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Marion Boddy-Evans

@marionbe.eurosky.social
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Artist in northeast Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦄 Studio blog on my website www.marion.scot She/her/them

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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 11h
This is so interesting. I’ve had a strict routine of “going to work” (at my local café) every morning for years and it’s the only way I can get any research or writing done, but I couldn't name the reasons. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Why You Write Better In Cafés
The Psychology of Noise, Distance, and Strangers On Your Creative Work
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
Performative politics for voters from Westminster. It doesn't change the price of fuel. Also: does he know just how far apart petrol stations are in much of Scotland?
Screenshot of Andy Burnham announcing fuel prices will be shown on Google maps, from Facebook.
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alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 07/10/2026
we have an idea for communities in the app that we're calling "spaces" — places where people can gather around shared interests or social groups. here's a peek at some early prototypes. these are explorations, not polished or final. looking for feedback, esp from community builders 👀
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
and on the third day, he was reassembled
Well, it’s a Temu ad for a 588 piece Lego knockoff of the crucifixion of Jesus (of Nazareth). It says CREATIVE, and also it’s 16.7 inches tall, which is objectively TOO TALL for a lego crucifixion scene.
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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Really enjoyed this interview. Thank you.
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Really enjoyed doing this interview w/@learnovate.bsky.social - we got into my approach to teaching comics as always hands-on & emphasizing play, drawing as thinking, my crankiness about gen-Ai, the importance of constraints to creativity, the necessity of struggle, tennis, & the DJ-movie Scratch!
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Nick Sousanis: Why Drawing Is Thinking (and What AI Leaves Out)
YouTube video by Learnovate
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Hence the riddle: "Why don't polar bears eat penguins?"
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Monday Motivator: The Answer Isn’t Another Tube of Another Colour My new and old favourite colours.
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Monday Motivator: The Answer Isn’t Another Tube of Another Colour
My new and old favourite colours.
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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is the thing that always gets me from so many modern politicians: they seem *desperate* to argue the only real work is working on an oil rig, farming or fishing. They crap all over the arts and universities, which are MASSIVE employers and industries in which the UK has long excelled.
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Stardust. Get the DVD where the team talks you through the making of it. Look out for the really long single take, and where the stunt woman was tied to a pole so she and her long dress didn't blow over the cliff edge.
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Robert De Niro Feeling Flirty with Pink Fan
Alt: Robert De Niro with Pink Fan in Stardust
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The secretary of state for Justice (an MP for Nottingham) rules out holding another Scottish independence referendum. He also says that voting on whether to be a member of the (European) Union is different to voting on whether to be a member of the union.
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Council tax is in desperate need of updating. Holyrood govt has done some work on this but it's not happening with sufficient urgency. Burnham is full of promises about things that will happen after next election, as if he didn't have a huge majority and could do it right now.
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
🤔 bsky.app/profile/john...
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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
There's a fault with this rock.
A pebble with a two toned band across it that's broken and shifted.
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
The next treasure box you create: The Squirrel Pantry. 😁
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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 01/10/2026
I moved the lavender cuttings to a chair in the garden, thinking I might do something with them, and…
Round green walnut stashed in the lavender cuttings.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’d be cool, when reporting on a blind visitor suing over lack of access to the Bayeaux Tapestry, the supposed journalist could make it clear that this isn’t at all a ridiculous request. In fact, it’s completely in line with Equality Act 2010. Museums have provided audio forever.
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Yet another UBI pilot showing what all the other universal basic income pilots have shown.
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Chloe Martinez @chloemartinez.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
“I make work that lives in time. It’s mortal work. It’s work as the totality of a human life, rather than work as something apart from the rest of life.”
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Basic Income Earth Network @basicincomeearth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🧠 Part 2: What problem is basic income actually trying to solve? Income insecurity. Poverty. Bureaucracy. Lack of opportunity. Its real promise: shifting from "Do I qualify?" to "I have an income floor." 👇🏾
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/rich...
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Does AI music still require a business to hold public music licence I wonder?
