優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 4h'The energy secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, appears to have criticised Shabana Mahmood’s migration policy in a post on her constituency website, in which she suggested she had concerns that a longer settlement process could affect integration. 'Fahnbulleh has since removed the critique' 010 1
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 4hThe National Podcast | Do UK's Scotland and Wales Offices 'do more harm than good'? thenationalpodcast.podbean.com/e/do-uks-sco... Deputy First Minister of Wales Sioned Williams discusses devolution, Brexit, and her party's proposal to scrap the Wales Office.thenationalpodcast.podbean.comDo UK's Scotland and Wales Offices 'do more harm than good'? With Sioned Williams | The National PodcastDeputy First Minister of Wales Sioned Williams speaks exclusively to The National from the SNP conference in Aberdeen. The Plaid Cymru Cabinet Secretary discusses devolution, Brexit, and her party's p... 000 0
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 5hListen for @laurentsegalen.bsky.social's absolutely brutal and very funny verdict on SMRs😂 👇 010 1
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 5hThe Fourcast | ‘AI CRASH is coming in 18 to 30 months’ podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the... Krishnan Guru-Murthy hear from former US financial regulator Gary Gensler about why he believes the AI boom is unsustainable, and what happens when the enormous debts funding AI data centres come due.podcasters.spotify.com‘AI CRASH is coming in 18 to 30 months’ - former US financial regulator Gary Gensler by The FourcastIs the AI bubble about to burst? And could the trillion-dollar investment boom trigger the next global financial crisis?Gary Gensler, the former head of America's financial regulator, the Securities a... 011 1
Reposted by 優noD🏴Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 8hJust been told by a recruiter that a client is rejecting any CV with em-dashes in because he keeps speaking to people who can't talk about the bullet points in their own CVs. At the same time if I *don't* AI-customise my CV, I'm getting auto-rejected. My CV is entirely autistically honest! AAAAAAAAA 2102 10
Reposted by 優noD🏴Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Eight years ago 531777676 1.8K
Reposted by 優noD🏴Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 17/10/2026I think this is not an adequate excuse. Journalists want to hear what politicians have to say. If Labour MPs agreed collectively to move and explain why, regularly, journalists would use other platforms to pick them up. 2494 49
Reposted by 優noD🏴Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 17/10/2026At Labour conference I asked Emily Thornberry, who’d just explained she hated Twitter, why she couldn’t quit. “I’m on Twitter because journalists pick it up. If I put it on Twitter they pick it up. If I put it on other platforms, they don’t.” Which is prob true and a challenge for politicians! 3611019 110
Reposted by 優noD🏴Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/10/2026SNP spokesperson said this about the party conference motion. "SNP Conference has rightly highlighted concerns about the level of unacceptable content that is hosted on X. The First Minister shares those concerns, and he will now order that a review into the Government’s use of X will take place." 094 9
Reposted by 優noD🏴Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/10/2026The SNP are still on X, tweeitng about the First Minister's speech (and not about the motion on X). So the party conference resolution is not an SNP party or Scottish government decision to leave. How they respond is tbc x.com/theSNP/statu...x.comThe SNP (@theSNP) on XIndependence isn't about walking away from our neighbours. It's about walking beside them as equals, working together to tackle shared challenges and building a future based on friendship, respect and cooperation. #SNP26 2298 29
Reposted by 優noD🏴Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/10/2026The motion goes as far as to call for a UK-wide ban on X news.stv.tv/politics/snp...news.stv.tvSNP members back resolution supporting UK-wide ban on XThe resolution, which also said the SNP should remove itself from the social media platform, was passed overwhelmingly at the party’s conference 310917 109
Reposted by 優noD🏴Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/10/2026Motion includes these proposals 1496 49
Reposted by 優noD🏴Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/10/2026The SNP conference has supported a motion calling for the SNP & the Scottish government to leave the X platform owned by Elon Musk www.thenational.scot/news/2664596...thenational.scotSNP vote for Scottish Government and party to quit Elon Musk's Twitter/XSNP members have voted in favour of calls for the party and Scottish Government to quit Twitter/X at their conference in Aberdeen ... 361511308 1.5K
Reposted by 優noD🏴Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 12hIf Sally Rooney is registered with the Public Lending Right scheme, she would have been receiving payments from the DCMS, which puts the government in a tricky situation, not just Faber. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...prospectmagazine.co.ukFaber withdrawing Sally Rooney's books from the UK is no overreactionTheir interpretation of Section 15 of the Terrorism Act is not fanciful 0115 11
Reposted by 優noD🏴Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 11h"The government makes terrorism law look unserious. The position of Faber and Rooney is not ridiculous, but the position of the British government is." 0167 16
Reposted by 優noD🏴Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 13hCompany used an AI bot to conduct a job interview, so the applicant made his own AI bot in response. The results are creepy... 12215 22
