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.
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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The con is gone.
Carbon capture and storage was never a serious option — was all about allowing filthy fossil fuel producers to carry on killing us and our planet
www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefi...
Carbon capture and storage was never a serious option — was all about allowing filthy fossil fuel producers to carry on killing us and our planet
www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefi...
Carbon capture and storage was never going to happen — Common Weal
Today's newspapers are reporting that the future of the Acorn carbon capture and storage project is in doubt . Common Weal would disagree with that assessment. We would argue that all that is in doub...
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December 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The con is gone.
Carbon capture and storage was never a serious option — was all about allowing filthy fossil fuel producers to carry on killing us and our planet
www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefi...
Carbon capture and storage was never a serious option — was all about allowing filthy fossil fuel producers to carry on killing us and our planet
www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefi...
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A tiny bit of shameless self-promotion because the gifting season is creeping up on us. If you’re after something delicious, handcrafted, and ethical, my chocolate boxes, bars, and treats make really lovely gifts. Treat yourself, treat someone else, or both, I won’t judge! Reshares appreciated! 🍫✨
November 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A tiny bit of shameless self-promotion because the gifting season is creeping up on us. If you’re after something delicious, handcrafted, and ethical, my chocolate boxes, bars, and treats make really lovely gifts. Treat yourself, treat someone else, or both, I won’t judge! Reshares appreciated! 🍫✨
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The Blenheim Estate lost an oak, and as they like their fallen trees to remain in place to encourage wildlife, they asked artist Matthew Crabb to do his magic
Photo: Pete Seaward
Photo: Pete Seaward
December 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The Blenheim Estate lost an oak, and as they like their fallen trees to remain in place to encourage wildlife, they asked artist Matthew Crabb to do his magic
Photo: Pete Seaward
Photo: Pete Seaward
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You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
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#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar
December 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar
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The correct response to fascism: fuck you, make me.
December 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The correct response to fascism: fuck you, make me.
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The rich want us to have a world free of working class art. The only art they want is what they can sell top-down to the masses and art that they can invest in as a speculative market. When the working class creates art they are not generating profit for the capital class and they hate this
December 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The rich want us to have a world free of working class art. The only art they want is what they can sell top-down to the masses and art that they can invest in as a speculative market. When the working class creates art they are not generating profit for the capital class and they hate this
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(Really, one super-underused way to really strongly define the aesthetics of a fantasy setting is just by defining which dyes are available and in which regions they are available)
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
(Really, one super-underused way to really strongly define the aesthetics of a fantasy setting is just by defining which dyes are available and in which regions they are available)
Today is Bandcamp Friday, which means that if you're after some Christmas folk music, this is a really good time to get this - it's a cooperative project between me & my partner. He did the hard bit, I just wrote some lyrics. merrythefolk.bandcamp.com/album/dancin...
Dancing Day: songs for Christmas and Yule, by Merry Hadaway
8 track album
merrythefolk.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Today is Bandcamp Friday, which means that if you're after some Christmas folk music, this is a really good time to get this - it's a cooperative project between me & my partner. He did the hard bit, I just wrote some lyrics. merrythefolk.bandcamp.com/album/dancin...
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1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I'm seeing "traumatized blankness" and "landlord who wants to make sure you know you're not at home" here. That's worryingly on vibe.
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I'm seeing "traumatized blankness" and "landlord who wants to make sure you know you're not at home" here. That's worryingly on vibe.
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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.
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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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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…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
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.