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George Williamson
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Associate Audio Director at R*, sound designer, cyclist, QA veteran, player of games, cinephile, etc. Any opinions are mine, and mine alone. Sounds good > clever
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gfzw.bsky.social
It's been a year where I've had too many friends lose their wee buddies, and my own is teetering, this made me burst into hot cathartic tears.

A lovely read, a tribute to the bonds that we make with these furry terrorists that deign to share their homes with us.
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d
I've taken the paywall off this eulogy I wrote for my magical, mysterious ex-stray cat George - who died last year - in case anybody would like a read.

It was very, very hard to write but I think it might be my favourite thing I’ve ever written about cats.

www.tom-cox.com/lots-of-peop...
My cat George (RIP) staring off into a misty Nottinghamshire morning, at the beginning of a short walk we took together in October 2015.
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
gfzw.bsky.social
Looking forward to the acid remix of this one!
whosthatgav.bsky.social ɢᴀᴠɪɴ @whosthatgav.bsky.social · 5d
The hair. The clothes. 🙌 #TheGenerationGame 📺
November 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
gfzw.bsky.social
Not even raining! Come on for a last hurrah for the year - ending at the causey with various fun things on! #hwfg
edcriticalmass.bsky.social Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social · 8d
Remember this is the last ride of the year. There is no ride in December so bring two month's worth of happy vibes!
A poster advertising a Critical Mass ride for 29th November
November 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
gfzw.bsky.social
Absolutely loved the Resistance exhibition at @nationalgalleries.bsky.social - inspirationally brave, angry, and persistent people who changed the world.

This picture of Rosa May Billinghurst was a favourite, but many great photographs of people fighting for good - incredibly moving.
Black and white photograph of Rosa May Billinghurst astride her tricycle, flanked by four policemen and other suffragettes in fine hats. She looks like an absolute boss.
November 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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edcriticalmass.bsky.social
The route map for this Saturday's ride

#CriticalMass #Edinburgh #cycling

@edi.bike
A map of central Edinburgh with a cycle route highlighted
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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xkcd.com
Car Size

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4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
It’s just the word ‘parallel’, all lowercase, but with the first ‘l’ slightly off the vertical.
April 14, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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spokes.org.uk
#Tram consultation - Spokes submission

--> www.spokes.org.uk/wp-content/u...

🙋 You have till midnight Monday for your own response!
HERE--> consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/tram-nor...

@edi.bike @edinreporter.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @thecockburn.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social
Intro... Tram, Granton to Bioquarter consultation Spokes Planning Group response, November 2025 1. Introduction Spokes has the objective of promoting cycling as part of an overall sustainable transport and access strategy. As such, we support a growing tram system for Edinburgh, provided cycling is well catered for in the project design and operation. The aim of the tram is to reduce car traffic, and to head off potential traffic growth in development areas such as Granton and the Bioquarter. If successful, this is a huge benefit to walking and cycling, as well as its benefits in terms of congestion, public health and climate. However, the project should be accompanied by complementary measures to further encourage use of public transport and active travel, for example bus gates, traffic filters, and, notably, congestion charging. It is well established that traffic reduction is best achieved by a carrot/stick combination. The tram project must support and promote active travel as a whole, and cycling in particular, and must not introduce additional dangers without effective mitigation. The Council has ambitious targets to increase cycle use, much of which must come from novice and inexperienced cyclists, as well as visitors and locals using an expanding bike hire scheme. As such it is essential that there is a safe, comprehensive and connected bike network of segregated bike lanes and low-traffic areas, easy and safe to use by anybody, and with any kind of cycles - including cargobikes, adapted bikes, hire bikes, etc. Introducing the tram should be seen and planned from the outset as an integrated sustainable transport place making project, not a tram-only project into which cycling and walking have to be slotted in once all the tramline decisions are taken as happened with tramline 1 and to a considerable (though lesser) extent in the Newhaven extension. The Bridges corridor is hugely problematic.. 8. City Centre to Bioquarter Top issues ● The section through North and South Bridges is of extreme concern to Spokes, with no cycle provision, new tramlines and continued through traffic on a road where width is at a premium. This is making cycling provision far worse than in the current bus lanes. The project should include a bus gate / modal filter (as was planned, though never implemented, as part of the Spaces for People proposals ) potentially single track sections (like at Roseburn) and fully segregated cycle provision, or consideration to tram tracks on one side of the road and a bidirectional bike path on the other. For the reasons in the following two bullet points, many cyclists will continue to use this corridor - our above section on Bikes and Tramlines notes that Princes Street as a good example of this, with many choosing not to use the quieter George Street when it is less direct or lacks desired destinations. Thus cycling conditions must be safe. ● Whilst alternative north-south routes for cycles are proposed in the consultation, these would not suit all journeys, with many cyclists using the Bridges to travel between South Edinburgh and Leith given the more suitable gradient and directness than the Mound. And whilst there is a brief reference to the proposed Meadows to George Street route on the west side of the Bridges, there is no reference to the east side, where the Mobility Plan suggests a new active travel bridge connecting from the Old Town to Leith Walk. Such projects must be an integral part of the tram project provision including during the construction phase, also providing a permanent legacy of improved provision once finished. ● The Bridges corridor is a major residential, shopping and destinations location, and many cyclists use it for that reason; indeed many live along or just off the corridor. Routes via the Mound or Pleasance are irrelevant as alternatives for these categories of user.… linking the North Ed Network to the new canal path without descending and re-ascending - a transformative opportunity - diagram. ● Connecting Roseburn to the new Canal link path - The sketch below shows a possible layout for this crucial linkage. The yellow dotted line shows a ramp down to Russell Road, but this is possibly optional if it would cause engineering difficulties, given that most people will stay at high level, whilst those needing to descend or ascend could do so at Roseburn or at the nearby ramp to the new canal path. Finally, we understand that earlier discussions with Network Rail did not meet objections to a bridge provided that all necessary clearances are achieved. Picture of single-track shopping-street tram in Amsterdam
November 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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riotgrlerin.bsky.social
florence pew: thread
Florence Pugh wearing an olive green dress with brown hair. Pews of the same color.
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't...

