Alan Nobleman
@duneslack.bsky.social
Make Rankeillor Street level and everything will be better.
Clegs! Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask.
Iain MacGilleBhràith@aeonmach.bsky.social · yesterdayMore than you might want to know about clegs (aka horseflies for southerners) by @countrysideben.bsky.social in @walkhighlands.co.uk newsletter. If you read until the end you will discover why imitating a zebra might deter them! PS I hate clegs 👍 www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/clegs-w...
Rail travel is a tricky one, for whilst trains are quieter, more comfortable and have less extreme temperatures than in the past, the older trains conformed to my ideas of travel from tales I’d read. I was already nostalgic when I was riding them in the 90s.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 20h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
The candidates standing in the upcoming Southside/Newington (Ward 15) and Portobello/Craigmillar (Ward 17) by-elections have been announced. 23 candidates will stand in these by-elections, which will elect one new councillor per ward, on Thurs 3 Sep. www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article...
Leftist bubble? I’m not even sure that most people I follow on here are actually syndicalists at all.
Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d agoThe new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4
There’s no good reason, but it feels like this picture of the sand at Portobello beach should have the ripples going horizontally.
Red alert, Earth scientists! Great Oxidation Event in the @science.org news! www.science.org/content/arti... Well, the GOE is always in the news here at Eos, even existentially. I mean: How great *was* the Great Oxidation Event, anyway? 🤔 eos.org/agu-news/a-p... eos.org/science-upda...
AI has so much potential to help kids understand numbers.
you say aren’t there pills for dread and I say it was it was it was things it was things in tears it was things in tears it was tears themselves it was fear of the tears in things for the things in tears ah well ‘Smile’, a poem by Anne Carson. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anne Carson · Poem: ‘Smile’
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I may genuinely have missed this, but has Mr Burnham made a statement on the wildfires around Britain and across Europe?
Downing Street “North” appears to be around 1000km from the top of Shetland but about 600km from Penzance. How does that make sense?
I think it’s grand that the catering trolley comes off the train at Crianlarich just as your breakfast is feeling distant.
Just realising that I have no idea at all of any kind of protocol around quote posting.
There is no point in the guard making announcements on the West Highland Line. “Scotland’s noisiest train” TM
Edinburgh Trams to Newhaven 'must be resumed urgently' after Princes Street fire www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
Edinburgh Trams to Newhaven 'must be resumed urgently' after Princes Street fire
Call for four trams to escorted through fire zone to provide shuttle service from Picardy Place
scotsman.com
EV adverts suffer from a big problem. They can’t highlight their biggest benefits: clean air, less GHG, quieter etc without making it clear that the companies other products are the bad stuff.
Merino is going to be uncomfortably hot in these conditions.
10 in the morning and there already a stench of fire in Portobello beach. Mindless pollution.
“If you are Scottish… the sort of person who was in an upper stream at school, it’s probable that SUNSET SONG already holds a place in your mental closet. If you aren’t, you may never have heard of it” —Jenny Turner on Lewis Grassic Gibbon for the @lrb.co.uk 💙📚 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jenny Turner · Hated and Loved in a Breath: On Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Gibbon’s new and self-created version of the modernist sentence mixes Scots and English to resemble ‘a meandering,...
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I genuinely thought this meant the ZZ Top live album.
SickosFC@sickosfc.bsky.social · 3w agoGoing up to the bartender and asking them to put on Fandango. I’m dying 💀
Once again we have 'odd ones out' syndrome benansell.substack.com/p/odd-ones-out
Odd Ones Out
Mapping Britain's social values and the marginalisation of the 'anti-woke'
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YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 3w agoAn ECIU study has found that three quarters of media coverage of the June heatwave did not mention climate change - our recent poll found 71% of Britons think climate change was a likely cause of the high temperatures yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
Residents urged to immediately leave Bonnington Bond flats over 'high fire risk'
Residents urged to immediately leave Bonnington Bond flats over 'high fire risk'
Fire safety investigations at the Bonnington Bond revealed serious issues with the building's cladding and insulation.
bbc.co.uk
Nothing says “this insurance company knows my country” than using an AI generated map of Belgium that puts Ghent in Wallonie, gives us two Namurs and a south coast on the Med.
🚨 BREAKING: The EU's Electrification Action Plan has leaked. Having read the full draft, my verdict: the diagnosis is right and there are lots of nuggets of gold in the Plans. The question now is whether the ambition survives into law. My analysis: janrosenow.substack.com/p/europes-el...
Europe’s electrification rate has been stuck at 23% for a decade. The Commission finally has a plan.
The Commission's leaked Electrification Action Plan could finally accelerate Europe's stalled transition, if it delivers on electricity prices and implementation.
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