Steven Herd

Thank crunchie it's Friday 🫠

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I pitched this way back in October of last year, so over the moon that it finally made its way onto the airwaves last night 👇

Feel free to project your own metaphor...

Easing into the weekend like:

Mother of mercy - all six escalators functional and operating at Waverly Steps this morning. What a time to be alive.

Tonight's dining room disco 😙👌

We're at Westminster today for the launch of @awrc.bsky.social "Prevention Legacy for the NHS" report. Watch our colleague @davidleemedia.bsky.social quickfire explainer from this key event reshaping preventative healthcare in the NHS 👇

#PreventionLegacy #NHS #PublicHealth #PhysicalActivity

Build it here: Scotland's £321m opportunity in robotics manufacturing | FutureScot Scottish Government's £321 million supporting technologies including AI and robotics can transform Scotland's role in global robotics

Build it here: Scotland’s £321m opportunity in robotics manufacturing. Government commitment to emerging technologies such as AI and robotics can 'fundamentally transform' Scotland’s role in global robotics revolution, says National Robotarium CEO
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There's me thinking that battling pre-Christmas deadlines is tough, when it's my youngest who's really been in the wars this week...

It's been a hell of a week at HTR HQ - and I've loved every second of it.

Follow the money: What Scotland's latest budget tells us about power at Holyrood - Hot Tin Roof Neil Cuthbert from our public affairs partners at PA Cooperative breaks down what’s really happening in this year’s Scottish Budget. The budget has become a major set-piece of the year, particularly n...

What does a minority government, £21bn health spend & island tunnels tell us about the latest #ScottishBudget?

Our partners at PA Cooperative cut through the noise in this analysis of Holyrood's spending plans and potential parliamentary alignments.

🔗: www.hottinroof.co.uk/what-scotlan...

Jürgen Klopp’s former mansion tops Rightmove’s views list for 2024 Former Liverpool manager’s rented home fends off 27-bedroom Wytham Abbey as website’s most-viewed property

Moving to Red Bull and now this crushed-velvet hellscape. Man was a fraud all along.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

What the hell kind of nonsense is this. Even under the worst possible interpretation of events, I wouldn't give two fucks what she did when she was in her twenties.

Did not have Kirsty Wark taking down Gregg Wallace on my 2024 Bingo card.

Our house, is a very, very, very cold house 🥶

Nothing more damning than the quote marks that Hansard have put around Kemi Badenoch's biscuit puns.

Scottish Budget: Who will broker a deal with the SNP government? With the Scottish Government’s budget about to be published, party politics is as high on the agenda as spending priorit...

You can read a little primer on next week's budget on this week's @holyroodmag.bsky.social

www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

A map of the US colour coded to show each state's main trading partner. 45 of the 50 states have a main trading partner as one of China, Canada or Mexico.

Trump has announced new, blanket tariffs on all imports from China, Canada and Mexico on his first day in office.

Here is the main trading partner of every US state.

I'm sure everything will be fine.

(Source: Andy Kiersz, Business Insider using data from US Census Bureau, 2015)

Robotics in 2025: The key developments set to transform industry and society - The Engineer Dr Ingo Keller shares expert insights on the developments that can be expected in robotics over the next 12 months.

"The UK continues to lag behind its G7 counterparts in robotics adoption... This gap between potential and reality makes 2025 a crucial year."

www.theengineer.co.uk/content/opin...

Pages and pages of people frothing about Jaguar's re-brand. Will car brands even matter if the future is self-driving cars? Do you know, or care, who manufactured the last bus you sat on?

You don't half get about Paul! Added to my watchlist for this weekend 👀

Can confirm the quick fire 'speak to the press' game is anxiety-inducing.

There's something I need people to understand.

The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad.

The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.

“You will see content from the people you follow” being a big thing to announce really shows how these morons came and destroyed everything good about the internet.

My eldest keeps telling me I need to remember to take more photos when out and about for work, so here, have a robot 🤖

Help to save households money and deliver cleaner heat to homes Up to 300,000 homes to benefit from upgrades next year, as government continues rollout of the Warm Homes Plan.

Big news on heat pumps from the UK govt this morning: the 1 metre planning rule is to be abolished!

Big credit to my colleagues @katyking2.bsky.social and @codrinacretu.bsky.social who did so much work on this

www.gov.uk/government/n...

I think you might find that title belongs to The Seekers...

New spinout Trogenix unveils revolutionary cancer treatment platform New University of Edinburgh spinout Trogenix has unveiled a novel technology platform that achieves unprecedented precision in targeting aggressive cancers, starting with brain cancer.

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BBC's Glenn Campbell: The reality of my life with a brain tumour BBC Scotland's political editor was diagnosed with an incurable cancer after having a seizure.

Glenn's doc goes out the same week researchers in Edinburgh think they've found a 'curative response' for glioblastoma - which took my own dad.

Would be amazing to live in a world where families like Glenn's and mine didn't have to experience such a brutal disease.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...