Lee Randall
@leerandall.bsky.social
Thwarted Madcap Heiress. Free-range book festival programmer, editor, writer, interviewer, reviewer, prize judge. On board to programme Wigtown Book Festival 2026.
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Nerrrrrrrrrrrds!
To celebrate getting 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I am offering some of you fine folks the chance to join me on a 2026 shark research expedition. Really!
Enter here: forms.gle/iq3YQG31kbAC...
Terms and conditions in thread below:
To celebrate getting 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I am offering some of you fine folks the chance to join me on a 2026 shark research expedition. Really!
Enter here: forms.gle/iq3YQG31kbAC...
Terms and conditions in thread below:
a man in red swim trunks is standing in the ocean
ALT: a man in red swim trunks is standing in the ocean
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Nerrrrrrrrrrrds!
To celebrate getting 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I am offering some of you fine folks the chance to join me on a 2026 shark research expedition. Really!
Enter here: forms.gle/iq3YQG31kbAC...
Terms and conditions in thread below:
To celebrate getting 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I am offering some of you fine folks the chance to join me on a 2026 shark research expedition. Really!
Enter here: forms.gle/iq3YQG31kbAC...
Terms and conditions in thread below:
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November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
IMO this has some useful suggestions for how to manage a relationship. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
IMO this has some useful suggestions for how to manage a relationship. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...
Found myself Jonesing for fennel (yes, I get vegetable cravings). Got fennel. Applying for a bank loan now to pay for it and wishing I lived on the Continent where the choices and prices of fresh food are way more reasonable.
November 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Found myself Jonesing for fennel (yes, I get vegetable cravings). Got fennel. Applying for a bank loan now to pay for it and wishing I lived on the Continent where the choices and prices of fresh food are way more reasonable.
If you ever fancied visiting Berlin at a time of peak decadence and danger, try my friend Brendan’s novels. And in Berlin, his wonderful Isherwood walking tour.
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
If you ever fancied visiting Berlin at a time of peak decadence and danger, try my friend Brendan’s novels. And in Berlin, his wonderful Isherwood walking tour.
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Join us in person and online for this year's Metaphors for a Black Future! Writing with and the Practice of Permission with Foluke Taylor by & for Black writers. Check out the full details & register now:
scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/metaphors-fo...
scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/metaphors-fo...
Metaphors for a Black Future: Loose Ends: Explorations in Diasporic Writing Craft - 8 December & 13 December - Scottish BPOC Writers Network
Metaphors for a Black Future 2025, curated by Martha Adonai Williams.
scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Join us in person and online for this year's Metaphors for a Black Future! Writing with and the Practice of Permission with Foluke Taylor by & for Black writers. Check out the full details & register now:
scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/metaphors-fo...
scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/metaphors-fo...
One for the architecture fans on here. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a...
Robert A.M. Stern, Architect Who Reinvented Prewar Splendor, Dies at 86
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
One for the architecture fans on here. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a...
The endlessly entertaining algorithms of Instagram have me currently seeing endless cute animal (mainly cats/dogs) videos, and nonstop adverts in which women rearrange their breasts with the help of a variety of hoists. No one's made ear muffs from them yet, but there's time.
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The endlessly entertaining algorithms of Instagram have me currently seeing endless cute animal (mainly cats/dogs) videos, and nonstop adverts in which women rearrange their breasts with the help of a variety of hoists. No one's made ear muffs from them yet, but there's time.
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I've promised to go out tonight. It's really windy out there. Ick.
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I've promised to go out tonight. It's really windy out there. Ick.
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I would worry about how the Chancellor was taking a chunk of my pay but a company run by a billionaire decided it didn't need anyone in Scotland working on the Scottish edition of one of its papers. Still found enough cash to buy the Telegraph, though. It's almost like tax isn't the problem.
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I would worry about how the Chancellor was taking a chunk of my pay but a company run by a billionaire decided it didn't need anyone in Scotland working on the Scottish edition of one of its papers. Still found enough cash to buy the Telegraph, though. It's almost like tax isn't the problem.
By the way, if you need a giggle, head over to Amazon (yeah, I know, but you can be there solely as a tourist) and read reviews of toilet roll. Especially the low star reviews.
a woman is standing in front of a vending machine in a room with a clock on the wall .
Alt: a woman is standing in front of a vending machine in a room with a clock on the wall .
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
By the way, if you need a giggle, head over to Amazon (yeah, I know, but you can be there solely as a tourist) and read reviews of toilet roll. Especially the low star reviews.
