Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵

But which AI to vote for? Decisions, decisions 🤔

That's £93.49k basic annual salary saved per year by automating this automaton

Image of Edinburgh's G&V Hotel on George IV Bridge which is covered in scaffolding.

Some of Edinburgh’s scaffolding is so old, it should be listed. No one alive can remember what’s underneath.

When it's finally unwrapped again everyone's gonna be amazed that fashions have come back around to Lothian Regional Council municipal post-Brutalism

Estate agent photo of an empty room. The walls and ceiling are painted pink. The carpet is an abstract mid-century pattern of blues, like coloured oil floating on water.

Estate agent photo of an empty room. The walls and ceiling are painted pale lilac. The carpet is an abstract mid-century pattern of greys and blues, a different version of the carpet in the first photo, like coloured oil floating on water.

ESPC carpets of the day

It's also in our corporate Paintbrush install 😬

I see your SharePoint in Edge and raise you Copilot in Notepad!

Whoops! No problem, I'll un-repost the other one

Actors playing Isabella and James Hutton in Holyrood Park, in the "Hutton in Edinburgh" Fringe show.

It's Fringe time! You might need some Edinburgh geology. Join our immersive walking theatre shows in the footsteps of Charles Darwin and James Hutton.

16-25 August (not 20th), Hutton 11:00 and Darwin 14:00
www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
Photo: Prof Joe Goldblatt.

#Threadinburgh

Memorial in the shape of a Celtic cross in a graveyard. it has some fencing and wooden supports in front, which are holding up the wall beside it.

Close up of the inscription to George Wilson, noting that he was founding director etc, with symbol below of an eye in a hand in a triangle in a circle.

I recently paid a visit to the memorial of @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social or The Industrial Museum of Scotland's founding director George Wilson (1818-1859), Professor of Technology. His symbol for Technology, which can also be found on some of our early labels, is at the bottom #histSTM

Does it taste any better/ less worse out a tap than a can?

I think it's had about 10 different names in as many years. Can't recall ever being in, or wanting to either. Burlington Berties was fun back in the day

It's certainly a holdout dor the auld guard since all the other pubs round have gentrified. Not even the IB was safe!

Can't recall ever seeing one in action. Edina Lock and Key are the folks to ask

It's a bit breezy at Wardie but worth it for the geography lesson in sand transportation

Not yet one I've chalked off the list.

Scottish roofers today.

Given how tightly the company was run and controlled from Edinburgh by Alexander Grant, there was no way any product development like this was being done anywhere other than Edinburgh

You can't have a list like this without including Jaffa Cakes... introduced by McVities in 1927. I recall that there has been some dispute over who should get the credit for their invention, but it was created in Edinburgh.

Yeah actually I really quite fancy one!

Cadbury's Flake advert from 1936, again with a suggestion to have it as a "99" in an ice-cream sandwich

Another Cadbury's Flake 99 advert from 1936. Soft-serve ice-cream didn't exist at the time so it feels a little bit unlikely that vendors were trying to pop crumbly flakes into a scoop of the harder stuff back in the 1920s.

Whether or not the Portobello origin story is true, if you want to *really* blow your mind, what you think of as a "Ninety-Nine" is not what Cadbury intended it to be when they first marketed it themselves in 1936. You've been doing it wrong all these years! 🍦🍫🤯

"a boon to bored church-goers throughout the land as they slowly sucked their way through many a long, tedious sermon, the air over the pews becoming more heavy with mint than piety" (James Beyer, “The Land of Sweets”. Scottish Memories, 2009)

And every *single* online news site illustrates their "coverage" with a copy and paste image of *that* Scotrail train at Saltcoats 10 years ago.

Think Storm Floris has reached the Isle of May… #StormFloris

Yes really it should have been listed as a studio

Yeah it's made from gingerbread now

Per metre square, the big villas along the road are relatively much "cheaper" (of course, still very expensive)

I was wondering that, but it seems the text claims the living/dining room is the bedroom. I don't think the attic has sufficient headroom to allow it to be classes as a bedroom for the sale, it looks like it's the practical place to have a bed so long as you don't mind hitting your head a lot