TrudyML
@trudyml.bsky.social
Scotland 🏴 Grumpy yet wholesome
Book-lover, writer, theatre-maker, editor, proofreader, bookseller, wannabe gardener, revolutionary, wanderer, treehugger
www.trudymledits.co.uk
Book-lover, writer, theatre-maker, editor, proofreader, bookseller, wannabe gardener, revolutionary, wanderer, treehugger
www.trudymledits.co.uk
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TrudyML
@trudyml.bsky.social
· Dec 21
I’m a freelance creative based both in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland. I have many jobs and many hats. Things you can hire me for: proofreading, editing, copywriting, soundboarding, catsitting, theatre production management, dramaturgy, problem-solving, retail, front of house, stewarding
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We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 1:19 PM
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
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Gorgeous Guardian account of the irreplaceable @laniritterhall.bsky.social and her work at @thirdactorg.bsky.social. She is a true north star!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘We have to go out and touch people’: how activism is tackling the US loneliness epidemic
Most people join social movements to try to change the world, but many also find community and a greater sense of purpose
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Gorgeous Guardian account of the irreplaceable @laniritterhall.bsky.social and her work at @thirdactorg.bsky.social. She is a true north star!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Was writing earlier. Then cat shouted at me to tell me it was snowing
January 4, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Was writing earlier. Then cat shouted at me to tell me it was snowing
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Nobody could have predicted this.
January 4, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Nobody could have predicted this.
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Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
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Bluesky resolutions:
- no doom-posting
- but *if* doom-posting, only with an equal or greater hope-post
- no quote-dunking
- NO quote-dunking
- share more creative work, more often
- this necessitates firstly *making* that work
- share more with folk irl before, or instead, of sharing here
- no doom-posting
- but *if* doom-posting, only with an equal or greater hope-post
- no quote-dunking
- NO quote-dunking
- share more creative work, more often
- this necessitates firstly *making* that work
- share more with folk irl before, or instead, of sharing here
December 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Bluesky resolutions:
- no doom-posting
- but *if* doom-posting, only with an equal or greater hope-post
- no quote-dunking
- NO quote-dunking
- share more creative work, more often
- this necessitates firstly *making* that work
- share more with folk irl before, or instead, of sharing here
- no doom-posting
- but *if* doom-posting, only with an equal or greater hope-post
- no quote-dunking
- NO quote-dunking
- share more creative work, more often
- this necessitates firstly *making* that work
- share more with folk irl before, or instead, of sharing here
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Something I'm excited to do for 2026 is a read-or-rehome challenge. I'm picking 10 books that have been on my shelf for varying amounts of time, and by the end of the year, the plan is that I either got the nudge I needed to read them, or if I bounced off any, send them along.
December 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Something I'm excited to do for 2026 is a read-or-rehome challenge. I'm picking 10 books that have been on my shelf for varying amounts of time, and by the end of the year, the plan is that I either got the nudge I needed to read them, or if I bounced off any, send them along.
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Happy to let you know that in the northern hemisphere we’ve now done the darkest two weeks in the year. All the other 50 weeks will be lighter than this.
December 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Happy to let you know that in the northern hemisphere we’ve now done the darkest two weeks in the year. All the other 50 weeks will be lighter than this.
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If I decided it was too much bother to clean my house so I moved into an igloo in Antarctica for the rest of my life, you'd think I was awful stupid.
Tech bros deciding they'd lose too much profit if they stopped destroying the Earth because they can move to Mars someday is even stupider.
Tech bros deciding they'd lose too much profit if they stopped destroying the Earth because they can move to Mars someday is even stupider.
December 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If I decided it was too much bother to clean my house so I moved into an igloo in Antarctica for the rest of my life, you'd think I was awful stupid.
Tech bros deciding they'd lose too much profit if they stopped destroying the Earth because they can move to Mars someday is even stupider.
Tech bros deciding they'd lose too much profit if they stopped destroying the Earth because they can move to Mars someday is even stupider.
She’s been sleeping all evening but she’s going to be so excited when her automatic feeder goes off in 6 mins for her supper. The cat knows how to do Christmas. Sleep and wake up to eat. And snoozing, give spread love to her human
December 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
She’s been sleeping all evening but she’s going to be so excited when her automatic feeder goes off in 6 mins for her supper. The cat knows how to do Christmas. Sleep and wake up to eat. And snoozing, give spread love to her human
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The climate crisis is accelerating - 2025 looks set to become UK’s hottest year on record. Good to see focus on importance of resilience on #r4today- pls take a moment to sign petition calling on Govt to introduce a fully funded national climate adaptation plan petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...
petition.parliament.uk
December 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The climate crisis is accelerating - 2025 looks set to become UK’s hottest year on record. Good to see focus on importance of resilience on #r4today- pls take a moment to sign petition calling on Govt to introduce a fully funded national climate adaptation plan petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
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French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
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Labour have got to get it into their heads that far and away their biggest threat in Wales is coming from the left.
