What is going to be done to enforce the new reduced speed limit of 30mph on Glasgow Road? Why is this not being acted upon by Edinburgh Council Transport Committee?It is actually more dangerous now than it was when it was 40mph. @edthornley.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social

Laurie Campbell (Canadian, b.1969) "Promenade Entre Amies," 2023 Oil on canvas 22 x 16 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

‘A consultation showed the plans were unpopular’ - you’re elected to govern and do the right thing, not to avoid ever upsetting certain people. www.bbc.com/news/article...

FFS, disgraceful 😡 (Thanks to @edinburghminute.bsky.social for a link to story) news.stv.tv/east-central...

Always the threat of legal action from those that don't get their own way. Is this an Edinburgh thing?

Something needs to be done by the Council, about the complete lack of observance of the newly introduced 30mph speed limit on Glasgow Road.? Buses, car drivers, private car hires are now treating it like a dual carriageway. This is a main road that schoolchildren cross @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social

This is an awful decision by @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social You cannot declare a housing emergency and continue to approve student accomodation at this scale.

🚨Some personal news. I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker. A profile of Jonathan Gullis. "You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis." open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

We’ve 100% lost the war on using phones while driving and it’s the worst.

Utterly chilling.

Rachel Newling Australian Flowers: Blue Waterlily linocut on handmade Japanese paper

Nigel Farage’s supporters don’t like it when you point out that he’s talking about cutting the minimum wage for young workers. Or that he’s pocketed over £1 MILLION from outside "work” since the election. Because it exposes the truth about this self-styled “man of the people”.

To think of this man In his hospital bed, Watching the hate-filled racism oozing across the media, Talk of 'Britishness', and panning 'immigrants', demanding the race of the attacker be revealed, Never once demanding the ethnicity of the brave man who saved dozens of lives #SamirZitouni

Come on Edinburgh, what are you waiting for? @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

Fitting time to repost this.😕

Today's charity shop find. Nicholas Mosse Irish pottery mug in Forget Me Not pattern. Gorgeous.

Few years ago the family gave my husband a course of bread making lessons. Best gift we ever gave him. 😉

Is it "move to Dubai"?

Far right protest today: 29 - police officers injured 9 - protestors arrested Proscribed group protests: 0 - police officers injured 1,600 - protestors arrested We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly

England has a deeply troubling far-right problem that Keir Starmer is simply not opposing. This has to stop, none of this is about free speech, it is fascism, and it’s out of control. 1/2

Kids are going to die. Needlessly. Because some other kid's parents are listening to these people. It's monstrous. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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9 years on from the Brexit vote, the verdict is in and predictions correct: 🕳️£40 billion hole in public finances 📉4% hit to UK productivity 📦15% drop in trade 💷 £100bn in tax rises—40% of which Brexit made necessary Happy Brexitversary! 🇬🇧🎉 www.thetimes.com/article/346e...

Oregon has passed a bill to protect school libraries from book bans.: Another win for freedom to read legislation on the West Coast this week, as Oregon’s state House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 1098 on Monday, a bill that will protect access to books in… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries

Beautiful display of sweet peas in Corstorphine. The smell of summer.

This is not a 'path'; it is a main commuting artery to the city centre, provides important access to the Western General, and links to many schools, playing fields, and other sites. #roseburn @lewismichie.bsky.social

“That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists—and that they both individually wield such massive power—is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.” Robert Reich

So many delays, and so much money wasted on consultations for grand overly ambitious projects, rather than small spends on bollards, bus gates, etc, which would save lives and make active commutes far better.

The thread about the Corstorphine Convalescent Home; “To the Glory of God, for the Welfare of the Poor” The old Corstorphine Hospital was in the news this week as, after a decade of lying empty and abandoned, it finally succumbed to the firebugs. Fortunately the Fire Brigade were quick to bring…

!!!!Save the date!!!! Work on signage ,at long last, to reduce the speed limit on Glasgow Rd from 40mph to 30mph, is to take place 26th- 30th June. Thanks to Cllr Euan Hyslop for the information.

Corstorphine has some gorgeous trees. At one time, these were to be cleared for parking spaces, thankfully sanity prevailed.

Having tried nothing to directly disincentivise car travel, it would appear we're all out of ideas

Today's top charity shop finds, Spode platter and plant pot for £3 each😯 I am actually trying to clear out china I have collected for years, but couldn't pass on these.🤷

A very strange UK politics where it seems the two traditional parties are targeting the same ~20% of the population and nobody very much cares about the remaining 80%.

My daughter has recently taken up cross stitch and is working her way through comedy series of the 70s/80s😅

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

Call for MP take cuts stance Seven councillors have signed a letter calling on Edinburgh South West’s Labour MP to oppose proposed cuts to disability benefits being considered at Westminster. The letter says that Scott Arthur, an Edinburgh councillor until 2024, has previously voted for cuts that…

I took a large carrier bag of books along to my local Cancer Research charity shop , but didn't make it out without this little haul. Still, at 5 books for £1, all in as new condition, it would have been rude not to, right? #BookSky

Be a Zelensky in a world of Trumps.

For crime writers out there who are introducing much loved pets of the detectives into the novels, allowing them to be maimed, tortured or killed will lose you this reader. It will be my abiding memory of the book.😡 #booksky.

Trump, as a narcissist, is going to tire of Musk very quickly. Musk has no boundaries and is unable to recognise when he is upstaging the "upstager in chief". And what is going on with trailing that poor wee child around with him?

@carltonreid.com reports: Automakers have been packing cars with pricey tech that makes them much more expensive without making them safer. But when the tech that offers the greatest safety benefit is proposed – suddenly the plea is: “We can’t afford it.”

Once you've seen noticed the "Gormless Gap" you see it everywhere Pedestrian space stolen so that careless motorists don't scratch their cars What unintended consequences might emerge from building a world where people are systematically protected from any consequences when they drive carelessly?

If you don’t have a local library card, it should be your New Year’s resolution to get one. It’s an easy resolution to keep and you’ll actually use it, trust me.

The mainstream media seem obsessed with Elon Musk's Dad commenting on his son, shouldn't they also invite Jess Phillips Dad on to talk about the danger Musk's comments are posing to his daughter? Whatever happened to balanced reporting?

Great charity shop find for £8. Portmeirion large jug and basin. Christmas present to myself.🙂