Alan Fresco
@alanf.bsky.social
An opinionated Edinburger mainly interested in the outdoors, science and politics.
Currently raging against the dying of the light.
Currently raging against the dying of the light.
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It’s staying wet across much of the UK this week, with rainfall totals set to rise significantly in places 🌧️
Stay prepared and keep up to date with the latest forecast ⚠️
Stay prepared and keep up to date with the latest forecast ⚠️
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
It’s staying wet across much of the UK this week, with rainfall totals set to rise significantly in places 🌧️
Stay prepared and keep up to date with the latest forecast ⚠️
Stay prepared and keep up to date with the latest forecast ⚠️
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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News just in: Lord of the Rings not actually fiction
World's biggest spiderweb discovered on the Albanian-Greek border
This is the first evidence of colonial behaviour in two common spider species and probably represents the largest spider web in the world.
www.euronews.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
News just in: Lord of the Rings not actually fiction
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
It's only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured in Edinburgh as a result of a collision around one of these things. There have been two collisions at the chicane by the Longstone bus garage to my knowledge as well.
Is the council interested?
@edinburghminute.bsky.social
Is the council interested?
@edinburghminute.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It's only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured in Edinburgh as a result of a collision around one of these things. There have been two collisions at the chicane by the Longstone bus garage to my knowledge as well.
Is the council interested?
@edinburghminute.bsky.social
Is the council interested?
@edinburghminute.bsky.social
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If only Fox News or GB News were held to even 100th of the standard that the BBC is expected to operate.
Nandy needs to offer full throated support for the organisation. I fear she won't.
Nandy needs to offer full throated support for the organisation. I fear she won't.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
If only Fox News or GB News were held to even 100th of the standard that the BBC is expected to operate.
Nandy needs to offer full throated support for the organisation. I fear she won't.
Nandy needs to offer full throated support for the organisation. I fear she won't.
In the forty years I climbed I was never tempted to go to Everest. There are so many ways you can die that have nothing to do with skill or fitness.
There's the commercial aspect too. Many of those red flags paid $50k to get there and a lot of the others were paid to take them.
There's the commercial aspect too. Many of those red flags paid $50k to get there and a lot of the others were paid to take them.
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In the forty years I climbed I was never tempted to go to Everest. There are so many ways you can die that have nothing to do with skill or fitness.
There's the commercial aspect too. Many of those red flags paid $50k to get there and a lot of the others were paid to take them.
There's the commercial aspect too. Many of those red flags paid $50k to get there and a lot of the others were paid to take them.
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For me this is the most damning piece of evidence that the BBC wasn’t impartial in the gender/sex debate.
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
For me this is the most damning piece of evidence that the BBC wasn’t impartial in the gender/sex debate.
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Palestinian woman Umm Zuhri Shweiki was forcibly expelled from her home in occupied East Jerusalem by Israeli forces, who seized and emptied her house before handing it to Israeli settlers.
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Palestinian woman Umm Zuhri Shweiki was forcibly expelled from her home in occupied East Jerusalem by Israeli forces, who seized and emptied her house before handing it to Israeli settlers.
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Tim Davie ex BBC Director General is a woke, liberal chai latte drinking socialist who promotes subversive politics. He deserves his sacking!
What?
He’s a Tory?😳
He was ex chair of Hammersmith & Fulham Conservative Party?
Reinstate him NOW!
The BBC needs people of his calbre!
What?
He’s a Tory?😳
He was ex chair of Hammersmith & Fulham Conservative Party?
Reinstate him NOW!
The BBC needs people of his calbre!
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Tim Davie ex BBC Director General is a woke, liberal chai latte drinking socialist who promotes subversive politics. He deserves his sacking!
What?
He’s a Tory?😳
He was ex chair of Hammersmith & Fulham Conservative Party?
Reinstate him NOW!
The BBC needs people of his calbre!
What?
He’s a Tory?😳
He was ex chair of Hammersmith & Fulham Conservative Party?
Reinstate him NOW!
The BBC needs people of his calbre!
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
1
CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
8
CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
9
CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
10
HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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Anyone know his diary for the last, say, 10 remembrance Sundays. When he wasn't using it as an ad campaign
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Anyone know his diary for the last, say, 10 remembrance Sundays. When he wasn't using it as an ad campaign
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One of the guests partying at Mar-a-Lago was Nigel Farage, by the way. For my British followers.
Guests eating fancy dinners in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago ballroom as American families stand in line at food banks
November 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
One of the guests partying at Mar-a-Lago was Nigel Farage, by the way. For my British followers.
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My vision as BBC Director General:
* More Jonathan Meades documentaries.
* 70% less soundtrack on Doctor Who; remaining soundtrack to be experimental electronica.
* Newsnight Review is back (without Pearson, obviously).
* Events on BBC game shows no longer reported as news.
* No Chris Mason.
* More Jonathan Meades documentaries.
* 70% less soundtrack on Doctor Who; remaining soundtrack to be experimental electronica.
* Newsnight Review is back (without Pearson, obviously).
* Events on BBC game shows no longer reported as news.
* No Chris Mason.
Am willing to be BBC DG but only if they let me bring back Moviedrome.
November 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
My vision as BBC Director General:
* More Jonathan Meades documentaries.
* 70% less soundtrack on Doctor Who; remaining soundtrack to be experimental electronica.
* Newsnight Review is back (without Pearson, obviously).
* Events on BBC game shows no longer reported as news.
* No Chris Mason.
* More Jonathan Meades documentaries.
* 70% less soundtrack on Doctor Who; remaining soundtrack to be experimental electronica.
* Newsnight Review is back (without Pearson, obviously).
* Events on BBC game shows no longer reported as news.
* No Chris Mason.
Well phuqmegently.
Apparently rolling out the red carpet for Reform can be done with impunity but make one bad edit that's critical of the right...
Apparently rolling out the red carpet for Reform can be done with impunity but make one bad edit that's critical of the right...
Just nuts. Caving in to Trump that easily doesn't bode well for Britain in general.
BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit
Davie says
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Well phuqmegently.
Apparently rolling out the red carpet for Reform can be done with impunity but make one bad edit that's critical of the right...
Apparently rolling out the red carpet for Reform can be done with impunity but make one bad edit that's critical of the right...
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Grok make me a picture showing what barely concealed hatred looks like
November 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Grok make me a picture showing what barely concealed hatred looks like
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I wouldn't think bears can just float like that. Interesting!
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I wouldn't think bears can just float like that. Interesting!
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Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
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“In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error, including a series of serious offenders.
“At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.”
“At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.”
How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
The 'Great Noticing' Era
Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error, including a series of serious offenders.
“At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.”
“At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.”
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"...it was at this point I felt the malevolent spirit of an odious, dumpy little racist enter my body and possess my typing finger..."
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
"...it was at this point I felt the malevolent spirit of an odious, dumpy little racist enter my body and possess my typing finger..."
When Elon Musk being responsible for over 500000 deaths and assorted other fascist billionaires trying to re engineer the world to put the rest of us into miserable servitude, Gates' interventions on the priorities of eliminating disease vs. fighting climate change are positively benign.
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
When Elon Musk being responsible for over 500000 deaths and assorted other fascist billionaires trying to re engineer the world to put the rest of us into miserable servitude, Gates' interventions on the priorities of eliminating disease vs. fighting climate change are positively benign.
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If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 AM
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...