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dave psyko 🇺🇦 @davecykl.bsky.social · 2h

Hehe! No worries, I was just wondering if you might remember what street it was, but I appreciate that it was a looong time ago!

dave psyko 🇺🇦 @davecykl.bsky.social · 2h

Great shot: a rather surreal combination and proper grim dereliction!

Where were (I assume they’re long gone!) the flats, and what did the even higher wall behind them belong to?

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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 2h

A lorry trailer parked beside some derelict tenements in Leith. Photographed in 1978 on my Yashica SLR. The trailer has text on it saying CIRCUS HOFFMAN ELEPHANT TRANSPORTER.

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dave psyko 🇺🇦 @davecykl.bsky.social · 18h

Why is critical MSP voting system even using Microsoft? #SelfHost

“business at #ScotParl suspended because of technical issues w/ online voting system. …outage prompted postponement of debate… Senior source [said] they believed the problems related to the MS outage.”

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

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dave psyko 🇺🇦 @davecykl.bsky.social · 18h

Why is critical MSP voting system even using Microsoft? #SelfHost

“business at #ScotParl suspended because of technical issues w/ online voting system. …outage prompted postponement of debate… Senior source [said] they believed the problems related to the MS outage.”

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

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dave psyko 🇺🇦 @davecykl.bsky.social · 18h

The first part of this video is sadly typical childish Westminster jeering, but the comments by LibDem leader Ed Davey (from 0:58) in defence of the European Convention on Human Rights are very good. #ECHR

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Watch: Lib Dems MPs heckle Nigel Farage as he presents ECHR bill

Watch: Lib Dem MPs take on Farage in parliament

www.bbc.co.uk

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 1d

Today, Members of Parliament voted overwhelmingly AGAINST Nigel Farage's bill to take the UK out of the ECHR. This is a win for all those who want to protect our last line of defence of our rights and freedoms.

Farage's proposal to leave the ECHR voted down

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 1d

Enabling freedom of movement is vital for strengthening the UK economy, and rejoining the Erasmus+ programme would be an important step towards achieving this.

"Allowing young Britons to live and work across Europe will encourage them to learn languages for real-world use, not just as an academic subject. At the same time, welcoming young Europeans to the UK will inject energy, skills, and cultural understanding into our workforce" Noël Wolf, LBC, 29 October 2025

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 2d

Recent polling has shown that the majority of Brits think Brexit has been a failure, and the Chancellor herself has admitted that there is public support for increased deals with the European Union - so why aren't they doing more to reverse the mistake of Brexit?

"When we did that deal back in May with the European Union, to take down some of those barriers and indeed to introduce an ambitious youth mobility scheme, there was public support for that. There are obviously huge benefits from rebuilding some of those relations" Rachel Reeves MP, Chancellor

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 2d

Of course it doesn't always produce this much, but imagine how much gas we are NOT burning right now. (Wind has been generating over 50% of all our electricity for the past 3 days

A screenshot from a website called 'Winderfull' which tracks the amouont of electricity generated by the UKs off shore turbines. At present they are prodiucing 62% of our demand.

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De Filmende Fietser @filmendefietser.bsky.social · 2d

Periodic reminder: when it comes to bike parking facilities, size DOES matter!

With three floors and 12,500 places, it's just a matter of remembering where you put your bike 😉

📍 Utrecht 🇳🇱

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 3d

Farage: epic grifter

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InfraSisters @infrasisters.bsky.social · 6d

It's tonight!

📍Middle Meadow Walk Edinburgh
⏰️ 7.30pm

🌟🌟 Light up your bike and come ride with us to light up their streets of Edinburgh 🌟🌟

#RightToGlow
#CyclingUK
#OurStreetsOurNights

A smiling woman standing with her bike. Both woman and bike are decorated with multi-coloured lights. The title says Cycling UK Let's Glow!

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dave psyko 🇺🇦 @davecykl.bsky.social · 6d

Please tell me I did •not• just overhear an advert on the radio in the cafe voiced by sbdy w/ a #Scottish accent (therefore probably on an actual Scottish radio station) referring to “our trick-or-treat trail”?! It’s #guising you total tumshie!! You certainly ought to ken better! 😒😡
#NaeTrickOrTreat

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Fran @whingewhingewine.co.uk · 7d

I for one did not see this coming

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dave psyko 🇺🇦 @davecykl.bsky.social · 7d

That so few major cities in the UK have been covered so far seems a bit of an odd decision (likewise the USA, although that’s a far larger area to do). The coverage shown on that map for Ireland seems quite a, well, terrible, exaggeration, however! 🤔

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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 7d

The world according to Apple Look Around (Apple's equivalent to Street View)

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InfraSisters @infrasisters.bsky.social · 26d

We're back! We've teamed up with @cyclinguk.bsky.social for a Glow Ride on Friday 24th October. Like us, they want to see more women cycling, and for councils to provide more safe infrastructure to enable that.
Light up your bike with lights and sparkle and join us at Middle Meadow Walk at 7.30pm.

A campaign poster for InfraSisters x Cycling UK. Showing an image of 3 silhouettes of women riding bikes.
Light up your bike and join us!
To call for better cycling infrastructure, safer for women at night.
Friday 24th October
7.30pm
Middle Meadow Walk
Together with a QR code linking back to our website.

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dave psyko 🇺🇦 @davecykl.bsky.social · 7d

Including the Caledonian Railway corridor to Granton…? 😈

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dave psyko 🇺🇦 @davecykl.bsky.social · 8d

A great illustration of why far too many politicians and government/public services (and news media, NGOs, etc) •still• being addicted to the (by now, very obviously) foul cesspit of untruths and fake accounts that is X really is a quite considerable problem…

#xparrot #xodus #XtricateYourselves

Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11d

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 10d

Sir John Major warns that Britain’s friendships have dwindled, a clear rebuke of the damage caused by Brexit isolationism. Once a trusted voice in Europe, Britain now stands more alone, its influence diminished and its allies less sure of its direction.

“As for our own country, we now have fewer committed friends than once we had. We need to remedy that” Sir John Major, Former Prime Minister

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 8d

The SNP introduced free tuition and we will always ensure Scottish students do not pay tuition fees.

Meanwhile in England, students pay over £9,500 a year and Labour will put fees up every year.

Education must always be based on the ability to learn, not the ability to pay.

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Holyrood @holyroodmag.bsky.social · 8d

"Can you just imagine the sight of Prime Minister Farage with the data of the nation at his fingertips, with all of his authoritarian tendencies..."

SNP MP @petewishart.bsky.social speaks out against digital ID.

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 9d

EU vehicle safety regulations have supported a 36% reduction in European road deaths since 2010, while road deaths in the US over the same period increased 30%.

Aligning EU standards with laxer US rules would undermine the EU’s global leadership in road safety.

Read the letter 👇

Accepting US car standards would risk European lives, warn cities and…

European cities and civil society groups have warned that accepting lower US car standards will see more dangerous vehicles flood into Europe

bit.ly

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dave psyko 🇺🇦 @davecykl.bsky.social · 8d

Edinburgh #citybike scheme area to expand into Leith from end of October.

Cllr Stephen Jenkinson @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social · 8d

“I’m delighted that we’re moving to the next phase of expanding our cycle hire scheme. The figures we’ve seen speak for themselves in terms of uptake, with hundreds of journeys being made across our city each and every day.

The Scotsman @scotsman.com · 8d

Edinburgh Voi bikes: Edinburgh cycle hire scheme set to expand into more areas of the city
www.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

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