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fine, here is one full hour of our cake cam with a lo-fi beats track for whatever

Digital natures in the AI-era News Article

🔊 New blog! AI is shaping how we picture #Rewilding 🌿. A new study finds it leans on charismatic species & pretty landscapes, ignoring people 👥 & ecological mess 💀. It's time for richer stories. @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

Congratulation to @thebikestation.bsky.social on winning the SSF Awards Transforming Lives Organisation of the Year!

Sponsored by the Commonwealth Sport Foundation:
For having used sport and physical activity innovatively and intentionally to change the lives of young people in the last year.

I hope you put that in your CV.

‘Treat us fairly’: skilled workers face having their dream of settling in UK snatched away As government mulls doubling requirement to 10 years, the uncertainty is putting many who came to Britain to work under strain

This government's proposals, particularly if implemented retrospectively, will have a devastating impact on people who have built lives, work, have families, here. We already know the financial and emotional toll of the existing system. This makes it so much worse
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an incredible distraction from present panic is historical panic! in sheep no less

A foreground asphalt two-way cycleway set in a paved area gives way to a wide square with trees, flanked by high buildings with a clear view to the jagged and sculptural forms of the towering Scott Monument, against a pale blue sky.

🚲 edi.bike | issue 134 | 2nd Mar '26

Wellbeing, Health, and Road Safety in On-Demand Delivery Work; Princes Street & George Street - Spokes Write to Transport Convener; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more:

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#bikeSky #edinburgh

Image shows various workers (Construction, barista, flight attendant, scientists). Text reads: Trans workers and allies: we want to hear from you. Read on to find out more.

Text reads: Recent court decisions have created a workers’ rights crisis for trans people. Help us push the government to change outdated regulations and keep workplaces inclusive.

Complete our survey today, so that we are able to challenge this Government to change the law and ensure all workers can go to work with safety and dignity.

Recent court decisions are making it increasingly difficult for trans and nonbinary people to go to work with dignity and privacy. Complete our Workers Survey to help us push the government to update the law and make trans inclusion possible again!
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Last year from January to June 471 people were killed or seriously injured on the roads in Birmingham, UK- and that was celebrated as an 18% reduction on the year before. Population is bigger than Brussels (9 deaths) but smaller than Berlin (55 deaths). We have so much further to go.

Triple-ply? Get you and your pampered posterior! 🧻 🍑

March 10, Kate Devlin (@drkatedevlin.bsky.social): "The Agreeable Machine"
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Loitering without intent: how taking aimless walks can create community and help you feel part of a city Walking together can be a powerful way to feel a sense of belonging in our environment.

"Opening up, sharing stories, making, holding, extending space walking together... is the opposite of planting a flag + claiming dominance" doi.org/10.64628/AB....

Out today @theconversation.com an intro to what I do + why @plutopress.bsky.social #TheFeministArtOfWalking #psychogeography #BookSky

Supernaturecultures. Folklorists from Ireland, Norway, Iceland & Scotland explore traditional ecological knowledge, encounter, & nature recovery in a more-than-human North Atlantic. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

Important question: do they get to eat the orange afterwards?🍊

Things going swingingly on the Water of Leith today

Are you interested in Shakespeare, streaming and accessibility? Tamar Knott, one of the wonderful research students I supervise is working on the accessibility of streamed performances of Shakespeare and is running a survey. Your help is very much appreciated york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Fight the power – in your pyjamas: the film about the day Glasgow kicked out immigration enforcers A neighbour in nightwear, a local imam, a schoolkid, the activist known as Van Man – they and many more stood firm. The director of a prize-winning film about the battle of Kenmure Street reveals how ...

Everybody to Kenmure Street premieres at the Glasgow film festival today

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

A group of walkers on a narrow singletrack through grassland.

Scotland's Budget will be approved today.

Then it's up to councils, national parks & public bodies to set their own budgets. We want investment in:

🥾 Paths to boost health & rural economies
🗺️ Frontline staff like rangers & access officers
⛰️ Making world-class access rights a daily reality for all!

Photo courtesy of Penistone Line Partnership showing a bustling Northern train carriage, with lots of people looking at maps and leaflets, drinking coffee and planning out their day trip. Taken during a Community Rail Week activity in 2024.

Accessible tourism matters.

By engaging & empowering communities, #CommunityRail helps to break down barriers & support more people to choose green, inclusive transport to access incredible landmarks, scenery & visitor attractions.

Discover more 👉 #AccessibleAdventures scenicrailbritain.com/about/

Restore Britain's language is not just racist it's now indistinguishable from Neo-Nazi groups.

A graphic advertising the Critical Mass ride on the 28th February

"Resilience is not loud. It is a plant pushing through debris, coral growing around plastic, a flower adapting to survive in altered soil. In reshaping discarded materials into botanical forms, I reflect nature’s quiet determination to endure, even within the landscapes we have changed."

Does seem to imply it's intrinsically unfair for rural populations to access electricity generated by a fossil fuel power station located near an urban centre. Only noone would make that claim! Because it's self-evidently silly.

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Your experiences of the NHS matter and they can drive real change. That’s why we’re asking for 10 minutes of your time to complete our Patient experience survey.

Take the survey: www.patients-association.org.uk/share-your-e...

#ResearchSurvey #PatientExperience

Worth noting his objection to no fault divorce. I worked a bit on the campaign for that, and one of the striking things with the scholarship was the evidence that demonstrated allowing it led to a drop in suicides of married women.

if you want to repost something, maybe use this one: bsky.app/profile/yjea... it's containing both the link to Play Store and to GitHub

If you're looking for the source of academia's leaky pipeline--it's not women's lack of commitment, it's the misogyny of men like this.

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

All patches of snow in Scotland disappear in 2025, for the fourth consecutive year No patches of snow survived on the hills of Scotland from the winter of 2024/2025 to the winter of 2025/2026.

In Scotland, no patches of snow from winter 2024/2025 survived to winter 2025/2026

- This is the fourth year in a row that all snow has completely disappeared

I miss snow

#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Remarkable continuity of service by Lothian Buses and its predecessors evidenced in this map. In 1960 I could get the 8, 9, 14 or 19 to town from my nearest stops, or walk to the end of the road and get the 21 or 27. Sixty-six years later I can get all the same buses from the same stops to town!