🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland is one of the hardest hit regions w ~9% GVA loss by 2023 The biggest sectors (whisky & food, oil & chemicals, professional services) make up 44% of its EU exports. Brexit erected barriers across all of them. And Scotland didn’t vote for this... brexitcost.org/itl1/TLM.htm... 4/...

Musk could probably afford to turn Washington into his own Tracy Island at this point. Demolish the East Wing and build a circular gallery, with a rocket launching out the middle Thunderbird 3 style. Make the Reflecting Pool retract to reveal another rocket. Retractable trees.

jesus this is so sad www.france24.com/en/culture/2...

Help, I apparently need the phone number for ‘Scotland’.

Fair enough if you spend more than 5500 £ of embezzled money on high-end coffee machines. But then spending a further 81.16 £ on Nescafé Gold Blend? Straight to jail.

ACAA* my latest for @newscientist.com *a cartoon about abbreviations

It seems that @proton.me have fundamentally degraded the usability of the Drive iOS app, and slipped out the change in a “Bug fixes and performance” update. It’s deeply frustrating as a user, and makes it difficult to recommend Drive to those wishing to de-Google themselves.

I look forward to how all the "but he's so good at foreign policy" Starmtroopers rationalise "loosening sanctions on Russia because doing anything to reduce fuel consumption is too scary and hard". Grim we still have to have this weak, visionless idiot in power for at least a few more months

Got to be honest, loosening sanctions on Russia before we’ve even tried any basic demand-side measures is not filling me with pride or joy

BBS Open Letter on Improving Scottish Parliament Results Reporting An open letter from Ballot Box Scotland urging significant improvements to reporting on Scottish Parliament elections; or, why does a hobbyist publish more data on the regional vote than the BBC?

The noise must be unbearable

It makes me wonder what would happen if I phoned up the MOD and told them I had the robot that they lost. Just, you know, speculatively. To find out if they’d lost any robots at that particular time.

I’m just thinking about how Stephanie Speck phoned up and asked, “I'd like to speak to one of your head warmongers, please” and actually got through to one of them.

The party led by Six Boats Offord came third in a contest that was all about boats.

The Bylines Network livestream is providing fascinating commentary on the Scottish and Welsh results all day long, with lots of great guests! Check it out anytime --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks1C...

It never ceases to amaze me how many election pundits don’t understand the dynamics of First Past the Post, and how vote-splitting works under the UK’s electoral system. John Curtice does. Listen to John Curtice.

i made this youtu.be/KnUFH5GX_fI

A new ad uses a line from Norway's most famous anti-fascist poem in a disturbing way, and LLMs can't spot the connection until I ask very leading questions. Could this be an example of an ad inspired by brainstorming with an AI that doesn't get cultural references? jilltxt.net/du-ma-ikke-s...

Actually hysterically laughing at this. You get the feeling he's about to turn to Ed balls and said "I always did say he was a bit of a cunt, didn't I?"

What THE FUCK I say THE FUCK is this

Taskmaster has become pretty intense since the last time I watched it

I’m not the only one who thought this was weird.

Complete lack of decorum. Didn’t even thank us for our attention to this matter.

I love that phrase "spending time in the space where the problem lives". It applies to so many things.

The emotional crisis is an essential part of the work.

This is so, so well-articulated.

This is where the debate should be, rather than on the distraction of North Sea drilling. What can government do to move faster on clean tech and green buildings? Can it afford to be more ambitious and demand new homes are passivhaus and zero bill? How quickly can it bring down fossil fuel reliance?

💥Russian interference in Hungary’s election campaign and the Kremlin’s open support for Viktor Orbán are now a key issue. No wonder this guy and his Matryoshka creation were very popular at today’s opposition march in Budapest

Can this be a solution?

FACTS: Net Zero barely nudges your bill. Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof. So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

The wealth of individuals should be limited in the same way that the power of politicians is limited, and for the same reasons. Wealth equals power, and it is entirely unchecked.

"The sprint to clean energy is the only way to get off the volatile international fossil fuels markets, cut bills & deliver energy security" Fair play to Starmer - this is exactly right. Meanwhile, Badenoch & Farage would have us hooked on more fossil fuels www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

It does seem that every Home Secretary, whatever their background or previous political stance, quite rapidly turns authoritarian once in office. Something in the water at Marsham Street?

I’ll never forget the Walkers Crisps advert that had the UK spawn an arm out of the east coast of England and shove a crisp into the Firth of Forth, because who doesn’t eat crisps through the back of their head, not nightmare fuel at all

Alasdair Gray’s ‘Lanark’ describes Scotland’s west coast as “Britain’s back hair of islands and peninsula” and I’m sorry but the west coast is the FRONT, the east coast is the back, any other view is deeply disturbing to me

When Norfolk Police ask Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor if he has any special dietary requirements whilst in custody:

I regret not taking a photo from the plane earlier today but there’s something special about being able to see the Firth of Forth, the Firth of Tay, and the Montrose Basin all at the same time.

I just want to make clear that I don’t care about the sun, I can survive without the sun, I just wish it would stop fucking raining.

I hope the abyss in @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter becomes a returning character

Wondering where the sunshine has gone? Spare a thought for northeast Scotland; Aberdeen Dyce hasn't recorded any sunshine since 21 January! This is provisionally the longest sunless period here since records began in 1957 ☁️

I should really be sleeping right now

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

In 2025 I moved from a company that uses Azure Devops for git repositories to one that uses GitHub, and… I hate it.

Awful as this is, it's nowhere near as bad as it could have been if William McGonagall had been here to commemorate it

Can confirm. This was me 👼