David Brennan
@magnatom.bsky.social
Rambling skeeterings from the mind of a Glaswegian helmet camera multi-modalist. + renewable heating, energy and a pinch of politics. CEO of a biotech. He/him
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David Brennan
@magnatom.bsky.social
· Jan 6
In 2025 I'm going to post more videos of dangerous driving that I witness when out riding my bike. These will be incidents that I don't report to @policescotland.bsky.social because the reporting system is antiquated & time consuming & the courts don't take them seriously I'll use #DNRPoliceScotland
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Oh dear.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Oh dear.
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Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
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Active travel funding is being cut in Scotland. 😩
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Active travel funding is being cut in Scotland. 😩
Active travel funding is being cut in Scotland. 😩
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Active travel funding is being cut in Scotland. 😩
Fantastic night watching Australian Pink Floyd!
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Fantastic night watching Australian Pink Floyd!
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Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
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Let me sum up the new "everything else seems old fashioned" campaign from BYD: Cars are cool everything else isn't. (breakthrough stuff here 🙄)
The only thing more old fashioned than riding a horse is positioning a car as the better way forward.
The only thing more old fashioned than riding a horse is positioning a car as the better way forward.
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Let me sum up the new "everything else seems old fashioned" campaign from BYD: Cars are cool everything else isn't. (breakthrough stuff here 🙄)
The only thing more old fashioned than riding a horse is positioning a car as the better way forward.
The only thing more old fashioned than riding a horse is positioning a car as the better way forward.
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Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!
The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019.
Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.
Code UFB!!!
The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019.
Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!
The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019.
Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.
Code UFB!!!
The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019.
Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.
Had to get a taxi this morning. Taxi driver was telling me about a cyclist who wears a helmet camera in the area. Complains about drivers being too close when they aren't. Apparently cycles with a trailer now (I do on Sundays for click & collect). Actually he was decent & said cyclists need cameras
November 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Had to get a taxi this morning. Taxi driver was telling me about a cyclist who wears a helmet camera in the area. Complains about drivers being too close when they aren't. Apparently cycles with a trailer now (I do on Sundays for click & collect). Actually he was decent & said cyclists need cameras
Watch out folks the fake images of a kid in black clothes is doing the rounds again... 🙄 irishcycle.com/2019/10/25/m...
Minister Ross promotes high-vis with hoax image of child crossing road blacked out
— Motorists need to slow down at crossing and children at a zebra crossing shouldn’t be the unexpected, says campaigners. Transport minister Shane Ross, Westmeath County Council, Cork C…
irishcycle.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Watch out folks the fake images of a kid in black clothes is doing the rounds again... 🙄 irishcycle.com/2019/10/25/m...
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Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
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What a great idea for a map: the blue areas are closer to space than to the sea.
brilliantmaps.com/sea-vs-sapce/
brilliantmaps.com/sea-vs-sapce/
October 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
What a great idea for a map: the blue areas are closer to space than to the sea.
brilliantmaps.com/sea-vs-sapce/
brilliantmaps.com/sea-vs-sapce/
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October 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC
The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.
www.lbc.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
How did we get to a point where people would be happy to say these things in public?! The racists are loud and proud now. 😩
Today, UK Reform party MP Sarah Pochin told Talk TV "it drives me mad seeing adverts full of Black people, full of Asian people ... People who are anything other than white."
Reform MP says it ‘drives me mad seeing adverts full of black and Asian people’
Reform MP Sarah Pochin claimed it “drives me mad seeing adverts full of black and Asian people” during a live television phone in. The Runcorn and Helsby MP appeared on TalkTV on Saturday (25 October)...
www.independent.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
How did we get to a point where people would be happy to say these things in public?! The racists are loud and proud now. 😩
Never has it been more important for us to keep accurate historical records in a way that can't be corrupted. This twisting of historical facts is only going to get worse.
Trump: "They cheated on a commercial. Ronald Reagan loved tariffs and they said he didn't. And I guess it was AI or something. They cheated badly. Canada got caught cheating on a commercial. Can you believe it?"
October 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Never has it been more important for us to keep accurate historical records in a way that can't be corrupted. This twisting of historical facts is only going to get worse.
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Please, please, please, stop installing and using wood burners. Your wish to have a wee, nice cosy fire puts lives at risk. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wood burners linked to 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, analysis finds
Use of wood-burning stoves and fires in homes is mostly unnecessary and their toxic pollution costs the NHS millions
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Please, please, please, stop installing and using wood burners. Your wish to have a wee, nice cosy fire puts lives at risk. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🇨🇦 Canada is sending out agents into the streets of Toronto to deal with foreigners
October 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🇨🇦 Canada is sending out agents into the streets of Toronto to deal with foreigners
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$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
October 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
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Of course.
Breaking NYT:
Trump is demanding the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.
Senior department officials who were Trump's defense lawyers are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump is demanding the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.
Senior department officials who were Trump's defense lawyers are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Of course.
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This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
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I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons
October 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons
Spent the day up a mountain. Was a tad misty. First Munro in a few years. Hopefully more to come.
October 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Spent the day up a mountain. Was a tad misty. First Munro in a few years. Hopefully more to come.
In my village (Torrance) there is a proposal for 20mph speed limits. As expected there is a backlash to this. One of the main arguments is the delays it will cause. So let's examine this. The main road through Torrance is 0.58 miles long. At 30mph that would take 1 min 10 secs. At 20mph that ...
October 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
In my village (Torrance) there is a proposal for 20mph speed limits. As expected there is a backlash to this. One of the main arguments is the delays it will cause. So let's examine this. The main road through Torrance is 0.58 miles long. At 30mph that would take 1 min 10 secs. At 20mph that ...