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Stooryduster

@stooryduster.bsky.social
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A Scottish words' illustrator, a cartoonist & designer interested in tech, software, art, design, life and the environment. Also on @stooryduster@Mastodon.scot My drawings are at stooryduster.co.uk

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026
"Reducing economic inequality is not a panacea for health, social and environmental problems, but it is central to solving them all. Greater equality confers the same benefits on a society, however it is achieved." A fairer society is also better for the rich. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Why the world cannot afford the rich
Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ...
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 3h
Nothing is more important than intimidating asylum seekers
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 4h
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 16h
#Inktober #Inktober2026 #prompt7 #panic #Scottish #Scots #wizard #tentacles "Noo keep a calm souch an dinni go panshit ahn ye'll be fine. Jist gie me a meenit tae shut the door. Ye DO ken the 'close the portals o hell' spell div'n ye??" Translation in the alt txt.
Wizard swiftly exiting a deep stone built cellar via a reinforced and multiple bolted door while a young wizard with an L plate on his pointy wizzardy hat looks worried as large tentacled creatures boil out of a green haze under his magical staff erupting from a big cauldron on a blue flame. 
"Now keep a calm demeanour and do not get into a state of panic and you’ll be fine.

Just give me a minute to shut the door.

You DO know the ‘close the portals o hell’ spell don’t you??"
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 16h
#Inktober #Inktober2026 #prompt7 #panic #Scottish #Scots #wizard #tentacles "Noo keep a calm souch an dinni go panshit ahn ye'll be fine. Jist gie me a meenit tae shut the door. Ye DO ken the 'close the portals o hell' spell div'n ye??" Translation in the alt txt.
Wizard swiftly exiting a deep stone built cellar via a reinforced and multiple bolted door while a young wizard with an L plate on his pointy wizzardy hat looks worried as large tentacled creatures boil out of a green haze under his magical staff erupting from a big cauldron on a blue flame. 
"Now keep a calm demeanour and do not get into a state of panic and you’ll be fine.

Just give me a minute to shut the door.

You DO know the ‘close the portals o hell’ spell don’t you??"
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 20h
Trump.announces he will fund the winter bombing of civilians in Ukraine
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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Japan has just made 30km/h (I.e. 20mph) the default in most residential roads due to the evidence-base from EU cities. etsc.eu/japan-makes-...
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Japan makes 30 km/h the default speed limit on most residential roads - as European city survey shows significant safety benefits
Japan has lowered the statutory speed limit on most of its residential streets from 60 km/h to 30 km/h, effective 1 September. The new limit applies automatically to roads narrower than 5.5…
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#Inktober #Inktober2026 #prompt6 #Ogre #Scottish #Scots #goat #food "Ach ye can see there’s little in the wye o scran on my wee bains. Ye’d be better fed waitin oan the boy ahint us. Mair sture by far tae swell yer kyte." Translation in alt txt.
An Ogre with a large club stands blocking the way over a moss covered stone bridge above a raging torrent. A small goat followed by a larger one attempting to cross speak to him while in the background unseen by the ogre is an even larger goat in a purple haze of odour, flies and strength muscling its way down the mountain gully to follow its fellows. The goat says "Deary me you can see I’ve little in the way of food on my small bones.

You would be better waiting on the fellow behind us.

More sturdy by far to swell your stomach."
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026
This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.
Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy
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Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
YAAAAAAAAS #Scotstober #Scotstober2026
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#Scotstober #Scottish #Scots #vampire #date #pale Day 7 peely-wally. "Yir lookin gey peely-wally Erchie. Is yer new click keepin ye oot ower late?" snigger. (Translation in the alt txt.)
Oblivious uncle with his newly anaemic nephew and the new vampiric looking girlfriend and her strange ways… ""You are looking rather pale and drawn Archibald. Is your new girlfriend keeping you out over late?" snigger.
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#Scotstober #Scottish #Scots #Lumber #spots Day 6 "Ah wonder if we'll get a lumber the-nicht?" Translation in the alt txt.
Many spots, some wispy chin hair, two innocent and fancy free young chaps outside the club. ""I wonder if we will get to escort a member of the opposite sex away from here, and then perhaps later get close and intimate, tonight of all nights?"
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Whoa. I need a break from this. Posting my doodle for those still in thrall and my self prompt reminding me to bugger off and do something more creative. Even if it’s just a nap. #DoomScrolling
Image shows a blonde sitting next to the head of a bald person with spectacles living face down in a field of wild flowers with a clear blue sky. A dog sits at the girls back and is looking into the distance. The caption reads: Doom Scrolling? Stop, go and lie face down in a meadow and take a breather. Or at least go lie down and imagine it.
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Zeteo UK @zeteo.uk · 06/10/2026
"If you're telling us that the editorial line is to say what we are told to say, that is not journalism." @misanharriman.bsky.social  tells @sangitamyska.bsky.social  about the media's double standard on Gaza. Watch the full conversation: zeteo.uk/p/sangita-myska-misan-harr…
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#Inktober #smack #Scottish #Scots #hike That’s skelp wood doon there – we’re no goin near it. It’s fu o nests o the skelp fairies wha hae hauns as big as shovels that’ll skelp ye intae next week an back again. It’s no laffin matter laddie as ye can see by my lugs which are still ringin by the way.
Two men at a dry stone wall are looking across the landscape at a distant woodland while in the tree above a collection of muscular winged green fairies with enormous left hands lurk in the foliage. "That’s smack wood down there – we are not going near it.

