this makes me mad EVERY TIME as a shetlander

Labour ask guy who says ME/CFS isn't real to review mental health & neurodiversity diagnoses, this is gna go exactly how they want it to, in order to push ppl out of access to healthcare, benefits & support – what better way to save £ than erase patients? www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Did not anticipate cat ownership being such an exercise in night terrors (live mice brought into our bed at 4am)

Endometriosis is what I imagine coastal erosion feels like.

It’s dream-come-true time! The lovely Orcadian are publishing my collection of Orkney folklore inspired short stories - the book will be out for Autumn 2026! I can’t wait and I’m super busy creating the colour illustrations for it! #BookSky #Orkney #WritingCommunity #Folklore #ShortStories

Cat came in this morning smelling of rain and peat smoke, can only assume he spent the night among the hillfokk again

Always this time of year… Adam Zagajewski from ‘True Lives’ (2024)

when the saved are raptured I think we should all kiss

Thank you for the share @asls.org.uk but also thank you for the Reddit post and subsequent discussion — very curious to know if the elbowing of the gingernut thing is contained solely to the east coast now

her peerie mootie satchel 🥲

in britain the anchorites of asda dwell by the sacred stones, solemnly intoning the words “that’s asda price”, and performing the necessary ritual (the double bum slap) three times a day to bring about the great rolling back when we will all be redeemed

There was a skylark in our fireplace this morning. Going to need a witchy type to interpret that omen for me. (It seemed fine by the way, though I am fretful for its poor peerie lungs)

Look at that solidarity gets the goods

Regretfully I am not at the cunningsburgh show today, but I do have several sources on the ground getting all the hot goss from the “decorative butter plate” category

I stand neither in the wilderness nor fairyland but in the fold of a green hill the tilt from one parish into another… —Kathleen Jamie, “The Wishing Tree” SELECTED POEMS (Picador, 2018) #BookWormSat #poem Hear “The Wishing Tree” on @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social poetryarchive.org/poem/wishing...

“We must resist engaging with AI-generated content!” Me whenever one of those “slicing glass fruit” videos appears on my feed:

Apparently nothing ever goes out of fashion, including the 1604 Inclosure Act

Making a wedding notion board and replacing all the very classy and elegant photos on the template moodboard with a vibe that is best described as “Victorian penny arcade meets trowie knowe”

An absolutely stellar news day up here ✨

All this on our doorstep and yet my chronic illness remains staunchly uncured. The nature writers will have my head for this, I fear.

Arthur Rimbaud, tr. Louise Varèse

Former senior UN relief official Jan Eliasson has dismissed these air drops as an "ineffective sideshow". But of course, they're not aimed at stopping the genocide. Nothing Starmer does is aimed at stopping the genocide. Its aimed at managing the domestic politics of his complicity in the genocide.

This is what free speech looks like

Fledglings in the garden = cat on lockdown. He keeps asking to go out but his intentions are not pure.

Engaged by the mill burn. A moonstone ring, surrounded by the scent of meadowsweet.

Shetland has received a visit from long-running Scottish cartoon character Oor Wullie. The spikey-haired boy headed to the isles in a cartoon strip published in the @sundaypost.com newspaper at the weekend (13 July) – with Shetland language also getting a starring role.

End-Song by Fanny Howe

Five Imaginary Scottish Places Currently available on BBC Sounds: Stuart Kelly explores some of Scotland’s famous fictional locations, including: 🏰 Tillietudlem 🏡 Thrums 🏭 Duncairn 🏙️ Unthank 🛖 Brigadoon www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

I've made a new list on @bookshop.org of books that explore nature / walking / the outdoors by disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill writers - Nature Beyond Cure - aka our own narratives are messy and complex. Do share! #BookSky #DisabledWriters uk.bookshop.org/lists/nature...?

New book highly praised by linguists from around the world establishes Shaetlan as a language in its own right

Emerging from three consecutive days of renal colic like Christ from the tomb

This Thursday we launch languishing, cute - 'a collection of jittery missives that propels the speculative Scottish canon of Morgan, Gray and Mitchison into a maximalist high femme goth surrealism via hyperpop, Celtic futurism and digital culture'. Hopefully see some of yous there!

Accidentally took a double dose of propranolol today. Me: oh no, hopefully this won’t cause my heart rate to go too low! My tachycardia: You fool. Did you really think you could defeat me with your mortal medicines? Pathetic. Your efforts are futile, for I am beyond all clinical understanding!

imagine your whole rotten ideology being based around the worst possible interpretations of catholicism and the minute you arrive in the Vatican the Pope gets his second in command to school you on compassion and then goes and just full-on dies the next day, it’s so beautiful

Really starting to feel like JD Vance’s career as VP is becoming a series of events that can be perfectly clipped to the outro music of Curb Your Enthusiasm and I love that for him

There isn't a story on the BBC News site about today's trans rights rally at Parliament Square where it's estimated 20k attended. But they did have a story last week about the Let Women Speak transphobe rally in Bristol where 100 people attended.

"I DO NOT ABSOLVE YOU. WRITE YOUR OWN EMAILS." has been playing on loop in my head all day

for like 20 years we've been doing these experiments and they have the same results every single time and the people in power are always like "ok good, just a few more experiments to know for sure"

Every news item regarding Starmer these days is best concluded by “and what else could be expected from a man who does not dream.”

Evergreen.

we need to go back (into the ocean)

Not having an IRA or a 401k feels pretty good rn. NASDAQ might be crashing but the Little Treat market is booming

“silenced by woke culture” in the bios of ppl who post solely and prolifically in allcaps gives me this weird feeling where i want to laugh but also go swimming in the brackish mouth of a river and not return shoreside until my soul feels at last unburdened from the weight of all this heaviness 🤷‍♀️

personally I don't think we should have three once in a century economic collapses in my lifetime. can't say I care for that.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

“Trump is playing 4d chess” in that chess boards exist within a 4 dimensional universe already and he does not in fact know how to play chess well at all

I'm running an online workshop on 28th May. We'll explore what's to be gained by fragmenting our drafts and looking to organic and cyborg structures for inspiration. Perfect for speculative writers or anyone looking for a nudge outside of their comfort zone. www.writelikeagrrrl.org/product/hybr...

🔵 OUT NOW: Propel Issue 14, Ed. @susannahdickey.bsky.social 🔵 www.propelmagazine.co.uk/fourteen Featuring work by: ○ Jay Barnett ○ Tabitha Giddings ○ Danielle Gilmour ○ Anisha Jaya Minocha ○ @alykissner.bsky.social ○ Alex MacDonald ○ Dylan Stallard ○ Benjamin J. Larner ○ Manuela Moser (1/2)