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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very funny how Wes Streeting’s statement that the local farmer only had a “partial picture” read like “the intelligence services were all over this plot already” and could now be anything from that to “oh wow you’ll never guess what they found in the vans and I really wish I could tell you”.

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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Someone’s just shared pretendy working-class hero Bonny Prince Bob‘s latest Instagram contribution on Edinburgh trams. The lack of any factual basis in any of the populist claims is astounding.

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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 27/09/2026

it’s kind of incredible that they’ll just come out and say ‘legislation that makes life better for the vast majority of people impairs my ability to live as toxically as I prefer’ and you’re supposed to take it seriously

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

If you live anywhere near Ayr, it would be a great time to write to your councillor in support of cycle lanes. They are reading Facebook and deciding the posters there should set transport policy.

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Edward Tissiman @edtiss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

An insight into cycling trends - the introduction of Voi bikes has added about 500 additional cyclists per day to Leith Walk; the tram closure added another 250 at the peak. The Voi effect is much larger at the weekend, while the inverse is true for the tram.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A snap going the other way (into town) this morning. I was about midway in the queue, with about as many people behind me. This was around 8.45am, so some time after the *actual* peak, which seems to be around 8.15am.

My view from the middle of a queue of cycle traffic, waiting to cross at traffic lights on the South City Way cycle route in the south of Glasgow, around 8.45am this morning. The city centre is up ahead.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's something amazing about being in a peloton of 40+ bikes on the cycle lane heading home. Every driver at the front of a queue of side-street traffic... every person peering out of a bus window... every passer-by gets the message: "Oh wow, yeah, people are using this stuff". Never gets old.

My view travelling home by bike: Loads of people cycling on the South City Way cycle lane on Victoria Road in Govanhill in the Southside of Glasgow, during evening rush hour. A woman in front of me wears an incredibly fetching gold coloured helmet.

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Pidgin Posting @pidginposting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He’s actually LibDemmed himself out of the LibDems.

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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“In the last decade, about three people every week have been killed by drivers on your roads. In that time, the only people you’ve asked to be courteous are cyclists. Make it make sense”

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Anger as “tone-deaf” Traffic Scotland tells cycling groups “courtesy goes a long way” and to “be mindful of traffic behind you”, days after cyclist killed by driver during club ride; The most stylish ...

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

P.S. once and for all, can we nail the myth that 'common sense' means anything other than 'agrees with me'?

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Jester mouse @jestermouse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Bloody cyclists at Drumbrae Roundabout again.

A taped off path with a huge bit of safety fencing ripped off and lying in the pavement.

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Sheena Nimmo @sheenanimmo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Parents representing 5 schools requested that the filters which had been on the Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route for 5 years, and had contributed to a significant reduction in traffic, remain in place but the Council removed them due to errors in the documentation. Now the speeding drivers are back.

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Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Saw this and wanted to know how US beef can be that cheap? So I looked, and now I want to know how US politicians can think that voters are that stupid?

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Pidgin Posting @pidginposting.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My favourite recent example of Edinburgh NIMBYism was the residents in Corstorphine who demanded and got school street restrictions on their own road (Manse St) then a few years later objected to similar restrictions on neighbouring Manse Road because it would inconvenience them.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 15/09/2026

*Every* school should have all through roads festooned with Zebra and Puffin crossings and every side street made a school street. No consultation, no debate, just implemented. And yes, inconveniencing and slowing down traffic is *THE WHOLE POINT*. It shouldn't be controversial or difficult.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 15/09/2026

The council has these things down to a fine art. Yes you *could* have some basic road safety measures outside a school, but it's going to take you a huge amount of effort and your kids will almost be finished by the time a spade hits the ground, so are you sure you want to really bother?

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Pidgin Posting @pidginposting.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Has Kevin Lang explained what these “other, better ways” are and how they will allow buses to magically skip past queues of traffic on Turnhouse Road? www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

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SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 09/09/2026

Cowcaddens Road was a four lane road - it now looks and feels like a street. So many parts of Edinburgh have similar urban dual carriageways that could have the same treatment: making the city safer, greener, quieter and less congested. #StreetsNOTroads

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Pidgin Posting @pidginposting.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And in a short timeframe LibDems will oppose their own bold vision for Princes Street….

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

People will dismiss Malcolm Offord claiming that more than half of Scots are unemployed, but as the parent of a child out of work I really think it's serious. My daughter's been unemployed for almost three years and it's been really hard. There are so many barriers for toddlers getting into work!

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nadhim Zahawi wears pervert specs, pass it on.

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Half the people I know who use bikes spend $10 a year on brake pads, but the other half spend $1000 a month on new teflon wheel rims or whatever and also replace the bike every year because it got nicked, so I reckon on average it works out

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 01/09/2026

Edinburgh council managed to find £1.6m to spend on a single rural junction (where a speed limit reduction would have sufficed) Yet can’t seem to build any active travel projects at all Eg Meadows to George St - TRO raised in 2024, after extensive consultation, today, still nada

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 31/08/2026

FDA deregulation will manifest as a series of posts from people shitting their guts out with recalls that get closer and closer to where you live until you're the one shitting your guts out

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Beaker @neilbeakerq.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Edinburgh campsite and Silverknowes telling visitors not to cycle due to bike crime?!?

