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Lyndsay J
@eljay2.bsky.social
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Scottish, parent, dog servant, book lover. I don't do "follow back". Pronouns are she/her
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Lyndsay J @eljay2.bsky.social · Jul 22
Source of current profile picture. I love First Dog ❤️
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What’s that brain? I should look at the internet some more? OK if you say so | First Dog on the Moon
You may think a beloved national treasure like myself would be outside chatting to marsupials but no I am on the internet feeling bad for not replying to emails
www.theguardian.com
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thechiller.bsky.social
Jesus fucken Christ. I ordered some undercrackers, lads. Nothing came. No despatch email, no delivery confirmation, nothing.

So today I check tracking online. Evri "delivered" them to my side garden (just chucked randomly).

AND THEN THE FOXES

THE FOXES

(breathe)

ATE

MY

FUCKEN

PANTS
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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fergus.oolong.co.uk
Pretty amazing light in Edinburgh just after sunrise this morning.
The drizzle-haze over the city, especially towards the hills, glows with the warm yellow light of the just-risen sun. The glow extends into the clouds above.
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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debcha.bsky.social
[just a little reminder that feminism and trans rights are part of the same fight for a better, fairer world for everyone]
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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richardlittler.bsky.social
Just a game show, yes, but the existential implications of people being so absurdly, consistently wrong (all the celebs, not just Olusoga) is unsettlingly Sartrean. Shades of Kafka and Milgram. Now I'll need to watch something lighter, less disheartening, like a Bergman or Tarkovsky film
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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peternimmo.bsky.social
You can also do these things for a church wedding. And if you live in Scotland, your parish minister will marry you for no fee
economist.com The Economist @economist.com · 4d
Instead of lavishly designed bouquets, brides can grab something from the local florist for their town hall wedding. Couples can have their reception at the pub, bake their own cake or take public transport
Looking for a chic wedding venue? Try a town hall
Low-key marriage ceremonies are back in fashion
econ.st
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
AI peas peas with AI www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon
AI can transform all areas of our lives – even boiling a bag of frozen veg
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
“That is what makes it so morally bewildering to me that these culture war clowns are supposed to be a bastion of women’s rights. While they try to strip the dignity from a marginalised minority, frontline women’s services are on the verge of collapse.”

👉 archive.ph/ivFo2
The Herald Anti-trans 'activism' is a distraction from real issues facing women
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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sirbenfro.bsky.social
Good people of Dundee, I shall be among you! Saturday November 22nd at the Steps Theatre at 2.30pm. Come see what all the fuss is about! www.leisureandculturedundee.com/event/34746
What's On | Leisure & Culture Dundee
www.leisureandculturedundee.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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garius.bsky.social
One evening Max, next door's cat, pawed at our patio door to be let in. I opened it and he sauntered in looking annoyed, jumped on 'his' chair and curled up to snooze.

Then i realised i could hear an alarm. Looked over the fence. They were out for the day, and their kitchen was on fire.
thedailyshow.com The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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quaker.org.uk
We’ve joined almost 300 organisations in an urgent plea to politicians and the UK government to stop scapegoating the country’s human rights framework.
Quakers join call for “full-throated defence” of UK human rights protections
Almost 300 organisations, including Quakers in Britain, have issued an urgent plea to politicians and the UK government to stop scapegoating the UK’s human rights framework.
www.quaker.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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scrappapertiger.bsky.social
I have a chapter in a book!

I feel really excited and honoured to be alongside a whole bunch of great chapters and authors writing on the Person Centred Approach.

