Peoples Republic of Leith
@prleith.bsky.social
Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy
(same display name and similar handle in the other place)
(same display name and similar handle in the other place)
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Great turn out at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally at the Scottish Parliament!
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Great turn out at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally at the Scottish Parliament!
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
I started regular listening to Melvyn Bragg and IOT back episodes after June 2016, when I couldn't bear BBC news anymore.
September 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I started regular listening to Melvyn Bragg and IOT back episodes after June 2016, when I couldn't bear BBC news anymore.
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On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision
September 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision
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spanish people and especially basque people do NOT play about Palestine
September 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
spanish people and especially basque people do NOT play about Palestine
Post-'67 'two state' solutions have never really been plausible, for the same reason(s) that the '47 partition plan was never going to work.
Neither side can be expected to relinquish land, voluntarily, in the service of a notional political settlement.
Neither side can be expected to relinquish land, voluntarily, in the service of a notional political settlement.
September 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Post-'67 'two state' solutions have never really been plausible, for the same reason(s) that the '47 partition plan was never going to work.
Neither side can be expected to relinquish land, voluntarily, in the service of a notional political settlement.
Neither side can be expected to relinquish land, voluntarily, in the service of a notional political settlement.
"British politics is stuck in a post-Brexit doom loop, addicted to spectacle politics and unable to engage with its actual problems"
As good an interpretation of the current moment as anything else I've seen.
As good an interpretation of the current moment as anything else I've seen.
Still on the EHCR are we?
British politics is stuck in a post-Brexit doom loop, addicted to spectacle politics and unable to engage with its actual problems: the sclerotic post-GFC economy that has seen real wages stagnate and increasing inability of government to invest in public services.
British politics is stuck in a post-Brexit doom loop, addicted to spectacle politics and unable to engage with its actual problems: the sclerotic post-GFC economy that has seen real wages stagnate and increasing inability of government to invest in public services.
September 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"British politics is stuck in a post-Brexit doom loop, addicted to spectacle politics and unable to engage with its actual problems"
As good an interpretation of the current moment as anything else I've seen.
As good an interpretation of the current moment as anything else I've seen.
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Here's what a no go zone in England *really* looks like.
The village of Dean has entered a lockdown for the imminent arrival of US vice-president JD Vance. All entrances to the village (between Chipping Norton and Charlbury) are closed to non-residents, with police stationed at every road and even footpath.
August 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Here's what a no go zone in England *really* looks like.
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Firefighters are battling a large blaze on Edinburgh’s Arthur’s Seat, working through thick smoke as the fire spreads downhill.
The public is urged to avoid the area.
The fire has been burning for over two hours.
#Edinburgh #ArthursSeat
The public is urged to avoid the area.
The fire has been burning for over two hours.
#Edinburgh #ArthursSeat
August 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Firefighters are battling a large blaze on Edinburgh’s Arthur’s Seat, working through thick smoke as the fire spreads downhill.
The public is urged to avoid the area.
The fire has been burning for over two hours.
#Edinburgh #ArthursSeat
The public is urged to avoid the area.
The fire has been burning for over two hours.
#Edinburgh #ArthursSeat
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Interventions | Caring for Cats in Cairo: Urban Grammars of Compassion
By Amira Mittermaier
👉 www.ijurr.org/article/cari...
By Amira Mittermaier
👉 www.ijurr.org/article/cari...
August 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Interventions | Caring for Cats in Cairo: Urban Grammars of Compassion
By Amira Mittermaier
👉 www.ijurr.org/article/cari...
By Amira Mittermaier
👉 www.ijurr.org/article/cari...
A particularly shoddy attempt at a 'hit piece' against Mamdani.
The NYT continues to astonish and appall ...
The NYT continues to astonish and appall ...
July 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
A particularly shoddy attempt at a 'hit piece' against Mamdani.
The NYT continues to astonish and appall ...
The NYT continues to astonish and appall ...
"Thousands of properties going up without access to playgrounds, community infrastructure and even doctors."
The underlying problem with both Abundance and the Starmer government's 'get Britain building': what actually gets built?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The underlying problem with both Abundance and the Starmer government's 'get Britain building': what actually gets built?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘No shops, no schools’: homes in England built without basic amenities
Thousands of properties going up without access to playgrounds, community infrastructure and even doctors
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
"Thousands of properties going up without access to playgrounds, community infrastructure and even doctors."
The underlying problem with both Abundance and the Starmer government's 'get Britain building': what actually gets built?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The underlying problem with both Abundance and the Starmer government's 'get Britain building': what actually gets built?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Saw this plaque yesterday at Jedburgh Abbey (in Scotland), and thought of you folks @neorsd.org ..
