Tried the new Lance Hedrick Moka Pot recipe this morning and had my socks knocked clean off. Game. Changing. Also, who doesn’t love a 30-min video on coffee making? ☕️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmvE...

The Moka Pot, But Actually Good

YouTube video by Lance Hedrick

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This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

When browsing in iOS increasingly more and more websites have been using JavaScript to detect DNS sinkhole blocking and then halting ALL usage of the site. Highly annoying. Upgraded to Wipr2 this morning finally after a decade on Wipr1. Problem sites are no longer a problem. £5 well spent.

Anagach Woods report: A cacophony of Coal Tits. Wrens, Robins, and Chaffinches. Making joyful appearances: Goldcrests, Tree Creepers, and the much appreciated Crested Tits. Back to Leith this afternoon. Until next time, Speyside!

Coffee thought his morning, and question asked without any sort of research before putting it out into the wild wide web: I wonder if there are statistics for how many EVs go into thermal runaway and and up being a large sized BBQ. If there are, I wonder what that % is.

Carrot Weather remains one of my favourite weather apps ever. It also has geographical challenges where it asks you to find landmarks on a map. Pretty fun. Today’s Lake Ontario challenge notes just add to the love.

There's something amazing about being in a peloton of 40+ bikes on the cycle lane heading home. Every driver at the front of a queue of side-street traffic... every person peering out of a bus window... every passer-by gets the message: "Oh wow, yeah, people are using this stuff". Never gets old.

"I am a 91 year old who used to nip about by car" ... Now he's a 🚲 campaigner in #Colinton! 👍 An example to us all! @edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @chdot.bsky.social @cllrconorsavage.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @sw20.info @longstonecc.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social @osbert.org

The broken paving on the continuous footway at Dalmeny St / Leith Walk has been repaired with tarmac, undermining the whole design. It now looks like pedestrians and cyclists are crossing a road, rather than drivers crossing a continuous footway.

This morning’s coffee thought: There are roasters all over the world that coffee enthusiasts order from to try their beans. Big names. Great roasts. I have tried 8 roasters in Edinburgh, 9 including E. Lothian. The carbon footprint for shipping retail coffee all over the world must be massive.

Went on a 70km gravel/road ride winding our way to Dunbar last night with some friends, then train back. Been a hard summer - illness and life getting in the way of riding. A healing type of ride, with night riding, singletrack, and good vibes. £11 for a fish supper, that included DOUBLE FISH. 🤯

Replace London with any UK city. Weather has less to do with active travel uptake, and safe infrastructure is everything.

AZB@azb2019.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Londoners don’t need cycling infrastructure because they’ll only ride when the weather is nice. As soon as it rains they won’t ride”

Having this discussion last night with a friend. What happened to the ultra rich just throwing money at infrastructure, civic buildings, parks, bridges, etc. and putting their name on it as a form of forever prestige - instead of hoarding / buying elections. I think about this often.

🚲 NEWS: More bikes than cars on Leith Walk in morning rush hour; record cycle counts and record cycling modal share on multiple routes in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Delve into the latest data from Cycling Scotland traffic surveys and cycle counter analysis: buff.ly/IoWdSMB

#EdTravelCyc there must have been problems with the sequence of lights at the top of leith walk as more than 20 bikes were queued up yesterday (5:20pm-ish)

Schrodinger's traffic lights at the bottom of Leith Walk - can cyclists still be accused of jumping reds if there aren't lights to jump?

We’re:
— Redesigning our most dangerous streets. 
— Regulating delivery apps. 
— Lowering speed limits where children play.
— Upgrading 1,000 intersections every year. 
— Cracking down on dangerous drivers and super speeders. 
— Improving our street lights.
— Building safe, beautiful public spaces.

This is what leadership within a city looks like to make meaningful change to improve the lives and safety of its people.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York.  That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.

No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York.  That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.

Debating whether I need to make it part of my personality the explanation of setts vs. cobblestones, and then reminding people of the difference when they get it wrong.

Trying to think if I’ve ever heard the phrase, “I loved visiting X-City, it was just so easy to drive and park there!”

Copenhagen increased active travel rates from 36% to 62% in fourteen years; it’s taken Edinburgh six years to build then rip out the Braids quiet route and Roseburn path extension to Silverknowes. We’re not just doing badly, we’re stuck in reverse

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

This is cool— apparently @adamtranter.bsky.social transformed a street parking space into a parklet (mini park/public space), but the municipality removed it because it wasn’t a mother vehicle. So he did this. Nice job. And dumb interpretation by city hall. Via Marco Te BrommelStroet on LinkedIn.

Some of our friends from Japan are visiting and staying with us, and brought me something special. If you’re a pourover geek … you know just how rare it is to have one of these in Europe right now. Hario Alpha Switch Ceramic. Saying I am STOKED to make coffee tomorrow morning is an understatement.

New bonobo-album-day today. 🤩🤩🤩

I’m glad that 3 parties: SNP, Labour and Greens have agreed a way forward on Edinburgh #Trams. There is now a way forward on tram to Bioquarter. More work is needed to deliver on the commitment to ensure Granton gets a mass transit connection in the future.

New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

In news not related to anything going on locally: Somehow I got my Legend of Zelda 40th anniversary Switch2 preordered yesterday. Bike fit redial this afternoon. Friends visiting from Japan are bringing me a Hario Switch Alpha Ceramic pourover tomorrow. Arranging MCM Ladderax today. #millennial

Glasgow doing a great job providing those inspiring before and after photos. We only have the before ones in Edinburgh……

Mark McIntyre@markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 4w ago

Looking south along Queen Street, at the western end of George Square in Glasgow city centre. Image 1 from 2016, image 2 from today.

#EdinburghTram 🙋 To clarify the headline (as the article explains).. Over 50% of Spokes members do agree with #tram beside #Roseburn path, but over 50% also agree with the Orchard Brae route! Explanation is that 30% are happy with *either* route Over 80% support the principle of north extension

Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco@joshpizpom.bsky.social · 4w ago

A survey of Spokes members has found majority support for trams on the Roseburn Path. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2652783...