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Andrew MacKellar @hansoliton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reached an important milesstone in my "Get an NHS ADHD diagnosis even though I already have a private diagnosis because my GP refused a shared care partnership": The second private company that I've just been waiting 18 months for have twigged what's going on.

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Andrew MacKellar @hansoliton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

@wardqnormal.bsky.social Hiya. I want to apologise in advance, because what I'm about to say might be upsetting, but I really hope it isn't. I've just read Neurotribes over the last couple days, and I am astonished.

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Ghooouuuls! Scheele 👻 @julesscheele.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Hiya! I'm once again available for freelance illustration work! I’m an illustrator with 10+ years of experience, specialising in graphic storytelling that translates and brings a human touch to difficult concepts. You can visit my portfolio and contact me here: www.julesscheele.com

A collage graphic advertising freelance illustration work by Jules Scheele. There's a pink tinted photo of Jules drawing on a while, as well as little crops of illustrations and scribes. The written info reads as follows:

I'm available for illustration work!
- Live illustration/graphic recording!
- Academic research visualisation!
- Workbooks and infographics!
- Editorial and spot illustrations!
- Books, comics, zines, posters and more!

Website: www.julesscheele.com

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Andrew MacKellar @hansoliton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Spent yesterday heading back down to my flat to pick up my ADHD meds so I don't waste my entire holiday.

A screenshot of One Piece, where Luffy has just awakened gear fifth, and is doing the Nika pose in front of the full moon.

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Andrew MacKellar @hansoliton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Oh wow, uh... So I accidentally left my ADHD meds at home before going on holiday, and I'm having trouble keeping up with all of the messages. I'll try to get back to everyone who seems like they want a response in time.

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Andrew MacKellar @hansoliton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I have ADHD. I'm also a physicist. I got the ADHD diagnosis about a year and a half ago, after really struggling with work for a few years. I didn't know about it when I was in school, or when I started a physics undergrad as a mature student, or through my PhD. I have thoughts:

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Andrew MacKellar @hansoliton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Robin's a good egg and deserves so much better than he got from the BBC.

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 12/08/2026

Fuck off sun and don't come back

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#bandcampfriday is nearly done - if you purchase our album I will be very happy - all money goes to Rachel who has worked so hard on it #music #poetry #tree

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The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com · 06/08/2026

Apropos of nothing, if you fancy supporting an independent outfit making new science podcasts and documentaries thst the Guardian said is the sort of thing the BBC used to be famous for, here be our Patreon - Patreon.com/cosmicshambles

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Looking forward to hearing @channel4tv.bsky.social justify this unfathomably reckless and damaging title, let alone anything else. The journalistic equivalent of throwing a hornet's nest into an A&E ward, to 'raise awareness of injuries'.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 02/08/2026

Selective time travel is one of the most interesting aspects of SF narratives around time. A lot of shows will talk about “fixed points” in time, essentially to prevent the characters from strategically or logistically deploying time travel to dismantle the crisis the story is about.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

www.seetickets.com/tour/josie-l... please share #comedy #poetry #storytelling

JOSIE LONG & ROBIN INCE
STAND UP • POETRY • CONVERSATION
NOVEMBER 2026
A CROSSTOWN CONCERTS PRESENTATION

SAT 07
CARDIFF
THE GATE
SUN 08
BATH
KOMEDIA MATINEE
TUE 17
BIRMINGHAM
MIDLANDS ARTS CENTRE
WED 18
LONDON
THE TABERNACLE
SAT 21
LEEDS
GLEE CLUB MATINEE
SUN 22
GLASGOW
ST. LUKE'S
20 YEARS OF SHAMBLES
Josie Long & Robin

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Andrew MacKellar @hansoliton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

What in the Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 Kings of Power 4,000,000,000% is this?! I am so locked in now

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The year is 2040 The government has criminalized not having diarrhea Secret police hunt down offenders called “Drywalkers” But one elite officer in their ranks has a secret of his own. Captain Jaxon Cole is lettuce immune

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Q for Tech/iOS/Animator people: Mini Moog adores YouTube animators and wants to have a go himself. His 10th birthday is coming up so he wants a tablet To get started on. Will a refurb A16 iPad & pencil with FlipaClip or similar be okay to get him started?

