WELCOME TO THE UK DONALD TRUMP 🇬🇧 The British public welcomed him with THIS gigantic banner right outside Windsor Castle where he is staying with the King this week. Paid for by 1770 members of the British public.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

James has read the Trump vs NYT lawsuit so you don't have to 🧵

STOP APPEASING FASCISTS. Just sums up everything wrong with this government's approach at the moment, encouraging division rather than finding ways to bring the vast majority together.

EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge. 750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Chris Mason reporting on Reform like a six-year-old seeing a tractor is not good when you've got a sizable proportion of the press nakedly cheerleading.

Create the sound of a coconut by banging two horses together.

This review is bang on. It’s a beautiful novel, which is crying out to be read again. The rich detail and amazing imagery is so densely packed that I’m sure my first reading has skimmed past a huge amount of connectivity, wit, and general awesomeness.

Nigel Farage says Glasgow is the “asylum capital of the UK” — housing 50% more “illegal” migrants than any other area. Ferret Fact Service dug into the numbers. The verdict? Mostly False. Find out more: theferret.scot/glasg...

. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .

Cooper in 2021: "If there arent the safe legal routes for family reunion we end up with more people being driven into the arms of criminal gangs" Cooper yesterday: "we are bringing forward new rules to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route"

Draw the line. Join the Green Party today ⤵️ join.greenparty.org.uk?utm_source=s...

I understand Hugh Hall, the chairman of Historic Environment Scotland, resigned last week. It comes amid a Scottish Government investigation into governance at the quango, which is responsible for the upkeep of hundreds of sites across the country.

Spontaneous cycling lessons after a road resurfacing closure last night. If only it was always like this? @edi.bike @violaoutside.bsky.social @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk

NEW: In 40 cities across Australia, an estimated one million people have been on the streets calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza. These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.

The mainstreaming of far right discourse 2015 to 2025 in two pictures. The first is from a right wing troll that caused widespread outrage. The second is a supposedly serious journalist just asking questions

In this clip, Rory says “Labour MPs put their careers on the line to stop (Old Jezza) becoming Prime Minister”, a thing that up until last year was an absolutely deranged conspiracy theory, but has now become an obvious fact, somehow without anyone having been wrong about anything at any point.

Petition to have this close the Proms instead of Rule Britannia

“Smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too.”

“It is a famine within a few hundred metres of food in a fertile land” Israel’s actions are truly wicked and we should do all we can to stop these monstrous acts

NEW: “It is a famine. Everyone owns this.” UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza. The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes. (🎥 BBC News)

I’m so frigging sick of right wing people and what they think of everything. Asylum seekers, transphobia, Israeli genocide, Brexit. The politics of evil. I wish they’d all just eff off and the media would stop banging on about their faux-concerns and we could just be fucking nice to each other

Hundreds of people from across Scotland will meet their MSPs on 18th Sept to call for practical leadership to build a fairer, climate-safe future 🌍 We're offering training, support with travel costs, and other activities on the day ✍️ 👉 Register at bit.ly/44TiTfB #ActNowChangeForever

Well, here we are...

What dastardly schemes will this evil council conjure up next in its mission to.... checks notes... stop people getting killed by bad drivers

Out of the blue, Trump called the Norwegian finance minister to ask when he would get the Nobel prize suggesting he would impose tariffs if he did not www.dn.no/politikk/fre...

BBC seems to accept a v implausible account by local Reform politician Orla in Epping with v little scrutiny. They refer to an impassioned speech, but fail to quote it directly. "If I have to wear a far right label, then so be it" Not credible that she didn't know what Callum Barker stands for

I admire Mo Salah's restraint. "Farewell". Really? Suleiman al-Obeid was killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food in Gaza. Say it, you cowards.

NEW: Parliament Square, London right now. Thousands in a silent, peaceful protest against both the genocide in Gaza and the UK Government prescribing protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Police now making arrests. (📸 Saul Staniforth)

JFC. 150 arrested now. In future, when people read how a genocide was allowed to happen in #Gaza, the history books will note that some did take a stand. They included college students, the elderly and the disabled. Their government labelled them terrorist supporters & arrested them.

Recommended outfit for going anywhere in Edinburgh city centre today

You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!

Add the re-writing of these reports with incompetence of AI & suddenly you have the very real prospect of climate change being wiped from public consciousness - scary times

This is a dead honeybee. The pollen on her legs is from dandelions. Her tongue is sticking out due to what killed her that was on the dandelions. It’s spring, dandelions are the bees first food. This bee is dead from weed killer spread on what we see as weeds, but what nature sees as food.

Powerful piece by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social "...Biodiversity graphs still point down. But this sunny year reveals a profoundly hopeful tendency in our fellow species: open the door a tiny crack to animals, plants and fungi and they will stampede through it."

"If a cyclist makes a mistake, he dies. If a car makes a mistake, he also dies." This Dan Donahue video is so good. I love his point that a lot of cyclist hate comes from drivers being mad they have to drive everywhere. I don't think that's the reason for *all* the hate, but it's a factor!

Old Craighall Gate to Dalkeith Country Park is now open for walking, wheeling and cycling! If you use this gate please stick to the 10mph speed limit though I know the thrill seekers among you may wish to go faster on the gravel hills (I didn’t, on this bike…) - working farm and all that 🐴🐄🦙🐣

So, this still leaves the elephant in the room - if there is a vast secret conspiracy behind Palestine Action, does that make it ok to drag hundreds of people off the street who are unaware of it, *without telling them anything about it*? This isn’t theoretical. People are being arrested.

"What is happening may well come to define one of its [the world's] darkest eras. One that casts a stain on humanity which will endure for generations." ITV News aerial footage of Gaza.

I got served this incredible advert over on twitter. It's a book summary written by AI but I bet the book is AI too. It's just so incredibly stupidly funny and every time I read it I start WHEEZING

Incredibly infuriating to press the button then stand and wait for 30 seconds (or more!) before the lights change. Why? What’s the justification? Why would you leave a pedestrian, exposed to the elements, standing waiting to allow cars to continue on?

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

People will be like "I would do anything for my kids!!!" right up until you suggest dropping the speed limit to 20mph.

If you, regular person, did anything like this after a fatal car accident, you would be prosecuted for a variety of crimes, including insurance fraud. If you then repeatedly lied to the courts about it, like Tesla did, you'd get prosecuted for that too, plus stiff monetary sanctions.

SPOT THE PEDESTRIAN.—Leith Street go-see advert poses non-see-through danger. Reader's letter: broughtonspurtle.org.uk/letters/go-s... #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social @edi.bike @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social @ntbcc.bsky.social

Tree down on Hawthornvale Path by Lindsay Road #EdTravCyc

In total contrast to the Masterchef stuff, this a story that I want to read more and more about, rather than just having a weekly drip-feed. It's the really minor stuff that you literally don't need to lie about that makes it all so compelling. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Listen my darling butterflies: if trans people (and POC and all other humans) don't have exactly the same rights you do, YOUR rights are under threat. Because once some people are allowed to state that those they don't approve of don't have full human rights, that never stops.