Malise of Scotland @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One thing I have noticed when applying for jobs as an Enby is that some companies only give you gender options of either: Man Woman Or wouldn't you like to know. Surely it can't be that hard to add an "Other" option to the drop down menu. Don't even seem to ask for pronouns either. 010
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandThe Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 24/09/2026They're planning to permanently close the Academy of Natural Sciences; the oldest natural history museum in all of the Americas. youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...youtu.beThe Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History MuseumYouTube video by Miniminuteman 8302176
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandArthur - He/Him :) Comms Open! 🏳️⚧️ @sunsupernova.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I hate how much AI has wormed it's way into everything over the past few years. I want to be able to live without having it constantly shoved in my face like it's a gift from god. I do not and will never use AI in any of my work 1148
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandGeoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social · 27/08/2026One of my all-time favorite rules, from Pea Ridge (1980). The designer's great-great-grandfather fought in the battle, and if his unit takes damage you roll a die to see if he survives. If he dies, the designer is never born, and the game doesn't exist, and so automatically ends in a draw. 7443172
Malise of Scotland @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Part of being a Scottish reenactor is either going to an Scottish exhibition or watching a documentary with a video reconstruction of something historical and recognising the people in it. Sure they may be dueling Bronze Age warriors, but I think one of them has captured me in battle before. 110
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandArthur - He/Him :) Comms Open! 🏳️⚧️ @sunsupernova.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Doing a sale on comms before going back to college ✨ Gonna be on 30% sale until August 22nd vgen.co/Sun_Supernova #vgen #vgencommissions #commissionsopen #commissions 085
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandManau Miniatures @manauwargames.bsky.social · 04/08/2026MMF has introduced different currency options, so now all my minis are listed in proper British pounds, not these newfangled American "dollars" (Terrible name, I would have called them alloas). This has also come with a slight price increase. 032
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandKitbashcat @kitbashcat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The EHRC guidance slipped its way into law by default overnight. Do not self-police and do not let toilet weirdos and changing room weirdos dictate how you go about your life. 3459143
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandManau Miniatures @manauwargames.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Here is the unarmoured Pictish warriors with spears all painted, plus the decorated round shields. Once again printed with the Mars 4 Ultra. #3dprinting #picts #earlymedieval #minipainting #historicalwargaming #alba #vikingage #historicalminiatures #tabletop #pictish 0217
Malise of Scotland @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I sometimes envy Highlanders and Islanders for having so many brochs just lying around the place. It feels like sometimes you cannot go more than a few hundred metres before tripping over another one. Some even have more than just the ground floor walls preserved, something Lowland brochs don't have 100
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandNorth Ages @northages.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Hydration break. 📸NMS 10533120
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandArthur - He/Him :) Comms Open! 🏳️⚧️ @sunsupernova.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Commission for @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social ,just in time right before the end of the month #Commission #commissionsopen #vgencommission #pridemonth 0103
Malise of Scotland @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Coming back from Culloden Moor, I think there is one moment that will stick in my mind. Our battlefield guide stopped us at a point on the Government left and talked of how the Jacobites found themselves forced to their right by the bog into a bottleneck. 100
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandManau Miniatures @manauwargames.bsky.social · 21/06/2026It's only been higher than 20 degrees C up here for 2 days and I'm already fed up with it. Trying to do anything outside feels like going through the MGS4 microwave hallway. "Lovely day outside" my ass, bring back the rain. 021
Malise of Scotland @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Here's a photo of a Stigmaria impression I found near South Queensferry. This is what remains of the roots system of a large tree-like Carboniferous plant (something like a Lepidodendron) that existed near or in Lake Cadell which covered the nearby area. #FossilFriday 030
Malise of Scotland @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Multi-period reenactment events are always fun to take part in as a Medieval reenactor. There is no other place where I can be photographed in full kit shooting a musket beside a bunch of Napoleonic and AWI reenactors. Nearby me, some poor peasant levy was also being used as stand for a wall gun. 111
