When people post "nobody uses the cycle lanes" on Glasgow City Council facebook posts, I have started replying "Oh you should visit Glasgow lots of people use them here," and not one has managed a comeback yet. My theory is most of them live outside the city and spend their weekends at Braehead.

I take exception to “driving standards improving”, having cycled regularly for well over a decade now, they‘re noticeably worse than ever. That perception, amongst other barriers, plays a huge part in why lots of women would like to cycle, but won’t because it’s not safe. road.cc/content/news...

We are days into the new Parliament and Sarwar is already facing pressure to remove the whip from Irshad Ahmed (which would make Reform officially the second-biggest party in Holyrood). www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

"According to Velloso, less than 3% of paying users actively use Copilot, even though Microsoft has pre-deployed it directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and across the Office suite." lol, lmfao

Glasgow Infrastructure update: Spring 2026. Following up on our post from last summer. Looking at progress in city centre Avenues, Avenues Plus and a few other projects around the city. www.gobike.org/infrastructu...

"Scientists surveying the area found three times more seabed organisms and twice as many species compared to nearby unprotected waters" news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Dontcha know Floating Bus Stops are fine when they are being passed on both sides by fast moving 2 tonne vehicles?

We need to make London more inclusive for Disabled people and Visually Impaired bus users, as well as enabling more cycling... 🚲️ But that is mostly about reducing motor traffic not fighting every cycle track that helps women, children, elderly and disabled people cycle.

Good coverage of yesterday's events in Selma and Montgomery. We may not have wanted to be in this play, but the this is where you go to learn from those who came before how to act when you are called to this stage. www.al.com/news/birming...

People who think Democrats are too woke and radical now control all three branches of government, the institutional apparatus of the Democratic Party and all major media outlets. Stop fucking congratulating each other for saying it!

Waymo would rather ppl think they screwed up than help ppl understand this (hundreds to thousands of trips by empty robots) is the AI/ML way. The only Waymo routing "error" in this overblown/viral story involving a block of the more privileged in Atlanta was the density of robots per hour, AFAICT.

The CFO of Spindrift is complaining on LinkedIn about Anthropic's customer service. He recommends OpenAI because it allows you to "work with a human sales person." Unfortunately there's simply no broader lesson that a c-suite officer of a successful CPG brand might extrapolate from this preference.

People who look at a photo like this and imagine we can keep adding more cars to our cities are completely mad

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Absolutely incredible headline.

defending the racial purity of the eastern mediterranean's ancient/mythical elite is one of the funniest possible ways to be racist

that is a state funded child abuse factory

Good morning as a global bond rout is underway. The UK fairing the worst at 5.16% with the US ten-year trading at 4.56%. It's based on fears of a shift higher in inflation and interest rate regimes. Unsustainable fiscal paths in the UK & US are driving the cost of capital higher. #Econ #EconSky

like, I don't begrudge people trying, and there are certainly various moments where IP law has served to get people who have been unfairly ripped off paid, but the history of how IP law came to be, who it was designed to benefit, and who it has in fact benefited is... not auspicious.

there's a post going around marveling at the hypocrisy of IP enforcement against mp3 downloads vs. 'AI' and while I have no quarrel with the sentiment it does feel like people hoping for IP law to be a tool wielded by the small fry against the rapaciousness of capital are in for a lot of marveling

How quickly does your induction stove boil water? 🤯

It kinda makes you think about what posts Musk tuned the algorithm on Vichy Twitter to show left-leaning users (easy to identify)

I am very proud of how inclusive the franchise is here... However, there are a few thousand people in our prisons who are not eligible to vote and a few thousand in same prisons who are. MSPs heard evidence to expand the franchise but decided it too politically unpalatable to let all prisoners vote.

Scotland is a rare country because we don’t deny any aspect of the political franchise to anyone who lives here and that’s genuinely something to be proud of

One reason I push back sometimes on fellow left wing campaigners leaning into the "Glasgow is a bomb site" stuff - there's a whole "[CITY] has fallen" industry out there and it is very reactionary. We have to be able to talk about the good government can do.

If Andy Burnham wins the Makerfield by election because he did lots of bus stuff - and I think aside from Covid that’s genuinely a source of a lot of his popularity - I will be expecting my peerage in the post 🚌

Found myself in a peloton of 16 heading South from Glasgow City Centre. 20 total at the junction. Not even a sunny day.

Have to praise @anguscmillar.bsky.social and the team: - their response to the M8 woodside viaduct consultation is bold and politically brave, putting what is best for the city first - the scale and quality of works from George Square up to the Bus Station are incredible

All solidarity with @qmanivannan.bsky.social . As someone who lives in Scotland &has gone through the horrendous, impoverishing 5 year immigration process I'd much rather have an MSP who can tell me what the IHS surcharge is than someone who can't (and many who set immigration policy even cannot)

AI is really good at getting weird stuff (in this case the 90s computer game Ultima VII) working on linux, without me needing to read giant wikis about where to copy data files.

Well, that took less than 24 hours, lads. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Think there are a lot of policy wonks who need to grapple with the fact that reactionary rhetoric can cause widespread harm in a way that doesn't require an actual policy basis per se. You don't need to legislate an actual bathroom ban if you have ministers publicly suggesting there already is one.

Something has gone really wrong. My information environment, it is very sick.

Success! We’re delighted to say that the council voted to make the traffic filters on Whitehouse Loan permanent – the one outside James Gillespie’s Primary school, as well as the one at Strathearn Road But it’s not all rosy - read our blog for more… blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk/braid-estate...

This is Schrödinger’s Road Space By Taking Away Space From Cars You Are Giving Them More Space At The Same Time. BUT in the process Leaving Even More Urban Space For …Housing, Parks 🌳, Plazas & Much More 🚲

A general, a historian, and an economist are discussing Iran: General: Overwhelming military force is the only way to break the stalemate! Historian: Iran is extremely unlikely to relinquish the leverage which this threat gives them. Economist: Let us assume that the Strait of Hormuz is open...

Serious question about whether the rule of law and basic civil liberties are protected in the UK

Does anyone at the Herald mind working alongside a fascist opinion columnist? Because here he is advocating the fascist position, for the fascist party to be included in mainstream politics.

...if the Greens had stood in every constituency, and their regional votes reflect how they would have performed, they would have won another two constituencies from the SNP, established another two SNP-Green marginals, and deprived the SNP of a further four constituencies.

One of the undercovered stories of the Scottish Parliament elections revolves around the future of party politics within the pro-independence bloc. Not only did the Greens win two SNP constituencies and establish two further SNP-Green marginals, they could have done more, per the regional votes...

Speaking from the UK, we *are* going to end up cutting fuel duty as the crisis intensifies. I don't think it is worth environmentalists getting too worked up about. The price of petrol will soar anyway - the duty cut will help consumers a little in competing for supply internationally.

there's something really interesting about the rot having really set in after the scottish indyref. the unionist parties absolutely used the snp's decent support for trans rights as a stick to beat them with, thereby aligning themselves with an ultra-conservative anti-lgbt faction

What is going on here? Is it all bots? Is it some kind of status anxiety?

trebuchet, swamp monster, the phantom zone, The Device

I cannot tell you just how many of the problems the UK currently faces would be materially eased by Starmer getting up and saying “we’re modestly raising income tax”

RIP Susan Aitken, you were neither a cocaine addict nor a sex pest, so you were probably the best Glasgow City Council leader in my time here.

So I have migrated my data to @eurosky.social - this is the first post there. Migration process impeccably explained, and everything else is then pretty much as it was, including the username I use here.

it's the "as a father to a daughter" of class politics