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🪩 In this week’s #Edinburgh Culture Minute newsletter: 🖼️ New City Art Centre shows revealed 💰 £80m boost for local creatives 🎨 Hidden Door visual arts open call 📚 Locals' books of the year 🎭 Plenty of pantos reviewed 🍿 Pyjama party at the Filmhouse... 👀 www.edinburghminute.com/edinburgh-cu...

Including youtube feels like a weird move, as you don't need an account to access it www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train. A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social. Please repost with your own caption.

But Michael's story isn't an exception. AI impersonation is far more widespread than most people think.

How about using % of research staff made redundant as a metric? Guess unis would discount all their “voluntary” redundancies and end of contracts or decide only professors are really research staff

After what feels like days of rain we eventually got some colour back. Photograph taken today on Glastonbury Tor on my way back down the hill.

☔️ Good morning Edinburgh. Wednesday’s headlines: Storm shuts Christmas Market, Rose Street bike plan, Voi bike rollout grows, Action Porty lands £500k for former police station + Gorgie Farm teams up with Napiers herbalists ⏰ Edinburgh’s ad-free local news: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...

☔️ Good morning Edinburgh. Tuesday’s headlines: Wind, rain & flood warning, bookshop claims victory over Waterstones, George Clooney returning to town + new pub opening in Leith ⏰ Edinburgh’s ad-free local news: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg... Photo by: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social

Photo does not do this justice. Warwick

@walkingscotland.bsky.social are seeking a senior leader to manage and develop their Walking Programmes. 🔹Head of Walking Programmes 🕘Full time 💵£46,135 – £51,266 📍Stirling Find out more at tinyurl.com/yu5pb72c #Hybrid #SeniorLeadership

THE DELISHYOSS DETOUR.—Charlie Ellis muses on a simple walk, a good coffee, and some questionable route choices: broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/delishy... #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #localbusiness

kids on the train: I can do history when it's facts. I know what happened. I'm good at that. Problem is they lways want us to argue...Resisting temptation to intervene

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Edinburgh’s purple Xmas glow from Starbank Park

🚧 Powderhall / St Mark’s Path – Update Good news: the path will reopen from Fri 19 Dec to Sun 4 Jan while construction pauses, giving everyone on Quiet Route 20 a safer, more direct link over the festive period. Council still reviewing options for a better route during future closures.

🏗️ The removal of scaffolding on the G&V Hotel on George IV Bridge has been delayed by another year, reports @james-delaney.bsky.social, BBC Scotland News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students. You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports… HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!

Double rainbow

🌤️ Good morning Edinburgh. Thursday’s headlines: Tourist tax to pay for 'affordable' housing, Argyle house demolition update, Mimi's Shore replacement revealed + late night shopping in Marchmont, Porty & Stockbridge tonight ⏰ Edinburgh’s ad-free local news: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...

Stepping stones

Sculpture in the woods, University Park, Nottingham

Highfields Park, Nottingham

🌤️ Good morning Edinburgh. Headlines: Gorgie flats residents storm council meeting, pavement-blocking Princes Street tat seized, Haymarket hotel build restarts + community garden plan for bowling club ⏰ Ad-free local news: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg... Photo: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social

Lime Tree Avenue, Wollaton Park

It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals. Please share widely.

St MARK'S PATH. Call for community action: www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/st-mark... #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #traffic #activetravel

‘Instead of mainstreaming equal rights, we are seeing the mainstreaming of misogyny’. Ourania Filippakou quotes António Guterres in this insightful blog post srheblog.com/2025/12/01/g...

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

Virgin Media fined £23.8m for leaving vulnerable customers 'at risk of harm'. Disconnected telecare customers during migration to digital landlines. Directors must have known but put profits before people. Execs not fined. Fines will be passed to customers. Where is the deterrent?

Dec 2: Feast of Ethernan, holy man who may be the Itarnan whose death among the Picts in 669 is noted by the Irish annals. The shrine church on the Isle of May was dedicated to him, as were places of worship at nearby Pittenweem and Kilrenny. 📸William Starkey #medievalsky

Back in Nottingham for #SRHE conference.

We spent three months on the ground at protests against asylum seekers across Scotland. The picture that emerges is of a more organised far-right presence – and communities refusing to give up public space without a fight www.theferret.scot/f...

As if HS2 needed poor promotion, this giant ashtray? Litter tray? Crewe Station

Crewe station needs a new roof. It’s raining on the platforms.

ISSUE 357 PUBLISHED TODAY.—Printed December Spurtles available in pubs, shops, cafes, libraries and other services across Broughton and beyond. Christmas-resistant colour pdfs downloadable from www. broughtonspurtle.org.uk #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news

The plane home, view from the rear facing camera!

Looking forward to seeing everyone at #SRHE @srhe.bsky.social this week and finding out what you’ve all been up to

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Diversion route, Edinburgh

Almost lost in the tangle. Minke whale washed up at Backaskaill today, possibly a young one. Beautiful and sad in equal measures. #Papay #whales #Orkney

More St Mark’s Path. It would be useful to have some indication that the path was closed from nearby junctions, esp. the turnoff from Warriston Path. Nothing! #edibike @spokes.org.uk @spurtle.bsky.social

Finally got round to emailing my MSP and Minister for Higher and Further Education, Ben Macpherson, and my MP, Tracy Gilbert, about the (mostly unseen and unsung) redundancies in HE, especially in Edinburgh. It will be interesting to hear their reponses.

And that was the day. #Papay #Orkney #islandwinter

Before the winds opened the curtains 🍂….

We just published our Ukranian special issue of @osotl.bsky.social: osotl.org/osotl/issue/... Subtitled 'Tempus fugit, Academia sempiterna' ('time passes, but the academy is eternal'), this was a collaboration with the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA).