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Adrian

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Dad, Cyclist, Edinburgh resident was acsedinburgh at the old place. [bridged from mastodon.scot/@acs on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
There's an exceptionalist belief that the UK's immune to the worst political extremes. In reality, we were lucky not to get a fascist government in the 1930s. Now that the world's richest man supports our most extreme political party, we need more than luck. We need to get the money out of politics.
Elon Musk's quote-tweet of a post by Rupert Lowe MP, stating "Only Restore Britain can save Britain"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Keir Starmer's political failure comes down to one issue above all others: his unwillingness to put the public interest ahead of the demands of the oligarchs, corporations and foreign governments who lobby him. Whoever replaces him had better be prepared to stand up for us, or Labour's finished.
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Adrian @acs.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026
@simon_brooke @ScottishGreens That ignores the effect of the list though. If SNP had 17 fewer constituency seats then I would assume they would pick up more list seats. Meanwhile parties who got the consistencies would loose out on the list.
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026
And now the one I have been waiting for, the constituency which I live in... Edinburgh Central: Scottish Green gain from SNP #Holyrood2026
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Edinburgh Festival of Cycling @edfoc.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Frog Bikes has been sold to Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group bikebiz.com/frog-bikes-h... After falling into administration earlier this year, Frasers Group has bought the Frog Bikes brand for an undisclosed fee. Evans Cycles are also under the Frasers Group ownership since 2018.
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Frog Bikes has been sold to Mike Ashley's Frasers Group - BikeBiz
After falling into administration earlier this year, Sky News has reported that Mike Ashley's Frasers Group has bought the Frog Bikes brand for an undisclosed
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 27/02/2026
Friends of Argyle House may be interested in Fraser/Livingston Architects *very* sensible, low-intensity proposal for the building that would see it made fit for the next 60 years of its life with a minimum of cost and environmental impact: fraserlivingstone.com/library/weal...
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Wealth or Waste
An article from Fraser/Livingstone Architects, Edinburgh.
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Adrian @acs.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026
@RantyHighwayman does that cap it off or is there a while before we stem the tide?
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Adrian @acs.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026
@RantyHighwayman was there any spore left for tomorrow?
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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026
Another wee ditty fae the Marsh Family this morning, and if this one disnae gar ye greet ye've nae hairt. #Minnesota #ReneeGood #AlexPretti youtu.be/BRHxXHZmVAM
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026
@acs I think it is mainly down to the border control issues, caused by Brexshit, that are holding things back. That has been a recurring theme in all the reports on this ferry route
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Adrian @acs.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026
@kim_harding DFDS don't stop seem pretty vague in their statement. It sounds like it still needs buy in from the government.
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025
Why don’t cyclists use the bike path? Because it fell in the river: Historic cycling and walking bridge collapses as councillors say it will be “nigh on impossible” to fix road.cc/content/news/spey-viaduct-c…
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Why don’t cyclists use the bike path? Because it fell in the river: Historic cycling and walking bridge collapses as councillors say it will be “nigh on impossible” to fix
Spey Viaduct, part of the National Cycle Network, collapsed after river flow appears to have eroded bridge piers, forcing cyclists onto a nine-mile detour
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
For a glimpse of just how complex, fascinating and unexpected soil ecosystems are, have a watch of this video, and see if it doesn't blow your mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyGI...
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How the soil healed wounded soldiers - a tale from Regenesis | George Monbiot
YouTube video by Sustainable Human
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025
A road map for motoring taxation ifs.org.uk/books/road-map-motoring-… The undertaxing of motoring should be called what it is, subsidising...
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Adrian @acs.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025
@munchkinstein Lance Armstrong was ahead of his time on this one with "It's not about the bike"
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Adrian @acs.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025
@kim_harding No, but I sometimes wonder if they have enough space.
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Adrian @acs.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025
Just back from the #EdinburghGangSho opening night. Another great show by all the young people involved. Well worth going if you have a free evening this week. #Edinburgh #FestivalTheatre #Scouts #Guides
Edinburgh Gang Show stage with curtain damage wn and logos showing.
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Edinburgh Festival of Cycling @edfoc.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Edinburgh e-bike component manufacturer, Intradrive, are hiring. They are looking for a junior to mid-level engineer with a hands-on approach and a passion for bikes and electronics. Find out more about Intradrive on their website www.intradrive.co.uk
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 24/10/2025
The decline and fall of suburbia. A play in three acts.
Act 1. 2008. A 1960s suburban bungalow in Edinburgh, with a neat garden and well trimmed hedges and bushes. An old couple sit on a bench out front. Act 2. 2012. The same suburban bungalow in Edinburgh. The garden has been dug up and covered in hardcore, the hedges removed and its wall removed and rebuilt. There are building materials in the front garden and a mini digger.Act 3. 2019. The same bungalow. It is almost unrecognisable. It has been extended to one side and the attic converted. It has been re-roofed in dark grey tiles, all the windows are new and smaller with dark grey frames. The brick and harling has been replaced with flat white render. The garden is largely a driveway with two black Range Rovers in it. There is a small patch of low-maintenance garden to one side.
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 10/09/2025
Sitrep: they had been taken down 15 minutes later when I passed that way again ✊
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Adrian @acs.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025
@kim_harding I've thought for a while that we might be at the peak of AI quality. Now that the web seems to have an increasing amount of AI generated content the bots are just feeding themselves. The financial incentive for creating quality content has also been removed by AI summaries.
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025
There’s been three crashes involving a driver hitting a cycling this August. They happened in the same week. This is unacceptable. We’re riding in protest of Edinburgh’s indifference toward cyclists this Friday 22nd August at 7pm. Meet at Middle Meadow Walk. Tell and bring everyone you know
This August drivers hit three cyclists in one week on Edinburgh streets
This is unacceptable
Protest ride
Friday August 22nd 7pm
Middle Meadow Walk
Join us to make cycling safer
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Adrian @acs.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2025
@threadinburgh.scot 🤔 were they also running a generator to power their electric ice-cream machines?
