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Some pictures of a big heavy lifting vessel that's been shuttling feet for new turbines out from Leith to a new windfarm in the North Sea for a little while, now. The scale of it is really quite something. A few more shots from me, here […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

🌤️  Good morning Edinburgh. The headlines: Weather warning ahead of Storm Dave, new video shows protestors confront uni boss, students stripping-off for charity + Ottolenghi comes to town ⏰ Edinburgh’s ad-free local news: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg... Photo: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social

I'm sure this is genuinely worrying news for many people in the US, but I can't help laughing slightly when I see these numbers. The average fuel price in the UK right now is $7.55 per gallon. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How bad is the UK's welfare benefits system? I'm delivering a lecture to students in Sweden next week and I've had to include a content warning for suicide and self-harm 😐🤦‍♂️

It's Trans Day of Visibility and all I can think of is how much the trans kids I know wish they weren't forced into being so damn visible all the time.

Glen Baxter was a surrealist, a very funny artist, and a big influence in terms of his sense of parody. He was also a lovely man.

You can tell there's an election in Scotland soon from the Guardian's wall-to-wall coverage of the very latest developments in Scottish politics. They even wrote an actual article about it, within the last ten days!

Thanks to @alexstaniforth.bsky.social for being the first candidate in our region responding to this!

This is completely insane, lads. It’s not her that’s obsessed with anything, it the tiny gaggle of absolute headbangers who have not stopped screaming at her about it for five years. *You* are the wackos here, not her.

Got to talk with one of the folks who defined hip-hop, Fab 5 Freddy. youtu.be/zOiYTfTGcbI?...

A multi-storey problem story: the thread about the Castle Terrace Car Park Despite being a local history site Threadinburgh does like to try and keep things topical sometimes, so when news broke that car park operator NCP had entered administration with huge debts I felt it was an opportune moment…

Is gender-affirming care for trans kids really a dangerous experiment? Who should be in charge of who gets it? Doctors and families? Or politicians? #protecttranskids 🏳️‍⚧️

Every Pritzker Prize laureate, if they were a Muppet... 🧵

Straight up racism from Reform on the BBC, who's surprised ☹️?

Photographer Murdo MacLeod patrols Scotland's hills with members of the Scottish Avalanche Information Service, which has since 1988 published daily forecasts of the avalanche risk in six mountain areas. h/t @severincarrell.bsky.social @theguardian.com

Y'all could do worse than read a little history of the existing building, courtesy of @threadinburgh.scot, here: threadinburgh.scot/2025/11/13/t... Put my vote* down for keeping the much-hated existing building, personally. We've already lost too many from this era. *None of us have a vote

Lots of people asking why men aren't being tested. a) your standard, everyday patriarchy b) it's widely known a non-zero number of cis women will "fail" this crude test. It's less widely appreciated some cis male athletes would "pass" - at which point the entire farce would become unsupportable.

I do genuinely wonder if Joani Reid might now have a scintilla, a shred, just the teensiest spark of sympathy for what Dr Beth Upton was put through, a monstering in the media so brutal she quit the NHS, as part of a campaign against trans people that Reid wholeheartedly supports.

Happy birthday to Betty Boo. Here's a reminder of the time she rapped with Public Enemy in the McDonalds at Shepherd's Bush back in 1987 (look out for the unimpressed manager!)

De La Soul's Tiny Desk Concert! Stakes is High! Me Myself and I! Enough said. [kottke.org]

Caught the Worm Moon behind the King's Own Scottish Borderers last night on freshly painted North Bridge #edinburgh #wormmoon

Trans kids under 10: The NHS Project R22 growinguptransgender... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Much more serious things happening in the world, obvi, but if you live in the DFW region, Dallas is taking a vote on March 4 to decide the future of one of the most important pieces of 20th century architecture, IM Pei's city hall building. Contact the city council and urge preservation.

