On @BBCScotland responding to Oxford Uni report calling for a national plan to reduce meat consumption/production.
We need to stop vilifying the individuals best placed to deliver a whole host of social, economic & environmental benefits - our land custodians, our farmers.
"Space is about geography, maths and physics… and the geography doesn’t lie”.
Our CEO and Operations Manager spoke at the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee meeting in Parliament today to discuss SaxaVord’s advantageous position in the global space industry.
I was lucky enough to be raised in Norway in the 1980s, where deposit return machines were standard at every supermarket. Aside from the obvious lack of littering this creates, I saved all those pennies & still have the TMNT figures I bought with it!
♻️Deposit Return Schemes are already running successfully around the world, from Germany to Canada to Australia.
In August Scotland will join them, reducing the litter on our streets and lowering our climate emissions.
What's a building gotta do to get some recycling around here? Came home to this but while my neighbours clearly suck much of this dates back to end of November. Recyling strike or just standard @GlasgowCC practice...? #Hillhead#AlfredTerrace
somebody is attaching "puppeteer" drones to peoples' fingers to simulate physical touch in #VR; health and safety aside...where are we going with this?!
@iainmoore@japan this it true! as two people who make computer generated reconstructions in the day job, we'd never be ones to shy away from sharing them out!
Qatar #WorldCup2022: calls off alcohol, claiming it's a 'western culture' thing....
Checks history of alcohol: made in China, circa 7,000 BCE
Checks World Atlas of Booze 2022:
The most colourful time of the year in #Scotland makes for the most beautiful aerial imagery! Recently saw @ESA_EO talk about the brown over the bonnieland & called it mostly "bare rock"...eh, sorry satellites, that is incorrect (please don't teach AI this!)
@spacegovuk looking for an Earth-based job for their Mars rover recently made redundant; surely you'd just give it to @BAS_News and send it packing to Antarctica for some meteorite hunting missions?!
@93_champions@FitbaGeek That is Geoff Duke who I've been told by Methlick elders (not Google) was an Elginite through and through (despite being born in England)
The sheer scale of the collective work to ground today's brutal deportation flight to Rwanda is breathtaking.
As we prepare for the next fight, remember Diane di Prima's words:
"No one way works, it will take all of us shoving at the thing from all sides to bring it down." ✊