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Rob Munn

@robmunn.bsky.social

Canadian born citizen of Leith. Reads, cycles, walks. Interested in music, film, politics, planning, active travel. Former Councillor. Blogs as Leith Notes (blogspot)

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Thanks for posting - I think I've got that badge somewhere! If I find it I'll post a picture πŸ“Έ

15.10.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Has He Got A Friend For Me by Richard & Linda Thompson Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

1974, Day 15.

Bleak is beautiful.

"He's got the haunt of the sea in his eyes,
He wouldn't notice me passing by -
I could be in the gutter, or dangling down from a tree..."

Richard & Linda Thompson - Has He Got A Friend For Me
song.link/y/QW-yDbEp2h8

#20SongsByYear

14.10.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
Althea & Donna Uptown Top Ranking Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking

#OneArtistOneSong
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

Althea & Donna – β€œUptown Top Ranking”
This song is nearly 50 years old and it still sounds good

13.10.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re on at 8:15 tonight…

13.10.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

23.11.2024 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4443    πŸ” 976    πŸ’¬ 141    πŸ“Œ 81

Ironically it's a 'Mini'....

07.10.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Neko Case : Neon Grey Midnight Green | Album review | Treble Following a memoir and a best-of compilation, on 'Neon Grey Midnight Green,' Neko Case crafts a beautiful and big album shaped by grief

Neko Case's 'Neon Grey Midnight Green' is a sprawling and ambitious record that juxtaposes emotional highs with disorienting detours

@1000timesjeff.bsky.social reviews

www.treblezine.com/neko-case-ne...

07.10.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Best Action Man line up ever.
Nicked from Kerry Richards on FB.
#Dexys

07.10.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Meanwhile, note from a Carroll Gardens friend:

"News12 is covering the Court St bike lane like it is World War III"

07.10.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. β™₯οΈπŸ“š
#amindofmyown

07.10.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1010    πŸ” 1167    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 41

I'm very concerned about all the #GlobalSumudFlotilla detainees, but especially Hannah Schafer, who seems likely to be held in extended detention in Israel. Israeli armed forces have committed grave and multiple breaches of international law in attacking the flotilla and mistreating its crew.

06.10.2025 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 896    πŸ” 312    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 10
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Aaron Lee Tasjan: "I prolong the denial of insanity by touring and writing" Aaron Lee Tasjan on Glam Suits, Acid Epiphanies, and Why Americana Is Just Rock and Roll

Aaron Lee Tasjan on Silver Tears: β€œMarc Bolan & Webb Pierce were both raging queens on stageβ€”that’s rock & roll.”

Also: sneaky Iggy refs, an acid trip with Green Onions, and why he keeps writing to β€œprolong the denial of insanity.”

www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...

24.08.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
12 Bar Blues
Aaron Lee Tasjan 12 Bar Blues

Aaron Lee Tasjan - 12 Bar Blues #radyoeksen

12.08.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Bicycles Deliver the Freedom That Auto Ads Promise" @tomflood.bsky.social

04.10.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Keep the pressure up.

04.10.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alberta’s New Pipeline Pitch: Bad for Business, Disastrous for Climate, Analysts Say Climate advocates and at least one policy analyst are taking Alberta Premier Danielle Smith back to business school after she promised to pitch a new westbound oil pipeline to the federal Major Projec...

β€œIt’s economically perverse that the provincial government will spend public money on a project the private sector has balked at, while simultaneously sabotaging private investment in renewable energy projects the market is demanding.”
www.theenergymix.com/albertas-new...

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Screenshot of LinkedIn post from Yellowknife Mayor describing the costs and consequences of trucks having gotten so much bigger. In the link, he explains the backlash he received for his post.

Screenshot of LinkedIn post from Yellowknife Mayor describing the costs and consequences of trucks having gotten so much bigger. In the link, he explains the backlash he received for his post.

This is good β€”the Mayor of Yellowknife NWT in Canada’s far north weighs in on β€œCar Bloat” (truck bloat actually) and its many big costs & consequences (thanks @davidzipper.bsky.social for heads-up). And like most who dare tell the truth about that, he’s taking flack.
www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/...

04.10.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 902    πŸ” 244    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 13
R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion" (LIVE @ Athens)
YouTube video by remhq R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion" (LIVE @ Athens)

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡· From Athens (Greece), October 5th, 2008.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wsP...

04.10.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 265    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4
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September 2025 reading The James Baldwin Culture Industry has kept up an unceasing pace in the last decade, including the release of an Oscar-nominated documentary and handsome new paperback editions of his novels and es…

I love this photo. Nicholas Boggs' new James Baldwin bio is the first major one in several decades and maybe the best. It was one of the books I read in September. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/s...

04.10.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#yyc #yyccc #ClimateChange #yycbike #ClimatePolicy #Urbanism #15MinuteCities #cdnpoli #abpoli #BikeLanes #ClimateSolutions #ClimateSky

04.10.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week, the city of Haarlem lowered the speed limit from 50 to 30km/h for 132 roads in the city. We sat down with experts from Gemeente Haarlem about the change and how they made it happen.

READ THE STORY: buff.ly/vQEeYhs

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Soo Catwoman - Backstabbers
YouTube video by Spit Records Soo Catwoman - Backstabbers

This cover of The O'Jays 'Backstabbers' is credited to Soo Catwoman, Rat Scabies and Bob (Derwood) Andrews in some places but not in others (so who knows!?).

Anyways here it is...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K80s...

03.10.2025 05:52 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Nowhere to Run: the return of the mighty Thrum There are those bands that you missed, the ones you only caught glimpses of and they captivated you but somehow you let them go. Something...

The night I went to see Thrum play 'Rifferama' in Airdrie. #thrum #rifferama #Airdrie #livemusic #livemusicvenues #Americana

leithnotes.blogspot.com/2025/09/nowh...

24.09.2025 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I firmly believe, you never forget your first exposure to jazz music. I was 7-8 when I first heard Blue Rondo Γ  la Turk at my uncle's cottage. Something happened at that very moment. It clicked. I recently listened to a lot of Brubeck stuff. But Time Out is a timeless, absolutely essential record.

02.10.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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JUST IN! 'Shake The Foundations - Militant Funk & The Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984' by Various

Triple disc box set featuring dancefloor-friendly left-field new wave cuts.

@cherryredrecords.bsky.social
www.normanrecords.com/records/2107...

01.10.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Edinburghs Radical Book Fair poster with images of animals & anarchism

Edinburghs Radical Book Fair poster with images of animals & anarchism

Good things happen in autumn

01.10.2025 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
LOS RETUMBES - Eres Idiota [Aterpe Sessions]
Grabar en uno de los gimnasios de boxeo mΓ‘s mΓ­ticos de Bilbao no era ni remotamente parecida a la idea que tenΓ­amos en un principio. Y aquΓ­ terminamos, en un... LOS RETUMBES - Eres Idiota [Aterpe Sessions]

Los Retumbes - Eres Idiota.

20.03.2024 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
LOS RETUMBES. La mΓΊsica moderna
LOS RETUMBES. La mΓΊsica modernaTema perteneciente al Γ‘lbum LOS RETUMBES. La mΓΊsica moderna

Los Retumbes - La MΓΊsica Moderna.

20.03.2024 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dolly Mixture 1978-1984. Launch party for Debsey Wykes' amazing book, Teenage Daydream is this Wednesday. Dolly Mixture film with Paul Kelly, Jenny Rollo and Stephen Pastel (dj). And, and Matthew Rich will be live screenprinting an edition of this image. Tix here... monorailmusic.com/product/teen...

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