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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 21h

#Inktober day14 #Lady #Scottish #Scots "I aye thoucht a lady wiz douce, couthy, mensefu and gentie." Highly recommend the 1973/4 #films The 3 & 4 #Musketeers with Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, etc. the fight director was a practitioner and expert in weapons of the time. V. realistic sword fights.

In the foreground Milady in a large hooded crimson cloak and holding a hand sized crossbow fires a deadly bolt into a mercenaries neck and catches the bag of gold coins as it drops from his lifeless hand. In the background in front of a burning fortress the three musketeers look on in amazement.
"I always thought a lady was gentle, agreeable, good mannered and graceful."

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

#Inktober day13 #Flimsy #Scottish #Scots #pirates #map "I howp ye mind what that warning said captain. Yiv pit yer finger richt through it. I telt ye we should hae worn white cotton gloves wi a flindrikin cairt like this." #Translation in alt txt.

Two pirates consulting a map so flimsy you can see through it. The captain has just put his finger straight through it destroying a warning message inscribed near the treasure.
"I hope you remember what that warning said captain. You've put your finger right through it.

I told you we should have worn white cotton gloves with a flimsy map like this."

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#Inktober day12 #Toss #Scottish "Sheriff! His toss is no a toss it's a fung! In the rules para seeven clause eicht subsection yin "Fungs and tosses.", it sez, an I quote "The winning shoe is the yin that sits closest tae the peg and the peg is whaur the peg wiz pegged in wi no skelfs or braks."

In a wild west town a burly blacksmith throws horseshoe straight through the wooden peg he was aiming at shattering it. A sheriff, a horse and a skinny youth look on with townspeople spectating in the background. The skinny youth complains.
"Sheriff! Are ye going to tell that man that his toss is not a toss it's a fling!

In the rules page twenty four para seven clause eight "Flings and tosses." subsection one, it says, and I quote "The winning shoe is the one that sits closest to the peg and the peg is where the peg was pegged in with no splinters or breaks." see! They've encountered this before.
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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#Inktober prompt11 Rescue #ice #Scots "Weel yer rescue technique’s tae be admired. Braw. But kin I jist say the pond’s no even three feet deep. My dug here wydes in it ofen. Ye could jist staun up." #Translation in alt txt. Using #Inktober2026 prompts to backdate my #Scottish words.

A misty freezing winter morning and a young boy is fallen through the thin ice on a pond with a girl is lying down on the ice stretched out from the edge holding out a stick towards the boy. A duck and a small dog stand on the ice watching them with a man holding the lead of the dog standing on the edge of the pond in the foreground.
"Well your rescue technique is to be admired. Excellent.

But can I just say the pond’s not even a meter deep.

My dog here wades in it often. Ye could just stand up."

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

@leftpeggers.bsky.social @albertkirkjr.bsky.social Aye - twa lists on the go. Ahm usin albertkirk's yin as it foond me first - hooever … #Scotstober list2 day12 "I think he's jist thrawn, there's nae benefits tae us o stooks ower big roond bales." #Scottish #Scots #farming

A family run farm and its interrelationships, a rare commodity nowadays, controlled by grumpy grandpa in his tractorised wheelchair.
"I think he's just very very stubborn, there is no benefit of stacks of sheaves over big round bales."

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#Scotstober #Scottish #Scots #egg #bird #gun Day 12 Malafouster. "Bide back ahv goat a gun ahn am no afeard tae yuise it. Yin step mair ahn I malafooster yer egg. Wirms o the warld unite! We rule. Ahm Muskie the wirm o wirms. Ye'll newser tunes tae boonds o what I decide noo. Wirms rule!"

Worm with a loaded pistol points it at a mother's golden egg held hostage as the big beaked blue mother bird looks on in horror and worry.
"Stay back I have a gun and I'm not afraid to use it. One more step and I destroy your egg.

Worms of the world unite! We rule.

I'm Muskie the worm of worms. You'll chat newsy tunes in the bounds of what I decide now. Worm's rule."

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#Scotstober #Scottish #Scots Day 11 Patter. "…Noo are ye sure ah'll still be able to gab tae ye through this preserving fluid? Ahn are ye sure this monocle'll filter oot the … a bit o a ertistic nature ye ken, mha patter's worth listening to. Ah'n forebye…" (All of it +Translation in the alt txt.)

