Duncan Gill
@duncangill.bsky.social
SNP activist, when I get out of a comfy chair. Coffee, Packers, Dons, Guns N Roses… the important things in life
Not even surprising. Offences involving minorities get a disproportionate amount of coverage to equivalent crimes of white Brits. Unlike when a white Brit commits a crime, when a someone from a minority does it prompts debates about the minority in general. 1/ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Public in England and Wales wrongly think most killers are minority ethnic
Research from King’s College London finds that Reform voters’ perceptions were furthest from the truth
theguardian.com
These muppets must reckon they sound like JFK.
David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 5h agoActual CEO of a space company people actually invest in says "by the early 2030s" -- just 5 to 7 years from now -- there will be mines and factories and large human workforce on the Moon, such that we'll be able to see lights of the lunar city from our front porches fortune.com/2026/08/17/b...
Actual CEO of a space company people actually invest in says "by the early 2030s" -- just 5 to 7 years from now -- there will be mines and factories and large human workforce on the Moon, such that we'll be able to see lights of the lunar city from our front porches fortune.com/2026/08/17/b...
Billionaire founder agrees with Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos: We will live and work in space—and could be commuting to the moon by 2030 | Fortune
“We'll have a moon base, people living and working on the moon,” says billionaire Voyager Technologies founder Dylan Taylor.
fortune.com
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
“Industry experts are calling it social media’s “Big Tobacco” moment, with Meta as the centerpiece.”
Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 5h agoMeta faces ‘astronomical’ consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment in California - by Jonathan Vanian @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/m...
Subscribers to Trump’s insider trading app may be paying $100,000 a month for market moving info. Or they don’t even want the info and are just paying him a monthly bribe or protection racket payoff to be left alone. Either way, it’s all just blatant corruption every single day.
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There is something truly surreal about back to back items on the news today where residents return to homes in Stourbridge destroyed by the heatwave wildfires, then some empty suit comes on to explain why we absolutely must open another oil field in the North Sea.
Hungary taking a cue from Romania, though this approach didn't stop Romania's nuclear plant having to shut down completely, in the end...
TVP World@tvpworld.bsky.social · 10h agoHungary is deploying 80-meter-long barges in the Danube, to temporarily raise water levels and keep two turbines running, as record-low water levels threaten cooling at the Paks nuclear plant. One turbine could be forced offline if levels fall another 9 cm, leaving just a single turbine operating.
"a traitor to his origins" is a genuinely shocking way for The Economist to describe the only Jewish leader of a major political party in England in 2026.
The Economist@economist.com · yesterdayThese days many British Jews see Zack Polanski as a traitor to his origins, not a disciple of Jewish ideas. Our profile explores how he has embraced the anti-Israel fervour that has swept the new left
A person without any govt position, who has numerous financial conflicts of interest, should not conduct US foreign policy. And that’s before we get to the fact that he uses this role to corruptly solicit money for himself. It’s wrong. Many seem to have accepted it, but I’ll never stop objecting.
Kushner Meets With Hamas to Advance Trump’s Gaza Plan
The president’s son-in-law met the Palestinian militant group’s leaders in Egypt, officials said. He will soon see Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader.
nytimes.com
The United States’ shift away from democratic treaty allies and towards anti-American authoritarians continues. It is, quite explicitly, a choice.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 22h agoBREAKING: President Trump orders the Pentagon to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea after he says it declined to help denuclearize Iran.
Wife: The trash is overflowing. Can you-- Me: Well I can't take it out but here's what I'll say. We need a strong trash can. And I'm committed to reforming the kitchen so the trash doesn't pile up
Reform: We're going to leave babies outside so only the strong survive to become our elite warrior class BBC: Reform will save NHS 100 TRILLION Pounds
Annual reminder that the Community Shield used to be called the Charity Shield, but so little money actually went to charity that the government told them to either start making serious contributions or change the name. So they changed the name.
I’m not saying we should feed all the influencers to the sharks, but I note that the sharks do seem to have a taste for them
David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · yesterdayThe influencers getting bitten chasing the perfect shark shot | I’m gonna need everyone to make better choices. Including the “influencers” who do unethical things with sharks without even a basic “don’t try this at home” disclaimer.
For the record, the proportion of professors at Cambridge who are Black is 0.4%. The number of Black people in the UK population is 4%. So the number of Black professors at Cambridge is ONE TENTH of what you would expect in a meritocracy.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · yesterdayPaddy O'Connell, asked on the programme to estimate what % of professors at Cambridge are black, estimated it at 30%. Seriously, 30%.
Oh my god what TF is wrong with #BBC #BroadcastingHouse? They have got KATHLEEN STOCK on to do the review, SPECIFICALLY to talk about Jason Arday. When she was one of the most egregious examples of the pile on, just days ago. I have turned the radio off. Shame on you BBC.
In the Eisenhower administration, the ratio between the salary of an entry-level white collar worker and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company was 14:1. Now under Musk it is 2.5 million to one. This is why the pope refers to Musk as a model of the sin of avarice. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Tesla paid Elon Musk 2.5m times more as CEO than its average worker in 2025
Tech billionaire’s $158.3bn deal an outlier in report showing widening gap of CEO to worker pay at top companies
theguardian.com
There’s an underlying assumption a lot of people are making that if a black guy successfully misleads you, it means you have set your racism levels too low.
BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?
Five years of Taliban rule results in 'hell on earth' for Afghan women - Today’s indepth international read 👇 www.thenational.scot/politics/264...
Five years of Taliban rule has resulted in a 'hell on earth' for Afghan women
A FILM is scheduled to air today on Sweden’s public television network and the timing of its broadcast could not be more apt.
thenational.scot
I went to speak to a children’s literature professor about what I thought was a lighthearted topic: her new book on the politics of Paddington. But as a friend of Jason Arday, she quickly made it clear just how scared academics of colour are today to speak freely thanks to race hate in the UK media
Race hate means 'Paddington politics' Scottish professor is now 'scared to speak'
Melanie Ramdarshan Bold is an expert on the cultural significance of Paddington. She tells our Writer at Large that the current climate means she…
heraldscotland.com
This is an extraordinary story, centred on a group of remarkable women, but it just makes me mourn for the millions of women and girls trapped in Afghanistan, denied not only the freedom to play sports, but to speak, learn and live as they choose. We must not forget them.
Banned from football at home, Afghan women's team reunite 8,000 miles away
Women in the team, which is recognised by Fifa, say football has given them freedom and independence.
bbc.co.uk
Scotland. Aftermath of Bannockburn until end of 2nd War of Independence in 1357. Told from perspective of Christian Bruce - King Robert’s sister who was released from English captivity after the battle and was an under-explored figure during the turbulent reign of her nephew David II.
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 2d agoyouve got 5.6 billion to make a 7 season 56 episode show airing over 15 years, wdyd
![From Wikipedia:
The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a heuristic in systems thinking coined by the British management consultant Stafford Beer,[1] who stated that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do".[2] It is used in systems theory, and is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can or should be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it. When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behaviour is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behaviour with a more straightforwardly descriptive view.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xa4eltdd2z3scndtv4yvb65p/bafkreiem4i55e3gqp6endhcbz2voh2vgqd4y5xdo7bd5qgkrvnz745riby)
