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If you're near Kilchoan and like beautiful, useful, understated hand-thrown pottery you should visit Eòrna Pottery (& if not, she'll have stuff available online again soon). Stopped in on my holidays & it was lucky for my budget someone had just bought a lot of stuff! www.eornapottery.com

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Eòrna Pottery | Experience Unique Pottery – Shop Now

Discover handcrafted, Hebridean and West Coast-inspired pottery from Ardnamurchan. Explore wheel-thrown tableware and learn about the artistry behind Eòrna Pottery.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 20h

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Two months on from the announcement about Jodrell Bank Observatory's future funding, almost £50,000 has been raised thanks to your generosity. While discussions continue, no solution is yet in place. Help protect Jodrell Bank with a donation: donate.manchester.ac.uk/p/jodrellba…

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 27/09/2026

James Kelman & the Unburied Books Podcast discuss James Hogg’s THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER, looking at the novel’s unusual structure, moral ambiguity, & mixture of genres. Kelman places the work in a modern, international context. unburied-books.castos.com/episodes/the...

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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner with James Kelman

Author James Kelman joins us to discuss James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, originally published in 1824. It tells the story of a staunch Calvininst who is lured in...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 27/09/2026

“How explain that a work so singular and so enlightening … how explain that such a work should have failed to become famous?” —André Gide, in his Introduction to James Hogg’s THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER (1947 edition)

How explain that a work so singular and so enlightening, so especially fitted to arouse passionate interest both in those who are attracted by religious and moral questions, and, for quite other reasons, in psychologists and artists, and above all in surrealists who are so particularly drawn by the demoniac in every shape – how explain that such a work should have failed to become famous?

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's #fossilfriday! Here's a guy from HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY: Arthropleura, a (probably!) herbivorous millipede relative that roams the coal forests of Carboniferous Scotland. Survival Verdict: YES. It's got a nasty nip, but we feel if you get bit, you have it coming.

A large, flat green millipede of unusual size crawls through a Carboniferous swamp forest, with some tiny tetrapods crawling on its back. Art by Stieven Van Der Poorten, from HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY

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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

3. because these shine a light on one another. This is not only an idea about culture, but also a political principle. The citizens of a country should know enough to judge their politicians, and contribute to the progress and wellbeing of the nation.

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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

2. They helped me think in terms of ‘generalism’. They were inspired by the great Scottish philosopher of George Elder Davie. Integral to these ideas is the old Scottish principle that one studies a broad curriculum, to compare different perspectives and viewpoints ...

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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you've never taken part in a Critical Mass ride, we ride as a large group every month to peacefully protest for better and safer cycling infrastructure in Edinburgh. Join us every one is warmly welcomed!

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 14/03/2026

I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

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Water of Leith Conservation Trust @wolct.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Johnny was out this morning with the scything team. Supporting Scything Scotland’s Mow to Meet scheme at the Seilich meadow near Pathhead. Fair to say the tea break received a 10/10 with three different flavours of homemade cake on offer for their hard work.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 19/09/2026

Urban planning debates are often dominated by a small but highly motivated minority. Public meetings, consultation processes, and media coverage can create the false impression that a noisy group of opponents represents the majority view, even when the broader public quietly feels very differently.🧵

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Edinburgh Festival of Cycling @edfoc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Cargo Bike Carnival, a fun day celebrating cargo bikes: games, stalls, best-dressed bike competition, and a world record attempt. This will be a day out for all the family to showcase how fantastic cargo bikes are for getting around the city, whatever you might need to carry.

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fragments of people's lives, washed up on the beach.

Miscellaneous beach finds laid out on a black background. Among the colourful finds featured are false nails, finger prickers, toy soldiers, toy animals, fake flowers and foliage, a plastic nose, Lego, a soy sauce fish and a covid test kit.

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SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 15/09/2026

New York launching 100 policies for the next ten years. 👇

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Return of the Peat Cafe! @glasgow.ac.uk Monthly online archaeological seminar re: wetlands, especially peatlands. 2026/27 schedule & details now online: tinyurl.com/3cavyh8p Next meeting 5 October: Angela Gallego-Saga (Exeter University) Arctic peatlands: an expanding or collapsing biome?

Image of Lindow Moss peat bog landscape with standing surface water and exposed pines (copyright Mel Giles).

