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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 1h

I haven't used Vimeo in a while, have used it a lot when reviewing short animated films as it is a favourite place for a lot of animators. Just tried to log in and it demands ai submit to age verification before I can. FFS, this isn't a p**n site. No, I'm not giving details to you, Vimeo, feck off,

LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 1h

Sometimes you just have to kick back, feet up, drink to hand, and listen to some Bill Evans www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv2G...

#BillEvans #jazz #music #musique

Bill Evans "Peace Piece"

YouTube video by William Repicci

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 2h

No-brainer!

Poster for Italian SPiderman, who wears pants, has a mustache, wears a domino mask and smoke cigarettes

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 2h

As usual with these sorts of polls, I dispute the term "Britons", because I am pretty damned certain that up here, north of the border, that person would *not* be topping such a poll! But we get lumped in with the rest down south, regardless of different outlooks.

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 2h

Wait till you hear that crow doing its Elvis impression! I heard it is joining the cast of Dead Ringers on Radio 4

LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 3h

Lots of honking overhead; looked upwards to see a large v-formation of migrating geese flying past.

A spokesbird explained they didn't actually want to go, but rising anti-immigrant bigotry convinced them they'd be safer elsewhere.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #nature

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 6h

"Which way is the 18th hole???"
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Golfers enveloped in the haar rolling in from the Firth of Forth

#NorthBerwick #Ecosse #Scotland #photography #photographie #mist #haar #Brume #PeopleWatching

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When we drove down to North Berwick, it was glorious, golden autumn sunlight. When we arrived by the shore, though, we could see a haar (sea mist) rolling in over the island offshore. After about twen...

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 6h

A haar-shrouded North Berwick Harbour www.flickr.com/photos/woola...

#NorthBerwick #EastLothian #photography #photographie #Ecosse #Scotland #mist #brume #haar

Harbour Scenes 04

The small harbour at North Berwick, as the lovely, golden autumn day was slowly swallowed by drifting haar (a Scots term for sea mist), which drifted in from the mighty Firth of Forth to cover the har...

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Flying Eye Books @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social · 7h

🍐Astral Panic by Katie Hicks is out now!

The first 100 copies ordered from our friends at Gosh Comics will receive an exclusive limited edition signed bookplate, get yours before they run out!
goshlondon.com/pre-order-as...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 7h

I would like to tell her not to wear such flimsy shoes,
that rubble contains the whole spectrum of knowable
and unknowable dangers…

—Marjorie Lotfi, “Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014)”
in THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2023
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Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014)
Marjorie Lotfi

I would like to tell her not to wear such flimsy shoes,
that rubble contains the whole spectrum of knowable
and unknowable dangers: sheets of metal ripped
to knife edge, live wires, bloated arms reaching

for light. Her hair, scraped back into a ponytail,
is open to sky; remnants of buildings filter down
one concrete chunk at a time, and the midday bells
of rockets ring out above her. She carries a boy

on her still narrow hips, his legs entwined around
her yellow dungarees. Like a rodeo rider, his left arm
grips her shoulder to steady himself, or her,
while his torso reels back and away; his body

is asking to slow down, to turn back. Instead,
her eyes comb the ground for a next step, fingers
of her free hand curled into a claw, as if
to frighten off what she somehow sees ahead.

A Palestinian girl carries a child across rubble from a building that police said was destroyed by an Israeli air strike, in the Burij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, August 1, 2014. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly. Marjorie Lotfi's poem describes the picture in detail:

Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014)
Marjorie Lotfi

I would like to tell her not to wear such flimsy shoes,
that rubble contains the whole spectrum of knowable
and unknowable dangers: sheets of metal ripped
to knife edge, live wires, bloated arms reaching

for light. Her hair, scraped back into a ponytail,
is open to sky; remnants of buildings filter down
one concrete chunk at a time, and the midday bells
of rockets ring out above her. She carries a boy

on her still narrow hips, his legs entwined around
her yellow dungarees. Like a rodeo rider, his left arm
grips her shoulder to steady himself, or her,
while his torso reels back and away; his body

is asking to slow down, to turn back. Instead,
her eyes comb the ground for a next step, fingers
of her free hand curled into a claw, as if
to frighten off what she somehow sees ahead.

