelled Israel’s actions in Gaza a 'genocide' for the first time

from my latest: "The trans-shooter myth largely began circulating in 2023 around the Nashville shooting, 'as the right began rolling back LGBTQ rights in earnest'... Two years later, and just a decade after the so-called trans tipping point, anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage."

The extent to which liberals have decided to sacrifice trans people to appease fascists is both grimly predictable and obviously miscalculated.

Quote from the student that got their professor fired: "I don’t want to promote something that is against our president’s laws" What pathetic whiners these little fascists are.

i think the hardest part of being a cartoonist is drawing the nervous and circulatory systems, followed by the bones and muscles and then genitalia and each strand of hair on every character. then, it's time to add clothes

Only packed two books for a 30 minute bus ride.

Galleys for Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain (edited by me and with a foreword by Paula Varela) are here! Out in November… Please consider preordering from Pluto Press!

Every strand of this Edinburgh University report could be its own front page. Yes, some of it will be familiar to historians, but this kind of frank public recognition is all too rare. Incredible work by many different scholars.

I remember when Carswell defected, a lot was made of him being less vulgar than others in UKIP, more articulate, polite, his affected reasonableness.

The data I've found gives us more insight into the rotten economics of generative AI than anybody has ever had, and the results are grim: the more popular a generative AI product is, the more money it loses. www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-is-bleeding-out/

A disturbing part of present cultural is a widespread sensibility, not specific to any place on the political spectrum, that some people's deaths and suffering is warranted or even enjoyable because of the beliefs they hold. I suspect that's politically consequential but idk. Either way, very ugly.

*bell tolls* hahaha yes, hell yes *it tolls for thee* what the fuck

I see comments on our stories all the time saying Israel/Palestine have nothing to do with Scotland. Meanwhile ... NEW: Edinburgh University among 'the most financially entangled' to Israel in the UK, UN report finds www.thenational.scot/news/2528121...

Nature of vote distribution here makes it easy to rework this for the three seats of a full election: quota 1556, so the Green pull ahead for one round here would secure the first councillor (gaining from SNP), marginal surplus, Con drop out, LD (gaining from Con) and Lab get the other two seats.

NEW: After Scottish Enterprise did their own review into how public money is being awarded to arms firms selling to Israel, the conclusion is that they'll keep doing it. The Scottish Greens say the outcome is "shameful" www.thenational.scot/news/2526614...

NEW: Arms firms supplying Israel have continued to receive taxpayers’ money from the Scottish Government despite allegations of genocide in Gaza, prompting criticism its human rights due diligence is “not fit for purpose”. bit.ly/44iuWSr

Why won't Zohran Mamdani denounce a slogan? Why won't Zohran Mamdani reject a password? Why won't Zohran Mamdani disavow a rhyme? Why won't Zohran Mamdani eschew a concept? Why won't Zohran Mamdani repudiate a proverb? Why won't Zohran Mamdani disclaim a colorway?

Have your wages increased by a third in five years? If so then you’ll have less problem than most tenants will in paying their spiralling rents. A Scottish government was formed in 2021 promising rent controls. These should have been delivered urgently. They still could be.

Statement on Israel's latest conflict escalation. Any Government, in any country, which fails to act has lives on its conscience, and international law will ultimately hold them complicit for their actions. greens.scot/news/stateme...

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

With its latest act of conflict escalation, Israel is quite deliberately trying to prevent any chance of negotiation. Yet even now the UK Government won't acknowledge Israel's government as a threat, but actively trains & resources their military.

@drscottarthurmp.bsky.social What will you be doing to stop this?

Over on Substack I gave my analysis of the Trump/Musk feud, which I see as a blown opportunity for MAGA to permanently integrate the online crypto right into their governing coalition. All of which is symptomatic of capitalism in crisis: outreach as entertainment vs class constitution

Daily life in 2025. #AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS

I think if we’re going to let the majority of the population have death machines, we should heavily regulate them. and I just think it’s wild that many of the people who believe that about guns do not believe that about cars!

Yes, mistakes were made: repeatedly delaying the Bill and indulging transphobic backbenchers, after a clear promise to act as long ago as the 2016 election, allowed anti-trans prejudice to grow and fester. If they'd legislated quickly, the sky would not have fallen in, and we'd all have moved on.

"The supply and demand myth of housing" canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...