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Vegan cyclopath in my copious free time. Head to @bruceresearch.bsky.social for my professional posts.

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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We had insufficient knowledge of Istanbul’s cats.
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Friend share their lounge with Recovery Moomin. He's very cute.
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Perhaps the low score is due to me planning to submit my 2025-26 tax return afterwards. (I have done so, and seem to have escaped from payments on account!)
screenshot of Guardian Thursday Quiz results, showing that Sadiq Khan was convicted of something ha had not done!
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It's all thanks to the 'man in a bucket' (© Cllr Rae)! cyclemeter.com/3432aa395de1...
screenshots of results from this week's Guardian Thursday Quiz. We got 10 out of 15.
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
getting better
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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 09/08/2026
I went looking for old anti-vaccine propaganda and expected an interesting historical curiosity. Instead I found arguments from 1802, 1885 and 1920 that would barely need rewriting to circulate online today. That raises a rather disconcerting question.
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eleanorryan.bsky.social @eleanorryan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Great opportunity here for an experienced economist to become a Scottish Fiscal Commissioner. See the Insight publication for some reflections from Justine Riccomini and me about what the role is like in practice.
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
return of the Truss!
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Post-Vienna boost?
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We did the quiz in the Anker Bäckeri/Kaffee in Wiener Neustadt.
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Back to the usual Saturday routine 😀
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The return to saner temperatures may have helped.
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Did we need the final ‘e’ and ‘d’?
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Britain’s six prime ministers since 2016 – ranked!
From Cameron’s Brexit exit to Starmer’s Burnham bow-out, half a dozen PMs have gone. So who’s the best of the bunch?
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We’ve forgotten so many details of this trauma, so I’m doing some refresher-reading.
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
@cilip.bsky.social @cilipscotland.bsky.social
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
So cute!
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
blogged: a tale of two passes: bruceryandontexist.info/2026/05/02/a.... Yet another moan from a grumpy old git.
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A tale of two passes
I’ve doctored the numbers and a QR code so there is no point in trying to use this image for yourself. Earlier this year I turned 60, and so became entitled to both a railcard and a national …
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
80% 😊 And Trump can fuck off all the way, and then some more. He doesn’t make me feel better, and makes a whole lot of people deader.
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
We could have done better.
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Blogged: 4 weeks in Vienna! Thank you to my ever-wonderful wife. (The words are tedious but the photos may amuse.) bruceryandontexist.info/2026-2/
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Reise nach Wien (March) days 1 to 4 (27 February to 2 March) day 5 (3 March) day 6 (4 March) day 7 (5 March) day 8 (6 March) day 9 (7 March) day 10 (8 March) day 11 (9 March) day 12 (10 March) day …
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Dr Frances Ryan (she/her) @francesryanphd.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Today's the day! I hope you're ready to contribute to critical conversations around information literacies, authenticity, and the use of digital technologies in shaping a more enlightened and inclusive digital society. Welcome to the iConference at @edinburghnapier.bsky.social #iConf2026 #iConf26
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
And a quiz on AI v real quotations
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Our last quiz of this trip 😭
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
vernichten!
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Exactly how is the war on Iran helping other countries? It’s not even helping people who might want to see the end of the current regime, as far as I can see.
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Bad pun time. I’m on a bus to the middle of NÖ-where.
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
You think we don’t already try? And how will you oay for the forced remivals on top of everything else? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Britons should strive to pay minimum tax legally possible, says Richard Tice
Reform UK’s deputy leader comments came as he was responding to questions raised about his own tax affairs
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Breaking tradition: doing the Thursday quiz on a Sunday. Oh the shame!
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Sitting outside a Cafe Aida on Elterlein plate, powerless to do anything but type rude words. So here are some: Der orangefarbene Scheiß-Gibbon ist so ein widerlicher Wichser.
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Michael AskewⓋ @michaelbeanz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Well, it looked so good that I just had to order this from Karma Kitchen here in Newcastle upon Tyne: their vegetable korma.😋 Oh yes. We Vegans really know how to cunningly disguise grass.😜
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Ich glaube, dass die Muttiland hat rechts!
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
From www.visitingvienna.com/visitorinfo/... ‘Post-Brexit visitors from the UK also need a special import certificate from the Foreign Office granting permission to store and use EU electricity in a British device.’ Dearie dearie me! And anyone who didn’t like this joke can go right away.
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Plugs and sockets in Austria
Can you use your electrical equipment in Austria? What adapters might you need?
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Endlich sind wir in Österreich ❤️
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Scheisse aug Bratwurst!
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
They’ve just announced there’s an issue with the foot-passenger gangway. Will we be trapped on board?
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
What a bunch of wank to wake up to.
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Perhaps because I'm a fire horse (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Ho...)
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Cllr Jack Caldwell 🇺🇦 @jackrmcaldwell.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
CONGRATS to the 10 organisations who've received #LeithChooses funding for new community projects across Leith, Hillside & Broughton! From new equipment by the Water of Leith, to cooking classes, to support for older people - thank you to everyone who voted! www.leithchooses.net/the-leithcho...
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The LeithChooses 2025/2026 results are in!
The results are now in for LeithChooses 2025/2026. Following the voting day and the online voting period, and after totting up all the votes cast by the Leith community, the groups that have been s…
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
and the @leithchooses.bsky.social awards are announced! www.leithchooses.net/the-leithcho... #hyperlocaldemocracy #participatorybudgeting
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The LeithChooses 2025/2026 results are in!
The results are now in for LeithChooses 2025/2026. Following the voting day and the online voting period, and after totting up all the votes cast by the Leith community, the groups that have been s…
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
@leithchooses.bsky.social Thanking Rob Levick and Docherty of the community centre for all of their free-of-charge support. And to the council officials who put in so much!
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Cllr Kinross-O’Neil speaking on the moavt if PB and LC at the leithchooses.bsky.social results event. Thanks to Utilita for enabling accessible in-person voting when the lift to the community centre was kaput.
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
At @leithchooses.bsky.social results event, Willie Barr of the Citadel begins to announce the results
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
@leithchooses.bsky.social results evening. Sally Millar is leading us through numbers: numbers of votes, numbers of voters (people had up to 4 votes, people could vote in person and/or online)
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
cllr @jackrmcaldwell.bsky.social speaking prelude to results, and the applicants’ incredible effect on Leith. We miss steering group chair Cllr Susan Rae. We invite suggestions for improvement!
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
@leithchooses.bsky.social Don Giles introduces @leithchooses.bsky.social results evening, talking about the history, impact and benefits of #participatorybudgeting and LC
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Not our best. Perhaps it’s because we did this week’s @theguardian.com Thursday Quiz on Sunday, not Saturday as we usually do.
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
This piece of wisdom from the tangerine shit-gibbon returns to haunt us.
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Yay!
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Live, work, study or volunteer in Leith? Vote in tomorrows in-person vote, or online from Monday, @leithchooses.bsky.social
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BruceRyan_rants @bruceryanrants.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Detail of the quiet room for tomorrow’s in-person vote @leithchooses.bsky.social
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