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The way I interface with the rest of the world seems somewhat off-kilter.
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We deserve a system within which we can fulfil our collective and individual potential.
#scotland
#independentscotland
#scottishindependence
(This isnāt just true for my wee country, this is true across the whole globe ā¤ļøā¤ļø)
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For the life of me I canāt remember what model of Cadillac it is!
#lomography
#lomo
#instax
#cadillac
#film
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First shot with Lomo Instant Wide
#lomo
#lomography
#instant
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JacquiWine
9 days ago
New on the blog today, I've written about THE LADY BANDIT by Emilia Pardo BazƔn (tr. Robert M. Fedorchek). I loved these darkly comic tales of fair-weather servants, trigger-happy priests and a notorious robber who finally meets her match!
#BookSky
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jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/t...
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The Lady Bandit by Emilia Pardo BazƔn (tr. Robert M. Fedorchek)
Ten years ago, back in the early days of this blog, I read and loved The House of Ulloa, a feisty tale of contrasting values in which a virtuous chaplain finds himself embroiled in the exploits of ā¦
https://jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/the-lady-bandit-by-emilia-pardo-bazan-tr-robert-m-fedorchek/
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#gothicarchitecture
#cathedral
#Palma
#Mallorca
10 days ago
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Jim [REDACTED]
14 days ago
It's only hydrogen if it was made by the Big Bang. Otherwise it's a hydrocarbon derivative.
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When Mondays are heavy but then I remember that there will be a brand new What Went Wrong episode waiting for me!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
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WHAT WENT WRONG
Film History Podcast Ā· Updated weekly Ā· What Went Wrong covers Hollywoodās most notoriously disastrous movie productions, digging into the behind-the-scenes insanity of everything from massive flops to record-breaking blockbusters. In each ā¦
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/what-went-wrong/id1512847066
19 days ago
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU
19 days ago
Nesrine Malik warns that normalizing anti-migrant rhetoric is transforming local communities into zones of suspicion. When "concern" turns into exclusion, the social fabric starts to fray. šš«
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The result of normalising Reformās ideas? Neighbour is turned against neighbour | Nesrine Malik
āConcernā about immigration has now morphed into policing how ethnic minorities exist in our communities, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/18/reform-uk-neighbours-immigration-ethnic-minorities?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Just used my free will and my credit card in concert to buy an instant camera.
20 days ago
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swirlOsquirrel
21 days ago
EPIC
#ArtWork
. The New American Gothic, 2017, by Criselda Vasquez Just⦠amazing. ā¤ļø
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Getting Zelenskyyās portrait tattooed on my back in the style usually reserved for Che Guevara
26 days ago
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Stephen Shapiro
27 days ago
In the new Scottish Parliament, Reform now gets a biweekly opportunity to be the first responses to First Minister's questions. Unlike in England, where Reform can get away with lack of accountability, by speaking only to the media, in Scotland Reform's fez and cymbals act has to be accountable.
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Iām very relieved that the election results would seem to indicate that Scotland is more committed to moving towards a healthy, happy, comfortable way of being for everyone than ever before.
27 days ago
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Hey Scotland, remember to vote! You donāt need ID, just tell them your name and address at the polling station. If you donāt know where to go, find out hereā¦
#scotland
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter...
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Elections in your area
Find upcoming elections in your area, your polling station, candidates, and contact details for your local electoral services team
https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/your-election-information
30 days ago
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Andy Marshall
30 days ago
One of the best bookshops I've ever visited at the gradel I listed former Wool Exchange, Bradford - Built in the spirit of the great Flemish cloth halls ā architecture not merely as utility, but as something capable of raising the human spirit.
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Got a new wall put up in the house so I have another place to put a bookcase!
about 1 month ago
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Lesley Riddoch
about 1 month ago
Women of Coigach made history in 1850s resisting the factors' men to avoid clearance. The women of Strathnaver made history in 2000 planting an Ogham forest with native trees from the Gaelic alphabet. This is our history. Shouldn't we know more? New films
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/highland-c...
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Behold! The āToppings Onlyā pizza. Can successfully be introduced to face hole without needing a base for structural integrity!
#lowcarb
#pizza
about 1 month ago
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Greg Britton
about 1 month ago
TFW one of your favorite authors interviews another of your favorite authors about an idea you feel passionate about. Thanks
@biblioracle.bsky.social
and
@lollardfish.bsky.social
Find both at
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
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New Handbook on Writing as a Public Scholar
An interview with David M. Perry, author of a new handbook to help academics write for the public.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/just-visiting/2026/05/01/new-handbook-writing-public-scholar
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What the fuck am I supposed to for four hours in the middle of the night? I thought āsleepā, but obviously I had another plan Iām not aware of.
about 1 month ago
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Matthew Sheffield
about 1 month ago
This new art exhibit featuring Boston Dynamic robot dogs with the heads of Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Warhol, Picasso, and others is incredibly striking and disturbing. How much did artists ever shape public opinion compared to today's Second Gilded Age billionaires?
apnews.com/article/germ...
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I could really do with a pint of sugar free mojito.
about 1 month ago
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Tried to get a donut from Krispy Kreme and they were all āone? Singular? One? One donut? You want 1 (ONE) donut? A solo donut? Lone? Individual?ā
about 1 month ago
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Getting stuff done, but to the beat.
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Gemma Clark š§æšÆļø
about 2 months ago
You can help by responding to the public consultation, you donāt need to be in Scotland and if youāre a parent, educator or working with young people, your voice is needed!
consult.gov.scot/justice/prot...