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social *waving hello* Will you have a new book out this autumn?
November 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social *waving hello* Will you have a new book out this autumn?
Is this something you might know, @harrymccracken.com? If not, sorry to bother you.
Let’s try this. Any iOS users able to recommend an audio player with AB repeat which lets you select sections of a track from a waveform or at least in sub-second intervals. Using Offle which is great for 99p, but only works in seconds, which is too much for looping music well. #idontknow #ios
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Is this something you might know, @harrymccracken.com? If not, sorry to bother you.
By the way I mean the ones in newspapers and magazines, NOT the wonderful independent artists and craftspeople whose work and shops I will continue to champion here and elsewhere!!!
Holiday gift guides serve a useful function by reminding me of all the things I absolutely do NOT need or want.
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
By the way I mean the ones in newspapers and magazines, NOT the wonderful independent artists and craftspeople whose work and shops I will continue to champion here and elsewhere!!!
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Ada, Countess of Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, mathematician & a pioneer of computing; born 1815, died #OTD 1852. #WomeninStem
Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836
UK Government Art Collection
Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836
UK Government Art Collection
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Ada, Countess of Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, mathematician & a pioneer of computing; born 1815, died #OTD 1852. #WomeninStem
Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836
UK Government Art Collection
Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836
UK Government Art Collection
Holiday gift guides serve a useful function by reminding me of all the things I absolutely do NOT need or want.
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Holiday gift guides serve a useful function by reminding me of all the things I absolutely do NOT need or want.
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There's a lot of good things worth bidding for here, in the #creativesforsudan auction, please take a look and help fundraising for people escaping genocide in El-Fasher. @yassmin.bsky.social, via @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
There's a lot of good things worth bidding for here, in the #creativesforsudan auction, please take a look and help fundraising for people escaping genocide in El-Fasher. @yassmin.bsky.social, via @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Always think about home and Brian on Thanksgiving. Here we are about to step off in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Clowns to our cores.
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Always think about home and Brian on Thanksgiving. Here we are about to step off in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Clowns to our cores.
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Prep prep prepping for the maker’s market this weekend at Lind & Lime gin distillery in Leith.
29th and 30th of November.
Hope to see you there!
#Edinburgh #art
29th and 30th of November.
Hope to see you there!
#Edinburgh #art
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Prep prep prepping for the maker’s market this weekend at Lind & Lime gin distillery in Leith.
29th and 30th of November.
Hope to see you there!
#Edinburgh #art
29th and 30th of November.
Hope to see you there!
#Edinburgh #art
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This Bluesky Party /Online Shop Local Thingamajig is happening tomorrow - please join me from 7 p.m. so I don't get lonely!
#EdinburghHour
#EdinburghHour
PLEASE SHARE:
On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets.
Please join me from
7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November
to share some ideas for Christmas gifting.
We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour
On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets.
Please join me from
7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November
to share some ideas for Christmas gifting.
We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This Bluesky Party /Online Shop Local Thingamajig is happening tomorrow - please join me from 7 p.m. so I don't get lonely!
#EdinburghHour
#EdinburghHour
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You can now sign up for my detective-story podcast via the below avenues. I'll be delighted if you do that. It's full of talented people. I'm hoping to prove you can build something like this on @bsky.app like we did in the old country.
Hello, HERE ARE THE LINKS to get the actual podcast when it comes out on Sunday. For now, if you would like to 'follow' it at your chosen podcast emporium, that really helps. See you soon!
podcasts.apple.com/podcast/murd...
open.spotify.com/show/2di2tB8...
feeds.acast.com/public/shows...
podcasts.apple.com/podcast/murd...
open.spotify.com/show/2di2tB8...
feeds.acast.com/public/shows...
Murder of a Famous Bastard
Podcast in Comedy · Serie · An episodic murder mystery story written by and starring Mark Watson with many guest stars.
Struggling private detective Hugh Flounder is surprised to be invited to the 60...
podcasts.apple.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
You can now sign up for my detective-story podcast via the below avenues. I'll be delighted if you do that. It's full of talented people. I'm hoping to prove you can build something like this on @bsky.app like we did in the old country.
Spelling Bee needs to learn "pipped."
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Spelling Bee needs to learn "pipped."
Bravo!
Delighted that Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life is an @economist.com book of the year. www.economist.com/culture/2025...
The best books of 2025
Gladiators and dictators, wolves and Beatles feature in our list this year
www.economist.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Bravo!