iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

1. Did u know? One of the most exciting newcomers to our wildlife garden are Large-headed Resin Bees. These tiny little blips, only 5mm long are rare in the UK, with most records in the south east, but its territories are expanding, north, like to us, in the Cotswolds.... 🌍🪲🐝🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

THREAD. A *big* ask, I know, but I'm trying to seek out a US publisher for this book this week & any further orders from Blackwell's will REALLY help that cause. Amazingly, they do free international delivery, which makes it cheaper than buying many books locally. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

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Everything Will Swallow You

Have you ever been curious about how people live when nobody is watching? Have you wondered whether there's more going on than meets the eye? Eric and Carl live

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 20/10/2026

Good morning. Dark. No idea what the weather’s doing. Dog got us up at 4:20! #photooftheday is not a landscape, unusually. Chai likes to visit the #ponies on her am ‘sniffy walk’ and this is one of them. She is feart of dogs, but fascinated by the ponies! Have a good day. #Scotland #photography

a pony looking straight at the camera. They have brown eyes a white spot on their nose and pale orangey brown coat with a champagne mane.

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Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels @scotsquirrels.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

Don't forget to add your squirrel sightings from last week's #GreatScottishSquirrelSurvey to our map here: buff.ly/RG9XTLG 📷 Raymond Leinster

The tail of a red squirrel poking out from log grass.

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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

f you're lucky enough to have red squirrels visiting your garden, there are a few ways you can help them to thrive: 🌱 grow native plants 🍎 offer a variety of food 💧 provide fresh drinking water More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/hel...

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Helping red squirrels in your garden | Little Green Space

Conservation organisations offer tips to spot these iconic creatures in your garden, while supporting other native wildlife

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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

Sgùrr Dubh in Glen Torridon.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

Sad to hear of the passing of Scots’ poet Douglas Dunn (1942-2026) Ar dheis Dé Love Poem I live in you, you live in me; We are two gardens haunted by each other. Sometimes I cannot find you there, There is only the swing creaking, that you have just left, Or your favourite book beside the sundial.

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 19/10/2026

Ha! I don’t think so! I’ve always been average, but make no apology.

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 19/10/2026

Thank, Jan. Always kind. Appreciated.

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 19/10/2026

Most welcome. A joy to read the poems.

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Amall1 @amal85w.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

STOP. PLEASE HEAR A MOTHER'S CRY. I'm Amal from Gaza, and my precious Mohammad was injured by shrapnel while we were searching for food. He urgently needs medical treatment outside Gaza. Please don't turn away. If you can give $5, please help. If not, please share.

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 19/10/2026

Thanks, Jen. Always appreciate your generosity. Done over my morning cuppa. Sometimes I overthink it and make everything worse and sometimes I serve up nonsense. Today was middling I’d say! 🙂

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 19/10/2026

Join folk from across Scotland in Edinburgh in November to demand that the people have a say on AI data centres! #datacentres #AI #march

Pink poster. A photo of people with megaphones

Stop AI
DONT MAKE
DATA CENTRES
SCOTLAND MARCH
SAY NO TO DATA
SCAN TO SUPPORT
UR HOME. OUR
29• Centre
Our Land
our voices
our energy

THE PEOPLE
MUST HAVE A SAY

SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 19/10/2026

Are you protesting against #DataCentres in your area? If so, please stop using AI images to say ‘good morning’ and ‘good night’ here! Share your own art and photography or boost someone else’s. When we’re populated with data centres and the water and electricity under duress you may wish you had!

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 19/10/2026

@janpsolivagant.bsky.social Thanks for this week’s #PromptCombo #NamingSorrow I feel a bit hesitant to post this hastily cobbled together effort that’s had no edits done, but I fear I won’t post it at all if I hesitate, so here is my offering. Thanks. Enjoy your hosting week #poetry #Poems

A poem by Debbie Ross in 4 irregular stanzas entitled

Counting My Blessings

Text as follows
Should we name our sorrows, number the dents and scratches on our bodywork?
Should we extricate and extrapolate,
fix and fiddle
with mechanisms we don't understand?
Sure, naming the beast may reduce its powers, bring into light what has been kept buttoned and bonneted.
Mil tell you my sad stories if you tell me yours.
But remember,
we are not our past, we are not
what was done to us.
We are stitched together with love and friendship and all the bright things that drive out the dark.

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Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Well that felt truly special. Absolutely phenomenal readings by all this evening. Thank you for sharing your work. We’ll be back in November 🎙️🎙️🎙️ #poetry #openmic

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 17/10/2026

Not everything that is broken can be fixed, but let’s work with what we can. This week’s blog. drnaturegirl.substack.com/p/fix-it?r=5... #fixer #circulareconomy

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Fix It!

Thanks for reading All Kinds of Everything!

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 17/10/2026

Not everything that is broken can be fixed, but let’s work with what we can. This week’s blog. drnaturegirl.substack.com/p/fix-it?r=5... #fixer #circulareconomy

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Fix It!

Thanks for reading All Kinds of Everything!

