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Nina
@ninaneedsspace.bsky.social
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Intersectional feminist, knitter, #RunningPunk, #MDANT, cyclist, space fan, planetarian, Trekkie. Opinions mine. She/Her. #BWithTheT 🏳️‍🌈
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That’s @yougov.co.uk asking the important questions today.

The only correct answer is of course Strongly Agree, and if you think otherwise, well, enjoy being wrong. You can just sit there in how terribly wrong you are.
A screenshot of a YouGov survey which asks the question “I think Scottish tap water is “world class” (I.e. some of the best in the world)” with answer options ranging from strongly disagree through to strongly agree
December 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Delighted to announce that even though the knitting of it has caused me actual physical harm, the #PaulKleeSweater that gave me tennis elbow does, in fact, fit. Just a sleeve and a half and some minor tweaks to go.
Me, a white woman in my 40’s taking a selfie in my bedroom. I have a short pink and blonde bob and I’m wearing a half-finished knitted jumper which is black with a colourful yoke of squares in pink, blue, and green. I’m holding up the working ball of black wool like I’m Hamlet and it’s the skull of Yorick I’ve just unearthed.
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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After my total lack of success in getting into any of the #SuperHalfs next year, other than Berlin which I’ve done 4 times and will be doing again in 2026, I wasn’t expecting much joy from the waitlists. I’m pure delighted to have been proved wrong and will running the Valencia Half next October!
A screenshot of a confirmation screen from the Valencia Half Marathon.
December 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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I’m just glad that my temporarily-scuppered elbow doesn’t affect the other thing that I’ve made my entire personality. It was proper lovely weather for a run this St Andrew’s Day (just about) morning. #RunningPunks
Me, a white woman taking a selfie after a run on a cold, sunny, winter day. I’m standing in front of a hedge, and I’m wearing a pink running top, black gilet, grey hydration vest, black baseball cap, and black sunnies. I’m smiling at the camera. Strava stats show a 10.3km run done in 1hr 5mins.
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The current state of the jumper in question, for those of you wondering. It’s the #PaulKleeSweater by Midori Hirose. It’s a touch conical on the yoke, but that’ll be fixed once the sleeves and the rest of the body are done, I’ll either see how it blocks or rip back the neck ribbing.
A half-knitted jumper lying on a white and blue bedspread. The body is knitted in black wool, and the yoke is a pattern of squares, in shades of pink, blue, and green that get progressively darker from top to bottom.
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Props to my GP for seeing me quickly, and for diagnosing me with lateral epicondylitis (aka tennis elbow) and not laughing when we worked out that it’s been brought on by my knitting excessively in an attempt to spend less time on my phone 🙃.

This jumper better bloody fit, is all I’m saying.
A close up of the colourful yoke of a hand knitted jumper. It is a pattern of squares in shades of green, pink, and blue, which get progressively darker from the top to the bottom A close up of the inside of the colourful yoke of a hand knitted jumper. It is a pattern of squares in shades of green, pink, and blue, which get progressively darker from the top to the bottom. Because it’s the inside of the jumper, you can see the floats on the back as the colours have been carried across.
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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A slightly icy run round the park this morning, with signs of solidarity and a wee pal at the end. #RunningPunks
A close up of a chunky black and white cat, standing on the fence outside of a blonde sandstone tenement. Strava stats at the bottom left show a 6km run in 40 minutes. A hybrid black, green, red, and white Palestinian flag and blue and white Scottish saltire attached to a lamppost outside a park. There’s a big wintery tree to the left of the photo, and the sky is blue.
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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I didn’t realise how much I needed to get out for a run until I was actually moving. Today was perfect, crisp and cold, with @coachbennett.bsky.social’s commentary on gratitude. I spent today’s 8km thinking of a friend, and how grateful I was to have known her. #RunningPunks
A photo looking east along the River Clyde on a cold autumn morning. The sky is blue and the river is perfectly still. Strava stats in the top left show a 9km run in 57 minutes The statue of La Pasionaria by the Clyde on a cold, clear, autumn morning.
