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Mari Välimäki @marivalimaki.bsky.social · 16h

Learned today that illness, accident, and sorrow were the accepted reasons for a Swedish 17th-c. professor to miss their lectures, a public defence, or to be absent from administrative meetings Tells a lot about life in the 17th century, when sorrow was a constant companion to all #earlymodern

A still life with a scull on a book and beside them a candle that has been recently blown out, it is still smoking lightly. It is written Memento mori under the still life.

Wallerant Vaillant, Vanitas still life (1658-1677), Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands

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Faclair na Gàidhlig @faclair.bsky.social · 12h

CONACHAG-GHIOMACH 🦀🐚 ~ a hermit crab Dictionary entry: www.faclair.ac.uk/entries/69 #ConachagGhiomach #PartanTuathal #HermitCrab #Gaelic

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Flitcraft @flitcraft.bsky.social · 10h

This is amazing work. A real advance that could get us somewhere on this.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16h

'seven women...have told the Guardian they are survivors of domestic abuse carried out by key figures in the anti-immigration street patrol movement. All have chosen to come forward to make the public aware of the patterns of violence behind this new form of activism.'

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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols

Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement

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Obsidian @obsidian.md · 25/08/2026

Save your data to local Markdown files you own forever, and can access completely offline. Obsidian now helps you migrate from all the major proprietary formats including Notion, Evernote, OneNote, Google Keep, Apple Notes, and more.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

My academic book, ‘JK Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic,’ is out September 2026. It is my analysis of the moral panic from Edinburgh, the ‘city of JK Rowling,’ where I study and work at JKR’s former university as it became a hub for anti-trans organizing … ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

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J. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic

Weaves the author’s lived experience as a trans woman with pop culture and media analysis to dissect J. K. Rowling’s emergence as an anti-trans activist within the context of the UK’s anti-trans moral...

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Join us for an evening celebrating trans activism and trans joy amid adversity with the launch of @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social's new book: J.K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic. Tuesday 13th October at 6.30pm for scintillating discussion followed by a Lighthouse Social. See you there!

Noor holds up a copy of JK Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic by Gina Gwenffrewi.

Event poster for Lighthouse Bookshop: "J.K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic" with Gina Gwenffrewi, hosted by Sharon Cowan — Tuesday 13th October, 6:30pm; illustrated older person smoking as smoke and a burning trans-pride flag form the title.

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Flitcraft @flitcraft.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If your anti-genocide policy would probably require a genocide of some kind to implement then dare I say, it's not a very good anti genocide policy, is it?

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Flitcraft @flitcraft.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You can't have just one scapegoating prejudice as a treat Even if it's dressed as defending somebody else's rights, if it trades in demonising folk who in practice have nothing to do with those evils you claim to fight but you've theorised them to have some guilt by association, you know what it is

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 05/10/2026

This newspaper hoarding – here displayed by Tom Leonard (1944–2018) on his bookcase – was described by the author as “the only ‘trophy’ I ever got for my poetry that continues to give me some pleasure, when I remember it.” #BannedBooksWeek #poetry www.tomleonard.co.uk/journal/blog...

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

40% of surveyed HIV organisations had run out of stocks of vital products, such as PrEP or HIV tests, as a result of cuts to international aid funding, led by Trump. More people will acquire HIV. More people will die of AIDS. “This is not a distant risk – it is already happening.”

theguardian.com

Shortages of crucial HIV medicines due to aid cuts are a ‘warning’, say experts

More than half of organisations providing HIV care surveyed by International Planned Parenthood Federation said they had run out of stock at some point during past 12 months

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A most excellent weevil! Eupholus schoenherrii, from New Guineau, at the Insectarium de Montreal. Beetle is about an inch long, and yes, it really is that colour.

A solid-looking beetle, about an inch long, in garish cross-wise stripes of black, gray-green, and bright lime (ish) green

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today's blog is all about a fantastic encounter with two flocks of Common Cranes yesterday over the Isle of May involving 26 birds! Check out the blog: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com Photos Bex Outram

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This picture from a Red Cross photoshoot in 1918 is an uncomfortable reminder of the time when Glasgow had a racially segregated hospital. A wee thread... 📷: Library of Congress

A Black man in a hospital bed, reading a newspaper while a (white) nurse looks on.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 October 1940 | Dutch Jewish girl, Rika Porcelijn, was born in Amsterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork in October 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

A vintage black-and-white photograph of a young girl standing on a chair, holding onto the backrest. The girl is wearing a dark coat and shoes, and there is a small, fluffy toy dog beside the chair.

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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Inside the 16th century doocot (dovecot) at Dirleton Castle.

View looking up at the shelves and boxes inside a round dovecot to an opening at the top.

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

“For all the relative protection from austerity, the British state pension remains among the lowest in Europe relative to average earnings" - James Meadway And that's the only measure that matters.

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Peter Crosbie @petercrosbie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If any other population group had a life expectancy 20-odd years below the norm, there’d be a national outcry. Autistic people? Crickets..

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m the only person who will appreciate this

Triangular diagram labelled The Introvert
Hierarchy of Needs.

Top: Self-actualisation - A completely empty house. An arrow pointing to the house says “Nobody needs anything. Nobody is coming home for hours. Phone on silent.”

