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Including the Caledonian Railway corridor to Granton…? 😈

A great illustration of why far too many politicians and government/public services (and news media, NGOs, etc) •still• being addicted to the (by now, very obviously) foul cesspit of untruths and fake accounts that is X really is a quite considerable problem…

#xparrot #xodus #XtricateYourselves

“As for our own country, we now have fewer committed friends than once we had. We need to remedy that” Sir John Major, Former Prime Minister

Sir John Major warns that Britain’s friendships have dwindled, a clear rebuke of the damage caused by Brexit isolationism. Once a trusted voice in Europe, Britain now stands more alone, its influence diminished and its allies less sure of its direction.

The SNP introduced free tuition and we will always ensure Scottish students do not pay tuition fees.

Meanwhile in England, students pay over £9,500 a year and Labour will put fees up every year.

Education must always be based on the ability to learn, not the ability to pay.

"Can you just imagine the sight of Prime Minister Farage with the data of the nation at his fingertips, with all of his authoritarian tendencies..."

SNP MP @petewishart.bsky.social speaks out against digital ID.

Accepting US car standards would risk European lives, warn cities and… European cities and civil society groups have warned that accepting lower US car standards will see more dangerous vehicles flood into Europe

EU vehicle safety regulations have supported a 36% reduction in European road deaths since 2010, while road deaths in the US over the same period increased 30%.

Aligning EU standards with laxer US rules would undermine the EU’s global leadership in road safety.

Read the letter 👇

Edinburgh #citybike scheme area to expand into Leith from end of October.

This is welcome news, as the initial area was of very little practical use. But disappointing that very obvious trip destinations such as Cameron Toll, King’s Buildings, Morningside and all of Marchmont, including Warrender Swim Centre, still won’t be served. 😕

One angry colleague told the Courier, which first reported on the row: “It’s absolutely disgusting. They’re saying he’s not a suitable candidate because his books are too sexy and satanic.

(For those who do not have Scottish politics brain worms, this is the same ward as is represented by Labour's Altany Craik, whose exclusion from selection for the Westminster seat resulted in one of the funniest anonymous briefings I have ever seen in the papers)

Ah… I did think that was a somewhat •unusual• turn of phrase on your part! 😳

We’ve received a lot of questions about Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing.

Here’s how the process is supposed to work:

bsky.app/profile/euro...

#Scotland showing that the desire to #RejoinOurEU is still as strong as ever! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

@terryreintke.bsky.social @greens-efa.eu

Scottish pro-EU organisation launches Brussels group Presse Release: First President of European Movement in Scotland Brussels is leading Scottish legal figure

Bonds strengthen between Europe and Scotland as new pro-EU group launched.
bylines.scot/news/scotlan...

The creation of the European Movement in Scotland (EMiS) Brussels group is an important step in rekindling the existing friendship between Scotland and the EU and in emphasising Scotland's desire to #RejoinOurEU. #LeaveALightOn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

If you liked it, then you shoulda put a dring-dring on it… 🥰

@coolbikeart1.bsky.social

Lord Hammond concedes that Britain left the EU imagining it could stand alone in a stable global system, yet now faces a world of tariffs and political interference, a mid-sized economy adrift outside any major bloc and far less prepared for the consequences than those who sold Brexit ever admitted.

Photo of a woman wearing a scarf riding a bicycle.

Angela Lansbury as Murder, She Wrote's Jessica Fletcher, a mystery writer who got to the bottom of every crime she came across - and whose favorite mode of transport was the bicycle.

#BicycleBirthday Angela Lansbury
October 16 (1925-2022)

But it’s the only “usable” measurement we have for “how big will it appear”, although, yes, you need to take account of 2× size needed for “retina”-type displays (still smaller than an unscaled full image, though). (mm wouldn’t really work as that’s print-based and varies depending on, urgh, DPI).

A new tram route in Edinburgh? The proposed expansion would connect Granton, the city centre and the BioQuarter - and we'd like your views.

The consultation is open until 17 November. Visit our consultation hub to read the proposals and have your say consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/tram-nor...

While Edinburgh is far too practised at “all talk, little action”, to be fair, it has had higher parking permit prices for more polluting / larger engined vehicles for several years, which overlaps with this to some extent. Hopefully it will follow Cardiff here!

www.edinburgh.gov.uk/parking-perm...

It is useful, but it’s only half the job. It should give resize options in px as well, so that you can tell how big the resized image would be on screen, so that you can pick the appropriate size.

That’s a pretty impressive figure! 🙂

We all know that the USA is a really horrifically car-centric country overall, but, to their credit, they do have many cities where their public transport is among the best 🫡

The obvious sensible move, therefore, would be to start making plans towards #RejoinSingleMarket, but will the mediocre current incarnation of what was once the Labour Party actually do it? Sadly, I doubt it…

Starmer and Streeting break silence on Brexit’s damage We're the UK's largest pro-European movement. Our goal is to reverse the calamity of Brexit and restore relations with our European neighbours.

For the first time in years, senior Labour figures are saying it plainly.

Wes Streeting: “I’m glad that Brexit is a problem whose name we now dare speak.”
Keir Starmer: “They lied to this country, unleashed chaos, and walked away after Brexit.”

The silence is breaking. The damage is undeniable.

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

Ofcom's latest proposals would mean that:

🔴 Lawful activism could be censored as it happens
🔴 Content about Palestine may auto-delete from your feeds
🔴 The police can clampdown on protest online

With proactive scanning of content, censorship under the Online Safety Act is potentially boundless.

Online Safety Act consultation : Threat to protest and political content The Online Safety Act The Online Safety Act (OSA) has given Ofcom powers over what we say, see and do online. Services have to comply with a large set of complicated rules and regulations. They risk…

Don't let activism blink out of sight!

Ofcom wants all social posts to be scanned for 'illegal' content before they appear in our feeds.

And the AI doing it will go OTT. Posts about protest could get removed or suppressed.

Say no to more censorship ⬇️

action.openrightsgroup.org/online-safet...

Those films scared me as a kid way back then (which was the whole point of course, to half-terrify you into not doing stupid dangerous things, and to very vividly strike the message into you, so that you would remember), and they still do even now! 💀

Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.