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Steven Herd
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Account Director at Hot Tin Roof PR | interested in robots, renewables and the occasional rotatey disker.
Thank crunchie it's Friday 🫠
March 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I pitched this way back in October of last year, so over the moon that it finally made its way onto the airwaves last night 👇
March 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Feel free to project your own metaphor...
March 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Easing into the weekend like:
March 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Mother of mercy - all six escalators functional and operating at Waverly Steps this morning. What a time to be alive.
March 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Tonight's dining room disco 😙👌
March 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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We're at Westminster today for the launch of @awrc.bsky.social "Prevention Legacy for the NHS" report. Watch our colleague @davidleemedia.bsky.social quickfire explainer from this key event reshaping preventative healthcare in the NHS 👇

#PreventionLegacy #NHS #PublicHealth #PhysicalActivity
March 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Build it here: Scotland’s £321m opportunity in robotics manufacturing. Government commitment to emerging technologies such as AI and robotics can 'fundamentally transform' Scotland’s role in global robotics revolution, says National Robotarium CEO
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futurescot.com/build-it-her...
Build it here: Scotland's £321m opportunity in robotics manufacturing | FutureScot
Scottish Government's £321 million supporting technologies including AI and robotics can transform Scotland's role in global robotics
futurescot.com
December 12, 2024 at 3:12 PM
There's me thinking that battling pre-Christmas deadlines is tough, when it's my youngest who's really been in the wars this week...
December 10, 2024 at 9:59 AM
It's been a hell of a week at HTR HQ - and I've loved every second of it.
What a week! 😮‍💨 From Audit Scotland's NHS report to the #ScottishBudget - 2️⃣ major stories, 2️⃣ rapid responses for our client #TheNationalRobotarium scoring primetime BBC Radio coverage + national news hits.

Want a PR team that's actually obsessed with news? DM us.

www.hottinroof.co.uk/services/
December 6, 2024 at 10:27 AM
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What does a minority government, £21bn health spend & island tunnels tell us about the latest #ScottishBudget?

Our partners at PA Cooperative cut through the noise in this analysis of Holyrood's spending plans and potential parliamentary alignments.

🔗: www.hottinroof.co.uk/what-scotlan...
Follow the money: What Scotland's latest budget tells us about power at Holyrood - Hot Tin Roof
Neil Cuthbert from our public affairs partners at PA Cooperative breaks down what’s really happening in this year’s Scottish Budget. The budget has become a major set-piece of the year, particularly n...
www.hottinroof.co.uk
December 5, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Moving to Red Bull and now this crushed-velvet hellscape. Man was a fraud all along.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Jürgen Klopp’s former mansion tops Rightmove’s views list for 2024
Former Liverpool manager’s rented home fends off 27-bedroom Wytham Abbey as website’s most-viewed property
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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What the hell kind of nonsense is this. Even under the worst possible interpretation of events, I wouldn't give two fucks what she did when she was in her twenties.
November 29, 2024 at 6:47 AM
Did not have Kirsty Wark taking down Gregg Wallace on my 2024 Bingo card.
November 28, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Our house, is a very, very, very cold house 🥶
November 28, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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Nothing more damning than the quote marks that Hansard have put around Kemi Badenoch's biscuit puns.
November 27, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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You can read a little primer on next week's budget on this week's @holyroodmag.bsky.social

www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Scottish Budget: Who will broker a deal with the SNP government?
With the Scottish Government’s budget about to be published, party politics is as high on the agenda as spending priorit...
www.holyrood.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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Trump has announced new, blanket tariffs on all imports from China, Canada and Mexico on his first day in office.

Here is the main trading partner of every US state.

I'm sure everything will be fine.

(Source: Andy Kiersz, Business Insider using data from US Census Bureau, 2015)
November 26, 2024 at 3:00 PM
"The UK continues to lag behind its G7 counterparts in robotics adoption... This gap between potential and reality makes 2025 a crucial year."

www.theengineer.co.uk/content/opin...
Robotics in 2025: The key developments set to transform industry and society - The Engineer
Dr Ingo Keller shares expert insights on the developments that can be expected in robotics over the next 12 months.
www.theengineer.co.uk
November 26, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Pages and pages of people frothing about Jaguar's re-brand. Will car brands even matter if the future is self-driving cars? Do you know, or care, who manufactured the last bus you sat on?
November 23, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Can confirm the quick fire 'speak to the press' game is anxiety-inducing.
📲MP for a week!

This game is aimed at young people to give them a virtual taste of life as an MP and the range of roles a Member of Parliament has. Share with schools or groups who would like to have a go ⬇️

learning.parliament.uk/mp-for-a-wee...

UK Parliament Week (18-24 November) #UKPW
MP for a Week Interactive Game
A game to test your skills at filling the shoes of an MP for a week
learning.parliament.uk
November 22, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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There's something I need people to understand.

The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad.

The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.
Coca-Cola’s newest Christmas commercial was made using AI.
November 20, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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“You will see content from the people you follow” being a big thing to announce really shows how these morons came and destroyed everything good about the internet.
Bluesky has 'em shook
November 21, 2024 at 9:21 PM
My eldest keeps telling me I need to remember to take more photos when out and about for work, so here, have a robot 🤖
November 21, 2024 at 6:45 PM