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Nicola Stratton @nicolastratton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Ridiculous parking on Warriston Road this evening. This high lift is parked across the only pavement! I have reported to council but will anything be done on a Friday night / Saturday? It doesn't even have a registration plate! @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social @jackrmcaldwell.bsky.social

Blue and grey high lift parked half on pavement, half on road, alongside a wall.

Image of feet and legs beside the wheel of the highlift to show how little space is left.

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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Currently, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) receives $208 million from the federal government. It will see a permanent annual cut of $22.1 million, which means spending cuts of nearly $50 million over the next three years.

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Sunflower Farm Creamery @sunflowerfarm.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Hey! I thought you might need a little bit of this….#babygoats

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Sunflower Farm Creamery @sunflowerfarm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Pregnant mamas brave the snow for breakfast! Guys!!! After months of waiting, it’s less than three weeks until baby goats begin arriving!!!!!! Ps wait until the end of this video to see what our cat Phil does daily to give me a heart attack! #goats #crazycat

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 13/03/2025

🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾 📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save

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Retro Blast 👻 @retroblastpod.com · 04/03/2025

Happy 25th Birthday to the Sony Playstation 2! 🎉 And yea, you read that correctly. 25 years. 🥲

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Nicola Stratton @nicolastratton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Apple Music recently mangled my music library, mixing up albums, artwork and tracks. It would no longer let me play some tracks from CDs I'd already purchased, despite previous upload and sync via iTunes Match. I've now ripped some CDs to a standalone music player and finally I can enjoy them again!

Cover image of Sarah Cracknell's Lipslide album. The UK version. Sarah looks to the left in a close up with her hand fixing her blonde hair in the background.

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Nicola Stratton @nicolastratton.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

For #Caturday this cheeky guy was a neighbour's cat who used to look at us through our patio door. #CatsOfBlueSky #cats

Cat with a white chest and muzzle, brown/tabby coloured back extends their tongue to live their nose. It looks at the camera, sitting upright on paving slabs in front of a wall.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

'People like us don't become writers.' Tell me about it! I am *still* so often the only working-class person in one of these rooms. And it is *not* getting easier. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn

Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately

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Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

A must read on the Clarivate announcement to end perpetual access to print, e-books, & digital collections by end of year. Siobhan Haimé suggests this disaster for libraries could be “an opportunity to radically explore alternative models to protect equitable access.” www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

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OPINION: A librarian's summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement - UKSG

Siobhan Haimé takes a look at detail the Clarivate announcement and its practical (and possibly unintentional transformational) effects.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

🔥 AMAZING. Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia. It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Libraries and *librarians* didn’t just change my life - they saved it. Today I was honoured to be made a Centenary Champion for @natlibscot.bsky.social along with the great @valmcdermid.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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Val McDermid and Damian Barr urge Scottish councils to halt library closures

Authors say plan to shut more than 20 public libraries could have devastating effect on Scotland’s cultural future

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

There are some albums that represented a darker side of 'Britpop' - which was never just about British guitar bands and some dance music indie fans were 'allowed' to like anyway - that get conveniently forgotten about now. Life by The Cardigans was one. timworthington.org/2019/02/12/c...

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Come On And Love Me Now

Life by The Cardigans is one of my favourite albums, even though it isn’t strictly a ‘real’ Cardigans album at all…

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

"It is the moon, I ken her horn, That's blinkin' in the lift sae hie; She shines sae bright to wyle us hame, But, by my sooth, she'll wait a wee!" 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Happy Burns Night🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📷: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social #RobertBurns #BurnsNight #astrophotography 🔭

A crescent moon shining above Edinburgh castle, that is lit up with floodlights. In the foreground the dark outline of Arthurs Seat, the mountain in the middle of Edinburgh city. In the background, whispy clouds and the distant mountains of Fife. Credit: https://www.tomduffin.com

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Safety AND happiness. Only bollards can deliver this every single day. #WorldBollardAssociation

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University of Stirling Archives @unistirarchives.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Looking for some ideas for your Burns Night supper? How about some Mixtie Maxies and Trimlin Tams? In 2023 we worked with the Alloa Burns Club to digitise their amazing archive - find out more at: archives.stir.ac.uk/2023/03/23/m... #StirScanStudio #CultureOnStirCampus

Cover of The Alloa Burns Club annual celebration held on 25 January 1929 at the Station Hotel, Alloa.

Menu of the Burns Club Supper served at the Alloa Burns Club annual celebration, held on 25 January 1929 at the Station Hotel, Alloa.

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Nicola Stratton @nicolastratton.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

"In a world of hawks, let us be the goat"

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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Storm Éowyn predicted wind speeds.

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Sunflower Farm Creamery @sunflowerfarm.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The first lesson of Roxy’s dog training is repeating the word “yes” to the dog. What if we started there with ourselves too? YES to showing up in the confusing magical now. “If we say yes to a single moment, then we have not only said yes to ourselves, but to the whole of existence.” -Nietzsche

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

You get the sense that Keir Starmer just wants everyone to be patient + doesn’t really understand that the level of urgency that a lot of people feel. We need change now, and he needs to deliver that change. If he doesn’t, I suspect the person who’ll benefit is Farage. news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...

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Sir Keir Starmer to outline his 'plan for change' focusing on schools, NHS and efficiency

The announcement comes as a new poll indicates that more than half of the public disapprove of the prime minister's performance.

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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I talk about this endlessly in my book....how our current electoral system is NOT fit for purpose @petergeoghegan.bsky.social explains more re donations Jeez Labour...tighten up these horrors....

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Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.

Huge shelves with books behind a glass wall

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Nicola Stratton @nicolastratton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Glenfinnan Viaduct yesterday. Lovely walk, a bit snowy on the way back! And yes, this is the bridge that features in Harry Potter... #GlenfinnanViaduct

Blue skies above the arches of the Glenfinnan Railway Viaduct. Trees without leaves in foreground and path running towards Viaduct. The low winter sun peaks through an arch.

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EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com · 09/09/2024

🌤️ Good morning Edinburgh. Today’s headlines: New Town Quarter delay, council wages overpaid, new buses roll out + Leith gears-up for The Get Down ⮑ Edinburgh’s daily local news without the ads: edinburghminute.substack.com/p/edinburgh-...

Two people standing together smiling. Text over reads: The Edinburgh Minute - Monday 9 September 2024: New Town Quarter delay, council wages overpaid, new buses roll out + Leith gears-up for The Get Down.

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