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 7h

For the artists…

Dave D’Alessio @dalessio-dave.bsky.social · 15h

Looking for a cover artist for self-published book trilogy. Mecha story with a boy and girl main characters. Something mildly cartoony that will punch in thumbnail.

Yes, paid! Four covers total, for each volume and an omnibus edition.

If you have a site you want me to look at, let me know.

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 8h

A colourful bloom to brighten up your Monday

#flowers #fleurs #nature #photography #photographie

A large, pink flower, basking in autumn sunlight

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Scottish BPOC Writers Network @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social · 11h

Do you write:

• SFF/speculative fiction
• Games - digital, RPGs, tabletop, etc
• Scripts for film, TV, radio, or podcasts
• Comics - print or digital

...and want some inspiration? Then check out this Saturday's workshop on (super)heroic worlds!
scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/building-sup...

Building (Super) Heroic Worlds with Etienne Kubwabo

An in-person writing workshop about turning ordinary surroundings into superheroic worlds.

scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 6d

The Glasgow @womenslibrary.bsky.social’s Maud Sulter Annual Lecture
31 Oct @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social – free

@pratibha.bsky.social will discuss the vibrant Black women’s arts movement of the 1980s in dialogue with Sulter’s work & their reverberations today
womenslibrary.org.uk/event/the-ma...

The Maud Sulter Annual Lecture with Pratibha Parmar | Glasgow Women's Library

Parmar will talk about foundational moments in dialogue with Maud Sulter’s work and their reverberations today.

womenslibrary.org.uk

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 1d

Portland hosted a drag show across from the ICE facility today. 🔥 song choice. 😍

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 22h

It's feeling like an evening that requires a late-night hot chocolate...

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 22h

Taken this day, 2020, Diggers pub during COVID www.flickr.com/photos/woola...

The pubs were still closed, but they could serve "takeaway", filling up bottles from the ale taps, behind screens.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie

Diggers During Covid

Our pubs are once again closed during the latest Covid restrictions to try and stem the case numbers which has risen alarmingly since the main Lockdown eased. My local, the iconic Diggers pub, is doin...

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 22h

Taken this day, 2019, foraging for food after dark www.flickr.com/photos/woola...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #StreetPhotography

Foraging for Food

Local natives out foraging for their food after dark, they have hunted down their prey and soon they shall feast.Predators often stalk these locations at night

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 23h

Walking through the haar on North Berwick beach www.flickr.com/photos/woola...

#photography #photographie #NorthBerwick #Scotland#Ecosse #haar #mist #brume

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Peering through the mist at people walking on the beach at North Berwick. The light was quite unusual, the haar (a Scottish term for sea mist) was moving inland from the Firth of Forth, but the bright...

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 23h

The haar rolling inshore, across the beach and North Berwick, with the sun trying to burn through it
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#NorthBerwick #photography #photographie #Ecosse #Scotland

Haar At North Berwick 03

The haar (sea mist) we had seen earlier out over the islands of the Firth of Forth was now moving into shore and inland. With the golden autumn sunlight trying to shine through it, it created a strang...

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 23h

The haar starting to wrap itself around the islands in the Firth of Forth, off North Berwick today www.flickr.com/photos/woola...

#NorthBerwick #landscape #seascape #photography #photographie #Ecosse #Scotland

Haar At North Berwick 01

As we arrived at North Berwick it was a gorgeous, golden autumn day, but there was some haar (Scots term for sea mist) around the islands, slowly moving towards the shore (only a little later we could...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

The woman long blamed for the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is finally getting a modern makeover.

Traitor, survivor or influencer? Mexico rethinks story of conquistador translator Malinche

The woman long blamed for the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is finally getting a modern makeover.

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, that's a cracking one!

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 1d

Day 6. Faces of #UniversalHorror presents
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932)
directed by Erle C. Kenton & starring Charles Laughton & Bela Lugosi, this adaptation of HG Wells’ The Island of Dr Moreau became part of the Universal in 1958 when it was acquired from Paramount. #Day6 #FacesOfUniversalHorror

Bela Lugosi as a wolfman or creature with the face covered in hair

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 1d

This evening's viewing,Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, which I don't think I have revisited since seeing it in the cinema years ago.

#film