Alison Rodger

Half of the most senior figures at the taxpayer-funded GB Energy have refused to move to Scotland

*Just went to the post office to post a book & the post office insisted they have to use an Evri service now. The guy said it's because "it's more convenient for the customers" I said "or is it to relieve pressure on the failing Royal Mail service?" He laughed & said "yeah"

The woman who was having a go at Stephen Flynn on STV news blaming him for her shop being destroyed by Storm Boelo and not acting quickly enough, well lo and behold she is a Tory candidate and activist, the stv news journalist must have known this but failed to mention it, 👇

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

bring back shame for being a huge fucking racist in public

Giant hail observed in parts of south-east Queensland as 'very dangerous' storms strike

True 😂 Israel could say that a hospital got blown up by a dragon and the British press would run with it.” Frankie Boyle

This is the "opposition" by the way Zionism is a cancer #ZionismIsRacism

Hey Font Folks! Got a question... I'm looking for a font that's similar to the MPAA's Rating System font but fun. Think like "Fat Tip" but as a Serif. Maybe it's me & having poured through my collection of fonts for a few hrs but I can't seem to find a decent substitute. -.-

This is your reminder that you *will* however be stopped if you try to ride a bicycle on the Esplanade.

Report says AI has been embedded across Home Office in near-total secrecy. AI plays part in tasks like asylum seeker age assessments, spotting sham marriages, summarising interviews, and border surveillance. It calls for regulation and register of govt AI tools. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mayor Mamdani and Councilmember Kayla Santosuosso visited the New York Aquarium to meet some seals and celebrate the impact of the administration’s $2 million investment in the aquarium.

“I don’t want any of us to be or feel un-housed in our bodies our towns our movements ever again. This book is my prayer; if you need to use it as shelter, it’s yours.” My memoir HOME OUT THERE is available for preorder now! bookshop.org/p/books/home...

For six weeks, NFL star Azeez Al-Shaair has used his platform to honor Palestinian girls. Today, he honored Fatima Al-Bayook, a Palestinian girl who was shot and killed by Israeli forces two days ago. Fatima was the sole survivor of an Israeli attack that killed her entire family in 2023.

Quite a few licence fee payers* would like a word too.. *for now

WALKABOUT! Our first fact-finding exploratory walk around Princes Street Gardens is on SATURDAY (31 October) at 10.00 starting from the Scott Monument. All welcome: members, prospective members, residents and of course tourists. No booking needed — only brightly-coloured scarves!

🚨 Israel has detained an SNP MP and a Greens MSP who were trying to enter Palestine 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

🖖 RIP Walter Koenig 1936 - 2026

⚫ Peter Falk

⚫ Agatha Christie

Nigel Farage and Robert jenrick spoke to swathes of empty seats at what was meant to be the party's big event ahead of the budget 😬

Monstrous beyond all reckoning. The US is using remote sensing *designed for humanitarian purposes* for the opposite purpose, potentially drowning civilians en masse. Trump hates Somalis. His troops appear to be exploiting the weather to help slaughter them. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Instant nocturnal animal disorientation and death. How are these geniuses so fucking thick?

The achievements of the Serbian student movement will be studied for decades. This was their blueprint for revolution. The recipe for throwing a corrupt authoritarian from office. Read, learn, implement. (📸 Save and Saclony)

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

UK Establishment Press boosting the Far-Right the exact same way the US media did in the mid-2010's by treating any time Donald Trump spoke as live breaking news

THREAD.

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

They've only got a handful of MPs, they're in third place and still heading south, they are led by the most unpopular party leader in the country, yet they're still being treated as if they're somehow knocking on the gates of Downing Street

'With all that we have to offer the world, why are we investing in that?' Outlander star Sam Heughan explains why he is against AI and data centres www.heraldscotland.com/news/2666282... 𝘝𝘐𝘋𝘌𝘖: 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵

"Across UK & Europe, tens of thousands of deep vertical coal & mineral mine shafts sit abandoned after the fossil-fuel mining era end — and Scottish engineers at Gravitricity have found a way to turn them into giant mechanical grid batteries .." www.facebook.com/engineeringe... via Engineering Facts

during the 2023 WGA strike. a real one.

Israeli company, on UN blacklist for supporting illegal settlements, owns 20% of rosebank field through its subsidiary Ithaca energy. They should be banned form any ownership and sanctioned. We do not want them in any way involved in Scotland. www.thenational.scot/news/2654589...

Guardian reports Police Scotland will get round to watching the documentary at some point ... No rush lads.

The people of Serbia celebrating the defeat of the dictator who held full authoritarian control of their country for nearly 14 years. This is what democracy looks like.

Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

How devastating would it be to learn that one of your parents couldn't think of 3 nice things to say about you?

Italy 🇮🇹 has crafted a new protest strategy and there is a reason why mainstream news won’t report on it, it’s very effective, more so than even France 🇫🇷. Watch what is happening:

Protect this Young WOMAN at all Cost!!

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Student List has existed as a movement lass than a year-and-a-half and as a party six weeks. Six. Weeks. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Gobsmacking...

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.