I am a member of: Salvo.scot * liberation.scot Everyone in favour of Independence should join these. bairnsnotbombs.scot @SpeechUnion better safe than sorry The Broughty Ferry BHF Shop volunteer team. *Exec member Salvo Tayside

We do not consent to conscription. We must organise against the order.

Thinking of @rblackqc who I have just heard is ill. Get well soon Prof Black

This resonates with me. I spent two years in my late 50s on UC. I got a grand total of FOUR interviews in that time which got me this job I will be in until I retire. apple.news/AOqbbOEqXSIqVMGgQ…

The youth are alright apple.news/AZMiOw-05R9SYrEVu…

Okay twitter mechanical minds. I have been struggling to get someone to help with my overtight anti theft lock nut on my flat car wheel. So I bought some impact sockets. 26mm is too big, 24mm won't go on but 25mm went on with some big hits from my dead blow mallet. I turned it and it came loose enough to turn by hand. But it will not come off. I cannot remove the socket. The car is off the brace full weight, nada. The only thing I can think of is low set blowtorch on the socket to expand it so I can remove it then maybe I can use the key on the nut?

What is neoliberalism, and why does it still dominate our economies? This is an Understanding Economics video I've been asked to make - tackling the corrosive philosophy of our time. youtu.be/_8yCsQCtPHg?si=QSyW…

Since this is the SNP ‘no woman’ will include trans. You just know it will. apple.news/AFpPBjs9DQcyogG_Q…

Scotgov could legislate to tame this vampire capitalism but chooses not to. UK wide brands must be separately registered in Scotland as the law is different here. This could therefore serve to limit this UK wide as Scotland could block them. But @scotgov is craven and compromised.

Open reply to @AngusBMacNeil someone formerly of the SNP apparatus whom I’ve always respected. - - - Angus, there's no genuine indy supporter who does not support gaining independence via an election. But let's recap. You were part of the 56 — a virtual mandate to declare UDI. What did you do? You all sat on your hands while Sturgeon wrecked the party, and passed up every opportunity to abandon Westminster, after broken Vow promises, then Brexit. What was GE2015 other than a plebiscite election? It couldn't suddenly not be about independence at the whim of Sturgeon. An exit from Westminster would have sparked international awareness of our colonial-hostage situation and the indyref betrayal. That was our Ireland-1918 moment. You had an overwhelming election mandate, the opportunity was there, yet you and the SNP did nothing. Why does pointing out that the post-2015 landscape has changed, bother you? Why will you not recognise we are dealing with a regime-change obsessed, rogue English state that has no respect for international law? It doesn't even respect its own domestic law. Should we believe it will respect Scots Law? The electoral system will be rigged and is already. Look at GE2024. Foreign interference is already on record but hidden by Burnham. Dodgy donations to Labour, bots, and media bias. No consequences. Who is so naive as to imagine that an English-run election in Scotland, on a constitutional issue, will not be tampered with? We need the right kind of election/plebiscite under UN-mandated principles. Snidely questioning others support for independence, for simply pointing out the flaws in the mechanics of the voting system, does you no credit. Do you realise how difficult it is to register for a postal ballot in NI? Yet we have almost one million Scots registered? Why? Can a million Scots no longer walk to a polling station? A huge weakness in the ballot right there, open to manipulation. Both foreign monitoring and a UN franchise are vital. Apart from all of this, indy voters are absolutely scunnered by the SNP, and more and more reluctant to give them any kind of mandate. There’s now talk of the SNP seeking a 60% threshold. They are infiltrated and compromised. So, who do indy voters choose on the ‘plebiscite election' ballot? Have you joined @LiberateScot or @IndyScotParty ? They do offer a pro-indy alternative, and you joining would boost their profile, making it more difficult for our London-centric print and broadcast media to continue blanking them. Have you really thought this through? There’s now an international aspect to our struggle that you fail to recognise or support. Robert Black KC, has thrown his weight behind this campaign. There is substantial international backing for the work of @LiberationScot and @ScotSalvo — why won’t you get behind that work while championing a plebiscite event, whether an election or other democratic mechanism? Remember, that if you chain yourself to a 'democratic event' under the clearly flawed English rule book, they will use any result they manage to manufacture, against us, just as they did post-1707. Agreeing to something as important as a plebiscite election or an indyref2, using the mechanisms of the nation's annexing and colonising power, is inviting a rigged result that will be used against our nation. Sensible alternatives exist for a plebiscite under the auspices of the UN, with international monitoring, excluding any interference by the British i.e. English state and its media. Independence is not a matter of domestic law, it's a matter of international law.

