I wonder when they’ll come to deal with all the double parked cars at Warrender Park / Marchmont Rd junction.

Training "courses" that have to be completed regardless of someone's competence on "IT security" and "unconscious bias". And then some more forms.

And that's before we get into the madness that is the peer review system that has been subverted into cash cows for Springer and Elsevier.

Simple things like booking conference travel now accompanied by risk assessment forms (for a conference in Paris or Oxford)... and booked via strange, inefficient agencies. Laptops for work centrally managed adding a layer of inflexibility for doing research.

The classic “George Watson’s” rat run, which is currently severed by modal filters at Braid Ave. The council plan to reopen* this rat run, thereby effectively closing it to children walking, wheeling and cycling

Shameful stuff, that goes against all council policy

Bluesky seems to be where it’s at.

I don’t think they realise that “blame Canada” was a joke not advice im South Park.

From what I’ve seen mainly a stepping stop to synthetic hydrocarbons (synthetic jet fuels long term energy storage as storing hydrogen itself is a pain - tiny molecules). Then there are bunch of industrial processes (ammonia) that need it (but can’t find link) even steel production.