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gg @ggdg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

if you're going to hook me with a bloodthirsty revenge story, at least let me revel in the righteous violence for a little bit before you start moralizing. you can't just have a side character wringing their hands dig-two-gravesedly from the very first kill. come on

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 28/09/2026

Ok Dietrich's path is SO much more fun

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 27/09/2026

Just had our Selkies shortlisting meeting and WOW I love discussing comics, I love differences of opinion, I love someone nailing something that I observed and I also love someone pointing out something completely new that I hadn't considered

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 22/09/2026

The cuts to Scottish Literature UG courses at Edinburgh University make me furious in a way that it's really hard to put words to, especially now, when I'm trying to learn more Scots (and feeling like an imposter in ways that are too complicated for this format). www.thenational.scot/news/2656876...

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University of Edinburgh axe to Scots course 'only upholds English language dominance'

THE University of Edinburgh's announcement that it plans to cut seven programmes in the Celtic and Scottish Studies department has been slammed…

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 21/09/2026

Fighting for my life to hang in there with FE Fortune's Weave despite doing Leda's route first and therefore constantly subjecting myself to Sirocco

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⚠️ eve g ⚠️ @evegwood.com · 17/09/2026

appearing over the shoulder of a comic artist who's about to fill a panel with an unnecessary background. put the pen down. sometimes clarity and punch of a panel is improved when there is no background. you're cluttering that panel and making it harder to read. where are the bubble tails gonna go.

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 10/09/2026

This has been a crazy year - I was trying to explain it earlier to someone but I got married, then I changed jobs, then I launched Selkies 2026, then I helped manage two academic conferences, then my niece was born, then I started a part-time course and also helped manage another academic conference

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 09/09/2026

Just learned that Category Is Books, a lovely queer bookshop in Glasgow, has been targeted by transphobic violence, & is fundraising to cover the costs of a smashed window & roller shutters. I hate that they have to do this & would love to see them meet their goal.

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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Your semi-regular reminder that advertising is free on BF for trans comics creators. E-mail our Andy here for more details: www.brokenfrontier.com/contact-us/

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Want to contact the Broken Frontier team? Read our staff bios and find the relevant e-mail addresses for your needs here.

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 28/08/2026

I am STILL thinking about 1000xRESIST. WHAT a story. And with so many women doing so many awful things (positive)

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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Joy for All is back for 2026! We invite you to apply for a stall at our accessible, LGBT+, autumn makers market, Joy for All. It takes place at 11am – 3.30pm on Saturday 17th October at Portobello Town Hall, 147-149 Portobello High St, Edinburgh EH15 1AF. Apply here: forms.gle/CiMhrgbLEX9e...

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 16/08/2026

Had a dream where they found Farage guilty but only fined him £326 and everyone's reaction was "ugh, of course. Why didn't we see this coming"

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 15/08/2026

"then it's as if the ocean wants its water back" foreshadowing for what the second half of the game will do to you

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Selkie Comic Awards @selkieawards.org · 09/08/2026

Hello all! Due to a gap in our guidelines, we've had to update our rules relating to anthologies. Full details here: selkieawards.org/news/posts/2... All affected applicants have been offered a chance to resubmit. Thanks for bearing with us, and drop us an email if you have any questions!

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 09/08/2026

Fumbled a puzzle in Big Walk so bad that my friend Jess made us all sit down in a circle afterwards to reflect on what we'd done

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 06/08/2026

I was thinking about this while opening a compostable wrapper the other day. We've still got a long way to go, but I think the next generation is going to be shocked if they're ever faced with just how much unnecessary plastic we used to have on everything. (Not to mention the generation after!)

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 06/08/2026

We rightfully complain a lot about Evri, but sometimes I marvel at DPD and how selecting a redelivery date through their website seems to have as much impact as a wish upon a star

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Update: Sandyford’s adult waiting list validation exercise has now finished. If you joined the waiting list before August 2024 and haven’t heard from them, please get in touch. For more information, see our post here: www.scottishtrans.org/sandyford-ad...

1. Graphic which says "Update: Sandyford’s adult waiting list validation exercise has finished. If you joined the waiting list before August 2024 and haven’t heard from them, please get in touch."

2. Graphic which says "Sandyford have said that over 500 people haven’t responded. Those who still haven’t responded by August 9th will be removed from the waiting list."

