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Calder

@calderwook.bsky.social
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Disabled and mostly found bumbling about Edinburgh on a cargo bike or walking my dogs Trees make things better. He/Him

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 1h
A really lovely man who I've know for years from walking the dog lost his long battle with cancer. He would meet his friend who had a dog and walk round and fuss over all the other dogs. I didn't even know his surname but it has hit hard. Fuck Cancer!
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 3h
Pretty sure these are all Shaggy Inkcap / Mane with the ones in the middle being old, edible and good when young though I've not been brave enough.
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 7h
I am once again asking/begging cultural, heritage and environmental groups in Edinburgh to stop using Gen AI images of a city that has been photographed from nearly every conceivable angle and for which a vast portfolio rights-free images already exist to use if you don't have a budget to pay
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 7h
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
theguardian.com
Mark Zuckerberg is leading us a merry dance: the Stephen Collins cartoon
Whatever next …
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Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social · 10h
We are looking for an Events and Marketing Assistant and a Visitor Services Assistant to join the team. You can find out more about the roles and how to apply here: jobs.rcsed.ac.uk?_gl=1*1wnmzi....
Dark blue background with white text. It reads: Join the team. To the left of the image there is a photo of an old travelling medicine chest. It is open to show the different compartments and glass bottles inside.
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 08/10/2026
Haggis spiced latte season is upon us once again I see
Costa coffee advert. Slogan "coffee that is made with heart"
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Jeff de Boer @jeffdeboer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At last the Fat Henry VIII mice are done! Today is phot day. #jeffdeboer #mousearmour #miniatureart #metalarts #henryviii
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Jeff de Boer @jeffdeboer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It’s not all mice armour in my studio. Here is my “Sutton Mew”cat from 2023. It’s was a one of kind entirely hand chased and took 800 hours to make. #jeffdeboer #catarmour #catartist #suttonhoo #suttonhoohelmet
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A is for ‘Advertising’ #AtoZofBadvertising
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In panel one, we see a crow’s face. It says, “I AM DEATH’S MESSENGER”.
In panel two, we see the same crow’s face. It continues, “YOUR TIME IS NEAR”.
In panel four, we see the crow awkwardly hopping away from a stick figure.
In panel five, we see the grim reaper with the crow perched on his hand. The grim reaper says, “So you should probably fly away dramatically instead.”
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink The years go by, as quickly as you wink Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory as always.
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cool can she find me a well paying job that will employ my disabled self then.
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Timmy Mallett @timmymallett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Who knew that Nowhere is Somewhere?!!
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Giant Cats of Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @giantcatsdunbar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
>NEW: >spotter: bogbrush; >56.004550,-2.511999; >1323hrs 6/10/26;
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wrong alt right racist arsehole YouTuber . It was Mark Meechan Count Dankula with the pug. Carl is Sargon of Akkad.
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bah, wrong The Mad Capsule Market album.
youtu.be
THE MAD CAPSULE MARKETS - Midi Surf
YouTube video by The Mad Capsule Markets
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That was surprisingly difficult to narrow down to 9 albums that shaped my taste. #My9Albulms
MY9Albums, Grid of 3 by 3 of album covers featuring the below list 

Queen II
Queen

Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin

The Colour and the Shape
Foo Fighters

Nimrod
Green Day

Your New Favourite Band
The Hives

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THE MAD CAPSULE MARKETS

Give Up
The Postal Service

Takk...
Sigur Rós

A Certain Trigger
Maxïmo Park
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Doing mine now and it's hard to narrow it down to the 9 that really shaped my tastes and not just what I loved.
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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 04/10/2026
My GP recommends swimming for my back. I want to go. There are 2 communal changing rooms. Labour say I should use the mens. I am a visibly female woman with a GRC. If I use the mens there's a serious risk of me being confronted and worse. So where do I go? I don't. I'm segregated from society.
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The more I see many politician's indifference to the death toll, playing political games with lives, the more I get why cars ended upside down during the Stop De Kindermoord protests.
A 1970s protest with upside down car wrecks in the Amsterdam neighbourhood De Pijp for a better environment with fewer cars. Painted on the cars it reads “car free”.
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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
I get so angry about this. People *die*. *Children* *die*. Disabled people end up trapped in their homes. Parents walk about scared all the time. And what do we get? "It's not my fault it's his fault!" Makes me sick to my stomach.
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm no Tom Flood but the idea was bouncing around my head.
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My guess it would be something like this.
youtube.com
SUV Rollover Crash On The Empty Road @drivetoaction #shorts #crash #suv #fail #car #driving #failure
YouTube video by Drive To Action
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This interview goes into more detail plus drone shots. Wonder if they can make them rebuild it exactly as it was as punishment.
youtu.be
Mum's semi-detached 'nightmare' after neighbour illegally demolishes home | SWNS
YouTube video by SWNS
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fun fact the SUVs are as just as dangerous in your constituency. Road safety may be devolved under Transport Scotland but mandating maximum bonnets heights isn't a devolved issue. Neither is taxing SUV's to reflect the increased harm they do.
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Coming soon the UK market SUV Chainsaws!
A silver and orange chainsaw on a white background.

