DYK the toxin causing the current MASSIVE global formula recall is in a completely optional ingredient with insufficient evidence of any health benefits for babies? #BabiesBeforeBottomlines www.ft.com/content/3711...

I have given up on Sherrifhall Park&Ride. It's no longer any use for anything except ERI. There used to be multiple services towards Edinburgh city centre, so you never waited for long. Now there's only one so you are stuck at a bleak, isolated spot /...

Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

@fakehistoryhunter.net They did so well, and then said 'medieval' in the last paragraph!

We don’t need AI training sponsored by the tech firms selling it. We need AI education to help people understand what it can’t do, and what dangers lie ahead if you entrust your life to it

I am partially deaf because of measles. Please vaccinate it's so important.

There should be a one-month moratorium on new work. Just give everyone the month of February to do the things they are already doing. Nothing new. No additional projects. No new initiatives. No requests. Any email asking someone to do something is automatically rejected and replaced with a cat gif.

This evening the @foodgov.bsky.social has issued a recall for specific batches of 800g Aptamil First Infant formula powder, extending the existing recall which was for a range of Nestle products sold under the SMA and Little Steps brand names. www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/...

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes. From Treasure magazine, 1963 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

Every second of this is PERFECTION

Nine?

In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

SEVEN!

Took my life into my hands to take this winter morning photo in the middle of Morningside Road, Edinburgh.

Call me as sad as you like. Bovril crisps were made by Smiths Crisps at least as far back as the 70s, long before Back to the Future. Lots of nostalgia in these pics though..... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

In light of the ongoing Nestle formula milk recall, we’d like to share some resources on safer powdered infant formula preparation for parents and carers who use formula to feed their infants. ➡️

Planning application APPROVED!

today is the feast of st mungo, the patron saint of glasgow. every year i like to remind people that st mungo and his mother st enoch were refugees who fled domestic violence on a small boat no better time, imo, to consider donating to the brilliant refuweegee www.refuweegee.co.uk/your-donations

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026... Underappreciated at the time. Some of their songs are fine things, including this one.

Always reminding people that the avoidance of politics is political. “I avoid politics” is the same as "I'm perfectly happy with the state of things and how others are currently treated."

If you cared about teenagers' mental health, you'd be campaigning for more skate-parks and cycle-paths, subsidised music courses and access to sports-centres, rather than moaning about smartphones.

If only there was as much effort put into improving youth services, making sports, arts and crafts available and affordable, and making the physical environment more 'teen-friendly' as there is for banning kids from social media or taking their phones away.

Only four people in the UK have formally complained about a trans woman entering a “single-sex” facility, an eye-opening report has revealed. A report published by advocacy group TransLucent found that only four official complaints were documented across 382 public bodies since 2022. 1/2

The "we have to stay on the fascist child sexual abuse app because otherwise it'll just be full of bad people" line is such an absurdly, pathetically weak version of "we're worried we'll get FOMO if we leave". Do better.

Make the computer a god or hold rich men responsible which way western man

This.

Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.

I’ve seen lots of posts promoting the National Year of Reading which is brilliant! Not so brilliant is that there are some using AI-generated imagery which is disheartening. Illustrations are really important when it comes to children wanting to pick up books. Let’s keep the industry thriving!

There are no benefits that have ever been explained to me that are worth the harms this technology is already causing. Not *remotely*. There should be devastating social and criminal consequences for those who created and use it. That should not be an extreme position.

I’m aware of the argument that you can’t put the genie back in the bottle, but I would say that you can, if it’s a wholly pointless and unnecessary genie that nobody actually asked for or needs. Just don’t use the genie. Shun and mock any loser-ass dork who does. Tell the genie to get fuuuuuucked 👍

2026 needs to be the year we make ‘genAI’ Not Exist. It steals and kills human creativity, it is polluting our information and real ecosystems, it is destroying lives. It generates child porn and convinces teenagers to kill themselves. The first genuinely evil technology of my lifetime. End it.

A lovely day down by the Tyne on the edge of Haddington. Not that common to see the river edged with ice. Nice day for birds.

www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/2573089... Both Tantallon and Dirleton are listed here, but bewildering that East Lothian's next most significant HES castle - Hailes - has remained closed for the last 5 years. Hailes is

Long tailed tits on my new Christmas gift window feeder within hours of installation!

Why can’t she use tinsel?

I wonder if visitors remember, when they post about Edinburgh on Bluesky, that residents can see it? I wonder if they feedback to the relevant service provider rather than just blaming the city as a whole?

🗣️ LET’S MAKE CURIOSITY COOL IN 2026

Just a reminder to folk visiting Edinburgh next year please try your best to boycott the Elephant House. It's gone from a nice normal cafe with views of the castle to a mad tourist trap with a giant picture of Jakey R on the wall. It's like if everything wrong with Edinburgh's tourism was a cafe

In March 82, I got my first camera: a compact Kodak. It was shit, even by the standards of the time, but how things have changed. Taking a photo with my phone is no more complex than using that first camera, but I can get results that would have demanded a fortune in specialised kit back then.

"There was a National Pigeon Service... like Mary of Exeter, a pigeon-intelligence operative who survived a German falcon attack. The tip of her wing was blown off and shrapnel lodged in her neck. And worst of all, she then had to go back to Exeter." 😍🪶😂 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wait, wait it gets better! East and West Lomond clearly on the western horizon, a crazy hallucination of Salisbury crags and.... the river Thames?

That"s one heck of a view of Edinburgh in my Google web suggestions...

Dear visitors to Edinburgh over Hogmanay. Before you post: we don't. We don't climb all those steep steps all the time. When we do visit those parts of town we plan: which way we go UP, which way we go DOWN. Suggest you spend the evening before on Streetview, and then you can do similar. Have fun!

But it's DECEMBER!

December 25th. The day the Fellowship departs Rivendell to destroy the One Ring. Whatever you celebrate, may you have the courage to take the first steps to defy and endure against the dark, and rekindle light into the world.