Details of #ScotGov owned #ScotRail timetable changes; good to see extra #trains on Sundays on many routes, making #CarFree leisure travel more do-able.
(But when did ScotRail remove the few other operator services from their timetables? Not helpful for full overview of #Inverness + #Aberdeen #InterCity trains and especially not for #EastLothian travellers! #Integration is much more important than hiding other services out of spite and making travel options look worse!)
https://www.scotrail.co.uk/plan-your-journey/changes-our-timetables
@karochan3 as it has had, consistently, since 2015.
It hasn't done us any good, and won't do us any good while the #SNP remain douce and couthie and respectable.
"#Westminster says no" cannot be allowed to be a block on democracy for ever. We're going to need organised resistance -- things like shutting down the cross border electricity interconnectors. Obviously those are things #ScotGov can't do -- but if it can't, it needs to support a civil movement that can.
The SNP candidate secured close to 50% of the vote in my constituency in the 2021 #ScotGov #election, such that I fear that my vote won’t make the slightest bit of difference in next week’s election.
Anyway, handed off my postal ballot to the postie this afternoon. #CivicDuty and all that.
Great to see it confirmed that #ScotRail will replace the (sadly) “past best before date” IC125s with Class 222 #trains on #InterCity services, with 6 bike spaces, catering, charging sockets, etc, and that they hope these will start to enter service from late 2027.
(Sadly still diseasels, while the #ScotGov ongoing electrification programme gradually extends northwards.)
https://www.scotrail.co.uk/about-scotrail/news/scotrail-announces-plans-to-replace-high-speed-trains
I don't think that adopting #OpenSource software for government administration functions would leave Scotland 'stuck with choosing between US... or EU cloud services', @thecommongreen.
After all, 'cloud' is just space you've hired on someone else's server infrastructure, and it would be more economic long term for #ScotGov to invest in its own.
https://thecommongreen.scot/2026/01/17/scotland-could-lead-the-uk-by-upholding-international-law/
"There is no serious question that if #Trump so ordered it, Microsoft could deliberately shut down all services to the Scottish Government and our public sector and the Government must now react as if this is just as much a risk to our democracy as if it was discovered that Putin could send the same order to the same effect" -- @thecommongreen
#ScotPol
#ScotGov
#DigitalIndependence
https://thecommongreen.scot/2026/01/17/scotland-could-lead-the-uk-by-upholding-international-law/
"If the Scottish Government can’t close Prestwick, Wick or other Scottish airports they own to hostile or illegally operating US military traffic the way it did for Israeli military traffic in 2024 then officials there should do everything in their power to make it as difficult as possible for the US to use those facilities" -- does #ScotGov not now wholly own Prestwick, @thecommongreen ? You'd think they could just block US flights there.
https://thecommongreen.scot/2026/01/17/scotland-could-lead-the-uk-by-upholding-international-law/
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