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Jools
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Computational social scientist, random crafter, disabled non-binary cyborg and fan of amazement, movement, humour, insight and my dog. 🦓🏳️‍⚧🏳️‍🌈🤖
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Had some time before my first conference session for the day. Naturally, I got a coffee and went for a graveyard wander in the city centre.
An obelisk built into a stone wall along a pedestrian path. It is flanked by fluffy green vegetation and the sky behind is a mix of bright blue and fluffy clouds. The wall rises on the left of the obelisk to become part of an elevated road bridge. A large, old tree leans to the left over old gravestones, someofwhichareleaningor toppled. A path runs along the right of the image, also lined with old gravestones. A few old gravestones in the foreground stand in front of smooth grass and a memorial wall. Far in the background, Edinburgh castle atop thr mount looms over the scene. The sky is mostly high, white clouds.
September 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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I tested positive for COVID, despite wearing a good mask last week while I was at a conference.

Le sigh.

This is the 1st time that I have ever actually tested positive for COVID. I got all the vaccines that I was able to get, so hopefully it will be relatively mild and short.
A close up of a white, plastic, lateral flow COVID test showing a positive response. The test sits on a brown wooden surface.
June 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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The cover art for this album is great. Really retro-futurism stuff.
Cover art for Skunk Anansie's 2016 album "Anarchytecture" which features line drawings of the band members' faces, each a different bold colour, surrounding by strong vertical and diagonal geographic elements.
May 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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After a long walk in a National Trust site, I'm not surprised that the dog wants to nap.

What does surprise me is that she wants to sleep with her nose DIRECTLY on my toes. Furry little weirdo.
A dark coloured cavapoo dog lays down on a grey mat with her little doggy dace resting on a fair skinned foot.
April 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Got an unbranded leather handbag 2nd hand. Drawstring on main compartment, internal zip pocket, and tall, external buckle pocket, long strap w/ zip down the middle. Seems quality, mostly real leather.

Needs cleaning, scuff and strap repair. Any recomendations for someone who repairs leather bags?
Photo of black and brown leather handbag sitting on light brown carpeted floor. Key features include long strap that unzips down the middle to wear the bag as a rucksack. Same leather handbag and same carpeted floor background. Key features in this image are the thick handles on the top of the bag and a long buckled pocket on the front. Same leather handbag and same carpeted floor background. Key features in this image green canvas interior of the bag, small zipped internal pocket, drawstring closure for main compartment and attachment points for the long strap.
April 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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I have an MRI (with contrast!) scheduled on Friday. So I had to take break during the workday today to get acrylic jewellery in my piercings.

Fun!
A fair skinned person with a mohawk/mohican haircut, dark plastic glasses and an assortment of acrylic jewellery in ear lobes and cartilage looks off to left while sitting on a yellow velvet sofa. On the back of the sofa is a plush hermit crab.
April 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Why does the dog need to be up so early if she goes to sleep right away?!?
#doggo
A close up photo of the face of a small dark coloured cavapoo dog as she snoozes head resting on a grey blanket.
April 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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My dog must be so tired of my need for cuddles.
#doggo
A fair skinned person with short dark hair, thick rimmed tortoise shell glasses and a short sleeve blue jumper holds and cuddles a dark coloured cavapoo dog on their lap. In the background are lots of shelves with colourful balls of wool books, games and knick knacks.
March 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I made a meme. Whattaya think?
A small dark coloured cavapoo dog sits, looking straight at the camera with a calm and serious expression, leaning on one elbow as if leaning on a bar. Text across the image says "I don't always come when called. But when I do it is because you have treats. "
March 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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March 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Still punk as fuck, I whisper as I attend a lecture on campus.
A photo of a title slide in a lecture room. The slide reads The Social Structure of Punk in North-West England, Nick Crossley (with Paul Widdop and Joe Watson).
March 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I seem to be in my spooky-hipster, what-do-I-do-with-my-hands era. In the office today, listening to The Dead Kennedys on an old iPod in an iPod dock I bought off of Ebay.

Is it actually Bedtime For Democracy? Might be, Hello. Might be.

#spooky #hipster #DeadKennedys #BedtimeForDemocracy
A fair skinned person wears a close fitting black knit cap, large reflective framed glasses, a voluminous black coat over a grey and black zebra print knit dress with a black leather holster style handbag and pale grey fingerless knit wrist warmers. They stand awkwardly in a bland office, with their right hand raised behind their head and their left held at chest height. An old iPod, plugged into an iPod dock with speakers and a digital clock sits on a pale wood effect desk. Thermodynamics screen shows that it is currently playing "Do the slag" by the Dead Kennedys from their album Bedtime for Democracy.
February 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Went to a football match ⚽️ *thinking* I was prepared for the weather. Wool tights under jeans, several layers up top, snood, 2 layers of hat, double gloves, handwarmers, etc.

Not prepared enough! Now I'm home, with multiple hot water bottles and a duvet on the sofa. The dog is pleased.
A small dark coloured cavapoo dog looks at the camera from a nest of blankets and duvets on the sofa. In the background, there is a water bottle, a big white ceramic bowl and other typical stuff on a wooden coffee table.
February 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Comet likes to sit on my lap when I make work calls.
#cavapoo #doggo #DogsAtWork
A dark coloured cavapoo dog stares intensely at the camera from close up, dominating most of the image. Behind the dog, a fair skinned person with short, brown hair and dark purple, plastic rimmed glasses wears large, over ear headphones and a grey hoodie and leans a bit to appear in the image.
February 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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At the synthetic data workshop today, there were about 20 to 25 participants, despite the snow.

And of that relatively small group, 4 participants were wearing socks and sandals. Again, despite the snow.

3 pairs of birkenstock style sandals and one pair of hiking sandals. Amazing!
A midday scene of trees, roads and verges with a light dusting of snow in Sweden.
January 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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1st time flying w/ my rollator! Pros = can put rucksack on seat for pain free strolling, security easier as I can just sit needed (no awkward squats!).

Cons = lost time getting my rollator from baggage check and go through security because they did not give it back to me when I deplaned.
A photo showing a bar with a Belgian beer and a Belgian waffle, next to a red rollator with a purple rucksack and a olive green jacket.
January 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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It's been cold lately so I brought my big muff (🤭) to the football grounds.

I don't like cold hands!
A fair skinned person wearing an knit cap, a blue and white striped football scarf, a long black wool coat and a large faux fur victorian style muff stands in a football ground with the pitch in the background before the game has started.
January 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM