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Green social prescribing, Palliative care research at University of Edinburgh. Cats, Edinburgh, games, Babylon 5 and even more besides. he/him This account is for a mix of personal and professional interests
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The illegal killing of Hen Harriers has hit a devastating new high. ⚠️ A new RSPB report reveals 102 incidents in just five years - with the majority on, or near, grouse moors. A thread…

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

English People Encounter Pizza for the First Time 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

🚨 Last night JK Rowling attacked The National as an "anti-woman newspaper". I think that is absolutely ridiculous chat. Here's my open letter setting out why this kind of attack does not work on our team. www.thenational.scot/news/2525321...

submitted 8 days ago • 110 comments

This photo. ICE is a gang.

submitted 10 days ago • 708 comments

Love this screen grab. Hope all the journalists caught this too.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone who confuses correlation with causation eventually ends up dead.

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

This is worth 3 minutes of your time. No one wants to eat at a restaurant that only serves bland chicken. (It’s not about chicken, or restaurants, tho)

submitted 11 days ago • 150 comments

I just discovered this meme and I love it. Happy #PrideMonth to all my #LGBTQIA + friends!

submitted 12 days ago • 245 comments

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

📣 DEADLINE: ⚠️TODAY* is the last day for comments in support of protected cycle lanes on Buccleuch St, Causewayside, Craigmillar Rd, Gilmerton Rd, Mayfield Rd, Old Dalkeith Rd, Braid Rd and Comiston Rd - only takes five minutes to tell CEC what protected spaces for cycling in the city mean for you:

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

submitted 16 days ago • 326 comments

What do we think?🤔 Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious. Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story! So, what’s going on here? Let’s take a look!👀 🧵 1/13

submitted 19 days ago • 68 comments

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

submitted 25 days ago • 30 comments

how it sounds arguing with die hard capitalists.

submitted 27 days ago • 58 comments

The top image: The Guardian, July 2016 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The bottom image: The Guardian, May 2025 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 35 days ago • 301 comments

Funding challenges mean difficult choices for Edinburgh - but remember this committee: ✋Opted to remove a low traffic neighbourhood & replace it with an expensive bike lane 🅿️ Turned down c£14mn per annum from a Workplace Parking Levy 🚷Spent active travel budget on Dalmahoy road junction

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

submitted 42 days ago • 74 comments

🧵 Ever since London's councils starting installing cycle journey counters on major cycle routes there's been a batshit conspiracy by London's cabbies and anti-LTN Onesies that cycling campaign groups organise pelotons of cyclists to cycle up-and-down to inflate the counts. Don your tin-foil hat 1/n

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments

‘car brain’ - it’s a thing. www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23...

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

A play in three acts.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

#PfG reflections -> www.spokes.org.uk/2025/05/prog... @transform.scot @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social @sccscot.bsky.social @edi.bike @chdot.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social @sarahboyack.bsky.social @edtiss.bsky.social @holyroodmag.bsky.social @deleriad.bsky.social @bjpaddy.bsky.social @bl6john.bsky.social

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

When the game is rigged, the only way to win is not to play.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Keir Starmer denies pushing anti-migrant policies in order to chase Reform, saying that "I'm doing this because it is right, because it is fair and because it is what I believe". A reminder of what he said he believed when he was running for Labour leader.

submitted 46 days ago • 121 comments

@timleunig.bsky.social (h/t @stephenkb.bsky.social) Source: timleunig.substack.com/p/internatio...

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments