Nostr notes by Highlands & Islands Greens

RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116497880856313245 Imagine ...

2026-05-01T06:50:55Z

RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116497880856313245

Imagine burning through $50B in two months, not to save us from the devastations of climate change, but just to blow things up and kill people.

There's always money for war, but there's never money for the things that matter.
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"Offord’s brag of six houses, five cars and six boats might ...

2026-04-29T18:38:49Z

"Offord’s brag of six houses, five cars and six boats might prove the most effective anti‑Reform message of the entire Holyrood campaign"

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26065153.asked-scotlands-leaders-many-houses-cars-boats/

Here's a link to the Scottish Green Party election manifesto, ...

2026-04-26T23:14:11Z

Here's a link to the Scottish Green Party election manifesto, 2026. You can read it online or download it: https://greens.scot/Manifesto

So shameful that there are only men in this debate. Isn't it ...

2026-04-13T08:25:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…9gez
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So shameful that there are only men in this debate. Isn't it time Labour or the LibDems choose a woman as party leader?

The SNP gave us Nicola Sturgeon, and the Greens always have one female co-leader.

Behind The Time's paywall, but Alex Massie has ranked the ...

2026-04-13T08:21:26Z

Behind The Time's paywall, but Alex Massie has ranked the performances of the Scottish party leaders, putting Swinney and Malcolm Offord last ➡️ and Ross Greer first 😊
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/who-won-leaders-debate-bbc-scottish-election-2026-v8x5qtvhj

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tom_geraghty/116379652888617710 ...

2026-04-10T17:53:36Z

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tom_geraghty/116379652888617710

Fascinating.

quoting
note1haj…yu2f

The Vasa sank in 1628 because the people who knew it would sink didn't feel able to say so to the people who could have done something about it.

We wrote up the full case study — Vasa Syndrome, authority gradients, and what the sister ship tells us about organisational learning.

https://psychsafety.com/the-vasa-disaster/

Capitalism is patriarchy. Based on private landownership, both ...

2026-04-10T13:13:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…25az
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Capitalism *is* patriarchy. Based on private landownership, both of them.

Reasonably, for example if we lived in a matriarchy, the ...

2026-04-10T13:09:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…rf0h
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Reasonably, for example if we lived in a matriarchy, the countries where those elements are extracted would be well-paid for them, and there would be worker safety measures in place.
Maybe if we manage to save ourselves from climate collapse we can get on with the job of getting rid of the patriarchal "me first" way of doing things.

This is true, Hazel - but don't forget that technology ...

2026-04-10T12:51:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…usgx
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This is true, Hazel - but don't forget that technology doesn't stand still. The blades, for example, will eventually be replaced by the newer type, that are easier to recycle. And when a wind farm is "repowered" (ie, gets an upgrade on the nacelle), each turbine will have greater efficiency, and over time material scientists will find replacements for many of the substances you mention.
It's like how transistors replaced vacuum tubes.

via Greenpeace: ...

2026-04-10T09:29:47Z

via Greenpeace:

Hello, parents? Have you checked that your 16 & 17 year olds ...

2026-04-07T18:40:53Z

Hello, parents?
Have you checked that your 16 & 17 year olds have registered to vote? ✅

They can do this online, by April 20th
www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

Ariane Burgess, Green MSP, is working hard to achieve land reform ...

2026-02-22T16:50:17Z

Ariane Burgess, Green MSP, is working hard to achieve land reform in Scotland
You can vote for her, #1 on the regional list in May

Then let's hope the next step after that will be Universal ...

2026-02-15T11:28:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…se72
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Then let's hope the next step after that will be Universal Basic Income and reduced work hours.

Major leak at Dounreay Highland nuclear site triggers hunt for ...

2026-02-15T10:39:06Z

Major leak at Dounreay Highland nuclear site triggers hunt for mystery bunkers
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25854472.major-leak-highland-nuclear-site-triggers-hunt-mystery-bunkers/?nid=1302&block=article_block_a&u=4e56dba3ae84b19a6945cb86e7a0aee8&date=150226

If you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or ...

2026-02-15T09:02:43Z

If you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Pixelfed, or Friendica, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining them as algorithm-free, ad-free, AI-free, nazi-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a "decentralised protocol" or why "open source" is good.

Mastodon is conversations between real people.

It's sharing.

Microsoft and Google licences cost Denmark's primary schools ...

2026-02-02T10:32:11Z

Microsoft and Google licences cost Denmark's primary schools DKK 66 million annually (approx £7,6 m)

Denmark has allowed itself to become over-dependent on American technology - it's a vulnerability.

All over the country, pupils have come to think that IT/ digitisation = Microsoft /Google.

A new analysis shows that with a small investment and a year's work, an #opensource solution for Danish schools can change this for the better!

https://ing.dk/artikel/her-er-regnestykket-saa-meget-koster-det-smide-google-og-microsoft-ud-af-folkeskolen (in Danish and paywalled)

New progressive US politician, who knows how to do comms - ...

2026-01-31T18:53:03Z

New progressive US politician, who knows how to do comms - amusing and worth a watch:

Hope she wins! ...

