GOD I WANT A CIGARETTE. I don't smoke! I DON'T SMOKE! Not even in a sneaky way! It certainly isn't a habit I wish to cultivate but lads, LADS, I need *something*.

A simple, haunting poetry in this information from a medical musuem website.

All hail Chunk, who won the fat bear contest in Alaska!

Not to make it all about my sector, but isn’t it interesting that we acknowledge that not all bankrolling of culture is created equal, but only in very specific contexts.

Watching a shinty documentary, lots of close ups of soil and root sizes.

We are subsidizing AI usage.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs but at the top it's just being kissed on the forehead and told you're doing a good job 🥺

I once aired an opinion on this which attracted loads of right wing scottish men to my feed claiming i couldn’t do my job if I didn’t love every city in scotland (lol), but my answer remains unchanged.

After a year + without a therapist (and what a year to choose, hey) - I have a new one! I’m a wildly pro therapy person. Well-chosen therapists can help transform your ability to live a full and meaningful life. I believe that understanding myself in context lets me operate better in the world.

La Voix! On Strictly! I do love her.

The team @smallpress.scot have made a spreadsheet of info about awards, festivals, printers, publishers etc. that you can access here: smallpress.scot#resources We have such an incredible, inspiring, and growing community of comic & zine makers here in Scotland and this is an invaluable resource

Currently receiving a lot more rat information than I wanted.

Forever and ever amen

LADS there’s no eggs, it’s a sign from the universe, i’m for my bed

I should go to bed, yes, but also and I put out there, should I stay up and make cake.

Am watching this1970 BBC documentary on Shetland, and it is excellent: m.youtube.com/watch?v=eoM1...

I know that literally nobody cares but SEX!! NUDITY!! in the new series of SISTER BONIFACE?? This has made my life.

My autumn post just got classy: shop.royalmail.com/mushrooms-fu...

@robertaseaport.bsky.social saw these- thought of you! shop.royalmail.com/sale/the-leg...

Unfortunately there is also bad news: there are another 40 students with funded places in Gaza, including two women PhDs with dependents, who were offered places in the first evacuation, but had to turn them down because the Home Office wouldn't let them bring their young children.

Edinburgh syndrome: spending your entire life elbowing tourists out of the way whilst en route to a new restaurant which stopped being cool in London 7 years ago.

unfortunately i love it so much, im an unstoppable tempeh eater

Zoom in on that terrified owl

Knife-fight hen night

Day 27 of #septempera - the connoisseur.

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Great to have some new ways of summoning him, he hasn’t answered my Skype calls in months and I’m running out of brimstone.

reposting with alt text because I think the choice to include homophobia and transphobia in particular here is actually very much worth drawing attention to. nuns emphatically stating that those “do not reflect the qualities of a saint” is a very clear callout of Cardinal Dolan

Scenically inching through Lockerbie due to a ‘failed train’ ahead, which seems more existential than another phrase might have been.

On my way to @comicartfestival.bsky.social with a spring in my step and several jumpers.

It's a big Red Admiral year, which according to my almanac means that someone is going to assassinate the Tsar.

WCW: I wouldn't mind if we go easy on the whole plums thing, I wouldn't want it to overshadow all my other poems

'602 also seemed to enjoy being surrounded by fish. On warm days, his resting phases were punctuated by lounging behaviors that inspired people to call him a “floatato,” and reminded others of Homer Simpson relaxing in a pool.' THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR

Yesterday, I made three cute pumpkin spice cakes, including one with no sugar for a sugar-free pal, and this morning I have a lil pumpkin candle burning, and I am in a cardigan my Grandma used to wear which I inherited (which she made), and I am simply engaging in Maximum Load Bearing Autumn

If you’ve got out of the habit of having a little snack of raisins then I encourage you to indulge yourself in this pleasure this autumn. (had mine with pumpkin seeds and pine nuts)

Couldn’t understand why our local undertaker have an eel-shaped coffin in their window, but now I realise it acts as a memento moray.

Real hype for the rapture, think of all the resources that will be freed up!

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Cambridge boys, opera, House of Bruar, real fur (historic), vintage cars, gun dogs, the Wine Society, Perthshire, Antiques Roadshow, the Orient Express.

"Gone ritual, his marrow and his bane. Gone boyhood. Gone. It was no more than a memory now; a slur of the tide; a reverie, or the sound of a key, turning. From the gold shores to the cold shores: through regions thighbone-deep in sumptuous dust: through lands as harsh as metal he made his way.

I have made the first five chapters of my serialised novel FREE TO READ for the next TWO WEEKS. I would love for you to read it and to tell everyone you know to read it. calamitystrinket.ghost.io/a-stranger-a...

I will be @comicartfestival.bsky.social this weekend, taking a delegation of brilliant Scottish comics creatives to the Rights Fair. Will I see anyone else there?

This is how much the price of food has risen in 5 years... 🤯 🥛Milk, eggs and cheese: +47% 🍖 Meat: +35% 🧈 Oil and butter: +60% 🍞 Cereal and bread: +34% 🍓 Fruit: +26% 🥦 Vegetables: +35%

Dreamy queer bookshops. Some do coffee too. Some also have *very* cute dogs/cats/pets. Follow and support however you can. go.bsky.app/G321HCf

Best bit of niche interest beef I've heard in ages: 'I really don't think its ethical for you to promote the use of magnets in jumping spider enclosures.'

Part of being worshipped is being eaten - best to ritualise it away from the body, lest it be literal.

Genuinely pains me to say so, but at great cost to my personal brand I will admit that I agree that most English people have not gone insane over the past decade, but that English media and political parties absolutely have. A great number of English people remain decent and, crucially, normal!

bond girls but they’re also muppets: thread

I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine. And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide. Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.