Alien filling with fluid a jar containing a preserved live human head still talking.
"…Noo are ye sure ah'll still be able to gab tae ye through this preserving fluid?
Ah'll be wantin tae tell ye when the fluid sterts tae get oer green fur mha liking ahn a want it cheengin.
Ahn ah'll be wantin tae spier mha veesiters as tae what's happenin in the ootside warld.
Ahn nae dout maistly they'll want tae gab tae me aboot mha experiences.
Ahn are ye sure this monocle'll filter oot the green cast so as I kin see proper colours?
Ah've a bit o a ertistic nature ye ken, mha patter's worth listening to. Ah'n forebye…"

In English: "Now are you sure I will still be able to chat to you through this preserving fluid?
I will be desiring to tell you when the fluid starts to get too green for my liking and I want it changed.
And I shall be wanting to ask my visitors of what has transpired in the outside world.
And I have no doubt mostly they will want to talk to me about my experiences.
And are you sure this monocle will filter out the green cast so that I can observe proper colours?
I have a bit of an artistic nature you know, my chatter’s worth listening to. And also…"

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#Scotstober #Scottish #Scots #budgie #Scotstober2026 Day 10 #window. "Ah gave wee Wallace his freedom. I couldnae stand the sad wee look on his coupon every morning cos o bein locked up. He went oot the windae." (Translation in the alt txt.)

A family in front of an open sash window, the dad wearing a cardigan and holding tweezers in his hand and a miniscule open bird cage in the palm of his other hand.
"I have given little Wallace his freedom. I could not bear the sad tiny look on his face every morning because of him being locked up. He went out the window."

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#Scotstober #Scottish #Scots Day 8 creish. Day 9 Loch. "Hey man ye should straik yir barnet wi this skoosh, it's nae sae creishy like ahn winni clag yer kame." "Aye you're richt something's drumled up the bottom of the loch in a big way." Two #Scotsober lists are on the go. Using the 1st I found.

Two Teds getting straight and oiling up. (adding product to their hair.) ""Hey man you should comb up your hair using this aerosol, it is not so greasy in its manner and will not clog your comb.""

Creature from the depths of the loch looking over the shoulder of two curious fishermen in a boat peering over the other side. "Yes you are correct something has stirred up the silt and mud from the bottom of the loch (lake) in a big way."

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#Inktober #Scottish #Scots #mystical day10 #angels #Scotland "Dinni run awa o chosen yin. For I am chairged tae kythe tae you the mistical pouer yer trolley bags huv on yer furure. See! O mortal, I have the meat hook of balance and the blade of revelation as my authority." Translation in alt txt.

Three angel type beings flying above a panicked man wearing only shorts. One flying character has scales on a bale hook and a fleshing knife, the other two shine searchlights on the fleeing man. A vicar in the background looks dazed and confused.
"Do not run away o chosen one.

For I am charged to make manifest to you the mystical powers your intestines have to forecast your future.

See! O mortal, I have the meat hook of balance and the blade of revelation as my authority."

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#Inktober #Scottish #Scots #ram day9 #trees #Inktober2026 "That’s the ticket auntie Mavis. Ram it doon, ram it doon. We want the loun tae grow tae be ferdy-limbed, muckle, swank an hale." Translation in the alt txt.

That’s the ticket auntie Mavis.

Ram it doon, ram it doon.

We want the loun tae grow tae be ferdy-limbed, muckle, swank an hale.

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#Inktober #Scottish #Scots #smell day8 #mushrooms #Inktober2026 #Scotland "Hud back! She’s done it. She’s fund the fash wi me an I’ll ming ye mingin shrooms. An antrin thing. Onie closer an we’ll nivir get the funk oot o oor claes even efter five washes." Translation in the alt txt.

Girl in a hazmat suit and breather mask kneels on the ground and picks a strangely coloured mushroom while her colleague in the background holds up his hand to stop anyone else coming close. Green emissions from the disturbed fungi remaining in the ground rise up to stun a bird causing it to fall out of the sky.

"Stay back! She’s done it.

She’s found the bother me and I’ll stink you stinky mushrooms. A rare thing.

