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Lyndsay J

@eljay2.bsky.social
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Scottish, parent, dog servant, book lover. I don't do "follow back". Pronouns are she/her

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazing how the media's still sticking to the 'going rogue' line. This software did not 'go rogue'. Its developers failed to build adequate controls, did not do enough testing, and are entirely responsible for the results.
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 29/09/2026
Readers and writers of #BookSky, I got a story for you. Last year, I released a major nonfiction and sequel to an award winning mystery. This year, I released an audiobook on forensic history. But like most authors, I struggle to make sales/get recognition, and am a poor AF. Now the funny part: 1/
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026
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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 28/09/2026
Baba Yaga, the plains of Wyoming, and the perils of growing up--RATTLESNAKE WIND is a Kindle Monthly Deal, $1.99USD (and CAD) in ebook until 9/30. www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHKVR3YR
RATTLESNAKE WIND is a Kindle Monthly Deal, $1.99USD (and CAD) in ebook until 9/30.
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🔊Calling #Aberdeen #Elgin & #Inverness: I am heading North to come see y'all. There'll be grown-up book talks + school visits on route! Come & say hello. 🔭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎢 📘Th 1st: Aberdeen Science Centre 📗Fr 2nd: Moray Astronomy Club 📙Sa 3rd: Inverness Science in the Atrium ℹ️: www.roe.ac.uk/~heymans/H2D...
A crowd of people sat in a large marquee awaiting the start of the show at Wigtown book festival.  The holding slide says Prof. Catherine Heymans.  Reader - Catherine almost falls of the stage in surprise when she walks out to see a full house waiting to hear her speak!Catherine is looking very excited, sat on a copy cushion with small people all around her.  The text reads "Professor Catherine Heymans inspiring young minds about space" and "Attempting to explain the infinite universe to 5yr olds".  Catherine is not afraid to tackle the biggest questions that the young people want answered!
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Edinburgh Images 📷 @colognuh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Leith from Calton Hill, Edinburgh. The massive yellow structures are parts for a wind farm based at sea off the coast near Montrose.
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Martyn Waites/CB Everett @martynwaites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Late entry for "Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)".
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Second-screening the Katmai Falls bearcam today reminds me: Q: How do you weigh bears for Fat Bear Week? A:. By using LIDAR — laser-scanning bears to quantify the chonk volumetrically, and then using estimates of ursine density to convert it to approximate mass. www.geoweeknews.com/articles/sup...
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Supporting Fat Bear Week With Laser Scanning | Geo Week News
“Fat Bear Week celebrates fatness. That’s what you want to do before you go into your den.” Each year as summer begins to fade and wildlife
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Lyndsay J @eljay2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll. I love taking photos of the sky in Scotland as it's constantly changing. In this picture I was lucky to be on a walking tour of Stirling on the one day of the weekend it didn't rain!
An old cemetery with many grey stone grave markets and monuments set amongst green grass, low hedges and tall trees. In the foreground is a marble statue of two women and an angel, enclosed in glass and iron shaped like a giant birdcage and painted white. This is a memorial to the Wigtown Martyrs. In the distance Stirling Castle is doing its best to loom, mostly a dark grey stone building but with a crenellated golden stone edifice on the right. The sky is very blue with a few puffy white clouds
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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 26/09/2026
We're trying to find a home for, and I quote, "the Pissfingers of cats." Any takers? ❤️
Three screenshots of our facebook post about Jaffa Cake the unlucky mogJaffa in his cone of shame
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Tyche Books 🇨🇦 @tychebooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Dr. Ian Malcolm's Iconic Jurassic Park Quote
Alt: Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park, wearing sunglasses and a leather jacket says "Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."
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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Biscuit Time! youtu.be/SKeZSXkmo40
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Biscuit time!
YouTube video by James Oswald
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Andrew James Greig @andrewjgreig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Only $1.99 for a limited time. Thank you for your attention to this promotion www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGWS9GL...
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Murder of Crows (Detective Corstorphine Book 3)
Amazon.com: Murder of Crows (Detective Corstorphine Book 3) eBook : James Greig, Andrew: Kindle Store
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one of my proudest moments was being told by a former Gove staffer that he once angrily proclaimed: "I am NOT an eldritch horror!" in a team meeting, because of me.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's true! The canaries were cute little guys who kept them company, miners got attached blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/canary-resus...
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The canary resuscitator | Science and Industry Museum
Have you ever wondered what our curators' favourite collection items are? Here, assistant curator Lewis takes us through his rather surprising pick.
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kemmes @kemmes7.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Amy CUI / Jonathan ROGERS free skate at 2026 Lombardia Trophy to selections from the soundtrack of Ryan Coogler's Sinners #FigureSkating
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E. H. Lupton @pretensesoup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Find it here or in the podcast player of your choice! katherinegrantromance.com/historical-r... #booksky
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E. H. Lupton Samples Dionysus in Wisconsin (A '60s Fantastical Historical Romance) — Katherine Grant Romance
E. H. Lupton joins the podcast to read a sample from their fantastical romance, DIONYSUS IN WISCONSIN. We talk about world-building, the class dynamics behind the myth of Dionysus, and why 1969 is suc...
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Lyndsay J @eljay2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hello @bloodyscotland.bsky.social, I had a tremendous weekend at my first time with you! I wanted to give a shout out to a particular volunteer - would that be appropriate and what would be the best way?
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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A rare photograph of Reviewer Two
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Another post from the vaults. This is the story of one of Glasgow's shortest and once most disreputable streets, featuring civic improvement schemes, a poet for hire, a railway tunnel, dirty waxworks, and the city's only ordained milliner. new-cleckit.dominie.scot/the-warst-pl...
An arch, protected by a metal grille, in a stone wall into which a wider metal arch is built.
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Lyndsay J @eljay2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Another awesome #BloodyScotland panel from @dougjohnstone.bsky.social, Carys Green and Ajay Chowdhury. Fascinating thoughts about what the algorithm could do to us if we let it, also hilariously salty language from Doug. F capitalism! (I'm too scared to swear)
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026
Every day, the stories from the UK read like a dystopian novel.
​Screenshot of a Reddit post from r/transgenderUK titled "Excluded from school for supporting a trans girl." A parent describes their daughter, who has Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS), choosing to use the boys' restrooms in solidarity with a trans classmate who was forced to do so, resulting in her being excluded from school.
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Lyndsay J @eljay2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Day 2 of my first #BloodyScotland, having a great time! Solved a murder then saw @sirbenfro.bsky.social and @andrewjgreig.bsky.social discuss police procedurals. Key takeaway: the stories aren't so much about how the polis work as how people do - only their office politics are more life and death
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17/09/2026
call them Quakers because they got everybody else quaking in their boots
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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Exciting news (well we think so)! We are looking for new people to regularly contribute to our archive! We accept applications from anyone based in the UK who has an interest in sending us their thoughts and opinions about life in the UK. #Skystorians massobs.org.uk/write-for-th...
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Write for the archive - Mass Observation Archive
Writing for Mass Observation You can apply to write for the archive here. Current Observers If you are one of our current Observers you may find our handbook for new Observers helpful. This has all th...
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Delegates at #TUC26 have voted to condemn the EHRC code of practice and to back self-ID for trans people
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TUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans people
Delegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable'
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Jimmy Carr’s Dangerous Suicide Advice theneuroscienceofeve... As it's #NationalSuicidePreventionMonth (emphasis on *prevention*), here's a thorough critique of a supposedly helpful but actually quite damaging take on suicide doing the rounds, provided by Jimmy Carr, of all people ##mentalhealth
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Jimmy Carr’s Dangerous Suicide Advice
There’s a clip going around of Jimmy Carr sharing his take on suicide. And it’s presented as some wise, profound thing. But it isn’t. At best, it’s just wrong. At worst, it’s actively dangerous.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Doing some housekeeping on the blog and I remembered this: new-cleckit.dominie.scot/blue-in-the-... If you want to know why Glasgow's early municipal clocks had to be regularly boiled, and which one had a chaplain to keep it company at night, this post might be for you.
A montage of five clocks with blue faces.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
this is what beak performance looks like
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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
On pre-order, Sophia McDougall's hilarious Mars Evacuees is back in the UK at last. Your kids will love this. wizardstowerpress.co...
The cover of Mars Evacuees by Sophia McDougall.