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Julian D 🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE #RejoinEU @julius-vd.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025
Morning, friends! 🌍 Why honour a result tainted by misinformation? Brexit has proven damaging to the UK. It's time to forge a new path and #ReJoinEU for a stronger, more united future. 🌟 #NewBeginnings #ReJoinEU #FBPE
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Adrian @acs.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2025
@kim_harding although adding that would be good simply shoehorning it into a FPTP ballot would still result in a broken system. In my view need some form of proportional representation more than any other single current to it system. Until that happens we are not a true democracy.
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2025
"... to feel empowered, voters obliged to participate in elections must be able to stipulate “None of the above” in a consequential fashion. Namely, if more people in a constituency back this option than vote for the leading candidate, then a new election should be held there with fresh candidates."
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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2025
The Met Office is currently looking for people to suggest up to 5 names for storms... It would be great if thousands all suggested the same 5 names (in alphabetical order as that's how storm names appear): BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, Shell. Met Office page is […]
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2025
Why do we not apply a full-cost recover model to private motoring? Why do we allow the motorist to externalise so much of the costs? The full cost of motoring should be born by the motorist, if you expect public transport to be run at breakeven or above […]
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2025
What the Media Isn’t Telling You: Why Universal Basic Income Is the Answer to Poverty, Insecurity, and Inequality www.scottsantens.com/what-the-media…
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What the Media Isn’t Telling You: Why Universal Basic Income Is the Answer to Poverty, Insecurity, and Inequality
Why Universal Basic Income can solve poverty, insecurity, and inequality—and why opponents fear its power to shift our economy.
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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2025
I think we need to start to say clearly and without shame that there is a moral difference between left and right. That left wing politics reflect our qualities of generosity, compassion, caring, sociability, conviviality and courage; while right wing values express greed, selfishness, ego […]
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2025
Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death yle.fi/a/74-20174831 A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and high-quality cycling and walking infrastructure. See Edinburgh, it can be done...
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Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
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Edinburgh Festival of Cycling @edfoc.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
'We look back not with sadness... but with immense pride': ITV bids farewell to the Tour de France www.cyclingweekly.com/news/we-look... 'I'm very proud of the standards that we've set on this production for a very long time'
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'We look back not with sadness... but with immense pride': ITV bids farewell to the Tour de France
'I'm very proud of the standards that we've set on this production for a very long time'
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025
What to do when wasps crash your picnic – a scientist’s guide to dining safely with these insects theconversation.com/what-to-do-when… It’s summer in the northern hemisphere and that means sun, sea – and […]
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Bob Downie @geomannie.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2025
Yesterday we had the most amazing kayaking experience I've ever had. Lead by Camy from www.arbroathclifftours.com we paddled north from Arbroath Cliffs to visit a series of sea caves. Despite being a NE loon I had no idea how wonderful they were. Set […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]
Sea cave chamber with brown sandstone ceiling decorated with pale streaks of speleothem flow-stone.4 happy kayakers & 5 kayaks on pebbly beach in grotto in cliffs.
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Adrian @acs.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5kpky… Can anyone explain to me why we should be subsidising car manufacturers. Surely the point of quotas is that the sale if fossil fuel vehicles should be providing the subsidy to reduce the cost of EVs. As for the number of chargers reported in this […]
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Adrian @acs.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025
@spocko I was asked by aliexpress to send a picture of a memory stick not working. Here it is in its whole dysfunctional glory.
Photo of memory stick plugged into pc. There is no way to know if it's working or not.
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Adrian @acs.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2025
I've been taking the train to Switzerland. So far the sleeper train dropped us in Rugby not London. The Eurostar was delayed so we missed the last train to Geneva and spent a night in Paris. Now on the train to Switzerland but as we didn't have a reservation were sitting in the vestibule […]
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2025
Chronic exposure to noise damaging the health of one in five Europeans www.euractiv.com/section/eet/news/c… Road traffic is the main source of noise pollution in Europe, exposing around 92 million people to harmful […]
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
In any conflict, we should oppose the aggressor and defend the aggressed, regardless of identity. I have only contempt for the Iranian regime, but Iran was attacked by Israel and the US without sufficient cause or legal justification. Israel and the US are the aggressors, Iran the aggressed.
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Julian D 🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE #RejoinEU @julius-vd.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025
Good morning, Europe! Let's remember the strength of our community and the importance of unity. Rejoining the EU means stronger ties and shared progress. #RejoinEU #FBPE #GoodMorningEurope
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Adrian @acs.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2025
#prouddadmoment Time moves on but hopefully this classic design never will.
2 mugs are side by side. They have the same design on them except one says 1995 and the other 2025. The design is a map of Scotland with a calculator keypad for the land. In the middle of the photo both mugs have the Scottish Mathematical Council logo.
The background is a kitchen with bananas and a bottle of squash.
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Adrian @acs.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2025
The Clubiedean Big Puddle is back. #CBP #Bikelife #Cycling #Countryside
The photo shows the back of an orange bicycle touring armed trailer. Behind the bike is a large puddle blocking the width of the track. On either side of the puddle te track has been widened by people avoiding the puddle. In the background is countryside.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It's great news that this profoundly selfish landowner has been beaten in court, and many congrats to the National Park and those supporting it. But wild camping is a fundamental right that we should be able to exercise in many parts of England, not just Dartmoor. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission @collectifission.greennuclear.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025
Ok, I might stop after this one: The new Pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University. This guy doesn’t just understand sin. He understands cos.
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