Big Fez
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85% of wrong political opinions can be avoided simply by asking the question 'and what do you think the *other* person will do then?'
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Josh Sternberg
about 15 hours ago
Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
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This is a great idea, during what's often the crappest time of year for a lot of folk - middle of January. All gigs are free!
www.leithjazz.com
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Leith Winter Blues Weekend | Free Gigs in Edinburgh's Coolest Neighbourhood
Discover exciting performances at the Leith Jazz & Blues Festival. Check our programme, venue details, buy merch and involvement opportunities.
https://www.leithjazz.com/
about 23 hours ago
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Okay evidently most of you saw this a fortnight ago but i only saw it today so am sharing just in case anyone else missed out on their wee greet
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2 days ago
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Can I interest you in hearing about our lord and saviour MMT?
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Ross McKenzie
4 days ago
Locally and nationally,
@scottishgreens.org
are representing working-class interests and providing a real left-wing alternative - the very things I had hoped to do as a Labour councillor. I will continue to spend every day trying my very best to serve the people of Sighthill/Gorgie.
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Edinburgh independent councillor Ross McKenzie joins Greens
Edinburgh independent councillor Ross McKenzie has joined the Greens nearly three years after he quit the Labour party.
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-independent-councillor-ross-mckenzie-joins-greens-5432908?utm_social_post_id=618003816&utm_social_handle_id=34580330
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Paint is a scam. Oh, you've got some kind of mark on your paint? No, you can't get that off. Just need to buy more paint I guess!
5 days ago
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Nigel Bagshaw
7 days ago
You can choose what your city looks like.
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(arguing with the assembly instructions:) I'm not an ambi-kneeler, goddammit!
7 days ago
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John Scalzi
10 days ago
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Lottie
10 days ago
Totally 1) devastated and 2) livid at this. I was a Brownie leader for ten years and a Brownie/Guide/Ranger and it’s such a valuable and underestimated safe space for young girls and women to develop confidence and find refuge, whatever their background or identity. This is so incredibly cruel.
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Emily ✨🎄
11 days ago
Algorithmic social media is such poison. I literally use TikTok to watch people cleaning vintage bags and cats being stupid and yet maybe three vids into a brief scroll through my FYP and I get a hateful transphobic video????? Fuck off!
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What's that coming over the hill? A great variety Of morbid symptoms
12 days ago
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Resolution Foundation
14 days ago
Is welfare spending ''out of control''? It's estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP this financial year. That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
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It's one of those things where I *know* in a few years people will be like "Well, didn't it seem crazy at the time?" and yeah it did but still 90% of people just nodded along with it
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15 days ago
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Eddie Mair
20 days ago
WANTED: A Chair that does not give way when sat on.
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loads of interesting stuff in here, and some good 'check my own assumptions' work as well
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21 days ago
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Brent Toderian
22 days ago
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.”
#CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
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One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
https://grist.org/biking/one-mile-on-a-bike-is-a-42-economic-gain-to-society-one-mile-driving-is-a-20-loss/
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Glennyrodge
23 days ago
Dick Advocaat is the head coach of the Curaçao football team, who will be the first ever alcoholic drink managed by an alcoholic drink to play at a World Cup finals.
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Moira Donegan
24 days ago
Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.
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David Zipper
30 days ago
See also: The Onion's take on car bloat
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Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident
PRESCOTT, AZ—Explaining that she did not have any strong preferences when it came to make or model, area woman Laura Bauer, a conscientious SUV shopper, confirmed Wednesday that she just wanted someth...
https://theonion.com/conscientious-suv-shopper-just-wants-something-that-wil-1844930331/
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This album is more than twenty years old but a lot of the lyrics sound like they could have been written yesterday. Slightly disconcerting to be honest.
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Where The Humans Eat
https://open.spotify.com/album/0wz3WQMYJP4r2ctDDxVxcK?si=XPIqfaCcTkyIlcUQPzgx3w
about 1 month ago
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Inside Housing
about 1 month ago
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Let’s make rail the backbone of Britain’s housing strategy
Every new home should be planned with a station or tram stop at its heart, writes Christopher Martin, director of Urban MovementÂ
http://dlvr.it/TPC6Qb
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Scottish Housing News
about 1 month ago
Living Rent has urged the City of Edinburgh Council to strike off two landlords who have been found guilty of serious misconduct at the First Tier Tribunal.