Leaflet from Edinburgh Camping and Motorhome site at Silverknowes advising people not to cycle due to bike crime

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Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The current amount of buses is commercially perfect, any reduction and customers stay away, any increase and they stay away

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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Arguments against are always as unscientific as tedious. People need to be able to move about town effectively without a car.

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Pidgin Posting @pidginposting.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“There’s three barbers on this route. A barber is walk-in trade. How do you have walk-in trade if nobody can come along and get parked?” 🤦‍♂️

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

When you're tall, 99% of the time you don't realize you're tall You just are who you are Then you see a pic & think, "Oh, I am indeed tall," lol I lead Duke's summer global health policy course in Geneva; here are my students & also the humanitarian course students; we're visiting the US Mission

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Morningsider @morningsider.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Had a go on this a couple of weeks ago. Possibly the best stretch of cycle track I have used in the UK. Yes, better than the Embankment in London (discounting the view).

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Pidgin Posting @pidginposting.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Glasgow just getting on with it while Edinburgh waters-down, delays or just abandons safe infrastructure projects.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One day, perhaps, a UK national newspaper will write a story about everyday cycling that is *not* based on the personal perspective of reporters and editors in central London.

The zebra crossing where hundreds of cyclists fail to stop
The Times counted 357 bike riders who did not brake for pedestrians at the ‘floating bus stop’ near Blackfriars Bridge in central London

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Standard article which highlighted the issue included a video to demonstrate the problem. It featured a shot with 1 Lime Bike and 5 cars on the pavement.

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Pidgin Posting @pidginposting.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Manse Road has been closed to through traffic for a week. There haven’t been any front pages featuring angry locals complaining of traffic chaos. I thought ACE would have been out in force? @gylernorth.bsky.social @jestermouse.bsky.social

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Sheena Nimmo @sheenanimmo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A week before removing the filters, the council finally released the data we’ve all been waiting for. Pre modal filters, weekday average traffic volume on Braid Avenue was 3,800 vehicles and 8am-9am traffic was 450 vehicles. That’s roughly a car every 8 seconds as the kids go to school.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A fascist has-been who cratered out of the first Trump administration called me a demon. Okay. Pull up a chair and watch me destroy the souls of some unworthy men. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/breaking-i...

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BREAKING: It Still Wasn't a Lab Leak and I'm Not the Crazy One Here

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a submediocre demon and ruiner of souls and in Fauci's diaries

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Ben (BicycleBenUK) @ben.fiets.uk · 18/08/2026

I've seen this before and it's really enlightening to the point it should probably be on the driving test, theory test, highway code, regular PSAs etc.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I know... I'll stop sharing photos of this sort of thing soon (I do have other interests believe it or not!). But a weekend nipping all over Glasgow by bike, combined with the recent trip back to NL🇳🇱, has reminded me just how much progress has been made here in the last ~10 years.

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SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 17/08/2026

Glasgow making progress on helping move people around the city safely and cheaply. We could do it here too.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 12/08/2026

Middle class Edinburgh have a complete and utter, massive over-reaction to retractable protective netting and floodlights at a private school's sports pitch: challenge accepted 💪🏼.

Edinburgh Live headline and image: "Edinburgh locals say private school plans will turn skyline view into 'prison camp'
'Through a fence, I mean... it'll be like a prison camp.'"

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 12/08/2026

1000s of parents, carers, and kids, across 6 schools, support these “closures” - the silent majority, busy trying to live their lives The “controversy” has largely been manufactured by the media, a handful of agitators, and some councillors with vested interests

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Pidgin Posting @pidginposting.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“The closure of the Braid estate has been arguably the most controversial in the Capital in recent memory” The closure of the Braid estate? All of it? Closed? The whole Braid estate closed? No wonder people were annoyed.

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Pidgin Posting @pidginposting.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I see we’ve reached the “I can’t get a hire bike because it’s so busy, the whole thing is a failure” stage of Edinburgh discourse.

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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

PETE HEGSETH: Napoleon, how do we defeat Iran? AI NAPOLEON: Vaccines? You have vaccines? PETE HEGSETH: Yes but they're woke and gay AI NAPOLEON: Send me typhus vaccine PETE HEGESTH: No, I need your help with Iran, we're running low on artillery AI NAPOLEON: Vaccines then Iran

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Pidgin Posting @pidginposting.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The people quoting @magnets.eurosky.social get closer and closer to home, until you’re the one quoting him

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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hang on a minute, is this the same councillor from the same party which opposes the completion of the circular tram line that would provide precisely what he claims to be missing? www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/prolong...

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Prolonged closure of Princes Street 'unacceptable' says councillor

‘Edinburgh cannot afford to see its principal street closed for weeks at a time because of a single incident’ - Cllr Kevin Lang

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Won't somebody think of the acres of newsprint c2000 about how the Council was turning Edinburgh into a ghost town?

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Had been vaguely thinking about the way Only Connect didn't have many Scottish teams, and then it really overdelivered

A very stereotypically Celtic-looking young man named Millar McGroarty

Hans Moleman in the Simpsons telephone booth "No, that's too big" scene with the caption "No, that's too Scottish"

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