Arthur Seat

Armchair Activist. Retweets are not an endorsement, nor any indicator of political affiliation.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

I’ve had a huge health setback following my move.

My level of function is half what it was before.

The hospital said they would connect me with “resources” to assist with activities of daily living.

There’s a 1.5 year wait list.

MAiD was offered in under a month.

[Arthur Seat @zeeofgee]

@Grady_Booch How does that moral accountability work if it's the machines that are generating the code? We need explainable AI and corporate responsibility.

[Arthur Seat @zeeofgee]

@AlistairCarns Here’s a test. How many horses does a modern army need? As a Labour politician do you think we should be feeding horses or the poor?

[Briar Farm @briar_farm]

It’s a brutal scene out there.

Plants wilting, panicking and bolting. Seedlings frying in the sun. Strawberries ripening and rotting in the blink of an eye.

Despite all the mitigations we’re putting in place, everything is struggling.

This is the new normal.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Andy Burnham is now the frontrunner to be Britain's next Prime Minister.
Nobody is asking what he actually built in Manchester, which has everything to do with Zone Fever, which is quietly extracting massive amounts of State aid (public money) to privatise the entire UK without any mention in the MSM whatsoever.
Let me explain why that matters.
Please read, share and subscribe to my Substack. No one else in the UK is focusing on the stealth nationwide rollout of free zones, initiated by the Tories, and fully backed and continued under the Labour Party.
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https://t.co/mi2xXS3QQQ

[Arthur Seat @zeeofgee]

@AdamRamsay Could ye no just huv sayd, "Eh kent hur faither"?

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

The climate crisis & the energy crisis may seem separate, but they share the same destructive origin:

Fossil fuels.

And they demand the same answer: A fast, fair transition to clean energy & a surge in adaptation, resilience & climate justice for those already facing climate harm.

[Arthur Seat @zeeofgee]

@WingsScotland England fans now singing Rule Britannia...?

[Automattic @automattic]

It's time to take back the internet.

The official poster for @codefortheppl is here. Free to stream July 9.

[Arthur Seat @zeeofgee]

@WingsScotland One of the UK TV panels, with Duncan Ferguson, the female presenter referred to the group as 3 Brits and a Scot.

[Arthur Seat @zeeofgee]

@Nativetoday_ Hi from Scotland.
Dear @TartanArmyGroup can you guys show some support to Native Americans by liking this please? The sculptor was called McGary, so likely of Scots descent. Sadly he passed away a while ago relatively young.

[Arthur Seat @zeeofgee]

Random thought. Pope Leo @pontifex could be the next President of the United States. God willing. #VoteLeo2028

[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

THE FIVE PRESSURE POINTS RIGHT NOW

1. Respond to the Auchtertool consultation before 2 July
[email protected]

Every individual objection counts.
Personalised, specific, citing local concerns.
Not a template copy.
The fracking precedent shows that volume of personalised responses changes the political calculation.

2. Submit evidence to ERCS
Contact the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (https://t.co/WsxJGyXmqN) and offer data-centre-specific evidence to add to the existing UN Aarhus complaint.

One phone call can connect local objections to an international legal mechanism that is already running.

3. Write to the new committee conveners this week

Three committees in the new Session 7 Parliament are directly relevant: Economy, Tourism and Energy (Convener: Duncan Massey); Climate Action (Convener: Stuart McMillan, with Ariane Burgess as a member); and Rural Affairs (Convener: Mark Ruskell).

Letters sent before 27 June will be on the record before recess.

4. Contact your own MSP ask one specific question

Not a general letter about data centres.
One specific question:

“Do you support a moratorium on hyperscale data centre applications above 50MW pending a cumulative impact assessment?

Yes or no and if no, why not?”

The fracking precedent shows that forcing politicians to answer a specific yes/no question in their own words is more effective than general petitions.

5. If you’re an SNP member use the party’s own structures
Branch motions, conference submissions, constituency association correspondence.

The SNP leadership is sensitive to its own base in a way it isn’t to external campaigners.

SMAUG showed that internal pressure lands differently.
The SNP’s eco-nationalist base is the natural home of this argument the same community and land values that drove independence sentiment are precisely what the data centre pipeline threatens.

[Dundee Sat Station @DundeeSat]

a weather forecast, or pop popcorn in a microwave, or park your car without dinging it due to its warning system, you should turn towards DUNDEE and genuflect. For the technologies that were created and underpinned those developments, were created by Peddie and Watson-Watt.

[Arthur Seat @zeeofgee]

@Quodvox5 @ThePosieParker @viewsfromleft The Romans did a bit of road building. And walls. But then south Britain was part of their empire. Some of us did a better job of keeping them out. Picts rule.

[Up & Adams @UpAndAdamsShow]

The Tartan Army will win the World Cup 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@ScotlandNT | @heykayadams

[Angus Peter Campbell @aonghasphadraig]

So good that @andywightman is back on this platform. A voice of knowledge, experience and reason amidst the noise.

[Arthur Seat @zeeofgee]

@indyscotnews @WingsScotland Is that a euphemism? To be fair there's a lot of post viral breathlessness about. Or maybe she jogs a lot .

[Arthur Seat @zeeofgee]

@CJBob9 @ZiaYusufUK We are all Jock Tamson’s bairns. A part of Scottish culture that sadly Yusuf has not grasped.

[Arthur Seat @zeeofgee]

@CJBob9 @ZiaYusufUK Mr Yusuf is a Scotsman. The people who invented the telephone, the television, inflatable tyres and the adhesive postage stamp. He has a point.