Ebook also available.
You can get a 20% discount until the end of December using code 25ESA3

www.routledge.com/Applying-the...
Kifl the small terrier sitting with the book Applying the Person-Centred Approach to Global, Social and Personal Crises in front of her First page of my chapter: 6. Neurodiversity and the Person-Centred Approach: Am I doing this right? Sonny Hallett “My counsellor and I meet out in the woods every week; we walk and sit on mats on the ground, notice the changing seasons in the plants, fungi and wildlife, talk or walk in silence. This time I’ve asked him to show me how to make a fire without a lighter. He shows me how to use the striker against the kindling, bundling twigs and strips of cloth along with a piece of King Alfred’s cake, a fungus that burns very slowly. He passes the pieces over to me. ‘Just have a play with it’. I feel a familiar anxious turning-over in my stomach as I fumble the handful. I’m used to being uncoordinated, misunderstanding instructions. I often try to study how to do something on my own and practice obsessively before I let anyone watch me. It feels newly bold of me to ask someone to show me something when I haven't prepared by trying to study on my own. By practicing a skill alone, I can get a feel for it, make mistakes, and try things out. I find that there is something very soothing and satisfying about this, but the process of being observed in learning and exploring can feel very vulnerable. I realised I am autistic almost ten years ago, when in my late twenties, though I always felt that something was different. Academically I did okay because I could go away and study alone, carefully and intensively, making the most of my tendency and ability to be sucked monotropically1 into intense interests and passions. I also did okay with art because I spent a lot of time drawing on my own, when I was anxious or to express and process my feelings. Over time I got a lot of positive encouragement so I mostly felt confident to be seen making art. But with sports, music, learning another language or anything that required practice with other people, I felt dread. Everyone got things wrong, but I seemed to get things wrong in weird ways - somehow I felt I was even getting it…”
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer who took ten years to capture 48 colours of the moon #WomensArt (via Amazing Physics) #FullMoon
Spiral montage of photos of the moon in different hues against a black background
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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dunproofin.bsky.social
House Nation is live on www.twitch.tv/dunproofin right now - come join me
dunproofin - Twitch
House Nation - 4 to the floor
www.twitch.tv
November 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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edithcharles.bsky.social
INTERVIEWER: Any comment on Zohran Mamdani's victory and what it says about immigrants and trans rights?

LABOUR POLITICIAN: (panicking) I've never heard of New York
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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aliettedebodard.com
I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
A picture of a red moon with a tower and the steps leading to it, in black and white The caption says "The keep and keeper"
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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ncdominie.bsky.social
Lovely detail from one of the panellists at the Le Guin event in Glasgow this evening: apparently she used to draw dragons for the cover of a magazine for her local library.

As a kid who discovered Earthsea on the shelves of a local library, this brings me joy.
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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thelifeofsharks.com
For one month only we’re selling hand printed (by me) Don’t Boop The Snoot T-shirts, Sweatshirts, Hoodies and Mugs on our store. Orders end on Dec 1st. We’ll have a different design next month.
thelifeofsharks.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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matthewkingart.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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brewergnome.bsky.social
As a biologist, It really is a great analogy. Also trees. It's like saying, "There are trees and grass, you have to be one or the other." Ok... where is the line that defines "is a tree?" what about bush-like grasses? Palm trees? NON-tree palms? What about horsetails and their tree-like ancestors?
November 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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markgrimshawtism.bsky.social
Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.
November 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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meadekrosby.bsky.social
Timeline cleanse: gulls on pilings in Puget Sound, WA.
Gulls perch and fly among on a series of old pilings standing about a foot above the water at high tide.
November 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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scottygb.bsky.social
Breaking: Tetrahydropyranlcyclopentyltetrahydropyridopyridine
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November 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
eljay2.bsky.social
I still have my heart broken from back then ❤️‍🩹
druidcat.bsky.social Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 9d
I still have my first edition from back then!
November 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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sophiamcdougall.bsky.social
It's hard to believe, but 2025 means Romanitas has been in print for 20 years. A modern world where the Roman Empire never fell. If that sounds good to you, the ebook's just £0.99 for the anniversary all this month! www.amazon.co.uk/Romanitas-1-...
Me, against a bright blue sky and a stark watchtower in Italy, holding a copy of Romanitas
November 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM