Was actually the 1920's when the bridge was moved. This is history from the excellent @threadinburgh.scot with images and maps of the Fountainbridge area.
threadinburgh.scot/2022/09/18/t...
Can we go back to calling them robber barons?
I've had to doomscroll a long way down before I found a post I wanted to linger on.
sorry british media, sectarianism is OUR word
Still from a traffic webcam showing the sun just rising over the horizon with a hill silhouetted to the right
Watching the sunrise via the A720 traffic cams.
Alloa did also had a proper brewer. I remember Maclays being a decent pint. I think it was still brewing in 1987.
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“Despite their supposed victory in the Supreme Court last April, anti-trans campaigners like Sex Matters have encountered failure after failure in their attempts to use the law to bully trans people out of public life."
And If Sex Matters tries to bring another challenge, we’re ready to fight back.
"Universities are one of the last places where progressive politics will 'linger' as the country becomes more authoritarian — and [Maugham] speaks of well-funded right-wing organisations increasingly active on campuses...
“'We want to be there,' he says. 'We want to be helping.'"
Photo shows 5 Greenlandic women in their national dress with beaded yokes. In the late 1920s Norway sought to possess East Greenland. Norwegian knitting designer Annichen Sibbern Bøhn designed a sweater which mimicked the Greenlandic beaded yoke. And that's how yoked sweaters became a thing. 🧵
We DO have our very own vole though...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkney_...
Fun fact. We don't have squirrels in #Orkney.
A genuinely appalling response from the BBC, arrogantly contemptuous of the legal detail in favour of whatever misleading narrative their 'gender critical' friends have peddled them over lunch.
I made it to 1:30pm before I made the mistake of looking at the news. I mean, it's Saturday, still in the daft days after christmas. Nothing but trivial and inconsequential news right?
Head shot of RuMac, a ginger haired, bearded accordionist singing into a microphone. The picture is cast in red light
Last night I heard a version of Delilah, the like of which has not been seen since the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Brilliant.
RuMac at the Night Afore, Peat and Diesel gig in Princes St Gardens.
My photo shows a display of octopus-shaped funerary gold ornaments excavated from Grave IV, Grave Circle A, at ancient Mycenae, Greece. Each octopus is 6.8 cm wide and has seven writhing arms with suckers. The curled tips create small holes enabling them to be sewn onto fabric. They were probably sewn onto a funerary garment or shroud. Dated 1,500 BC. On display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens
Gold octopus-shaped ornaments from Bronze Age Mycenae, Grave IV, Grave Circle A.
The curled tips of the arms create eyelets for stitching the ornaments onto a garment or shroud some 3,500 years ago.
National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Re-posting with alt text because the post accompanying this is obviously wrong, it's clearly a picture of a woman on a Crosscountry train having found a place to sit on the floor and read, her coffee cup beside her, folks queuing for the loo behind her
“This is a moment that requires bravery. Organisations that value trans people should know not just that the law is on their side – but so, also, are many people who will step up to defend them if they have the courage to take a stand” – @jessothomson.co.uk
https://bit.ly/44CyMa3
The line our disgraceful press NEVER quotes from the For (Some) Women Scotland decision finally gets its day in the sun.
Screenshot of a paragraph from the judgment, with the final sentence highlighted: “797. After that comment the court explained that a person with gender reassignment as a protected characteristic could pursue a claim of direct or indirect discrimination, or of harassment, if the circumstances so warranted. There was no qualification to it to the effect that that was not applicable in, for example, the context of a single sex space under Part 5 of the Act. If their decision had been that all trans persons must be excluded from the changing rooms or toilets for the sex they identify with because it was not the sex assigned at birth, and may also be excluded from the changing rooms or toilets of their biological sex, that in our view certainly does impact on their rights under section 7.”
Today’s judgment in the Sandie Peggie case says exactly what we have been saying – For Women Scotland does not require a trans bathroom ban:
Oh damn, Pantone can paint a room but can’t read one
Christmas Fayre – Tomorrow from 11am!
Join us at the Visitor Centre for community celebration packed with festive cheer!
Stalls & Gifts
Fundraising Fun
Festive Treats - home-baking, deluxe hot chocolate, mulled punch.
Craft Activities
• Wreath Making – £10
• Crafts for Adults & Children – £5
I count this as a small token of good news today.
BBC News - Woman loses sex discrimination case after toilet complaint
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Contact us if you have been affected by the policy changes of Girl Guiding or the Women's Institute. This could be as an individual, or because you lead a local Brownie group who don't want this policy change. We want to help protect trans inclusion.
goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
Peak Guardian.
Not that it matters....
You really need to read this whole thread on how AI is never going to "create meaningful literature", but I really wanted to highlight this phrase so I'm reposting from halfway down.
"It can plaster a deep fake smile onto the corpse of zombie capitalism".
I think I need to stitch this into a tapestry.
Alice Wong, an Asian-American woman with dark hair sitting in an electric wheelchair, wearing a biPap machine and a camo jacket, is posed next to Gaelynn Lea, a white woman with brown hair sitting in an electric wheelchair wearing a bright pink dress. This was the first time they met, at an event at the San Francisco library.
My heart is heavy as I reflect on the passing of Alice Wong. She was bold, unapologetic & unflinchingly honest—yet compassionate, kind & fiercely loving + supportive of the disability community. I'm grateful to have met her briefly & for her writing, advocacy & example for living. Shine on, Alice. 🕯️
Photo of a handmade, quilted and sashiko-stitched phone case.
My phone is boring but its cozy sleeping bag is not.