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Jim Trinca @jimtrinca.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm a single issue voter and the issue is trans rights, because if someone is against them you can extrapolate the rest of their dogshit politics with pinpoint accuracy

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

it’s always a good time to get hold of any semi-capable PC from the past decade and download a bunch of emulators and go wild exploring more incredible games than you could play in a lifetime

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Two of my oldest gay friends - in fact just two of my oldest friends full stop - just got homophobically attacked. They’re both in tech so I’m sure a number of you guys know them too. The most important thing is that they’re not (I think) permanently damaged. But it was a close run thing.

Simon and I were homophobically attacked in Brussels last week so seriously we ended up in hospital.
We're safe now, have been medically treated, have completed all our police reports, and are being cared for by the very best chosen family and true community we could ever have wished for.
We planned to wait a few days before sharing, mostly to make sure that we'd spoken to our families and loved ones before they read about it on social media, but we can now confirm that these stories are about us.
Simon and I have been participating in a wonderful European queer choir festival called Various Voices Choir Festival, attended by about 4000 singers from across the world. Every four years it's hosted by a different choir and city and this year it was in Brussels.
On Thursday night, four of us started walking the couple of hundred metres back to our central Brussels hotel from the gay bar district, holding hands as we dia. We'd only got one street away before someone threw some kind of liquid at us.
Simon turned round to see what had happened, and if someone had spilt a drink, and saw three young men at a table who pretended not to speak English. When he turned to walk away they threw liquid again and we knew it wasn't an accident.

We walked a little further before deciding to turn back to call out their behaviour. Simon calmly said
"that's not OK you know" and I took their photo.
Immediately one of the guys got up and lunged at me punching me multiple times in the jaw, throat and head, and knocking me to the ground where I hit my head hard on the cobbled stone pavement.
I don't remember being on the ground, but I'm told by the others I was with that suddenly, several other men appeared and I was flat on the pavement surrounded by seven people. I do remember clearly hearing Simon scream "Not him!
Leave him alone!".
Simon and the other two people we were with (I' let them choose whether to name themselves or not) saved me, perhaps my life, but certainly from much more serious injuries by dragging the men off me. In the process Simon was punched multiple times and had his nose broken in two places, and one of our other friends was also hit, but fortunately not seriously injured. All of them are heroes. I love them and could not be more grateful.
The wonderful people, and there are many, of Brussels ran out of the surrounding bars and the attackers fled. They helped us to the Police station who immediately called us an ambulance and took us to hospital where we spent the night.
The doctors were excellent. Almost immediately Simon was sent for a CT scan which confirmed that his nose was broken in two places, and that he'd very likely need surgery to fix it. While Simon was in radiology the doctor examined my jaw and head and confirmed that whilst I had a number of serious haematomas and was slightly concussed, my jaw wasn't broken and my skull was intact.
Some of my teeth had moved around a bit, but still have all of them.

These thugs were organised. They knew what they were doing, where they were sitting and what type of people they wanted to target. They weren't interested in robbing us, they were interested only in attacking us because they're homophobic and we're queer, and somehow their fragile masculinity feels a bit better if they hurt someone that they see as weaker than them. It's pathetic really.
I'm certain that if it hadn't been us, they'd have attacked someone else that night. Whilst we are shocked that it was us, we're the gentlest people in the world, we're grateful that it wasn't one of the many more fragile than us people at the festival. We will heal and recover, and are already beginning to do so. It could have been so much worse.
Despite spending all night in hospital and not being able to breathe through his nose Simon, with the support of the incredible Barberfellas, decided he still wanted to perform in the
"Royalties" concert that evening, which the Barbies were opening alongside Queer Essence, Ukraine's LGBTQI+ choir. Partly in solidarity with our incredible Ukrainian friends who have suffered so much more than we can even begin to imagine: partly because there's no homophobe in the world that can stop Simon getting his bum out on stage; partly because we'd already carried his costume all around Europe. I'm so proud of him.
These thugs and people like them feel they have permission to attack us because evil self-interested politicians are emboldening them more every day with their hate speech and telling them not just that violence is OK, but that people different from them deserve it.