The branding has crudely been changed to SUV chainsaws.
With the small print that it's 82%more likely to kill a child.
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Imtired Boss
Alt: Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey says "I's tired, boss" from the film The Green Mile.
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's easy to get lost with these things. Almost like the whole thing is designed to be difficult . . .
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can we not have some words of action rather than SNP/Greens Bad? You're an MP and your party is the government. Absolutely nothing has been done to address the fact that an SUVs likelihood of killing pedestrian or cyclist is 44% higher, and with a child it's 82% higher.
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As an aside imagine if the council took the position of the metal boxes that cause the danger have to justify themselves with the endless reports and consultations and committee votes discussing the minutia rather than the things put in to protect squishy people.
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
4.22.3 Option 3 – Re-open Braid Avenue and Braid Road to through traffic, with segregated cycleways on Braid Avenue and Hermitage Drive. And later the revised option 3 is the removal of all the modal filters.
democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You can even watch the webcast if you desire. It was his own motion to go for option 3 and Labour, Lib Dem and Conservative voted it through. democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/g6...
 Voting

First Vote

For the motion (as adjusted) – 4 votes
For Amendment 1    –  3 votes
For Amendment 3   – 2 votes
For Amendment 4   – 2 votes

(For the motion (as adjusted): Councillors Arthur, Faccenda, Lang, and Ross.
For Amendment 1: Councillors Aston, Dobbin and McFarlane.
For Amendment 3: Councillors Bandel and O’Neill.
For Amendment 4: Councillors Cowdy and Munro.)

As there was no overall majority, the Convener used his power under Standing Order X and Amendment 4 fell. A second vote was taken between the motion (as adjusted), Amendment 1 and Amendment 3.

Second Vote

For the motion (as adjusted)  –           6 votes
For Amendment 1   –            3 votes
For Amendment 3   –            2 votes

(For the motion (as adjusted): Councillors Arthur, Cowdy, Faccenda, Lang, Munro and Ross.
For Amendment 1: Councillors Aston, Dobbin and McFarlane.
For Amendment 3: Councillors Bandel and O’Neill.)
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Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A small number of angry drivers / pandering politicians had enough incentive to get the council to remove a years-old quiet neighbourhood scheme. The same concentration of power doesn’t exist in the diffuse body of local people who would like not to have overturning SUVs in their street
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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 01/10/2026
What happens when you create a high-traffic neighbourhood by removing the modal filters on the Braid Estate… SUVs end up on their side Junction of Braid Rd and Hermitage Dr. Around school pick up time, Thursday 1st Oct
A black SUV on its side with the underside visible. A police car in the  foreground and an ambulance in the background. A police officer stands in hi viz beside the SUV. The pole of a zebra crossing can be seen in the foreground The same as the first picture, but zoomed in on the overturned SUV
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Upright Coral Fungus looking splendid in the sun. #fungifriends
Upright Coral Fungus
Ramaria strict. It's a bright yellowly orange in the sun light it's thousand of coral like branches upright from the wood chip path it's growing from. Upright Coral Fungus
Ramaria strict. It's a bright yellowly orange in the sun light it's thousand of coral like branches upright from the wood chip path it's growing from. Upright Coral Fungus
Ramaria strict. It's a bright yellowly orange in the sun light it's thousand of coral like branches upright from the wood chip path it's growing from.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Talk to your kids.
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth."
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Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everyone, Google "Fat Bear" today
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That was cute. Thank you.
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Public Service Broadcasting HQ @psbhq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Big thanks to Mike Palmer for the footage here, Thomas Coe-Brooker for the edit and everyone who came along on Saturday and helped make it such a great night.
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Welcome Cockneys to The War On Cars as cities aren't loud, cars are and drowning out St Mary-le-Bow bells that make new Cockneys. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
youtube.com
Why There Are No True Cockneys Anymore
YouTube video by J. Draper
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah, google led me to read a 2018 Bellingcat talking about exactly that.
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here was me thinking it was just for squaddies brew ups and model steam engines.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 28/09/2026
like if you think it’s fly tipping, repost if you bet dogging
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That is a fair point.
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh hell no! Kevin Lang is the front runner to replace Christine Jardine.
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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"why would I deceive you?"
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Were you repeatedly kicked in the head by a horse?
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Cllr David Wilcox @david-on-a-bike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bollards with Dazzle Camouflage. This isn’t entirely fair I think. What do you think @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social ?
Bollards with dazzle camouflage underneath Battersea Bridge.
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