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is no such thing as taxpayers’ money youtu.be/4AyhV70BDwE?... Anyone who claims the government spends taxpayers' money is talking total nonsense. The problem is that almost all our politicians do.
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There is no such thing as taxpayers’ money
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026
I have created a policy for dealing with fan mail and fan requests, which I know sounds ridiculous on the surface of it, but these days is actually useful to have, and to point people to, so they know that how I handle fan mail is not about them personally: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/09/29/h...
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How I Handle Fan Mail and Requests, 2026 Edition
I get fan mail, which I think is awesome. Also, in the world we live in, which includes “AI”-generated scams and other phishing expeditions, it’s necessary to set some expectation…
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
🙄 Today an event organiser told me they "certainly don’t see AI as a replacement for the creativity and talent of people like yourself, quite the opposite". They use it because it's "practical and time-saving for a small business like ours". Not a replacement..? It's literally that. 🙄
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The only time the word “confidence” should be used around the AI bubble is when it’s followed by the word “trick.”
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
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Michiel @murtoz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@jennimintomsp.bsky.social wtf!?! Why is nhs scotland pretending that long covid doesn't exist and that repeatedly infecting everybody with covid is absolutely fine!?
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Totally… that’s what I mean… COVID-19 has been treated anomalously. Exceptionally. It is immune to all prior sensible disease control practices, all laws on accessibility for the disabled, and all common sense and decency.
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
It already is: bsky.app/profile/indy...
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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The caption says the statue was donated in 2019 - another example of how artist’s house museums can become rather confused spaces, part supposed time-capsule, part shrine, part gallery
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Right? AI is a non-consent theft machine built on stolen labor of creators, whose work is fed in, and the global south workers, who train the models. To hear, it is also stealing the unpublished work of those that feed their work into their models isn't surprising. AI is a practice of ethics evasion
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Ethics displacement-or I think of it as Ethics Evasion- is what we need to be centering in many discussions about AI.
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Painting Step by Step: Deliberate “Happy Accidents” Deliberately creating "happy accidents" in a painting to have interesting stuff to respond to.
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Painting Step by Step: Deliberate “Happy Accidents”
Deliberately creating "happy accidents" in a painting to have interesting stuff to respond to.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
First time I have seen this, and delighted by it. Having to acknowledge use of AI is essential transparency. luminatescotland.org/older-artist...
Screenshot from FAQ about can you use AI for arts bursary application. Answer is yes but check it carefully and add "Generated by AI" to that section.
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Our cat Misty (she was grey) used to voluntarily sit on the scales for a weight check at her annual vaccination checkup.
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
I still use The Old Reader for RSS feeds, and love it.
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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
2 stats from the previous Norstat #indyref2 poll in May that should make unionist teeth chatter: Unweighted figures: ➡️ Yes 60%, No 40% Those who did not vote in 2014: ➡️ Yes 70%, No 30% That’s why weighting is so important.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This was the Salem Lutheran Church until it was sold to the Eastern Buddhist Association in 2019, as I think you can tell from the renovations. :)
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The politics of blame is replacing solution-focused politics youtu.be/4YuXncPwuow?... . This is bad politics that answers no questions, demands nothing of politicians, and leaves us all worse off. So why are we falling for it?
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The politics of blame is replacing solution-focused politics
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
The joys of happy accidents when painting. And the joys of deliberately creating happy accidents by spraying still-wet ink with water.
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
Monday Motivator: Painting a Memory Landscape
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Monday Motivator: Painting a Memory Landscape
"When I need a break from whatever project I'm working on, I often like to paint small. And I like to paint from memory. "A small piece painted from memory doesn't ask for detail. It simply asks for shapes and contours and changes in value. "For me, as a landscape painter, it asks me to remember impressions, the way I felt in a place.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I've seen people snarking about this & as someone who is, if anything, politically to the left of me, just said to me: "You don't fight with people who are doing what you want." Yep, he prepared his remarks—it isn't inauthentic to be careful when addressing the monumental error you just made. 2/
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Saw this just before reading your post: bsky.app/profile/reze...
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