iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 16/10/2026

0 complaints about trans people in hospitals. Trans people banned. 0 cases of puberty blockers for trans kids causing harm. Puberty blockers for trans kids banned. 0 cases of trans people attacking cis people in toilets. Trans people banned.

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Haha I think that’s probably Ewen!

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you Alice! (I think you will especially appreciate our recreation of the three of cups with red cans)

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ewen Balfour or Lowrie Copland maybe?

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Got our wedding photos back and there are so many faves but this one of us behind the hall with the surprise skeklers is a big contender for top place

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Flipping through old editions of the New Shetlander. They really knew their readership.

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Really, really enjoying The Salt Bind by Rebecca Ferrier. Cunning women, sea deities, folk horror, minoritised language… pretty much ticks every box for me 🌊💙

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Currently working with about 1 week of functional health out of the month, please bear with me while I scream into the abyss of waiting lists where the NHS used to be

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/09/2026

(me, an absolute fool, skimming some weird blogger's embarrassingly tedious harry potter fan fiction in 2010): I can safely say no one who reads this will ever become important

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Diaspora identity is weird and always seemingly incomplete. No doubt the inherited 'Irishness' of the 2nd gen immigrant overseas is different to the lived 'Irishness' of someone raised there regardless of heritage. These are different claims on a culture. But neither of them are fictional!

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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026

The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening

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A Chronic Voice @achronicvoice.com · 24/08/2026

"' #Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him. Everyone will get used to it except me.' ― Alphonse Daudet" — A #quote that I'm sure many of those who live with #ChronicPain can relate to, sadly 😔 buff.ly/aEbY2b3 #MondayBlogs #ChronicIllness #NEisVoid #grief

“Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him. Everyone will get used to it except me.” ― Alphonse Daudet, In the Land of Pain

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 15/09/2026

“An entire system of comharran – #Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.” —by @tonguetiedfilms.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-scottish...

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How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas

Around 75% of fishermen in the Outer Hebrides speak Gaelic. Their daily use of the language at work helps keep it alive.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 15/09/2026

“Scientists searched for the inclusion of the #Gaelic words for oyster or oysters – eisir, eisirein and eisirean – and oyster habitats… They then found an oyster bed that had not been previously documented” The discoveries could help rebuild native oyster populations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Lost oyster beds rediscovered thanks to Gaelic and Scots language

Scientists searched for the inclusion of the Gaelic and Scots words for oyster or oysters in place-names around Scotland's coast.

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Sam ooOOooOoo Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The "AI will help cure cancer" story is genuinely fascinating because a) it's essentially true b) useful medical applications will never need more than a tiny fraction of planned compute capacity c) and will never ever pay off the trillions of debt That needs you all to buy wankbots.

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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 04/09/2026

Flea treatments help protect pets, but chemicals used in them are being found in Scottish rivers at levels that could harm wildlife. Our latest: www.theferret.scot/more-than-50-riv…

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Messaging my husband “wow it is so nice not to be in horrific pain today, I can even walk again” like that’s just a fine and normal thing to be grateful for

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Tinkin lang fir her follicular phase

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Have spent most of the last week curled around a white hot stone of pain in my lower abdomen 🫠

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

All these articles and polls about whether Shaetlan is a language or a dialect and not one of them will define what they mean by said terms 👀

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

From Wendell Berry's essay, "The Work of Local Culture"

"I was walking one Sunday afternoon several years ago with an older friend. We went by the ruining log house that had belonged to his grandparents and great-grandparents. The house stirred my friend's memory, and he told how the oldtime people used to visit each other in the evenings, especially in the long evenings of winter. There used to be a sort of institution in our part of the country known as "sitting till bedtime." After supper, when they weren't too tired, neighbors would walk across the fields to visit each other. They popped corn, my friend said, and ate apples and talked. They told each other stories. They told each other stories, as I knew myself, that they all had heard before. Sometimes they told stories about each other, about themselves, living again in their own memories and thus keeping their memories alive. Among the hearers of these stories were always the children. When bedtime came, the visitors lit their lanterns and went home. My friend talk about this, and thought abut it, and then he said, "They had everything but money."

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Nighttime on Still Waters @noswpod.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thank you, Wendell. Rest in peace. Your words will continue to blaze with wisdom and healing.

Photo of Wendell Berry's poem 'The Peace of Wild Things'
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wendell Berry 💔 The Peace of Wild Things is one of my most cherished reading experiences. This poem in particular (not least because the 2nd of Feb is my birthday). The last line feels like a particularly important instruction right now.

A picture of a poem from the collection “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Beery.

February 2nd, 1968

In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter,
war spreading, families dying, the world in danger,
I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Let’s try again: I’d like to hear about new research from Scottish historians. Especially ECRs whose work may not get much attention. This is because I have a newspaper column where I publicise new work by Scottish historians! Tell me about your research!

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Um so I just discovered there’s a 24/7 livestream of full episodes on the Moomin YouTube channel www.youtube.com/live/SIP5EfF...

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🔴 Moomin Full Episodes! 🏡 LIVE 24/7

YouTube video by Moomin Official

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 27/08/2026

Nights and days of blinding rain, Atlantic lows sweeping across the carse trees and hills lost in thick noonday mist. Now this raw light and a hard Steppe wind pouring down Glen Tye towards the late sun… —Chris Powici, “The Wild Summer” from Talking About Lobsters: New Writing Scotland 34 #poem

Chris Powici
The Wid Summer

i.m. Angus Dunn

Nights and days of blinding rain, Atlantic lows
sweeping across the carse
trees and hills lost in thick noonday mist.

Now this raw light
and a hard Steppe wind pouring down Glen Tye
towards the late sun.

A raven lifts from a fencepost
and gives itself to the cold, marvellous air
pitching and wheeling
as if there’s no tomorrow, as if there’s
only ever hunger, longing, flight – here, now

and this, as you know, is the real poem Angus –
a lone dark bird telling the truth about the world
telling it well –
not these words

though, given time, I’ll get them as right as I can
even if there’s no raven, just skeins of autumn greylag
flowing calmly south.

Even if it’s way too late by then.

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

He’s also very partial to flummery, although he calls it “fluff”

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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 26/08/2026

Reminder that Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 is a film about three women taking over an office and introducing free childcare, paid vacation, and flexible hours, resulting in a 20% increase in productivity.

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My father would never allow it fall off under his roof

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Is this going to be like 2016 again? When it started with David Bowie and just snowballed out of control with good ones dying

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The inestimable Dolly Parton being interviewed by the inestimable Jane Graham in Letter To My Younger Self. I’ve thought about this lots of times since I first read it in the @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/culture/musi...

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just absolutely basking in the feeling of being well today, before the monthly storm rolls in

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Brenty Blas 🏳️‍⚧️ @vibrent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton supported a fight against a drag ban in Texas and the ban was ruled unconstitutional this morning.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

immediately had to search for the video of Dolly and Patti singing Shortnin’ Bread while keeping the rhythm with their acrylic nails youtu.be/AOxsQNVOhro

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Dolly Parton & Patti LaBelle play 'Shortnin' Bread' on their Acrylic Nails

YouTube video by Happy Mag

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Insane songwriting talent, unmatched wit, she used her fame and wealth to do actual, meaningful good in this wretched world. I used to cast old episodes of the Grand Ole Opry for my grannie and her man when he was still alive, and our favourites would always have Dolly on 😭💖

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Back to school. ❤️

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