My friends at @thebikestation.bsky.social are doing a £5 rapid fundraiser. TBS is incredible charity, doing practical work getting people onto bikes in Scotland. I ♥️ them, and if you can spare a fiver it'll make more of a difference than you know. www.thebikestation.org.uk/loveyourbike

Beautiful & terrifying writing from @hazelweakly.me hazelweakly.me/blog/to-be-a...

This is the kind of internet I want. @harryjwilliams.bsky.social takes complex @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social planning and project docs and makes them feel simple, transparent and legible. @sw20.info @thebikestation.bsky.social @edinburghminute.com @edfoc.bsky.social @edcriticalmass.bsky.social

oh no not the economy

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LOVE how many people are getting introduced to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for the first time via this @volts.wtf episode. Next: a small army of energy nerds get radicalised (complimentary) by Maintenance Phase & @ifbookspod.bsky.social. Maybe even make the jump to @fivefourpod.bsky.social...

Huge news for Scotland’s nature! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌳🦅🪱 🍄 The Natural Environment Bill has officially been voted into law, marking a landmark victory for people and nature. 🧵 (1/4)

✅ Left my job ✅ Rode motorbikes ✅ Ate a whole thing of custard That's a successful Thursday right there.

Important snippet from a @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social thread on the recent AI research from govt, and the launch of the national training programme. Equating 'reported low confidence' with 'low knowledge' - rather than 'inherent technical untrustworthiness of the tool' - is particularly cynical.

Haven't read the detail on this yet, but looks pretty promising. That's a big number...

The Cycling Gardeners of Edinburgh are looking for new gardeners for their team for the 2026 season www.cyclinggardeners.co.uk/opportunities Love gardening and cycling? Maybe this could be your dream job 😉

I missed this 6 years ago: Scotland's £3bn+ A9 road project didn't make financial sense. But then a bunch of consultants invented a never-before-seen £430m 'driver frustration removal' bonus (SEPARATE to benefits for reduced journey times and collisions). It changed ROI from -11% to +12% Cool. 😮‍💨

Had to delay a departure last week cos a mate forgot to charge his gears

Genuinely excited about this tbh

It's a mostly useless £378 'clock'... but damn I kinda want one

Active travel campaigners, we can take two things away from this: 1. It works and it's worth it 2. We must think and plan in *decades*

computer Show Me Less Like This. show me Parisian streets and their denizens, show me futurist art and central american architecture. show me black forests and crystal pools, steady wildlife and bad poetry and confused yellow cabs. computer, show me the agonies of Men in love

Do you want my job? After 7 happy years, I'm moving on from @nilehq.com . So my lovely team is hiring for a new Consulting Principal to fill the hole in their hearts (& org chart). Genuinely cool team, doing really interesting work - worth a look, imho. (Salary to come - not yet on the listing)

Tiny mechanic's win to start the new year! The transalp had no spark. And with a wiring loom from before the fall of the Berlin wall, the fault could've been *anywhere*. But: turns out it was just a bad connection at the kill switch! Scrub w/contact cleaner, and it fired right up. Bulletproof ♥️

[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care

This dog is DONE

I spent Christmas Eve in the Water of Leith and under the castle. Edinburgh really is the nicest place I've ever lived.

NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS: Parents Horrified as Kids Rewrite Entire Santa List on 23 Dec

Happy Winter Solstice everyone. One of my first oil paintings from 1996 of Avebury where I went to primary school. Being there had a profound influence on my work. Lighter days ahead.

A great start to the weekend of the winter solstice! What a morning at Newgrange today. The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am. 🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in! #ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice 📸 OPW Guides

Hot Dads in Your Area looking for Someone to Unironically Watch the Newgrange Solstice Livestream with

*Clutches pearls, confusedly*

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

After 15 years of riding bikes around London and Edinburgh, Google street view finally caught me.

The Dog has finally reached an age and temperament that she'll happily just sleep in my office all afternoon. It's lovely.

I worked in an outdoor shop selling hiking and climbing gear. People assumed I knew their plans, apropos nothing. "Is this jacket warm enough?" "Can I carry everything in this pack?" "Should I buy this rope?" For what, my dude? Picnics? Climbing K2? Tbh I loved that job. Our customers had dreams.

I can guarantee I'd make so many bad decisions on day 6 and 7 of the working week I'd spend much of the next undoing the damage of the previous.

Happy snotty-tissues-going-through-the-washing-machine season to all who celebrate

True story: I've got a week off work coming up in the new year, and recently heard myself say "ooh I could deep clean the kitchen!"

What I say to my dog: okay cookie-doodle, it's time to go out to the garden for bedtime wee-wees What I must assume my dog hears, based on her behaviour: PACK SISTER: NOW IS THE TIME WE FACE THE SKY AND YELL AT GOD

We're doing favourite small-to-medium enterprise branding today

AI could never

Cycling in your 20s: "I rode the Dunwich Dynamo on Saturday, local crit in Sunday, and then blasted my PBs on the commute this morning. Feeling fresh!" Cycling in your 30s: "I adjusted my handlebars by a quarter inch yesterday and now I can't walk"

The inverted face lick: a story in three acts.

🚲 𝟱.𝟮 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 parcels were delivered in 2024 in Belgium, compared to 3 million in 2023. 🚲 The cycle logistics sector supports 𝟲,𝟮𝟬𝟬 𝗷𝗼𝗯𝘀 (excluding the platform economy). 🚲 Belgian cycle logistics operators rode 𝟭𝟬.𝟳 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗸𝗺 in 2024, a +30% rise vs. 2023. 👇

Me, approaching a junction as a regular cargobike rider, motorcyclist, and driver

Some follow @dasbarrett.bsky.social because he's Head of Data & AI for Citizens Advice. I follow him because of the deranged carbohydrate experiments.

New favourite about page. www.vhely-hutchinson.com/about

Early morning squirrel patrol

This meeting could have been a slow walk into the wine dark sea

Scenes from an autumn run. Definitely up there as one of the top four seasons

Is the AI bubble gong to be as bad as 2008? @dsquareddigest.bsky.social says it'll be bad, but structurally less catastrophic. 2008 collapsed the foundations. But AI assets are still held as risk assets - meaning less essential stuff relies on them. backofmind.substack.com/p/are-we-hav...

We've written about the 5 things that are needed in any scenario to create an organisation that can design and deliver services well This is for all the people stepping into leading service design, whether it's in their title or not. good.services/writing/comm...

Nobody's saying it, but bike + kids + council fireworks is one of the top 5 kinda evenings

Absolutely sick machine. Nothing cooler than a fully loaded omnium. Will be watching out for this beast around town.