3. Graphic which says "If you have been contacted but not yet responded, please do so as soon as you can. People who joined the waiting list after August 2024 aren’t being contacted and don’t need to respond"

4. Graphic which says "If you haven’t been contacted but think you are on the adult waiting list, please email Sandyford: ggc.adultgender.sandyford@nhs.scot"

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 21/07/2026

The thing that fascinates me about the "AI will give auteurs the power to fully realise their vision without compromise" take is that these people have clearly not paid any attention to what usually happens when someone gets too big to edit or falls out with their collaborators (divorces their wife)

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Rank Bajin @inremote.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

it's getting to the point where HMRC is ceasing to provide a service. it does less and less, and the few services it does provide are getting worse and worse. i know nobody likes them but we absolutely need more funding in there because the alternative is notably worse

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Self-employed people! Sorry to put a downer on your Sunday, but in case you'd not seen, the Government wants us to pay our tax *monthly* like we're employees or something With the World Cup and all the politics, I'd missed the consultation they put out last month, which is here: 1/

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Timely Payments in Income Tax Self Assessment (ITSA)

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Cat 🌻🌾 Tbubs 🔜 2000AD @tsundernova.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

🛡️ Lucan - Perfect_Being 🐺 Sylvester - @caragaffney.com

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 08/07/2026

I have generally been struggling to do art for the past few years, which sucks, but for some reason Art Fight always cuts through all that and I have genuine fun drawing again and it feels SO NICE

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gg @ggdg.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

last day of the sale 😇 you can meet my awesome freaks for less than the price of most things

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Selkie Comic Awards @selkieawards.org · 01/07/2026

🦭 The Selkie Awards are back for 2026! 🦭 If you're based in Scotland and finished a comic in the past year, we want to hear from you! Our applications are now open until 31 July. Check out the details here: selkieawards.org/2026 #scottishcomics #scottishcomicbookday #smallpress

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 24/06/2026

Is there a creature that has been so repeatedly and undeservedly subjected to AI renditions as the humble highland cow?

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⚠️ eve g ⚠️ @evegwood.com · 19/06/2026

The Scottish comic scene is strong, but the people who put on indie-focused events are more often than not doing it for FREE!! After money and time, your voice is your powerful way to help your community. If you want the Selkies to flourish, be loud about it! Send Cara some words!

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 14/06/2026

If anyone's got some nice things to say about how the Selkies have been going so far (that they'd be willing to go on the record for), I'd be very grateful! You can contact me here, or via email: cara.gaffney[at]selkieawards.org

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 14/06/2026

The list of characters I would lose my mind about if they were a woman has extended from being one item long (Emet Selch Finalfantasy) to two (Qifrey Witchhatatelier)

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 14/06/2026

Since I haven't had the wherewithal to push the advert this fortnight, I'm extending the deadline until the end of June. Please do apply! Obviously I'm biased, but I think having an award like this is valuable & I don't want its continuation to be dependent on one person: selkieawards.org/volunteer

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 11/06/2026

Typical gynaecological experience: - Have a Really Extraordinarily Bad Time - All the patient advice sites tell you It's Fine & downplay or simply refuse to acknowledge that it could be Less Than Ideal - Find forums and subreddits full of people commiserating about the Extraordinary Badness

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Selkie Comic Awards @selkieawards.org · 01/06/2026

🦭 New volunteering opportunity: Deputy Organiser 🦭 As we approach our third year, the Selkie Awards are looking to recruit one or more volunteer Deputy Organisers to contribute to our long-term success. If you're interested, please check out our website for more info: selkieawards.org/volunteer

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Cat 🌻🌾 Tbubs 🔜 2000AD @tsundernova.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

If you hated Flamingoland you're gonna hate this too. OBJECT!! NOW!! 📣

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 28/05/2026

I've decided that this is the week I force all my loved ones who have read the third Locked Tomb book to read An Unwelcome Guest, the short play from the ebook of Nona the Ninth

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 24/05/2026

The quote RTs here are giving the only workable suggestion for this advice that I've yet seen for people like me, who struggle with shortform works, which is: do a "pilot episode" or chapter 0 of your big story idea as a trial run Still, I'm tapping the sign again caragaffney.com/posts/2025-0...

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In Defence Of the Noble Tradition of Abandoning Webcomics

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 18/05/2026

This has gotten a sudden boost in reposts/likes which I'm very much enjoying, and is also reminding me that that reread is LONG overdue. Play Heaven Will Be Mine! pillowfight.itch.io/heaven-will-...