Any closer and we’ll never get the stench out of our clothes even after five washes. "

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#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 · 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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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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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 #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 · 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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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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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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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Alice and the Mad Hatter in a garden in York England not far from York Minster. Photograph taken from the top of the city wall with a zoom lens.

Sculptures of the Mad hatter on a stone structure like a well behind a statue of Alice standing on a brick path in a garden - almost life size. Photographed from the city wall using a zoom lens in York, England -2016.

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm lucky too - loads of likewise walks nearby - to keep fit and mitigate the effects of beer. But my secret weapon is the dog - every day rain shine or snow a walk is demanded. Beats self discipline any-day. My previous dog Max got me through my v. bad depression via his impishness in the woods.

Max, head and shoulders of my late black dog in his youth with tan eyebrows chest and muzzle, the size of a cat but a giant in character. Lancashire Heeler - given away along with his brothers and sisters from a petrol station forecourt free to good homes and he eventually ended up with me. Saved my life. Serendipity.

Archie my white and tan hairy jack russel sitting on his bum in the café after our walk with his "I'm mistreated, starved and beaten" face on because he's not getting any bits of my black pudding roll.

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Never mind definitions - check to see if you have the symptoms. If you have - the only cure is hatred of creation and blindness to your faults. Sorry - I don’t have a credit for who first diagnosed that list.

A list of the 10 Symptoms of Woke Mind Virus: 1. You read books, and don't burn them. 2. You embrace science. 3. You are willing to change your mind when new information becomes available. 4. You understand that most issues aren't black and white. 5. You believe in true equality for all people. 6. You like to share. 7. You embrace cooperation. 8. You respect others' rights. 9. You believe culture and the arts has value. 10. You care for the planet and all of its life.

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#worldcup #Scottish #Hockey over 70s. #scotland doing well. Picture of one of the #scots over 70s playing #France. Scotland won 1-0. Seven #matches in ten days in hot weather for folks all over 70 no #ageism here. #sport #fitness

Scottish over 70s hockey player with the ball at the base of the stick taking on two French players who are running in from the left sticks outstretched. Look of concentration in all the faces

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

But it is! Parallels between denialism of patients to a terminal diagnosis and climate denialism in the body politic and society is touched on in this article in Forbes. Three stages. Good news is it's apparently not irreversible. www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...

3 stages of denial.
1 - Deny the diagnosis. “It isn’t happening, or humans aren’t causing it.” The classic form, now a shrinking minority position in most Western publics.
2 - Deny the cause. “The disaster is real, but climate change had nothing to do with it.” The floods were cloud seeding; the fires were arson; the heat is just summer.
3 - Deny the treatment. “The science is right, but this particular policy is too expensive, too fast, unfair or ineffective.” Every policy, every time.
Deny the responsibility. “Action matters, but someone else must go first.” China, consumers, industry, the next government.

What breaks the Spell.
The reason this is not a counsel of despair also comes from medicine: denial is rarely permanent. Studies of patients who initially react with distress show marked improvement within weeks, and what helps people take in threatening information without retreating from it is not more bad news but support, clear communication and a sense of agency. The climate research points to three of the same levers:
1 - Connect the event to the cause, immediately and explicitly. The 260,000 press release study shows attribution, not experience, travels with policy support. Every heatwave reported without its cause is a wasted teaching moment.
2 - Connect the cause to something actionable. Catastrophe without agency produces fatalism and avoidance, in politics as in oncology. Leaders, media and executives who pair every warning with a credible next step are working with human psychology instead of against it.
3 - Frame action as protection, not sacrifice. The system justification research found resistance fell sharply when change was presented as preserving and improving the system people value, what the authors call “system-sanctioned change.” Climate action defends energy security, health, food prices and industrial competitiveness. The side that owns the language of protection wins the psychology.

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If you see this, post a monster! Now guys – don’t ask him about the ingredients of the dip, the answer will make you sick.”

A bunch of naked men each bound and tied to giant breadsticks stacked in a giant jar on the table next to a huge one eyed monster sitting munching on the remains of a stick with a bowl of green dip in the other and a chequered bib around its neck. One of the men is saying "Now guys – don’t ask him about the ingredients of the dip, the answer will make you sick.”

