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[the woodlander @thewoodlander1]

Whilst we are talking energy. Drax powerstation in Britain was switched from coal to wood burning. It now burns approximately 5,000 acres of woodland every day. Let that sink in.

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

Minister @Jacqui_Smith1 is banging on about child safety on mobile phones📲 .

Never forget she was the Home Secretary when that notorious memo was sent out in 2008 stating girl grooming gang victims were consenting & little more than prostitutes.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Please play to your kids, and those so wrapped up in bashing Britain they can’t see the wood for the trees 🇬🇧

[Anneedee 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @Anneedee21]

Data centre planned for Fife: ‘ undisclosed landowner’

🤔 who’s hiding from identification and why?

Mark Wilson from @ILIENERGY might know

This map is old, but can a Fifer figure out who owns/owned the site earmarked for the Data Centre?
#DataCentresScotland

[Trina @hightreebud]

@paulhutcheon Oh, you mean this tweet?

Archived here: https://t.co/DRBceGSeES

[Orla Minihane @orlaminihane]

This is Lucy Stemp from Tonbridge in Kent. She is missing in Paris. No one has heard from her in a week. Her family are desperate to locate her. The police and interpol are involved. Please share. @pinkladies_uk

[Donna McLean @Donna__McLean]

Ireland’s datacentres used 22% of the country’s electricity last year, more than all urban homes combined. And the number is still growing.
Source: The Guardian

[Brentwood Birder @BrentwoodBirder]

Utterly disgusted to see Croudace Homes wilfully clearing mature trees and hedgerows in Shenfield during the height of the breeding season. Century old oaks hosting nesting birds and other wildlife have been felled. We need to place more value on our natural environment.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Erin Brockovich @ErinBrockovich on the smoke and mirrors development of huge AI data centers across America. The prioritisation of tech giant profiteering and consumption of natural resources while local communities pay the price. No one voted for this.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WOW! Erin Brockovich completely destroys the AI data center narrative. She confirms these massive facilities emit a non-stop, 24/7 deafening noise that is literally driving local residents crazy!

She exposes the total lack of environmental oversight. Pure corruption!

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @MrsBr0wn_82]

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🗣 Stop the Data Centre Monster in the Scottish Borders!

A £2 billion industrial scale data centre is being pushed for a beautiful rural spot west of Duns, between Longformacus and Westruther in the Lammermuirs.

Developers call it "Southside" and promise jobs and wind powered operations, but this proposal risks turning one of Scotland’s most stunning landscapes into a concrete eyesore.

Campaigners from Save the Lammermuirs Stop the Data Centre are right to call it what it is a monster.

At 24 metres high, these massive buildings would drain electricity, dominate the views, and fundamentally change the character of this peaceful rural area.

Data centres typically create hundreds of temporary construction jobs, but only a small number of permanent operational jobs once built (often just 25 to 100 staff for maintenance and security). The developers’ claim of ~145 permanent local jobs is still very low for a £2 billion project that would industrialise a large rural site.

Reports from the US highlight further serious concerns constant noise pollution from fans and generators disrupts sleep, causes stress, anxiety, headaches, and other health issues for nearby residents.

Light pollution and habitat disruption harm wildlife affecting both nocturnal animals (like bats and owls) and daytime species (birds, insects, mammals) by interfering with natural behaviours, migration, breeding, and foraging.

This is the wrong development in the wrong place no matter how much they talk about "green roofs" or blending in.

AI needs infrastructure, but not by sacrificing irreplaceable countryside, dark skies, and wildlife habitats that locals and future generations cherish.

We’ve seen this story before: big promises of economic revival that deliver noise, traffic, visual blight, and long term damage to tourism and quality of life, while the real profits flow elsewhere.

What residents can do to reject this proposal:
Attend the public consultations and make your voice heard loud and clear.

Longformacus Village Hall: Thursday (this week), 13:00 to 19:00

Westruther Village Hall: 10 June, 13:00 to 19:00
Contact your Scottish Borders Council councillors and local MSPs immediately urge them to oppose any planning application.

Join or support the Save the Lammermuirs Stop the Data Centre group.

Share this widely, sign petitions if they appear, and rally your neighbours.

This isn’t inevitable.

Strong local opposition can stop irresponsible developments like this. Protect the Borders’ landscape, character, wildlife, and future say NO to the data centre monster.

Comment below and tag your local councillors!

The MP for the area is @John2Win

Links to the Facebook group, petition and planning documents are in the comments.

I have also included a MP template letter you can copy and paste and add relevant information or you draft your own

#SaveTheLammermuirs #StopTheDataCentre #ScottishBorders

[marion scott @ladymcbeth2]

Domestic abuse victim gives police filmed evidence of her evil husband drugging and raping her and they refuse to act saying they can see no evidence of criminality leaving Dannielle MacDonald to face years more torture. MSP Stephen Kerr to call chief constable to account.

[The National @ScotNational]

EXCLUSIVE: An interactive map has revealed that developers are proposing a rash of AI data centres right across Scotland – prompting concerns about the impact on electricity prices, communities and the environment https://t.co/ci1CCxPLX6

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

Incredible stuff @MrNishKumar. I was on the EHRC Board working group that supervised the production of the Code. I’ve been an equality law specialist for 26 years. We scrutinised every line exhaustively, following detailed, highly specialist legal advice and a huge consultation.>

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review.

They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆.

Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

[Le Crapaud @Le_Crapaud47]

British Police :

[Emily Wilding Davison🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Wommando]

🇬🇧 I live in a country where depraved sickos caught with 1000s of the most horrific images and videos of babies and toddlers being r-ped walk free -

And a young man who threw a traffic cone that hit no one, is jailed for 3-5 years.

[Cat @catdeans]

This is awful. The last ever Denby Pottery going to the kiln. Why is there not uproar? Where’s the government in this?? We all have Denby in our homes, in family heirlooms, as our history and now it’s closing through lack of support, such a sad sad day. #SaveDenby @denbypottery

[Laura Richards BSc MSc MBPsS @thecrimeanalyst]

Judge Rowland’s sentencing remarks in the serial gang r@pists case are utterly breathtaking. He decided that a knife wasn’t used as he looked ‘carefully’ at some of the CCTV. He stated that IF a knife were used in one of the r@pes, it was ‘ONLY’ to cut off her leggings and there was ‘no violence or exploitation’ ONLY to cut her leggings and there was was no violence or exploitation??’ EXCUSE ME? This is one of the most outrageous statements I have EVER read - and I’ve read a lot. It’s not enough to be angry - take action. New episode soon to drop on Crime Analyst so follow and listen 💀💣🤬

✍️ SIGN the petition:
https://t.co/5T1GuqJRKI

✍️ WRITE to your MP, Justice Secretary David Lammy, PM Keir Starmer and AG Richard Hermer. Template letters:
https://t.co/rDcoYnEaIJ

💜 JOIN the Crime Analyst Squad to rally and for more knowledge, insight, support and advocacy: https://t.co/S5axltF6z1

#CrimeAnalyst #expert #Accountability #Misogyny #MaleViolence @laurarichards99

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Yes, period huts are back. Because girls just aren’t embarrassed and awkward enough about menstruation.

But what happens when the trans-identified boy feels excluded from the period hut? What if he feels less of a girl? Perhaps it would be easier just to tell girls to stay home.