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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 15h

A book in the way, no problem 💁‍♀️

Pippin lying on a book on a chest of drawers

C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm hitting the shops with these bad boys to see if anyone wants to stock them! Not sure how to price them, so what would you pay for a hand-printed original ghost print?

A black and white lino-printed image of a ghost sitting in an abandoned train carriage. The floor of the carriage has grass growing through it, and the panels in the roof have rusted away. The print is wrapped in cellophane and propped up on a wooden table

An array of black and white lino-prints spread on a wooden table. The top print shows a ghost sitting on the bed of an abandoned hotel room. Mould is growing down the wall and ferns and greenery cover the floor and bed. On the table there is also a black teapot and white milk jug.

A black and white lino-printed image of a ghost sitting in the fallen car of an abandoned Ferris wheel. The print is wrapped in cellophane and propped up on a wooden table.

A black and white lino-printed image of a ghost standing on an abandoned boat. The boat is grounded on grassy sand dunes and has damage to the windows and hull. The sea is visible in the distance. The print is wrapped in cellophane and propped up on a wooden table

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I thought it was a myth, I never believed it was possible, but for probably the first time in my entire adult life, I think I've finally caught up on my laundry. My least clean clothes are those I am wearing. Is this ... Maturity?

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We’re launching SECRETS OF DORLEY HALL at The Common Press on Thursday 5th November! I’ll be talking, signing, and being awkward, so you should totally come and witness that :) Tickets are pay what you can. outsavvy.com/event/40240/...

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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.

Royal Highland Show sign that says “Toilets For Competition use only”

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

👀 I'm like *this* close to just going for it

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm itching to do something bold and unapologetically creative, so I'm tempted to found a publisher to give authors a space for manuscripts 'big' publishers consider too out-there, uncategorisable, or otherwise unpalatable. What sort of books would people like to write or see? Do I do it??

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Resisting AI so hard I've ended up back at cassette tapes

A picture of C with a Casio tape player on their waist connected to wired headphones with foam pads. They are wearing wide pleated trousers, and a striped shirt and are posing in front of a sofa and assorted houseplants.

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✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style · 30/09/2026

go help katra !!!

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What if I wrote a flash fiction piece about how baptisms were invented by Big Church so priests could benefit from the rejuvenating effects of drinking baby soup????

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Ellieween Dawn 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🥺😏💜 @awkward.gay · 29/09/2026

The pay me in shoiks

The famous "they pay me in woims" Nancy comic but edited.
First panel is Nancy talking to teams femme Sluggo with shoulder length hair with a bow in, and wearing a she/her badge: "I hear you're working at the Ikea". The bait shop has been edited to have 2 IKEA logos on it.
Second panel: Nancy asking "Do they pay you well?"
Third panel: Sluggo saying "They pay me in Shoiks" and holding up 2 different sized blåhaj shark plushies

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For a painting I kind of hated during most of the process, I'm pleased with how it turned out

A hand holding a rectangular ink and watercolour pastel painting of a cozy kitchen scene. In the painting, a smiling woman with dark hair tied in a messy top knot sits at a wooden kitchen counter. She wears a yellow t-shirt and striped blue pyjama shorts while preparing breakfast. On the counter in front of here are two plate, one with scrambled eggs and bacon, the other with a slice of bread. Next to them is a mug. In the background, dark wood shelves hold glass jars, bottles and containers. There is a stove with a frying pan, a vine running down a window frame, and a refrigerator decorated with magnets and prints.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Join us for an evening of ghost stories, Ghosthunter Academy & a ghost hunt at @blackwells.bsky.social Edinburgh on Wednesday 7th October! Ft. @mkhardywrites.com @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @claireschultz.bsky.social & @housedoctoralex.bsky.social! 👻👀 Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/haunted-an...

Haunted and Hunted - an evening of ghosts
Wednesday 7th october
Tickets £15
6.30-9pm Blackwell's of Edinburgh
See Eventbrite for full details
Cannot guarantee safety from hauntings

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A local author captured the attention of thousands with this *one* feminisation sequence. Publishers look on with horrified awe. Click this link to find out how: millennialclickbaitjoke.groan

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I wasn't great at painting or drawing until I got into lino and started focussing on light, not shapes. So now, when I start to paint, I get worried I've forgotten how again, which leads to a happy surprise when it works out. I really like the light in this one!

An ink and watercolour pastel painting of a cozy, sunlit kitchen. In it, a woman with brown hair in a loose bun, glasses and a long pink robe, stands at an old-fashioned stove. She is stirring food in a reddish-brown pot, with soft white steam rising up toward the wooden kitchen cabinets above. A bright window with horizontal blinds casts a glow across a counter filled with kitchen utensils, a moka pot, and spice jars. The counter extends around to the foreground, crowded with random jars, bottles and condiments, framing the scene.

The painting is on a green cutting mat. There are art supplies on the left next to it.

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Gorgie road has had enough disruption, we don't need any spurious chemical spill claims! (Though so close to Tynecastle no-one would dare)

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just another Manufactured Outrage incident among many. Just think how permanently our streets would be closed if people were actually this upset about so-called vandalism!

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A whole main road in Edinburgh got shut down yesterday because of a "chemical spill". A brief foray in the Other Place shows that this was likely the result of terfs being weird about a duct-tape trans flag on a lamppost... What a time to be alive.

A tweet with an attached imag depicting a lamppost wrapped in coloured tape in the colours of the trans flag. The lamppost is located on Morningside Road, near Maxwell Street in Edinburgh.

