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calderwook.bsky.social
Calder
@calderwook.bsky.social
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Disabled and mostly found bumbling about Edinburgh on a cargo bike or walking my dogs

Trees make things better.
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The system that was hurricane Melissa passed over the shetlands about a week ago.

There is another two low pressures systems behind this one.
A weather chart from wx charts of Europe showing a big low pressure system that's pushed the band of rain across the UK..
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Someone is going to get hurt here at somepoint due to drivers being predictably selfish.

Could do with few more bollards for sure.
A blue Audi is parked on double yellow lines forcing any cyclists using the cycle lane to swerve out. A van also parked not in a proper space blocks drivers from being able to see the cyclists emerging to the last second. A blue Audi is parked on double yellow lines forcing any cyclists using the cycle lane to swerve out. A van also parked not in a proper space blocks drivers from being able to see the cyclists emerging to the last second.
November 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
calderwook.bsky.social
We have one over here in Scotland that might be in the running.
From the National Trust for Scotland | A rather chubby Grey Squirrel sits in Geilston Garden, Cardross on a mound of acorns while clutching some in his tiny paws.
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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It is the season of beard decorations for schnauzers indeed.
Two miniature schnauzers, one back and one white, sit on a tree stump in an autumnal scene. They are both sitting and posing with a single brown lead stuck in their beards.
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Made a new #fungifriends in the form of a shaggy ink cap.

It's edible but I'm not brave enough or confident enough in my identification skills.
Coprinus comatus, the shaggy ink cap, lawyer's wig, or shaggy mane. It's an white edible mushroom with a shaggy skin with brown fleks. The head is oblong above a short stem. The grass it sits in is full of autumn leafs.
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Also the Isle of Mull is awesome but bit harder to get to. The trip up to Oban is through wonderfully scenery is compensation though.

Camping at Calgary Bay is one of my favourite memories.
A view of Calgary Bay on the Isle of Mull from a hill above. The crystal clear waters look tropical next to white sands. The shoreline gives way to the rising hills on the far side.
October 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Any comment on the fact his concerns are race baiting in nature and pandering to racist beliefs about keeping undesirable away from natives and not about the humane treatment of desperate people?
Angus MacDonald MP @angusmacdonaldld.bsky.so... I'm deeply concerned by reports that the UK Government plans to house up to 300 migrants at Cameron Barracks in Inverness. This site is surrounded by residential houses and is only a ten-minute walk from the High Street - it's simply not an appropriate or secure location. Inverness's Liberal Democrat MP Angus MacDonald told the BBC he supported the use of military sites to house asylum seekers, but that the chosen base seemed "a bit odd" given it is in the town centre. "It's effectively the same," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, adding that to his knowledge it was an open barracks without security. "I very much thought the idea of putting them in army camps was to have them out of town, and make them less of an issue for the local population."
October 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
calderwook.bsky.social
So you didn't actually share Angus's concerns when you said you did? It's not like he was unclear.
This might be a bit more believable if you actually called him out on the racism rather than pretending it didn't happen.
Angus MacDonald MP @angusmacdonaldld.bsky.so... I'm deeply concerned by reports that the UK Government plans to house up to 300 migrants at Cameron Barracks in Inverness. This site is surrounded by residential houses and is only a ten-minute walk from the High Street - it's simply not an appropriate or secure location. Inverness's Liberal Democrat MP Angus MacDonald told the BBC he supported the use of military sites to house asylum seekers, but that the chosen base seemed "a bit odd" given it is in the town centre. "It's effectively the same," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, adding that to his knowledge it was an open barracks without security. "I very much thought the idea of putting them in army camps was to have them out of town, and make them less of an issue for the local population."
October 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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What is concerning about people fleeing war and persecution being house near amenities? Would you prefer a more secure camp in the middle of nowhere with double barbed wire fences with guard towers?
Majdanek death camp Postwar. Wooden huts with small chimneys stretching into the distance and double barbed wire fence also stretches into the distance.
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Today's harvest is rather colourful!
A red metal trolly full of squashes and pumpkins. At the rear is a bucket of mini. pumpkins. It is a kaleidoscope of colours. A metal tray is covered in bright red and rather hot chillies. It's on a table with other containers. Apples are visible in one.
October 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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There isn't any Russian dissidents in Corstorphine right?
A large discarded bottle of perfume is sitting in the grass next a green metal fence amongst fallen autumnal leaves.
October 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
calderwook.bsky.social
It's the one when Ted dresses up!
Ted the dog from Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone fishing sat at a table dressed in a tuxedo.
October 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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I'm really looking forward to seeing his show next month.
The poster for David Olgusogs stage show A Gun Through Time. He's pictured with a Thompson sub machine gun standing next to a Lee Enfield rifle leaning against a maxim machine gun.
October 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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See the renaming of sustrans to the rambling title of @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social is reaching the people that matter...
Facebook screenshot of roasters discussing local improvements that aren't for cars. First poster: "Let me guess, cycle lanes, parking space removal, complete disregard for public opinion?" 2nd person replies: "Absolutely. But people must respond to these so called consultations - strongly disagreeing to the more ludicrous proposals (and there are plenty of them) can only help. I also suggested disbanding the Transport Committee as being a waste of time and cutting all funding to Sustrans or whoever they are claiming to be now - fat chance of either of these "excellent"proposals being accepted of course."
October 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I think my feed is trying to scare me.
An npr post that starts with the slightly concerning sentence, "a single nuclear missile of unknown origin is heading towards mainland USA" before revealing they are talking about a film. The post below is a first look at North Koreas new ICBM.
October 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Is it still PTSD if the trauma is still happening?

