Being reported that Scottish Labour leader and Glasgow MSP, Anas Sarwar, will be taking up a junior minister role at Westminster, via a peerage. If that is indeed the case, not only does it trigger a leadership election, but it also returns Monica Lennon to Holyrood as she's 4th on the Glasgow list

Anas Sarwar set to quit as Scottish Labour leader

EXCLUSIVE: The Glasgow MSP has been down in London for the reshuffle and will take up a job in the new Government.

dailyrecord.co.uk

Last minute addition to today’s to-do list: Walk a cat-maimed magpie to the vet a mile away in a converted oat milk box

Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out

Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...

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Thrilled to read this excellent, short summary of the policy issues behind modern transport planning. Even more thrilled it came from Scottish Parliament’s research team. Here’s hoping this inspires real change in Scotland 🤞

Prof. Ian Walker@ianwalker.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The dominance of car amongst transport modes is at least partly the result of policy decisions made by successive governments" - Wow, Scottish Government have said it Big thanks to @srd.bsky.social for flagging this brilliant Parliamentary policy briefing spice-spotlight.scot/2026/06/11/t...

It’s a beautiful day in Edinburgh and I’ve got a spot outside + all three B’s: Beer Book Beans (2kg of them in a comically large glass jar I just refilled for a very reasonable price)

New #opendata: Output Area counts for licensed vehicles in the UK at the end of 2025, released by DfT following FOI request www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ve... This is the most granular dataset available to the public for mapping and analysis of where vehicles are registered #FOI #transportdata

Shoutout to the man watching WWE videos out loud on his phone during this graduation ceremony. Glad you didn’t have to engage with these speeches about academic freedom and minority rights, king 👑

Hurray, the charts and maps now officially have data in them! ballotbox.scot/scottish-par...

For the people who think solar farms are habitat destruction:

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3mo ago

In the UK, solar farms are becoming bird havens.

Filing this under: - thoughtful digital resource management - meaningful accessibility improvements - cool use of AI - really freaking awesome

JSTOR@jstor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today we’re introducing an on-demand remediation tool that creates accessible versions of articles when requested. When a user needs an accessible PDF, the system generates it with the structure required for screen readers & makes it available for future readers. Read more: https://bit.ly/4vOtZhB

is this the most helpful graphic on all of Wikipedia?

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

The European Union is tightening the regulatory backdoor through which US automakers have been quietly importing around 7k large SUVs and pickup trucks/year. “The revised rules, expected to launch in 2027, are designed to close loopholes that Brussels says allow unsafe vehicles onto European roads.”

Too big for Europe: America's pickup trucks became a trade war flashpoint - EUROPE SAYS

America loves its pickup trucks. The Ford F-150, the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, the Ram 1500: these are not merely vehicles. They are cultural monuments on

europesays.com

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

404media.co

March Madness bracket already busted? Good thing there’s FISH MADNESS. Cast your picks before the tournament begins on Monday: marypeltola.com/fish-madness

Fish Madness - Mary Peltola

FISH MADNESS FULL SCHEDULE MEET THE FISH 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. FISH MADNESS BRACKET Participate in the madness by filling out your own bracket below! Submissions will ...

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Camera angle of a coach’s wife: - weird - only vaguely sports-related - what are we supposed to be thinking? Camera angle of a player’s mom: - heartwarming - reminds us of the human angle - gives credit to the people who supported the players

“The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly…AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector & tech monopolists run amok.“ Read this article by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy. Whether you agree with it all or not, it’s important.

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

theguardian.com

Trump demanding control of Greenland—which the US already has access to—is based on multi-layered lies. Threatening NATO allies to get it undermines the Western alliance. I did a point-by-point breakdown of Trump's aggressive letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Støre about the Nobel and Greenland.