www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
The Village Message Board
Its authenticity was discredited because of his reputation, but also because he was quick with gin at the time and wearing an item of knitwear back to front.
www.tom-cox.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
gfzw.bsky.social
Laughs in cry.
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
gfzw.bsky.social
Absolutely haunting
October 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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wilboo72.bsky.social
I used to work at a small shop that made little plastic vampires.

There were only 2 of us working there, so I had to make every second count.
October 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"The gigantic ballroom, crocodile moat, and Hard Rock Cafe: White House will strengthen our standing on the global stage as a pillar of democratic ideals."
Donald Trump’s White House Ballroom Was Funded by Private Donors. Same Goes for the Crocodile Moat
Let us set the record straight: President Trump is not a king, and the White House is not a castle. To those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndr...
buff.ly
October 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
The best short ghost story ever.
The Men In The Turnip Field: an old Somerset story collected in Kevin Crossley-Holland's Folk Tales Of The British Isles
October 17, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
British.
October 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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paulisci.bsky.social
A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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October 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
gfzw.bsky.social
It's spooky month - I'd highly recommend grabbing if you want an atmospheric folk horror to kick start your seasonal heebie jeebies in fine style!
October 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
gfzw.bsky.social
Scowling satsumas!
A weirdly distorted photograph of a poster of an angry looking satsuma.
October 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Finally very nearly home after seeing Taylor Swift on her Eras Tour. 500 mile round trip. Took us all 438 days to walk back (might have been quicker but Beryl wanted to take a detour to see Hereford Cathedral). We are all very tired, but happy, and wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
October 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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peterdonaghy.bsky.social
The shortest distance across the border from England to Scotland is over 130 miles
Google AI Overview No, it's not possible to throw a paper plane from England to Scotland, as the flight distance between them is far greater than the maximum range of a paper airplane. The Guinness World Record for the longest distance flown by a paper airplane is only around 88 meters (290 feet), while the shortest distance across the border from England to Scotland is over 130 miles, requiring much more than a single throw. Here's why it's impossible: Distance: England and Scotland are separated by a significant landmass and body of water, with the narrowest points being over 100 miles wide.
September 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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spurtle.bsky.social
BROUGHTON GREY GONE MISSING IN BELLEVUE:—Please keep an eye out for American shorthair. Unafraid of heights. Respond either to family (contact details in image below) or Spurtle at spurtle@hotmail.co.uk
#Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #cat
September 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"The only appropriate time and place to ride a bike is a time beyond time and a place beyond place, where the space-time continuum is bent so strangely you are both everywhere and nowhere, eternal and nonexistent."
You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault
You were riding during rush hour. Why were you riding then? There are way too many cars on the road. If you were commuting, you should have contact...
buff.ly
September 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
gfzw.bsky.social
Fliers with dates for the year's rides - hit me up if you want some to give out!
edcriticalmass.bsky.social Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social · Sep 8
We have printed some new fliers with details of Critical Mass and scheduled rides.

Feel free to pick some up if you want to share them with friends, colleagues or the incoming student population!
A colourful poster detailing the planned critical mass ride dates
September 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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edinreporter.bsky.social
Witnesses sought after cyclist attacked on Blackhall Cycle Path

Police are appealing for information and witnesses after a cyclist was seriously assaulted on Blackhall Cycle Path, near to Davidson Mains, Edinburgh. The incident took place around 6.05pm on Tuesday, 2 September, 2025. The cyclist, a…
Witnesses sought after cyclist attacked on Blackhall Cycle Path
Police are appealing for information and witnesses after a cyclist was seriously assaulted on Blackhall Cycle Path, near to Davidson Mains, Edinburgh. The incident took place around 6.05pm on Tuesday, 2 September, 2025. The cyclist, a 46-year-old man, was cycling away from the Drylaw area on his green vintage-style Dutch bike. The suspect was riding an offroad dirt bike and is described as white, around 5ft 10 and slim build, but their gender is unknown.
theedinburghreporter.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM