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Edinburgh now and past; merging. Books. Running always.

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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hesitated to read this due to mental laziness but am glad I ignored my instinct. So informative and great graphs. Makes this reader despair at UK governments' neglect of that difference between electricity and energy. We appear worse than almost every other Euro country too...
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Great idea. Instead of agreeing planning that turfs artists out of the ART building in Edinburgh - to make way for more student flats - can @edinburgh.gov offer serious support? You could find those artists a new property, use some of the tourist tax. Take action to support that community.
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Gav @antihippy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very mixed feelings about this. The building is really interesting & to lose so much of it for a lack of imagination is a travesty. The 'developers' aren't really developing. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2659128...
heraldscotland.com
Architects warn against development of former Scottish Widows HQ into 385-room hotel
The Category-A listed property, designed by Sir Basil Spence, has lain vacant at 15 Dalkeith Road, near Holyrood Park, since 2020.
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So demoralising. And the timing is such that the council are right now also asking community artists to bid for tourist tax funding. Why can't they instead see the scale of this, and direct that funding to preserving this space for the groups who are already there, or funding a new space for them?
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It is, with a handful of flats added; a council cover to hide their shame in giving planning.
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah, well, the language of my childhood; prison was always the chokey 😮🙂
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah, well, the language of my childhood; prison was always the chokey 😮🙂
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Understand the sentiment, but the jails are stowed out. How about, as government struggles to fund public services, they fast track a law that would impound the boats and impose immediate hefty fines. If that fails to bring in a large sum with a few months, into the chokey they go?
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Brian McRoberts @brimcrob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Edinburgh Ahh great another block of Student accomodation. Hang on second though has there not been a drop in foreign students coming here? Isn't the major University in town cutting courses left , right and centre?
heraldscotland.com
Artists told to vacate creative hub as owner in talks over St Margaret's House sale
Building owner Caledonian Trust is in discussions with a 'preferred party' about purchasing the site, which has led to tenant Scot-ART…
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So true. In a city where the council declared a housing emergency and had to be stopped from putting homeless people in illegal accommodation. Tragic enough that they boot out artists who are priced out elsewhere, but criminal that it's for more student flats. Is there a petition or protest?
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kicking out artists and community groups to create more student flats. As one person says here, the irony is not lost in a city that boasts about its art festivals.https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/st-margarets-house-meadowbank-eviction-notice-creative-hub-9236791?ref=edinburghminute.com
edinburghnews.scotsman.com
Artists and groups hunt for new homes as eviction notice served on creative hub
Charity Scot-ART has rented out space at St Margaret’s House in Meadowbank for the past 18 years
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a really good piece of writing - informative and engaging. Got me looking at images of Hormuz island and thinking about fish fingers...
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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The most memorable, because it was the most frightening, moment of my journalistic life was being caught in the Garvaghy Road riot after Rosemary Nelson's murder. It was after the ban but when the stand-offs were still happening. Why would anyone let this back into NI? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...
bbc.co.uk
Drumcree: Protests as controversial Orange Order march due to go ahead for first time since 1997
The march down the mainly-nationalist Garvaghy Road, which in the 1990s sparked some of the most serious disorder in Northern Ireland's history, will go ahead after a series of courtroom challenges.
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This petition is out to save courses at Edinburgh Art College - I've signed it and hope they will listen - c.org/cmQkq7vcbr
c.org
Sign the Petition
Save the Craft and Design Courses at Edinburgh College of Art
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Unemployment benefit in the UK is £95.55 per week for those aged 25 & over. It is 14% of average full-time earnings: the lowest in the developed world. Yet it is still too high for the Tories & right-wing vandals who would ideally live in a world where it did not exist.
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 24/09/2026
Macklemore announces Free Palestine Tour after Ed Sheeran controversy
news.sky.com
Macklemore announces Free Palestine Tour after Ed Sheeran controversy
Macklemore has announced a series of European concerts, called the Free Palestine Tour, after he was controversially dropped as Ed Sheeran's support act.
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Is Edinburgh University a Scottish University at all? fiftysixdegreesnorth.substack.com/p/is-edinbur...
fiftysixdegreesnorth.substack.com
Is Edinburgh University a Scottish University at all?
The announcement of cuts at Edinburgh University supports the argument that some of our fundamental institutions are not our own.
