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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow

Photo of a small group of mostly men wearing black, with masks and balaclavas, surrounded by a Police Scotland cordon in the bottom of the photo, in the foreground. In the background, a very large colourful crowd of people with saltires, trade union banners, and hand-made signs in support of migrants and against racism have turned up to gather to show solidarity, and the far right guys were hoping to thwart that. They didn't.

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Bobbitworm (AllanM) @opengtuning.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A very quick study of Eurasian Jay in flight #bird #birdart #nature #drawing

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The little robins are growingggg <33

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I can't believe they got this interview with the walrus

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Hey everyone, the gig i am organising sold out 6 months in advance so I am moving it to a bigger venue! More tickets available here! wegottickets.com/event/679775

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

#Edinburgh friends, I will be in your city on Saturday, holding a stall at the market for the #ScottishPaganFedaration annual conference! The conference is 9.30-23.00, but the market finishes at 17.00. I'll be sharing a stall with the wonderful artist Rachel Mills. The Pleasance, Edinburgh. #pagan

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Hey everyone, in case you've missed it, this is the gig I'm putting on in May. The first EVER tribute to David Byrne and Talking Heads in his hometown! Over half the tickets gone, so don't miss out 🙂

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

When Linda (one half of Recordsville, and co-organiser of Pop At The Lock) asked me to make a piggy to add to her vast collection, how could I possibly refuse? She named this feltie Wee Aliya, which is quite an honour! #pig #animals #NeedleFelting #felting #CuteAnimals #ScottishArtist #pigs #cute

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I am a mole and I live in a hole! Meet my wee Zombie Mole! A real #mole skull, with a felted body, coming out of a felted molehill! It was very fiddley gluing aw the wee teefs back in exactly the right sockets!! The skull is from a mole i found dead in Dumbarton #Scotland #needleFelting #mammals

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

New Hieronymus Bosch demon! This jolly friend is playing a jaunty tune atop a haystack. This is from the Bosch painting The Haywain. Let me know if youd like this wee weirdo #HieronymusBosch #MedievalArt #WeirdMedievalArt #WeirdMedievalCreatures #WeirdArt #GothicArt #AutisticArtist #NeedleFelting

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Thank you for sharing this, Alison! I'm so happy you like your wee spoopy felties! #NeedleFelting #HieronymusBosch #jackdaw #birds

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the sheep leaped over the bone. This wee sheepy is jumping over a sheep humerus a friend found near Bannockburn. I made it with curly Wensleydale locks 🤗 #NeedleFelting #sheep #CuteAnimals #animals #WeirdArt #BoneArt #nadelfilzen

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Cute wee #pheasants on a #pheasant breastbone. I found the bone in South Ayrshire, summer 2021. The wee felties were very delicate to make. The male has shimmering gold and blue "feathers", and the female has cute speckles on her back and wings. #NeedleFelting #animals #VultureCulture #birds

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Teensy weensy #jackdaws on a #jackdaw breastbone! The bone is from a bird I found dead at Knowetop, #Dumbarton. It was awfy fiddly to make these wee tiddlers but I'm happy with how they turned out 🤗 #NeedleFelting #animals #birds #ScottishWildlife #ScottishBirds #UKbirdwatching #BritishBirds

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Just a beautiful #PeacockButterfly I found at #Lochwinnoch Nature Reserve. Out in the rain, tryna warm up. I put them in a more sheltered bit so they could dry off. #butterfly #butterflies #insects #animals #ScottishWildlife #ScottishNature #invertebrates

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

How exciting! Marmoti, my felted marmot based on the "mammoth-sized marmot" has made it to the papers! Thank you Shannon Ainslie for being interested in my woolly nonsense!! #marmot #rodents #CuteAnimals #animals #mammals

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I've made some of these sheep wall hangings before, but this one has a twist - literally! I've made the sheep with curly Wensleydale locks. Herdwick, Hebridean, and Scottish blackface sheep all hanging from a sheep rib I found in Renfrewshire. Let me know if you'd like it #animals #NeedleFelting

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

OH LAWD SHE COMIN Of course, I HAD to make a felted version of the "mammoth sized marmot" of Internet fame, photographed by Taylor Borth in Kamloops, Canada. I've named her Marmoti (moti is Urdu for fatty!) What do you think? Let me know if you'd like to adopt her! #animals #mammals #NeedleFelting

