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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I attended my first auction today, and it’s set rather a high bar for any future ones I attend! 🤣

Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1. Happy Fly #botober2026 is a very tiny language model run locally on @janelleshane.com computer, and trained solely on racehorse names… which led to a My Little Pony theme!

A drawing of a yellow pony with grey wings, mane, and tail, with black spots on its behind and grinning red lips

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Only in Glenrothes can we have such an international police chase!

Police chase in Glenrothes just passed my window in Macedonia near Iceland

(Macedonia being an area named after an old farm, and Iceland being a shop)

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Really pleased to come across these books in a charity shop yesterday, to add to my collection of works by illustrator Tony Meeuwissen

Songs and Dances of Scotland (grouse/pheasant?), Songs and Dances of Ireland (harp), Songs and Dances of England (window)

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I finally got around to seeing the Burry Man, who parades through South Queensferry each August!

A man dressed in a suit made of plant burrs, covering his whole body and face. He holds two staffs of hydrangea flowers with yellow lion rampant flags. He has a crown of flowers, and some berries on his body

The burry man flanked by two assistants in kilts

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A perfect light meal after a few days of overeating! Delicious!

French toast with onions, chillies and coriander, on a retro Pyrex plate. I’ve added a little turmeric to the egg, and sprinkled shichimi togarashi powder on top

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I did not expect to see this today!

Bride, in white wedding dress and long veil, sitting on a brown horse, with members of the wedding party in various colours of dresses

Bride, in white wedding dress and long veil, sitting on a brown horse. A lady in a brown dress leads the horse, and a lady in a blue dress is standing on the pavement with a large dog beside her

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This evening’s reading, 33p from a charity shop!

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The figurative blood, sweat, and tears of this working week has become literal on all three fronts over the past 24 hours. Hoping to get the harder stuff finished this week, have a slightly less intense week next week, then 3 weeks holidays!

Base of thumb with a tiny prick of blood

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just me attempting to get myself banned from a Facebook group 🤣

Picture of some stickers of Edinburgh/Scotland with me commenting “Sadly the art comes across as having a wee bit of an Al vibe - I know that as a photographer you'll be against the use of Al in art, and have drawn them all by hand or hired an illustrator, but the style of the coos in particular has a similarity to the sort of thing that Al comes up with, so that may be something to consider.”

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A collaborative piece with my nephew, inspired by his art homework last year on David Hockney

A colourful landscape drawn on the iPad. David Hockney’s name is growing from the branches of a purple bush, and there’s a river with the words vibrant, creative, happy, colourful, bold. A fish swims in a pond, there’s a field of sunflowers, and a red path stretches through the middle of the picture towards a bridge. My nephew’s name is blurred out on the bottom right

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I’ve now been playing this, set in a tea shop on the journey to the afterlife, and I may write up the results as a short story!

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I’m sad to hear this. She wrote two of my favourites

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

In a similar vein to Robin’s poem, here is my Malapoetry that I wrote last week - all examples I have encountered in the wild, either spoken or written!

Malapoetry.
To who it may consern:
As I eluded to, It's bleaved that It's a working process
Altered ego,
I've not tried anything imparticular
My moto for the day:
Life is a verity pack
India is a globule supper power Cornflour blue and Marple syrup
Are chalk in cheese:
Excellent palette cleanse
They're literally doing a Belgian conga
In a Black Forest ghetto
Using it as a thorough fair And getting passed from pillow to post
They're ravished by drugs
At exhorted prices
They're paid pittens And get short thrift

It's not really comparatable But my epi ominous album Had an indeph video, and My reputation would be in shatters
Ihad a pit in my stomach And was raced to hospital
A wing on a prayer
I'm still flawed by her kindness
A giant asterix stands next to this president
He wouldn't say boo to a ghost Looking for browning points
Believe me he'll be getting a scalding
We almost get our rowans cleaned of Amathist and Ross Quarts
Heat gun, less then 30 seconds
Why torcher yourself
Being tarnished with the same brush
We button down the hatches And shun away from
The eight faces of the moon

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Another deep time poem. This one is about how warming messages for nuclear waste sites may be counterproductive

Poem printed and stuck in journal, with pen illustrations of warning signs, a woman screaming, and hostile leg-shaped jagged berms

Nucleus
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This thorny landscape sings
A song of power lost
Who’s honoured in this place?

This grid with bursting spikes
Seemed valued to your ilk
What deed is symbolised?

These earthworks from your time
Which undulate and flow
What treasure lies below?

This land of brittle stones
That crunch and crack and bite
Where did you lay your bones?

These organisms: green
Like none that I have known
What wonders have they seen?

These massive basalt blocks
That cannot be ignored
Why did you leave this place?

These granite spikes lean in
Towards an unseen core
What energy is this?

This field of jagged spires
Inspires me to go on
Why does it draw me in?

This circle of black stone
This message from the dead
Is this where I should dig?

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I’ve started (attempting) to write a few bits of poetry with a deep time theme, and this is partly in response to the planned AI centre in Auchtertool and the recycling centre fire in Ladybank. No shade intended on wind turbines btw, it was a contrast of ancient and modern!