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Protections in the justice system for women and girls - Scottish Government consultations - Citizen Space
Find and participate in consultations run by The Scottish Government
https://consult.gov.scot/justice/protections-in-the-justice-system-women-and-girls/consultation/
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Lady J of Tay
about 2 months ago
www.thenational.scot/news/2603797...
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John Swinney turns down Donald Trump's White House invitation in 4-minute call
John Swinney has āpolitelyā turned down an invitation from Donald Trump to attend a state banquet at the White House next week during aā¦
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26037977.john-swinney-turns-donald-trumps-white-house-invitation/?ref=li
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Broken Sleep Books
about 2 months ago
Occupational Phenomena by Henry St Leger is a razor sharp pamphlet that turns the language of job interviews, productivity culture and corporate aspiration into a theatre of surreal dread.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
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Rob Chapman
about 2 months ago
Not only is this a book that needed to be written, it needed to be written and curated like this. One review I read praised it but said it lacked an overall historical arc. Nonsense. The participants are the historical arc. John tells their tale beautifully. Lyrical, nuanced, poignant witty and wry
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Bunch of hocus pocus cunts.
about 2 months ago
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Canāt get enough of waking up at 2am in a blind panic and then taking a couple of hours to calm the fuck down again.
about 2 months ago
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Anon Opin
about 2 months ago
Duvets should be zoned. Thinner at the top, thicker at the bottom where my freezing toes are.
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Itās all going a bit 1940.
about 2 months ago
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This Is My Glasgow
2 months ago
Men, Myths and Monsters: A Brief Introduction to Glasgow's Many Weird and Wonderful Architectural Sculptures. I will be running my first walking tour of the year in central Glasgow next Sunday (12 April 2026) looking at the city's architectural sculptures. Cont./
#glasgow
#architecture
#sculpture
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A shop local to me sells koeksisters and I can only presume that I have immigration to thank for this welcome development!
2 months ago
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Bet he canny teleport aid to a disaster site though. Shite superpower.
2 months ago
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Spent 50p on this todayā¦
thebookishtype.co.uk/products/def...
#jkrowling
#bigot
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Deface a Page of H*rry P*tter
5x Mind your Business stickers designed by Weird Wednesday
https://thebookishtype.co.uk/products/deface-a-page-of-harry-potter-the-chamber-of-secrets?_pos=1&_psq=defac&_ss=e&_v=1.0
2 months ago
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Itās about 3 years since I stopped taking coke and I think at this point, when I look at my shit life, I have to admit that itās me thatās the problem after all.
2 months ago
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Katy Perryās vapid blinking into the camera for four minutes in zero g.
3 months ago
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Matcha is a foul substance.
3 months ago
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Was out in a pub Edinburgh last night and the doors to the toilets were labelled āurinals and cubicleā and ācubiclesā and thatās all the information I needed really.
3 months ago
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This Is My Glasgow
3 months ago
Looking up at the central oculus in the rather stunning dome of the Hamilton Mausoleum to the southeast of Glasgow. Built as the final resting place for the Dukes of Hamilton in the 1840s and 1850s, it was designed by David Hamilton Cont./
#glasgow
#hamilton
#architecture
#oculus
#echo
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Edinburgh O'Clock
3 months ago
Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train. A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in
#Scotland
very often
#Edinburgh
and shared with love by Tom Duffin
@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social
. Please repost with your own caption.
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Tom Duffin Photographer
3 months ago
Princes St in the wet gloam. Beginning to lose faith completely in all socials as very few people are seeing them. If you like them please do share them. Thanks neebs.
#Edinburgh
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Cheese is awesome.
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Meidas Scotland š“EU
4 months ago
I'm sick of Jackie Baillie, Sarwar, Marra, Findlay, Alexander et al with their relentless vitriolic, scathing vilifying maligning attacks on the Scottish NHS.
meidasscotland.eaction.org.uk/hospitals
I've created a Have Your Say and poll to gather your own personal views on our Scottish NHS.
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Maureen Pickering
4 months ago
A message for Scotlandās voters as Labour double down on nuclear ā Researchers revisit study of Essex nuclear power station and breast cancer incidence among mature women nearby to find an even greater risk, āestablishment bias and cover-upā
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/20/a...
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A message for Scotlandās voters as Labour double down on nuclear ā Researchers revisit study of Essex nuclear power station and breast cancer incidence among mature women nearby to find an even greate...
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account ā 12266421 Name ā JOHN ROBERTSON The Blackwater, Crouch, Roach and Colne Estuarā¦
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/20/a-message-for-scotlands-voters-as-labour-double-down-on-nuclear-researchers-revisit-study-of-essex-nuclear-power-station-and-breast-cancer-incidence-among-mature-women-nearby-to-find-an-even-great/
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Mr. Business
4 months ago
One of the lessons I hope people take away from Jesse Jacksonās life and the outpouring of remembrances small and large is that progress is made and measured in every act and utterance against oppression and not measured solely in legislative or electoral victories.
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The National
4 months ago
Developers behind one of the biggest horror franchises in the world have opened up about how a fishing village in Fife was the inspiration for the setting of their new game
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Scottish fishing village inspires setting for new Silent Hill game
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25862422.tiny-fife-fishing-village-inspired-new-silent-hill-game/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1771337215-2
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Ben Phillips
4 months ago
I donāt know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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