An opinionated Edinburger mainly interested in the outdoors, science and politics.
Currently raging against the dying of the light.
Alan Fresco
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They're talking about 1966 again.
The President just said we're on the cusp of a deal with Iran.
Today's post explores two fun facts:
1. It's the fiftieth time he's said this. (I counted!)
2. Even so, stocks rose on the news.
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Various bus diversions this morning after a crash on West Granton Road in the early hours. @lothianbuses.bsky.social
My statement on the deeply troubling incidents in Bolton this week - a suspicious device found at Zakariyya Jaam'e Masjid, and just hours later, the firebombing of an Imam's family home. 👇
Blue lobsters are very rare: 1 in 2 million by some estimates.
But SPLIT COLOR LOBSTERS are 1 in *50* million.
This lobster is a chimera of two fertilized eggs that fused together, with two distinct genomes: male on one side, female on the other.
(📷: Woods Hole Science Aquarium/NOAA Fisheries)
For the 50th time this year, we're on the cusp of peace. Apparently.
