The ebook version of Nicola Sturgeon's memoir "Frankly" is 99p today on Kobo and Kindle. Needs an extra chapter already.

#ScotPol #SNP #NicolaSturgeon

https://mastodon.scot/@tompearce49/117019845168876577

Even as an office-based employee, when I worked for a railway company I had to pass a mandatory drug and alcohol test as part of my induction. Any employee suspected of being under the influence while on duty could be sent for testing and would be dismissed if the test came back positive. MPs should absolutely be held to similar standards.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/768899

#UKPol

RE: https://mstdn.social/@markhburton/117002678234405825

New Bain Principle just dropped.

#UKPol

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@ketan/117001974244089760

This is so on the nose it almost makes me think someone at The Times is genuinely trying to get a message across.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@BenRiceM/116980424345560765

Incredible thread. Jaw-dropping.

#Palestine #Ulm5

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/

This poll was in the news this morning and I found the result interesting, so I thought I'd ask here. So, fedi...

If you had a choice between instantly receiving £50,000 or a 50% chance to win £1m, which would you pick?

The legendary @brianbilston's latest book, "How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside" is currently 99p on Kindle and Kobo in the UK. Probably today only.

#poetry #ebook

You cannot vote Labour, Tory, Reform or SNP and claim to have any concern about climate and environmental issues. All four parties are in favour of new fossil fuel extraction.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c935yx2z9d4o

#UKPol

"When it was announced in January, the government promised that an £8.2bn AI datacentre complex in Lanarkshire [...] would be powered entirely from on-site renewables.

"The Guardian obtained internal correspondence showing that the government and the site’s developers [...] were privately acknowledging that the site had an 'issue' with 'power provision' and that this would not happen."

The SNP now just another party that kowtows to corporate interests.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/06/lanarkshire-scotland-ai-datacentre-project-renewable-energy

#ScotPol

Which would you rather have - a phone with government-mandated, AI-powered, closed source photo scanning software running constantly as a background process, or a phone with no camera?

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0vw7lz574o

I can't post this, but I simultaneously can't not post this. Jeff from The Dragon's Tomb, a board game YouTube channel, was somehow sent a $2000 AI sex doll to review. So he did. The highest compliment I can give this video is that it gets both worse and better the longer it goes on.

Tentatively tagging #boardgames.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhJWvt6MB5A

"plus The average Euro to British Pound exchange rate for the last six months was approximately 1 Euro = 0.8695 pence so for every £1000 savings we would lose £140."

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/771026

When eating a meal with one copious resource (say, pasta pieces) and one limited resource (say, meatballs), I tend to start allocating pasta to meatballs towards the end of my dinner to ensure there's a consistent ratio and thus I don't run out of either before I finish.

Do you also do this?

It's just struck me again how preposterous it is that a bunch of poor people are being told to blame and attack a bunch of other poor people, by a man who is himself sitting on nearly a trillion dollars.

I don't want to be one of those people who pooh-poohs every attempt to effect change, but does anyone else see online petitions as 99% data gathering exercises?

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