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National Theatre of Scotland @ntsonline.bsky.social · 1h

📢 WE ARE HIRING 📢

We are looking for a Producer to work as part of our Producing and Planning team to support a range of projects and productions!

Deadline: Monday 3 November

APPLY NOW
www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/jobs/producer

#ArtsJobs

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 1h

Universities monitored social media of students for possible protest at the behest of arms companies www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Absolutely shameful behaviour - @heriotwattuni.bsky.social and @uofglasgow.bsky.social , what were you thinking??

#Scotland #Ecosse

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 2h

Episode 7 is live, and patrons can also catch us at patreon.com/StarshipAlexandria where we talk about The Mummy, as a Halloween treat.

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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 14h

6 Canadians — including a First Nations woman — have been detained by Israel after their aid ship was intercepted in international waters while carrying medical supplies to Gaza.

Canada must demand their immediate release.

🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....
#cdnpoli #HumanRights #SaveTheCBC

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 14h

Exiting the cinema late after a post-work movie, catching Anderson's One Battle After Another, which was rather longer than I'd realised, but pretty damned excellent (didn't realise how long until I switched phone back on, quite engrossed)

#film #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #EdinburghByNight #photography

Brightly lit signs and strings of lights outside a Pizza Hut next to the cinema at night

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 21h

Ladies and gentlemen, your contenders! In the blue corner, The Roman Empire, in the red corner, Mighty Carthage!

We want a clean fight, no hitting below the belt, no sneaky salting each other's lands ...

#books #Livres #history #histoire

Blue coloured hardback of The Romans by Edward J Watts

Hardback of Carthage a New History by Eve MacDonald

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 21h

On Tuesday 28th October at 6pm, please join us at Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge to celebrate the launch of Answerlands by Joseph Minden and The Banquet by Stav Poleg.

The event is free to attend, and tickets can be found here:⬇️
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/stav-...

Stav Poleg & Joseph Minden: Carcanet Cambridge Book Launch - Carcanet Press

Join acclaimed poets Stav Poleg and Joseph Minden to celebrate their dual poetry launch! The event will feature readings and discussion by Stav and Joseph

www.carcanet.co.uk

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 21h

Your Vote for us could win you tickets! Final Shortlist closes 14-Oct.
🚨We have 3 NOMINATIONS in the @TVChoice AWARDS this year!
BEST ENTERTAINMENT SHOW for THE FOOTAGE DETECTIVES, BEST FACTUAL for THE STORIES BEHIND THE SONGS & #TPTV FAVOURITE CHANNEL. buff.ly/EOOAMIM

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 22h

I like to think those kids are thinking waving is fine, but when will Russell tell us some of his famous jokes? 😋

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 22h

Remember the beautiful, sparkly Book Bench Trail Silver Darlings-inspired Book Bench we had out front all summer?

It's being auctioned TONIGHT to raise money for
Clan Cancer Support!

You can see all the benches, follow the auction live and bid for a bench at: clancancersupport.org/the-book-ben...

A white bench created to look like the open pages of a book, covered in reflective glass fish. Outside Orkney Library & Archive.

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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 22h

We are alarmed at reports that photojournalist and writer Shahidul Alam and others have been detained following the interception of an aid flotilla bound for Gaza. We call for their immediate release and safe return.

Read his recent article ⬇️
en.prothomalo.com/opinion/5gzi...

Life on Conscience

This is not about those of us on this ship. It is about Palestinians, particularly Gazans. We have gone way past the time for words and gestures. It is time for action.

en.prothomalo.com

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 23h

#Edinburgh peeps, we have copies of that fine chap @bobmort.bsky.social 's new novel, The Long Shoe, signed by his own fair hand.

#Edimbourg #books #livres

A signed hardback of The Long Shoe in the Edinburgh Bookshop

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 1d

This from a man who collaborated with Tories, then Zuckerberg. Why would we care what this sells-out thinks?

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 1d

And making theft illegal would “kill” the thieving industry. Good. Make theft illegal again.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Denise Mina @damedenisemina.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll be on in central London at St Andrew’s Square Saturday 29th November. Do come!

Picture of Denise Mina who’s appearing at the 26th -30th November 2025 London St Andrews book festival

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 1d

No blooms this morning, but here's a lovely leaf, migrating south for the winter.

#nature #photography #photographie #leaf #feuille #autumn #automne #fall

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 1d

Taken this day, 2011. Hugh Miller, Geologist
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Statue of Hugh Miller in the National Museum of Scotland, caught in in light & shadow.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #sculpture #statue

Hugh Miller, geologist

statue in one of the upper galleries of the National Museum of Scotland (sunlight slanting in Victorian glass and iron roof creating interesting patterns that screamed to me for B&W shot). This is H...

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 1d

Coffee after dark www.flickr.com/photos/woola...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #EdinburghByNight #NightPhotography #StreetPhotography

Coffee After Dark

Not a fan of this chain, which seems to be everywhere in the city now (I dislike that you can only order from a screen, not an actual person), but still tried a couple of handheld night shots on the w...

www.flickr.com

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 1d

Fabulous late dusk sky on the way home this evening.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Photography #photographie #dusk #crepuscule #EdinburghByNight #NightPhotography

Dark blue sky overhead, shading to lighter blue closer to the horizon, with a tinge of red from the just vanished sun, semi silhouetting the old Victorian tenements

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Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry @chshumanists.bsky.social · 2d

Book bans? Americans United for the Separation of Church and State's Rob Boston busts some myths.

#BannedBooksWeek

buff.ly/SbQ3vfk

For Banned Books Week, debunking five myths about book bans - Americans United

Many book bans in the United States are motivated by religious beliefs. Extreme Christian Nationalist groups are targeting books that offend their theology.

www.au.org

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Kingman Park Kaleidoscope @kingmanpark.bsky.social · 2d

It’s #BannedBooksWeek and @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social will be hosting the famed Banned Wagon this Weds 10/8, 3-7pm. They will showcase a selection of 30 banned books and distribute free copies (while supplies last). Take action, save our stories, and preserve First Amendment rights!

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely loved this, an ideal read for the darker evenings of the Witching Season!

#books #livres

The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 1d

#WhatWereReading : Joe loved @pfracassi.bsky.social 's Boys in the Valley, so was eager for his new #horror , which is a total change of pace. Imagine the Slasher genre meets Thursday Murder Club, as a serial killer stalks a retirement community.

#books #livres #Halloween @orbitbooksuk.bsky.social

Bookseller Joe holding up a copy of The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre in the Edinburgh Bookshop.

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Rob Williams @robwilliams71.bsky.social · 1d

RED DRAGON pt 3 in tomorrow's @2000ad.bsky.social 2453.

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Rob Williams @robwilliams71.bsky.social · 1d

And JUDGE DREDD: AND TO THE SEA RETURN pt 4 in tomorrow's @2000ad.bsky.social 2453.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 Sinister stuff. Jenrick, a Tory leadership candidate, says he didn’t see a White face in an area, & that it looked like a slum. This is a v old racist dog-whistle. Then when challenged on it, he accuses journos of fomenting terrorism. He’s clearly in fascist double-speak mode [1]

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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