It’s a beautiful day in Edinburgh and I’ve got a spot outside + all three B’s: Beer Book Beans (2kg of them in a comically large glass jar I just refilled for a very reasonable price)

New #opendata: Output Area counts for licensed vehicles in the UK at the end of 2025, released by DfT following FOI request www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ve... This is the most granular dataset available to the public for mapping and analysis of where vehicles are registered #FOI #transportdata

Shoutout to the man watching WWE videos out loud on his phone during this graduation ceremony. Glad you didn’t have to engage with these speeches about academic freedom and minority rights, king 👑

Hurray, the charts and maps now officially have data in them! ballotbox.scot/scottish-par...

For the people who think solar farms are habitat destruction:

Filing this under: - thoughtful digital resource management - meaningful accessibility improvements - cool use of AI - really freaking awesome

is this the most helpful graphic on all of Wikipedia?

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

The European Union is tightening the regulatory backdoor through which US automakers have been quietly importing around 7k large SUVs and pickup trucks/year. “The revised rules, expected to launch in 2027, are designed to close loopholes that Brussels says allow unsafe vehicles onto European roads.”

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

March Madness bracket already busted? Good thing there’s FISH MADNESS. Cast your picks before the tournament begins on Monday: marypeltola.com/fish-madness

Camera angle of a coach’s wife: - weird - only vaguely sports-related - what are we supposed to be thinking? Camera angle of a player’s mom: - heartwarming - reminds us of the human angle - gives credit to the people who supported the players

“The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly…AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector & tech monopolists run amok.“ Read this article by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy. Whether you agree with it all or not, it’s important.

Trump demanding control of Greenland—which the US already has access to—is based on multi-layered lies. Threatening NATO allies to get it undermines the Western alliance. I did a point-by-point breakdown of Trump's aggressive letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Støre about the Nobel and Greenland.

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Greenland could be the moment when EU becomes a geo-economic superpower. It has long had the economic might but lacked the political will. Today’s leaders meeting will be decisive.

Je suis triste de voir la fondation Wikimédia pousser à collaborer avec les enterprises AI qui l'ont déjà cannibalisée En même temps, la fondation va bénéficier de l'usage de leurs ressources (et peut-être les autres sites web peuvent suivre cet exemple)

The French Army just announced that it will be part of the military force that goes to Greenland Germany is also part of it, on top of Sweden If the US invades Greenland, it means that two NATO nuclear powers will be fighting against each other

Simultaneously as 🇩🇰 delegation talks 🇬🇱 in Washington D.C., a 🇺🇸 P-8 Poseidon from Keflavik 🇮🇸 flies all Nordic mission, contributing to NATO’s most important task: keeping an eye on and deterring 🇷🇺 in northern Europe.

Omg they’re *so* close to correctly identifying systemic vs random violence

How is 🇬🇧 challenging 🇷🇺 aggression in the Wider North? Read expert analysis by @klausdodds.bsky.social and Prof. Caroline Kennedy-Pipe in the full #geopoliticalatlas 🔗 www.geostrategy.org.uk/research/bri...

Woke up with the feeling that 2026 is going to be HUGE for @demsabroad.bsky.social

“…[T]he ship was seized by special forces police and the coast guard from helicopters. Finland’s President… said that ‘Finland was prepared for security challenges of various kinds.’” The importance of a Finnish show-of-force in response to infrastructure sabotage probably can’t be overstated…

Incredibly, not one of these milestones scores as a “win” using the traffic engineering metrics that quietly dictate city planning. Urban planning prof Jonathan Levine and I have one paper detailing why and another explaining why it has to change for any vision of abundance to succeed. Links below.

ICYMI: "Americans and Britons believed that Canadians were natural experts on the North; Canadian military and civilian officials funded arctic science to make it so." - @tinaadcock.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/10/r... #envhist #histsci #militarhistory #cdnhist #bookreview

Rethinking my DMV experiences and realizing 90% of my interactions (in 3 states) have been good or very good and my only frustrations have been directly attributable to understaffing…

Not sure whether to laugh or cry at the student in this coffee shop using ChatGPT to summarize and write a reflection on a reading titled “Individuality”

[first day as a shepherd] boss: where are you going? me: [pointing] star boss: what? why me: [shrugging] baby

🗞️🚢⛽️⚫️❄️ @imohq.bsky.social Polar Fuels Proposal for Arctic Shipping Welcomed by Clean Arctic Alliance

Another golf course bites the dust, up in Duluth. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

It would cost the country n o t h i n g for the next transpo authorization bill to take discretion away from USDOT to grant permission to pursue cordon pricing. It’s been proven here, let our cities cook.

Minneapolis keeps winning

America: where road safety is so motorist-centered that small cars are too dangerous to allow on the market!

I’m not sure what makes me happier — football visualized via clustering analysis or the fact that Michigan is in the middle of the playoff cluster.

This is unpopular with business, economically illiterate and contrary to the scientific consensus. But it apes Reform and that’s all that seems to matter. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Had a great time at the UK Arctic Science Conference last week! Of course, the posters and talks were excellent — I’m already looking forward to the next one. Thanks to @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social and @northumbriauni.bsky.social for putting this on!

Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 10th lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 90,000 km² above the 2010s mean • about 1,010,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 2,010,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,740,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

A success story from a country with a left-wing government, a wealth tax, a humane policy on immigration, and sensible management of the energy transition, and within the EU. Lessons for #Starmer.

🚨 The European Commission confirms the plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen in Bulgaria suffered GPS jamming. "We have received information from Bulgarian authorities that they suspect this blatant interference was carried out by Russia," a spokesperson said.

“The benefits of this shared approach are clear… [T]he ships will be able to operate together in NATO task groups with an unprecedented degree of interoperability.”

Partner’s out for the evening — you know what that means!

If you’ve got 40mins and an interest in permafrost/indigieous land management/carbon sinks, check out the first episode of This Way Up, a podcast by @arcticcouncil.bsky.social. Looking forward to new releases!

BIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK! A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.

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DC sports bars know how to cater to the people

Imagine going all the way to Ireland to get beat by Georgia Tech

Exactly this. Most people think of media bias as "taking sides," whereas the most concerning form of bias is fitting existing narrative structures. In this case, re-presenting Trump as coherent and the GOP platform as a serious governing agenda, because elections must be contests between equals.