It's so fucking shit, I'm sorry.

Ever had a Scottish Snowball?
A pile of home made Scottish snowballs sit on a pink plate. They are round and covered in coconut.
October 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Can you guess what the bright object is in the hands of this professional driver for Pollock Transport is?

Seems that @policescotland.bsky.social aren't really discouraging the behaviour with their 0.06% daily detection rate for mobile phone use while driving.
A Pollock Transport truck with its green and red tractor unit and red curtain sided articulated trailer is pictured driving through an urban road junction, With the railing and the lights of a pedestrian crossing in the foreground. While blurry, there is a bright object in the hands of the driver that was seen to be a mobile phone that he was checking as he drove along the road.
October 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
calderwook.bsky.social
The later HMS Swift was a bit more swift till it wasn't.
HMS Swift, S Class destroyer founders of sword beach after hitting a mine. Her bow and stern protude from the water, her keel broken. The mine was placed the night before by an E boat at HMS Algonquin's anchor buoy. She had taken Swifts place on Operation Decoy due damage suffered by air attack.
October 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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So if you are a useless eater you can get fucked is the subtext.
Poster published by Neues Volk ("New People"), a magazine published monthly by the Rassepolitischen Amt der NSDAP (Office of Racial Policy of the Nazi Party), while they were in power; the magazine was founded in 1933. The poster says: "60 000 RM is what this person suffering from hereditary illness costs the community in his lifetime. Fellow citizen, that is your money too. Read Neues Volk. The monthly magazine of the Office of Racial Policy of the NSDAP." Date c. 1937
September 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
calderwook.bsky.social
This year's pumpkin harvest is quite photogenic.
A selection of polar bear pumpkins with one fire ball pumpkin sit on a wooden table, in front a pear tree in a garden. There is a selection of mini pumpkins at the front of the table.
September 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Here is the lovely employee displaying his company ethos in full.
A Dingbros delivery driver throwing his door open moments before he calls me a mongoloid for daring to suggest his actions are selfish and dangerous.
September 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Starting to reconcider not sending the Dingbros driver giving me ableist abuse, at this exact spot, to the Evening News and Edinburgh Live.

Think a few extra bollards are required.
A Dingbros red delivery van is illegally parked on double yellow lines blocking the cycle lane. An orange van is also illegally parked further on blocking both the pavement and the cycle lane.
September 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Task completed unsuccessfully. Sigh.
A cracked pain of reinforced glass sits atop wooden beading that held it in place in a door.
September 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Guess this is the best I can hope for, sigh.

Complained to Network Rail about the signage being fully on and blocking the pavements as they will be there till next summer.
A yellow diversion end sign is placed half on the pavement and half on the road. Weighed down as two white sand bags. A cone marks it as a hazard for road users.
September 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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For the poor kids it would be their jobs.

For the rich kids, they got a hoop.
An illustration of a young boy engaging in hoop trundling. A large hoop is up right and being guided by a stick in the child's hand.
September 16, 2025 at 2:16 AM