The image is of four teenagers in space suits set against an image of Mars and a robot goldfish.

Original art by Andy Potts, cover design by Ben Baldwin
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Marcus Houlden @mhoulden.uk · 08/09/2026
The RNLI saves lives at sea, regardless of who they are. Sometimes the crew doesn't come back. To me that sounds a lot more patriotic than getting ballied up and chanting inane slogans at people trying to go on holiday. rnli.org/about-us/our...
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Why does the RNLI launch to small boats in the English Channel?
RNLI lifeboat crews have always launched to the rescue without judgement or preference. Men, women and children in danger in the Channel are no exception.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods “Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
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E. H. Lupton @pretensesoup.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Daybor! If you're looking for some fun spooky season reads, check these out. Book 1 now available in audiobook!
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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So my husband and son are doing the Cancer Research Night Walk in Newcastle next month, along with our dear friend Jack, and if anyone has any spare cash to throw at it, we would be very grateful fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/fen-bea...
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Fen Beasts In Toon
Our families have been affected by cancer in the last few years. Tom's niece Eliza had a brain tumour at the age of 1, which she has recovered from but which will impact her for life, and his dad (Mic...
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In an infamous series of experiments in the 1950s, Corporation engineers attempted to determine the tilt required to throw yer granny aff a bus. After many failures, the task was admitted to be impossible. (Virtual Mitchell: www.mitchelllibrary.org/virtualmitch...)
Three men stand solemnly beside a trolleybus which is being tilted at an alarming angle.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#Edinburgh! What are you doing on Friday night? Come to my book launch at Dynamic Earth! There will be: 🍺 A bar 🎶 Music 💃 Dancing (well, I'll be dancing from all the excitement) 🪐 Planetarium 360 visuals 🧪 Science + a little bit of philosophy 🎟️: dynamicearth.org.uk/event/how-to... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔭
How to Design a Universe:  Planetarium Show
Prof. Catherine Heymans Boos Launch
Readings and live music with Planetarium visuals.
Text on a cool pink version of the Andromeda Galaxy
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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The longest known Viking ship was discovered by chance while digging up ground to build an extension to the Viking Ship Museum.
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Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
PAID GIG: I'm looking for someone who knows Spanish Sign Language. I'm going to be translating a graphic novel where SSL is featured (hooray for d/Deaf rep!!) and I want to be sure that I get the text aligned with the signs in the artwork. This should be happening at some point this year. #xl8
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The progression of certain thinkers from denying the validity of trans people to denying the validity of disabilities is a nice illustration of the way in which transphobic habits of mind can quickly evolve into a kind of acquired sociopathy.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Update: two folk have suggested Taylor shorthand. I've not got that to work so far: the most conspicuous stumbling blocks are the "+" signs and the arrangements of four and five dots die-style. I do think it's plausible from the justification that the text is written upside down: rotated pic below.
A lengthy block of probably-shorthand.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £70000 to Save Parton Kirk – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to Save Parton Kirk. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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