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandOculus Imperia @oculusimperia.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Shoutout to Gareth Hamilton from the White Dwarf 281 battle report for naming his Skaven warlord "Rat-arsed Rat". 411214
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandManau Miniatures @manauwargames.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Final big stop in Orkney is the Broch of Gurness, incredibly scenic, the Orcadian Picts(?) certainly knew where to build a tower, even if said tower did have a subsidence problem. #Brochs #Orkney #FortressFriday 242
Malise of Scotland @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social · 01/06/2026It be pride month again!🏳️🌈 A reminder that it is your moral duty to piss off all the 'phobes and ensure they have a very uncomfortable month. Especially transphobes, remind them that transpeople still persevere despite everything that has happened. 000
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandChiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 21/05/2026No matter your gender, you have every right to love and to be loved in return🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Expressing that love should never be hindered or questioned. Such a basic human experience has somehow become overly complicated. Let’s come together and restore a world where love can be shown openly and joyfully. 7269121995
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandJene O'Ween @luckymud.myatproto.social · 14/05/2026Nonbinary people don't owe you androgyny. 5477178
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandManau Miniatures @manauwargames.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Another #Pictish WIP, while not quite on the same level as later pikes the two-handed spears of the Early Medieval period and Viking age were still quite long with some coming in at over 3 meters. #blender #historicalwargaming #3dprinting #wargaming #earlymedieval #alba 074
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandManau Miniatures @manauwargames.bsky.social · 21/04/2026After a small hiatus I am back with another #pictish WIP, this time it's the warriors with two handed spears. #blender #scottishhistory #wargaming #miniaturedesign #picts 0114
Malise of Scotland @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social · 11/04/2026With the new Frostpunk 2 DLC on its way, I have gotten back into both FP 1&2 to brush up my skills. I completely forgot how great the soundtrack was and hearing The Last Flame play brought back so many memories. Mostly of struggling through the Winterhome scenario. youtu.be/apDHw5OJvqcyoutu.be06. The Last Flame - Frostpunk Original SoundtrackYouTube video by 11 bit studios 100
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandManau Miniatures @manauwargames.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Fixed an issue with the supports for the heads, now it should print properly. 064
Malise of Scotland @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social · 06/04/2026'Tis International Ace Day. A reminder that we exist We are all valid We are do not need "fixed" We will steal all of your garlic bread Denmark shall fall to our might And there is nothing the Black Mould Woman and her ilk can do about it. 🖤🩶🤍💜 020
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandJoCat 🔜 Spokane Ren Faire @jocat.net · 06/04/2026Used to think the overarching plot of halo - how a handful of select leaders would rather perpetuate a meaningless war that ends with everyone else dying than admit to the lie that holds their leadership in power - was a bit cartoonishly evil and unrealistic to ever happen irl Yeah... 332108317
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandManau Miniatures @manauwargames.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Final WIP for the #pictish spearmen I swear, the heads! #blender #miniaturedesign #picts #earlymedieval 064
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandDr. Oliver Dietrich @oliverdietrich.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Some good news: The Coțofenești gold helmet and two bracelets, stolen last year from Drents Museum, were found nearly undamaged. adevarul.ro/amp/stiri-in...adevarul.roPrimele imagini cu coiful de aur dacic de la Coțofenești, recuperat după jaful din OlandaPrimele imagini cu celebrul coif de aur dacic de la Coțofenești și două dintre brățările dacice furate din Muzeul Drents în ianuarie 2025 au fost prezentate public înaintea conferinței de presă organi... 0196
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandEuropean Space Agency @esa.int · 02/04/2026CONFIRMED: Orion was successfully placed into Earth's orbit. ✅ #Artemis II www.flickr.com/photos/europ... (Credits: ESA/S. Corvaja) 741454
Malise of Scotland @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Artemis II has finally made into space. I can only imagine how nerve racking it must have been for those engineers in the run up to launch. It must have been a moment of great joy seeing that beast of a rocket hurtle into the sky and begin stage separations. Hats off to all who worked on Artemis II 022
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandEuropean Space Agency @esa.int · 31/03/2026#WatchLive: the first launch opportunity for #Artemis II is on 1 April 23:24 BST/00:24 CEST 2 April. 📺 Live on #ESAwebTV from one hour before launch (22:24 BST/23:24 CEST) until the end of the broadcast at 23:56 BST/00:56 CEST 👉 watch.esa.intesa.intWatch live: Artemis II launchThe first launch opportunity for Artemis II, the first mission to bring astronauts towards the Moon in over 50 years, is set for 1 April at 18:24 local time (2 April at 00:24 CEST). Tune in from one h... 419059
