Reposted by Rupe NashIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This tech is based on stolen labor, then I reject it. This tech intensifies racism, sexism, and class exploitation, then I reject it. This tech exploits workers in the Global South, then I reject it. This tech exacerbates env & climate problems, then I reject it. All these rationales are valid! 222664
Reposted by Rupe NashThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... 321420631
Reposted by Rupe NashAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...justgiving.comHelp raise £70000 to Save Parton Kirk – JustGiving CrowdfundingIʼm raising money to Save Parton Kirk. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page. 14278201
Reposted by Rupe NashEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This sign is a great example for helping to explain why chatbots present such a potent illusion. A probably not short thread 🧵>> 10461190
Reposted by Rupe NashJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Unfettered access to chatbots can harm educational outcomes Using AI while solving problems improves performance by 48% (GPT base). When access to AI was taken away, students actually performed worse than those who never had access (17% reduction in grades) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 8250103
Reposted by Rupe NashSeverin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Hats off to @privateeyenews.bsky.social a new guide to all those untapped oil fields 410241
Reposted by Rupe NashMothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 22/06/2026The right wing media do its best to portray me as something that I'm not, much of which has racist undertones. The Daily mail have now apologised to me. More apologies to come... 727090
Reposted by Rupe NashShona McIntosh (she/her) @shona-mcintosh.bsky.social · 08/06/2026North Berwick motorised traffic is apparently massively down since the machines went live so might I suggest this week is a great time to cycle there (or use public transport!) and spend some time and money in the local businesses. Would help provide the economic case for pedestrianisation 🚶🏾♀️🚶♂️👩🏽🦽☕️ 4123
Reposted by Rupe NashGerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Laura Kuenssberg and Chris Mason of the #BBC finally defect to Farage's Reform. From #PrivateEye. 03921
Reposted by Rupe NashThomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 13/05/2026We are implementing a similar policy at @arxiv.bsky.social. If there is incontrovertible evidence of LLM slop in a paper, this means the authors did not take the time to read the LLM output and we can't trust anything else in the paper. Penalty is 1 year ban from arXiv followed by... 15412139
Reposted by Rupe NashBallot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 12/05/2026There absolutely should be sackings at the Electoral Commission over this. A fake party that does no campaigning, will have spent £0, and whose own holocaust denying leader acknowledged is only there to confuse voters, came 7th, only explainable if it did indeed confuse voters. 17331136
Rupe Nash @rupenash.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Doing the d’Hondt calculations shows that if 869 (35%) of the IGV votes in the Mid Scot & Fife region were meant to go to SGP then the Greens would have a second MSP. Given the lack of campaign from IGV and anecdotes of confusion this seems likely to me. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...docs.google.comRegionalListCalculator2026 000
Reposted by Rupe NashAbbi Garton-Crosbie @agcreports.bsky.social · 11/05/2026🗣️Did you vote for Independent Green Voice when you meant to vote for the Scottish Greens? I'm keen to chat to voters who think they - or someone they know - may have been confused by this at the ballot box. Hit me up in DMs or abbi.garton@thenational.scot @scotnational.bsky.social 235
Reposted by Rupe NashBallot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 08/05/2026East Lothian Coast and Lammermuirs (Edinburgh & Lothians East) Regional List Vote (vs 2021 notional): LAB: 8000 (22.4%, -0.4) SNP: 7520 (21%, -11.8) CON: 5489 (15.4%, -12.1) GRN: 5409 (15.1%, +6.1) RUK: 4702 (13.2%, +13) LD: 2805 (7.8%, +4) OTHx16: 1827 (5.1%) Valid Turnout: 59.8% Labour Lead - LL 0134
Reposted by Rupe NashEdinburgh Greens @edinburghgreens.bsky.social · 08/05/2026An amazing result for Edinburgh and Lothians East! Not only Edinburgh's first constituency win but also the first time we've had 4 MSPs in the region. This is a massive tribute to our remarkable volunteers. A huge thanks to everyone who voted Green- now is the time to join! greens.scot/join 224560
Reposted by Rupe NashThe City of Edinburgh Council @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The following have been duly elected to serve as Members of the Scottish Parliament for the Edinburgh and Lothians East Region: Kate Nevens (Scottish Green Party) Angela Ross (Reform UK) Irshad Ahmed (Scottish Labour Paty) Miles Briggs (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party) 131
Reposted by Rupe NashEast Lothian Greens @eastlothiangreens.bsky.social · 07/05/2026As someone said outside of polling station this morning in Dunbar "voting is cool" A vote for Scottish Greens is a vote to demand better. 06017