November 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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This weekend was full of joy and friendship, and at the same time utterly devastating. This planet has lost the kindest, brightest soul far too early. If there’s anything she taught me, it’s to please check your chests regularly folks, and tell people you love them. Make it weird.
A photo from the back of a fancy Polaroid camera. A group of four people wearing excellent jumpers, because that was the theme of the party, are smiling into the camera. From left to right, they are a white woman with pink and blonde hair and a purple 80’s cardi, a non-binary South Asian person wearing a pink jumper, a non-binary white person wearing a very 90’s dad jumper, and a white woman with short cropped hair due to chemo wearing a pastel pink and blue jumper.
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Did some converting at the London Transport Museum today and nearly cried.
A description of a 3-bedroom semi-detached house with small front garden in the London suburbs from the 1930’s. It cost £875 freehold, with a £25 deposit. A screenshot of an inflation calculator, showing that something (like an attractive 3-bedroom semi-detached house in the London suburbs, with a small front garden) costing £900 in 1930 should cost £51,157.13 in 2025
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Life is far too fucking short, team. Tell your friends you love them while they’re here.
A view looking east down the River Clyde at sunrise, while crossing the rail bridge from Glasgow Central. The sun is rising over to the right of the image, and the inevitable clouds are picking up the golden light of the sun.
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Right, I’m ready to get my heart broken again. #ValenciaHalfMarathon
A screenshot of the Valencia Half Marathon ballot page confirming my ballot entry for the 2026 race.
November 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Unsolicited kit pic.
Rosalind, my grey and white domestic shorthair cat, when she was a tiny 6-week old kitten. Her fur is mostly grey, except for a bit of a moustache round her mouth, and a white bib on her chest, and she has fabulous white whiskers. Her eyes are still blue, as she’s so young, and neither are pointing in the same direction. Her ears look huge, and her head is inexplicably pointy. She’s adorable.
October 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Cardiff half marathon, before and after. Last half of the year, lads. Lovely to meet so many #RunningPunks in person. Turns out yous are all actual 3D humans! Who knew?!
A white woman (me) taking a selfie at the start of a half marathon. I’m wearing a black baseball cap, purple running top, and grey hydration vest, and I’m smiling at the camera A white woman (me), in a pub drinking a pint after a half marathon.
October 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Today’s attempt at a run was considerably more successful than the last effort. 13km along the incredibly autumnal Clyde as a dress rehearsal for 13.1 miles next Sunday in Cardiff. Hope to see some #RunningPunks there!
Me, a white woman in my 40’s taking a selfie outside after a run. I’m standing next to a hedge, and I’m wearing a purple running top, pink baseball cap, and grey hydration vest. I’m smiling at the camera. A view along the Clyde. The trees and foliage is all starting to turn red and brown as autumn properly sets in. A view of the Clyde. A heron is standing on the rocky bank to the left of the photo.
September 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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A run of two halves, two robins, and a crescent moon. Today’s effort was a short recovery run to warm up, and a progressive tempo run to proper get the cobwebs out. Lovely stuff. #RunningPunks
A tiny sliver of crescent moon in a pale blue morning sky. Strava stats on the left show a 3.77km run in 26 minutes A wee fat robin in a cypress tree outside a yellow sandstone tenement building. Strava stats on the left show a 2.96km run in 20 minutes A different wee fat robin perched on the windowsill of a yellow sandstone tenement. Me, a white woman in my early 40’s, taking a selfie after a run. I’m standing in front of a very green hedge, and I’m wearing a pink baseball cap, black T-shirt and grey hydration vest. I’m smiling at the camera.
September 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Two gigs? In one week?! Who do I think I am? Saw the brilliant Daði Freyr (again) and Montaigne on Wednesday, and the perfect pop stylings of Blusher last night. If there’s any justice, Blusher will be playing much bigger venues than the dinky Poetry Club at SWG3 next time they’re here…
The very tall Daði Freyr on stage at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow, he is lit dramatically from behind by an orange spotlight. The three members of Blusher on stage at a small venue. They’re lit in purple, and singing into microphones.
