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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 1d

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 1d

The Cure ❌
The Charlatans❌
Stone Roses ❌
KLF ❌
The Farm ❌
Technotronics Megagmix ✔️

Inexplicable!
#totp

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 2d

They had opened a second bagel business before the first one went into receivership. Sold a lot of the first one's assets to the second at a knock down price and tried to carry on. Then the second one, surprisingly, went bust. (As I understand it)

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The Edinburgh Reporter @edinreporter.bsky.social · 3d

Liquidator of Bross Bagels confirms determined effort to recover director’s loans has proved futile – file closed!
Biggest loser is UK taxpayer – left with £635,000 tab in unpaid VAT, PAYE and National Insurance theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2025/10/bros...

Bross Bagels creditors get a "hole" lot of nothing - official report into £1m debt

Creditors of the failed Bross Bagels chain which crashed with debts of almost £1 million will not receive a penny, the official liquidator has confirmed. Losers in the one-time feted bakery business i...

theedinburghreporter.co.uk

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 3d

What?

Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 3d

Cartoon image of newspaper article with headline 'Old Man Yells at Cloud' and a picture of an old man yelling at a cloud.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 6d

Expecting a broadly similar experience at Ocean Terminal next week.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 8d

[Jeff Goldblum voice] infrastructure, uh, finds a way.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 8d

Close the VeloViewer tab and back quietly away. It's for your own good.

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greent1875.bsky.social @greent1875.bsky.social · 10d

It is with sadness that Stevie Carr has to announce that the Dnipro Kids minibus was stolen last week from Seaview/Edinburgh Road at Joppa. The registration in BL15FUH and if anyone has seen it, or can remember seeing it elsewhere over the past week, please get in touch.
Please share.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 10d

I cycled past it lying in The Coalie not 30 mins ago, and only just managed to resist stopping to check out if it was salvageable or not.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 12d

When you going to be arsed enough to come to Edinburgh?

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 13d

Edinburgh - 'Hold my beer!'

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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 15d

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 20d

New map of 'easy cycle rides from Portobello' installed outside the PATH container on Porty Prom - The Meadows, Leith, Fort Kinaird and QMU.
Courtesy of @portyenergy.bsky.social

Display board on Portobello prom with custom map showing some easy cycle routes starting at the board.

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Modern Toss @moderntoss.bsky.social · 21d

service not includedservice not included

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 22d

John Peel, sitting at his DJ console, says "that was the housmartins, up next, the new single from Pink Footed Geese"

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 26d

Scenes at Reform HQ.

Stoning scene from The Life of Brian. Cleric asks 'are there any Tories here today? Crowd, disguised in obviously fake beards, all say 'no'.

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · Sep 8

It's absolutely insane to us that anyone still uses Twitter. You don't have to. You can just stop. It was a *massive* part of our growth but you can just let it go. However important your business is to you, it's less important than this:

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Sep 7

Elon Musk has *personally*posted in favour of the racist remigration agenda of the maximalist racist abusing the Home Secretary with this on X & endlessly posting racist harassment on X

This should be a story.
It should be a scandal.
Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 27d

A Seagull.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 28d

No exceptions in Edinburgh, but enforcement is almost entirely focused on revenue protection (paid parking and permit bays) and very little on public safety and amenity issues like this.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 28d

Mobile cinema, #Porty Prom.

Small red caravan on Porty Prom, sign on side says 'Moving Images'. Chalkboard next to it says it's a solar powered cinema, part of Porty Artwalk, and gives show times.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 29d

Gone! They were cutting into the stairwell just before lunch today. Hoped they might only make it as far as the tiled wall by the end of the day, and leave it exposed, but when I came back late afternoon, the wall had gone and the elephant with it.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 29d

Sadly, the bollards do not appear to have deterred the selfish bastards at all.

Car parked fully the pavement at a raised table crossing, partially on the tactile slabs marking the crossing. A newly installed bollard nearby is not enough to prevent the parking.

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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · Sep 10

They finally made some improvements to to a junction around Abercorn park, a kid was badly injured there a while back. They put in some build outs and a table crossing. Drivers just starting parking on it. They've had to put bollards in to try and deter the selfish bastards!

Three pictures of cars parked on the pavement of a built out crossing, two of them blocking the tactile crossing markers.

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