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandNPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Hugely excited and proud to say the Rhynie monograph is now published! This is one of the most important sites and landscapes ever discovered for understanding the Picts and the development of the early Pictish kingdoms #careergoalunlocked! #Pictsarethebest! books.socantscot.org/digital-book...books.socantscot.org Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland: The development of a landscape of Pictish royal power from the Roman to the early medieval period | Open Access E-Books 24416
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandChiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 05/12/2025🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈I dream of the day when the world can become a place where transgender people can live proudly and freely as themselves, and where they can love freely As a mascot, I see human love as beautiful and wonderful. I love you all today as well♡ 136156694766
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandMatt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 30/03/2026⚔️New Codex Compliant!⚔️ Let's see a book designed to beat like 4 specific units your opponant might not even take. Today we're taking a look at Codex: Daemonhunters from 3rd edition! youtu.be/5vkmPKy3618youtu.beCodex: Daemonhunters (3rd Edition) - Codex CompliantYouTube video by Snipe and Wib 1320650
Malise of Scotland @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Something that grinds my gears is when someone insists that the Scottish loss at the Battle of Falkirk (1298) was down to Comyn treachery. Sometimes they insist that the Comyns wanted the crown of Scotland and therefore back stabbed William Wallace. This is, from my reading, just not true. 120
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandChiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 02/12/2025Chiitan Knight will continue to spread his message until there are no more transgender people who are subjected to unjustified criticism and slander♡ Let's create a world where we can all love freely🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 170159814844
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandManau Miniatures @manauwargames.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Sueno's Stone is a 6.5 metre tall 9th-10th century #Pictish stone near Forres, annoyingly there's a hell of a lot of different historical events that the stone could be representing. The stone gets its name from Sweyn Forkbeard, whos association to the stone is highlt doubted. #StandingStoneSunday 164
Malise of Scotland @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Spare a thought for David, Earl of Strathbogie, who decided to defect to the English on the eve of the Battle of Bannockburn. Imagine watching the side you just defected to, utterly fail to win what should have been, on paper, an easy victory. Also you are now landless because of your treachery. 110
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandManau Miniatures @manauwargames.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Another #Pictish spearman WIP. #Blender #Wargaming 073
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandManau Miniatures @manauwargames.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Anyways back to #pictish WIPs, here's further progress on one of my spearmen I posted a month ago and then got sidetracked. 042
Malise of Scotland @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social · 26/03/2026There is a bit of joy to be had from twirling in a long tunic and seeing the lower part of it get a proper spin. Strangely satisfying, especially after spending many hours working on it. Hopefully I can get a better spin once the centre gores are properly attached. 020
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandQsy @qsy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026They're not beating the Fisher Price comparisons but hey at least this is fun as hell. 1013421
Malise of Scotland @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Seeing news of a certain upcoming TV series based on a certain book series unfortunately has reminded me of the author's views on Ace people like myself. Apparently we face no prejudice, even though a study in 2025 from KCL showed 31% of respondents think asexuals can be "cured" through therapy. 120
Reposted by Malise of ScotlandManau Miniatures @manauwargames.bsky.social · 24/03/2026The penultimate king to bear the title "Rex Pictorum" (King of the Picts) was either Eochaid ap Rhun or Giric mac Dungal, succeeding Áed mac Cináeda after he was "killed by his own associates". Annoyingly different sources have different stories on how this duo(?) ruled Pictland. 132
Malise of Scotland @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social · 24/03/2026If you ever feel stupid in your life, just remember that you are not, at least according to Barbour's "The Bruce", the sentries at Roxburgh castle that managed to confuse armed men for oxen. The castle fell soon afterwards 142
Malise of Scotland @disgruntledsteward.bsky.social · 23/03/2026There is an quite interesting array of chronicles that cover the Wars of Independence. From the memoirs of some knight and his father (Grey's Scalacronica), to Pro-Bruce propaganda (Fordun/Bower/Wyntoun), to chronicles where you can feel the author frothing at the mouth whilst writing (Lanercost) 142