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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

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 20h

Pitching cosy British crime drama in 2025

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pitching cosy British crime dramas in 2025

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20h

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Another tough interview for Nigel Farage: the Stephen Collins cartoon

There are lots of parties that aren’t Reform UK operating ‘under the radar’

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Lyndsay J @eljay2.bsky.social · 18h

Looking forward to getting mine!

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The After-Life of Sharks 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelifeofsharks.com · 2d

Just a gentle reminder that pre-orders for our Christmas Sweaters close on Nov 1st. They’ll be hand-printed by me so expect the odd dog hair along with your order. I won’t charge extra for that.
Get them at thelifeofsharks.com.

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 1d

Two exciting ERC-funded PhD positions on attention and technology use with @matti.vuorre.com

I’ll be an (external) part of the supervision team and can highly recommend this department @tilburg-university.bsky.social

tiu.nu/22989

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Max Sarin @maxsarin.bsky.social · 1d

Nunsense continues! Bet you didn't see this TWIST coming! Eh? EH? ( ..I see myself out)

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Samantha @itssamanthaaaa.bsky.social · 1d

harry potter tattoos have a significantly higher regret rate than any gender affirming surgeries

Laser Clinic Offers Discount on Harry Potter Tattoo Removals in Support of
Trans Rights
By: Andy Lalwani

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Sophia McDougall @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social · 1d

Please sign. Shared care is often people's only route to ADHD treatment, but it leaves patients at risk of having their care pulled at a moment's notice by a GP who just doesn't feel "comfortable" with it. They don't have to give a reason for this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Urgently review NHS approach to shared care agreements for ADHD

Urgently review the current approach to shared care agreements (SCAs) in England. We think a review could help ensure all SCAs are reviewed individually and fairly and not refused. We want better inte...

petition.parliament.uk

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 2d

New story day!

"Phantom View" is about a son caretaking for his father, and discovering a blurry person in all their family photos that he has no memory of. The same figure is in all his dad's paintings--and the figure may be in the house with them right now.

Phantom View - Reactor

A disabled son care-taking for a disabled father try to understand the mysterious blur haunting them.

reactormag.com

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Dun @dunproofin.bsky.social · 2d

House Nation is on right now at www.twitch.tv/dunproofin - come join me

dunproofin - Twitch

House Nation - 4 to the floor thumpers

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 3d

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 3d

Kissy Kissy? #Coosday

Extreme close up of ginger Highland cow's nostril and shiny pink nose. A rasping tongue can be seen poking from her open mouth, and a frizz of wayward hair above.

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Lyndsay J @eljay2.bsky.social · 3d

Hope you feel better soon x

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David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · 7d

OK, going to have trouble paying rent again this month due to back injury.

Would appreciate so much the spreading of my online shop to get some cool orders sent out next week.
All signed.

davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com

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Improvement Service @improvserv.bsky.social · 3d

❗️Still time to apply for this role

We're looking for a Rural Child Poverty Project Officer to support local partners in their work to tackle child poverty in rural and island areas.

https://twp.ai/9PXBzt

Job advert for a Rural Child Poverty Project Officer with the Improvement Service. The job is full time, fixed term and is based in Livingston/hybrid working. The salary is £31,016 - £33,088 per year. Key responsibilities include: support the development and maintenance of strong, collaborative relationships with local partners; provide a secretariat function for the Remote, Rural and Island Child Poverty Network; support knowledge exchange including through preparation of information, reports, briefing papers and presentations; support the development of local understanding of the use of data and intelligence to understand and address child poverty. Find out the benefits of working for the Improvement Service at www.improvementservice.org.uk. Apply online at myjobscotland.gov.uk. Any questions? Contact recruitment@improvementservice.org.uk

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 4d

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️

ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 4d

heist movie where the legitimist, orleanist, and bonapartist claimants to the french throne team up to steal the french crown jewels from the louvre, each planning the stab the other two in the back at some point during the caper

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oli @olil.bsky.social · 4d

Servers are back online

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 4d

This kind of thing is why I'm more than happy to pay The Verge a subscription every month.

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The future of being trans on the internet

The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?

www.theverge.com

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Lyndsay J @eljay2.bsky.social · 4d

This from the other day I thought was pretty peak. I don't remember the last time I even saw a fishmonger

A screen clipping of a headline and sub-heading from the Guardian newspaper on 15 October. The text reads "Waste Not. Don't waste scallop roe: turn it into a luxury butter - recipe. When you get scallops at the fishmonger, keep the roe, because it can be turned into a luxury ingredient."

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 5d

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote this piece during a US federal government shutdown in 2013 and everything I said then is just as true today, except I’m even more furious at the people who don’t understand the value of collective systems and universal provision.

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If we want a civilised society, charities can't fill the void left by government | Debbie Chachra

Debbie Chachra: I gave to a local food bank because women with infants are going hungry thanks to the shutdown. But it fills me with fury

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 5d

Who killed Meadow Milton? Clues are buried in every book of the Waverly Jones mystery series--start following along with the first boxset discounted 25%, coupon code BOXSET at checkout. One day left! www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

A promo graphic with a faded weathered black and white poster that says "Who killed Meadow Milton?" and a photo of a smiling blonde teen girl. Next to it are papers taped to the wall that say "Can you solve the series mystery? Start following the clues in Waverly Jones Mysteries" with the url "skyla dawn cameron dot com"

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 5d

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 6d

Disabled people are more likely to be victims of financial abuse.

And the Universal Credit system makes that even more likely by not allowing them to have money if they live with a partner who earns/has some savings.

It's a horrifically abusive system.

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