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Indeed but if your transporting it from where it was used to where it will be stored in a safe manner, that would be a good reason defence under the law.

No need to be cautioned to say that you had advice on not to be a numpty about the law in that case.

A white van parked in a street, a large long parcel is on the dash obscuring half the windscreen.

Here is a fun one from today, yes he did drive the van like that...

I was alright at the time, I swore loudly hence the muted footage and then laughed as the lady in the gray car at the next entrance was doing an impression of Edvard Munch The Scream towards me.

I went and had some zen time trying to get better at identifying Bees to relax.

A black old-fashioned upright style bike know as an Omafiets or Granny bike.

Needs more Omafiets!

Three images the top one is of cars with exhaust fumes in the middle of an EV charger and the bottom is a cargo bike. The text follows the format to the meme “they sell us poison so we buy their cures while they suppress our medicine” Bikesky

Here's the worst from last week. This driver will eventually hurt themselves or god forbid someone innocent with their criminal behaviour. With no portal and practically zero enforcement from @policescotland.bsky.social nothing will be done to prevent that. #DNRPoliceScotland

To be fair to Police Scotland, as well as being terrible at actually keeping the roads safe, they haven't really had an increase in strength with current numbers being that of around 2008 and 1k below the 2013 peak sitting at 16,553 officers on March 31, 2025.

How he was carrying it is the issue not why. If he was stopped with it in a bag while travelling to or from the allotment, that would be fine under the law.
Also the kilt wouldn't work as a Hori Hori is about 3 times as long as a Sgian-dubh. That's going to be make your sock fall down

Yup, my commute is only 20 mins each way and I see an average of perhaps 8 offences of varying severity each day. Better things to do with my time.

I need to go through my recent footage for my #DNRPoliceScotland

Does this guy have a fetish for being publicly embarrassed?

Ignorance of the law isn't a defence and you have to be a numpty to think waking around with an 11 inch blade in public is not going to make people twitchy.

'Edinburgh mental health cuts will cost more than they save' Threatened cuts to Edinburgh's mental health services will cost more than they save, health bosses have been warned.

The proposed cuts to mental health services are not just ill thought through, they are self defeating. Early intervention & prevention services are being cut with decision makers and officers not realising that they will just make the situation worse.

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

A pal in mental health services in the NHS is appalled by these cuts too - he says the NHS services won't be able to cope with the number of new referrals and will lose an important referral pathway for effective treatments

As someone who is supported by these services The uncertainty about if it will be still there has taken its toll on people's mental health.

The NHS isn't coping even before these cuts. Seeing a professional without being in crisis is >year wait & that's assuming they will even put you on the list.

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The nuclear road not taken—and its consequences 80 years after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki "That the Manhattan Project continued into 1945 is central to the tragedy of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. But also tragic is the multigenerational harm that nuclear weapons production, testing, and cleanup have inflicted across the world—to this very day."

The nuclear era started 80 years ago with the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and has continued to harm generations of people across the world to this very day.

But there was another way, writes Arjun Makhijani.

CCC: Reducing emissions 87% by 2040 would help ‘cut household costs by £1,400’ - Carbon Brief The UK should cut its emissions to 87% below 1990 levels by 2040 under its...

But the they say the costs of net zero are too much to bare.

In reality it's less than 0.2% GDP cost for the transition.

For comparison the effective fossil fuel subsidies is around 2.3% GDP still...

U.S. socked with 15 billion-dollar weather disasters during the 1st half of 2025 » Yale Climate Connections Four of the top 20 costliest weather disasters have occurred in the last year.

“Insured inflation-adjusted losses globally from weather-related disasters in 2025 were the highest on record for the first half of a year: $81 billion. The previous record was $75 billion, set in 2024.”

This study found that the law requiring UK drivers to give way to pedestrians crossing side roads is broken twice as often as it is observed. Drivers will not be held collectively responsible for this and it is likely that minimal, if any, action will be taken.

SNP handling of Flamingo Land appeal 'appears unlawful' as scrutiny mounts The Scottish Government is facing questions over its conduct in the ongoing appeal over controversial plans to build a holiday resort in Loch Lomond.

Documents created weeks after the date written on them and the official who previously approved the application being reappointed to lead this new process. The Scottish Government's handling of the Flamingo Land application is becoming deeply concerning.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

Last government made this sort of protest illegal in the UK and Labour aren't making any moves to remove the restrictive protest laws.

It's just been upgraded to Amber for Scotland.

A frog standing up facing away. It looks like a circle with a great dumper.

Al Pacino bellowing “She’s got a great ass!” in Heat

In 1984 the junction is dominated by parked cars, today all car parking has been removed, replaced by greenery and seating. An empty plot of land has had a block of flats built on it

Daniël Stalpertstraat, Amsterdam in 1984 and today

I mainly joke but some people don't get the satire bit of the Warhammer 40k universe though it's got rather subtle of late.

How novel, someone actually getting planning permission rather than just covering the front garden in asphalt.

But that's space fascists!

I would, more broadly, love to read something on why women are seemingly the ones with all the hobbies - it strikes me once in a while but noticed it most recently in my film camera shop, where *every single customer* was a woman, when film photography doesn't strike me as especially female coded

And he was right on both counts.

YouTube video by SWFT Andor: The Great Dictator Speech

Goes rather well together.