Somhairle Kelly
@eithin.bsky.social
Queer, trans, disabled, he/they. Artist, designer, amateur material culture historian, ex-nanomaterials scientist. Open University environmental everything student. Welsh, living in Scotland by the sea.
Fix your hearts or die.
Fix your hearts or die.
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Saor Alba 🏴
December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Saor Alba 🏴
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So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
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Day 3 of #ArtAdventCalendar: It's always hard to find the perfect tree-topper, but I think I've done it! #wildlife
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Day 3 of #ArtAdventCalendar: It's always hard to find the perfect tree-topper, but I think I've done it! #wildlife
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when that show comes out i better not hear a fucking word about it. no memes. no edits. "it was so important to my childhood--" okay well human rights are important to my adulthood??
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
when that show comes out i better not hear a fucking word about it. no memes. no edits. "it was so important to my childhood--" okay well human rights are important to my adulthood??
Something for the Diana Wynne Jones fans - an art binding of her Charmed Life, by Toben Lewis at Baile Mòr Books on Iona.
www.hewit.com/blogs/showca...
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Charmed Life
Bound by Toben Lewis using Bonnie Geal Goat by Diana Wynne JonesPrinted by The Folio Society 2023 Illustrations by Alison Bryant. Full leather binding. Rough coloured page edges. Sewn silk endbands. I...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Something for the Diana Wynne Jones fans - an art binding of her Charmed Life, by Toben Lewis at Baile Mòr Books on Iona.
www.hewit.com/blogs/showca...
www.hewit.com/blogs/showca...
That poor cat!
Earlier depiction of the Orobin Fish from Ambroise Paré, Opera Ambrosii Parei regis primarii et Parisiensis chirvrgi (Paris, 1582).
December 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
That poor cat!
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All opera plot summaries are like "Kunfre, driven to madness by the treachery of Zarnfig, flees her wedding to Bogaro and resolves to throw herself into the sea, before being stopped by an unnamed and irrelevant countertenor" and all ballet plot summaries are like "somewhere, a princess exists"
December 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
All opera plot summaries are like "Kunfre, driven to madness by the treachery of Zarnfig, flees her wedding to Bogaro and resolves to throw herself into the sea, before being stopped by an unnamed and irrelevant countertenor" and all ballet plot summaries are like "somewhere, a princess exists"
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"I'm being paid the same now, when I make 500 shirts a day, as I did when I made 50 shirts a day. Where the fuck is the money going?"
The popular idea of luddites is entirely due to generations of capitalists trying their damnedest to obscure what is a very simple issue.
The popular idea of luddites is entirely due to generations of capitalists trying their damnedest to obscure what is a very simple issue.
December 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"I'm being paid the same now, when I make 500 shirts a day, as I did when I made 50 shirts a day. Where the fuck is the money going?"
The popular idea of luddites is entirely due to generations of capitalists trying their damnedest to obscure what is a very simple issue.
The popular idea of luddites is entirely due to generations of capitalists trying their damnedest to obscure what is a very simple issue.
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hey, who's here for greenwashing AI blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-ai/
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December 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
hey, who's here for greenwashing AI blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-ai/
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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Observe mine Marvellous Tail!!
November 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Observe mine Marvellous Tail!!
Inexplicably, the party formerly known as Your Party is still known as Your Party, instead of the more accurate and appropriate We Have The Green Party At Home.
It’s Your Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/30/i...
It’s Your Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To
The breakdown of British politics that has come from the collapse of the Conservative and Labour parties has opened up opportunities for new populist forces on both the left and the right. Into thi…
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November 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Inexplicably, the party formerly known as Your Party is still known as Your Party, instead of the more accurate and appropriate We Have The Green Party At Home.
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So many people who imagine themselves to be Marxists have a deeply liberal and idealist understanding of transphobia. It's not a debate, it's a power struggle and if you aren't willing to clearly take trans people's side, you are a scab.
