Almost 5,000 people have joined our call for a halt to new hyperscale data centres in Scotland. Have you? The 24 applications in so far would require 1.5 times as much energy as all of Scotland uses at peak demand. We can't let this free-for-all continue. greens.scot/datacentres

Lost count of the number of times I heard Andy Burnham's name on the World at One today. Switched off when I heard Sarah Montague say she could see on a screen that a helicopter was following the train that bore him to the capital.

Mona Khalil, 76, a beloved Lebanese environmental activist and sea turtle conservationist, murdered by IDF forces during an attack on Mansouri beach in Tyre. www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

We've had six Prime Ministers over the last 15 years, and it's pass the parcel again in Downing Street. Ministerial roles change even faster than that. Gets quite dizzying, doesn't it?

1/2 An excerpt from a post shared by a woman friend on Facebook: In the last four years, 8 women were killed by undocumented immigrants. Meanwhile, about 70 women are murdered every month by their white male partners . The real threat to women isn’t immigration. It’s male violence. ⬇️

1/2 This is from a video filmed by BBC journalists who joined an aid convoy in southern Lebanon, taking food and water to villagers whose homes had been destroyed by Israeli bombardment. If the Israelis imagine that doing this will secure their future, they're seriously mistaken.

It shouldn't need saying but keep your dogs off hot pavements in the heat wave. Their paws can burn. Black asphalt gets particularly hot.

Starmer, Polanski, Trump and Burnham are just three of the men who've been desperate to gain party leadership. They all remind me of what Douglas Adams wrote about such people: "... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

If Jonny Dymond mentioned Israel in his review of developments in the Middle East, I missed it. In addition to sectarian conflict, Israel has been a festering sore in the region since 1948, thanks to the British and now the Americans, neither acknowledging the problems it causes.

“Real scientists are delighted when they find out they're wrong... There are too many people in this world who want to be right. And too few who just want to know.” — Brian Cox

Chris Mason's reports on the government and parliament would be much shorter without all his metaphors, and that would be a good thing.

Most people seem oblivious of what's happening above them in the sky. They miss a lot.

Cloudless blue skies in summer don't interest me much. I look for clouds, from a small wispy cumulus fractus, that evaporate in minutes, to towering heaps of cumulus congestus, holding tonnes and tonnes of water in suspension. Look up! (Cloud Appreciation Society member 2812)

Out in the solstice sun. Don't forget your sunblock.

And not a squeak from Farage, Lowe, Robinson or Tice. Nothing. Literally nothing.

This is a welcome ruling for women in prison who are often extremely vulnerable because of their lives before being convicted and imprisoned. I see others are concerned about the risk to transwomen, and I take it trans advocacy organisations like @scottishtrans.bsky.social will advocate for their

This has reminded me of Marvin the Paranoid Android, with a brain the size of a planet, who had his limitations. I hear they're using AI to write books now. (See: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams.)

There's a difference between your brain and your mind and there's no such thing as an artificial mind.

We have put together a summary of the case with background information and all the blogs and media coverage here: forwomen.scot/07/02/2026/f...

If they really go ahead with this, those responsible might expect legal action in the future when the young people realise the damage that's been done to them.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social, I saw a video of you telling Piers Morgan that a woman can have a penis, that woman is a gender, and that the Supreme Court got it wrong about biological sex. Morgan laughed. I don't blame him. How can you be so clueless and expect to be taken seriously as a politician?

Switched off the news. I'm bored with Burnham. I'm bored with all of them. I'm bored with adversarial party politics, but if we must have it, please can we have a new electoral system?

Makerfield is - of course - hugely important, and perhaps Nigel Farage may be encouraged to fade away & spend more time with his £5 million "personal security" £££ & other donations - but today's biggest news is this: the real cost of Brexit to all of us. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

With two of my favourite analysts, @qmulsse.bsky.social’s @robertsaunders.bsky.social and the @financialtimes.com’s @lucyfisher.ft.com

It was bad enough when so many Russian men were being killed on the Ukrainian border but now the war has come home. This wasn't part of Putin's plan.

Welcome. Please shut the gate.

The war was for Netanyahu's benefit, though that may not last.

Whatever his experience, he doubtless has no intelligence.

The majority of Reform UK councillors on Suffolk County Council have decided to limit the number of questions that opposition councillors may ask about agenda items to one. Is this another policy that is being imposed from HQ? What's happening in your area?

Catbus is REAL!!

I asked Google what practical value SpaceX has and it answered by quoting this. In other words, it's of immense value to the usual capitalist money-jugglers, but virtually none to the rest of us.

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Robert De Niro doesn't love his country any more.

Judging from posts on the Village Facebook page, a sizeable proportion of local residents didn't bother to read the information that came with our new recycling bins, and are confused about which days they're emptied. My sympathies with local government officers whose efforts are unappreciated.

I used to take the bus from Vauxhall to work in Westminster, went past Thames House coming off Vauxhall Bridge. Heard about the driver once stopping and calling out "SPIES OFF HERE, SPIES OFF" over the tannoy which apparently had several people very quickly sitting back down.

And now every government dept should, belatedly, follow.

A gift.

"Do you have a copy of 'It's probably safer to just drink your own piss, by Southern Water?"

A subversive artist. Many women will have had the same experience as Charlotte, but how many men will get the message?

Have you noticed that the Suffragettes, Palestine Action, and Trans Bash Back have all used vandalism as part of their campaigns? Did you notice that it hasn't worked?

Fake news is putting Dartmoor’s ponies at risk. New deep dive by me into the current furore around Dartmoor's ponies. www.dartmoornature.org.uk/post/ponies-...

This should be interesting. It appears to be based on the true story of David Reimer, who was accidentally castrated as a baby and raised as a girl. It was a tragic story.

Seen in a Facebook reel. I want one.

🧵 I have a problem. I actually have quite a few but the one I'm thinking of is to do with words. I get them muddled up. That's because I have myalgic encephalomyelitis. You may have heard of it. One of the things it does is make me muddle my words sometimes or I can't remember the words for things.⬇️

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add coloir to my sunset sky." - Rabindranath Tagore

Far too much social media-ing today. TTFN.

Ignore the text. I have no idea what she's on about but I'm just wondering why so many women want to look like Afghan hounds? Perhaps being the daughter of a hairdresser prejudices me against long hair, but it doesn't strike me as very practical, unless you plait it.

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov

Kingston Hospital displays this map to show where their staff come from. The NHS would collapse without staff from overseas, roughly one in five. In critical care roles, that's doctors and nurses, it's one in three. Most of these people will have experienced racism from patients.

In news which will surprise no one... Israel illegally occupies more stolen land.