A shoemaker's son who left school at 16 wrote a book in 1854 that nobody knew what to do with, and 83 years later a 21-year-old at MIT opened it and found the blueprint for every computer chip on Earth. I went down this rabbit hole at 1am and I still can't get over how thin the thread is. His name was George Boole. The book is called The Laws of Thought. Boole never went to university. Not for a single day. His father fixed shoes in Lincoln, England, and spent his spare money on telescopes and math books instead of the shop. The shop failed. At 16, George started teaching just to feed the family. So he taught himself everything else at night. At 14 he translated an ancient Greek poem into English. A local paper printed it. A schoolmaster wrote in to say no boy that age could have done it. By 1849, a university in Ireland made him its first professor of mathematics. A man with no degree, now handing them out. Then he asked a strange question. What if thinking follows rules, the same way numbers do? Every argument you've ever had is built from statements that are either true or false. "It's raining." "I have an umbrella." Boole wanted to do math on those, the way you do math on 2 and 3. So he built an algebra with only two numbers. - 1 means true - 0 means false - AND works like multiplying - OR joins two ideas together - NOT flips one into the other The whole system rested on one odd little equation. x times x equals x. Try it with any normal number and it breaks. 5 times 5 is not 5. It only works for two numbers in the entire universe. Zero and one. "Let us conceive, then, of an Algebra in which the symbols x, y, z, &c. admit indifferently of the values 0 and 1, and of these values alone." That's Boole, in 1854. Mathematicians found it clever. Philosophers argued about it. Nobody built a single thing with it. Boole died ten years later at 49, after walking two miles to a lecture in pouring rain. He never saw his idea do anything useful. Jump to 1936. A 20-year-old named Claude Shannon is working on a giant calculating machine at MIT. It's packed with relays, little electrical switches that click open and shut. Wiring them together is mostly guesswork. But Shannon had taken a philosophy class back at the University of Michigan. It covered Boole. He looked at the switches and saw the 1s and 0s. - A closed switch lets current through. That's 1. - An open switch blocks it. That's 0. - Two switches in a row only pass current if both are closed. That's AND. - Two switches side by side pass current if either one is closed. That's OR. Boole's algebra of thought was also an algebra of electricity. Same rules. Same two numbers. Shannon wrote it up as his master's thesis in 1937. The psychologist Howard Gardner later called it possibly the most important master's thesis of the century. Shannon just shrugged. "It just happened that no one else was familiar with both fields at the same time." Sit with that for a second. The idea was sitting in a library for 83 years. It only needed one person who happened to be standing in two rooms at once. The phone in your hand holds billions of those switches. Every photo, every text, every AI answer is them flipping between 1 and 0, following rules a self-taught teacher wrote down before the light bulb existed. Boole thought he was writing down how the human mind works. He ended up writing down how machines would think.

Excellent stuff from this young man and shame on those who will pollute a clean stretch of river. apple.news/A-UfGF-ErQC-gzgw8…

Cycling home today I came across a young teen girl lying on the path having come off her scooter and crying in pain. I stayed by her talking to her until her mother fetched by her sister arrived. I don't think she was badly hurt unless she broke/sprained her wrist. The hand was very sore.

Modi is turning India into a sectarian state. This is deeply shameful. apple.news/AWhLyFY7OTySIyLj7…

And then of course he immediately blocked me so I could not reply to his bullshit. What an intellectual coward he is.

This looks like a good idea. It may require some upgrading of the line to modern passenger standards as well as revamping stations. apple.news/A7rJTO_yETxmliMZb…

Get one or forever be square.

I was on board the flight that Saudi Arabia barred from landing at Sana'a Airport. Beside us sat dozens of stranded citizens who had been trapped abroad for years because of the blockade. The Saudis threatened to bomb the airplane in mid-air, directly notifying the pilot, and then proceeded to bomb the airport itself. In such a situation, imagine the horror your family endures when they learn the airport has been bombed at the exact moment you are scheduled to arrive. This was far from the only time the airport has been bombed. It was targeted in the very first airstrike of the Saudi aggression in March 2015 and has remained shut down throughout the past 12 years. Why, then, does Riyadh Airport become a target that stirs global outrage, while Sana'a Airport is treated as worthless? What criteria dictate the terms of international solidarity? The airport is merely one chapter of this reality. For 12 years, we have faced brutal aggression, targeted by more than a quarter of a million airstrikes. Our children are dying of starvation before our eyes due to the blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia. Yemen is enduring the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world, and our capital has been bombed without pause since the aggression began. Would anyone on earth accept this? @zakaria_sharabi

This is an interesting development. The Catholic Archbishop covering the military says Catholic soldiers should refuse to serve on the firing squad. apple.news/AU8Bq_lkrQp2vBVOL…

This 👇 at the bottom of the hill by the beach used to be a small nightclub. They would put on underage nights and our eldest would totter down in heels and a red dress. People fully 200m or more away complained and this excellent facility was shut down. When the young complain there’s nothing to do this is part of why. apple.news/AXvfFrOr8T22zRjbN…

Does the Act of Union Still Apply? ift.tt/WUieHzE Craig Murray