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 17/05/2026

Immediately went to look at the last unclaimed Pokémon... genuinely wasn't expecting to see a starter line here somehow??

A screenshot of the seven unclaimed Pokémon. I'm so bad at IDing Pokémon now that I can only guess half of these, but these are the numbers: #525, #734, #846, #913, #919, #951, #986

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Update: Sandyford have extended the date where they ask those who have not heard from them to get in touch from 1st June 2026 to 15th June 2026. For more information about this exercise, see the full post below and our website here: www.scottishtrans.org/sandyford-va...

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Sandyford Gender Service begins adult waiting list validation exercise - Scottish Trans

Edit 15th May 2026 – Sandyford have extended the date where they are asking people who haven’t heard from them to get in touch from […]

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 11/05/2026

Back at my desk now so can ruin the brilliant work of our photographer Rhiannon Neale (rhiannoneale.com) with silly memes

The same photo as in the quoted post, except this time a box has been edited around the rooster with the label "Live Rooster Reaction"

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Rank Bajin @inremote.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

LOVE IS REAL @caragaffney.com

A trans woman and a cis woman in wedding dresses stand in front of an old mill. We are facing each other, holding hands, and holding open umbrellas over our shoulders. The umbrellas have rainbows on them because we're super gay and in love

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 08/05/2026

I got married!!!! Love you @inremote.bsky.social, I'm so happy I finally get to call you my wife ❤️❤️❤️

Two brides hold hands and gaze at one another in front of a farmhouse with festoon lighting. We've just seen each other for the first time in our wedding dresses and are having some emotions about it. We're holding crochet bouquets in trans colours. A rooster standing on a bench nearby glances over his shoulder at us judgementally.

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 15/04/2026

Man, I really do not like how many people try to claim that the SNP are hard-done-by through the additional member system, esp when they cite the 2016 results. The SNP got 46.5% of the constituency votes then, 41.7% of the regional votes, and got 48.8% of the total seats. How is that not fair?

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Scottish Greens manifesto is out, compare and contrast

• Introduce a comprehensive ban on conversion therapy covering all settings, such as religious, informal, community, family-based and therapeutic, with clear protections for affirming healthcare, and inclusive of trans, non-binary, and asexual identities. This ban will be backed by appropriate criminal and civil penalties, and a statutory right of survivors to support and advocacy.
• Ensure and expand inclusive education and anti-bullying programmes in Scotland's schools and youth programmes; provide targeted support to promote LGBTQ+ young people staying in education and roll out a national programme to address transphobic, homophobic and biphobic hate crime across society.
• Introduce statutory homelessness strategies for all groups facing particular barriers to housing, including LGBT+ people.
• Address inequalities in LGBT+ healthcare, such as improving access to specialist mental healthcare; care for intersex people, and speeding-up the rollout of injectable anti-HIV medication.

• Publish a gender-affirming care action plan within 6 months, to turbo-charge efforts to bring down shocking waiting times. Action we will consider includes funding more training places; providing funding to health boards that do not currently provide gender identity healthcare to start doing so urgently; supporting people to seek NHS-funded care in other countries, and bringing it into line with the 18 week guarantee that applies to many other areas of healthcare, including youth pathways aligned with international standards.
• Work with NHS boards - including Public Health Scotland - and social care providers to address LGBTQ+ health and care inequalities. This will include providing training for frontline health and social care staff to understand the needs of LGBTQ+ people, and increasing the collection of data relating to sexual orientation, gender identity and health outcomes to inform better evidence-based policies.
• Recognise the rights of LGBT+ families to access IVF and IUl on the NHS, and develop national guidance and a standard treatment pathway specifically for LGBT+ families accessing assisted conception.

• Revisit all NHS policy changes made as a result of the Cass Review to ensure they are aligned with international evidence-based best practice. Where there are evidence gaps about treatment options, introduce robust, accessible research trials to ensure that these are filled. We will involve trans children and young people directly in decisions about their healthcare in age-appropriate ways in-line with their evolving capacity, and immediately ensure young trans people have access to mental health and other support.
• Ensure trans people have the same access to Hormone Replacement Therapy as cisgender people.
• Continue to call on the UK Government to remove its block on much-needed Gender Recognition legislation and update it with international best practice.

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