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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 47m

A belter of an aerial shot of central Glasgow from around 1930. The most prominent feature is the vast glass roof canopy of Glasgow Central, one of the world's largest, featuring 48,000 panes making up 2.2 square miles of glazing

What else can you spot?

📷 Glasgow City Archives

#Glasgow

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 5h

That quote in full, because it's quite an important point:

📣 "These results owe nothing to chance. It is the result of choices that we have made: to make public spaces safer, more breathable, more pleasant, and to offer everyone the freedom to move around other than by private car."

🚲 Paris à vélo bat (encore !) des records Cette rentrée a une nouvelle fois confirmé la tendance de fond : jamais autant de Parisiennes et de Parisiens n'ont choisi le vélo pour leurs déplacement...

🚲 Paris à vélo bat (encore !) des records Cette rentrée a une nouvelle fois confirmé la tendance de fond : jamais autant de Parisiennes et de Parisiens n'ont choisi le vélo pour leurs déplacements du...

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 5h

📈 Incredible new cycling data out of central Paris, with cycling levels that would've seemed unthinkable 10+ years ago. Some routes seeing 15,000 to 20,000+ bike journeys per day.

Paris Deputy Mayor for Transport, @davidbelliard.bsky.social: "The result of choices that we have made."

🚲 Paris à vélo bat (encore !) des records Cette rentrée a une nouvelle fois confirmé la tendance de fond : jamais autant de Parisiennes et de Parisiens n'ont choisi le vélo pour leurs déplacement...

🚲 Paris à vélo bat (encore !) des records Cette rentrée a une nouvelle fois confirmé la tendance de fond : jamais autant de Parisiennes et de Parisiens n'ont choisi le vélo pour leurs déplacements du...

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 20h

Well, tried my best. Think that's one of those 'you either know it or you don't' ones. End of a good run. #unzoomed

A mystery city in the browser game 'Unzoomed'.

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow about a third of Perseverance rover staff will be laid off, despite the mission being the penultimate step in a decades long effort to bring samples back from mars.

Reckless, needless budget cuts intended to hinder the pursuit of knowledge.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 1d

Let this be the inspiration for cities everywhere.

Photo of a school street in Paris (Rue de l'Arbelete), Christophe Belin / Ville de Paris. A woman can be seen pushing a child's scooter along a street outside a school building in central Paris, newly lined with trees, greenery and abundant street space for children to play and move safely, which has been reclaimed from vehicles.

Photo of children walking down a school street in central Paris. The entire street has been transformed into a fully pedestrianised space, with new planting, bushes, and space for children to walk safely and easily to school. Christophe Belin / Ville de Paris.

A woman cycles down a new school street in Paris, as children gather outside the school's doors. Abundant new planting can be seen in the centre of the new pedestrianised street. Christophe Belin / Ville de Paris.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 1d

Although this sounds like it'll apply to work visas at first, I'm sure this will creep into every other category.

I'm thinking of younger people, moving abroad for the first time, maybe with A2 or B1 under their belt (not a given) but with a determination to improve once there. This kills that off.

Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 1d

Whether "A-level" or as some people in the know seem to be saying will be B2 in practice, this is an extreme jump in language level expectation from B1.

If applied everywhere reciprocally, it'd kill off the type of try-it-and-see move abroad that many British people have come to expect as possible.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 1d

The finest guitar solo I've ever heard.

Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, got the definitive answer (just remembered it's a cover!). youtu.be/NKqERfuNlX8?...

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, scratch that.

Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXV4...

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 2d

First newsletter published! simple.ghost.io/what-seems-t...

If you like this sort of thing, sign up for more

What Seems to be the Problem?

Can we make any progress on transport while we don't recognise there's a problem to be solved and can't recognise solutions?

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 1d

🦊 Blurry, night time shot of the fox that's been settling down in our tenement back court at the same time every night, like clockwork, for the last 3 months.

We think she's a mum catching a quick nap - usually disturbed an hour later by two younger foxes before they all disappear off together.

Slightly blurry photo of a fox resting on the grass in the middle of a back court garden in Glasgow, close to a brick garden wall and underneath overhanging trees.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 4d

This is just to say

I have eaten
3kg
Of cola bottles

Which was
Medically
Ill advised
And bunged me up
Completely
With gelatin

Forgive me
I had a hankering
And also
Ate a carvery

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, I've gone really big on The Black Crowes again lately. Can't stop listening.

The Lost Crowes CD set from 2006 of two totally unreleased albums (with some stuff that ended up on Amorica & Three Snakes And One Charm), is stunning. Especially this.

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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · 5d

Bonnie Raitt 🎶'Angel from Montgomery' (John Prine) #bluesmusic

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 6d

A fabulous picture postcard of Glasgow Cross at the junction of the Trongate and High Street. The picture is certainly pre-1896 as there's no sign of Glasgow Cross station yet. The works to the left of the picture are the cut and cover tunnel being dug for the railway line.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 6d

📰 STV News: More bikes than cars on main road at rush hour for first time figures show.

🚲 Great summary of the boom in cycling that's happening where new, safe, connected infrastructure is being built in Scotland. #BuildItAndTheyWillCome

More bikes than cars on main road at rush hour for first time, figures show

Cycling Scotland reported data from Victoria Road showed more journeys were cycled rather than driven between 8am and 9am on Thursday, June 5.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 6d

Got it in 2 as a pure guess with a bit of deduction ('Law of the Indies' style grid, a port city that seems to like cricket)

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The City of Edinburgh Council @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social · 7d

We’re looking for your views on our plans to improve provision for walking, wheeling and cycling along Dundee Street and in the wider Fountainbridge area.

The consultation is open until 12 January 2026.

Digital visualisation of Dundee Street and Angle Park Terrace at the junction with Henderson Terrace.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 8d

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...