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Like, instead of yelling at The Cyclists, how about yelling at the planners, engineers, and politicians who force us all to fight for scraps?

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I know I say it all the time, but a lot of pedestrian/micro-mobility conflicts arise due to lack of infrastructure or infrastructure that puts a lot of people into slivers of space not taken from cars. Will there always be assholes? Yup, but giving everyone more space will make things a lot safer.

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Water of Leith Conservation Trust @wolct.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This summer three fawn keep making their way out of the Dells under Slateford Bridge to graze downstream of the Centre. Today they were standing in the water, chilling, when they met a class of Sciennes P7s. Great art was made as a result.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 14/09/2026

💜 A huge honour, which I’m truly grateful for! Thanks for reading / riding with me — Ben

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Morningsider @morningsider.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's mad this attitude presists in Edinburgh local media. 10% of working age adults in the city cycle to work, 34% get the bus, 23% walk. Hell, 42% of Edinburgh residents aged 17+ don't have a driving licence. It's car dominance that should be seen as "controversial".

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Over 3000 People have already responded! Can you help us reach more people than ever before? Respond to our Trans Lives Survey today, and share on your social media, so we can get a full picture of the experiences and views of trans people in the UK. form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3

A pink and blue graphic with a black and white cartoon of some people on the bottom.

Text reads: TransActual is launching its biggest survey for the trans community yet!

TRANS LIVES SURVEY

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We want to hear about your experiences as a trans person living in the UK.

It's quick, anonymous, and will help us campaign for our community!

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Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This thread explains some helpful facts re historic tree cover. We don't need to perpetuate inaccuracy to justify increasing tree cover now. Current & future environments & needs are different. Better to explain why than keep pretending we can return to some halcyon days to fix the mess we've made.

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Myth 5; elderly and disabled people rely on cars. Disabled people are twice as likely as non disabled people to have no access to a car. Disabled people face major challenges on public transport due to UNRELIABILITY. www.motabilityfoundation.org.uk/media/k3xlfr...

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Dr. Lesley Barron, MD, MPhil, FRACS @drlesleybarron.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My hot take on drivers encountering any vulnerable road user is that even if cyclists/ pedestrians etc aren’t following the law they still don’t deserve to be hit/injured/killed or honked at and actually should be yielded to in most situations. This is unpopular opinion in our society sadly.

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I don't know about y'all, but as a kid I absolutely loved all-ages compendiums of weird extinct animals. So this year, I wrote one. And then @stievenvdp.bsky.social illustrated it, and the results will knock your socks off. HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY. Out April 27, 2027. You can preorder it now!

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How to Survive Prehistory: A Guide to the Wildest Beasts of Ancient Earth

From Smithsonian and Scientific American writer Asher Elbein comes the ultimate illustrated guide to prehistory's most dangerous real-life monsters, perfect for lovers of survival guides and dinosaur ...

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alice lyall @alyall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The DCMS / OTW crossover I didn't know I needed!

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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alice lyall @alyall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is me. I like trams! But I am convinced I'd be past retirement before anything usable replaced the RP. No parallel route included w/trams west. P St/Shandwick Pl junction a frightening obstacle course years after a woman killed. Years for new infra but existing is ripped out in weeks. Etc etc

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Edward Tissiman @edtiss.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Demand for spaces in cycle hangars in Edinburgh has increased by 2,700 (50%) in the last 12 months. After adjusting for duplication across waiting lists, I estimate that around 7,000 people currently want a spot in one - but Edinburgh Council only provide 1,500 spaces. rpubs.com/edtiss/hangars

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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Extreme weather makes The Bike Station’s mission even more important. Worsening climate has flooded the Bike Station and they need to clean up their workshop. They are a charity doing good work, including the Wee Bike Library and they need our help. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/keep-us-ro...

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Keep Us Rolling

Extreme weather makes The Bike Station’s mission even more important- support us to get more people using sustainable and joyful transport.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Full-sized SUVs are pedestrian killers. New research finds that they're more than twice as likely to kill or seriously injure a pedestrian than other cars. (Notably, vehicle height—not weight—was the biggest risk factor.) doi.org/10.1016/j.js...