Reposted by 優noD🏴The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 18/10/2026‘Do you have electricity and arranged marriages?' asked a classmate of mine when she discovered I not only spoke Gaelic but had family from the islands. That was 1994, writes Rhoda Meek ✍️thenational.scotIslanders are uniquely qualified to solve island issues. Why are we ignored? 0148 14
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 11h'The call comes after The Ferret reported that Aberdeen-based Ithaca Energy had paid out nearly £100 million in profits to an Israeli firm linked by the UN to illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. 'The company holds a 20% stake in Rosebank' 001 1
Reposted by 優noD🏴The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 18/10/2026NEW: Major human rights, climate and faith organisations have urged Scotland's leaders to oppose Rosebank following news that the expansion could be affected by the UK's new sanctions on Israeli settlementsthenational.scotScotland's leaders urged to oppose Rosebank amid Israeli settlement concerns 02013 20
Reposted by 優noD🏴The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 18hThe University of Dundee's new principal and vice-chancellor must work to 'stop cruel compulsory redundancies,' the institution's rector, Maggie Chapman, has saidthenational.scotNew University of Dundee leadership urged to stop 'cruel' redundancies 063 6
Reposted by 優noD🏴The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 13hLeft-wing media outlet The Canary will close down 'indefinitely', it has been announced thenational.scotIndependent news outlet The Canary announces 'indefinite' closure 037 7
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 11h'[Lennon] posted on Twitter/X before the trial began to thank Tesla owner Elon Musk for funding his legal fees – saying his court fees to date have cost him £400,000.' 010 1
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 11h'Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is charged with two counts of harassment causing fear of violence to MailOnline reporters Andrew Young and Jacob Dirnhuber through his Twitter/X account between August 5 and 7, 2024, [for] what he perceived to be “an unnecessary intrusion into his holiday”.' 100 1
Reposted by 優noD🏴mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 16hThis paper is co-authored with my fab research collaborators - @hugoekstrom.bsky.social & David Johnson - and is part of a DS Special Issue on “Normalised Hates Speech as Discourse” co-edited with fab @petrebreazu.bsky.social and Napoleon Katsos & coming up as DS 28(6) still in 2026! 032 3
Reposted by 優noD🏴mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 16hNow out in DS: “From immigration ‘realism’ to normalised hate-speech? Borderline discourse & mainstreaming of far-right illiberalism via social media” - on strategic “heteroglossia” in normalisation of illiberalism & far-right in mediated political communication journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 2136 13
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 13hRedefining Energy | Fission Impossible: the SMR Gamble pocketcasts.com/podcast/rede... Last year, the nuclear industry experienced a gold rush. SMRs became the hottest story in energy, and the industry produced an impressive collection of truly bombastic promises. So, what could possibly go wrong?pocketcasts.com251. Fission Impossible: the SMR Gamble - Oct26Last year, the nuclear industry experienced something close to a gold rush. SMRs — Small Modular Reactors — became the hottest story in energy. Private capital poured in, valuations exploded, and the… 010 1
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 14hOracle's founder Larry Ellison, incidentally, is a big funder of the Tony Blair Institute... 👇 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...democracyforsale.substack.comInside the Tony Blair InstituteA former PM, Trump's 'CEO of everything' and NHS data - what could go wrong? 000 0
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 14hOracle is heavily involved in OpenAI's circular financing and seen as the weakest link in that loop. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/19/o...cnbc.comCredit stress is threatening to unwind the AI bull. All eyes are on Oracle to hold the lineInvestors are pushing up the cost of insurance against an Oracle default. 121 2
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 15hThe Indicator | Why Oracle's debt load could be your problem www.npr.org/2026/10/19/n... Tech giant Oracle has taken on a lot of loans to build up its AI capacity, but investors are not happy with this piling debt load. We explain why Oracle is such a pivotal player in the AI-fueled economy.npr.orgWhy Oracle's debt load could be your problem : The Indicator from Planet MoneyOracle, the multinational tech giant has taken on a lot of loans to build up its AI capacity. But Oracle’s investors are not happy with this piling debt load. We explain why Oracle is such a pivotal p... 110 1
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 18hYou can watch the film at the Glasgow Film Threatre and Dundee Contemporary Arts until Thursday this week, and from 30 Oct at Edinburgh Filmhouse. For other locations, see watchnaza.com/showtimes/un...watchnaza.comNAZA showtimes in the United Kingdom | WatchNaza.comNAZA showtimes in the United Kingdom: dates and times by cinema, with links to book on each cinema’s own site. 010 1
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 19hNAZA - official trailer www.theguardian.com/film/video/2... Directed by Oscar-winning film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, NAZA will be released in cinemas in more than 50 countries in the coming weeks, and then will stream on the Guardian’s website, for free, from late November.theguardian.comNAZA - official trailerWatch the official trailer for NAZA, an award-winning documentary produced by the Guardian that details the systems behind Israel’s mass killings in Gaza. The critically acclaimed film, produced with ... 110 1