If you haven't had zataar, roast some veg in olive oil and zataar today you fool

So impressed and blessed for all the brands reaching out to support. thousand and more companies offered to donate product and my team gunna get to it. 🙏🏾🙏🏾 BUT if you a billion dollar company,,, we don’t want a product donation. We want you to sponsor these women + athletes. 👀

"Charlotte (arch transphobe candidate of Sex Matters) embodies the new Conservative Party." I encourage the Tories to join her universally on their 1.2% share of the vote, where transphobia belongs.

Given that “trans rights and defence” are about 60% of the full arsenal of media bullshit, I think the pundits are recognising a nightmarish threat here: a substantial demographic groups that stubbornly refuses to be shitehoused into compliance.

125 years ago, on the 27th of February 1900, the British Labour Party was founded. It was formed by unions and smaller scale socialist organisations to unify their political power. They would produce 7 PMs, the first in 1924 with James Ramsay MacDonald and the most recent in 2024 with Keir Starmer.

Starmer: “If you don’t like our policies you can leave.” Voters:

Breaking News!!! 🚨 More on this story to follow soon. Please share. sophie-molly-reports.beehiiv.com/p/labour-set...

There's a reason that the UK is only EU nation no longer be an EU nation, when outright Euroscepticism is nearly unheard of most of Europe's mainstream centre-right parties, because PR has ensured that it was the preserve of far right fruit loops! FPTP simply funneled extremism into the big two!

Yeah there's a reason that the UK Labour Party is if not institutionally transphobic (I think it has become so) at the very least vastly more tolerant of anti-trans bigotry and unwilling to stand up for trans people than literally any other major Social Democratic party in Europe!

GNU Rob Grant. 💔

I always have similar reactions when I see images from this era: 1. The trees are all so small! 2. The streets have no markings on them - It's so clear! 3. It's nice to see the old municipal basketball hoop by the Mercat Cross, towards the end, there.

Since yesterdays' Edinburgh shots were such a hit, here's a few more from the same reel. These are from 16mm film shot in 1938. Please share with anyone who would enjoy these First up some street scenes. I love the normalness of it. People are just going about their day. #Film #History #Edinburgh

The First Minister said that trans people are valued in Scotland, that he understands the anguish and hurt created by the Supreme Court ruling. Why then is his govt using the very same words from that judgment in law when it doesn’t need to? Ask them: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/howwillthisb...

From the man who brought you culture wars against; - immigrants, - refugees, - trans people, - disabled children at school, - disabled adults - anti-genocide protesters, - anti extinction protesters...

I'm sure I sound a bit like a broken record and for that I apologise. But I am really, REALLY looking forward to finally seeing this. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

I hear some people are calling it the 'oh feck we should have embraced proportional representation decades ago, shouldn't we' election.

MIGHT HAVE GONE TO MORE LECTURES IF THE VENUE LOOKED APPROXIMATELY THUS.

You can also read the report itself, here: www.theccc.org.uk/2026/02/25/s... ...There are obviously some significant concerns for the future, but I also feel the Guardian's article (or at least the headline) comes across as a little alarmist.

"What can happen when a bunch of strangers decide today is the day they’ll be the change – and how that changes them" Spoke to Felipe Bustos Sierra about his new documentary Everybody to Kenmure Street and how one act of civil resistance resonates five years on www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

Gaaaaaah, I cannot* wait to see this film! https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/24/power-pyjamas-everybody-to-kenmure-street-glasgow-immigration *will have to

🏳️‍⚧️ NEW 🏳️‍⚧️ The High Court said that services can be trans inclusive, but somehow decided that the EHRC’s interim guidance was lawful – so we’re launching an appeal goodlawproject.org/ehrc-guidanc...

Aw, that's nice. At least they're enjoying it. www.flickr.com/photos/numbe...

I made a circle.

Oh, that was so close! Never mind. Brilliant couple of ends by the Canadians towards the end, there. And that last shot of theirs couldn’t have been better! Next time, perhaps. #Curling #WinterOlympicd