The next level is Esteem - Plans getting cancelled. An arrow here says “‘Sorry, we're going to have to rearrange.’ Oh no. That's terrible. I'm devastated.”

Next level: Belonging - One person you actually like. No group chat. No networking. No "let's go round and introduce ourselves." Just one person you can talk absolute shit with.

Fourth level: Safety - An escape route. Own car. End seat. Knowing exactly when the event finishes. A believable reason to leave early.

Bottom of pyramid: Physiological needs - Being left the fuck alone for a bit. Food. Water. Sleep. 45 minutes where nobody speaks to you.

Created by Lee Harding, @theintrovertedrecruiter

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Flitcraft @flitcraft.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

'Despite migration falling steeply' =it's the Facebook poisoned numpties and their ilk. They can't be appeased - it's not based in reality. It's caused by consuming racist crap and propaganda and that's what needs tackled.

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Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Carousel Spider Orchid @ Kings Park, Perth, WA #WildOz #Wildflowers

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So, having located the Dundee Medical Officer’s special (and not digitalised) report on ‘illegitimacy’ in the city from 1967, it can be seen that the majority of registered births to mothers who were unmarried in the city in 1966 were not, as received wisdom would have had it, teenagers…

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Really outrageous. They are planning to flatten a historic monument! Promises of developers to resite monuments, which destroy their context anyway, have been known to be revealed later to be lies. www.thenational.scot/news/2660414...

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Fury as 1000-year-old castle refused listed status and replaced by data centre

LOCALS in Fife have been left furious after a 1000 year old castle was refused protected status due to plans for an AI data centre to be built on the historic site being at an “advanced stage” ...

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Flitcraft @flitcraft.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've been struggling with how difficult I find it to see people promote the likes of Marina Hyde at a time when parents are having to flee the country with their trans children to escape the prejudice Rowling et al have unleashed It might not come in a balaclava and shorts but it’s still prejudice

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the end you - yes you the cis Brit reading this are also complicit on some level. And I say that not to rebuke, but to say - *you* have a responsibility to do something now. We all do.

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As FierceMum makes clear, their family has the middle-class privilege that allows them to escape, even though it has cost them pretty much everything. Most families with trans kids or trans people DON'T have the means to find a way out, or have responsibilities that mean they cannot leave.

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you're a politician, journalist, lawyer, artist, medic or social services or civil servant and you follow me, then this is the one thing I ask you to read. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...

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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart

Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…

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Heather Herbert is Baking Bread. @heatherherbert.uk · 03/10/2026

PIP helps disabled people get into work. Even by their own standards (of wanting to reduce benefits expense) this is counter productive.

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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In a list of 'dead, absent and poor' hammermen is an entry for one who went off to fight in the Dutch wars (c.1575). He is described as 'called candy to the wars' (cannon fodder?). Has anyone come across this phrase before? @profmurdoch.bsky.social @aberjack.bsky.social @weegiegraeme.bsky.social

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 03/10/2026

The UK, now under the power of the Labour Party, has become a place an entire demographic feel the need to flee due to systematic legal discrimination enforced by the state.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is one of the Hornelund brooches crafted by a highly skilled Danish goldsmith. It was unearthed in 1892 by a labourer ploughing fields in Hornelund. It was part of a valuable hoard that included a second gold clothing brooch & a thick gold arm ring. 🕰️c950-1000AD 🏛️📷 National Museum of Denmark

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 02/10/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct ErinReed Elon Musk, whose estranged daughter is trans, calls for the death penalty for pediatric affirming care providers on X. GAC is currently supported by all 27 major US medical professional groups connected in any way with providing it.

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Elon Musk Calls For “Death Sentence” for GAC Providers

Musk’s posts are not just inflammatory rhetoric. They have real-life consequences.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m so fascinated by what an elite bigotry transphobia. Of course a well connected aristocrat is transphobic - even a notionally liberal one. There is no greater ‘luxury belief’ than being gender critical.

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚨 OUT NOW!! 🚨 My new book "Children of Starry Heaven" A complete introduction to the ancient Greek esoteric traditions. Published by Cherry Hill Seminary (@chseminary.bsky.social). 1/

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Roger @arbejdsmyren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In Denmark a scientist plotted data and research findings into Claude, only to see Anthropic publish the findings as something the LLM had conjured up on its own. The theft of one scientist’s data and work translates into false claims about the model’s ability to generate research #ai #eupol

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Scottish journalist George Buist, who brought the Norrie’s Law Hoard to public attention, died #OTD in 1860. Found near Largo, Fife, in 1819, much of the Pictish silver was illegally sold and the rest kept secret for 20 years until Buist investigated. 📸National Museums Scotland

The Norrie’s Law Hoard spread out for display.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#JobFairy alert for #histSTM and modern british historians - 60 month post-doc at Newcastle Uni on the Wellcome Trust funded "The Night Shift 1850-present: Reimagining Sleep, Work and Wellbeing for Healthcare Professionals in English and Scottish Hospitals" 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTD047/r...

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Research Assistant/Associate (Modern British History) at Newcastle University

Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Assistant/Associate (Modern British History). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Andy Burnham’s announcement of free personal care as part of a new National Care Service will only apply to those over 65, and not to working-age disabled people, No 10 has confirmed, sparking shock and concern among disabled people’s organisations. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/free-social-...

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Free social care is coming… but only if you’re over 65, government confirms after Burnham speech

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