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Karin

@karinsmiles.bsky.social
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Knitter, crafter - so many crafts, so little skill. Fast walker, slow runner. Temporarily at the beck and call of the best ginger cat ever.

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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Cat-shaped vessel from Peru (c. 200–700 CE) #MenWithCats
Cat-shaped vessel from Peru 
(c. 200–700 CE)Cat-shaped vessel from Peru 
(c. 200–700 CE)
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Karin @karinsmiles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here for the Ancient Greek crossover.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
new followers: welcome. this is what I use my training in Ancient Greek for
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Karin @karinsmiles.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It's odd, but the witch hunt seemed to be fine and dandy until they in fact burned the witch.
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Karin @karinsmiles.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
For everybody wondering how big an area 140 football pitches cover, it's about a kilometre square. Bizarre way of trying to report scale.
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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Un hombre con un cubo de basura ‌en la cabeza
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Babar removes his clothing and says "I reject the vestments of so-called civilized society. For too long I laboured under the shameful illusion that my natural state was somehow inadequate." Other angry elephants gather around Babar as he announces "for I am not, Babar, King of the Men!" His face intensifies and he shouts "I AM BABAR, KING OF THE ELEPHANTS!" Several elephants in outright rebellion against man's society start goring frenchmen, tossing them in the air and tearing off their hands.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
“There has unquestionably been a huge increase in immigration over the last two decades, and it has made Britain far more diverse than it was. Yet by any measure you pick, violence in Britain has plummeted over that same period.“ zeteonews.co.uk/p/belfast-ri...
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The Belfast Riots Are an Anti-Migrant Pogrom - and the British Media Has Serious Questions to Answer
In his first column for Zeteo UK, acclaimed journalist and author Owen Jones looks at how the lie about immigrants pushed by British media and political elites is fueling the violence we see today.
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Karin @karinsmiles.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I love living near the Water of Leith ❤️ This wee roe deer was standing just below Slateford Bridge, very close to the @wolct.bsky.social centre.
Camera viewpoint is over the parapet of a bridge looking down on a small roe deer in the river with some bushes behind it.The camera is looking down on a small roe deer with its feet in water and rocks and rubble behind it.
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Lennie @drgs100.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Repeat after me, "Powderhall! Powderhall! Powderhall!" powderhall.link
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
A lot of attention is paid to craft traditions in Western Europe and North America, such as handsewn Hermes leather goods and bespoke Savile Row suits. But the uneven focus leads some to believe that things made outside of these places are low quality. This is not true. 🧵
Some people handling African indigo-dyed fabrics. The fabrics have circular patterns on them.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 22/05/2026
This cartoon by Ella Baron from the Guardian today actually made me well up a little. We will keep fighting. Together.
Cartoon Separate But Equal from the Guardian. 
Link to access provided alt text: 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/may/22/ella-baron-on-the-ehrcs-transgender-guidance-cartoon
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 26/05/2026
Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham
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Karin @karinsmiles.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I think it's a love song 🌹
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Karin @karinsmiles.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Just catching up on the election news and this is certainly the best news I've heard all day.
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Karin @karinsmiles.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
BBC News - University wins record freedom of speech fine challenge www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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University of Sussex wins landmark free speech case against universities regulator
A record fine had been issued by the Office for Students over the university's trans and non-binary inclusion policy.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' illustrations, 1959 by Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson #WomensArt
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 07/04/2026
Reminder: All the amazing high quality video you’re seeing from the Artemis II mission is being transmitted back to Earth using a laser communications system first tested with a video of a cat named Taters youtu.be/GvJtVOmFs5Q?...
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The Video NASA’s Laser Communications Experiment Streamed From Deep Space
YouTube video by JPLraw
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...
Artemis II Return
NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), splashes down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. PDT, (8:07 p.m. EDT) on Friday, April 10, 2026. The Artemis II test flight launched on Wednesday, April 1, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its 10-day journey around the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. NASA’s Landing and Recovery team and the U.S. military are coordinating efforts to extract the Artemis II crew from the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/04/2026
Stephen Lillie on the return of the Artemis II crew – cartoon
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Stephen Lillie on the return of the Artemis II crew – cartoon
After experiencing the ‘overwhelming emotions’ of their moon fly-past, the astronauts find it’s back to business as usual at home with Trump
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 06/04/2026
If you like data, or making things with textile crafts (sewing, knitting, crochet, weaving, etc.), I've finally written something up about data visualization with textiles. More words coming over the next few months! #DHmakes
textiledataviz.org
Data Visualization with Textiles
This site is notes and drafts that may someday become a Handbook of Data Visualization with Textiles.
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Karin @karinsmiles.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Girlguiding didn’t have to do this to its trans members. There was another way | Zoe Williams
Girlguiding’s response to last year’s supreme court ruling is not the humane option – and changes the organisation’s identity, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/03/2026
What sets human consciousness apart from AI? – podcast
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What sets human consciousness apart from AI? – podcast
Ian Sample speaks to author and journalist Michael Pollan about his new book A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
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10 ROWS A DAY @10rowsaday.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Free hat size chart that shows average hat measurements for 7 sizes from Preemie to Large Adult. www.10rowsaday.com/hat-size-chart #knitting #knit #knitsky #bskyknits #knitter #handknit #beginnerknitter #showyourknits #knitwear #sweaterweather #handmade #justknitting #knithat #yarn #crafts
Free hat size chart that shows average hat measurements
for 7 sizes from Preemie to Large Adult.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
STICK IT ON A FIVE POUND NOTE
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Red kite with sausage roll snapped by Banbury photographer
Mark Hopkins managed to get some pictures of the bird from his back garden.