Nah, bullshit tbh. You don't deal with the presence of transphobes by debating them. That the guy arguing no felt comfortable doing so and wasn't immediately heckled into silence speaks to a fundamental fucking rot.
November 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
So many people who imagine themselves to be Marxists have a deeply liberal and idealist understanding of transphobia. It's not a debate, it's a power struggle and if you aren't willing to clearly take trans people's side, you are a scab.
Obligatory multiplayer content.
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Obligatory multiplayer content.
Speaking as a beardy old D&D grognard (I started when 2nd Ed came out and I still have to stop myself saying AD&D) - all this. Though if all your NPCs are cishet or you use detailed encumbrance rules, I will disapprove.
I need to stress: actual beardy old D&D grognards are not mad about people being gay in D&D. Don't let weird fascists tell you otherwise. We have never cared about what happens at someone else's table and we never will, it's none of our business (but please get off our lawn)
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Speaking as a beardy old D&D grognard (I started when 2nd Ed came out and I still have to stop myself saying AD&D) - all this. Though if all your NPCs are cishet or you use detailed encumbrance rules, I will disapprove.
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Greens: we need to tax wealth to tackle inequality, bring utilities into public control, and invest in a just transition away from fossil fuels
Commentariat: this is mad simplistic nonsense
Labour: economic growth & gentle nudges will fix it
Commentariat: yes yes very sensible, we all like growth
Commentariat: this is mad simplistic nonsense
Labour: economic growth & gentle nudges will fix it
Commentariat: yes yes very sensible, we all like growth
November 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Greens: we need to tax wealth to tackle inequality, bring utilities into public control, and invest in a just transition away from fossil fuels
Commentariat: this is mad simplistic nonsense
Labour: economic growth & gentle nudges will fix it
Commentariat: yes yes very sensible, we all like growth
Commentariat: this is mad simplistic nonsense
Labour: economic growth & gentle nudges will fix it
Commentariat: yes yes very sensible, we all like growth
I've performed most of the characters in Arcadia, over nearly a dozen play reading parties. It's still one of my all time favourite plays, fire and lightning and numbers and a memorial for that which is dropped along the way.
November 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I've performed most of the characters in Arcadia, over nearly a dozen play reading parties. It's still one of my all time favourite plays, fire and lightning and numbers and a memorial for that which is dropped along the way.
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We can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory.
They're all blood, you see.
They're all blood, you see.
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory.
They're all blood, you see.
They're all blood, you see.
I wouldn't have to worry about eating, heating, and a roof over my head, or staying on my university course. I'd be able to afford art materials and books and even other peoples' art. And massively up my charity donations.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I wouldn't have to worry about eating, heating, and a roof over my head, or staying on my university course. I'd be able to afford art materials and books and even other peoples' art. And massively up my charity donations.
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Since 1978, the world has observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People every November 29th.
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Since 1978, the world has observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People every November 29th.
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I'm reading "The Two Hungers of Prince Fierre". It's described as "Scottish-inspired" and that is very definitely a load-bearing hyphen.
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I'm reading "The Two Hungers of Prince Fierre". It's described as "Scottish-inspired" and that is very definitely a load-bearing hyphen.
I'm reading "The Two Hungers of Prince Fierre". It's described as "Scottish-inspired" and that is very definitely a load-bearing hyphen.
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I'm reading "The Two Hungers of Prince Fierre". It's described as "Scottish-inspired" and that is very definitely a load-bearing hyphen.
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Using AI prompt generated images for anything professional at all makes you look instantly unprofessional. No one trusts anything you're saying or selling or pitching or proposing if you use it. Stop making yourself and your ideas look bad with this one easy step: never use AI generated images
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Using AI prompt generated images for anything professional at all makes you look instantly unprofessional. No one trusts anything you're saying or selling or pitching or proposing if you use it. Stop making yourself and your ideas look bad with this one easy step: never use AI generated images
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Hope, creativity, community, all intersect in revolutionary acts of radical joy.
Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Hope, creativity, community, all intersect in revolutionary acts of radical joy.