This is a thing I’m going to be doing! Waverley Care were such an integral part of the community response to HIV/AIDS, so for World AIDS Day we’re putting on our Edinburgh LGBTQ walking tour with 100% of the proceeds going to support their ongoing work Come along or drop a donation!

In honour of Edinburgh’s housing crisis, does anyone fancy a tradition of “no rent November”?

Next week for Halloween we’re doing our LGBTQ tour and guests are encouraged to get dressed up as your favourite LGBTQ figure, so come along!

In the past 8 months I’ve been running the Street Historians, I’ve been thrilled to tell stories others don’t. That includes our Forgotten Women’s tour which has been getting numbers thanks to @edinburghminute.bsky.social

#edinburgh is making great use of Bristo Square these days. It was Pride, then graduations, then Fringe, now Freshers

The lesson is clear: you can’t outflank the far right by borrowing its language. You only validate its narrative, undermine your own authenticity, and make democracy more fragile in the process.

GenAI is the informational equivalent of hummingbird feeders filled with sucralose. It's wildlife who die because their stomachs are filled with plastic. It's a child seeing a stranger from behind and thinking it's their mother. It's the uncanny forced upon an entire world, and it's obscene.

hi, cis folks! this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love. hi, cis americans! this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”

Today is Wednesday 13 Aug 2025 It is International Left Handers Day 👈🏽 also ✍🏽 World Calligraphy Day 🍾 Prosecco Day 🍖 Filet Mignon Day French Republican Calendar: MYRTLE

Due to the fire on Arthur's Seat, I added a banging line to this article: "Be careful with your cigarettes, campfires, birthday cakes, and gender reveals" streethistorians.com/2025/07/29/w...

Looked at flats. I’m not having one less one of my richer relatives dies. And I love my family so it feels bad

I can hear Oasis 2 miles away #edinburgh

the emergency responders at chernobyl got paid in exposure

Wind or bad driving? #edinburgh #edfringe

Good night world

Born #OnThisDay in 1819 was Eunice Newton Foote. Her experiments with solar radiation and carbon dioxide may have lead her to be the first to hypothesise the greenhouse effect, three years before John Tyndall FRS published his work. #WomenInSTEM llustration: Carlyn Iverson, NOAA Climate.gov.

"Any discussion of the Supreme Court judgment must be conducted with sensitivity, respect and compassion." It's a bit fucking late for that folks. Have you met Labour Women's Declaration? (lol, jk, I'm well aware that they are the only people you meet with on this issue these days)

Tour Guides at Work

I’d love to be a tourist with not a single care in the world, walking slowly everywhere and completely unconscious to the life that surrounds me

Wonder whose idea this was, it’s amazing

One of my guests put the sticker I gave her on her bag and I think it’s iconic

This article from @threadinburgh.scot is a jolly read. But when you get to the end, you realise that it is making a point that should worry all of us, even if we are not interested in the history of large suburban villas in #Edinburgh . threadinburgh.scot/2025/06/27/t...

Hope everyone has a fabulous day out there

I’m working on a food recommendations for #edinburgh and want to have a section on haggis, anyone got a favourite?

For Iceland National Day, here’s a thing I wrote on the connections with Scotland! streethistorians.com/2025/04/14/t...

Today is Tuesday 17 June 2025 It is World Tessellation Day 🔺 also 🇮🇸 Iceland National Day 🏜️ World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 🫛 Eat Your Vegetables Day French Republican Calendar: PEONY

Today’s walking tour should be sponsored by @mountainwarehouse.bsky.social

Got prompted into writing a blog post on my dog and I have weak sales resistance against things I want! streethistorians.com/2025/06/07/a...

ADRIAN! NOOOO! YOU DON'T GET TO SAY THAT WORD! IT'S OKAY IF THEY SAY IT BUT YOU DON'T GET TO SAY IT!

This pride month shout out goes to all the trans people who somehow managed to exist before trans people were invented by Jeremy Corbyn circa 2015 (a thing someone actually posted on the world wide web)

Another piece on dropping #Potter for #lgbtq in #edinburgh but this time more permanently www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/28/h...

This is a project I saw advertised about trans Americans who have moved to Scotland! If that’s you feel feee to get involved

This morning I had a dream about messing up the bookings on my LGBTQ tour and ruining everything…

Do I know any mushroom people? Not seen this variety before

I'm watching Parliament's debate on self-ID so you don't have to and it's not bad so far (reader, we are only 30 minutes in).

Yep! I too felt pangs of nostalgia but every Potter game had also sucked so I played Oblivion instead which I’ve heard has a remaster!

30 years ago the first Pride Scotland march set off from our community's home on Broughton St to march into the heart of the capital. It wasn't a platform for politicians or sponsors, it was an assertion of our visibility and our rights. I am beyond proud of this decision by the current organisers.

when you're trying to get the attention of your mate HBO Max but they are really far away

Gary Lineker defends ‘persecuted’ trans people amid rising number of sports bans

One issue with AI related imagery, even just edited ones, is it gives me a bit of motion sickness looking at it

Horrible, we’ve fallen 6 places in the leaderboard of LGBTQI equality rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org

I want everyone to know about this brilliant, kind and thoughtful man and his company. Well done, humanity well done.

Shoutout to @edinburghminute.bsky.social @edinburghlive.co.uk @pinknews.bsky.social @gaydio.bsky.social and @gayety.bsky.social for so far covering the story of the LGBTQ tour replacing Potter in June! Book now to avoid disappointment! buytickets.at/streethistor...