#Dailydrawing weekend break. 2 of 3? Will I manage another on the train home? And fill the sketch book. I think I could have nudged the red render a few notches higher. Dunfermline town. @drrjwarren.bsky.social @saocousins.bsky.social

It's impossible to love mosaics too mu.... #MosaicMonday www.artsy.net/article/arts...

believer

I finished “Sagittarius” last night (my first Ginzburg) and I can’t stop thinking about it. Might become a Natalia Ginzburg completist I fear

Your post reminds of an expression I read semi-recently: the internet was somewhere we used to visit and then leave; now it follows us wherever we go.

In other news:

My latest Substack post, where I show my age by discussing the internet of yore: open.substack.com/pub/palmtree...

Genuinely cannot be understated how unwelcoming the lack of private accounts make this place

The “British person” in this instance was me; I do find it deeply amusing that, as well as being extremely racist about British Indians and their role in British food culture, this America has managed to name the curry that was most famously created in Britain

Not to get too excited, but I've just signed a contract with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social to write ‘Strange Christianities’, a new and different history of the Christianisation of Europe... drfrancisyoung.com/2025/08/30/c... 📚🎉

There are so many reasons I wouldn’t be a good assassin. First of all, I can’t drive or parallel park. Also, I have a really expressive face.

🌎FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, tr. by Natasha Wimmer, publishes today🌎 'Álvarez is an immense writer, a generational talent, and this, for me, is a generation-defining work.’
— Michael Magee. Read an excerpt on our website: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/false-...

Have you ever been so in love that it makes you grateful that all your past relationships didn’t work out? Like I’d relive every single heartbreak if I knew he’d be there waiting for me at the end of it all

Thanks to @scotnational.bsky.social for bucking the trend and sharing positive stories about the people behind the statistics

What my front camera sees when I accidentally turn it on

Drunk woman is tired https://www.wikiart.org/en/pablo-picasso/drunk-woman-is-tired-1902

Look, I don't know. Make art about it.

The best archaeology genre is “We have always been making weird little guys”

Kinda want to commission someone to make me a Filipiniana with the Immaculate Heart of Mary 🤔

EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish artist has accused an Edinburgh arts venue of a 'baffling lack of respect' after parts of her anti-fascist artwork were removed by bosses

I will be thinking about this for a long time: open.substack.com/pub/velvetno...

I sometimes get asked how I’m not afraid to love so loudly & intensely considering I’ve been badly burned in the past, to which I say this: love is never wasted, I don’t know how to do it any other way, & also I don’t get embarrassed over vulnerability

We both ventured North In pursuit of becoming And found each other

Playing with language Release the words that choke me Poet’s destiny

Talking to my partner about how I fully believe that all the good things in my life - great friendships, his companionship, all the opportunities I’ve had - are a result of me putting in the needed work for the past year or so

That day was a little bit odd: The Minotaur’s Daughter: Selected Poems by Eva Luka, translated by James Sutherland-Smith #WITMonth #SlovakLit roughghosts.com/2025/08/18/t...

Just saw someone say “I’m employed” to mean “I’m out of the loop” 😭 real

reject modernity (labubus) embrace tradition (santo niño)

Ratricia 🐭

I view you with such Palpable admiration That makes my heart glow

I’m doing my volunteer shift at the library today & there was a wee toddler who kept pointing at me & saying “WOW!!!” 😂 told my partner about it & he said “same” lol

Please share: We're looking for pitches from Scotland-based BPOC writers on Defining Our Space. Text /audio /video formats, incl BSL. Caregiver and data bursaries available. Deadline: 31 August.

Explore the impact of plastic pollution through the eyes of waste pickers and experts advocating for change in global policies to combat this environmental crisis

I moved to Scotland from The Philippines so I could get away from the heat so tell me why it’s bloody 26C here right now 😭

probably my favourite robot scene in any mecha anime and basically nothing happens in it except a robot is launched. tremendously evocative

I cuddle my dog so much that he now just smells like my body lotion 🥺

I have been spoiled rotten since dating R💟 The freshest fish, delicious steak, & room for me to be creative about the salads I make because he loves vegetables as much as I do 🤤

The only “family photos” me & my partner have (as in photos with him, me, & my dog) are selfies he took where my dog & I are napping in the background 😂

My partner loves oranges but hates peeling them. I enjoy doing it so I offered to peel all his oranges for him from now on, to which he said, “I can’t ask that of you for the rest of our lives!” When I asked him why not, he didn’t know what to say. This is just how I love

Just read the phrase “AI-powered Labubu” and I’m about to make it everyone’s problem

Me playing Stardew Valley

I go on TikTok sometimes & all the “tattoo regret” videos pushed me to book my next tattoo appointment lmao

I think it’s great when people of extremely different backgrounds get together - after all, I am the product of such a union. But there is something to be said for how wonderfully comfortable it is to date someone who’s similar to you in that sense

Just saw a photo of a dog scuba diving & not to sound like a conservative but I don’t think we need to be letting them do all that

They’re just like me FR

“Committing to the bit” by being transformed into an unspeakably terrifying eldritch being

My friends are always saying “Pat you need to chill out, your upbringing wasn’t *that* Catholic” and I’m like “Oh yeah? Well then explain THIS!” [feels a crushing sense of guilt over everything I have ever done]

Sometimes I write a haiku that goes so hard it rewires my brain. This is one of those times

I’ve always loved this poem & was reminded of it again today. There was a little moment of magic in the re-reading: “At lunchtime I bought a huge orange — The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave” Robert 🧔🏻‍♂️ & Dave 🐶 are the names of my boys, of my whole heart

I really dislike Labubus because I feel they encourage overconsumption & will largely end up in landfills, but the main reason I like to engage in the discourse surrounding them is because “labubu” is such a funny thing to say