Fife Life, Deep Time

Wind turbines at break of day
Megalith where golfers play
Al centre on farmland
Crinoid fossils on the sand

Mass house-building, ever more
Witch's gravestone on the shore
Pylons buzz, where no birds sing
Rock and Spindle, cup and ring

More pollution in the air
Old stone circle, Devil's Chair
Flooding, trees blown down in gales
Pilgrims' well and witches trail

Farmers chasing higher yields
Standing stones out in the fields
Massive cruise boats in the waves
Maiden's Rock and Caiplie Caves

Modern schools, post-war ones gone Mermaid's Cradle, symbol stone
Local rubbish tip on fire
Buddo Rock, St Andrews' spires

Shopping centres, money spent
A hidden gorge, a pagan den
Helicopter, aeroplane
John Knox's Pulpit, Bunnet Stane

Old coal mines, a paper mill
Ancient fort up on the hill
Historic-industry disease
Fossil woodlouse-tracks and trees

Weathered marks upon a stone
Volcanic plug and setting sun
This will all be lost to time
Left as fragments no-one finds

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Couldn’t resist giving the yarn a sad face!

Blue yarn, curled round looking like a little dragon, with string forming the outline of the eyes

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Here are the prompts from the film club discussion of After Life, by the way

Film & Philosophy
After Life - 2 February 2026
CARD 1: THE LOCKEAN DILEMMA
"Identity is founded on consciousness and memory." John Locke In the film, choosing one memory means erasing all others. If you are stripped of 99% of your experiences, are you still the same
"self"? Does our identity lie in the raw footage of our lives, or in the final edit we choose to keep?
Film & Ph
After Life - 2
I choose to remember.
Film & Philosophy
After Life - 2 March 2026
CARD 2: THE TRUTH OF ARTIFICE
The counsellors/ film-makers use cotton wool for clouds and fans for wind to recreate memories. The French film scholar André Bazin suggested cinema "mummifies time". Why might a low-budget, artificial recreation of a memory sometimes feel more "true" than the original event? Can art be more real than reality?
Film & Philosophy
After Life - 2 March 2026
CARD 3: SENSORY VS NARRATIVE
Many deceased characters choose a simple sensory moment (the breeze on
a tram, the smell of summer) over a major life
achievement (a wedding, a promotion). Why might we define ourselves by these "small" moments? What does this say about the "meaning of life"?
Film & Philosophy
After Life - 2 March 2026
CARD 4: THE 'WATANABE' REVELATION
One character finds peace only when he realizes his life was a supporting role in someone else's "best memory." Is a life well-lived measured by what we experience, or by the impact we leave in the memories of others?
Г Fim & Philosophy
After Life - 2 March 2026
CARD 5: THE ETERNAL CHOICE
If you were standing in that municipal building today, what is the one memory you would take into eternity? Does the act of choosing (or being unable to choose) that memory change how nu feel about your life right now?

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Was in a Søstrene Grene shop yesterday, and bumped into a young couple, and admired the collection of badges one was wearing, especially the F*** AI one. A few minutes later they came over saying “I have spares, and I think you should have one!” 🥰

Me clad in black dungarees, with 3 badges - On Air, Described as being ‘artistic’, and F*** AI

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

My second time seeing 2:22 A Ghost Story yesterday, and it was interesting to spot little clues knowing the ending! @dannyrobins.bsky.social

The exterior of the Playhouse theatre in Edinburgh, with large banner for 2:22 above the doors, and posters at each side

Red theatre chairs and a stage set of an open plan living room, dining room, kitchen. The walls are partially stripped of old paper, and there is some painting going on around the door frame

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I’ve been helping a bit with a fun project this week! Two artist friends of mine have been working with pupils from the school where I work, to decorate a local underpass, and I’ve been popping along to lend a hand at lunchtimes!

Me leaning forward to paint a zigzag orange line which is the flame of a rocket. I’m wearing a white Tyvek suit

Me sitting on the ground in a tyvek suit, with blue shoe covers on, painting the yellow background of the wall

Doodle designs on a yellow wall, including a turquoise letter C with teeth, a pink hippo-pig-amus, and a grey pigeon which I painted

Four condiment characters - salt(?), mustard (which I painted and outlined), ketchup, and brown sauce(?) at the base of a yellow doodly wall

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Me with Elma, my style icon! We’ve seen each other a bit in recent years as we both went to Rock Choir and ended up sitting next to each other by chance!

A lady in her 70s wearing a grey suit and polo neck, and bright lipstick, standing next to a 55 year old in peach dungarees and shirt, wearing a duck-egg-blue tie with thin black diagonal stripes

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

A wonderful weekend of cat spotting in Kirkcaldy and surrounding area!

A grid of 9 photos of cat sculptures painted in various designs. Top left is the classic yellow Gallé cat, then geometric, fairground, fungi, poetry, colourful, realistic, tunnocks teacake wrapper, colourful

8 photos of cats. Pithead, landscape, blue floral, green floral (with me in matching dungarees), gold floral, blue geometric, roses, and finally a yellow brooch I was wearing in the same shape

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Had an amazing time watching #thehighlife this afternoon! I have been so incredibly excited about watching this show, and it was everything I hoped it would be!

The cast dressed in gold outfits for the finale, raising their arms in the air joyfully

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

When subtitles go badly wrong…

Aerial view of a Scottish farm (Finzean in the parish of Birse) with the words “this is fingering in the Parish of birth”

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I’m reading The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal, which I chose as our work book club book, and I’m enjoying the NASA coverage of the real thing alongside it!

The cover of The Calculating Stars, with the silhouette of a woman against a purple background of the moon and mathematical symbols and lines. A big yellow faux sticker saying Hugo and Nebula Award Winner annoyingly appears on the top left

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This is what happens when you go on YouTube after looking at @jaunty.art not-rude things thread!

Analogue spring morning routine video. Thumbnail shows the word “analogue” in large writing, but the youtuber’s head is in front of the “o”

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Looking back at my 5th birthday cards, and my parents and I have no clue who these people are! No Grays or Michaels in the family, and we can’t think of any family friends or neighbours they could be!