July 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Saw this plaque yesterday at Jedburgh Abbey (in Scotland), and thought of you folks @neorsd.org ..
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Next time you visit York, take note of this carving of a plague doctor outside York Minster Cathedral. It was recently carved out of magnesian limestone to replace figures eroded by time, as part of the ongoing restoration of the East Front. I love this little fellow.
July 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Next time you visit York, take note of this carving of a plague doctor outside York Minster Cathedral. It was recently carved out of magnesian limestone to replace figures eroded by time, as part of the ongoing restoration of the East Front. I love this little fellow.
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Sewers up there with refrigeration and vaccination in the annals of life-saving public health investment
#Boston built one of the first public sewer systems in the country between 1877 and 1884. This is an example of the first gen of the covers. Only a handful left. #manholecovermonday
June 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Sewers up there with refrigeration and vaccination in the annals of life-saving public health investment
But road navigation is not exclusive to drivers!
When cycling close to home, I rely mainly on a mix of mental mapping, routinisation and landmarks. Strava, Garmin etc are mainly useful for keeping track of distance, exertion and similar.
When cycling close to home, I rely mainly on a mix of mental mapping, routinisation and landmarks. Strava, Garmin etc are mainly useful for keeping track of distance, exertion and similar.
I’m legit really interested in the various answers to this question, as a tech historian—even as an oldie who drove in the before times—because tbh I think it differed (significantly?) according to household and individual. People did have different strategies, and I think we don’t as much now?
I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time
June 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
But road navigation is not exclusive to drivers!
When cycling close to home, I rely mainly on a mix of mental mapping, routinisation and landmarks. Strava, Garmin etc are mainly useful for keeping track of distance, exertion and similar.
When cycling close to home, I rely mainly on a mix of mental mapping, routinisation and landmarks. Strava, Garmin etc are mainly useful for keeping track of distance, exertion and similar.
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Koshary, one of the most satisfying starch foods you will eat.
May 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Koshary, one of the most satisfying starch foods you will eat.
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Check-in proceeding slowly ..
May 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Check-in proceeding slowly ..
But pointing back to earlier understandings of politics (mid c20th), in which political parties -- rather than public opinion --mediated electorate - government relations.
File under “Welp, that’s us fucked, then.”
May 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
But pointing back to earlier understandings of politics (mid c20th), in which political parties -- rather than public opinion --mediated electorate - government relations.
TBF, poli sci comparativists and democratisation scholars were very careful to avoid such claims (at least through the 1990s).
But since the 1980s, 'democratisation' has been leveraged in some very dodgy ways.
But since the 1980s, 'democratisation' has been leveraged in some very dodgy ways.
It's become almost commonplace to say that the promise of democracy is that it will deliver higher standards of living.
But that was never the claim made by the Chartists, the women's suffrage movement or those who struggled to win democracy in the past.
And it's a bad test to set for the present.
But that was never the claim made by the Chartists, the women's suffrage movement or those who struggled to win democracy in the past.
And it's a bad test to set for the present.
May 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
TBF, poli sci comparativists and democratisation scholars were very careful to avoid such claims (at least through the 1990s).
But since the 1980s, 'democratisation' has been leveraged in some very dodgy ways.
But since the 1980s, 'democratisation' has been leveraged in some very dodgy ways.
In addition to the campiness, it's almost like Trump is a time traveller from the (middle brow) 1970s.
You could probably get a fair amount of socio-cultural leverage with a framing which included Laurence Welk, Liberace, _Mad Magazine_ etc
You could probably get a fair amount of socio-cultural leverage with a framing which included Laurence Welk, Liberace, _Mad Magazine_ etc
A thought just occurred to me that crystallized something about Trump's style of political theater:
In the same way that Hopper was the painter of the pandemic, Genet is the playwright of Trumpism. I'm thinking of The Balcony in particular.
Pasolini's Salo comes to mind, as does Jarry's Ubu.
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In the same way that Hopper was the painter of the pandemic, Genet is the playwright of Trumpism. I'm thinking of The Balcony in particular.
Pasolini's Salo comes to mind, as does Jarry's Ubu.
🧵
May 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In addition to the campiness, it's almost like Trump is a time traveller from the (middle brow) 1970s.
You could probably get a fair amount of socio-cultural leverage with a framing which included Laurence Welk, Liberace, _Mad Magazine_ etc
You could probably get a fair amount of socio-cultural leverage with a framing which included Laurence Welk, Liberace, _Mad Magazine_ etc
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Delighted to see that this is now available! It's a great read and fascinating. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.hurstpublishers.com/book/comrade...
January 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Delighted to see that this is now available! It's a great read and fascinating. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.hurstpublishers.com/book/comrade...