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

My so far final Scottish words’ illustrated image adapted into a take a break image to post now and again. I’m often pleased when someone else does similar and makes me realise I’m just killing time in a bad way and to go off and do something better.

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

totallylocally.org Support your local businesses "…not cos this will break Amazon's monopoly (for that we will need unions, antitrust, and tax enforcement), but because when you shop at those stores, you make a difference to the lives of the people who…" Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/c...

Image showing freshly locally grown vegetables on a stall. Coloured caption against a black background to the left reads: If every adult in the UK spent just £5 per week in their local shops and businesses, it would be worth £13.5 billion going directly back into our towns. Which means real jobs, better facilities and nicer places to live. Makes you think doesn’t it? Shop Local, Live Local, Invest Local. https://totallylocally.org/

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Artists - If you see this post a dog. The dog walker's friend says: “Uh oh! If I was you I would untangle myself with the most extreme utter urgency.”

A man tangled in the lead of his very large wolfhound on a very narrow very high disused railway viaduct do not realise that they are about to have a hare being chased by a small dog coming up behind shoot past at speed. Their friend can see it coming.

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Show your vampire art. Forgot to pack the stakes. stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-wor...

In a crypt with two coffins. One lis is offset and Dracula is waking up as the sun sets through a break in the crypt wall at the top of a ladder. At the bottom of the ladder beside the coffins and skeletons the professor and his assistant open the case to discover the impressions to contain the stakes, cross, holy water and hammers are empty.

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I liked this map showing the true size of Africa to give an idea of how distorted our view of the world has become by the flat maps that we see most - Mercator projection. Image by Kai Kraus. See this article on immappancy legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/the-true-siz...

The true geographical size of the Western and Asian powers illustrated using Africa. Image: An outline map of Africa with coloured shapes of other countries scaled by actual area rather than mapping projection designed to show that they all fit at once relatively easily inside Africa - the countries included are the European nations including Eastern Europe, USA, China, India, Japan and the UK. Some areas are split down borders to make inclusion easier. There is probably enough free space left to include Greenland. There is a legend listing the areas in meters squared of each country with totals at the bottom compared to Africa's total. Image by Kai Kraus. See this article on immappancy https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/the-true-size-of-africa-a-small-contribution-in-the-fight-against-rampant-immappancy-by-kai-krause/

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Because of AI polluting the common well of knowledge I'm giving again to Wikipedia. Only 2% of readers donate, help them avoid relying on billionaire owners, subscriptions, or ad revenue, add more tools for volunteers to identify inaccuracies & resources for teachers to help spot bias in the media.

Icons with text; Commons: Free media collection, Wikivoyage: Free travel guide, Wiktionary: Free dictionary, Wikibooks: Free textbooks, Wikinews: Free news source, Wikidata: Free knowledge base, Wikiversity: Free learning resource, Wikiquote: Free quote compendium, MediaWiki: Free & open wiki software, Wikisource: Free content library, Wikispecies: Free species directory, Wikifunctions: Free functions library, Meta-Wiki: Community coordination & documentation.

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I get Redbubble to make stuff mainly for myself with no real markup – but if anyone else wants Scottish word based stuff like T-shirts, aprons and mugs have a look and see if you like anything. Up to 50% off is running on Redbubble at the moment. See my web page here: stooryduster.co.uk/blog/shop/

Image showing some stuff from the shop - a T-shirt with colourful typographic letters of the alphabet each with a matching scots word with additional text below showing the words and translation. Mugs with the typography and words and badges and T shirt showing a grinning sporran.

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Don't feed the corporate machine. Black Friday encouraging us to buy more unnecessary tat. Don't. As for Christmas our neighbours have decided to put names in a hat and have a secret Santa instead of piles of presents (excepting the kids of course). We've decided to do the same. totallylocally.org

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Many truths in Calvin and Hobbes.

A multi panel Calvin (a small boy) and Hobbes (a stuffed tiger who only comes alive for the small boy) comic strip. Calvin enters his front door shouting "I'm ho-ome!" the hall is in darkness and suddenly a gleeful Hobbs materialises flying out of the darkness to tumble and throw the screaming Calvin out into the light where his shoes fly off and they cartwheel through the air over several panels and land in the dust. In the final panel Calvin is lying bruised, dishevelled and exhausted says "Ever notice how time slows down during a catastrophe?". Hobbes reclining nearby musing, replies "Sighhhh… and good times are always over so fast… ."

