cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 14hAs Halloween approaches I remember as a child being in my neighbours shed with a sharp knife and a seemingly endless supply of turnips. Those were the days 000
cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Its a blessing not to be rich, can you imagine being as terrified of taxation as these billionaires are 000
cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Isnt it comforting that the UK is full of US bases all commanded by an idiot who's obviously in Putin's pocket 000
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Meanwhile in the UK. Was. "Let's make our universities financially dependent on overseas students." Then. "Let's make overseas students feel increasingly unwelcome." Now. "Screw that, let's just withdraw our offers so they don't come in the first place." Next. "Who needs universities anyway?"ft.comUK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket banPullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026 1016181
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump wants the US to fund Putin’s evil regime. 31261912381
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialButlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf 10165782560
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialAnise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Why parents make great scientists: Because they recognize that "Lauren errors" happen all the time. 622184
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialErica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence 5456991753
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We're back, baby - this month's free newsletter features a reminder to get to the blackberries before the púca does, why black cats are useful for fungal infections, and Dublin's 17th century "bisexual witch" - for more of the nonsense below, sign up for the next one: www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter 17918
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialLiberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026NEW: Liberty Investigates and The Guardian discover British Transport Police’s initial six-month trial of live facial recognition tech in London’s railway stations: - cost more than £320,000 - took nearly 100 hours of police time - resulted in no arrests www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comTrial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with a false positive and no arrestsFreedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert 24042
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialPeter Ritchie @peterritchie.com · 24/09/2026TIL there is a Trump Ave in Ottawa Canada, named after donald trump about 20 years ago. And yesterday the city decided to rename it after residents of the street decided they didn't want to live on a street by that name. 044
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialEsther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Totally true 083
cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Reform storm out of the Scottish Parliament because they couldnt find any brown people to blame the independence debate on 000
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Precisely this—the power attributed to technology makes it incredibly useful for laundering responsibility 12538182
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059872392
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialCharles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now 5145171509
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialHannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Reform UK MSP David Smith asks the First Minister about whether the Scottish Government would consider imposing restrictions on Muslim women wearing the burqa in Scotland. John Swinney's response is spot on. #FMQs 714358
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialEleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I set up a donation a couple of years ago out of pure spite. Do it. 416138
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialMollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Picking on the RNLI and thinking you are the good guys is such a great example of what is presumably an irreversible brain rot, like if you opened up the bonnet on those heads it would be like when a peach has gone too mushy to be saved 121035180
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary' 9259891593
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialMax Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026These snivelling cowards. Canadians will not forget that America treated Putin's Russia like its best friend and us like an enemy. Ever. 921199427
cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026So the lesson from events in Dover to all the Climate Change activists and Palestine solidarity protesters labelled as terrorists or arrested - you should have cosplayed as paramilitaries 000
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialMark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...carbonbrief.orgAnalysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon BriefChina’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis. 24372782518
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialPicture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Red card issued to fans at the 1988 Scottish Cup final. 546383
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Nigel Farage resigns when he shouldn't, but doesn't resign when he should. 432628534
cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 01/09/2026So Starmer was just in the commons as a tourist after all 000
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialSusan🏴🇨🇦🥊🐶 @bellwhitworth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Even better with Alt Text! 👍🏼 24218
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialFT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are. 99268026331
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialCanadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea) 293121274196
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialCanadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Lake Ontario's name comes from the Wyandot word Ontarí'io, which is typically translated as "beautiful lake". The Kanienʼkéha called it Katarokwi. Samuel de Champlain called it Lac de St. Louis. The name Lacus Ontario was first recorded in 1660 by Francis Creuxius. 812679824
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialNatalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today 14487264
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialDavenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Battersea Power Station in 1936 by Bill Brandt, from his famous series of night photographs of London which were inspired by Brassaï's night photos of Paris. This is a masterpiece. 537595
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 17/08/2026100% #BookSky 223149523615
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialJC Darcy @jcdarcy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026White folk don't appreciate how pervasive and insidious comments like these are. We're able to 'forget' about racism, only deal with it when we feel like it. POC don't have that luxury. 14116
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialDr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This, alone, tells you everything you need to know about Nigel Farage's incompetence. 710317
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialLee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...newrepublic.comAmazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire CountryAmazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus. 77987355645
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialAlan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026We've survived the entirety of human history without data centres. We can't survive more than a few days without clean drinking water. 3443135
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialPatricia Aas 🐢🏳️🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026🤷🏻♀️static.klipy.comGreen Eggs and Ham: I Told You SoAlt: Green Eggs and Ham: I Told You So 14527
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialPatricia Aas 🐢🏳️🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Me earlier today: One of the things I hate the most about AI is how it makes people think that laws, rules, standards and common courtesy don’t apply to them anymore. They are shameless. Literally. They feel no shame for the absolute crap they produce. They shrug their shitty work off. 13510
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialRhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Just saw someone post re: Emily Wilson "is this the most discourse ever caused by a translator?", and felt the misty ghost of James "Ossian" Macpherson rise enraged from a pool in Morvern 519840
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialorbette @orbette.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Yes. But that doesn't mean we're wrong. 517836
cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Burnham's appointment of Anas Sarwar is interesting. Why does he need a consultant on how to lose elections? 000
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialMáirtin Ó’Caoiṁ (O’Keeffe) @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Someone at a senior level in UK government needs to very publicly tell the US it is none of their business who the UK PM appoints. 1561301296
Reposted by @cscaim.bsky.socialJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 20/07/2026His mother, María Arthuer, crossed the Sahara Desert barefoot in 1994. She climbed over Melilla’s border fence penniless and pregnant with Iñaki. Today, her son is a world champion. #respect 19924303
cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Does anyone at FIFA actually like football? They seem to do everything in their power to change it into something else 000
cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 17/07/2026A former boss of mine once confessed that attending a reception in company with some West Indian cricketers she tried to start a conversation with a man she met with "And are you involved with cricket too?" The man was Sir Garfield Sobers 000
cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Data Centers are they worth fouling up the climate and smashing local communities so that some overrated software can recommend things I've no interest in to me? 000
cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 11/07/2026We can ignore the North American circus. There's an afternoon packed with Scottish League Cup fixtures - real footbll 011