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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 8h

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

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 8h

Another day…another news story that makes me say “The emperor has no clothes on”

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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

The more I hear, the more glad I am that I went to Heriot-Watt, rather than St Andrews (which was my second choice). I was totally oblivious at the time to the whole class thing, and made my decision based on wanting to live away from home!

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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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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Talked loudly about how good the Worst Witch books are while walking past The Elephant Cafe in Edinburgh. #doingmypart

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I didn’t know this detail! Will have to look out for it next time I’m there

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Grudging Signup @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Probably the most photographed artifact in the whole museum 😏

A small ceramic hot-water bottle labelled "The DAINTY Muff Warmer"

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In a window in Edinburgh, Scotland. The great pumpkin

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

I’d have loved that in primary school (I’d love it now tbh)

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’m trying to get my colleagues to go there!

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It is better in here when we're all talking about a good person rather than a wicked one. Maybe we can learn how to do that more.

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I miss it so much. Always my first choice from the sweetie tin at my gran and grandad’s!

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"But when his drinking and lusting and his hunger for power became known to more and more people, the demands to do something about this outrageous man became louder and louder"

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yes, this is exactly how it affects me too. My colleagues say, “Oh but you’re actually really good at phone calls!” but they don’t see how much it takes out of me to make a call

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Poor Kelvin, always the gooseberry (by not even being born yet)

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The hills are now full of dead bodies. Please henceforth choose to die in a valley.

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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 · 09/08/2026

I have the postcards of these, and they’re one of my favourite sets

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

Here in Glenrothes they’re known as Bodie’s Boulders, after one of the early town planners who suggested that any large boulders unearthed during building should be placed as features

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

Ooh! Taking a note of this for future reading!

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Reminder that Scotland has been doing the whole "weird man made of tree parts thing" long before Wicker came along. Probably not a good idea to try the vigorous sexy time with this lad though, those burrs are jaggy.

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

Yes! I first read about it in a novel and assumed it was made-up, then I discovered it was real!

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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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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

to have your men eaten on one island may be regarded as a misfortune; to have them eaten on two looks like carelessness.

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The hilarious bit is that she had dyed her hair again since the photos, so I only recognised her because she was sitting at a stall with her name on it!

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

She is the very person who, when she changed her hair colour (we worked in the same building), I knew she looked familiar but couldn't figure out who she was!

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Doing the very neurodivergent thing of screenshotting photos of someone I haven't seen for a few years, so that I’ll remember what she looks like if I see her at an arty thing this week

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

They’d make lovely badges too!

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