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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 2d

🚲 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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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 3d

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 3d

Car park at the east end of The Pencaitland Railway Path has been closed. This is on NCN196, and while the gap in the blocks looks wide enough maintain access, a third parked car was pulling away as I arrived which I suspect would have been blocking it for all but pedestrians and two wheeled bikes.

Dirt track, leading to car park, closed off by two large concrete blocks with the word 'closed' spray painted on them. There is a one metre gap between the blocks, and a car parked in front of one of them.

Second view of of the previous image, showing a second car parked nearby totally blocking the pavement.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 4d

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 5d

The Cure ❌
The Charlatans❌
Stone Roses ❌
KLF ❌
The Farm ❌
Technotronics Megagmix ✔️

Inexplicable!
#totp

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 6d

They had opened a second bagel business before the first one went into receivership. Sold a lot of the first one's assets to the second at a knock down price and tried to carry on. Then the second one, surprisingly, went bust. (As I understand it)

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The Edinburgh Reporter @edinreporter.bsky.social · 6d

Liquidator of Bross Bagels confirms determined effort to recover director’s loans has proved futile – file closed!
Biggest loser is UK taxpayer – left with £635,000 tab in unpaid VAT, PAYE and National Insurance theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2025/10/bros...

Bross Bagels creditors get a "hole" lot of nothing - official report into £1m debt

Creditors of the failed Bross Bagels chain which crashed with debts of almost £1 million will not receive a penny, the official liquidator has confirmed. Losers in the one-time feted bakery business i...

theedinburghreporter.co.uk

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 7d

What?

Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 7d

Cartoon image of newspaper article with headline 'Old Man Yells at Cloud' and a picture of an old man yelling at a cloud.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 10d

Expecting a broadly similar experience at Ocean Terminal next week.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 12d

[Jeff Goldblum voice] infrastructure, uh, finds a way.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 12d

Close the VeloViewer tab and back quietly away. It's for your own good.

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greent1875.bsky.social @greent1875.bsky.social · 13d

It is with sadness that Stevie Carr has to announce that the Dnipro Kids minibus was stolen last week from Seaview/Edinburgh Road at Joppa. The registration in BL15FUH and if anyone has seen it, or can remember seeing it elsewhere over the past week, please get in touch.
Please share.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 13d

I cycled past it lying in The Coalie not 30 mins ago, and only just managed to resist stopping to check out if it was salvageable or not.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 16d

When you going to be arsed enough to come to Edinburgh?

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 16d

Edinburgh - 'Hold my beer!'

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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 19d

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 24d

New map of 'easy cycle rides from Portobello' installed outside the PATH container on Porty Prom - The Meadows, Leith, Fort Kinaird and QMU.
Courtesy of @portyenergy.bsky.social

Display board on Portobello prom with custom map showing some easy cycle routes starting at the board.

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Modern Toss @moderntoss.bsky.social · 24d

service not includedservice not included

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 26d

John Peel, sitting at his DJ console, says "that was the housmartins, up next, the new single from Pink Footed Geese"

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · Sep 15

Scenes at Reform HQ.

Stoning scene from The Life of Brian. Cleric asks 'are there any Tories here today? Crowd, disguised in obviously fake beards, all say 'no'.

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · Sep 8

It's absolutely insane to us that anyone still uses Twitter. You don't have to. You can just stop. It was a *massive* part of our growth but you can just let it go. However important your business is to you, it's less important than this:

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Sep 7

Elon Musk has *personally*posted in favour of the racist remigration agenda of the maximalist racist abusing the Home Secretary with this on X & endlessly posting racist harassment on X

This should be a story.
It should be a scandal.
Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · Sep 14

A Seagull.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · Sep 13

No exceptions in Edinburgh, but enforcement is almost entirely focused on revenue protection (paid parking and permit bays) and very little on public safety and amenity issues like this.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · Sep 13

Mobile cinema, #Porty Prom.

Small red caravan on Porty Prom, sign on side says 'Moving Images'. Chalkboard next to it says it's a solar powered cinema, part of Porty Artwalk, and gives show times.

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