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Jester mouse @jestermouse.bsky.social · 5h

Forget Ed Balls Day, Les Dennis’s Balls Day is what the cool kids celebrate.

Jester mouse @jestermouse.bsky.social · 6h

We’ve got another one back lads 👍 🚆

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rail operator Greater Anglia transfers to public ownership

Greater Anglia describes renationalisation as a step towards a

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 6h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 7h

🇪🇺 #EU solar generation surged by 24% in H1 2025, making up 14% of the bloc’s electricity mix and becoming its LARGEST source of power in June ☀️⚡

Meanwhile, fossil generation also rose, increasing EU power sector emissions by 4.8% 🏭

https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

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annacycles.bsky.social @annacycles.bsky.social · 1d

It's on 29th October at Edinburgh Quaker Meeting House at 6.45pm. If you live in Edinburgh or nearby, please come along and please share widely.

While it's heartbreaking to have said goodbye to Tim, we want to continue his legacy as best as possible, by sharing stories of cycling and mental health.

annacycles.bsky.social @annacycles.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to being back in Edinburgh at the end of the month to share the story of our Ride for Tim. We're also hearing from @nicklifeafloat.bsky.social and the charity Health in Mind.

If you're coming, details are on FB fb.me/e/6IrqxMFSX - pls click 'attending' or 'interested' for updates.

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WRI Climate @wriclimate.bsky.social · 13h

🚲🥗🚗 Small choices matter, but big change happens when systems support them.

WRI Climate ranked 19 climate-friendly behaviors to show which ones cut the most emissions and why policies & businesses must make them accessible.

See the list 👉 bit.ly/4q0pWvC

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The Edinburgh Reporter @edinreporter.bsky.social · 8h

West Lothian Council faces £23m budget cut in next two years

West Lothian Council will have to cut £23m from its budgets over the next two years. Cuts may come across the board and could touch the lives of almost everyone, in services from transport, to rubbish collection, parks and recreation and…

West Lothian Council faces £23m budget cut in next two years

West Lothian Council will have to cut £23m from its budgets over the next two years. Cuts may come across the board and could touch the lives of almost everyone, in services from transport, to rubbish collection, parks and recreation and community support projects. Leading services such as the Advice Shops, which have helped thousands, could also face cuts as a non-statutory provision.

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Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · 13h

18 Rankeillor Street, Edinburgh—built around 1820. Eight flats in the stair, over two ground-floor flats. Notable former residents include:

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 14h

MILESTONE | Wind and solar generated OVER HALF of the UK’s electricity for the first time ⚡🇬🇧

Wind produced 7.7 TWh, while solar reached 1.7 TWh, driven by strong capacity growth and favourable weather conditions.

From our Electricity Data Explorer
🔗 loom.ly/TwPNYos

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 1d

This senile liar who currently occupies the White House does not remember that he was President on January 6th.

If you voted for this senile liar, and if you enable him today, you clearly are ok with breaking America. The ruins of our once great nation are because of you.

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 1d

There is no amount of open corruption that will wake up Americans. That family has realized this crucial truth. They broke Senate, media and Supreme Court. Nobody dares to stand up. We live in a Republic of fear and cowardice.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I think about how absolutely wild it is that drivers think they're being oppressed when they get punished for breaking the law

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 15h

We seem to have lost the understanding that you study things because you want to know more about them, not because you want them to give you a job.

'Transferable skills' are so-called precisely because they are not career specific, my god.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 15h

The former Ascot Cinema (renamed in Gaumont in 1950), Anniesland, Glasgow. This is one of Glasgow's lost neighbourhood cinemas. There used to be so many of these local cinemas in Glasgow in the 1930s that it was nicknamed Cinema City.

Cont./

#glasgow #architecture #artdeco #cinema

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 15h

🚲 edi.bike | issue 114 | 13th Sep '25

New plans for Fountainbridge, Dundee St and beyond; South Queensferry High Street project an “opportunity missed”; plus events, route closures & more:

https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-114-13th-oct-25/

An illustrated visual of a future streetscape, with a wide continuous footway and cycle crossing, wide pavements and pedestrian and cycle users passing by a double decker bus under a clear blue sky.

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

Appointed by Meta as an adviser on AI bias, anti-DEI campaigner Robby Buck has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, trans people, vaccines, crime & protests

The Guardian repeatedly contacted Meta for comment but received no response

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 2d

That really moving Marseillaise scene in Casablanca is now 400% more moving youtu.be/CbWgOpG1988

Casablanca - Marseillaise Scene (extended edition)

YouTube video by Jeremy Limb

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 1d

Goodnight.
🖼️ Laurie A Conley #31DaysofHalloween #Gothtober

One ghost pushing another ghost on a swing hung from a tree over graveyard headstones, a full moon shines overhead. Illustration.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Jester mouse @jestermouse.bsky.social · 1d

No it’s their own brand 😞 I’ll try an expensive brand until I figure out another option

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Jester mouse @jestermouse.bsky.social · 1d

Oh great, Costco have discontinued the only cat food that doesn’t make my cat sick 🐈 🤢

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Jester mouse @jestermouse.bsky.social · 1d

An easier one today!

Framed #1311
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Framed - The daily movie guessing game

Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed!

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Jester mouse @jestermouse.bsky.social · 1d

Wrong - in fact it kept all the planes in the sky!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t stop thinking about the fact that RFK Jr just fired the group who were responsible for connecting the initial dots during the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

These are vital roles that save lives.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

Among many others at the CDC, the Trump regime laid off the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

“The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.”

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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The Edinburgh Reporter @edinreporter.bsky.social · 4d

East Lothian 20mph plea rejected by councillors

Residents on a main road into East Lothian’s biggest town have lost a five year long battle to have the speed limit on it reduced to 20mph. More than 50 people living on Ravensheugh Road, which lies at the south entrance to Musselburgh travelling…

East Lothian 20mph plea rejected by councillors

Residents on a main road into East Lothian’s biggest town have lost a five year long battle to have the speed limit on it reduced to 20mph. More than 50 people living on Ravensheugh Road, which lies at the south entrance to Musselburgh travelling from Prestonpans, signed a petition demanding the council overturn officers’ refusal to cut the 30mph speed limit on the road.

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