Finally!

This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.

football haiku, 2026, part 5 TURNING DOWN THEIR ANTHEM SENSITIVE AS A SNICKOMETER ZEUS APOLLO RONALDO 8.VII.26

I will make a statement about your public life at 2pm.

"SNP NEC backs data centre ban" is being widely reported as if ScotGov were definitely going to do this. Which I suppose is probably what it means. Which will be good. Anyway, SPiCE have done a briefing: spice-spotlight.scot/2026/06/26/d...

Water of Leith the frantic aspen leaves take turns anticipating rain 7.VII.26

Anston Burn our burn had a pool swim & turn that was two strokes long swim & turn 6.VII.26

James Schuyler #smallpoemsunday

after IHF When I have watched football for ninety minutes I feel lousy – Not so when I have played for an hour: The players inherit the party While the watchers wear themselves out and sit on sofas alone, and glower. 5.VII.26

the tattie scone with melted butter and raspberry jam proving once again that the class system is and is not subject to homogenization 4.VII.26

Hebrideean scene the lux- uriance of an orchid in the rags of a sun- breeze 3.VII.26

for Cluny what I took from him was the word dwam which he inherited and inhabited with elan 2.VII.26

I don't remember Heart of Darkness ending this way. I preferred the original. Kurtz in, Kane out.

footie the game is in Houston, I say, which I never liked is that where they shot Dallas? she replies 1.VII.26

the sun is up in its place the clouds are down in theirs 30.VI.26

ASLEEP IN A WHITE CLOUD valerian 29.VI.26

If you haven’t seen it, see it. Jaw-dropping.

Princes Street Gardens in among the tourists a wee dog howls in sympathy with the bagpipes 28.VI.26

short story (after Gorki) The royals turn their backs on the count. The horses step back leaving the way free for Tolstoy to pass. 27.VI.26

football haiku 2026, part 5 MATHEMATICALLY POSSIBLY IMPOSSIBLE 26.VI.26

A scorchio day of access with asylum seekers from The Welcoming, at University of Edinburgh's woodland at Drumbrae, and Cocksburn Reservoir, Bridge of Allan, exploring place-awareness, plant listening, and sharing a paddle. A cure for any blues and reminder sense of belonging is something we create.

football haiku 2026, part 4 THE SUMMER KINGS SMALL SPACE GAME BIG SPACE PLAYER EXTREME HEAT MAPS HEADED HOME EARLY 25.VI.26

Tonight, in a climate breakdown experiment, 11 pasty-faced Scots will take on extremes of heat and humidity in a Miami stadium, in a vain attempt to force the sun to relinquish its power. Their courageous battle with the elements will be witnessed by 11 svelte Brazilians, accompanied by a ball.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Lindsey Budde.

this heat makes even roses blush

Restival, 18.VI.26, Dunbar Close Garden. Collective rest for people with chronicity. Featuring 'Ascent' an imaginative audio ascent of a mountain by Chris Watson, plant listening with Tamara Colchester, sky frames with Hayden Lorimer, hot water bottle sculpture installation by Roshi Pradhan.

breaking news the most unpopular prime minister ever has been replaced by the most unpopular prime minister ever has been replaced by the most unpopular prime minister ever has been replaced by the most unpopular prime minister ever has been replaced by the most unpopular

"Petition to change the role from Prime Minister to Summer King"

football haiku 2026, part 3 A LITTLE WISDOM– HYDRATION QUARTERS AREN’T HALVES SCLAFF FIRRA LAFF DOUBLE LEG BREAK ORANGES & LEMONS 22.VI.26

manifesto of the radical rest collective, 2026. An A3 risograph poster in an edition of 300 copies. Available for £10.00 plus postage. Copies available for postage costs only for anyone with a long term chronic illness, although donations are welcome.

football haiku 2026, part 2 LATE NIGHT GOALS EARLY MORNING FOOTIE IRAN RAN & I RAN COOLER THAN ICE 21.VI.26

White, by Designed by Vanessa Bell (English, 1879–1961) Produced by Omega Workshop England, London 1913 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/145491

football haiku 2026, part 1 MCGINN FIRTHA WIN? EARNED & UNEARNED GOALS EXPERIENCE & PROVIDENCE– PIERROT THE DIFFICULT SECOND GAME ANOTHER DOOMED ANTHEM

Bryndis explains to Beuys– the hare needn’t be dead 19.VI.26

ex-Kiev I don’t need a chair she says, if I’m alive I stand, if not I have the floor 18.VI.26

the breeze turns every grain of the grasses towards the sun 17.VI.26

idyll (I) the dark grasses bend as far as they can 16.VI.26

OWN shy GOAL smile 15.VI.26

PLAIN HERB WITH LITTLE FRILLS parsley 14.I.26

correction did you go on fire? no, I was set alight 13.VI.26

‘I want a little steam on my clothes’ I want some hawthorn blossom in my nose 12.VI.26

Enough is enough. When politicians use hateful language, they create conditions for hatred to grow. This is the Reform party I warned about, and they should be ashamed for inciting racial division in Scotland. I will always stand up for the inclusive country we are. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Scottish Labour and the Tories demanding transparency of party finances for the SNP and then immediately about-facing and voting against a Scottish Green motion to investigate ALL party finances is, above all, very funny

football haiku, with Guy Moreton, World Cup 2002

WORLD in the gap CUP between hope and PREVIEW reality 11.VI.26

To celebrate Scotland's brief sojourn – don't come home too soon lads – at the most corrupt of World Cups, I have copies of the football haiku anthology, made for the Japan/South Korea World Cup, with Guy Moreton and Zoe Irvine. 208pp colour, anthology of three word poems, £8.00. PM if you want one.

Before– a country we once dwelt in, to which we can never return 10.VI.26

A SOMETIME VALLEY / wadi 9.VI.26, from a day of access shared with asylum seekers, Flotterstone.