China switched on the world’s largest open-sea offshore solar farm in late 2025. 2.3M panels. 2,934 steel platforms. Built offshore to survive force-11 gales & sea ice. Powers ~2.67M people. And yes… they’re farming fish underneath it too. Solar above. Food below. Fossils below both.

Attention Alphabetters! This is your reminder that Mon 18 May is the start of Week T and the theme for the #AlphabetChallenge is Time. So go literal with clocks etc, or go abstract with pics that depict time, or its passing, in some other way. Be creative! Use the # below and have fun😊

Yesterday Far Right leader Tommy Robinson and his followers openly called for Islam to be removed from the UK and us Muslims to be remigrated. If he had said this about Jews, quite rightly, there would be a national response. But it has been eerily quiet today.

Reposted as Wes Streeting tries to base his leadership campaign on highly selective figures talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/05/13/n...

A deeply concerning analysis by @richardjmurphy.bsky.social I'm not qualified to assess its merits, but it sounds as if we should at least be highly alert to the possibilities he raises. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05...

Germany officially launched the world's first hydrogen powered passenger train network in Lower Saxony in 2022. Operated by Coradia iLint trains, built by French company Alstom. Each train can travel up to 1,000 km on a single hydrogen refill.

Unfortunate enough to hear a clip of very rich sometines lives in Dubai Dickie Tice saying 65% of Makersfield voted for Brexit. Blamed the failing EU for why they're struggling now! 🤣 Can someone tell Ticey that it can't be because we're not in the EU He hit all of Putins talking points too 🙄

Scottish Labour collapse to 6th place, on 5%. Westminster voting intention: Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SNP 40% LD 13% Ref 13% Con 12% Grn 9% Lab 5% oth 6% Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 PC 33% Ref 22% Con 12% Grn 11% Lab 11% LD 5% oth 7% (Find Out Now; 13 May; usual caveats apply to sub-samples)

@lbc.co.uk France has capped Food prices. Not up 50 items but includes 1000's of items. Disappointed in Henry Reily not to have someone on from the SNP & allow greedy fatted Tories on slagging off the idea www.cnn.com/2023/08/31/b...

"There is no independence from Westminster without a Scottish Currency"

Now here is an account worth following if you are serious about Scotland’s independence. "We are planning for a Scottish Central Bank, payments system & regulatory structures for introduction of a Scottish currency on Independence Day" bsky.app/profile/scg1...

List of things Andy Burnham has already confirmed he will not do. No Water Renationalisation or any other renationalisation. No Rejoin EU. No PR.

In 1990, billionaire wealth was 2.5% of global GDP. Their wealth is now 14.1% of GDP. In the UK, it's now 22% of their GDP We absolutely have to get inequality under control. It's the extreme level of inequality that's causing so many of our problems. We need to tax wealth + transactions and do UBI

I've put up a new swing in the garden hoping it might distract Steve from going to the pub. So far it's working!

Money comes and goes. The best thing about Scotland being independent is your country is governed by the politicians you & your fellow Scots voted into office, not polticians your larger neighbour voted in...

A very similar scheme, which was about to start in Scotland, was vetoed by the UK Government. Any Scot STILL not wanting Independence, is soft in the head. Independent Scotland will be one of the Richest Countries in Europe.

Wes or Andy or Ange. Doesn't really matter for Scots. My column in today's Sunday National.

If you think Britain is broken, why would you vote for the person who broke it?

First common blue #butterfly of the year and it’s a corker 😍🦋💛

A sinister neo-Nazi fight club appears to be increasingly targeting young Scots, the Sunday National can reveal 👇 Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

#OtD 17 May 1972 10,000 schoolchildren in the UK walked out on strike in protest against corporal punishment. Within two years, London state schools banned corporal punishment. The rest of the country followed in 1987 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8921...

You Go France 🇫🇷! Put Elon In Jail, Which America Doesn't Have The Balls To Do........🍒

Vote as if you care about other people. Vote Blue 🗳️🌊🌊🌊🌊

And now, a wee reminder for the supine British media, bought and sold for fascist oligarchs’ gold.

We just thought we’d repost this video from last March before the Keir Starmer of it all goes out of date...

Perth

Meanwhile, in #England. 👇

After Tommy Robinson's March in London yesterday, it's clear England would be better off without the Scotch and the Muslemics. We need English Independence. Write to your MP!

Told you.

Meme of the day!

Disturbing, tragic, and so very sad That the people voted for the lies suffer while the one delivering them enriches himself, at their expense

Another view from this morning’s riverside walk. Hills just disappearing under the rain clouds, they very clouds that gave us a downpour on the last 10 minutes to home.

This morning’s walk, between showers!

Fearing a change in Labour leadership, Thames Water creditors rush a takeover plan. Want regulator to go easy on abuses. Still want dividends. Customers will be fleeced. There can be no market-based solution. No competition Captive customers No substitute goods Must nationalise. archive.ph/eJoHP

Allowing a man who ran a factional org that broke the law when it channelled secret cash to fund Starmers rise, & which then ran a smear campaign against journalists investigating its role, to opine on whats gone wrong for Labour & the need to come together, is frankly absurd.

England 👇

Everyone in England should be concerned about this. There are no benevolent billionaires! Don’t let them have your data! Understand that your data is a commodity and despite his EU talk, Streeting punted it #BinPalantir

It doesn't matter how many ppl or if the EU want us back Farage is the block here Do you really think the EU would enter into that process to have it derailed by Farage in 2½yrs time? Scotland needs to be free! Wales needs to be free! Ireland needs reunification! The #AngloState is done

Scotland has coldest weather, darkest winters & highest energy bills in UK We also have a surplus of renewable energy & transfer over 20 TWh (20 Billion kiloWatt hours) to England annually Exactly why London refuses to devolve control of energy or even to adopt regional pricing

Glad this headline has been found A reminder of this grifter’s opinion of our leaders

Senior Curator job at the Natural History Museum London Salary in 2017: £42,400 Salary in 2026: £42,700 Crisis. What crisis.

Dave Doogan

sn’t it wonderful to see those brave British patriots pissing in the streets of our capital city. Such sovereignty and pride they display

The British may not wish to join the EU because the politicians keep on telling them there is a special deal which means the UK can gain access without any commitment. Anyone within the rest of europe will see the same old bollocks from the same English who still want their exceptionalist bollocks.

It's truly inspiring to see Wes Streeting call for decisiveness in govt after a week in which he denied he'd resign; then resigned but said he wouldn't stand as leader; then said finally he intends to stand as leader, so we can rejoin the EU, a policy he was dead against last week.