Kind of a bummer to come back from my parents' neighbourhood in central London that has moved on so much in 20 years (LTNs! Play streets! Cycle lanes galore! New pedestrianised spaces!) to the latest infrastructure shitshows at home.
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Rad veep at codebase, chief non technical officer at newstacks.co. 📍Edinburgh
Every day London shows me there are fabulous innovations in being posh
Cornish artist Kirsty Elson trawls the beaches of her home collecting driftwood as the raw material for her coastal scene sculptures #WomensArt
I've made it to the motherland of Highbury where I can confirm it's far too hot but the chippy is still half the price of Edinburgh equivalents and lets you bring your own booze for free
This is grim. If you show children that they're not allowed to enjoy something because people will make fun of them; all they learn is to hide what they like and to make fun of others. Your children are not a blank page on which you decide what to write.
Possum A-ko@kaiserbeamz.bsky.social · 3w agoCringe culture was always gonna lead to a trend of millennial parents banning their kids from watching anime so they don't grow up to be "weird."
![Disco Elysium style text box. It reads:
RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] — Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about populism. Scratch that, to coming up with the question about populism, the alpha and omega of populism questions, and that question is:
1. (Whisper.) "Is Count Binface the Establishment?"
2. Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kzsnqhdb3styakbudv3xtq4p/bafkreicg27jmn7f6syohe5d7au7dv2bmes77ec5ewugosphditdq72t73i)
Dude I saw you autosave before walking up to me whats up man we cool
Spotted in @edi.bike - not only a more pleasant way for me to get the kids to the meadows, but🤞🏻for a cute little pedestrianised drinking area for the home bar and whatever berties is now
People bang on about the various new baby animals at Edinburgh zoo but the real star is this ice cold fizzy water dispenser. Put em everywhere I say
Venus and Serena, or as they're collectively known, the Tennisy Williams
Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).
Wishlisting this straight away, love this kind of stuff with my less small child youtu.be/NpPimyyhpUk?...
Sandcastle Steam Trailer
YouTube video by Wholesome Games
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I don't know if the new M&S Food in Lothian Road consciously decided to pay homage to the previous tenant of their property, but at least it sort of works.
Hitting the ground running this week by having a lengthy chat with a colleague about preferred quiche temperature
(before the invention of tongs) hot hot hot hot hothothot
Hold me like a sloth cradling its slothling (Baby Atty at Edinburgh Zoo)
Seeing how close I can get to a robin with my phone, hoping to create a carousel in the process
The Scots found the Boston cop slide @everyone @edsbs.bsky.social @brianmfloyd.bsky.social @cjzero.bsky.social
RSPB buys Bass Rock after 300 years in private hands www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
RSPB buys Bass Rock after 300 years in private hands
The charity says the purchase is an important step in halting declining seabird numbers in the Firth of Forth.
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