We do not need to mine the deep sea.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

'mean-spirited'

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

This year, the Flotilla of Lights will take place on the Union Canal, in Edinburgh, on Saturday 8 November starting from Harrison Park at 6.30pm, and making way,... slowly, towards Edinburgh Quay (by the Leamington Lift bridge). Don't miss it! More info www.whatsoninedinburgh.co.uk/event/106089...

Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.

Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday? Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat? If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇

I can HEAR fireworks but I cannot SEE fireworks. Can we reverse this?

Edinburgh folk feeling disconsolate about *waves arms wildly around in all directions* the Steve McQueen curated Resistance photography exhibition at Modern 2 is really heartening

"Matthew Goodwin wants us to worry about a ‘new elite’ of media workers and academics, not the actual elite of billionaires — like his backers. " morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/fi...

We are excited to be back at Leith Depot tomorrow, Monday November 3rd for another edition of Drama@TheDepot. Six short plays written especially for this event. We tend to sell out so get in quick! Tickets available here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/penpal-pro...

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

'Thank you for understanding that I'm an idiot, not a thief' I gasp at the lovely breakfast café people who let me dash home to retrieve the purse left in yesterday's raincoat pocket. Am now fully awake, more from mortification than the cortado

* The asylum hotel scandal Pecksniff can’t print * Immigration panic shown to be a media myth * Tory HQ admits it’s lost 131 constituency parties * Reform’s “real people” turn out to be AI inventions This and more in Pecksniff's Diary ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

Edinburgh folk, anyone know if the Water of Leith footpath has been repaired enough to get from Canonmills to the Modern Art without clambering over that fence they put up instead of fixing the erosion?

Normally turn BBC6Music news off but taking real pleasure this morning at the use of 'Mr Mountbatten Windsor'

There's a little more to do until we have Scotland on the map too. It should be ready for next week's release. Meanwhile, here's the PCR positivity percentage for each Scottish LA as of four days ago. 7/7

The PCR positivity map is out, and there's been a more substantial drop in national positivity this week. UKHSA report 8%. Adjusted for non-reporting areas we make it 9.14%. 1/7

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

@tkingfisher.com they're not empty frames but I do at least now understand what you meant when you asked if stacking pictures against the walls was still a thing. I had no idea. Me, with my silly notions of 'whap it up on the wall before I trip over and destroy it'. Are other people not clumsy?

Behind the beauty of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania lies a hidden struggle. Maasai lawyer Joseph Oleshangay is fighting to protect his people’s land arguing that conservation shouldn’t mean erasing those who’ve safeguarded it for generations. Watch the full film here: aje.io/Serengeti

Just rewatched Moonrise Kingdom for the first time since the cinema release and I know it wasn't a critical hit but I found it delightful all over again. Looks gorgeous, sounds gorgeous, and made me laugh. What's not to love?

REVEALED: there have been 8,000+ private jet flights in Scotland so far this year which could have raised £20m + if we'd had a private jet tax in place. The First Minister says he’s 'very sympathetic' to the idea but sympathy doesn’t cut pointless pollution. More: bit.ly/4odzzpx

Seasonal reminder, Pumpkins make Hedgehogs sick, so don't leave any out where they can reach them.

A lot of people are quoting this post and that's good because they should, AI sucks and robs us of something special and only mediocre uncreative piss-babies rely on it to make anything at all, fuck AI, p.s. Emma Thompson is now the president, sorry, that's just how it is

Tweaked a muscle in my back while changing a duvet cover. Guess this is the next stage after going 'oof' every time I sit down or stand up

CALTON HILL.—Volunteers sought for new turf roll-out to tackle Erosion Emergency. Details at: www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/volunte...

AI is not sentient. It doesn't have a survival instinct. What's happened is that corporations have decided that we'll all obey capital if it can pretend to talk.

Roomba remotely bricked his vacuum without informing him after he turned off their spyware. Talk about malicious.

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

Realise that social media is bad for mental health generally but I was in a right funk this morning and this made me laugh out loud and now I feel much better, so thanks to all involved, including the thieves

🌟 1 day until our #RightToGlow ride in Edinburgh! Grab your lights & be part of the movement for safer cycling. 🧮 Fri 24th Oct 📍 Middle Meadow Walk ⏰️ Depart 7.30pm Ride lasts c90 minutes 💡 Light up your bike, your streets & the call for safe cycling. #MyRideOurRight #CyclingUK #OurStreetsOurNights

🗞️ Covered by @bylinetimes.bsky.social, @nation.cymru, @scotnational.bsky.social - but ignored by most UK media. At a moment when hostile states are shaping elections, that silence is part of the story. bylinetimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

If I were running Labour comms I would commission an app called 'Will the Tories/Reform deport you?' then let the reactions on TikTok and Instagram do their work.

"OpenAI has subpoenaed a wide range of nonprofits that have been critical of the company’s controversial for-profit restructuring. ... But in practice, recipients and legal experts say, they seem more like a campaign of intimidation with very real costs." www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools. AI is another version of colonial extraction.

About to start cleaning the oven. Pray for me

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

Your regular reminder that scrapping ILR for people who have come here and played by the rules, which is what Lam proposes here, is a position supported by 3% of the public

NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago. So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year? Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share! 1/

We're all set up at the HalloZine fair at National Library Scotland, @ceciliabennett.bsky.social and I here today till 4pm! Pop by if you're in Edinburgh- we have Zines, art, and boooooks ✨️🐈‍⬛️👻

Absolutely wrung out from a combination of flu & COVID jabs and watching Good Boy as my treat for being a Big Brave Girl. Who needs AI actors when a dog can give such a moving performance? Red carpet walkies on the horizon?

Israeli forces have killed at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis, in the first major violation since the US-brokered ceasefire began. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/ttcve3

A reminder.