#ScotBudget 26/27 🙂 Good news #ActiveTravel - 🤔 probably 🙄 Bus again combined with 🚶👩‍🦼🚲 and not disaggregated 25/26 £189m (of which £20m+ went to 🚌) 26/27 £226m (includes "increased" 🚌 cash) 🤔 Also note 24/25 & 25/26 *expenditure* was significantly less than *budget*. So will 26/27 all be used?

'Murmuration' by contemporary UK printmaker Hester Cox #WomensArt

The official explanation they’re apparently going with here is that they aren’t 100% convinced that breathing soot and ozone is actually bad for you.

🔎All you need to know about AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery. Help raise awareness of a growing online threat. Share our new resource, created in partnership with @nca-uk.bsky.social CEOP Education, and designed for professionals working with young people. ➡️ www.iwf.org.uk/resources/ai....

Kemi, this is just a population density map

Textbook authoritarianism.

The reason this infant and at least 17 other children have frozen to death in Gaza is because @POTUS (X), @jd-vance-1.bsky.social, @SteveWitkoff (X), and @SecRubio (X) are backing Netanyahu’s plan to force Palestinians out of Gaza by deliberately denying shelter & other life-essential aid to 2...

hey siri, what happens when denmark refuses to ship GLP-1 drugs to the US

Had a session with @pkrugman.bsky.social where we discussed US foreign policy and world affairs. Hopefully interesting if not entirely uplifting. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

Kind of extraordinary that the new Local Growth Fund is to be distributed by the Welsh Government in Wales, but directly by the UK Government in Scotland, and that the rationale for the difference seems to be no more than "we don't trust the Scottish Government".

NEW Death in Minnesota The significance of the reaction to the killing of Renee Nicole Good By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

AI bubble about to burst.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

The man who literally wrote the book on the use of vehicles as ramming weapons says any claim Good used hers as such is false, and that her execution, followed by the false claim, is "death squad behavior."

“Fuck ICE!” chants & a brass band performing “Which side are you on?” as hundreds march in Manhattan, NYC against ICE and in solidarity with Minneapolis.

Legal falsity aside, I think “our masked, anonymous paramilitary thugs have an absolute right to kill you and your job is simply to trust that they won’t” isn’t so much a defense as a confession

A golf course next to the Fraser River in northeast Metro Vancouver will be transformed into a public park with sport and playing fields. It is part of the City of Maple Ridge's strategy to build a new major aquatic & community centre. #vanpoli #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/ma...

This was an execution by ICE in Minneapolis this afternoon. An agent lunges at the female driver’s door and another shoots her at point blank range when she tries to drive away. Call this what it is. Murder. (🎥 Max Nesterak)

This is what it looks like to live in a world, to quote Stephen Miller, "that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power". The rule of law & constitutional govt exist to stop the strong doing what they want & killing who they want. That ideal is under open attack

Although the number of people afflicted with AI psychosis is unknown, it is believed to be in the tens of thousands. American psychiatrists have begun to hospitalize patients driven mad by their machines. Many, they say, have no previous history of mental illness.

Lets get Glasgow and the whole of Scotland moving.

Sometime in the mid-1780s, Robert Barker was out for a walk on Calton Hill when he had an idea to record the cityscape - the entire 360 degree view from one spot. On Capital Collections you can see the resulting wonderful panoramic view and see how Edinburgh looked 200 years ago! zurl.co/OulZl

With Holyrood elections on the horizon, I've updated my ScotPol starter pack to include a broader range of analysts in addition to think-tankers and academics. If you (or a colleague) should be in this starter pack but aren't, please let me know!

Latest episode: Is being Prime Minister now an impossible job? 🤯 We are joined by historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social from the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social to unpack why PMs burn out so fast and whether politicians should trust the public more. 🎧 buff.ly/bhvHQf6

Excellent question.

Glasgow has 15 subway stations. Just look at the land use around these two! It's shocking. Should be dense housing and commerce, or dense employment. Instead we have a huge motorway junction and like a car dealership and some warehouses that could just as happily be on the outskirts.

“He raped me.” “Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” “She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.” Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.

Coffeezilla has them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7i9...

An English local council innovates, evaluates what it did, finds it works (replicating an earlier study in Scotland) … and all councils are told by the Labour government not to try it. What message does this convey? Another victory for ideology & cowardice www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wales could give local authorities the power to install side road zebra crossings at junctions. This would be a first for the UK – giving pedestrians more priority at side streets. But what is a side road zebra? And how would it work? 🦓 Find out more: https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/3MJM5PI

Agree with all of this, other than "the right will go 'pro-natalist" - I think what will happen is that much of the right will shift from 'blaming our ills on immigration' to 'blaming our ills on ethnic diversity', which is already happening to an extent.

Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout. With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...

Who knew? Free healthcare, free education, affordable childcare, paid leave & a social contract between government & citizens really matters.

Commuting by bicycle in Belgium pays off as employees earn compensation for every km they ride. 1 in 6 employees commute by bike and get a bicycle allowance of €0.28/km. People cycling to work in 2024 earned an average of around €460 net per year (some as high as €810), up 20% over the past year.

Here’s the finale of this week’s three-part Better Offline special NVIDIA series. I walk you through why there are millions of Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses, and why AI’s lack of any profits makes NVIDIA’s future dependent on debt. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Oculus, reclaimed tree logs and branches, metal, mirrored domes, The Morton Arboretum, Chicago, Illinois, by contemporary US land artists Olga Ziemska #WomensArt

Today we're launching a new map bringing to life the developing plans for #ClydeMetro Watch this intro video setting out our vision for what our region’s new “fully-integrated mass transit public transport system” could look like 🚍🚇🚉 Find out more 👇 getglasgowmoving.org/news/clydemetro

Matthew Goodwin objects to prosecuting this: ‘I think it’s time for the British to gang together, hit the streets and start the slaughter. Violence and murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head off to MPs’ houses and Parliament, we need to take over by FORCE.’

If I was a mayor, or ran a city’s transportation dept, I’d be meeting frequently with the local police chief/deputy chiefs, explaining the MANY public interest reasons why we want as many people as possible riding bikes, and how their approach to bike theft, ticketing, etc makes a BIG DIFFERENCE.

‘A consultation showed the plans were unpopular’ - you’re elected to govern and do the right thing, not to avoid ever upsetting certain people. www.bbc.com/news/article...

🎧LEVER TIME: How Wall Street is quietly shorting its own AI investments as chips are depreciating faster than they can come online. At risk is everyone's 401k(s), pensions, savings - and the entire economy. Search "Lever Time" in your podcast app. Guests include @edzitron.com & Sruthi Pinnamaneni.

How the BBC & ITV give disproportionate coverage to Farage & Reform: hard evidence from a serious study. BBC & ITV now give Reform more coverage than the Conservatives, more than the Lib Dems & nine times the Greens. Superb research from Stephen Cushion. www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

Nothing says "smash the political establishment" quite like begging the Prime Minister to put your mates in the unelected House of Lords.

Our new paper (with @jwfurlong.bsky.social and @rachelaldred.bsky.social) out today calculates cyclability scores for every postcode in Greater London, revealing a lot of variation across the city. doi.org/10.1016/j.jt... (Open access) 1/6

this isn’t very free speech-y of the free speech champs

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

BREAKING: At least 373 Palestinians have been killed and 970 wounded since the start of the ceasefire in October, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ro90fr