Rupe Nash

Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway….

📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

A group of people holding Vote Green posters gathered in front of a mid-century civic building with a tree in between

Getting the weekend off to a Green start with some campaigning around Musselburgh. Heard concerns about cost of living, health services, the energy transition and safe cycling infrastructure. #VoteGreen for a Holyrood that will take action on all these things!

BREAKING NEWS!
Edinburgh City Council Committee REJECT the application for a 210MW Data Centre at Edinburgh Gyle
This was refused on the ground of:
Contrary to NPF4 policy 1 - as it does not address the climate crisis
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People gathered round a statue holding a Vote Scottish Greens poster

Great day speaking to voters around Dunbar high street yesterday. We need more MSPs who will speak up for Palestine and take action to tax the rich so we can tackle the cost of living and fund a just transition. #VoteGreen

There might be good reasons for Britain to build data centres. Job creation isn’t one of them Estimate*estimate

The UK Government has often repeated Big Tech's claims that data centres will create thousands of local jobs. Those claims don't stack up at all. www.ft.com/content/1a48...

My inner cynic says they will approve the Sheriffhall flyover just before purdah begins

Extra lane proposed as 'interim solution' at Sheriffhall roundabout Transport bosses are being urged to create an extra lane on the approach to Edinburgh's Sheriffhall roundabout in a bid to ease congestion while the wait goes on for a full upgrade.

Will MSPs please just do a tiny bit of reading around a subject before spouting nonsense. I know there's an election coming but the fact remains that increasing capacity creates congestion rather than reduce it. (Sustainable) alternatives are available.
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

#ClimateChangePlan: good on #transport?

"The answer is NO"

Prof @2760.bsky.social
-> web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/parl...

We agree-> www.spokes.org.uk/wp-content/u...

@michaelmatheson.bsky.social @monicalennon.bsky.social @markruskell.bsky.social @bobdorissnp.bsky.social @kevinstewartsnp.bsky.social

Press release: UK Government admits "serious error" in forcing through hyperscale data centre without environmental protections This is the first time the UK government has admitted its decision to force through a new hyperscale data centre was wrong. It's a big win.

Big news today as UK Government concedes in data centre court case.

“It shouldn’t take us having to drag the Government to court for them to admit their decision to back Big Tech’s polluting data centres was fundamentally wrong," says Foxglove's Rosa Curling: www.foxglove.org.uk/2026/01/22/u...

Accurate

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Yup, we definitely need a fleet of these in Edinburgh... 😉

Too big for our streets: the harms of SUV use in Scottish cities - Transform Scotland Professor of Transport & Health at Napier University, Dr Adrian Davis, writes for Transform Scotland. “SUVs are now one of the biggest emerging threats to road safety in Scottish cities.”...

🚦 It’s Road Safety Week, and like many of you, we’ve been thinking about what it feels like to move through our cities, whether that's walking kids to school, cycling to work, or just trying to cross the road.

Kids were playing on those bollards on Friday while we were waiting for my auntie 😱

'Obscene' pay of uni fatcat bosses targeted in new proposals before MSPs Greens co-leader Ross Greer has tabled amendments to a Scottish Government Bill to curb the earnings of top execs at universities and colleges.

The principal of Edinburgh Uni earns around £420,000 a year. This week his staff were on strike over the threat of redundancies.

It's time we got the pay of uni and college bosses back under control. MSPs can back my plans to do that on Wednesday.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...

Great turnout at the Edinburgh UCU rally at parliament to demand an end to the University of Edinburgh management reckless budget cuts and redundancies!

#StopStaffCutsatUoE @ucu.org.uk

A letter written to the principal of the University of Edinburgh, from Lorna Slater MSP

I want to extend my full support to staff threatened with compulsory redundancy at the University of Edinburgh.

I have today written to the Principal imploring him to change direction.

RALLY TOMORROW!

Join the fightback against job cuts!
Wednesday 19th November at 1pm at the
Scottish parliament.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

The official home of the Python Programming Language

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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ASHP doing the hot water and battery charging up for the rest of the day

Driverless taxis in London must be bike safe American company Waymo has revealed it is aiming to trial driverless taxis in London next year. Cycling UK Policy Manager Jim Densham examines whether the Waymo trial is the way to go or if we should ...

🤖 Would you trust a driverless taxi to spot you while you’re cycling?

Waymo plans to bring autonomous taxis to London by 2026, but are our streets ready for robot cars?

👉 cyclinguk.org/driverless-taxis

Their transport assessment suggests the scheme will reduce journey times across the area by 0.1% (table 12) - wow amazing value! And of course we will see induced demand. They estimate this at 0.7% increase in traffic on opening and 0.9% in 2045🤨

Giant data centre could use as much power as every home in Glasgow and Edinburgh Edinburgh Council has said the developer will not have to submit an environmental impact assessment, sparking concerns data centres are avoiding scrutiny from planners

One planned data centre in Edinburgh will have emissions equivalent to the city's airport, but the council says no environmental impact assessment is needed:
inews.co.uk/news/data-ce...

Holyrood 2026 - Get Involved! 19:30 to 21:00 on 9 October; Let's Get Started Meeting for South Edinburgh in the Eric Liddell Centre. 13:00 to 14:00 on 12 October; Edinburgh Candidates Launch at the Pavilion Cafe, followed by canvassing. 19:00 to 20:30 on 22 October; Let's Get Started Meeting for South East Edinburgh in Nelson Hall. More info at edinburgh.greens.scot/events-calendar/

Come along as we get started on the campaign for the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections!

We're holding open meetings over the coming weeks for anyone who wants to get more Greens elected at Holyrood.

See our events calendar for more details & upcoming dates: edinburgh.greens.scot/events-calendar/

My grandfather (R. J. Pumphrey) and great-grandfather (W. H. Mills) were both FRSes. As they are no longer in a position to tell us what they think, I exhort @royalsociety.org to do what I like to think my illustrious ancestors would have wanted: boot Musk's sorry arse out.

Tracing sources of funds used to lobby the US government about carbon capture, use, and storage Analysis of U.S. federal lobbying disclosures from 2005 through 2024 identifies the fossil fuel sector as the primary force behind a multipronged $954…

New peer-reviewed paper documents massive lobbying by big oil & gas over 20 yrs to promote carbon, capture & storage, spending almost $1 Billion. CCS is a scam.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Scottish Government has finally accepted the Scottish Greens proposal to end all public funding for Israel's arms dealers.

Israel is committing a genocide in Palestine.

Scotland must play our part in ending this atrocity, not bankroll it by handing public cash to the arms dealers

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

>40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study

Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage

Sign & share ⏬️

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I was assaulted this morning by the driver o a wee white van that had a fitness/health/training company livery. Knocked me off my bike and punched me tae the groond.

Happened halfway up Carberry hill fae the Inveresk/whitecraig roundabout.

These firms tend be be local so would appreciate...