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Maybe I’m trying to manifest a connection from Lang Loan to the path that doesn’t exist! It’s been a while since I was on that section. Am terrible at remembering routes I’ve taken.

Sorry I missed this! I am Bad At Route-finding. From Burdiehouse you can go thru graffiti tunnel and take chances from there or stay on bike path north of bypass to Dalkeith turn off (Gilmerton rd) and going on shared surface past Dobbies to Eskbank. I find A772 roundabouts pretty navigable by bike.

That route does something odd around the bypass of you have to go through Straiton then back north under bypass. I’d probably take cycle path that skirts north of bypass around Burdiehouse and head under at Loanhead then make way from there to Eskbank…

Landmark Scottish Passivhaus school is outperforming targets | Project Scotland Image credit: Architype/David Barbour Edinburgh-based architect Architype is working on a number of Passivhaus schools, including the recently completed Riv ...

🙌Landmark Scottish Passivhaus school is outperforming targets!

Monitoring data from the first year of Riverside Primary - the first Passivhaus certified school in Scotland - demonstrates it is more than delivering on energy and indoor comfort.

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@sarahlewis.bsky.social

Inside the relentless race for AI capacity The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed

Fascinating, informative, alarming piece from the FT on the scaling up of data centres and implications for power and water infrastructure.

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Information as in post, plus image of book cover. Visit http://waterstones.com/campaign/july-pre-order-offer

This is lovely - Waterstones are running a summer pre-order promotion and my new book's included! Enter code SUMMER25 on the Waterstones website or app before the end of Thursday 31 July to get 25% off. Pre-orders really help boost a new #book, so, thank you 🙏
#preorder #discount #offer #history

Artwork featuring twelve stylised white female figures with dark hair, in a group floating and swiming in blue water

Fom the 'Water Women' series by Sonia Alins, contemporary Spanish artist and illustrator #WomensArt

Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe | Archaeology | National Museum of Ireland Discover how science, art, archaeology and the study of script help reveal the links between Ireland and Europe

Off to the ‘Word on the Wave’ exhibition - perhaps a once in a lifetime opportunity to see these early medieval manuscripts together. Nicely coincides with finishing a project, 6th anniversary with Paul and turning another decade. Hope to celebrate by finding inspiration for the next book in Dublin.

What happens when a city decides that its cultural scene is worth saving? - Monocle London’s cultural crisis hotline is rescuing studios, theatres and music venues from closure – and New York is taking notice....

“We’re focused on protecting spaces that don’t benefit from heritage protection like a grand theatre or a big museum does.” - our @justinesimons.bsky.social✨

Great piece on our Culture at Risk office - aka the Batphone 🦇

monocle.com/culture/what...

Such a treat to revisit In the Mood for Love at the reopened @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social this evening. Definitely put me in the mood for more time spent there watching outstanding films. So happy it’s back.

Iconic anti-war poster, originally by US printmaker Lorraine Schneider, 1966 #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Such an interesting environment as jumping off point for more and weirder stories.

Edinburgh Live screengrab, "Edinburgh locals get glimpse of mega battleship as it sails down the Forth". Beneath is a picture of an aircraft carrier sailing *up* the Forth...

Putting aside the facts that the "mega battleship" is clearly an aircraft carrier and that it is sailing *up* and not "down" the Forth, let us take this opportune moment to remind ourselves of the time an actual battlecruiser went up the Forth and almost took the bridge out.
True story! 🧵🌉🛳️▶️

What a story! I had always just assumed the Navy had scuppered the German fleet so that took me on a journey.

The Forth bridges looking not bad tonight (as filmed by Mrs McQue)

Can anyone point me to a really good history of the urban effects of changing transportation in a case study non-"Western" city through the C19 and C20? I'm interested in things like employment and urban growth, but also in sociological effects (changing role of neighbourhood, etc.). Thank you!

Cover of Objects of Poverty, edited by Joseph Harley and Vicky Holmes

“From Improvised to Subsidised Safety: Fireguards”, by Jonathan Reinarz and Shane Ewen

New publication!

“Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700” is edited by Joe Harley & Vicky Holmes. Our chapter is on the fireguard - a consistent absence in the archival record - and the campaign to introduce it into working-class homes.

Order the book here: lnkd.in/eMz2kfkd

View from roof of development of extra care housing on Polton St, Bonnyrigg which is under construction, showing solar array with hills and blue sky in distance.

The PV array on Midlothian Council’s passivhaus Extra Care development in Bonnyrigg is twinkling with promise on a sunny day. ☀️ 💚

#passivhaus
#solar

A thousand times yes.

In Dundas Street in Edinburgh
#windowsonwednesday

Bernat Klein Studio - a stunning modernist building in rural Scotland.

Bernat Klein Studio - a stunning modernist building in rural Scotland.

If you have the funds and the vision, please buy and restore the stunning Bernat Klein Studio, Galashiels - guide price £18,000.

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Molas, brightly coloured embroidered textiles using a reverse appliqué technique by women of the Indigenous Guna people, Panama #WomensArt

Accessible toilet in Sweden that features drop down armchair like supports to assist user rather than ugly medicalised versions we always seem to use in UK.

A photo from recent trip to Sweden. Nice accessible loos should be celebrated! Edinburgh has many excellent signs and am sure this person will enhance your visit with their knowledge.

Regeneration success for Scotland’s iconic Palm Houses - Bylines Scotland Only one mile from Edinburgh’s city centre and deep within the heart of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, a dazzling transformation is taking place

"At a time when 40% of plant species are at risk of extinction…

…the restoration of the Palm Houses will help our world-leading scientific institute protect just some of the tens of thousands of species housed across our four botanic gardens” 💚

😍 Great idea to reinvigorate thinking around these objects.

Open to all: "We invite thinkers, mathematicians, creators, researchers, and enthusiasts from all walks of life to submit their interpretations, hypotheses, or creative responses to one of archaeology’s most intriguing enigmas."

📷 NMS

I love Japan.

I loved this thread when you published it. It’s also my personal n my neighbourhood and has so much character and wildlife and such a chequered history.

These Medieval Monks Scribbled Notes in the Margins of Their Books More Than 1,000 Years Ago A new exhibition in Dublin showcases historic manuscripts written in Irish monasteries. The show also features medieval artifacts, such as a rare book shrine found in a river in the 1980s

The "Words on the Wave" exhibition is featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social
The article explores medieval marginalia—scribbled notes and doodles left by monks over a millennium ago.
Visit in person at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street.
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Say hi to this beauty when you get there.