Saw a Small Copper today, a first for me 😊 butterfly, rather than small policeman

How to avoid burnout at work: Stand up. Stretch. Take a walk. Get in your car. Drive home to your cat. Never return.

Just to remind people of our well-cited paper on trade-offs in managing for biodiversity vs ecosystem services As it was published a while back & some seem to think that is a reason for reinventing the wheel doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social is very well read. I wonder has he seen this new title?

A deeply concerning analysis by @richardjmurphy.bsky.social I'm not qualified to assess its merits, but it sounds as if we should at least be highly alert to the possibilities he raises. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05...

Looking again at the IPCC socioeconomic scenario SSP3 which we adapted for the UK a few years ago Everyone said it is highly unlikely…

This is an extraordinary essay which really ought to have been published in a mainstream outlet. But please, share the hell out of it.

According to the UK parties & press, everything is shite due to the SNP, but also no one's interested in indy. Yet the SNP keeps on winning more seats than the anti-indy parties combined, so either the SNP is running Scotland better than we're told, or there really is a wish for indy.

I’ve been working constructing onshore wind for 20 years in Scotland Read this article it’s excellent Well done the Ferret We need Land Value Tax system in Scotland (25% like Denmark) Worth knowing Payback on investment for onshore wind projects is 6-8 years

This is awful news.

Really perceptive piece that no-one in power will want to read.

My final blog piece before the Scottish Parliament election. With polling pointing to an SNP victory and a record pro-independence majority, the British media in Scotland is getting its excuses in early. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/t...

No society that strips women and girls of rights to education, work, expression and participation can thrive. We must act to defend human rights and build a future where all women and girls are free and equal.

Classic!

Those feet.... wonderful🥰

We've done it!!! www.gofundme.com/f/help-secur...

Pope Leo, up to the past hour, in Africa and putting out the most incredible stuff on X-Twitter (which perhaps is especially where it needs to be heard). I”m sharing these screenshots here as he’s not on Bluesky. This is pure liberation theology. Other churches/faiths: don’t let this pass you by.

It's been a difficult day and it started with me putting a toe through my (slightly worn) sheet that I think must have opened a portal to another world... sigh

@catrio.bsky.social Guess who went to Shetland 😉

Oh is that the demise of the natural capital "stuff"? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Celebratory dance in Hungary

Listening to Kemi Badenoch and feeling almost envious of a life lived entirely undisturbed by reality.

" the wrong trees in the wrong places by the wrong people.” www.heraldscotland.com/news/2600942...

This is great, our community in action www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In my Culpepper's Herbal, he describes "Dragons" apparently these are so well known to everyone who plants them, they need no description. Has anyone got any ideas what they are?

Sadly this sums it up.....

We need your help, we're SO close to buying the site in Drumnadrochit for a Sports, Health & Wellbeing Centre but need £37,079 by 15 May. Every contribution, no matter the size, gets us closer. Please donate and share: gofund.me/43e646656 See Glen Urquhart Shinty Club 4 info

How many times does this need to be repeated?

One of my books. All royalties go towards helping women and girls in Afghanistan

So accurate ............

Fails to mention that slumping or collapsing Gulf states economies could fuel another global financial crisis, as asset values and economic viability plunge with the war. Any heavily Gulf-invested western banks or funds could fall over, with big domino effects. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A Ferret investigation has found more than 20 Scottish wind farms are paying less money than expected to local communities. The shortfall could add up to more than £50m.  Critics have branded that an "acute injustice". Read the full story 👉 https://bit.ly/4rIcDzY

Very interesting! peeta462032.substack.com/p/missing-th...

New report says Scotland’s public resources “flow to wealthy private landowners” encouraging further land concentration via subsidies and tax breaks, rather than taking “bold and necessary land reform measures.” There’s too much pandering to the powerful. app.scotsman.com/story/560647...

3x Lecturers and 1x Associate Lecturer in History features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs...

📢 The Scottish Government has just published new proposals for community benefits from onshore renewable energy developments. Have your say on the proposals 👇 www.ideas.gov.scot

I see that Bluesky has flagged my post “Bot verification”. Do they not know Scottish Highland history and the Jacobite risings? Have they not heard of Culloden? Do they not know that many of our roads are old military roads? Below is AI for quick and easy - not accurate but it gives the rough idea.

Who would have thought it? 🙄 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

An excellent article : @auntiesyzygy.bsky.social @claireboardman.bsky.social scottishleftreview.scot/skyes-revolt...

Valid point and the leveraging of such in maintaining existing structures of e.g. land ownership or the commodification of nature.

🤔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A healthy ecosystem requires a wide range of species interactions Focussing only on, eg, pollination or predation, will not hep ecosystem-level conservation

Superb 👌

Brilliant!

"Scotland’s aristocratic families do not cling to their massive estates only because of income but because of the influence it confers – to them, and their children, and their children’s children. It is about controlling Scotland’s future in the way they control so much of its present."

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over