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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The special bike carriage is wonderful. It even has a special section for larger bikes. Photo from a trip to Oban in February this year.

A black mountain bike with front bar bag, in a train carriage adapted purely to carry bikes.

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InfraSisters @infrasisters.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

We're back! We've teamed up with @cyclinguk.bsky.social for a Glow Ride on Friday 24th October. Like us, they want to see more women cycling, and for councils to provide more safe infrastructure to enable that. Light up your bike with lights and sparkle and join us at Middle Meadow Walk at 7.30pm.

A campaign poster for InfraSisters x Cycling UK. Showing an image of 3 silhouettes of women riding bikes.
Light up your bike and join us!
To call for better cycling infrastructure, safer for women at night.
Friday 24th October
7.30pm
Middle Meadow Walk
Together with a QR code linking back to our website.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

My wee car has 360° cameras at low speed, and audible warnings of any adjacent object/person. It also has automated braking if i drive towards a stationary object without braking. The tech is there, it just needs to be utilised.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I wonder if there will be better diversion signs than provided for the closure of Rosebery Crescent?

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Zelensky may have been speaking in his 2nd/3rd language, yet he still came across as more articulate with a wider vocabulary than the sneering bully boys sat opposite him.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 02/03/2025

Calling the tech oligarchs the "Nerd Reich" is nasty work 😂😂😂

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

@infrasisters.bsky.social campaign on this specific point in Edinburgh- create safe nighttime infrastructure for women and girls and you've made it safe for everyone.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

bsky.app/profile/juli... Just starting the first of them...

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

On Valentines Day, time to go adventuring with my beloved. We found the legendary Highland Explorer bike carriage, what started start to the weekend!

A train carriage with a mural depicting acyclist riding through famous Scottish landscapes.

A Bike with front bar bag leans against a pillar with a train behind.

Through tree branches, a bright white hotel can be seen on the opposite side of the loch, under dark hills topped with snow.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

As opposed to his answers on anything else?

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

maps.app.goo.gl/uHK2RPUAYinu... get to the airport. You might not always get that particular light, but that's exactly how it looks.

maps.app.goo.gl

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

There's an option in settings for it to prompt you when you attach an image that doesn't have alt text. It's a lovely little helper.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I think you've completely misread my post and the context within the thread. It was a response to the suggestion that "cheap Chinese ebikes" were a good buy. Good legal ebikes are great, I have a couple of them.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

In the height of winter, green shoots of hyacinth bulbs promising spring.

A plant pot. A tiny green shoot can be seen poking through the soil, and an even smaller white one also.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

What flaw? I choose to buy safe products from reputable manufacturers/retailers and operate them as directed. Are they then 100% safe? No, but the fire risk is significantly minimised.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It's an imitation of how Putin has behaved in Russia; expand the area of control, dominate neighbouring territories to bend to your interest not their own.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

About 60% of the LFB figures. Buy a cheap ebike from Halfords or Decathlon, just steer clear of cheap conversions or unknown brands from Amazon/Alibaba/Temu etc

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Eilidh Murray @letsgetcracking.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Join the LCC Women’s Network on Thursday 6 February for an after dark ride. Are our cycle routes fit for night riding ?

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

www.gov.uk/government/p.... I'm a great fan of ebikes. I'm also a great fan of not setting my home on fire.

gov.uk

Fires in e-bikes and e-scooters – 2022 and 2023

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

And a whole lot of Riesling! Hic 🍷

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

If you watched that abomination of Panorama last night, here's the reality of real legal ebikes and why people ride them safely.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Oh hell no. Just look at the statistics on ebike battery fires. Buy a reputable bike from a reputable dealer.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Traitors fact that changes how you watch it. The edit is done in two sections. The first edit is of the round table. Once that’s locked, they go back and make the round table seem inevitable, by editing the day’s footage to set up what you see at the end. That’s why it seems narratively strong.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

That requires further explanation....!

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

youtu.be/qhtrIWBuoAg?... Technically a music video but also a great image of cycling in Edinburgh.

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Dan Abrahams // OUR STREETS

YouTube video by Dan Abrahams

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

You can set Bluesky up to to require it before you post: Settings > accessibility > tick "require alt text before posting"

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

They are in some cities. We've had these for several years in Edinburgh. They're ugly and a lot of people don't like them. But.... www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/...

edinburghnews.scotsman.com

Calls to remove 'unsightly' pop up barriers on Royal Mile erected as anti-terror measure

The bollards were put in place six years ago as a ‘cutting edge’ crowd protection system.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

The one advantage of being tech support to the older generation is that it allows you to block the likes of Farage and such without them ever realising.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Most of the world doesn't have a gun culture, unfortunately most of it does have a car culture.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

"Leftover cheese"? What is this strange concept?? 🤣 Merry Christmas!

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

My granny did that, it was lethal stuff.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

In the UK, our Trump equivalent made disparaging comment on our lifeboats, who rescue people trying to reach the country on small boats. Best campaign boost the RNLI ever had.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Ooft I'm impressed. Some friends were staying at the station with the hope of Munro bagging. They played a lot of Monopoly instead.. .

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I think I'm quite happy for Musk followers not to be involving themselves with Wikipedia.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Pre ebike cycling = 0 daily miles With ebike cycling = 7000 miles in 3 years = 6.4 miles daily. Short car drives in those 3 years = almost zero

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Mimis Bakehouse Comely Bank also has an external hatch.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Long distance rail travel today, Edinburgh to Nottingham return. Am I the only person left in the UK who doesn't have their phone on speaker mode?

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

The airport seem to be doing a decent job of keeping their website up to date. www.edinburghairport.com/it-issue-imp... Live departures shows everything delayed to 1900.

x.com

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

x.com/EDI_Airport/... IT issue at Air Traffic Control.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I agree with you, and I suspect it's unlikely that anyone taking such a role is able to claim themselves. It would probably depend on HMRC taking a direct interest in either the agent or retailer.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Regardless of any other legality, I'd be very surprised if HMRC recognised this as "freelance" work. It would fail almost every criteria under IR35. No right of substitution, no choice of hours, no self management, no provision of own tools and equipment, etc...

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

If they haven't already, nice waterproof winter gloves. Panniers are a brilliant idea, the sheer ease of buying on spec, or carrying your lock, or a coat. Or a small bar bag for food, drink, phone etc.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

If you see this, drop a pic from the last place your passport was stamped. Azerbaijan 🇦🇿

A view across a low lying city to a distant mountains, its summit capped with snow.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... There's been a brilliant series on Radio 4 called The Gift about this. Some jaw-droppingly horrific stories.

bbc.co.uk

BBC Radio 4 - The Gift

What happens when an online ancestry test reveals more than you bargained for?

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Gov.uk for 2023. 161 ebike fires, of which 74 ebike conversions 58 unknown ebike 29 manufacturer ebike 38 escooter. >50% in residential property 4 in hotel/hostel. 66% (49) converted bikes started fire whilst charging v 48% (14) manufactured bikes. In 2023 over 180k ebikes were sold in the UK.

gov.uk

Welcome to GOV.UK

GOV.UK - The best place to find government services and information.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Fighting the remnants of Storm Darragh through Portobello and East Lothian on a Sunday long ride. #bikesareguid

A wintry beach almost empty of people. The sea is full of breaking waves. Across the water can be seen sunlight on distant hills.

Looking along a wooden breaker out to a winter blue sea topped with breaking waves.

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Julie Duchess @julieduchess.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

That's rotten. And also ridiculous. A quality ebike battery is no more dangerous than a hairdryer.

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