2026-01-30T13:09:13Z

Hope she wins!

‪RT: @ross-greer.bsky.social‬ It very much looks like the US ...

2026-01-27T21:13:31Z

‪RT: @ross-greer.bsky.social‬

It very much looks like the US Government has just abducted two people from Scotland hours after our Court of Session ordered that they not be removed.

The US is a rogue state. It's time to evict their troops from their de-facto base at (publicly owned) Prestwick airport.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgqep9pvygko

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2026-01-27T12:18:12Z

#DigitalSovereignty ➡️ France announced today it’s phasing ...

2026-01-26T17:58:31Z

#DigitalSovereignty

➡️ France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio.

The data is hosted on @outscale

Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers.

The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.

Thought provoking new campaign ad from the Green Party of England ...

2026-01-22T22:44:23Z

Thought provoking new campaign ad from the Green Party of England and Wales. Strong and thoughtful message - it makes the other English parties look like dishwater.

Anyone in Highland seeing the aurora borealis this evening? ...

2026-01-19T20:36:47Z

Anyone in Highland seeing the aurora borealis this evening? Apparently there's a huge spike in solar activity. Go outside and have a look!

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115892465882494376 The crazy ...

2026-01-14T09:09:30Z

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115892465882494376

The crazy thing is, that when you design things to make them better for disabled people, they also get better for everyone else...because everyone is really just temporarily "able" and spend periods of their life not fully able. When you are a child, a parent, or old, systems designed for the fully abled don't work for you. If you are encumbered with luggage, or have a broken leg, same thing.

quoting
note1mss…ffle

There are many blind spots (pun intended) in the study of politics, but as David Alexander (UGlasgow) points out the relative lack of understanding of the optimal dimensions of disability & how disability may shift the frame of understanding politics remains a significant absence in much political analysis....

The real world consequences are around us in the relative under-emphasis of disability in everyday politics in the UK.

#disability #politics

https://theconversation.com/the-academic-study-of-politics-is-failing-disabled-people-with-real-world-consequences-259222

In theory I agree with you, Em. But in this era we are in, you ...

2025-12-30T19:20:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…s26f
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In theory I agree with you, Em. But in this era we are in, you have a rightwing movement/cult who place a huge emphasis on appearance. The way they kit themselves out (incl plastic surgery) is an essential part of their messaging. They offer it to us as a communication and for comment.
Noticing the "maralago face" which is an affectation, and done on purpose, is not the same as Trump mocking a disabled journalist.

Goodbye, tiktok. ...

2025-12-25T00:43:05Z

Goodbye, tiktok.

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115741102978522047 This thread. ...

2025-12-18T18:00:36Z

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115741102978522047

This thread. We really do need an entirely different economic system, as this one is too silly for words.
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Massive news - Former Labour Mayor and Your Party founder Jamie ...

2025-12-17T11:32:29Z

Massive news - Former Labour Mayor and Your Party founder Jamie Driscoll now with the Greens

Scottish Green Party membership hits record high! ...

2025-12-15T18:43:33Z

Scottish Green Party membership hits record high!
https://bright-green.org/2025/12/15/scottish-green-party-membership-hits-record-high/

Ecosia, a European search engine that uses its profits to do good ...

2025-12-14T21:47:52Z

Ecosia, a European search engine that uses its profits to do good for the planet, has done something unusually concrete: they have placed €1,000,000 in a dedicated bank account, ready for the Nobel Foundation to claim the moment they decide to create a Climate Nobel Prize. The goal is simple: give climate leadership and innovation the independent, globally trusted recognition this moment demands, and help accelerate a cultural shift toward solutions. ✔️ ✔️ https://www.ecosia.org/browser

The one thing that the 🥀 UK Labour Party has proven ...

2025-12-13T08:18:48Z

The one thing that the 🥀 UK Labour Party has proven unequivocally is that -
Votes Are Worth Nothing if You Lose Your Values.

The only way we Greens can win (and keep) votes is by
➡️ consistently promoting and working within 🟢 Green Values:

🟢 Cooperation, not competition
🟢 Distribute/share power and resources
🟢 Compassion and Fairness
🟢 Respect for nature
🟢 Think globally, act locally
🟢 Use open source, distributed digital
🟢 Honesty and transparency

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2025-12-11T18:06:54Z

Soon!

Always look to see who is paying, and who is being paid: RT: Adam ...

2025-12-06T16:54:17Z

Always look to see who is paying, and who is being paid:

RT: Adam Bienkov‬ @adambienkov.bsky.social‬ Dec 5 2025

A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant movement led by 'ordinary' women, which is backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and is regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist.
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/the-pink-ladies-laundering-anti-migrant-views-into-the-mainstream/

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/115656150182299522 A ...

2025-12-04T05:56:30Z

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/115656150182299522

A General Strike is perhaps the single most powerful tool a populace has to protect itself from a bad government or any other centre of power in a society.
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All Greens should be on the Fediverse, it's an organisation ...

