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As Tears Go By, we say goodbye to the iconic Girl on a Motorbike. RIP #MarianneFaithfull

Group of engineering students start petition to reopen Edinburgh’s South Sub railway as an extension of the tram network  deadlinenews.co.uk/2025/01/29/gro… via @deadlinenews

Please note that Transreal Fiction is closed today due to storm Eowyn, but should be open on Saturday.

This Hogmanay, we're asking residents in our local area to refrain from setting off fireworks, following the death of our red panda kit Roxie on bonfire night. As always, we will do all we can to protect our animals from fireworks, including keeping them indoors and providing deep bedding where possible to reduce the impact of the noise. @Edinburgh_CC cannot create a fireworks exclusion zone around the zoo in time for Hogmanay due to the minimum consultation period required, so we are asking residents to help us by not setting off fireworks which may frighten animals. Thank you 💛

We are calling for tighter restrictions on fireworks following the death of Roxie, our endangered red panda kit, on bonfire night. Our expert vet team believe it's likely that three-month-old Roxie died due to stress caused by fireworks in the local area.

Happy birthday to progressive rock icon Peter Hammill. Here's our 2022 cover feature with Peter for you to enjoy... loudersound.com/features/peter…

Happy birthday to #PeterHammill at @Sofa_sound Hope there are many more to come!

It's #WorldCassowaryDay and we're celebrating these rainforest nourishers. They're the only species carrying large seeded rainforest fruits over long distances. So they're fulltime workers on #biodiversity in our rainforests! #cassowary #threatenedspecies

Wrong Queens Hall but I can't find the edit or delete options. Sorry.

Hope he recovers fully; saw him with the @TheZombiesMusic last month at the @TheQueensHall just a few weeks ago - great gig!

Ken MacLeod ( @amendlocke ) has a new book out very soon - Beyond the Light Horizon - and I should have signed copies available! More details here: transreal.wordpress.com/2024/05/07/ken…

It's long been a question: could all of humanity actually live within the Doughnut? Thanks to Hauke Schlesier et al it's just been quantified for the 1st time. And the answer is probably yes - if we transform to economies of sufficiency. Read more here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Raffles the shop tapir celebrates another #WorldTapirDay 😁

@knotunknot Just one Tentacle? Has it downsized?! 😉 🦡

Website updates! New exhibits, events and classes on the front page and new galleries for Botanica Mathematica and Attack of the Knitted Tentacle. madeleineshepherd.co.uk/gallery_786568…

@sarahremywrites Kep & Paul both seem to have cherry blossom already - maybe a month ahead of here... Our daffs are v nice though! 😉

@MikeTorC Still waiting for them to bloom here…

@sarahremywrites Saw these new planters on my way to work this morning and thought of you! 😉 🌷 First ones I've seen In bloom this year that I can think of...

Well, there's a surprise!

@sarahremywrites Most recently The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malca Older. Quite fun!

@MikeTorC What are you reading?

Tea, radio, #write.