I was knit-fluenced by @bluegal.bsky.social to do my first colourwork and knit both these hats. I was sad I didn’t see any of the Shetland Wool Week hats in the wild last week but maybe it was too warm 😆 or no one comes to Edinburgh on their way to Shetland? 😅😅😅 #knitsky

🚲 edi.bike | issue 112 | 29th Sep '25 in your weekly edinburgh cycling digest: Cargo bike demo success, Mint tea by bike, events, community updates, route closures & more: https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-112-29th-sep-25/ #bikeSky

Edinburgh - go!! This will be so good!!!

Anyone in Edinburgh, or visiting, highly recommend the Modern 2 exhibition on Protest Photography from 1903-2003 by Steve McQueen. Learnt a lot. Eg did we know that the first use of surveillance photography in Britain was against the suffragettes?

#edtravcyc For those who take the spur off Blackhall Path to Davidson’s Mains Tesco, they’re closing it from now until 6 pm today to tarmac. Good news! @edi.bike

Voi bikes spotted in the wild! #EdinburghCycling Almost forgot after all the wild driving behaviour today. Stay safe out there

Do we think 👑 Catherine is sharing any tips 👀

Meanwhile in the UK, where the same anti-vaxer’s are in the JCVI, Labour has taken their recommendation to remove pregnant people’s access to Covid jabs… to utter, complete silence and acquiescence here. The CDC is quitting en masse but the UK literally shrugs 🫠

📆Dateline Edinburgh. 1962. Progressive Party (small-c, anti-Labour local conservatives) chairman of the city's Works Committee raises the proposal of a new bridge over the Dean gorge to bring a dual carriageway into the heart of the city.

Sometimes when it’s all too much, when you suspect it might be the last warm night of the year as summer fades, you ride via tree lined paths to catch the pastel sunset in a way only a bicycle can 10/10 recommend

I think this sign has been getting bigger each week? Saw a pedestrian just screaming at a cyclist today while standing in front of this sign saying the cyclist was going the wrong way. Maybe the sign should be bigger 😅

A Fringe act but in Texas and on the clock app. Let’s go!

Across Canada, extreme heat causes physical and mental stresses that lead to a documented rise in violence. That includes intimate partner violence, @rebeccaga0.bsky.social reports, which threatens women, girls and vulnerable communities the most. thenarwhal.ca/heat-domesti...

Online Safety Act: "a little inconvenience is a small price to protect our children" Asking people to drive responsibly where there are children: *tumbleweeds*

🚲 edi.bike | issue 104 | 4th Aug '25 In your weekly edinburgh cycling digest: ‘Meadows to Union Canal’ Link Update, Princes Street Reimagined, Tram Consultation Dates, events, community updates, route closures & more: https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-104-4th-aug-25 #BikeSky

The hills of Edinburgh don’t burn with fire but rainbow (For now anyway)

Paint as cycling infrastructure. My hot take on a muggy Thursday - pedestrianise Old Town. Honestly it’s entirely wild, the tourists take over. Just give it to them, de-stress everyone involved, they’ll probably spend more. But make bike lanes too. Thank you for your attention… etc #Edinburgh

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

"...the risk of being murdered underground is... orders of magnitude less than the risk of dying from a traffic accident elsewhere in the US. Cars are deadly, and any transportation policy that encourages their use over public transportation is pretty much by definition anti-safety."

🚲 edi.bike | issue 102 | 21st July '25 In your weekly edinburgh cycling digest: ‘Amsterdam’ Crowfunder Finishing Up, Evans Cycles Possible Return, Critical Mass This Week, events, community updates, route closures & more: https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-102-21st-july-25/

I wrote about the JCVI's recommendations when they were made, there has been very coverage of the decision in the UK, while similar restrictions made by RFK Jr in the US have provoked outrage

Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police. Thank you, Wes Streeting.

Regulate them out of existence

Just finished reading through the 100th issue of @edi.bike! No doubt my favourite Edinburgh read - I learn not only about events but all the goings on in the city, googling street names, updating my internal maps, feeling connected. A love letter for the community. Thank you Ben! Congrats on 100!

Well the U.K. got lucky as @leahlitman.bsky.social ‘s book is here!

The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found. tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...

"The populists shout for DOGE while supposedly left-leaning think tanks argue for ‘progressive efficiency’ and ‘DOGE done better’. Political parties everywhere are genuflecting to AI and appeasing the far right, and none seem willing to do what it takes to prevent a techno-fascist takeover"

I got so much out of this week’s newsletter!

Hit 3k on the @ternbicycles.com GSD on a lovely summer evening 🥰 #EdinburghCycling

call me crazy but I don't think we should.

Hey @bluegal.bsky.social ! I love the corrugated rib on your Slava Ukraine hat! And thanks for the inspo for Shetland Wool Week - I was worried about the size but now I’m not! #knitsky lol the rest of the U.K. is 🔥 but it’s just 16 in Edinburgh so still wool season…

While Mike Lee and Steve Daines' Senate Natural Resources Committee amendment to the budget reconciliation package mandates the sale of up to 3.3 million acres of public land, what most people miss is that it also authorizes the sale of 258 million acres. That's 40 percent of all public land:

The tagging is growing on the Roseburn to Canal path. I’m reading fun words, getting proselytised to, and seeing a variety of dick jokes/drawings (poorly captured here!). Flying by so I don’t need to explain to my little kids. #EdTravCyc @spokes.org.uk @edi.bike @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk

Made it to Portobello despite the number of dogs just jumping out of nowhere on the Telford, Chancelot path et al. It’s like an irl video game of some kind 😅 #EdinburghBiking

Best Beach Boys song you don’t know? Make Me Lose Control by Eric Carmen. Thank me later open.spotify.com/track/31HhcR...

#EdTravCyc Roseburn still closed on Monday afternoon @edi.bike

The police have closed Roseburn path from ravelston southwards c @edi.bike

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

👇New Nature Cities (@nature.com) paper on the impact of protected bike lanes in getting more people cycling. Comparing 28 US cities over 6 years, it found areas that installed protected lanes saw 𝟭.𝟴𝘅 growth in cycling vs painted lanes alone. And 𝟰.𝟴𝘅 the growth of areas with no bike lanes at all.

Is it just me or is the surface of this bridge becoming more uneven? Crossing it today we definitely felt it and surely not ideal for future puddling/icing? (It will rain again right? lol) @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk @edi.bike

Having to defend the existence of my kid today to another parent, needed to read this so much. Thank you for your service

Are you tired of waiting for the green man? Of pavement clutter, of really narrow pavements around busy parts of the capital? So are we. And we're really disappointed the council won't prioritise pedestrian-focused projects from the City Mobility Plan. Our statement to the council: bit.ly/EASIABC

Random #edinburgh question - does anyone know any particularly friendly to breastfeeding cafes or companies? One that might be up for a charity to take breastfeeding photos inside of it? Esp in and around New/Old Town

Help. Why do I want parenting advice from WhatsApp

So therefore the court finds that she does not pose danger to community or present risk of flight. THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY. "Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."

Honestly nothing beats a bike picnic at the beach #bikesky #edinburgh

Pedestrians who are hit by SUVs are 44% more likely to be killed than if they were hit by a conventional car, new study finds. Children are 82% more likely to die when hit by an SUV than by a car. In children under 10, the risk of death was 130% higher. Regulate vehicle size now.

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hiii @bluegal.bsky.social I joined your KAL - a good reason to try colourwork for the first time #knitsky

I wonder how many other human rights former human rights lawyer Keir Starmer is excited about demolishing