Over 50% of their 2024 voters have gone to Plaid/Greens. Just 10% are going to Reform.
Being tough on immigration is hurting, not helping them.
Over 50% of their 2024 voters have gone to Plaid/Greens. Just 10% are going to Reform.
Being tough on immigration is hurting, not helping them.
December 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Labour have got to get it into their heads that far and away their biggest threat in Wales is coming from the left.
Over 50% of their 2024 voters have gone to Plaid/Greens. Just 10% are going to Reform.
Being tough on immigration is hurting, not helping them.
Over 50% of their 2024 voters have gone to Plaid/Greens. Just 10% are going to Reform.
Being tough on immigration is hurting, not helping them.
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If Labour don't act, they'll have blood on their hands.
David Lammy must urgently let an ambulance into HMP Bronzefield before it's too late.
David Lammy must urgently let an ambulance into HMP Bronzefield before it's too late.
December 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
If Labour don't act, they'll have blood on their hands.
David Lammy must urgently let an ambulance into HMP Bronzefield before it's too late.
David Lammy must urgently let an ambulance into HMP Bronzefield before it's too late.
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I find it *incomprehensible* that people can claim they are "fighting for the rights of women and girls" and not apparently acknowledge that - at the very least - many many reasonable women and girls *disagree with them about this*.
Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
December 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I find it *incomprehensible* that people can claim they are "fighting for the rights of women and girls" and not apparently acknowledge that - at the very least - many many reasonable women and girls *disagree with them about this*.
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Under my regime, the tech industry must have all new technologies approved by a citizen jury who assess 1) what problem the tech is attempting to address and 2) whether it actually addresses it
December 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Under my regime, the tech industry must have all new technologies approved by a citizen jury who assess 1) what problem the tech is attempting to address and 2) whether it actually addresses it
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Sorry for using comics and art to vent and cope with the world changing around me. I will return to drawing whimsical and silly frog wizards and adventures.
December 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Sorry for using comics and art to vent and cope with the world changing around me. I will return to drawing whimsical and silly frog wizards and adventures.
Revisiting a 2019 Rebecca Solnit article about hope and it seems very relevant to things now
lithub.com/rebecca-soln...
lithub.com/rebecca-soln...
Rebecca Solnit: When the Hero is the Problem
For an embodiment of the word singlehanded you might turn to the heroine of the recent movie Woman at War. It’s about an Icelandic eco-saboteur who blows up rural power lines and hides in scenic sp…
lithub.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Revisiting a 2019 Rebecca Solnit article about hope and it seems very relevant to things now
lithub.com/rebecca-soln...
lithub.com/rebecca-soln...
Sometimes my work day looks like looking for ‘oo’ words in picture books
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Sometimes my work day looks like looking for ‘oo’ words in picture books
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For anyone wondering if this is bears any resemblance to the actual @greenparty.org.uk position on drugs, lol no of course it doesn't.
Did @theobserveruk.bsky.social just print this with no fact-checking??
The Prime Minister just making shit up and having it printed in national newspapers.
Eesh.
Did @theobserveruk.bsky.social just print this with no fact-checking??
The Prime Minister just making shit up and having it printed in national newspapers.
Eesh.
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
For anyone wondering if this is bears any resemblance to the actual @greenparty.org.uk position on drugs, lol no of course it doesn't.
Did @theobserveruk.bsky.social just print this with no fact-checking??
The Prime Minister just making shit up and having it printed in national newspapers.
Eesh.
Did @theobserveruk.bsky.social just print this with no fact-checking??
The Prime Minister just making shit up and having it printed in national newspapers.
Eesh.
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Keirs strategy to attack the Greens as "nuts."🙄
This isn't debate; it's diversion. He frames the choice as "responsible manager" vs. "extremist," to avoid the real argument: his project administers systemic inequality. You can't emancipate a generation with a spreadsheet.
This isn't debate; it's diversion. He frames the choice as "responsible manager" vs. "extremist," to avoid the real argument: his project administers systemic inequality. You can't emancipate a generation with a spreadsheet.
Starmer says he’s "taking the gloves off" and that the Greens are "nuts"
Big talk from the PM of vibes based cruelty and trickle down cowardice.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Big talk from the PM of vibes based cruelty and trickle down cowardice.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Keirs strategy to attack the Greens as "nuts."🙄
This isn't debate; it's diversion. He frames the choice as "responsible manager" vs. "extremist," to avoid the real argument: his project administers systemic inequality. You can't emancipate a generation with a spreadsheet.
This isn't debate; it's diversion. He frames the choice as "responsible manager" vs. "extremist," to avoid the real argument: his project administers systemic inequality. You can't emancipate a generation with a spreadsheet.