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[Medusa lay @LayMedusa]

Big News this morning : The George Washington statue near Fenway Park in Boston has been given the Highest Honour By the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Fans. Someone has got up there God knows how and placed a traffic cone □on his heed. 😅🤣😂😂. This is a proud moment for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland.
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[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Kosher and Halal are strict religious dietary codes governing how animals must be slaughtered. Both traditions require the animal to be executed by a swift, single cut to the throat, and completely drained of blood.

Kosher forbids pre-stunning whilst halal allows it.

Both are abhorrent.

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

🚨 This is WAY BIGGER than it looks. Let me break down exactly what just happened.

France’s government disinformation agency Viginum, and the Prime Minister himself just confirmed that Israeli cyber firm BlackCore ran coordinated election interference operations across five sovereign nations simultaneously.

The targets were not random.

France’s pro-Palestine left-wing mayoral candidates in Marseille, Toulouse and Roubaix were smeared with AI bots and fake accounts DAYS before votes were counted.

Scotland’s First Minister, who called Gaza a genocide on the world stage was also targeted.

They even infiltrated New York City’s 2025 municipal elections.

Angola and Togo got the same treatment.

They are not just bombing Gaza. They are running covert operations to destroy the political careers of anyone in the Western world who dares say the word genocide out loud.

BlackCore described itself as an “elite influence and information warfare company.” The moment Reuters called them, they wiped every trace of themselves from the internet.

Let that sink in for a moment.

This is exactly what we are told Russia is doing. Yet you would never get called “Russophobic” for calling that out. Would you?

Israel is not defending their “country.” They are dismantling ours.

And don’t get me started on the hate and destabilisation ops they run.

All with OUR tax money, btw.

[Scotland National Team @ScotlandNT]

Every heartbeat.
Every dream.
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[Sarah 🤍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @HMFC_1874_]

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[Annie Glen @AnnieGlen20]

So Scotland can't have a fully functioning justice system because it will embarrassing Sturgeon?

[Scottish Express @ScotExpress]

Crown Office 'spared Nicola Sturgeon embarrassment' by removing women's items from Peter Murrell indictment - https://t.co/LKaqaiujwe

https://t.co/LKaqaiujwe

[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

Fife Council’s own planning officers have recommended REFUSAL of the Cato data centre (Auchtertool) on flood risk grounds.
ILI argues “essential infrastructure” status should let them build on flood-prone land. Officers aren’t convinced.
Same “essential infrastructure” claim underpins all three “Stoics” sites (Cato/Aurelius/Rufus) so this question doesn’t stay local.
Also flagged: rainwater harvesting proposed for water supply, “but there is no data to stack that up” (Andrea Cail, Auchtertool CC). Plus separate cross-party concern (Cllr Kathleen Leslie) over no EIA being required.
This is a live, contested decision not a formality.

[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

Cllr Mumford has been asking the Scottish Government to define “green data centre” for months.
Today’s report: Edinburgh can’t ban applications (true, fair point) AND shouldn’t define “green” itself either (convenient, for whoever benefits from the status quo).
The accountability sits with the Scottish Government. It always did.

[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

Meanwhile: 2 dozen+ data centre proposals across Scotland. Auchtertool. Lammermuirs. South Gyle under appeal. Apatura’s Wester Hermiston campus needing “extensive environmental reports” with no standard to assess them against.
The longer the definition doesn’t exist, the more gets waved through under NPF4’s general presumption in favour.
5/5 🧵

[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

The honest version of this story:
Edinburgh Council has planning powers but is warned acting on them is risky without national guidance.
The Scottish Government has the power to remove that risk by defining “green data centre” but hasn’t.
Each can point at the other. Nothing moves.
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[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

So why is “don’t define green data centres yourselves” bundled in with “you can’t ban applications”?
Because the Scottish Government has had MONTHS to provide the statutory definition Cllr Mumford has been requesting and hasn’t.
The gap isn’t a council failure. It’s a government one.
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[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

The report also recommends Edinburgh shouldn’t adopt its OWN definition of a “green data centre.”
That’s a different thing entirely. Refusing applications that don’t meet a published green standard is normal planning judgment exercised application by application, like Edinburgh already did with South Gyle in February.
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[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

🧵 Important nuance in this report that’s getting lost.
The “can’t refuse to determine applications” point is correct that’s basic planning law, and Edinburgh’s officers are right to flag the appeal-costs risk of a blanket non-determination policy.
But that’s NOT what Cllr Mumford’s motion was really about.
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[Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom]

EXC: Edinburgh councillors have been warned that a data centre moratorium could be considered “unreasonable” by Scottish Government planning czars.

Officials say it is "not possible" to enact a planning application ban.

@heraldscotland

https://t.co/20wkw3HBhv

[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

THE ASK DOESN’T CHANGE
Scotland needs a STATUTORY definition of “green data centre” independently verifiable, not industry-authored.
Until then, every “green” claim in every planning application Cato, Lammermuirs, Apatura’s own 9 sites is marking its own homework.
The charter isn’t the answer. It’s the reason the question is more urgent.
8/8 🧵

[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

WHY THIS MATTERS
A voluntary charter, written by the developers seeking consent, can now be cited IN planning applications as evidence of “green” credentials with zero independent verification.
No statutory standard exists to test it against. Edinburgh’s officers were told this week not to create one locally either.
Self-regulation, arriving exactly when regulation was about to become unavoidable.
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[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

THE TIMING
This charter launched the same week as:
– The Auchtertool story going national
– Edinburgh’s moratorium report (council told not to define “green” itself)
– The Lammermuirs campaign passing 7,000 signatures
When the pressure for a STATUTORY definition builds — the industry publishes a VOLUNTARY one. First.
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[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

🗣️ “Scotland has some of the most rigorous planning and environmental regulations in the world”
— Giles Hanglin, Apatura CEO, this week.
Meanwhile: of 76 data centre consents reviewed by APRS, only 7 required a full EIA. There is still no statutory “green data centre” definition. Edinburgh council was told this week it shouldn’t even write its own.
Which is it?
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[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

APATURA ENERGY
~2,600MW across 9 sites roughly 65% of Scotland’s entire peak electricity demand.
Investors have stated a target of ~£300m profit on a 500MW flip.
This is the company that has co-authored the document defining what counts as “green” in the exact policy vacuum the Scottish Government has left open.
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