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@calderwook.bsky.social

Disabled and mostly found bumbling about Edinburgh on a cargo bike or walking my dogs Trees make things better.

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Homophobic Christian Nationalist mob targets London’s gay district A homophobic religious mob calling themselves the ‘King’s Army’ organised an intimidating mob in the streets of London’s Soho – the heart of London’s LGBT+ community, home to many LGBT+ bars, clubs, a...

Here we go... it was only a matter of time, as the far-right gets ever more vocal without check

10.10.2025 15:37 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

10.10.2025 03:49 — 👍 16736    🔁 5282    💬 480    📌 1385
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a close up of a woman 's face looking out of a window . ALT: a close up of a woman 's face looking out of a window .
10.10.2025 09:19 — 👍 27    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 1
A pile of home made Scottish snowballs sit on a pink plate. They are round and covered in coconut.

A pile of home made Scottish snowballs sit on a pink plate. They are round and covered in coconut.

Is it still PTSD if the trauma is still happening?

It's so fucking shit, I'm sorry.

Ever had a Scottish Snowball?

10.10.2025 00:46 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

09.10.2025 10:14 — 👍 11934    🔁 6341    💬 99    📌 216

Ah, so you just care about the freedom to drive penis extension vehicles while not driving one yourself, fair enough.

Meanwhile, the USA has more than double the road deaths per capita than Europe.

Wonder why that is? Oh, yeah, it's because Europe actually has safety standards for pedestrians.

08.10.2025 13:27 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations on reinforcing her point.

Nobody even mentioned taking away your penis extension vehicle of choice.

08.10.2025 12:06 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

08.10.2025 10:33 — 👍 4203    🔁 865    💬 231    📌 117
Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

08.10.2025 06:09 — 👍 486    🔁 124    💬 27    📌 25

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

08.10.2025 06:52 — 👍 1541    🔁 416    💬 60    📌 8
A Pollock Transport truck with its green and red tractor unit and red curtain sided articulated trailer is pictured driving through an urban road junction, With the railing and the lights of a pedestrian crossing in the foreground.

While blurry, there is a bright object in the hands of the driver that was seen to be a mobile phone that he was checking as he drove along the road.

A Pollock Transport truck with its green and red tractor unit and red curtain sided articulated trailer is pictured driving through an urban road junction, With the railing and the lights of a pedestrian crossing in the foreground. While blurry, there is a bright object in the hands of the driver that was seen to be a mobile phone that he was checking as he drove along the road.

Can you guess what the bright object is in the hands of this professional driver for Pollock Transport is?

Seems that @policescotland.bsky.social aren't really discouraging the behaviour with their 0.06% daily detection rate for mobile phone use while driving.

07.10.2025 22:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
A bicycle is posed on a wet set of concrete steps; it is almost entirely encrusted with barnacles. Another, non-dredged-up bicycle leans against a step in the background.

A bicycle is posed on a wet set of concrete steps; it is almost entirely encrusted with barnacles. Another, non-dredged-up bicycle leans against a step in the background.

🚲 edi.bike | issue 113 | 6th Sep '25

Roseburn Link wins award, date for @infrasisters.bsky.social Glow Ride, and a bicycle beset by barnacles from @wolct.bsky.social; plus events, route closures & more:

https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-113-6th-oct-25/

#bikeSky

06.10.2025 07:03 — 👍 18    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0

My ebike is speed and power regulated from the factory because lawmakers see it as a safety threat to people in cities if left unchecked.

05.10.2025 22:23 — 👍 259    🔁 50    💬 5    📌 2

I know how you feel. Wasn't covid for me but I too miss the purpose of my old life even if it was partly why I ended up here.

I do some volunteering when my health allows to have a little purpose.

05.10.2025 08:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Frank Turner - 1933 (Visualiser)
YouTube video by FrankTurnerVEVO Frank Turner - 1933 (Visualiser)

youtu.be/QWmnBcNijvo?...

05.10.2025 07:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Don't go mistsking your house burning down for the dawn."

05.10.2025 07:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I was the same but it seems to be working now.

05.10.2025 02:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You're in for some incredible cinematography!

04.10.2025 19:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hah complaining fixed it.

03.10.2025 21:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Anybody else's mutal feed not updating?

03.10.2025 20:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
HMS Swift,  S Class destroyer founders of sword beach after hitting a mine. Her bow and stern protude from the water, her keel broken. The mine was placed the night before by an E boat at HMS Algonquin's anchor buoy. She had taken Swifts place on Operation Decoy due damage suffered by air attack.

HMS Swift, S Class destroyer founders of sword beach after hitting a mine. Her bow and stern protude from the water, her keel broken. The mine was placed the night before by an E boat at HMS Algonquin's anchor buoy. She had taken Swifts place on Operation Decoy due damage suffered by air attack.

The later HMS Swift was a bit more swift till it wasn't.

03.10.2025 15:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You can also get combined carbon monoxide and smoke alarms that might save you an extra device.

Gas stoves are exempt from requiring a co alarm too.

03.10.2025 10:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

More an issue of nothing in the UK is built in a cost effective manner rather tram over trolly bus.

03.10.2025 10:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's about speed of detection rather than hearing the alarms. 6 seem excessive though, is your house half hallways?

I can recommend aico alarms though. They come with a base that you can just swap a new alarm onto once they are age expired.

03.10.2025 10:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm sure some subscriber will see it and think,"I can fix that right up!"

02.10.2025 08:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If I were the lobbying classes I would:
- buy right wing govts
- when the public get sick of that lot, for being patently bought, pivot to buying the opposition for a bit
- buy the new left wing govt
- when this lot get rightly castigated for being bought, buy the opposition again
- back to normal

02.10.2025 07:47 — 👍 32    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 0
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Still happening!

Greenpeace activists have blocked the liquified gas terminal in Zeebrugge ALL NIGHT, tankers carrying gas from Putin and Trump can't get in

The EU must break free from fossil fuels that are funding war, driving the climate crisis, ruining our air and pushing up people's bills

02.10.2025 07:29 — 👍 102    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 2
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The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

01.10.2025 17:59 — 👍 2329    🔁 579    💬 89    📌 125

Edinburgh: but what if a driver got mad?

01.10.2025 17:34 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Bigot takes opportunity to show world she is a bigoted.

01.10.2025 13:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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