Reminder that the Leith St. Andrews Trust Open Day is tomorrow (Saturday 5th Sept) - please come along to see the plans in store for this community hub. #Edinburgh #Leith #Community #LeithStAndrewsTrust #ILoveLeith #EasterRoad

Sheila Masson@sheilamasson.bsky.social · last wk.

Leithers! Please stop by this open day at Leith St. Andrew's Church at the foot of Easter Road on Sept 6th! LSAT hopes to keep it as a community hub/asset & out of the hands of developers. There will be free live music & performances all day. #Leith #Edinburgh #Community #EasterRoad

Coming soon! Our volunteer-guided tours are sold out for Saturday 26th Sept but we have free self-guided tours. So if you've ever wanted to have a wander around Warriston & discover some of our history, now's the time. #heritageatrisk #doorsopendays2026 www.doorsopendays.org.uk/regions/edin...

Chatting about the Edinburgh photographer Archibald Burns, who featured in David Olusoga's House Through Time, I was led to his grave by Sheila, from Friends of Warriston Cemetery (where we were at the time and he is for all time). @spurtle.bsky.social

Who would ever have thought that we would fall so far that we now face a need to defend Democracy from the president. #VoteBlue up and down the ballots and don’t sit out the Midterms.

Whether in-person or by mail, your right to vote is sacred. I am disturbed by this whistleblower report out of USPS. Trump’s effort to rush new digital mail ballot rules is a blatant attempt to sow chaos ahead of the midterms that jeopardizes millions of votes.

Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midterms

A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed.

npr.org

We can't trust the FDA. We can't trust the DOJ. We can't trust the EPA. We can't trust the CDC. We can't trust the IRS. We can't trust the FCC. We can't trust the DOD. We can't trust BLM. We can't trust the DHA. We can't trust SCOTUS. And now we can't trust the USPS. #MAGAIsADisease

NEW: A bombshell whistleblower report alleged that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) brazenly violated multiple court orders to secretly advance President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting ahead of the upcoming midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

USPS repeatedly defied courts to advance Trump’s mail voting attack, whistleblower alleges

The whistleblower also said the Postal Service disregarded orders as the DOJ was seeking legal relief from the Supreme Court.

democracydocket.com

How it started… how it’s going

Leithers! Please stop by this open day at Leith St. Andrew's Church at the foot of Easter Road on Sept 6th! LSAT hopes to keep it as a community hub/asset & out of the hands of developers. There will be free live music & performances all day. #Leith #Edinburgh #Community #EasterRoad

Scotland needs a moratorium on new data centres. Thousands of people have already made their voices heard. Join us in writing today to the First Minister to demand an urgent pause on hyperscale AI data centres in Scotland. greens.scot/datacentres

Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland

Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland -

greens.scot

I agree. Trump is far from being a hero. #Blues

Today, on everyone’s screen.

Allotment bees having their supper last night. #Bees

#StainedGlass Once the Conservative Club in Princes Street, Edinburgh, then Debenhams and now site of a major fire overnight. Window in memory of Disraeli, by James Ballantine and Son. Probably now destroyed.

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

I spotted two of the three fox kits sunbathing at the allotment yesterday.

WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣

“Now I support people in the groups. I’m a group lead and work on the allotment. I love it here. I think it stems from my gran's garden. I loved being outdoors. I believe it’s a connection with nature.” 👏🥇https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/dad-who-was-drinking-247-11048073.amp

Dad who 'was drinking 24/7' now an award-winning volunteer

Craig went from drinking eight to twelve litres of cider a day and being hospitalised to working as a group lead and allotment volunteer for the charity that helped him get sober

grimsbytelegraph.co.uk

Scotland is currently facing a wave of speculative hyper-scale data centre planning applications. With 24 proposals for major new sites in Scotland, if all are approved they will consume up to 6000 megawatts of power - more than 1.5 times Scotland’s total peak power use now.

Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland

Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland -

greens.scot

I am this cat

'Ann with Indoor Plants.' (1971) Alfred Heyworth's career-long fascination with painting indoor plants began with his friendship with Lucian Freud. His works capture the individual characteristics, form, and texture of many plants including aspidistra, tradescantia, and ficus.

This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.

☀️A reminder to please, please put a shallow dish of clean water in your gardens, allotments, driveways, local wild spaces, schools and workplaces this week💦🙏 (placing a rock in the centre will help any insects that might fall in)

Does anyone know if Andy Burnham likes cats?

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

i literally just wanted to own a two bedroom home in a walkable neighborhood where i can have three cats and a dog and wear nice outfits to go feed pigeons and now society is about to collapse

Join award-winning photographer Alicia Bruce for an exciting portrait workshop responding to Hill & Adamson’s The Fisherwomen and Men of the Firth of Forth. Friday 12th June 10am-1pm. #Photography #Edinburgh #Newhaven #HillAndAdamson #PhotoHistory #AliciaBruce events.humanitix.com/portrait-wor...

Portrait Workshop: After Hill and Adamson

Join us for a morning portraiture class inspired by Hill & Adamson's photographs of fisherwomen, with two lovely models in period clothing to photograph.

events.humanitix.com

An amazing result for Edinburgh and Lothians East! Not only Edinburgh's first constituency win but also the first time we've had 4 MSPs in the region. This is a massive tribute to our remarkable volunteers. A huge thanks to everyone who voted Green- now is the time to join! greens.scot/join

Your new record-breaking group of 15 Scottish Green MSPs!