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

More than 17000 people have contacted their MPs asking them to sign the motion and reject the harmful Code – have you? Take less than five minutes to write today – or if you have already, why not ask three of your friends to as well?: tinyurl.com/stopthecode

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Email your MP to reject the Code of Practice and support EDM 240

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Water of Leith Conservation Trust @wolct.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Hunting for Giant Hogweed, Himalayan Balsam, and rubbish today between Gorgie Road and the Visitor's Centre, with a wee detour for a team to pull a horde of balsam from a small tributory which squeezes between Longstone retail outlets and down to join the river. Very producive! Thanks everyone!

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Polling for congestion pricing is always bad before a city implements it. Then it rapidly improves once residents experience faster traffic, quieter streets, and better transit service. As a European city official once told me, " “You have to make people happy against their will."

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Pay to drive into Boston? No way, say a majority of Mass. voters. - The Boston Globe

More than 69 percent of the 500 registered voters surveyed in the Suffolk/Globe poll said they would not be willing to pay to drive to downtown Boston if there was less traffic.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 21/05/2026

Witnessed the traffic chaos and dangerous new road layout* in Silverknowes this week. Hell on earth. * quoting ConCerNeD rESiDeNtS, of course the reality is far from it.

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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

this is unworkably insane as well as morally repellent, and still isn't going to win the government any points at all from the people who are now going to tour the country waging lawfare against any organisations that look like they might be treating trans people with dignity

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Trans men can be excluded from both men’s facilities and women’s facilities.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

There we have it - you have to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces (so maybe avoid having them if you can). A bathroom ban from people who recognise that they’re doing a bathroom ban, and feel guilty about it. Shameful. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

My #UrbanPrehistory book, The Archaeology of Prehistory in the Contemporary World: Deep Time in Global Urban Spaces, is now available for pre-order in the UK, and I expect it to come out towards the end of 2026. I'm currently working on the proofs. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/archaeolo...

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The Archaeology of Prehistory in the Contemporary World

This book offers a timely roadmap for navigating the material and intangible legacies of prehistory with which we live today. Drawing on a series of global case…

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Hidden Door @hiddendoorarts.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Emma Macleod explores uncanny overlaps between human, animal & landscape, shaped by folklore & ecological unease. Discover her diorama-like world of hybrid figures amongst moss, stone and branches, hinting at ritual traces of a lost or imagined ecosystem. #HiddenDoorFestival

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

the chief executive of Cancer Research UK is neither a cancer patient nor a cancer researcher, and yet everyone seems to understand that that’s fine, because neither of those would be the correct experience for the job??

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Built Environment Forum Scotland @thebefs.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Lost capacity across built environment: 📉 28.6% planning budget cuts 📉 38% fewer archaeological officers 📉 58% more engineers needed by 2027 Preventative spend on skills NOW prevents costly disasters LATER 💰 Invest in expertise ✅ Read our full manifesto: bit.ly/48NuMW2 #BEFSManifesto2026

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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

🌊24-30 April marks #BigRiverWatch from @theriverstrust.bsky.social 🧘‍♀️ Spend 15 mins by a river and complete the survey on the free Big River Watch app. 🌳A few of our small (but mighty!) rivers in #WestLothian are without data - could you lend a hand? 👉️ buff.ly/c2akd9T

A photo of a small stream bordered by trees and wildflowers. The text reads "Big River Watch: It's not just about the BIG rivers... 24th-30th April. Show our small rivers, streams and headwaters some love."

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24/04/2026

Can't believe there might be a place in AI for massively overconfident self-proclaimed geniuses who believe you can data-logic your way through any complex societal problem if you just reject complexity, empathy, morality and legality as obsolete weaknesses.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Britain should rejoin EU, says man who led Brexit department Philip Rycroft, who oversaw the Department for Exiting the European Union from 2017 to 2019, said none of Leave’s ‘heady promises’ had materialised www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Britain should rejoin EU, says man who led Brexit department

Philip Rycroft, who oversaw the Department for Exiting the European Union from 2017 to 2019, said none of Leave’s ‘heady promises’ had materialised

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Glenys Norquay @glenisilla.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

One of four wheatears at the anti-aircraft battery this evening. They stop by every year for just a day or two on their journey from central Africa to their breeding grounds ❤️ Liberton #Edinburgh #birds

A wheatear on the edge of a concrete wall, part of a WWII anti-aircraft battery

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