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Tenants union calls on council to strike off guilty Leith landlords
Living Rent has urged the City of Edinburgh Council to strike off two landlords who have been found guilty of serious misconduct at the First Tier Tribunal.
https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/tenants-union-calls-on-council-to-strike-off-guilty-leith-landlords?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=auto_share
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'things that only an ex-bbc staffer can do'
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about 1 month ago
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Andrej
about 1 month ago
The suspiciously long arm of the law
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da share z0ne
about 1 month ago
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Bethany Black
about 1 month ago
Oh, you’re a big Ramones fan? Name 5 of their t-shirts
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Update: one month later, the penny drops: "the tyranny of the plurality"
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about 1 month ago
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Jon Burke🌍
about 1 month ago
"Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of...communities." ― Jane Jacobs
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Glennyrodge
about 1 month ago
"all the leaves are grey, and the sky is grey" - a dog singing california dreaming.
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Jimmer Cork-Bottle
about 1 month ago
I'm finding it hard to keep myself uninformed.
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Emma Monk
about 1 month ago
Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we? After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism. Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨 🧵 1/22
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Ally Stewart
about 1 month ago
THIS is the inconvenient truth
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Angus Main
about 2 months ago
The hypocrisy of Reform going on TV to allege that certain groups are constantly over represented on TV is truly epic.
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Flight Free UK
about 2 months ago
Everyone’s talking about “green aviation” like it’s going to save the planet. But is electric or hydrogen flight really that green? 👀 Let’s talk about it.
#FlightFree
#ClimateCrisis
#GreenTech
#SustainableTravel
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Phil McDuff
about 2 months ago
It is! It is *fucked*! Everyone's wages are immediately sucked up by a parasitic class of landlords. It's drawing money out of the real economy and accelerating severe anti-growth trends! And nobody is fucking doing anything about it!!!
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Tom Forth
about 2 months ago
I've written about the worst city in the Netherlands. It's just 3000 words. A quick read. What Lelystad teaches us about new cities, why you probably shouldn't build them, what to do if you must,... and why you might need to. ps. Lelystad is actually good.
tomforth.co.uk/newcities/
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The worst city in the Netherlands.
Lessons on New Cities from Almere and Lelystad.
https://tomforth.co.uk/newcities/
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Toby Buckle
about 2 months ago
it's important to call things what they are "mass deportations of legal residents for cultural homogeneity" is an ethnic cleansing policy
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Genuinely DISTRAUGHT to find that the essay about the modern world I have been slowly and vaguely composing in my head was already written, and in much better style, half a century ago.
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about 2 months ago
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fredesque
about 2 months ago
ive crunched the numbers, and its not looking good. theyre pretty much ruined by all the crunching, i owe you new numbers
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Edinburgh Critical Mass
about 2 months ago
InfraSisters in Edinburgh campaign for safer cycling, especially for women riding after dark. This Friday night they will hold a mass glowride in Edinburgh. Ladies in the lead, but everyone is welcome to light up the night.
www.cyclinguk.org/event/glow-r...
#OurStreetsOurNight
#MyRideOurRight
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Glow ride - Edinburgh - InfraSisters ~OurStreetsOurNights
https://www.cyclinguk.org/event/glow-ride-edinburgh-infrasisters-ourstreetsournights
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Tyron
about 2 months ago
With the demise of Ange Postecoglu I have no choice but to announce that the ceremonial title of Big Ange (bestowed upon the most important Ange reigning, and previously held by Angelas Rayner, Merkel & Lansbury) has passed to Angela Eagle. I am pro-life and take no pleasure in reporting this
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Jerry Chen
about 2 months ago
bluesky: the early years
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When they set out on the way to the recording studio there had been eight non-blondes so it was actually a pretty reasonable question to ask.
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I've written a poem, but it's maybe a bit too political for Bluesky. It's called 'The Problem with Populism'. The problem with Populism Is that it's quite reminiscent Of some other words which you *do* know the meaning of.
about 2 months ago
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Merry Maxanenemas
about 2 months ago
He's with the Angles now
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Tom Whyman
about 2 months ago
Wow! It's good that AI is going to unlock massive productivity gains and unleash the fourth industrial revolution, or else we'd really be in trouble.
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People nowadays sure do seem to love doing two things at once.
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They might as well rename the 'ratio' feed 'the Sally Jenkins feed' at this point.
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