September 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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I finally did it lads, I did it! I got them in a row! 🦆

10 miles after 3 days of socialising was never going to be a party, but actually it was only during the last 3km that I had to make a proper mental effort not to ditch it. Which is good because it’s 5 weeks to Cardiff… #RunningPunks
A photo of the side of a pond in a park on a sunny day. Nine mallard ducks are having a snooze in the sunshine, lined up in a row.
August 31, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Thanks to lovely folks on socials, I’ve gone from being a total arachnophobe, to being able to deal with spiders calmly and gently. However, in saying that, I reserve the right to scream the fucking place down when a GIANT one appears under the bathroom door and runs directly at me WHILE I’M PEEING.
A MASSIVE FUCKING SPIDER, by UK standards, at least, trapped in the classic small glass and postcard combo. It is large enough that the total circumference of its legs were bigger than the mouth of the glass it got trapped under.
August 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Thwarted by the PS Waverley again, doing a rogue earlier sailing than normal for a Sunday. Still, with the Cardiff Half creeping ever-closer, that’s 10 surprisingly enjoyable miles done before it got too hot. #RunningPunks
The crest of Glasgow on the bridge at Kelvinbridge Subway station, featuring fish, a tree, a bell, and a bird, plus St Mungo up top, and the motto “let Glasgow flourish” underneath. A view under the bridge at Belmont Street, which passes over the river Kelvin, on a sunny day. The alarmingly low river runs along the left of the view, with the walkway on the right. Me, a white woman taking a selfie mid-run next to the canal on a sunny day. I’m wearing a black baseball cap, white top, and grey hydration vest. I’m smiling at the camera and look awfy sweaty. The modern, white bridge over the river Clyde at Govan on a sunny day. The bridge has opened to let the PS Waverley pass through it, rather than letting me, a pedestrian, run over it.
August 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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I somehow managed to do the same number of steps in that 14km run as I did yesterday on day six of six at work. Which explains why that 14km run was rough on the old legs. Got round it, and don’t need to do that again today. #RunningPunks
A lovely pain au chocolate, with some Strava stats for a 14km run done in 1hr 25 mins superimposed over it. Me, a white woman in my 40’s taking a selfie outside after a run. I’m wearing a pink baseball cap, black sunglasses, a grey hydration vest, and white T-shirt. I’m smiling at the camera and look a bit gubbed.
August 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Double the cats, double the nonsense.
Two grey and white cats lounging on a sofa. The one on the left is very small and has a wee white moustache, and the one on the right is much larger, and is showing off his white toes. Two tiny grey and white kittens playing on a wooden kitchen chair. A slightly mad, very small, grey and white cat emerging from a soft white sewing machine case. A big grey and white cat stretching on a highly patterned red rug.
August 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Took a detour to a galaxy far, far away on today’s lush 12km in the sun along the Clyde and Kelvin rivers. That was my longest run for a while, actually, I’m glad my legs still know what to do! #RunningPunks
A photo of a signpost next to a bridge over the river Kelvin, taken on a sunny day. The signpost has been altered to show the distances to Kessel, Tattoine, Endor, and Dagobah. Strava stats on the left hand side show a 12km run done in 1hr and 13mins Me, a white woman in my 40’s, taking a selfie outside after a run. I’m wearing a black baseball cap, black sunnies, black tee and shorts, and a grey hydration pack. I’m smiling at the camera and look a bit pink in the face.
August 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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An 8km tempo run before 7am? I truly don’t recognise myself anymore. #RunningPunks
An adorable bit of graffiti on a pavement. Someone has used white spray paint to draw a cute lil’ cat on the pavement. Strava stats on the left of the picture show a 8.43km run in 52mins
July 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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My inability to coordinate my runs with the Waverley’s sailing times continues, although at least today I was able to cross the Govan bridge after only a short wait instead of having to rejig my route on the fly! Also met a lovely wee tuxie pal on the way. Happy Saturday, #RunningPunks!
A shot down the River Clyde, looking west towards the Riverside Museum and Tall Ship Glenlee. The paddle steamer Waverley is making her way along the river towards the sea. Strava stats show a 7km run done in 40m 23s A lovely wee black and white cat peering out at me from the shelter of a lot of green shrubbery.
July 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM