Orchid pics at sunset.

Managing social media for large publishers is hard, but hats off to @stv.news for limiting the comments on this post. The Facebook comments on posts from other publishers I've seen covering this story have been an utter bin fire of racism, islamophobia and hate. X is bad, Facebook is just as bad.

It's worth listening to this podcast in full. You can pretty much hear Tice's brain worms screaming in pain when he was asked how the Reform policy of hiking taxes on existing renewable energy installations would bring down bills and create jobs. It is also a great bit of climate journalism.

In Quant I get some AI bullshit AND Rickrolled for this.

This dog voted to keep facists and racists out of power. #dogsatpollingstations

Post your warning sign.

Possibly of minor interest to @sarahwatts.bsky.social and other fans of high altitude trees (!) - Found this Rowan (I think) growing at approx 830m above sea level on An Ruadh-Stac in Morrison, in Torridon, last week. cc. @wtscotsocial.bsky.social

Sunset over the Hebrides this evening.

A lot of the time large parts of the UK are powered entirely by renewables. This makes coupling the price everyone pays for electricity to gas seem even more ridiculous if you live somewhere like Scotland. news.sky.com/story/ed-mil...

A grand wee wander this afternoon.

Kind of, almost snowed in. #ohwell

Just discovered a new cocktail. I may not make it into 2026 at this rate.

For the first time in ages it was not raining and not windy at the same time, so got to practice with drone for a bit. Looking inland from South Erradale.

EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR: https://noyb.eu/en/eu-commission-about-wreck-core-principles-gdpr

Inside: a fake oped.

I regret that the Libdems are doing that #fakenewspaper thing again. @impressorg.bsky.social

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content

Am assuming this ship with most of a wind turbine (?) on it is the one that is, for some reason, blocking another ship that's quite important up north from leaving Leith docks.

Interesting result, given the recent history of this cc. www.highland.gov.uk/downloads/fi...

I asked for the DPIA for the soon-to-launch mycare.scot app via #FOI. The new service is supposed to provide a "digital front door" to Scotland's health services, and it's due to launch in the next few weeks. It will be dealing with a lot of personal data. But the DPIA is still "in development" ...

I see the SNP have delayed Muirburn licensing again.

Just dragged this humongous bit of fish farm pipe up the beach at Gairloch and reported it to the Salmon Scotland collection service. Let's see how many days it takes them to remove it...

Here is a photo of a mushroom I encountered yesterday in the Beinn Eighe nature reserve.

"However, there is no evidence that Musk directly controls how much individual users are paid." 👀 www.politicshome.com/news/article...

There's quite a light show over Skye rn.

Another one of those weird Minch whales.

NGOs urge Nandy to halt sale of Telegraph over China links: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/aug/13/ngo-urge-nandy-halt-sale-telegraph-china-links

Scottish Government gave £77m to secretive tax haven firms: https://theferret.scot/scottish-government-77m-secretive-tax-haven-firms/

How many well paid senior news execs were involved in coming up with this SEO wheeze?