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So, uh, I have some news.
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Gaelynn Lea @gaelynnlea.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Ten years ago, on March 11, after winning @npr.org Music's Tiny Desk Concert, Gaelynn Lea is releasing a memoir about her journey sparked by that 2016 performance. She is grateful to @bob-boilen.bsky.social, Robin Hilton, and all for this opportunity. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6oS...
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Gaelynn Lea: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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@LaidBackBikes @laidbackbikes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Was actually the 1920's when the bridge was moved. This is history from the excellent @threadinburgh.scot with images and maps of the Fountainbridge area. threadinburgh.scot/2022/09/18/t...
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The thread about the coming of the Union Canal, what became of its “Ports” and why its bridges moved around
Prior to the coming of the Union Canal into neighbourhood of Fountainbridge in the 1820s, it was little changed from medieval times, a quiet suburb on the outskirts of the city in a pastoral settin…
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Karin @karinsmiles.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Can we go back to calling them robber barons?
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Karin @karinsmiles.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I've had to doomscroll a long way down before I found a post I wanted to linger on.
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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/02/2026
sorry british media, sectarianism is OUR word
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Karin @karinsmiles.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Watching the sunrise via the A720 traffic cams.
Still from a traffic webcam showing the sun just rising over the horizon with a hill silhouetted to the right
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29/01/2026
“Despite their supposed victory in the Supreme Court last April, anti-trans campaigners like Sex Matters have encountered failure after failure in their attempts to use the law to bully trans people out of public life." And If Sex Matters tries to bring another challenge, we’re ready to fight back.
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Karie Ghoulish 👻 @kariebookish.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Photo shows 5 Greenlandic women in their national dress with beaded yokes. In the late 1920s Norway sought to possess East Greenland. Norwegian knitting designer Annichen Sibbern Bøhn designed a sweater which mimicked the Greenlandic beaded yoke. And that's how yoked sweaters became a thing. 🧵
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
We DO have our very own vole though... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkney_...
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Orkney vole - Wikipedia
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Fun fact. We don't have squirrels in #Orkney.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15/01/2026
A genuinely appalling response from the BBC, arrogantly contemptuous of the legal detail in favour of whatever misleading narrative their 'gender critical' friends have peddled them over lunch.
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Karin @karinsmiles.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I made it to 1:30pm before I made the mistake of looking at the news. I mean, it's Saturday, still in the daft days after christmas. Nothing but trivial and inconsequential news right?
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Karin @karinsmiles.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Last night I heard a version of Delilah, the like of which has not been seen since the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Brilliant. RuMac at the Night Afore, Peat and Diesel gig in Princes St Gardens.
Head shot of RuMac, a ginger haired, bearded accordionist singing into a microphone. The picture is cast in red light
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Re-posting with alt text because the post accompanying this is obviously wrong, it's clearly a picture of a woman on a Crosscountry train having found a place to sit on the floor and read, her coffee cup beside her, folks queuing for the loo behind her
Paddington The Magdalen Reading, c. 1435, 
 oil on panel, fragment of altarpiece by Rogier van der Weyden, influential Flemish artist (c.1400-1464), pupil of Robert Campin, court painter to Duke of Burgundy.
National Gallery London 
A woman in a glowing green dress and a white head dress is sitting on the floor leaning against a cabinet. She is delicately turning the page, beside her, on the floor is a small alabaster jar, presumably of ointment. In the background two figures are standing in blue and red robes, we can't see their heads, behind them a window looks out onto green fields.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 09/12/2025
“This is a moment that requires bravery. Organisations that value trans people should know not just that the law is on their side – but so, also, are many people who will step up to defend them if they have the courage to take a stand” – @jessothomson.co.uk bit.ly/44CyMa3
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The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson
Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too, says Jess O’Thomson of the Good Law Project
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 08/12/2025
Today’s judgment in the Sandie Peggie case says exactly what we have been saying – For Women Scotland does not require a trans bathroom ban:
Screenshot of a paragraph from the judgment, with the final sentence highlighted:
“797. After that comment the court explained that a person with gender reassignment as a protected characteristic could pursue a claim of direct or indirect discrimination, or of harassment, if the circumstances so warranted. There was no qualification to it to the effect that that was not applicable in, for example, the context of a single sex space under Part 5 of the Act. If their decision had been that all trans persons must be excluded from the changing rooms or toilets for the sex they identify with because it was not the sex assigned at birth, and may also be excluded from the changing rooms or toilets of their biological sex, that in our view certainly does impact on their rights under section 7.”
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 04/12/2025
Oh damn, Pantone can paint a room but can’t read one
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Water of Leith Conservation Trust @wolct.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Christmas Fayre – Tomorrow from 11am! Join us at the Visitor Centre for community celebration packed with festive cheer! Stalls & Gifts Fundraising Fun Festive Treats - home-baking, deluxe hot chocolate, mulled punch. Craft Activities • Wreath Making – £10 • Crafts for Adults & Children – £5
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Karin @karinsmiles.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I count this as a small token of good news today. BBC News - Woman loses sex discrimination case after toilet complaint www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Woman loses sex discrimination case after toilet complaint
Maria Kelly took legal action against Leonardo UK alleging harassment and discrimination after seeing a trans colleague in female toilets.
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