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Safe passing distance when overtaking a cyclist is 1.5m. How to make that distance feel very real? Use your noodle! We're trying something new: a lunchtime pop-up ride in #Edinburgh on March 10th at 12:30, starting at the Council offices in Waverley Court. Please join us for a spin around town […]

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Please can all socialist parties print this at the top of all their flyers and keep repeating until people understand Red tape is a good thing Red tape stops you swimming in shit at the beach Red tape stops your house falling down and killing you while you sleep Red tape stops people driving […]

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New Street Art from around the world! 🎨✨ This is a thread 🧵 – scroll down to see all 21 murals. Which one is your favorite? 👇 Full collection here: https://streetartutopia.com/2025/02/22/new-street-art-3/

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An icon for our times. If one were to make a statuette of San Precario again now, they'd look like this https://kit.sanprecario.org/

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#AUOB #ScottishIndependence #AreYouYesYet #IndyRef Courtesy of #AllUnderOneBanner on #Facebook

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Plans to boost capacity at St Pancras are welcome. But the hurdles to run trains from London to 🇩🇪, 🇨🇭 and 🇫🇷 beyond Paris are elsewhere, as I explain in this piece for the iPaper https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/travel/rail-routes-st-pancras-upgrade-open-up-fewer-hurdles-3548255 […]

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Time for another #Bullshitmeter Or merda di bufalo d'acqua perhaps, and I can smell it from here No, there are not going to be trains to Milano 🇮🇹 when St Pancras station is expanded Response to this Times story […] [Original post on gruene.social]

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Imagine how much cheaper it would have been to supply Ukraine with everything they needed from the start of the war. Then the Russians would have been defeated by now. Now it's going to cost Europe a fortune, increased defense spending for the next many decades.

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Lentils

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The Falcon 9 second stage from the Starlink 11-4 launch failed to deorbit itself on Feb 2. It reentered over Northern Europe last night, with entry over the Irish Sea at 0343 UTC Feb 19 and the reentry track extending to Poland and Ukraine a couple of minutes later

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Analysis from the University of Greenwich shows that a wealth tax starting at a marginal rate of 1%, rising to 5% for those with £5.7 million and above (the richest 0.5%), and 10% for those with £18.2 million (the richest 0.15%) would raise over £70 billion a year. Instead of crippling […]

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This afternoon I have mostly been listening to the UK post-rock band Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster #music #nowPlaying https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/tacoma-narrows-bridge-disaster/377597333

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So tired this morning, nearly forgot to drink my coffee 🥱 ☕️ #caffeineBootstrapProblem

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Join us this Saturday for a ride around Marchmont! Meet 2pm Middle Meadow Walk.

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So much for free speech: Political cartoonist told to pull #comic rightly mocking the world's richest welfare queen.

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Ridgeline #silentSunday #HolyroodPark #Edinburgh

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Industry welcomes report on almost $10B potential of Scotland’s wave and tidal energy Outlook & Strategy https://www.offshore-energy.biz/industry-welcomes-report-on-almost-10b-potential-of-scotlands-wave-and-tidal-energy/ Industry players have welcomed a new report that highlights the potential […]

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The psychology of MAGA (and all bullies and creeps) in a nutshell: They're scared of everything and they want you to be scared too so they don't feel so bad about being so scared. They're jealous of your joy and generosity and optimism. Hold onto those feelings, and share them whenever possible.

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Emergency cute.

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Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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Question: do you read posts from people you know in their accent? I just realised I was reading a post from a friend in their accent. Is that normal?

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moon drama 🌕 #Edinburgh

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https://www.jesusandmo.net/comic/crimes/

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BLAH I'm actually giving yet another public talk tonight. I'm updating the one I did 5 days ago. Turns out there were 30 fewer Starlink satellites in orbit 5 days ago. Over 7,000 Starlink satellites in orbit now, out of over 7,900 launched. They've already burned up 900 Starlink satellites in […]

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Still knackered after three long days away, first coffee has taken me from unconscious to barely awake, will definitely need another when I get to the office 🥱

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Petition to introduce presumed liability in civil cases in the UK for road traffic collisions. This would make it much easier for vulnerable road users to claim against motorists' insurance. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700451 […]

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A constant reminder that even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as they did during the pandemic lockdown from now to 2030, we still wouldn't meet our emission target to keep global warming below 1.5°C.

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Scamcaller: "Hello I am calling from the technical department at British Telecom about your computer virus and internet connection?" Me: "Your company hasn't been called that in about twenty years." Click #scamcall

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And back on the train for another full day. Train 1 left bang on time at least.

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I solved the problem of being forced to use Apple Intelligence (so-called). #AI is dumb.

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The world economy currently burns 19,473 million tons of oil equivalent, of which 80% is in the form of fossil fuels, per year. 1 ton of oil equivalent is 11,630 kWh, or 11.6MWh. So 19,473 million tons of oil equivalent is 225,886,800,000 MWh, or 225,887 TWh. Total annual world electricity […]

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Looks like this might be a busy train later. At least I have a free seat for now, and coffee 🥱

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A couple of moody photos from Portobello beach yesterday for #silentSunday #portobello #edinburgh #beach #waves

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One of my occasional reminders that wood engraving prints and watercolour sketches are for sale on my website. https://johnaltringham.co.uk

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Artist/illustrator: Matias De Brasi

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