Yesterday, an emergency response (including police, ambulances, and fire crews) cordoned off the street. The response was triggered by reports of an "unknown substance" found on this lamppost.

The tweet text reads: "Not sure if this lamppost was involved with the major incident today, but video online shows tape was gone, yet two hours later, it's back @edinhelp If this was linked to the earlier incident, this is a serious escalation, and a blatant two fingers up to the emergency services."
A reply by @EdinFeminists reads: "@edinhelp Can you arrange from the tape (corner of Maxwell St/Morningside Road) to be removed. Again, please? Thanks you."

A screenshot of a Twitter thread.

At the top, a post from @EdinFeminists tags @edinhelp to report vandalism on a central lamppost opposite the corner of Maxwell St and Hermitage Terrace, asking for it to be removed. The post includes a small thumbnail image of a lamppost on a street corner.

Below this, a reply from @GidontcareG dated August 18 says she reported the same issue a couple of days prior. She describes the act as a "criminal man" obsessively "marking his territory" in an "aggressive manly way" because "he's not getting the message."

At the bottom, an embedded post from the same user dated August 16 tags @edinhelp to report that various lampposts at the bottom of Morningside have been targeted with blue, pink, and white tape. The user praises the council for prompt removals in the past but notes that the 'vandal' seems determined.

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Climate change currently has me holed up indoors in stifling heat, advised against opening windows because of the smoke and bad air quality from the biggest wildfire in Belgium for over a century. Really hope we start doing something about this soon...

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm visiting for the weekend, and still obsessed with my mum's book shelf: one of these books is not like the others...

An eye-level shot of a wooden bookshelf filled with books stacked both vertically and horizontally.
On the left, a thick, white-spined book titled La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert by Joël Dicker lies horizontally under a blue book titled Rembrandt et la Bible, and above Perspective(s) by Laurent Binet. On the right, a vertical stack includes titles such as The Colour of Memory by Geoff Dyer and W ou le souvenir d'enfance by George Perec. The books are all literary and have muted covers apart from her beloved copy of renowned trans thriller Welcome to Dorley Hall by Alyson Greaves, which has pride of place on the centre of the shelf.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 13/08/2026

the nation of great britain represents a revolutionary advance in the immortal science of "what if we tortured the omelas child but didnt create an utopia"

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Rare astronomical event during which the sun is almost completely obscured by clouds

A grassy cemetery with overgrown grass and brambles, tall green trees on the sides, and a distant pointed church steeple rising above the tree line under a cloudy, overcast sky with scattered birds in flight. You cannot see the sun at all, let alone an eclipse.

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave" (We've had that spirit here since 1969)

A black and white linocut depicting a classic sheet ghost with two small black eyeholes sitting on the edge of a bed, and facing a second empty bed in a derelict hotel room. To the left, a window features long, draped curtains. The beds have dark bedding, and are separated by a bedside table. A framed picture of a deer among bare trees hangs on the wall above the headboard. Leafy ferns and plants frame the bottom of the composition.

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Just got my film developed - here's a flavour of summer in the Highlands

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Imagine going to your child's nursery school parents' evening and being told: "I'm sorry, your toddler is unemployable."

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What the fuck. Teachers are overburdened already, and this is incredibly dependent on individual teachers' prejudices re: class, ableism, race and other socio-economic factors. If the job market is so dire kids currently in nursery are affected, we need to address the role of employment in society

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Has anyone considers that Odysseus's problem is that his men are just too delicious. Yes, he angered the gods, but so many of them getting eaten cant be a coincidence.

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My parents are getting the attic fixed and they found this old bottle of wine in the eaves...On further investigation, apparently in the late 1800s there, it was superstition when building new houses to make an offering to the house (wine, whisky, salt, or coal) Of course they must return it, right?

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Kilmarnock, Dingwall and Fraserburgh! There's actually more than I thought in England too..

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Tell me what you want and I'll give it a bash? Haha

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Defunct? Still clinging on in Scotland (just)

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

TBF I read Adrian Mole too young and assumed he was an actual mole. I thought it was supposed to be funny because of how absurd it was for a mole to do people things.

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This book is basically what Obsession would have resulted in if Bear was a spoon.

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Spoon existentialism: “What a transient, ephemeral being is man! How short is his life compared even to that of a spoon!”

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Spoons are life: “The end of the world has been symbolized by Death breaking an hour glass; the moral would be quite as striking were he represented destroying the last spoon. The last spoon!”

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Yet spoons promote pacifism: “Many a knife has committed murder, and forks have been guilty of felony; but what bad thing has the spoon ever done? Kidnapped in all ages, it never was known to return evil to its evil entreaters: on the contrary, it has blessed its greatest foes.”

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Includes such quotes as: “The virtues of the spoon have in every age led men to covet it, and, to gratify their covetousness, to commit burglaries to obtain it.“

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Submitting this document for the consideration of the Spoon Council. Behold, the Spoon Forefather! www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7...

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The spoon

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Just a small town ghoul Hauntin' in a lonely world On the midday train going nowhere

A person's hand holding up a vertical, rectangular white piece of paper featuring a black-and-white linocut art print. The print depicts the interior of an abandoned train car with a curved ceiling. Wild grass grows thickly down the central aisle between rows of empty train seats. On the right side of the aisle, a ghost sits on one of the passenger seats among the overgrown grass. The background is blurred, but contains indoor house plants.

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I’m a trans woman in my forties. Growing up without social media—and during Section 28—I knew nothing about transness and I knew no-one like me. I almost didn’t make it; I dread to think how many didn’t. You can’t tell me that returning to this state is not an intended effect of this proposed ban.

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