Don't fall for the "Pride is unnecessary" narrative.
Straight cis people don't get beaten up in the streets just for existing.
If you're queer like us, or identify as any other part of the LGBTQI+ family, then know that we love you, and (Simon and I have talked about this and both completely agree we would, without hesitation, use our privilege again to call out homophobia, transphobia, or hate speech, actions or crimes of any type. The actions we took were aligned with our values, and we won't be silenced by fear from trying to protect ourselves or others even if it sadly comes at some risk to ourselves.
What can you do to help? If you're straight and/or cis then we need your help and support more than ever. Allyship is critical. Please help us counter the identity politics hate speech that puts all minorities at real risk every day, and make clear that violence isn't acceptable.
At the very minimum please never ever consider giving your vote to someone espousing hate, they'll use it to legitimise their violence. If you're able to do more, join us in speaking out against hate, and help us educate the people who are being lied to and radicalised against each other by politicians.
To those who reached out, we love you and appreciate you.
To those who gave us some space, we love you too.
To the festival organisers, thank you for helping us share the information necessary to keep other participants safe and aware whilst respecting our privacy.
To those of you who are only finding out now, we weren't keeping anything from you, we just needed a little space before speaking. We love you too.
James Cronin and Simon Pearson

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I'd watch football if it was silly

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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Murdoink @murdoink.com · 23/06/2026

mk2 reflecting pool

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Scotland has colonised the U.S.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Please buy our lovely album - Rachel needs her tour van repairing

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Merc with a 🫦 in 🎃SpOoKy Mode🎃 @mercuryal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

happy pride month to them 🌈🖖🏻 #Garashir

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Curse of the Libby Dead @captainlibatron.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

One thing cis people can do is completely shun transphobes from every area of their physical and online life

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 20/05/2026

Starting with retired people, right?

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Dave Cook @davecook.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

All set up at Kaiju Con at the Glasgow SEC. On today! Come on down for all your comic, anime, manga and Asian pop culture needs 👍

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fab.ricious 🔜 @ Vienna ComicCon 2026! @artoffabricious.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Call for help: If anyone has prior experience for vending at conventions in the UK as a non-UK-resident or citizen, could you please reach out? I am currently trying to brave the UK government webpages to figure out how to legally stay within what's sensible for me as a business to vend at DinoCon!

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Multiple UK universities took down their policies relating to trans inclusion after the OfS's unprecedented fine of Sussex over its wholly anodyne approach to discouraging transphobia. Today is a very good day to demand to know when those policies will be going back up.

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Andrew MacKellar @hansoliton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Goodbye, my sweet ginger prince. I've never known another like you.

A photograph of my old extremely ginger cat Tink. He is lying on his left side, facing the camera with eyes half-closed. His right arm is reaching out towards the camera as he dozes.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/03/2026

The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.

"A data table summarizing the results of a literature review on various hormone therapy interventions for binary and non-binary groups. It lists ten intervention categories, detailing the number of full texts assessed, studies included, and studies excluded for each. The bottom row shows a total of 547 texts assessed, 17 studies included, and 530 studies excluded."

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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 08/03/2026

The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out. I am amazed by the limited news coverage.

Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.

Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.

The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.

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Lee CroNina's The Mummymoto 💀 @spacecoyote.com · 19/02/2026

recently watched an episode of Star Trek TNG with the Duras sisters, so I'm reposting this thing I drew in 2022

The Klingon Duras sisters, B'etor and Lursa, drawn in the style of Beavis & Butt-head

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Cathode Ray Blanchard @shivs.kindgirls.online · 20/02/2026

me: that's it, I'm done, no more electoralism, no more waiting for a saviour Zack Polanski: *likes my post calling labour a bunch of pedophile red tories* me:

Zack Polanski liking a post that reads

awwww mate, sorry about ur precious wee team of pedophile red tories

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Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

"Friends with benefits" is when you have a friend who lets you infodump to them about a niche special interest.

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Cathode Ray Blanchard @shivs.kindgirls.online · 03/02/2026

HIRE SCOTTISH PEOPLE

Play Store page for a game called RISING JOBBIES

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I find myself in Reading tonight... anywhere good [and cheapish] to eat? Been years since I was here....

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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

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Timothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 10/01/2026

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 10/01/2026

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

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Andrew MacKellar @hansoliton.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

@regretteruane.bsky.social So I just finished Birding and I'm not sure how to process what I just witnessed (complimentary).

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