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About time too. They should also be paying the costs of people who had to replace it.

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Thorough in Edinburgh today for a talkything in one of the the big shiny buildings on Potterrow. In tenuous honour of the event, here's what the Informatics Forum looked like from the top of Appleton Tower in 1965/66. [Photo: my dad.]

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@threadinburgh.scot Just in case you've missed this delightful cocktail of Ladybird books and modernism... dirtymodernscoundrel.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

"The back green of a Scottish tenement provides little incentive to sociability."

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

This showed up in my feed and it just struck me that it looked a lot like a mug shot (if a lemur had just been arrested for disorderly bouncing through a forest).

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SAD NEWS FOR BROUGHTON:—John Dickie, founding editor of the Broughton Spurtle, will stir no more: broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/sad-new... #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news

submitted 74 days ago • 5 comments

This is my latest 3D #HandEmbroidery creature. It's based on a #PaperCraft model from Canon (by ayumu saito) creativepark.canon/en/contents/... .

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

The aim is to separate teaching & research, have one as a high status elite job for the few and the other as a low paid grind - let the elites do a seminar here & there so you can claim you’re doing “research led teaching”at a few rich unis. Everything is moving us to this goal. It’s deliberate.

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

As well as lots of coaches, this 1967 short shows footage of Edinburgh's St Cuthbert's milk horses, the now-demolished St James square area and the Caledonian station. The commentary is also worth a listen... movingimage.nls.uk/film/5912

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ISSUE 345 PUBLISHED TODAY.—Also available as a waterproof pdf here: www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news

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AUGUST SPURTLE (Issue 342).—Available in shops, services, public libraries, railing dispensers & the odd red phonebox across Broughton and beyond. Usual outlets are regularly topped up. Alternatively, download your free, colour, rain-resistant pdf from our website here: www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk

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St JAMES SQUARE TO STAY VEHICLE-FREE.—Controversial decision by Transport & Environment Cmte summary, link to officers' report, and evolving comments thread available here: www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/st-jame...

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THE INDUSTRIAL HALL (Chapter 3).—Fairyland, burlesque and a dead snake: www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/industr... #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #localhistory

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@spurtle.bsky.social Meet Broughton's new subterranean stirrer www.scottishwater.co.uk/About-Us/New...

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NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS.—Edinburgh event to discuss the future of local journalism in Scotland. Details here: broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/no-news... #hyperlocal #news

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SPURTLE'S EDINBURGH NORTH & LEITH GENERAL ELECTION HUSTINGS.—Will take place in Broughton St Mary's Parish Church (Bellevue Cres) on Monday 24 June (7.30pm–9.30pm). Further details to follow. #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #generalelection

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