With Greenland Threats, Trump is Destroying the Western Alliance

A point-by-point breakdown of Donald Trump's aggressive letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre about a Nobel Peace Prize and control of Greenland

arcdigital.media

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

theguardian.com

Greenland could be the moment when EU becomes a geo-economic superpower. It has long had the economic might but lacked the political will. Today’s leaders meeting will be decisive.

Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“The EU's anti-coercion instrument is the bloc's most powerful retaliatory tool, designed to respond to deliberate coercive actions from third countries that use trade measures to pressure the policy choices of the EU or its members.”

Je suis triste de voir la fondation Wikimédia pousser à collaborer avec les enterprises AI qui l'ont déjà cannibalisée En même temps, la fondation va bénéficier de l'usage de leurs ressources (et peut-être les autres sites web peuvent suivre cet exemple)

Le Monde@lemonde.fr · 7mo ago

La fondation Wikimédia annonce des partenariats avec Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI et d’autres entreprises éditrices d’IA

The French Army just announced that it will be part of the military force that goes to Greenland Germany is also part of it, on top of Sweden If the US invades Greenland, it means that two NATO nuclear powers will be fighting against each other

La France va participer à une mission militaire européenne au Groenland

L'Allemagne aussi doit participer à cette mission, dont l'objectif est de soutenir le territoire menacé d'annexion par les Etats-Unis de Donald Trump.

franceinfo.fr

Simultaneously as 🇩🇰 delegation talks 🇬🇱 in Washington D.C., a 🇺🇸 P-8 Poseidon from Keflavik 🇮🇸 flies all Nordic mission, contributing to NATO’s most important task: keeping an eye on and deterring 🇷🇺 in northern Europe.

Omg they’re *so* close to correctly identifying systemic vs random violence

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Tricia McLaughlin on Renee Good: "I think if the individual was killed last week by an illegal alien, I don't think we would be seeing any protest."

How is 🇬🇧 challenging 🇷🇺 aggression in the Wider North? Read expert analysis by @klausdodds.bsky.social and Prof. Caroline Kennedy-Pipe in the full #geopoliticalatlas 🔗 www.geostrategy.org.uk/research/bri...

Woke up with the feeling that 2026 is going to be HUGE for @demsabroad.bsky.social

Democrats Abroad@demsabroad.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Take back Congress! 435 House Seats. 33 Senate seats. 36 Governorships & more are all up. Register each year to be eligible to vote in elections that year! On Jan 15, DA is launching our International Voter Registration Drive - 2026: Register, Vote. Win. #votefromabroad #bluewave #takebackcongress

“…[T]he ship was seized by special forces police and the coast guard from helicopters. Finland’s President… said that ‘Finland was prepared for security challenges of various kinds.’” The importance of a Finnish show-of-force in response to infrastructure sabotage probably can’t be overstated…

Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged | CNN

Finland has detained a ship and its crew after a critical undersea telecommunication cable connecting the country to Estonia was damaged Wednesday, Finnish authorities said.

edition.cnn.com

Incredibly, not one of these milestones scores as a “win” using the traffic engineering metrics that quietly dictate city planning. Urban planning prof Jonathan Levine and I have one paper detailing why and another explaining why it has to change for any vision of abundance to succeed. Links below.

Mark D. Levine@marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

ICYMI: "Americans and Britons believed that Canadians were natural experts on the North; Canadian military and civilian officials funded arctic science to make it so." - @tinaadcock.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/10/r... #envhist #histsci #militarhistory #cdnhist #bookreview

Review of Wiseman, Frontier Science

Military-funded Cold War research in northern Canada advanced defence aims, exploited Indigenous lands and peoples, and shaped misguided southern claims to Arctic expertise.

niche-canada.org

Rethinking my DMV experiences and realizing 90% of my interactions (in 3 states) have been good or very good and my only frustrations have been directly attributable to understaffing…

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

1. We have actual government healthcare in the US, which is the VA; it works better than our more privatized counterparts. 2. The DMV varies a lot, but many of them have really improved their services over time. The stereotype has incredible staying power.