Reposted by Rupe NashRoss Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Reform are accusing me & the @scottishgreens.org of being a 'danger to national security'. That's the same Reform whose former Welsh leader is doing 10yrs in prison for taking Russian bribes to parrot their propaganda. I'm proud to have been sanctioned for the Kremlin while others shilled for it. 825694
Reposted by Rupe NashGil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/05/2026It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne... 31297162831
Reposted by Rupe NashEast Lothian Greens @eastlothiangreens.bsky.social · 27/04/2026It’s getting hard to miss the growing support across East Lothian for the Scottish Greens. On the 7th of May, lets demand better and vote Scottish Greens. #votegreen #votescottishgreens @scottishgreens.org 0279
Reposted by Rupe NashFoxglove Legal @foxglovelegal.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Nice visual gag from SNL UK nails why Palantir has no place in the NHS. Palantir are specialists in harm, not health. Its record is in targeting people, not caring for them. This isn't "putting ideology above patient safety” – in the NHS, it’s one and the same: www.youtube.com/shorts/0j0Z9...youtube.comWeekend Update: Paddy Young on Military Contractor Palantir.YouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK 035
Reposted by Rupe NashKaren Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinbur...timeshighereducation.comEdinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI dealAcademics raise concerns over ChatGPT owner’s links to US military and claim tools are ‘looking to replace knowledge workers’ 223696
Reposted by Rupe NashRebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Semi-regular reminder: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats. 📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿 241192525
Reposted by Rupe NashAlice Ross @alice-ross.bsky.social · 20/03/2026My university claims (despite operating at a surplus) that we need to cut jobs by £90M, but somehow has money for a contract with OpenAI, directly entangled with the US government, military, & ICE, for large language models to make the students less capable of thinking for themselves. Let's not. 1319
Reposted by Rupe NashEdinburgh Greens @edinburghgreens.bsky.social · 19/03/2026And it passed! Fantastic news as all parties (except the tories) backed this proposal - there will be a report brought to the Planning Committee in June setting out how Edinburgh could implement a moratorium on data centres🥳 22910
Reposted by Rupe Nash🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 11/03/2026⚠️ Today, Standards Commission hearing (Councillors Neil Ross & Marie-Clair Munro) found both had breached the Councillor code of conduct for failing to declare they lived by the Braid Estate when dealing w/ Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route, including their votes to remove effective traffic filtering 13513
Reposted by Rupe NashAndrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Feel like this should have got bigger pick-up last week The General Secretary of Labour's largest affiliated union and biggest donor over last 10 years writing in the @financialtimes.com they might disaffiliate in 2027. And if this is happening in Unite, other unions will be considering similar... 1120759
Reposted by Rupe NashFoxglove Legal @foxglovelegal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Press release: councillors in Lincolnshire will tomorrow vote on whether to give the go-ahead to a vast data centre, which will produce over 1,000,000 tonnes of CO2 per year: www.foxglove.org.uk/2026/03/10/p...foxglove.org.ukPress release: Vote due on plan for data centre with one million tonnes of climate emissions - FoxgloveNorth Lincolnshire councillors are set to vote tomorrow [Wednesday 11 March] on plans for a data centre which will cause … 163
Rupe Nash @rupenash.bsky.social · 05/03/2026One fan was possessed by a paper mache Looshkin (a great rainy half term activity) 140
Reposted by Rupe NashAndy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 02/03/2026This is a really weird fantasia of Edinburgh (and its geography) as it never was and is *full* to the brim of the sorts of simple yet glaring errors and anachronisms you would never have gotten if you hadn't left it to a computer to just barf out an averagised slop answer. 1732668
Reposted by Rupe NashEveryone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway…. 📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way 312062661
Reposted by Rupe NashShona McIntosh (she/her) @shona-mcintosh.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Getting the weekend off to a Green start with some campaigning around Musselburgh. Heard concerns about cost of living, health services, the energy transition and safe cycling infrastructure. #VoteGreen for a Holyrood that will take action on all these things! 0204
