Chris Scott (he/him)
@chrisdonia.bsky.social
I'm mostly around Edinburgh, often lurking in corners with a camera at cultural events.
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It's so good to have people advocating for safe and reasonable public access.
Edinburgh is always full of awkward or dangerous diversions for non-vehicles due to road or building works, we need better consideration from contractors and council and shouldn't have to rely on this sort of action.
Edinburgh is always full of awkward or dangerous diversions for non-vehicles due to road or building works, we need better consideration from contractors and council and shouldn't have to rely on this sort of action.
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#Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #traffic #activetravel
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It's so good to have people advocating for safe and reasonable public access.
Edinburgh is always full of awkward or dangerous diversions for non-vehicles due to road or building works, we need better consideration from contractors and council and shouldn't have to rely on this sort of action.
Edinburgh is always full of awkward or dangerous diversions for non-vehicles due to road or building works, we need better consideration from contractors and council and shouldn't have to rely on this sort of action.
Unusually, needed to visit Waverley Market.
The closest bike racks I could find were across Princes St or at the other end of Waverley Bridge, and of course you can't park an ebike in the station.
Did I miss something?
The closest bike racks I could find were across Princes St or at the other end of Waverley Bridge, and of course you can't park an ebike in the station.
Did I miss something?
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Unusually, needed to visit Waverley Market.
The closest bike racks I could find were across Princes St or at the other end of Waverley Bridge, and of course you can't park an ebike in the station.
Did I miss something?
The closest bike racks I could find were across Princes St or at the other end of Waverley Bridge, and of course you can't park an ebike in the station.
Did I miss something?
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Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
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What is the ‘labour’ party?
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
What is the ‘labour’ party?
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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Lucy: put your hand in the box, Charlie Brown!
Chuck: No. It'll give me pain and when I pull away you'll kill me!
Lucy: not this time, Charlie. This is the Thanksgiving box, it's a tradition!
Chuck: Well ok...AAUGH
Lucy: I hold at your neck the gom jabbar, Charlie Brown
Chuck: No. It'll give me pain and when I pull away you'll kill me!
Lucy: not this time, Charlie. This is the Thanksgiving box, it's a tradition!
Chuck: Well ok...AAUGH
Lucy: I hold at your neck the gom jabbar, Charlie Brown
November 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Lucy: put your hand in the box, Charlie Brown!
Chuck: No. It'll give me pain and when I pull away you'll kill me!
Lucy: not this time, Charlie. This is the Thanksgiving box, it's a tradition!
Chuck: Well ok...AAUGH
Lucy: I hold at your neck the gom jabbar, Charlie Brown
Chuck: No. It'll give me pain and when I pull away you'll kill me!
Lucy: not this time, Charlie. This is the Thanksgiving box, it's a tradition!
Chuck: Well ok...AAUGH
Lucy: I hold at your neck the gom jabbar, Charlie Brown
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
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Look, I'm genuinely sorry for the Graham Linehan posts. I really am. But this is just too fucking astonishing not to share. The last paragraph of an Observer interview with him. Absolutely beyond parody. He's gone. He's absolutely fucking gone.
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Look, I'm genuinely sorry for the Graham Linehan posts. I really am. But this is just too fucking astonishing not to share. The last paragraph of an Observer interview with him. Absolutely beyond parody. He's gone. He's absolutely fucking gone.
I never cease to be amazed by the out of touch radicalised fictions that come out of mumsnet.
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I never cease to be amazed by the out of touch radicalised fictions that come out of mumsnet.
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Think billionaires aren’t feeling the pinch this Thanksgiving? Think again.
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Think billionaires aren’t feeling the pinch this Thanksgiving? Think again.
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Disappointed with the BBC’s reply on The Celebrity Traitors and the rise in interest in the large SUVs it features. They say it’s not advertising because no money changed hands. But these vehicles are dangerous for pedestrians, cyclists and children and repeated screen time inevitably drives demand.
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Disappointed with the BBC’s reply on The Celebrity Traitors and the rise in interest in the large SUVs it features. They say it’s not advertising because no money changed hands. But these vehicles are dangerous for pedestrians, cyclists and children and repeated screen time inevitably drives demand.
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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Dystopia alert…
The UK Is Naming Roads After Birds It's Losing
New analysis from the RSPB reveals an ironic trend of new housing developments using names of some of the UK's most threatened birds.
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/T...
New analysis from the RSPB reveals an ironic trend of new housing developments using names of some of the UK's most threatened birds.
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/T...
