James T. Harding

Engender blog | Engender launches report on women’s experience of the election process Engender’s new report ‘Women’s Political Journey’ explores the candidate journey—from preparing to stand as a candidate, including all the interview and vetting processes, to being elected and what ha...

New report by me, Rhianna, @talatyaqoob.bsky.social and @engenderscot.bsky.social‬ on women’s political journeys in Scotland and their experiences of becoming and being a candidate. It's not a pretty picture...

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Labour thinktank offers sponsorship packages to meet and influence ‘key policymakers’ Prospectus lists opportunities for businesses to meet MPs and ministers and ‘shape the discussion’, says report

It's the few doing the talking now, not the people. Labour had the opportunity to bring about real change but has enabled big business to dominate the agenda

Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago Neanderthals intensively processed a minimum of 172 large mammals for grease and marrow fat, 125,000 years ago.

So they found a 125,000 yr old Neanderthal fat rendering plant & I have thoughts.

Knowing that they loved saturated fat SO MUCH that they industrialized to get as much of it as humanly possible?

Makes me feel seen, heard, supported, etc www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It's frustrating how hard it is to have proper conversations about it over the din created by all the hype! My theory is the promoters think - and they may be right - that the more noise there is, the more it looks to investors like it's a real thing.

This is the week Scotland was forced to confront its role in slavery, and say: ‘Yes, that was us’ | Hannah Lavery Guardian revelations about Edinburgh University’s links to both the practice and theory of the evil trade must now provoke a national reckoning on race, says poet and playwright Hannah Lavery

"History is not settled. Our story is not finished. We are capable of confronting ourselves honestly and critically."

- Hannah Lavery (💚) in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There is 100% renewable energy generation in North Scotland right now

It’s like a parallel universe overlaid over Edinburgh… They get sucked in and can’t see the real city right in front of them.

There’s at least two bars on Leith Walk who’ve got a PBH space in them. Maybe more, but I haven’t been paying attention…

Urgh yeah, that’s right in the middle of the chaos

Developers could be making good software to make the world better. But no, instead we’ll have to work on mitigation strategies to stop data scraping making the Internet unusable.

I started routing my personal website though Cloudflare recently, so I’m getting analytics now. 2.08k requests in the last 24 hours… For a single-page developer portfolio 🤔

It seems an ill omen that Fringe flyering has spilled down onto Leith Walk

the emergency responders at chernobyl got paid in exposure

Nancy Meyers Reacts To ‘The Holiday’ Limited Series: “News To Me” Not quite the early Christmas surprise that Nancy Meyers was expecting, 'The Holiday' is getting a limited series reboot.

Hollywood is a sick and twisted business. Consider: Nancy Meyers only discovered her film THE HOLIDAY — which she dreamed up, wrote, and directed — is being rebooted into a TV series when she read about it online. Nobody involved thought to contact her.

“48.6% of children in the UK were living below MIS in 2022-23”

I WANT TO BELIEVE BELAUGH BELOVE

Climate change: new method can more accurately attribute environmental harm to individual polluters Claimants in climate liability cases will benefit from a new emissions attribution method.

"without emissions from 111 large oil, gas and coal producers (collectively referred to as “carbon majors”) such as ExxonMobil, BP, Saudi Aramco and Gazprom, the global economy would be US$28 trillion richer."

theconversation.com/climate-chan...

*outlines intensify* ?

I am in a regular one shot (or short season) group and confirm it’s true - you build up a cumulative sense of what players enjoy over time. And it’s easier to distinguish player habits from individual character’s habits.

(I’m not suggesting you find out)

What happens if you have a third?!

Being interesting as a person will sell 10X more books for you on social media than posting your Amazon link daily, one of the biggest sales inflection points of the last several years was a novella that blew up all over again because it came lovingly recommended by a guy called Bigolas Dickolas

If I forget a password I figure it's time to move on.

The fight for trans safety is a fight for everyone’s safety – MPs must have the chance to debate it | Freddy McConnell The supreme court has made a mockery of gender recognition. Our politicians must not allow the EHRC to further shatter trans lives, says journalist Freddy McConnell

Good article.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Updating CORS configurations always makes me feel like a maverick genius 💪

Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the Alphabet-owned video-sharing site and potentially setting up a legal challenge.

To be clear, for teenagers this is basically the equivalent of banning them from watching television or reading the news

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Palestine Action co-founder wins permission to challenge ban Huda Ammori argued that home secretary’s decision to proscribe group under terrorism laws was ‘abuse of power’

The co-founder of Palestine Action can bring a legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to ban the direct action group under anti-terrorism laws, a high court judge has ruled.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK to recognise state of Palestine in September unless Israel holds to ceasefire Cabinet agrees to support Middle East roadmap at emergency meeting called amid humanitarian crisis in Gaza

Recognition of Palestine is decades overdue, and should not be conditional.

Keir Starmer must immediately recognised the state of Palestine, call out the ongoing genocide, and stop aiding the Israeli military with training, weapons and intelligence.

Hear me out, guys, but what if laws were developed slowly, with ample democratic input, in order to make them effective before they come into force?

A group of handdrawn fish.

Why I 🧡 the web.

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Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