Reposted by Rupe NashAction to Protect Rural Scotland @aprscotland.bsky.social · 04/02/2026BREAKING NEWS! Edinburgh City Council Committee REJECT the application for a 210MW Data Centre at Edinburgh Gyle This was refused on the ground of: Contrary to NPF4 policy 1 - as it does not address the climate crisis 1/2 1153
Reposted by Rupe NashEast Lothian Greens @eastlothiangreens.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Great day speaking to voters around Dunbar high street yesterday. We need more MSPs who will speak up for Palestine and take action to tax the rich so we can tackle the cost of living and fund a just transition. #VoteGreen 1277
Reposted by Rupe NashFoxglove Legal @foxglovelegal.bsky.social · 29/01/2026The UK Government has often repeated Big Tech's claims that data centres will create thousands of local jobs. Those claims don't stack up at all. www.ft.com/content/1a48...ft.comThere might be good reasons for Britain to build data centres. Job creation isn’t one of themEstimate*estimate 066
Rupe Nash @rupenash.bsky.social · 28/01/2026My inner cynic says they will approve the Sheriffhall flyover just before purdah begins 100
Reposted by Rupe NashNigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Will MSPs please just do a tiny bit of reading around a subject before spouting nonsense. I know there's an election coming but the fact remains that increasing capacity creates congestion rather than reduce it. (Sustainable) alternatives are available. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...edinburghnews.scotsman.comExtra lane proposed as 'interim solution' at Sheriffhall roundaboutTransport bosses are being urged to create an extra lane on the approach to Edinburgh's Sheriffhall roundabout in a bid to ease congestion while the wait goes on for a full upgrade. 4148
Reposted by Rupe NashSpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 24/01/2026#ClimateChangePlan: good on #transport? "The answer is NO" Prof @2760.bsky.social -> web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/parl... We agree-> www.spokes.org.uk/wp-content/u... @michaelmatheson.bsky.social @monicalennon.bsky.social @markruskell.bsky.social @bobdorissnp.bsky.social @kevinstewartsnp.bsky.social 099
Reposted by Rupe NashFoxglove Legal @foxglovelegal.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Big news today as UK Government concedes in data centre court case. “It shouldn’t take us having to drag the Government to court for them to admit their decision to back Big Tech’s polluting data centres was fundamentally wrong," says Foxglove's Rosa Curling: www.foxglove.org.uk/2026/01/22/u...foxglove.org.ukPress release: UK Government admits "serious error" in forcing through hyperscale data centre without environmental protectionsThis is the first time the UK government has admitted its decision to force through a new hyperscale data centre was wrong. It's a big win. 176
Reposted by Rupe Nashrob pike @robpike.io · 25/12/2025Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry. 10081872203
Reposted by Rupe NashEdinburgh Festival of Cycling @edfoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Yup, we definitely need a fleet of these in Edinburgh... 😉 073
Reposted by Rupe NashTransform Scotland @transform.scot · 20/11/2025🚦 It’s Road Safety Week, and like many of you, we’ve been thinking about what it feels like to move through our cities, whether that's walking kids to school, cycling to work, or just trying to cross the road.transform.scotToo big for our streets: the harms of SUV use in Scottish cities - Transform ScotlandProfessor of Transport & Health at Napier University, Dr Adrian Davis, writes for Transform Scotland. “SUVs are now one of the biggest emerging threats to road safety in Scottish cities.”... 166
Rupe Nash @rupenash.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Kids were playing on those bollards on Friday while we were waiting for my auntie 😱 010
Reposted by Rupe NashRoss Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 23/11/2025The principal of Edinburgh Uni earns around £420,000 a year. This week his staff were on strike over the threat of redundancies. It's time we got the pay of uni and college bosses back under control. MSPs can back my plans to do that on Wednesday. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...dailyrecord.co.uk'Obscene' pay of uni fatcat bosses targeted in new proposals before MSPsGreens co-leader Ross Greer has tabled amendments to a Scottish Government Bill to curb the earnings of top execs at universities and colleges. 07327
Reposted by Rupe NashUCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Great turnout at the Edinburgh UCU rally at parliament to demand an end to the University of Edinburgh management reckless budget cuts and redundancies! #StopStaffCutsatUoE @ucu.org.uk 14217
Reposted by Rupe NashLorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 19/11/2025I want to extend my full support to staff threatened with compulsory redundancy at the University of Edinburgh. I have today written to the Principal imploring him to change direction. 04618
Reposted by Rupe NashUCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 18/11/2025RALLY TOMORROW! Join the fightback against job cuts! Wednesday 19th November at 1pm at the Scottish parliament. 01615