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Osbert Lancaster

@osbert.realise.earth

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Specialist facilitator. Host of Leadership for Sustainability podcast. Improv performer. Netwalking for purpose led professionals. 📍Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland https://heylo.group/realise-earth < netwalking https://improv.earth/ < playing

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Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · Oct 18

Hello new, and ‘old’, Bskyers!

I’m into how we make change happen for sustainability.

Been working with sustainability leaders and organisations for c.20 yrs.

My focus is on helping leaders turn colleagues and/stakeholders into active allies – and work together better – to make change happen.

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Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 1h

A Londoner told me he had a friend who lived in Cor-store-phine.

To be fair, this issue applies to about 80% of UK place names.

Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 1h

And this is how AI will take over everything.

Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 1h

I imagine the manosphere might think that about votes for women.

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Community Land Scotland @communitylandsc.bsky.social · 18h

Spend on the Scottish Land Fund over almost 25 years is less than the cost of 1 mile of the Edinburgh tramline. It's time to celebrate the incredible levels of regeneration it's achieved and think about an increase in investment in the next Scottish Parliament www.heraldscotland.com/news/2552487...

Calls to accelerate funding for community buyouts in Scotland

Land reform campaigners and community landowners have called for a £25 million annual fund to maintain Scotland’s "world-beating"…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 16h

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Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 19h

Hello Edinburgh!

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 20h

"Make cities safe and fun for kids to run around and play in" is a pretty good guiding light for urban planning

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

A victory for FAST leadership.

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Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 19h

Did people really get older younger then, or did they just seem older when we were young?

I keep seeing events and services for "older people, 50+". I'm not old, I'm only 62!

Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 22h

There's probably people thinking right now: What a bad idea that turned out to be.

Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 23h

There’s a great improv game here!

Keith DEADinburgh @keithdedin.bsky.social · 1d

I still dream of one day setting up the Completely Fabricated Edinburgh Walking Tour.

“This traffic cone marks the spot where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invented the Cocker Spaniel”

and that kind of thing.

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Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 1d

cf sustainable!

Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 1d

Train stations? Check out trainable.world Cycle to Brunstane and the world is your oyster!

trainable | Discover places to visit within reach of train stations

Discover castles, gardens, walks, sports venues and attractions within walking distance of train stations across the Lothians, Fife and the Borders. Your Edinburgh day-trip planning starts here.

trainable.world

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Holyrood @holyroodmag.bsky.social · 1d

Murdo Fraser has been reported to the police after he called for “no more” Buddhists as Rangers manager. www.holyrood.com/news/view,mu...

Murdo Fraser reported to police after calling for ‘no more Buddhists' as Rangers manager

Murdo Fraser made the comment on social media following the sacking of the team’s manager Russell martin last weekend, a...

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Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 1d

I don’t see it as necessarily mutually exclusive. Nature healing itself can be a powerful metaphor or narrative to engage and inspire some people in some circumstances - in my experience.

Then “what works?”

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Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 1d

4 doesn’t make sense?!

Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 1d

You too, huh?

Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 1d

She doesn’t specify, but obviously …
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Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 1d

Finished this. Brilliant, highly recommended if you want to understand more not just about Islam, and about British society.

Imagine if every time a terrorist with a Christian background committed an outrage, everyone of Christian heritage across the world was targeted as terror suspects.

Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 12d

Half way through and thoroughly impressed by @tawseefkhan.bsky.social ‘s book Muslim Actually.

Having spent a lot of my childhood in Muslim culture, the book is an eye opener into how badly misrepresented Islam and Muslims are in the West.

atlantic-books.co.uk/book/muslim-...

Muslim, Actually – Atlantic Books

atlantic-books.co.uk

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Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 5d

"The world's so crazy, sometimes you want to cry."
"Yes, and sometimes it's so weird you've got to laugh."

Want to play with us? Ask me!

Graphic with a photo of the poster and the words: Love long form improv? Work for people & planet? Live in Edinburgh? Ask me about joining our team!

Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 1d

In the Thatcher years, whenever a Tory minister came on TV or radio, my father would say some variation of: “I was at school with him, little sh!t, he was the main drugs dealer in such and such house” or “he procured junior boys for the upper sixth” etc.

More innocent days.

Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 1d

Mike in excellent form here!

Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 1d

The Haunted House of Late Britain
open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

The Haunted House of Late Britain

Late Britain is like one giant haunted house, with ghosts everywhere.

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Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 1d

I love the idea too (especially as I live in Portobello), but it's a good point: What problem is this a solution to?

Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 2d

There are of course exceptions, but Edinburgh’s bus drivers seem to be pretty good around cyclists. I believe Lothian Buses gives special attention to this in their training, or at all used to.

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 2d

What happens when, potentially, most of the UK population is breaking the law? Can government even function at that point? asks Stewart Bremner ...

bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/06/h...

Hyper-Normalisation and the Criminalistion of Protest

The UK government is planning to clamp down even harder on peaceful protest against the genocide in Gaza. Given their support of the Israel — through the supply of weapons parts, troop training and…

bellacaledonia.org.uk

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Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 2d

Also: Knowledge ≠ Wisdom

Osbert Lancaster @osbert.realise.earth · 2d

So mild here in central Edinburgh this morning.

Sun in a mainly clear blue sky over a hill with rocks long grass and a path and gorse bushes and a dog.