2025-11-26T10:59:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…7rtt
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All Greens should be on the Fediverse, it's an organisation with Green values.
BTW, have a look at this: https://joinfediverse.wiki/GreenFediverse

Good for you - good for the planet! ...

2025-11-11T17:02:20Z

Good for you - good for the planet!

Interesting! UK Border Control Staff Call for Safe Routes for ...

2025-11-01T08:21:22Z

Interesting! *UK Border Control Staff* Call for Safe Routes for Asylum Seekers

https://www.pcs.org.uk/campaigns/fighting-racism-fascism/safe-secure-routes-refugees

Keep relentlessly and loudly pointing out these five things to ...

2025-09-23T16:17:11Z

Keep relentlessly and loudly pointing out these five things to everyone you know:

1. Vaccines save lives

2. Neither MMR vaccine nor paracetamol cause autism

3. Global warming/climate change is real

4. Clean energy is the future (ie, if we want to have a future)

5. Donald Trump is a dangerous moron

We hope very strongly that the European Greens will start using ...

2025-09-18T07:21:49Z

We hope very strongly that the European Greens will start using their Mastodon account again so we will not have to go to "X" to find them!

Jeg sat mange mange timer på Majorstue og ventet på trikken ...

2025-09-11T22:13:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…mjs3
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Jeg sat mange mange timer på Majorstue og ventet på trikken når jeg var student i Oslo. Jeg var glad før att perrongen var utomhus, så man fikk se himmelen og fikk litt frisk luft.

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2025-08-08T09:03:31Z

China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal ...

2025-08-03T07:49:15Z

China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58678907

Show this to all the NIMBYs you know: ...

2025-07-30T20:16:33Z

Show this to all the NIMBYs you know:

Rather charmed by the new word "granarchists" 😅 ...

2025-07-28T20:30:09Z

Rather charmed by the new word "granarchists" 😅

Nuclear will never be a safe, robust technology: ...

2025-07-23T14:30:52Z

Nuclear will never be a safe, robust technology:

https://www.theverge.com/news/712080/microsoft-sharepoint-hack-us-nuclear-weapons-agency

In 1971, the USA detonated a highly powerful nuclear bomb beneath ...

2025-07-20T11:04:59Z

In 1971, the USA detonated a highly powerful nuclear bomb beneath the surface of Amchitka Island, situated at the very end of the Aleutian islands, which are part of Alaska. Radioactivity continues to leak into the ocean, groundwater, and air in and around Amchitka. Outrage about this led to demonstrations in Canada, and was the reason GREENPEACE was founded.
Background article: https://nuclearprinceton.princeton.edu/amchitka-island
Video of the test: https://youtu.be/UPwSN9gUG5c?feature=shared

RT Cory Doctorow @doctorow Twitter gets worse every single day. ...

2025-06-28T14:53:45Z

RT Cory Doctorow @doctorow

Twitter gets worse every single day. Someday it will degrade beyond the point of usability. The Fediverse is our best hope for an enshittification-resistant alternative. I'm Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs). The Fediverse edition of today's threads is at: https://t.co/BxPjh2IUAq

Planning for The Flow Country World Heritage Site has been ...

2025-06-24T12:53:57Z

Planning for The Flow Country World Heritage Site has been recognised by an award from the Royal Town Planning Institute. Congratulations to everyone involved.

Read more here - https://highland.gov.uk/news/article/16709/planning_for_world_heritage_in_highland_wins_scottish_award

Greenpeace knocking it out of the park 😁 ...

2025-06-23T08:52:30Z

Greenpeace knocking it out of the park 😁
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/75832/everyone-hates-elon-and-greenpeace-unfold-giant-banner-on-piazza-san-marco-ahead-of-bezos-wedding/

This is one of the many reasons why we should switch to European ...

2025-06-23T07:28:47Z

This is one of the many reasons why we should switch to European technology platforms, and support and develop local capabilities. We must stop taking the line of least resistance.

Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using ...

2025-06-22T15:05:00Z

Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now
- Dale Vince
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/21/uk-trees-burned-green-drax-power-station

If all the other reasons for quitting Facebook, Instagram and ...

2025-06-03T18:13:07Z

If all the other reasons for quitting Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp are not enough for you as a Green then how do you feel about them BUYING AN AGEING NUKE PLANT and running it (they do not have the expertise), just so everyone can keep gossiping on FB?
Will Zuckerberg pay to store the radioactive waste as well? Will Zuckerberg pay if there's an accident?

Petition: Update air quality standards in Scotland to align with ...

2024-12-19T20:39:37Z

Petition: Update air quality standards in Scotland to align with 2021 World Health Organisation guidelines.
https://t.co/TC5J3Hs2Ai

Fort William folk: Local people and groups involved and ...

2024-11-13T22:12:07Z

Fort William folk: Local people and groups involved and interested in the environment and climate change would be encouraged to come along and hear how #Ecocide has been committed by Israel in this long ongoing conflict.

Ecocide threatens all human populations who are dependent on natural resources for maintaining ecosystems and ensuring their ability to support future generations.

Millions of trees have been destroyed and 800,000 🌿 olive trees are included in that number.