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Stephen Greenhorn
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Word Monkey
Edinburgh
Passing Places. Glasgow Kiss. River City. Marchlands. Doctor Who. Sunshine on Leith. Dalgliesh. Around The World in 80 Days. Dept Q.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1114104/
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I'm truly going to become the Joker, this is infuriating, just infuriating! Why is Scotland not being polled when the Parliament responsible for over £60bn of public spending every year is up for election in May! The UK's political media attention environment has absolutely lost it!
I've been running this project since 2018, so let's compare:

2025: 1 or 2 polls from 1 or 2 firms (BBS does not cover FindOutNow polls, hence the or)
2024: 3 polls from 2 firms
2023: 4 from 4
2022: 6 from 4
2021: 4 from 4
2020: 8 from 5 <- We are here in this cycle
2019: 3 from 2
2018: 5 from 2
December 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Water of Leith #Edinburgh
December 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Storm clouds gather over MARILYN MONROE on location shooting

THE MISFITS (1960)

📷 by Eve Arnold
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Musk is a cunt
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Only just heard the very sad news about Tom Stoppard’s passing. He was an incredible playwright and screenwriter. ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’ immediately spring to mind, of course, but also loved ‘Rock ‘n Roll’ and ‘Arcadia.’ What a legacy of brilliant work he’s left in his wake.
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Having caught MBV in Glasgow this week, can say Louder Than War seems the most appropriate site to review this tour!
November 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Every day we have to be reminded that the UK has the most abjectly feudal, let-them-eat-cake-ass media on the planet.
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.
Radcliffe and Maconie on BBC 6 music is one of my favourite things

Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*

New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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macy’s thanksgiving day parade
1988

elliott erwitt
November 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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A new report has examined programming on UK stages since the Covid pandemic + sounds alarm on the impact on new plays

Find out more, including our response:

writersguild.org.uk/report-sound...
Report sounds alarm on impact of pandemic on new plays - The Writers' Guild of Great Britain
A new report has examined programming on UK stages since the Covid pandemic. The British Theatre Consortium report, British Theatre Before & After Covid, examines 2019, the last full year before …
writersguild.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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The thread about the Singing Street; skipping, hopping, dancing and birling through the backgreens and streets of 1950s Edinburgh

This thread marks a double milestone for Threadinburgh, it is the 300th post since the first in September 2022 and the visit counter just ticked past the 500,000 mark!…
The thread about the Singing Street; skipping, hopping, dancing and birling through the backgreens and streets of 1950s Edinburgh
This thread marks a double milestone for Threadinburgh, it is the 300th post since the first in September 2022 and the visit counter just ticked past the 500,000 mark! I'm marking this occasion by finally chalking something off my to-do list that has been there far too long. Perhaps by providence, I recently acquired a little booklet self-described as "a Merry-Ma-Tanzie of Skipping, Hiding, Hopping, Birling, Stotting, Playing and Dancing Rhymes". The Singing Street, to give it its name, was the accompaniment to a 1951 amateur film with the same title. Described by The Scotsman as "a wonderful picture of Edinburgh - as true perhaps as has ever been put on the screen", it turns seventy-five next year. It's all too easy to treat its "astonishingly evocative scenes" as a pure nostalgia trip back to an Edinburgh which has disappeared into living memory, but this was never the intent of the film. It is so much more than just a skip and a hop down memory lane, so let's celebrate it by telling the tale of how and why it came to be and by recognising its importance as a piece of a wider archival work. Once that is out the way shall we step scene-by-scene and song-by-song, back to the streets of 1950s Edinburgh to compare them with the present day.
threadinburgh.scot
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Don't know if you'd be interested in a bit of work on Saturday 1st July, they're booking people to roam around in wild animal costumes uptown.
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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75 Candles 🎂 today for TINA WEYMOUTH
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Out end of Jan '26 from @canongate.co.uk is the 3rd Rilke novel, THE CUT UP. Rilke's like a gay, Glaswegian Philip Marlowe; rumpled, morally righteous but legally dubious. & Welsh's stripped back prose sings. Absolutely superb, as always, from the awesome @louisewelsh00.bsky.social. (read via e-arc)
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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It will take literally one court case where a company gets sued by a cis person for denying them access to toilets on suspicion of being trans for this all to fall apart.

And this guidance makes that case inevitable.
"We've had a complaint that another customer thinks you might not be a 'real woman'. There's no way for us to prove they're wrong so you can't use the toilet. No you can't use that toilet either. No we don't need to provide an alternative, there's not enough space."
November 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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frankly ridiculous proposal from @dundeecitycouncil.bsky.social here. 100% funding cuts worth £286,000. An astonishing sum of money for any regional theatre to make up for, would lead to a fight for the very survival of Dundee Rep, absolutely mad

www.thestage.co.uk/news/dundee-...
Dundee Rep facing ‘brutal’ potential 100% council funding cut
Dundee Rep is facing a proposed 100% cut to its council funding, in a move that has been labelled ‘brutal’ by actor Brian Cox
www.thestage.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Hang that in the Louvre!
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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The Corran ferry, which crosses Loch Linnhe south of Fort William and gives access to Morvern, Moidart and Ardnamurchan, waiting for customers at Nether Lochaber on the sort of wintry night that makes you long for summer. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Highland #Lochaber
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Marie Howe
God what a poem.

From Marie Howe's book, What the Living Do: bookshop.org/a/862/9780393318869

#poem #booksky #writing
November 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM