Plastic over-production and over-use remain very significant problems!! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Quick reminder: NYC’s new First Lady, Rama Duwaji, is a cartoonist! www.comicsbeat.com/zohran-mamda...

Impact of flights on global warming severely underestimated by many carbon calculators & offset schemes that don’t properly account for taxiing, sub-optimal routing or non-CO2 climate effects which are larger component: www.newscientist.com/article/2502... Research paper: doi.org/10.1038/s432...

An autistic man has raised the terror stakes this Halloween with a costume that friends have described as “genuinely horrifying”.

Dafabet is all over English cricket, sponsoring live streams of games watched in India where betting is largely illegal. Great work by @nathanpaulsouthern.bsky.social and Lindsey Kennedy for @josimarfootball.bsky.social @cricketacademic.bsky.social josimarfootball.com/2025/10/29/d...

The reason the extremely wealthy can imagine living in space is that space is effectively where they already live. They go from remote site to remote site under heavy protection and behind tinted windows, completely disconnected from their surroundings. That’s basically space travel, every day.

A green surge is happening! 📈 A new poll has the @scottishgreens.org on track to be the 2nd biggest party in Scotland. People need hope and we are the ones offering it.

Wow, so young and so sad. I watched him perform in London about 10 years ago and his voice gave goosebumps.

Activists have been blocking the liquified gas port in Zeebrugge for 24 hours now, protesting the EU's imports of Russian gas, demanding that these aren't replaced with gas from the US Getting the EU off fossil fuels is essential not only for the climate crisis, but for peace too ✍️: bit.ly/44DANBE

Not April 1st, not @theonion.com. Just another Monday in Trump land www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Many migrant workers who came to Qatar to build the 2022 WC infrastructure found themselves jobless after the tournament. @josimarfootball.bsky.social reveals how some of them have been recruited by the Russian army, are fighting and die on the Ukrainian front. josimarfootball.com/2025/09/25/t...

Excuse me. 20 years??? 👴

Oh sure, why not, hey, next let’s put a cat in charge of the mouse disco. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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Some people here love to dismiss ‘sportsball’ but S. African teams being banned from international competition was an important factor in ending Apartheid because it made their crimes real for non-political folk.

You got the Tylenol Autism, I got the Calpol Autism, we’re not the same

I guess we should thank Donald Trump for making the relationship between fossil fuels and fascism explicit.

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

United States Energy Secretary Chris Wright was in Brussels this week to campaign for EU policymakers to adopt what he called a “common sense” approach to climate and energy policy. But his pitch makes no sense… not for the EU and certainly not for the climate. Here’s why: @ec.europa.eu

The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality. We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.

woooooow. Happy 25th birthday to this masterpiece.

🚨BREAKING🚨Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said he has "full confidence" in Skeletor.

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A little slice of Brussels brewing and urban history to take you into the weekend. "Brussels Notes #116: The Whim Of The Gods: when beer was brewed at the European Parliament" brusselsnotes.substack.com/p/116-the-wh...

Keir Starmer welcoming the President of a genocidal apartheid regime. This should haunt him for the rest of his tenure.

Is this not another case if Americans trying to make us European feel jealous about something we don’t really need, because we’ve come up with our own solutions? C.f. venmo

🖖 My poor cycling technique has been confused as an alien dance communication I fear

This is my Diary of a CEO

Aberdeen city generates a lot of wealth, yet barely any of it is returned to the public coffers. Its time the companies and industries that have made themselves rich from Aberdeen return the favour. The public purse can't and shouldn't be used for this project, but those that have the wealth must

Both Wes Anderson and Christopher Guest are evoked in The Golden Spurtle, a winning documentary following the annual World Porridge Making Championship Our #edfilmfest review by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social www.theskinny.co.uk/film/new-rel... @dogwoofdocs.bsky.social

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Scottish Greens must broaden appeal beyond middle-class urbanites, says leadership candidate @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social as voting starts in @scottishgreens.org contest 👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏭🌳 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Another great club, Vitesse, bites the dust because of Multi-Club Ownership - hidden, in this case, though everyone knew about it at the time. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

That headline!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Regrettably, the right wing are getting funnier.

www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1692... Last time I went to one of these it was full of skinheads and people that take their genealogy a little too (uncomfortably) seriously.

Here's an idea, you're the oil and gas capital of Europe so why don't you properly tax those industries instead. Why Aberdeen would introduce a higher tourist tax rate than Edinburgh (!!!), Glasgow or Inverness escapes me. Bizarre.

www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1691... Tomorrowland fans one week, Ed Sheeran fans the next. My city is overdue some karmic cool.

And before you fly off check out our latest briefing to read why it is time for aviation polluters to chip in, and for citizens to cash in: carbonmarketwatch.org/publications...

In 2026 EU Emissions Trading Scheme rules will be revised, and it is high time the aviation industry starts to pay a fairer share for its pollution. The cards below explain more about how the EU regulation gifted €62.5 billion to the aviation industry during the last decade

WII !!!!! that's what u will be screaming in joy while u watch my new video about the WII !!!

The big 2025/26 Scottish Premiership season preview! Craig Fowler, Tony Anderson and Joel Sked look at the prospective fortunes and give predictions for all 12 teams in the top-flight ahead of the new campaign. Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/0Njj... Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEWA...

A TEN-HOUR preview podcast on the 2025/25 Scottish lower leagues! Craig G Telfer and Shaughan McGuigan, in stunning detail, go through the prospective fortunes of the 30 teams below the top flight ahead of the new campaign. (Available in audio format only.) open.spotify.com/episode/6TQa...

Watt to Watch: The SPFL is back, baby! Andy Harrow and Craig Fowler look forward to the opening weekend of action in the SPFL, including the match tonight which starts it all off. Sub: www.patreon.com/posts/135468...

It's something Ash Sarkar talks about in her recent book, progressive voices are rarely able to access these spaces and thus our politics is dominated by the same kinds of right-leaning commentary; particularly in broadcast journalism

Hey network, my team and I would like to hear your recommendations for books, podcasts & films about sustainability. Bonus points if they are not depressing (I'm determined to keep my climate anxiety at bay this summer) Comment below! 🏖️ 🌴⛵🏄‍♀️🍦😎

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