The reality of Britain's renewable energy is; it's the Scottish renewable energy industry.
Björn Heile
@bjornheile.bsky.social
Berlin-born and Glasgow-based academic, primarily interested in weird music. Oh, and I'm associate editor of Contemporary Music Review. Professional profile: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/bjornheile
"I predicted that this clearly troubled man might succumb to the pressure that people like me were putting him under, and I was right," is among the most unsavoury reactions to a tragedy you could come up with. Shut your pie holes for once, commentariat.
"If you aren't building your own bank robbing robot, you're going to be left behind in the new economy."
Like Trump and Boris Johnson, they lie routinely. They'll say whatever suits them at any moment.
Harry Taylor@harrytaylor.bsky.social · 2d agoAstonishing. The Press Association understands Essex Police did not tell Nigel Farage, or any other Clacton candidate, not to attend the count. This is after after his and Reform UK's claim Essex Police advised him against it due to a "credible threat".
Cloud cover obscured most of the eclipse here in the West of Scotland. But, then, it allowed photographing it directly. (It's the sun, not the moon!)
I remember watching this when it aired live in September, 1976, the Muppet Show's first season. I didn't know who Rita Moreno was, only that she was amazing. She won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. Happy Sunday Funday! 🥵
What is also interesting about that story is that Farage would be prepared to play such an evidently dirty trick. No surprises there, but not enough is made of this. Laws, rules and regulations are for others!
Jen@jennyflower.bsky.social · 6d agoPlease let it be true that The Times has reported Farage's advisors didn’t understand that the investigation into his finances would continue if he was returned to Parliament. And Farage gave up his seat believing the investigation would be halted completely.
I mean, fine, right, whatever - but has the Prime Minister said a single word about three nights of far right violence in Norfolk? Get your priorities right for fuck sake. The bloke act is wearing thin fast
Happy Halberstadt Note Change Day to all who celebrate!
As Slow as Possible - Wikipedia
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Why is Virginia Woolf's _To the Lighthouse_ ostensibly set on the Isle of Skye? It makes no sense to me at all. It's a fascinating book otherwise, but I can't quite get over this. #BookSky #VirginiaWoolf #ToTheLighthouse #Literature
O.k., one more attempt to upload pictures of Sitka spruce, the bane of the Scottish countryside, with, occasionally, their own strange beauty.
Generally speaking, Sitka spruce plantations are the bane of the Scottish countryside. Occasionally, they can create their own kind of beauty, though.
Is there a way to exclude gym pics from the 'Discover' feed? I don't know what it is with these things...
Piet Mondrian's work on the London Underground is exceptional.
Anti-immigrant people used to say (pretend?) that as long as you "followed the rules" they were ok with you. Now Labour proposed changing the rules retrospectively, the Tories say that's not enough, the parties further to the right have embraced remigration (euphemism for ethnic cleansing).
Who is your favourite woman writer from the 1800s? Today, many readers are likely to name Jane Austen, but in the 1880s, a common answer across Europe might well have been E. Marlitt. Find out which female authors reached historical readers ca 1850-1920: brill.com/display/titl... #BookHistory
Redrawing Europe's Literary Map
"Redrawing Europe's Literary Map" published on 25 Jun 2026 by Brill.
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"Nigel Farage & Reform plan to repeal the Employment Rights Act which would take away the right to protection from fire & rehire and zero-hours contracts. Strange that he’s taking his convictions this far, but it’s unlikely he’ll take a pay cut when he restarts the job" via Tendring Green party
If Count Binface and Nigel Farage are the only candidates in the Clacton by-election, do news reports and political shows need to give them equal coverage for fairness and balance?
John Lanchester reviewed George Cottrell’s book, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺: 𝘈 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘢𝘸 𝘌𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴,in the 𝘓𝘙𝘉 in May. Read here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
England red card.. So does the king call fifa now? Is that how this works?
What?! Paying people for their labor works? I’m shocked! Shocked!
Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief
A biology journal which paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.
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It continues to amaze me how the reigning orthodoxy manages to regard itself as some kind of couragous anti-establishment insurgency.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago‘Not puff pieces and kid gloves’: why Bari Weiss is hiring British journalists at CBS News