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I say. Beware those pointing the finger of hate. Examine closely who or what is doing the pointing instead of the the thing being pointed at. That is where you will find the problem. As the Quakers say: “Fear begets hate. Love drives out fear.” Cartoon by Dave Walker.

A cartoon by davewalker.com, titled "Possible causes of your problems" in two columns split down the middle.

In the left Column titled: YES possible causes of your problems:
Item 1. Drawing of closed youth centre - captioned: "funding removed from local communities";
Item 2. Drawing of a private jet over an arrow signifying distance from small insignificant stick figures underneath - captioned: "growing gap between rich and poor";
Drawing of London finance sector of sky scraper glass buildings with arrow pointing at them saying “not visible: loophole.” with much paper cash entering on the left, one single pound note exiting out on the right - captioned overall: "multinational companies not paying their taxes";
Drawing of Terraced houses -captioned: "lack of new affordable housing";
Drawing of meagre drips dripping onto a desk - captioned: "government not sufficiently investing in schools and healthcare".
In the right column titled: NO highly unlikely any cause at all of your problems, don’t you think:
Drawing of small boat in high open seas and no sign of land with small stick figures in it - captioned: "people fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine".

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My take from a while back. Inspired by the Japanese built in bidet idea with scented water spray and then blow dry your bum toilet bowls of the time.

The automatic in toilet type II bottom wiper with explosive release bolts has an emergency big red stop button at the base of the toilet pan. It also has sliders to set the diligence, authority and softness levels of the wipe. Man with a pink toilet roll in his hand is about to flip a large lever that will disable the auto functions.

In Scots: “Ahm switchin aff the auto doup dichter hen. If yer wantin it back oan mind tae dae it yersel.”:

doup: bottom, backend of something.

In English: “I am switching off the automatic bottom wiping machine darling. If you are desirous of it being active again be sure to switch it on yourself.”

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Thanks. I'm off to rest. I too have an image that I post if I catch myself excessively doom scrolling, in the hope it might give others a break too, before I exit.

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

if you see this, post your getaway vehicle. The Tardis. But going by her history, she’s likely to become a goto vehicle rather than a getaway. But like the Chinese endless proverb. ‘ it might be good it might be bad.’

Tardis from Dr Who with dark background and electrical discharges

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Women winni be wheesht. A war cry meaning #women will not become cowed or silent. If you see this post a #witch.

A feisty young girl with fiery red hair and purple robes wearing a witches hat furiously casts a spell from her fingertips turning a MAGA Trump supporter into a toad, leaving the red cap floating in the air in a blue haze.

In Scots: “Dinni tell tae me “simmer doon hen”.

Fur yer clack yer a puddock noo.

For ah dinni simmer I bile, nor ahm ah a hen.

Ah’m a bonnie lassie ahn foreby a bonnie witch.

Ya Puddock.”

in English: “Do not say to me “calm down hen”.

For your slanderous and impertinent discourse you are now become a toad.

For I do not simmer I boil, nor am I a hen.

I am a pretty girl, and besides that, a capable witch (a name for powerful empowered women who make male based authority uneasy).

Ya toad.“

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Stooryduster @stooryduster.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

My latest #Scottish word #illustration a week. The bossy big sister and the 'into everything' wee brother – featuring Ribwort Plantain. #herbs #plants #nature stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-wor...

Girl with a handful of botanical posters of clover, devils bit scabious, and narrow leaved plantain yelling at her brother who is lying in the grass among daisies and buttercups admiring the seed heads of rib-wort plantain (scabiosa lanceolata). All on a sunny day.

In Scots: "Ye canni ca it curl-doddie, that's for the deil's bit scabious frae the Scabiosa family, an dinni snigger.

An dinni be pinging them seed heads at me neither.

Nor peltin me wi the stalks."

In English: "You cannot call it curl-doddie, that is for the devil’s bit scabious from the Scabiosa family, and don’t snigger.

And don’t be firing off these seed heads at me either.

Nor pelting me with the stalks."

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