It’s full of nests of the smack fairies which ahve hands as big as shovels that’ll smack you into next week and back again.

It’s no laughing matter my boy as you can see by my ears which are still ringing by the way."
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#Scotstober #Scottish #Scots #foosty #bread #toast Day 5 “Ach! The breid’s gone foosty.”
Mother wearing apron lifts lid of the bread bin revealing bread so bad even the making of toast is thwarted. She says on seeing the green growth and large mushrooms "Oh my goodness! The bread has gone mouldy."
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#Scotstober #sneeze prompt 4 #snotter ‘In the name o the wee man! Yer an awfy snotter-box the-day o aw days.’
This year's Red Nose operated by a big yellow sneeze. Image shows man wearing a red nose and he sneezes causing an explosion of yellow green mucous squirting out. ‘Heavens! You are a terrible source of mucus today of all days.’ Say Pants to Poverty March 16th.
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#animated #scotstober prompt 3 #hum-dinkin #rat #meal #cartoon In Scots: “This is bealin! It’s hum dinkin.” (animated) In English: “I am not eating this, it is stinking.”
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#Scotstober Day 2 #bahoochie #Scottish #Scots #language “Here ah come . . . Here ah come . . . ahm gonna skelp yer bahoochie wi this.”
A dad is over exciting the bairn by playfully threatening to spank its bum. This with the slipper of the mum who getting more annoyed by the minute. "Here I come . . . Here I come . . . I’m going to spank your bottom with this.” The mum is not too pleased because her foot is getting cold as she’s missing one of her baffies.
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#Scotstober #Scotstober2026 #prompt1 #baffies #slippers #Teacher Ah dinna ken if it’s richt tae caw them things baffies.”
A teacher by a Christmas tree with a torn open wrapper wearing the big furry footwear that has the label; a present of Cosy King Kong furry feet for the best teacher in the fleet. She says: “I am not at all sure if it is correct to call these things soft comfy relaxing slippers.”
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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We need to stop treating prison as the default answer to offending I pressed Neil Gray on the huge cost of HMP Glasgow and the high levels of reoffending If we want safer communities, we need to reduce reoffending. That means investing in community justice, rehabilitation, housing and support 1/2
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#Inktober #Inktober2026 #cactus #owl "Wi-oot fail it pelts through the cacti here at the skreek o day every day. I asked it why it did and it said it wakes it for the day better than a cup of Klatch coffee* ever could. It didni seem surprised by a talking hoolet." stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-wor...
A desert full of cacti at dawn and a naked person is running through them at speed witnessed by two owls on a tall sturdy cactus in the right foreground. One is in a hole and the other perches on top of an offshoot outside. One owl says: "With out fail it sprints through the cactus here at the crack of dawn every day.

I asked it why it did and it said it wakes it for the day better than any cup of Klatch coffee* ever could.

It didn't seem surprised by a talking owl."
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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Three years of genocide is three years too long. People in Dundee will be coming together on Saturday 10 October to march for a free Palestine and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. 📍 Dundee Central Mosque, 1.30pm ✊ March to City Square, 2pm If you can, please join them. 🇵🇸
Poster promoting the Palestine March Dundee on Saturday 10 October, commemorating three years of genocide. It calls for a free Palestine and asks people to assemble at Dundee Central Mosque at 1.30pm before marching to City Square at 2pm. The poster features Palestinian flags, an image of Dundee and messages of solidarity and justice for Palestine.
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NE Lake County Illinois Indivisible @nelcil-indivisible.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump and Netanyahu are askie a genie for peace. I the next frame the both disappear.
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#Inktober #Inktober2026 #miniatures In Scots; "Cairrie on pentin my peedie wee ertist. yer doin a grand job ahn if ye keep that up yer no goin in the pie. I'll let mha wee lassie keep ye as a pet." Translation at: stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-wor...
A giant tentacled pink alien poses on a stool while a tiny human artist in front of an easel stands on a plinth at its head height in front of an easel holding an oval canvas with palette in his hand painting a bad portrait. Meanwhile the giant tentacled mother alien holds a tiny locket the canvas will fit steadies the artist and the plinth with its tentacles while looking over his shoulder at the portrait through a magnifying glass. The mother speaks thus: Carry on painting my diminutive artist.

You are doing an excellent job and if you keep that up then you shall not go in the pie.

