Newfoundlander living in Scotland. Political Scientist by profession. (Work tweets over at @afr_pol) [email protected]
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined February 2012
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A very happy family on the canal by the Ashley Terrace boathouse.
@fountainbridge
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Due to a medical emergency at Princes Street Tram stop, we will be running between Airport - West End and Picardy Place to Newhaven Only. Ticket acceptance is in place with Lothian Buses between Picardy Place and West End.
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Busy picket lines in the sun this morning with @ucuedinburgh as members strike to save jobs, stop £140m cuts and prevent compulsory redundancies. Rally at 11am at George Square, Edinburgh #StopTheCuts #NoCompulsoryRedundancies 🌞🌞
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Busy picket lines across the university today. @ucuedinburgh striking to save jobs and #StopTheCuts
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Herald coverage: Edinburgh university staff strike today as 1800 job losses threatened heraldscotland.com/news/2525…
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Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
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The Roseburn path is still closed, albeit it sounds like the cordon area has been reduced.
Going on four days Police have been carrying out enquiries but still no update on what it relates to.
Must be fairly significant to be putting so many resources into it though.
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Michelle Douglas was an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces with an exemplary service record.
Then, in 1989, she was suddenly dismissed because she was "not advantageously employable due to homosexuality".
Her court case changed Canadian history.
This is her story.
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ALT The photo shows Michelle Douglas, a woman dressed in a Canadian military uniform. She is wearing a blue jacket with a white shirt and a black tie, along with a shoulder cord and a badge featuring a maple leaf. The background includes the Canadian flag, indicating her association with the Canadian armed forces.
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Every bike shop in Edinburgh could tell you this.
It's a shame. It should be proper work that is a good story for cycling in cities and shouldn't be exploited (the work and the people) like this.
Britain’s food-delivery boom has spiralled into an industrial-scale backdoor for illegal workers, often operating from taxpayer-funded asylum hotels that have been transformed by criminal gangs into modern-day workhouses. Read my full article here: open.substack.com/pub/sadrab…
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These guys race along St John’s Road almost every night - it’s like clockwork. edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edi…
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Big changes this morning to the iceberg I’ve been photographing for the past couple of weeks. It’s in two parts this morning.
Bonavista, NL
#IceBerg #Newfoundland
Some absolutely stunning pics in this thread.
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Principal of University of Edinburgh, Sir Peter Mathieson flummoxed when asked his pay.
A 7.5% pay rise. Earning more than the Scottish First Minister and UK PM combined but still "not quite sure"
Meanwhile staff face £140m cuts @ucuedinburgh @UCUScotland
#ucu #StopTheCuts
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Old Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Taken from George Heriot’s school. Now the Quartermile and Edinburgh University Futures Institute. Vintage postcard.
looks like a good year for icebergs!
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Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor!
📸 Elizabeth Earle Photography | facebook.com/mermaidscape/
📌 Twillingate, NL
🗓 May 12, 2025
#nlwx
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As of yesterday's analysis, there are 459 icebergs near and around the shores of NL! #nlwx
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For me this is a nightmare and worst of all, virtually no-one I know realises this is about to happen. Trove doesn’t do what I need it to do so this is hugely disappointing.
Sad news, heritage heads. Canmore, Scran, and Scotland's Places are all being switched off on 24th June. All content will eventually be consolidated into trove.scot, but it's not the nicest thing to use.
historicenvironment.scot/abo…
