mastodon 4.4.25Veggie #cycling #CharteredEngineer.
Head of Engineering at a Scottish University.
Past president of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow.
Campaigned against ID cards and the database state with NO2ID Scotland.
Photo is me in the Glasgow Botanic Gardens with a squirrel on my shoulder.
(pronouns: dr/legend/he/him/they/them, but she/her OK also)
I use both emacs and vi.
Love #cats.
Friend of squirrels and bitten by a friendly crow.
Voters in Glasgow, on May 7th remember that "Independent Green Voice" is a far right, non-Green, non indy-supporting con that the Electoral Commission should have dealt with many years ago.
If you want to vote green, vote Scottish Green Party (SGP).
Look for the logo.
Time to strip the M8 out of Glasgow city centre.
Fantastic win for Lorna Slater in Edinburgh Central, first Green MSP to be elected on the constituency ballot.
I assume that the deal is that former Makerfield MP Josh Simons will run for Mayor of Manchester after Andy Burnham wins his seat.
I expect it will all play out as expected, but with Reform comfortably winning that area in the council elections, and Hannah Spencer and new Green councillors showing that Labour can't assume they will win, there are some hilarious possibilities if all doesn't go according to plan.
Markets can stay wrong longer than you can stay liquid, so don't bet against them. But if you know the market is wrong, you don't have to bet with it either.
That's an interesting find. If it is 1892, what purpose would the L serve?
Wouldn't MDCCCXCII (without the L) be 1892?
MDCCCLXCII does not seem to be accepted as valid by online tools:
https://www.romannumerals.org/converter
https://www.calculator.net/roman-numeral-converter.html
https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/conversions/roman-numeral-calculator.php
I like my chocolate black, just like my metal ... ♫
Prof Sir John Curtice, on the English council election results based on key wards:
"A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance."
"It should be remembered that Labour may often lose seats to Reform because it is losing votes to the Greens, while the Conservatives are losing votes to Reform. The net effect can be that Labour end up losing a seat to Reform."
Evidence of the pain I felt of not being able to vote Green on the constituency ballot (the new boundaries moved me from Glasgow Kelvin to Glasgow Central).
"One thing really worth pointing out is that Glasgow Central constituency vote figure....What happened there? Well, by regional list vote result, that was the third best Green constituency in the country. In other words, it’s the best constituency they didn’t stand a local candidate in."
"The focus on MRPs throughout the 2026 Holyrood campaign led to fewer polls, cost more money, and produced erratic claims ... they remain a new and fallible source of information."
"We're blocking the strait". "No we're unblocking your block and blocking it ourselves". Master class in diplomacy.
Sensible words from Andrew Tickell on the contributions of tax exiles to UK politics.
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/26273222.billionaire-exiles-want-meddle-politics/
When the circular financing ends ...
"Without an Oracle-backed lease, the project would not have obtained an investment-grade credit rating"
"One contractual dispute is not a death knell for AI. But it suggests that the industry's biggest constraint is not insufficient demand or regulation prompted by the threat of rogue bots extinguishing humanity. It may simply be the cost and complexity of building the infrastructure"
