散歩ルートの人懐こい猫さん、冬時間に戻ってから全然会えなかったんだけど今日は久しぶりに会えたので嬉しい。思い存分モフらせてくれました😊 モフるのに夢中で写真撮り損なった…

I was tagged and asked to take a look at this claim - cos, well just look at it!🙄 Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque? It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage 🧵 1/26

This Tuesday MSPs will vote on my proposal that the Scottish Government steps up efforts to protect our iconic red squirrels. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562354...

The Home Secretary’s planned sweeping changes to the immigration system have been branded 'vile and contemptible'

'Yet many still believe Starmer is overly reliant on McSweeney, whose election strategy first made him leader of the opposition before helping usher him into Downing Street. “Keir does not trust his own judgment, so when it comes to political calls, he has to run it past him,” said one senior MP.'

Wait, Shabana Mahmood, the reactionary Glasman-approved immigrant-basher who represents what the majority of Labour hates most about Starmer, is planning a leadership bid??

Starmer's removal is "inevitable now," says one minister The chaos united previously "mutually suspicious" people against the PM, says another But what caused it? Sources say a row between Wes Streeting and Morgan McSweeney weeks ago may have been key 👇 observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Asylum seekers are not a threat to this country. The racist politicians scapegoating them are. They also threaten the UK. The further right England travels the more appealing independence looks.

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Wicked Problems - Climate Tech Conversations | Rumble in the Jungle COP shows.acast.com/wicked-probl... With Ben Cooke of The Times on COP30 in Belém and why the mood isn’t exactly jubilant, and more

Democracy For Sale with Peter Geoghegan | From Trump’s BBC threats to Musk fuelling the far-right, we need to protect our democracy. Here’s how. youtube.com/watch?v=wBTU...

Recommended listen: @outrageoptimism.bsky.social is running a “special edition” podcast series in partnership with the COP30 presidency, bringing “exclusive, behind-the-scenes access” to the conference.

There are no excuses for youth unemployment. Governments could and should create state-sponsored and subsidised jobs in the green and social economies, in addition to further education, upskilling and other training. Jobs aimed at meeting social and environmental goals.

c.org/6vtjQqdWQf Please consider signing and sharing. Also please write to your local MP asking that the subject of shutting X down in the UK is debated in the Commons

X effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right

If listening is more your thing you can hear me and Tom Cheshire speaking on Sky News' Daily podcast about our findings: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

We put a feeling most people suspected into hard data by running an experiment. Nine clean new X users, hundreds of thousands of data points and hours of rigorous LLM training later, our piece is live. You can read our methodology too: news.sky.com/story/how-sk...

#GoodNews #WomensHistory #WomeninScience #IndigenousScience Bringing them all together www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

If you love trees, birds, dolphins, forests, butterflies, elephants, wildflowers, whales, or any nature, then this regards you directly. Even if you don't, it still regards you directly, because we all depend on nature for our survival. It's *all* political.

And, yes, you may correctly view this story as a sequel to this one from over the summer - about churches that throw their doors open to the community in times of extreme heat. www.thereengineer.pro/p/churches-s...

NEW: I wrote about British churches installing heat pumps, in some cases in 1,000-year-old buildings! Decarbonisation may not be easy, but many view it as an act of faith. This is a special feature to mark The Reengineer’s first anniversary! Spread the word! 🥳 www.thereengineer.pro/p/let-there-...

They can’t do any worse and they have three and a half years left before an election. Labour should just say, “Fuck it” and … do some socialism.

The reason _everyone_ are upset by Labour goes so far beyond the leader. For as long as any of our grandparents could remember, Labour would build up public services, the Tories would slash them to bits to give profit to their donors. The problem is that since Blair, Labour refused to their part.

Finally got the chance to see this sustainable drainage channel in Bristol doing its thing during some heavy rain

What if cities redirected rainwater into long pits of native plants that could use the water to improve growth, sequestering carbon from the atmosphere; increasing biodiversity, and creating habitats for wildlife, instead of flooding people’s homes down river and creating more pollution.

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BBC News - Thousands take to streets to highlight 'climate emergency' www.bbc.com/news/article... Organisers Friends Of The Earth Scotland said it was the biggest climate march in Glasgow since COP26 was held in the city in 2021.

I remember hearing about this company maybe a couple of years ago (so long ago I can't remember where I heard it) - it's certainly an interesting idea. Waste heat from data centres can be used for space heating, and distributed data centres can heat domestic buildings 👇

David Miliband's closing paragraphs in his Observer article today are quite ... striking.

"Why don’t we fight back? Because land is power. Every single piece of credible research says that Scots overwhelmingly do want to fight back. Land reform is wildly popular, supported by overwhelming majorities. Yet still it doesn’t happen. Why?" #LandReform #Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

For nine months, the formidable @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social and I have been investigating if X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. Our findings suggest it does: news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

And yet we have the dichotomy of media outlets like Sky News pushing the far right narrative pushed by X as if it is somehow representative and evidence of what is popular.

This is something the Labour Government should be doing &banning X here. Labour and ALL Political Parties need to come off X It's like they don't give a toss about liberal democracy being attacked from politicians being paid Russian shills & doing the work of the Kremlin or foreign money being used

And yet remains a key way in which the UK government uses social media.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.

Newsweek #Climate

“That certainly will not be achieved by scapegoating nature, claiming that it is a ‘blocker’ to housing delivery. We are clear in our report: a healthy environment is essential to building resilient towns and cities. It must not be sidelined.”

Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds

Must-read in @theguardian.com from my friend @georgemonbiot.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Seeking asylum” is not “illegal migration” and the Home Secretary conflating the two is deeply problematic.

I know these seem like basic questions I'm sure they've already asked but...why? To ensure what? In case *what* happens, exactly? To protect people from...what? Based on *what* research?* To what end? *I know the answer is 'because cruelty', thanks.

"This is a government that, thanks to its own mis-steps, has burned right through the political capital its landslide election victory earned it just 16 months ago". www.ft.com/content/3128...

It would be one thing having a "debate" on immigration if people meant they wanted a "debate" based on facts. But what most people seem to mean when they say they want a debate is that is they want us to pretend a bunch of entirely made up bullshit is true.

Moody's and S&P Global have given Scotland a credit rating equal to the UK www.holyrood.com/news/view,sc...

'The Revive Coalition gathering put Scotland’s extreme concentration of land ownership into stark perspective, with roughly the same number of people in the room, as own more than half of Scotland’s private rural land (421 people).' via @bylines.scot

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Somehow missed this - wow😮 👇 Over a dozen Netherlands cities have introduced zero-emission zones www.timeout.com/news/over-a-... As of January 1, 2025, 14 Dutch cities including Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague have implemented brand-new zero-emissions zones.

In the new world order no one is welcome anywhere This won’t last and can’t last but while riding this pernicious cult of pious purity politics the majority will live through heartbreak and increasing impoverishment in spirit and material fact so that the powerful can get kicks

We need to speak out more about the realities of immigration and added value that we as immigrants bring to the country. It is vital to counteract misinformation, and if statistical evidence won't cut it, anecdotical evidence may.