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 19h(Audio version) www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...theguardian.comNAZA: the film the Israeli government does not want you to see – podcastYuval Abraham and Rachel Szor on their film interviewing Israeli military insiders on the AI-assisted systems being used to kill civilians in Gaza, and the backlash against the documentary 110 1
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 19hToday in Focus | NAZA: the film the Israeli government does not want you to see www.theguardian.com/film/video/2... Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor on their new film interviewing Israeli military insiders on the vast, AI-assisted systems their sources say are being used to kill civilians in Gaza.theguardian.comNAZA: the film Israel does not want you to see - videoOscar-winning filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor discuss their documentary NAZA, which exposes the AI systems the Israeli military uses to rain down strikes on Gaza, killing thousands of civilia... 110 1
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 18/10/2026The Ezra Klein Show | Is There an A.I. Bubble? A Debate. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/o... The gargantuan bet on the future of A.I. is driving the U.S. stock market, but will this bet pay off? Or is it a bubble? Paul Kedrosky thinks we’re obviously in a bubble. Azeem Azhar has a more optimistic take.nytimes.comOpinion | What if the A.I. Economy Crashes?Azeem Azhar and Paul Kedrosky debate the case for and against an A.I. bubble. 000 0
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 18/10/2026Living Planet | Powering China, reshaping Tibet www.dw.com/en/powering-... As a teen, Lobsang Yangtso left her home in Tibet. It took two decades to return, and what she found shocked her. China's clean energy revolution is bringing major gains, but also difficult trade-offs.dw.comPowering China, reshaping TibetAs a teen, Lobsang Yangtso left her home in Tibet. It took two decades to return, and what she found shocked her. China's clean energy revolution is bringing major gains, but also difficult trade-offs... 000 0
Reposted by 優noD🏴David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/10/2026On my long list of things to feel heartsick about: there is a genital-check initiative on the ballot in WA this cycle, intended (as they all are) to make a marginalized minority's life even more difficult, and polling shows that it is likely to pass.ballotpedia.orgWashington Initiative 638, Sex Verification Requirements for Female School Sports Initiative (2026) 4625688 256
Reposted by 優noD🏴Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 18/10/2026I am traveling through Paris (TGV -> Eurostar) and fyi it is definitely not on fire (though as usual a lot of people on the long-distance train seem surprisingly confused by the concept of assigned seating). 3421 42
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 18/10/2026Living Planet | The islands keeping Germany safe (part 1) www.dw.com/en/part-one-... As the world races to adapt to sea level rise, nature itself is part of the solution. A visit to Germany's islands, the vital coastal defenders protecting the mainland from the very threats they face themselves.dw.comPart one: The islands keeping Germany safeAs the world races to adapt to sea level rise, in Germany, nature itself is part of the solution. A visit to its islands, the vital coastal defenders protecting the mainland from the very threats they... 010 1
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 18/10/2026'According to The Sunday Times and The Ferret, four Holyrood candidates have not submitted returns detailing how much they spent during their campaigns and the value of their donations.' 'None of the candidates who failed to declare their spending and donations were elected.' 051 5
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 18/10/2026What on Earth? | The seaweed invasion so big you can see it from space pocketcasts.com/podcast/what... Mountains of sargassum seaweed are choking Caribbean beaches, but solutions are on the horizon. We head to the tropics to learn about a WALL-E inspired robot vacuum and a seaweed-powered car.pocketcasts.comThe seaweed invasion so big you can see it from spaceMountains of sargassum seaweed are choking Caribbean beaches. It’s so dangerous it’s shut down a school. Scientists point the finger at climate change, but solutions are on the horizon. We head to… 000 0
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 18/10/2026Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like. 130 3
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 18/10/2026Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like. 000 0
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 18/10/2026'The referendum is nonbinding, which effectively means tomorrow’s vote is a referendum on whether to hold a referendum.' 'In all, there will be 10 questions for voters.... The last ballot they will see is question 10, on whether to hold a binding referendum on separation.' 120 2
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 18/10/2026I think the standard advice is to have three-days' worth of supplies, including 3 litres of water per person per day as the minimum. We've been stocking up bottled water - easier than bottling fresh tap water every day. 010 1
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 18/10/2026No pumpkins were harmed in the making of your pumpkin spice latte 020 2
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 18/10/2026...is why the government, parliamentarians and public bodies need to get off Xitter 000 0