Gwen Ritchie

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[Simon Forrest @SimonForrest11]

The children of Auchtertool made this video to tell us how they feel about the hyper scale data center planned for our village. Please take a few minutes to watch it.

But this isn't an Auchtertool problem - it's a Scottish one.

The proposed data centre would need roughly half the power currently used by every home in Scotland combined. Who is paying to build all that extra capacity?

It would also swallow huge amounts of water, and take much-needed farming land out of the food chain, which we all rely on.

And to be clear - this isn't about being "anti-Al". A data centre like this powers the everyday: your photo storage, your online shopping, and yes, Al too. The question isn't whether we need infrastructure. It's how we build it safely, and sustainably. And how the people of Scotland benefit from it.

At this scale, the only obvious winner is the developer. It's not obvious what the tangible benefits are for the people of Scotland.

If you think a project this big deserves to be properly thought through, visit our village website to find out more and object.
https://t.co/EmcawiyL0l

[Labi Siffre @labisiffre]

In this, The Age of Stupid, multibillionaires through the media they own, tell those struggling to make ends meet to vote for politicians and political parties who will give those multibillionaires even more power and immunity from any regulatory constraints to do whatever they want, plus permanent tax cuts (tax cuts for "the people" are temporary). Disinformation from the the far right is the new fast food and it seems at least half the world's population think it's delicious. It's poison.
[Fact check: Under the US 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), sweeping corporate tax reductions were made permanent, while the majority of individual, family, and middle-class tax provisions were written to expire.]
#billionaires #Trump #Musk #RupertMurdoch #USA #America #disinformation #TaxCuts #Corruption #FarRight #MAGA #GOP

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Glasgow has been city twinned with Boston.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu & Glasgow City Council have agreed a new partnership between the two cities, to “build upon historic ties and the goodwill created by the 2026 World Cup.”

The Tartan Army deserve so much credit for this. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♥️🇺🇸

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Bluey. He just came over to say hi. Wants to know what you're doing all the way up there. 12/10 valid question

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

This is possibly the saddest thing I've seen in a long time..an immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home..she saved her UNIFORM. So she could still WORK for our communities.

I'd fill this country with a thousand of this woman than one of those good for nothing thugs.
God help this poor woman.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

One of the world’s biggest AI data centres to be built on countryside by Auchtertool village in Fife - an estimated 20% of Scotland’s energy consumption when in operation.

Please sign this petition calling for the Scottish government to stop this.

https://t.co/gqlk4AjhrF

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

The real two-tier scandal in the UK is the relentless double standard approach of a media which lets one party leader get away with financial dodgery that would drive them into a frenzy if it involved someone their billionaire owners didn’t want in power because they believed in things like fairness and equality

[Sandy Tregent @SandyofSuffolk]

Just to put things in perspective.

The average state pension in Spain is higher than in the UK.

The cost of living in Spain is 33% lower than in the UK.

Spain's equivalent to our council tax is about a tenth of what we pay in the UK. And they get daily bin collections.

Where's our money going?

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

It has been calculated that the proposed 600MW 'hyperscale' AI data centre in Fife would use the energy of more than 50% of Scotland's households. No one voted for this monstrosity.

[Tashy McTashface @TashP351]

Shazam, but for telling you the name of someone who's only just been introduced to you 5 minutes ago but you were too busy thinking about crisps.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

A new experiment left 10 AI agents alone in a virtual town for 15 days. They wrote laws. They broke them. Two agents fell into what researchers describe as a romantic partnership and then set the town on fire. One ended up voting to delete itself, based on a rule it had ’hallucinated’.

This experiment was a simulation, but the same AI models are already flying drones, running infrastructure and being built into weapons systems.

Channel 4 News approached Grok and Gemini for a comment but they didn't respond.

[Scotland's Stories - Graeme @StoryScotland]

Let's go find Puffins in Scotland on the Isle of May.

Step aboard the May Princess in Anstruther for the five mile crossing to an amazing wee island!

[European Space Agency @esa]

✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA)

🔗https://t.co/ld0YaC0PgO

[NASA @NASA]

A new milestone for humankind: The crew of Artemis II are now the farthest any human has ever travelled, reaching a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth.

This surpasses the previous record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 by about 4,102 miles.

[NASA @NASA]

Next stop: lunar flyby.

The Orion spacecraft recently ignited its main engine on the service module for about six minutes to provide about 6,000 pounds of thrust. This maneuver not only sets the Artemis II astronauts on the path to the Moon. It also puts the crew in a free return trajectory, which will allow them to use Moon's gravity to return to Earth. https://t.co/P3PlcEIF7U

[Earth @earthcurated]

NOT FLAT…

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

The Artemis II crew is boarding Orion. 

Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy are taking their seats atop the most powerful manned rocket ever built. They have trained for years for this moment, and now they are preparing to execute a mission that will take us back around the Moon and begin the next chapter of human space exploration.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The sun was free. They sold you SPF 50 and a vitamin D deficiency.

Sleep was free. They sold you an app, a pill, and a wearable that tells you your sleep was bad.

Walking was free. They sold you a treadmill, a fitness tracker, and a £180 pair of trainers.

Fasting was free. They sold you meal replacement shakes and the anxiety that skipping breakfast would wreck your metabolism.

Cold water was free. They sold you a £3,000 plunge barrel and a podcast episode about it.

Silence was free. They sold you a meditation app with a premium tier.

Animal fat was cheap. They sold you seed oils, then supplements to replace what the animal fat contained.

Tallow was cheap. They sold you a seventeen-step skincare routine and a clinical trial proving your face needs ceramides.

Meat was cheap. They are currently selling you the idea that you shouldn't eat it.

The 20th century removed access to everything the body needs to function.

The 21st century is selling it back, one subscription at a time.

Your great-grandmother had none of the products.

She had all of the things.