The UK Is Naming Roads After Birds It's Losing
New analysis from the RSPB reveals an ironic trend of new housing developments using names of some of the UK's most threatened birds
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Dystopia alert…
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"Starmer says scrapping two-child benefit cap was ‘long-standing ambition’"
He literally stripped the whip from 7 of his own MPs just last year for daring to stand up to him not ending it then.
Does he think we're all stupid or what? And why isn't the media coverage mentioning that recent context?
He literally stripped the whip from 7 of his own MPs just last year for daring to stand up to him not ending it then.
Does he think we're all stupid or what? And why isn't the media coverage mentioning that recent context?
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"Starmer says scrapping two-child benefit cap was ‘long-standing ambition’"
He literally stripped the whip from 7 of his own MPs just last year for daring to stand up to him not ending it then.
Does he think we're all stupid or what? And why isn't the media coverage mentioning that recent context?
He literally stripped the whip from 7 of his own MPs just last year for daring to stand up to him not ending it then.
Does he think we're all stupid or what? And why isn't the media coverage mentioning that recent context?
Just saw someone refer to The Women Who Should Probably On Balance Wheesht and now I want to get stickers made up to put on every copy 🤭🤭🤭
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just saw someone refer to The Women Who Should Probably On Balance Wheesht and now I want to get stickers made up to put on every copy 🤭🤭🤭
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Obviously people with £2m of assets they obtained largely through inflation can get to fuck, but a council tax surcharge being the way we've decided to do it makes me put my head in my hands and cry.
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Obviously people with £2m of assets they obtained largely through inflation can get to fuck, but a council tax surcharge being the way we've decided to do it makes me put my head in my hands and cry.
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Not directly relared, but my spellchecker switched off... because I am on Android Samsung kbd, and it is in predictive text, and I have set a checkbox to process data on the device only, and with the recent update predictive text _requires_ cloud processing.
HOW DID IT FUNCTION FOR DECADES THEN?!!
HOW DID IT FUNCTION FOR DECADES THEN?!!
November 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Not directly relared, but my spellchecker switched off... because I am on Android Samsung kbd, and it is in predictive text, and I have set a checkbox to process data on the device only, and with the recent update predictive text _requires_ cloud processing.
HOW DID IT FUNCTION FOR DECADES THEN?!!
HOW DID IT FUNCTION FOR DECADES THEN?!!
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The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
There's no point trying to placate the tabloid/Murdoch press because they have no real stance except to stir up anger in their readers.
Do we or do we not live in a country where these awful people got their way at almost every major decision point of the century so far? We do! Is it good? No, it is a national calamity. Are they sorry? No they’re not, they’re *absolutely furious* that they haven’t got more and worse.
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
There's no point trying to placate the tabloid/Murdoch press because they have no real stance except to stir up anger in their readers.
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Note how a 17-year-old trans girl is a “child” who must be protected when it comes to making her own medical decision, but an “activist” who can’t be afforded the basic protections of the law when she is assaulted by a 50-year-old man with a history of harassing trans people.
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Note how a 17-year-old trans girl is a “child” who must be protected when it comes to making her own medical decision, but an “activist” who can’t be afforded the basic protections of the law when she is assaulted by a 50-year-old man with a history of harassing trans people.
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ALCS Chair Tim Clement-Jones: "Since its founding, ALCS has been guided by the principle of "no use without payment" and we believe this is as pertinent as ever in the age of AI"
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
ALCS Chair Tim Clement-Jones: "Since its founding, ALCS has been guided by the principle of "no use without payment" and we believe this is as pertinent as ever in the age of AI"
He's also missing the point that most people currently in their 40s or 50s are expecting retirement to be similar to working life, since the Tories have fucked the welfare state so badly that we're unlikely to get a meaningful state pension and will just have to keep going til we drop/get uploaded.
You just cannot take the iPaper seriously when it wheels out Kwasi ‘mini budget’ Kwarteng to comment on the budget.
We don’t *ever* want to hear from this arrogant clown again.
“No prudence”
FML.
We don’t *ever* want to hear from this arrogant clown again.
“No prudence”
FML.
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
He's also missing the point that most people currently in their 40s or 50s are expecting retirement to be similar to working life, since the Tories have fucked the welfare state so badly that we're unlikely to get a meaningful state pension and will just have to keep going til we drop/get uploaded.
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Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
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I suppose no media has reached out to Starmer’s niece and her wife for comment on their assault? No? I suppose they wouldn’t have anything interesting to say about their uncle’s government’s slashing of queer support? Okay cool, run another piece about Kier having a nice time at their wedding, cool.
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I suppose no media has reached out to Starmer’s niece and her wife for comment on their assault? No? I suppose they wouldn’t have anything interesting to say about their uncle’s government’s slashing of queer support? Okay cool, run another piece about Kier having a nice time at their wedding, cool.