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 19/10/2026

So many fab poets responding to prompts here, being nominated for BOTN, publishing work, it’s hard to know who to boost that I’ve not flagged before. Check out the #poetry prompts #poemsabout #promptcombo #fragmentsfriday etc. Support the poets you enjoy reading. Buy their books. Re-post their work.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 19/10/2026

#LiftToTheSky is a reminder that visibility can be shared.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 18/10/2026

Next up: #Hollow. Trees. Promises. Victories. People. Places where something used to live. New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Read. Repost. Reply.

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 19/10/2026

Precise and powerful 👏🏻👏🏻

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Many thanks to @jenthorne.bsky.social for her superb #PromptCombo last week This week's theme is #NamingSorrow Hosted by me @janpsolivagant.bsky.social From wistful poems to poems of longing, ennui, spleen, doldrums, depression, melancholy etc. #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Retiring Melancholia

Tuneless hollows are left in our
Lexicon when Melancholia gives way to
Depression.

Blood, phlegm and yellow bile have
Bodily coordinates, but
Black bile is nowhere to be found.

We yoke together what is unalike -
Claim knowledge of what we can
Never possess.

But Depression now dulls with
Insipid breath – blunting us to the
Rage of its mud-ink inferno.

Both are fabled beasts -
Knocked up from sundry moods,
Ordeals and sources.

Our
Unique distress is
All too lethal -
All too real -
Draped in a name that
Obscures more than it
Reveals.

©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026

Posthumous allegorical portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England with Old Father Time (anonymous, 1610)

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 19/10/2026

Well done, Dean. It’s a great feature. I enjoyed reading it yesterday. 👏🏻👏🏻

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Dean Norton @zentinl.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

So pleased and grateful to have six poems published in Sixty Odd Poets this week. Thank you to Mike O’Brien @zoomburst.substack.com and Sixty Odd Press! sixtyoddpoets.substack.com sixtyoddpoets.substack.com/p/112-dean-n... #PoemsAbout #promptcombo #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

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112. Dean Norton

Exploring shifting boundaries

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 19/10/2026

Good morning. Peachy, bright, still. 4C. Frost overnight. #photooftheday from the weekend, which was stunning. There were more folk at our beach yesterday morning at 7:30,taking photos and swimming, than there are usually during the day. Have a good one #Scotland #photography #sunrise #sutherland

Beach sunrise. Pre- sunrise sky with blue sky, highly, whispy pink clouds above peachy cloud strata and below, on the horizon line, bright glowing yellow orange. Silver sea gently incoming over rocks, right. A stripe of wet sand and a corner of dark, drier sand bottom rights

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

1/ Nature is in peril. Drastic declines and specialist species struggling is what the Wild Bird Indicators, using BTO data & published by Defra, show. Here’s what we know ⬇️ The All Bird Species Index shows 19% declines in the UK since 1970. This comprises 132 species. 📉 #Ornithology

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Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

Did u know?Insect predators are important in healthy ecosystems,esp' as population controllers.Green lacewings prey on soft bodied insects like aphids.W'out aphid predators in the mix,keeping aphid populations down,it's estimated the world would be covered in a layer of aphids,92 miles deep. 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲

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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

One from Saturday, looking towards Am Ploc.

A still sea reflecting mountains and clouds.

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 19/10/2026

I was quite shocked as I had no idea they were so territorial.

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 18/10/2026

Indeed. We once saw a fight between two robins in the snow. One robin had the other on its back. Fortunately it wasn’t killed.

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 17/10/2026

Blinded by the Light by Manfred Man’s Earth Band (1976)

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 17/10/2026

Brilliant! I don’t fancy either! Did you know there’s new fangled machines that turn you into ‘ashes’ with fire and no pollution. Resomation for me please! Wouldn’t work for you poem though, Ju.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Frances Macdonald ( 1873 – 1921), prominent Glasgow School artist, whose design work was a huge feature of the British Art Nouveau style from the 1890s until the early 20th century #WomensArt ##GlasgowGirls

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 17/10/2026

No! It’s the view from my previous back garden into the field. 😂

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Wildly happy to have another sonnet from my forthcoming collection from JCStudio Press "But It's Always Been Like This" featured at the International Times. Thank you, Rupert. internationaltimes.it/my-foresight/

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my foresight | IT

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I just remembered this poem that was published in 2023, another uncharacteristic one for me in that it's a love poem, albeit on the whimsical side. Last one from me @jenthorne.bsky.social I promise! For #PromptCombo #Doors From Gypsophila Zine, vol 2 issue 6 in September 2023

Screenshot of poem "Ode to the Front Door" from Gypsophila Zone volume 2 issue 6

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

Libby menu interface showing Content Controls: AI Contributions with the Hunan authors only and Human narrators only options selected.

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 17/10/2026

Dairy free and gluten free specialities Get in touch. Some items can be posted (UK only) Usual contact routes, including DM’s. #baking#festive #orders

Handmade stollen sliced on a wooden board with a black knife and nub end left of the shot.

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 17/10/2026

It’s THAT time of year again! My list is extremely limited this year due to my hand surgery but I have space for a few orders still, so get in touch if you want anything: Seville marmalade chutney desserts puddings cakes fruit bread bouche de Noel etc. #festivebaking 1/2

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 17/10/2026

Oh, thanks, Mike. Appreciate you reading and taking time to comment.

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