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Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Not in the Epstein files. reFUweegie from X & ♾ Free 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

Open source tools can help track every stage of a wildfire, from the first reports through to assessing the damage once the flames are out. Throughout July, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service helped researchers monitor how wildfire smoke spread across Canada and the US.

A few of the pollinators in our wildflowers today. Not confident with my ID so feel free to correct me. Location: Central Scotland Red Tail bumblebee Bumblebee Brown Carder Bee Unsure if the one on Borage is bee or fly Hoverfly (E.Interrupter ??) Maybe leaf cutter bee? #bee #bumblebee #beeID

Bees and hover flies on flowers - 6 separate species shown

There's no avoiding the conclusion, however much dust the UK government throws into the air. By providing weapons, rhetorical and diplomatic support to the Israeli government as it has committed genocide in #Gaza, Keir Starmer and his ministers *are* complicit in this great crime.

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

What the Palestine Action appeal decision tells us about terrorism law

An already broad law is now matched with broad ministerial powers

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“proximity gap between the people experiencing harm and the people who can take action to end that harm” Exactly this.The lack of proximity & lived experience makes their perspectives & messaging miss the mark. The far right are connecting with that reality & selling them a lie as a solution.

Neil Mackay@neilmackay.bsky.social · last mo.

It says much about these divided times that an organisation like the Citizens Advice service, a byword for old-fashioned kindness & decency, has decided it must now fight the far-right in our poorest communities to stop the demonisation tearing society apart My @heraldscotland.bsky.social long read

"I thought I had seen it all in Boston and now GOOSEY LUCY! Tartan Army foot soldier here just casually helping the geese over the road! Nae bother. Give her a medal! Or the freedom of Boston? Someone must know her? Love it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🎥 @stephen.mccranor 👏"

There is is no better symbol for this Age of Stupid than Elon Musk as the world’s first trillionaire He’s an extremist devoid of empathy or personality whose destruction of America’s aid system killed millions. Yet we make him a living god. History will damn this era In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Elon Musk as the world’s first trillionaire defines this Age of Stupid

Even if Elon Musk wasn’t Elon Musk, even if Elon Musk was a good and noble man, even if Elon Musk was a planetary exemplar of decency and…

heraldscotland.com