I’ll let my little girl keep you as a pet."
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Nobodyspecial @suffgin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Where the Scottish Parliament has trodden, the UK Parliament must follow. #NationalEmergencyBriefing
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Inktober2026 #relic "Yer relic's nithin but cheatry frae stert tae finish. A kist o wid pented gaud an Joan o Arc's coat o arms oan everything but ah dinni think the lassie hud hairy fingers, dae you? Thon aristocrat ye let gang loose's done ye." Translation: stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-wor...
A French revolutionary looking angry in the background wearing a revolutionary bonnet and rosette while in the foreground an expert examines the dried relic of Joan of Arc's finger with heraldic ring and a gold looking case.
The expert says: "Your relic is nothing but fakery from start to finish.

A chest of wood painted gold and Joan of Arc's coat of arms on everything but I don't think the girl had hairy fingers, do you?

That aristocrat you set free has cheated you."
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Inktober2026 #day1apple Boak! This pert o the epple is moze an is takin the rest o it wi it. Ah canni stomach that. Translate: Moze: rotten, decayed, mouldy.
Worm sticking its head out of an apple via a hole in the united states of America on the world map engraved on the apple's skin and it is being sick.

It says in Scots: Boak! This pert o the epple is moze an is takin the rest o it wi it.
 Ah canni stomach that.

Translated in English: Retch! This part of the apple is rotten and is taking the rest of it with it. I cannot stomach that.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 01/10/2026
Today we'll share why we're building @tccollab.bsky.social — to connect, resource and support climate communicators. We'll unpack the data: some what you'd expect, some surprising! And we'll introduce what we've already built — including our Start a Conversation flash cards — and what's coming next.
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Talking Climate Collaborative
Empowering the messengers people already trust.
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Chris Brookmyre @brookmyre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Quite Ugly One Evening is a Kindle Monthly Deal for October. Set sail with Parlabane on a luxury cruise at the steerage-class price of 99p. www.amazon.co.uk/Quite-Ugly-O...
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Open source ptinter with outputs from banner to regular pages, use any ink supply, repairable, works with any OS. worth a try to avoid the slide into rent hell. www.opentools.studio
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OpenTools / OpenPrinter
This is the homepage of the website
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 27/09/2026
Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social etsy.com/listing/6936...
Thuban Press Guide to Analog Self Publishing
Step-by-Step Instructions to Make Your Own Book Without a Computer
by Julia Gfrörer
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
Twitter post: someone suggests that Vincent Van Gogh could have AI-generated The Starry Night and it would still be his art. A far smarter person points out that entering that prompt would NOT generate The Starry Night, "because the original wouldn't exist for the machine to fucking copy".
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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here’s a book though, if you want to read it, containing every word a journalist growing up online in these places had to say about these things, on her open source blog, before she caught a bullet in the head at the age of 29, just seven years ago.
Lyra McKee: Lost, Found, Remembered
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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds
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World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds
Firms manage $7.3tn in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters
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Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Individualism is a myth
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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So why is a company linked to Israeli war crimes still being considered for a major Scottish public contract? Scottish Greens will keep pushing ScotGov to make sure public money is not used in ways that undermine Scotland’s commitment to BDS. Boycott. Divestment. Sanction. 2/2
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 12/09/2026
The far right is on the rise. And they’re gaining ground by organising on campuses and targeting students with culture-war narratives. But we know there are huge numbers of students who want to fight back. That’s why we’re launching Good Law Campus.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thanks to everyone who's donated. Those of us lucky enough to have grown up and to live by the sea - and so see how rough and cold it gets in the autumn and winter - realise again and again just how brave these folk must be to go out and do what they do.
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dixonpuetafem.bsky.social @dixonpuetafem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I remember during the Gulf war someone saying that the next war will be over water. Suspect all “hydroelectric” dam projects. One project in Nicaragua that I wrote on allowed a company to own the water of 20 tributary rivers up to their source.
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John Shelley - Illustrator @studionib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New Gallup polling finds that 71% of Americans approve of labor unions and 56 million Americans would join a union tomrorow if they could. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power. If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
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Unions are extremely popular: 56 million workers would join a union if they could
New Gallup polling finds that 71% of people in the U.S. approve of unions, continuing the highest period of favorability in over 60 years. This coincides with the greatest number of workers represente...
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The fact something as fundamental and superb as the RNLI is a charity is one of the most magical and strange things about Britain. You can support them here. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 05/09/2026
…Unexpected (by definition) items in Bagging Area.
Unexpected items in bagging area. Because *nobody* expects the Spanish Inquisition.
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Edward Tissiman @edtiss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This comment from Reddit demonstrates why Edinburgh needs to tow vehicles rather than just ticket them. These are the vans blocking pedestrian crossings, cycle lanes, bus lanes, bus stops, disabled parking… Why do we allow such rampant rule breakers to negotiate a penalty? Tow them.
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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can I just please beg everyone to put a bit of card with emergency contact numbers in your wallets. Not just in case you die, though that would really help me out this week, but if you have a turn or accident. It's a really easy thing to do and saves valuable time.
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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Help secure the future of the Cinema Museum!
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Shropshire lass 🌸 @loobee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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