John

So #ScottishIndependence supporting folk who are starting to ask genuinely important questions that are worthy of consideration or raising valid points that bear nuanced & intelligent examination are gradually framed as unionists or anti-independence. This is no Scotland I want part of.

After several months for the first time tonight No Tropical nights were recorded in Europe (but there are still many in Turkey). Yesterday only Kastellorizo Island,Greece had a tropical night. Not tonight. Tomorrow Monday 30C will return to Andalucia.

Reminder, no one is safe until everyone is safe. And #OneHealth means human, animal and environmental health are indivisible

Like closing Guantanam……oh wait

Coming to a forest near you... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 BREAKING: The UK Labour Government have approved the Jackdaw gas field. This a devastating betrayal of future generations. Jackdaw will make the UK even more dependent on the global gas market. This will do nothing to lower household energy bills and it is dishonest to pretend that it will.

My latest Substack just out: "Five hundred million fewer birds in Europe. Seventy-five million fewer in Britain… Dawns and springs are quieter, the air, emptier” #Biodiversity #Anthropocene #NatureCrisis nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...

On a clear night in the South of France Cévennes mountains last month I was staggered by the swarms of satellite trails. The occasional one of the past was a curiosity. Thus felt like violation of rhe heavens.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Is this what “two tier policing” means? 🤔

Of course they did.

in 1981 workers at Britain’s chemical defence research centre found a bucket sitting outside the complex Inside was soil taken from a remote Scottish island. The soil contained anthrax the British government had deliberately contaminated Gruinard Island a tiny island off Scotland 👇

It’s a full nappy 🙄

Pay attention @johnswinney.bsky.social

I believe we need to pay more attention to belonging. Not just because of its potential as a tool for good and evil, but at a deeper level because belonging is a fundamental human need that is too often weak or absent from our lives. What do you think? thrivablescotland.com/a/3mxgnv4hp5...

“Hit out” That’ll show them Enjoy yer wee bit of devolved power while you’ve got it 🙄 Power devolved is ALWAYS power retained

Because nothing says alpha male like bullying grandma

DISCOUNT now on #GreenThinking from @routledgebooks.bsky.social. Doing lots of book events in the next couple of weeks, but if you can't make those, you can get it now online for £16.79, including free postage www.routledge.com/Green-Thinki...

Oh stop whining and go out and put energy into building the compelling and realistic case for an independent Scotland. When it’s unambiguously obvious that a consistent and solid 60+% want it, then we could say it’s genuinely the will of the people and that cannot be stopped.

Correct. The Trump elephant in Burnham’s room is Trident. This article is 11 years old, but every word still applies: www.politico.eu/article/uk-t...

Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.

Given the building hyper El Nino, if you are booking a holiday for next year - probably best to make it a safe(er) staycation And don't forget your beach reading

This has always been one of the main reasons for Brexit

I want to join your club. But with several conditions: *That big comfy chair is mine and nobody else can sit in it. *I get to keep my special food in the fridge and nobody else can touch it but I’m allowed to eat anything in the fridge that I fancy *I can make up my own rules to the games we play

Deloitte paid its UK-based partners £1.125m. Firm has 784 equity partners. Due to self-employed status of partners, employer national insurance (ENI) is not paid on profits shared. 150,000 ENI avoided on every £1m of profits shared. Billions lost across the country. Must end this privilege.

75% of our leading food crops depend on pollinators. No bees = no tomatoes, no beans, no peppers, no mangoes, no coffee. You think food comes from the supermarket. It comes from a bee that just died from insecticide drift.

Another idiot who thinks 1984 is an instruction manual 🙄

When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.

Another illustration of my madcap thought experiment that you only get the vote between ages 16 and 65. (I’m nearly that age btw) To be making decisions for things that you’ll likely not live to see or be affected by should exempt you from voting. Also that voting is compulsory. Mad, I know

Long read, but worth your time.

Far right activist??!! Is that what we’re calling Nazis nowadays?

Mmmhmmm. Charted. Documented. Pored over. Analysed. Found wanting, to put it mildly.

On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.

Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide

Exxon is now expecting a 2.5 - 3C rise by 2050 But says f*ck you - we are just going to keep right on sucking up as much gas and oil as we can Because even though we know what's coming, we really don't give a sh*t www.reuters.com/business/ene...

What a performer tho …

You mean @thesnpmedia.bsky.social have an independence strategy? A hastily scrawled to-do list for a child’s party on the back of an envelope isn’t a strategy

"There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, and happiness and misery” Charles Darwin #AnimalsMatter @ciwf.org.uk

…and the “winning” side was the angrier of the two…. Calm down dearies

Haud on… You mean the English weren’t taught that part of their own fucking history incl. the Clearances, Destitution Road, the Alien Act, Culloden & the Act of Proscription….????? Colour me shocked Wow, thanks James thingy on London Broadcasting . FFS. #decolonisation #Scotland #SaorAlba

Colour me surprised

….i have long wondered what, if anything, could possibly do for the web …maybe if AI destroys it, it WOULD help to improve people’s mental health… Cheers to unexpected consequences! 🥂

So my professional body makes a statement, saying that AI has a place in helping improve people’s mental health…. THEY ARE NOT FUCKING PAYING ATTENTION …healing breath… …and back to paying them no attention… …sigh…. 🙄

We’re toast

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sigh You CANNOT reverse Brexit. What’s done is done and can’t be undone. Unless you have a tardis or a Delorean. You have to REAPPLY…..and be prepared to follow the application process.

From now on: both votes SGP.