writing
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A “top ten” library page sounded simple until music proved impossible to whittle down. New rule: one in, one out. First swap: Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah” in, Paolo Nutini’s “New Shoes” out, with every departing favourite archived below as a living tribute.
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A £13 Casio F-91W from Argos, unchanged since 1991, and why it’s started to feel like a political statement. A battery that lasts a decade, a back you can unscrew and fix, and a small act of resistance against an economy built on planned dissatisfaction.
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Doomscrolling before your feet hit the floor is a tool of the status quo. Borrowing from the Stoics, the dichotomy of control still applies to climate grief: I can’t rewrite energy policy before breakfast, but how I show up to fight for it is entirely mine to choose. Coffee up. Chin up. Let’s get to work.
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Should AI have rights? Thinking through the case for capacity over origin, the case against category errors and diluted accountability, and a slower middle ground built on duties before rights. If a book moves me, does it matter whether the author was human?
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26°C in Paisley isn’t a fluke anymore. A look at how Scotland’s climate is shifting, hotter summers, wetter winters, rising heat-related deaths and wildfire risk, and what it’ll take beyond clean energy to actually adapt.