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優noD🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 16/09/2026
BBC News - No consent for large AI data centres before Christmas, MSPs told www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
No consent for large AI data centres before Christmas, MSPs told
The growth of AI is happening at lightning pace, so what are the advantages and disadvantages of Scotland being at the forefront?
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Beautiful creature but isn't there a contradiction in representing it on a massive concrete block put there by humans...Our success as a species comes at a high cost to others.
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 20/09/2026
More than balances out Morrisey's being an asshole if anyone takes umbrage at you for listening to The Smiths in this day and age
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If this is the best they can do, ye Gods. The document spends every page saying almost nothing. Bland, vague and dull. No wonder the people have lost faith.
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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 16/09/2026
“Finally being compliant now doesn't suddenly erase years of documented breaches.” Animal Equality has criticised the regulatory response to alleged breaches at Mowi’s Loch Linnhe salmon farm
theferret.scot
Sepa branded ‘toothless’ after salmon farm accused of 15 environmental breaches
The Scottish Government’s green watchdog sent seven letters over three years alleging multiple breaches at a fish farm – and then issued a final warning letter.
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: EIAs for Hyperscale Data Centres. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/eias...
actionnetwork.org
EIAs for Hyperscale Data Centres
We have an urgent situation - two new planning applications have been submitted for hyperscale AI data centres, one in Greenock and one in Chapelhall, Airdrie, and neither is being required to do an E...
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I rashly cut my fringe this morning and I'm seeing a connection with these poor wee kids...
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What is wrong with the BBC's ridiculous idea of 'balance'. Every week I do admire and love Stephen Collins's strips. This is a golden oldie from a few years back.
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I see Boswell there on the right hand side. Don't suppose Fergusson made the cut for the main hall images, or James Hogg by any chance (I know they have a mask of the latter upstairs)? I'll check next time I'm there ...
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is a fine portrait, and yes, the gallery is special.
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The chap has an impressively sweeping hair-do...
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
You're right. And fixing the potholes created by massive tour coaches would be good. I'd also stop any more short term lets and buy some back, to convert into council rented flats, aiming for a set number every year...
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I've not watched it for years, but perhaps the house in question is modest compared to the Amazon warehouse-type designs they so often featured? Big horrible affairs with huge open plan spaces and no soul, from my memory...
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This needs full public discussion.
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Maybe the city fathers responsible were colour blind 🤔
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Found on the Edinburgh Minute...another great local innovation.
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Really interesting, great piece of work - tomhumberstone.com/just-work?ut...
tomhumberstone.com
Just Work | Tom Humberstone
Just Work
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It was such a class run. Got out of tricky situation and just glided....
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Of all the images you could use depicting 'teenager on phone' why do you go for that shot?
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Whoever came up with the plan to put concrete bollards on the pavement of George IV Bridge should hang their head in shame. Only way to cope on my daily walking commute is wear headphones, risk death by tourist coach as I'm forced onto the road, and charge through the crowds annoying the wee dug.
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I ask the question of whether the message is more ominous than that of public highway access.
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
It's quite a bleak warning. Is it speaking geographically or existentially?
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
That's not grim, that's the natural state of the Meadows. All the sun and BBQ stuff is an aberration.
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I wish the half-time show could be described as the same. In contrast it was mind numbingly dull, banal and uninhibited in its commercialisation. It (and the hydration/ad breaks) disconnect us from the match. Honestly, if this setup leaks around the world they'll destroy the game.
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I missed Madonna as I was doing the cat litter...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This halftime show thing is a crime against humanity
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Finding this quite hard to stomach from a country that is bombing the shit out of other countries…
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Big wig being an appropriate phrase with these hairdos...
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Which one? 😄
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
d' you reckon the cause will be determined, and action taken?
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
There is now an imminent threat to the life of Dr Abu Safiya. He has been arbitrarily detained by Israeli authorities since Dec 2024, subjected to torture, severe physical & psychological abuse, & prolonged solitary confinement. Join us and demand his release: amn.st/63322BEMbho
Before and after detention image of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, showing his degradation.Many healthcare works in the UK holding signs reading Free Gaza Medics and Free Dr Abu Safiya and other medics.List of prominent signatories who signed the letter by healthcare works calling for the release of Dr. Abu SafiyaMany healthcare works in the UK holding signs reading Free Dr Abu Safiya
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Mary @imaged.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Or charge more for a non-window seat from now on.
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