Needle felted version of a very fat yellow bellied marmot

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

This took me so long to make because it made me so emotional. Moroccan uromastyx lizard tail skin. I painted the background many of the colours you can find on uros, in prime paint that dries like scales! I got the specimen from a pet shop in Ayr #Uromastyx #lizard #reptiles #WeirdArt #GothicArt

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Sushil Dade from The Soup Dragons gets his wee woolly haggis! I gave it to him at the Glad Cafe where his equally cool daughter Radhika was supporting Autocamper 😎 #ScottishPop #TheSoupDragons #ScottishMusic #BMXBandits #FuturePilotAKA #Radhika #scotland #IndiePop #JanglePop #c86

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Eek! Annie Spandex from Lung Leg gets her Scottish Pop Haggis at the best popfest in the world, Glas Goes Pop! #ScottishPop #LungLeg #GlasGoesPop #ScottishMusic #glasgow #GlasgowMusic #IndiePop #PunkGirls #JanglePop

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Jerry Cannon's Wild Life @jerrycannon27.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Barred Owl #birds

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Took one of ma wee @bmxbanditsduglas.bsky.social haggises to see the Everyhing Flows exhibition at Summerlee Museum. Great collection of artefacts, loved seeing aw the zines and stuff, but the presentation was really poor, loads of mistakes, and incoherent sentences. Some weird omissions too.

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Park Lane Market is on this Sunday! I'll be there with my felties and bones. I'm sharing a stall with @johncavanagh.bsky.social who will be selling his antiques and vintage curiosities. Just off Pollokshaws Road in Shawlands, #Glasgow. 11-4 this Sunday 😎 hope to see you there! #GlasgowWhatsOn

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Next market this Saturday at the Glad Cafe in #Glasgow Come along for vintage fashion, second hand records, and collectibles. I'll be there with my felties and bones as usual 🙂 #GlasgowThisWeekend #Shawlands #Govanhill #GlasgowSouthside #Strathbungo #Pollokshields #GlasgowMakers

Poster that says "Saturday June 28th 11am-4pm. Vintage and pre-loved clothes, records and bric-a-bric. The Glad Cafe, 1006A Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, G41 2HG"

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Pan's third outing in her harness. Getting used to it, but still doesn't like the birds flying around. #uromastyx #Ornatezuromastyx #lizard #reptiles #herps 🦎 #cute #CuteAnimals

A very cute female ornate uromastyx lizard in a harness with a floral pattern, sitting on grass

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Bungo In The Back Lanes this Saturday! I'll be holding a stall with my felties and bones art. Sharing the table with the lovely Rachel Mills who makes illustrations of animals and mythical creatures. There'll be live music, food, activities, and tombola. Hope to see you there! #glasgow

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Wee felted Duma made it aw the way to the States! Open the link for more photos and videos of the scaley #skinks reacting to the woolly #skink! www.instagram.com/reel/DK5MedI... #BlueTonguedSkink #reptiles #herps #NeedleFelting #FeltAnimals #cute #CuteAnimals #lizards #lizard

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Had an amazing time bopping away at the front of the @bistheband.bsky.social gig at the Hug and Pint on Saturday. Of course I had to take the haggises, it would have been rude to leave them at home! Manda Rin very kindly gave me a setlist at the end! 🤗 #ScottishPop #ScottishMusic #NeedleFelting

The band Bis onstage, playing music and dancing. My hand is in the middle of the photo, holding needle felted haggises dressed as the band.

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I made another Manda Rin haggis, but this time I made a wee Sci-Fi Steven and John Disco haggis to go with her, to complete the Bis line-up. This is the first time I've made a whole trio as haggises! #ScotrishPop #ScottishMusic #bis #BisTheBand #IndiePop #NeedleFelting #Scotland #ScottishArtist

My hand holding three needle felted haggises dressed as the Scottish band Bis.

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Wee felted Duma the blue-tongued skink is on his way the States! I've followed Scorpiesque on Instagram for many years, where Kendra shows the antics of her very loving and lovable skinks. So I was honoured when she asked me to make a Duma for her! Safe travels, wee sausage!

Needle felted blue-tongued skink. Light brown lizard with black stripes going all the way down to the tail.

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

They are just trying to get food to intentionally starved people and this is what happens. Release the hostages. All 10,000+ of them.

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