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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 ❤️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
www.theguardian.com
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eliseswritings.bsky.social
To pretend all disability accommodations are like performance enhancing drugs, that will advantage all able bodied, neurotypical people, is an outright lie. I say this as a neurodivergent, chronically ill/ physically disabled teacher who has worked with disabled students for 15 years.
December 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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mthrjo.bsky.social
I think this Advent I am going to spend a fair amount of time contemplating the rather bleak truth that it's easy to do the right thing until it costs you something.

And attempting to hold that mirror up to myself, of course.
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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ncdominie.bsky.social
If anyone out there in Scottish education uses the excellent Scholar e-resources platform (based at HW), please know that it's under threat and they're collecting notes of endorsement:

heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk

Please help them if you can.
December 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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kylewbanks.com
Scottish friends! I'm looking for a voice actor (roughly 30-40 years old, female) for an unannounced game✨

You definitely don't need to be an established actor, but you must be UK based with your own recording equipment.

This is a paid role, DM for brief! #voiceacting
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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fionaswriting.bsky.social
Today is International Day Of Persons With Disabilities, and we are also in the 16 Days Of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, so here is my article on violence against disabled women.

bellacaledonia.org.uk/2019/04/10/s...
Surviving in plain sight: Disabled women and domestic abuse
Bella Takeover 10-12 April, with Guest Editor Caitlin Logan Engender have published an in-depth, much-needed report on disabled women’s reproductive rights: ‘Our Bodies, Our Rights’. There are so m…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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fionaswriting.bsky.social
My speech from Saturday's Aberdeen Trades Union Council St Andrew's Day parade about why disabled people are key to the fight against fascism.

About 15 minutes before I spoke, our rally was attacked. I'm going to write more about that separately.

youtu.be/1vSAq7TYork?...
Speech - why disabled people fight fascism
YouTube video by Fiona Robertson
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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jamesbluecat.bsky.social
Any recommends for decent books on video game design or pixel art? Son is 15 and looking to do a diploma in video game art/design/animation after GCSEs, so any ideas for Christmas presents would be welcome.
December 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
eljay2.bsky.social
This book is excellent and also terrifying
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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bot.cowtools.org
Roger screws up.
Roger screws up.
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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jenniekermode.bsky.social
I have a new piece in Central Bylines on the danger of basing policy on appearance, the wider push to restore a restrictive approach to gender, and what that means for women's rights and society as a whole. centralbylines.co.uk/society/more...
More than meets the eye: sex, gender and dangerous women
Labour's unworkable approach to policing gender means trouble for everyone – which is exactly what the real enemies of women's rights want
centralbylines.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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n5-1bu.bsky.social
Reminds me of a Bernardism from Yes, Minister.

James Hacker:
...but I have never leaked.

Bernard Woolley:
Oh, that's another of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I give confidential press briefings; you leak; he's been charged under Section 2a of the Official Secrets Act.
December 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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saracentury.bsky.social
People still constantly bring up my AI Statement page in the Scream zine. Some folks say it made them cry! I was going to be more eviscerating but instead felt the best way to make my point was just to be totally raw and vulnerable in a way AI can't be. sara-century.square.site
Scream mask on a black background This zine was not created by AI. It took me a year to write, from early 2023 to early 2024. I spent several more months agonizing over edits, desperately rephrasing sentences out of coherence and back again. Even with all of that work, it isn't perfect. It will never be perfect. I will never be perfect. Imperfect people will read it and I love that for us. This zine was not created by AI. I wrote it and rewrote it during a really hard time in my life. Many times, it seemed like I'd turned 40 and had been unceremoniously dropped back to Square One by life. I couldn't see how I could make anything work. So, I made a zine. This zine was not created by AI. Every time I almost gave up, I worked through it instead. By the time it was finished, it felt like a small epiphany for how I wanted to make art going forward. This zine was not created by AI. Finishing it was a gift I gave myself when I felt devalued and defeated. It's a love letter to myself, horror movies, and I guess to all of us. This zine was not created by AI. It was created by me.
November 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Want a memento of your very favourite four-legged friend?
December 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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tusk81.bsky.social
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
www.aidsmemorial.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
The Good Old Days   Pity the poor children of today, with their calendars stuffed with chocolates,   never to know the thrill of opening a small cardboard door and discovering behind it   a picture of a bell. Brian Bilston
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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thelifeofsharks.com
This month's hand-printed (my me) design on our store is the Space Shark.
thelifeofsharks.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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jambookshopuk.bsky.social
Check this cos I have 2 original sketches for sale...
skullsandsheets.bsky.social Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 5d
Mari Lwyd Charity Auction Info

Artwork, books and goodies raising money for @womensaid.bsky.social @refugecharity.bsky.social @galopuk.bsky.social @lovingmeuk.bsky.social and Mankind Initiative

Preview page: skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com

Auction page: www.ebay.co.uk/usr/skullsns...
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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cstross.bsky.social
(UK) Parliamentary Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736690
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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melindasalisbury.com
This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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mausimus.bsky.social
To celebrate #DOSember myself and @chrisjfemo.bsky.social made a deduction mini-game in EGA for your 286 PC (but you can also play in the browser!)
mausimus.itch.io/quid-pro-quo

Huge thanks to @emmfoolery.bsky.social for organizing the DOSember Game Jam and a fist bump to everyone who participated!
Quid Pro Quo by mausimus
Deduction mini-game in EGA for MS-DOS
mausimus.itch.io
December 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
6 Panel Comic Panel 1: A Purple Dude and a Green Dude in an electronics shop. The Purple Dude is holding a box containing a new laptop. Purple Dude: You’re all set. Here’s your new AI laptop and your guy. Green Dude: My what? Panel 2: A severe looking Red Dude in cap and shades has appeared behind Green Dude. Purple Dude: Your guy. Every new AI laptop comes with a guy. Panel 3: Green Dude is back at home. We see him through the window working at his new laptop. Panel 4: Interior of kitchen. Green Dude continues to work at his laptop. The Red Dude is standing next to him. Panel 5: Close up of laptop screen. Green Dude is about to turn off the AI features. Panel 6: Red Dude produces a gun and presses it to Green Dude’s temple. He hisses: Don’t you fucking dare.
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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aptshadow.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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ncdominie.bsky.social
So, anyway. Here is the piece I wrote for the Glasgow Requiem project on the Cathedral well.

new-cleckit.dominie.scot/the-woman-at...

It's an odd piece for me, because I was working well outwith my usual historical beat, and with very little evidence to go on.
View into the Glasgow Cathedral well before the mosaic was installed.
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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jambookshopuk.bsky.social
it's #nationalillustrationday

where better to see #illustration today than
davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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jambookshopuk.bsky.social
Don't forget!
I'll be signing books & prints at @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social on Dec 6th at 1-3pm.

My new comic collection book won't be stocked in many places & the museum shop will be where to grab one in central London.

Come & support an underappreciated place in London
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM