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Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Shetlander in Aberdeen. Writer, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own because who else's would they be? linktr.ee/tooriekep

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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 6h
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 1h
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 6h
My latest blog piece. It's time to abolish the Scotland Office and the post of Scottish Secretary. They're nothing more than conduits to divert public money into campaigning against Scottish independence. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/16/i...
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It’s time to abolish the Scotland Office
On the first day of the SNP conference, the membership voted overwhelmingly for the abolition of the Scotland Office and the post of Secretary of state for Scotland, also known as the Scottish Secr…
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 17h
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 1h
Just write "bitch" you fucking coward. You're already anonymous, just call me a bitch. I can't respect this guy.
youtuber calling be a "be-ach"
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 1h
It honestly is like being held hostage at gunpoint by mary poppins it does feel embarrassing
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Marcus SOBER 5 YEARS @papacitogordo.bsky.social · 21h
Fuck the current president of the United States of America.
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Heather Herbert is .... @heatherherbert.uk · 1h
Seriously if you need to go to the hospital/doctors etc DO SO. Like everything, most people are decent and will ensure your safe and comfortable etc
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 1h
We all want women and girls to feel safe. But are we having the right conversations about what puts them in danger? For #BlackHistoryMonth, Saba Ali explores male violence, the risks facing Black, South Asian and trans women, and why women's safety and trans rights are not in opposition.
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Trans Women Are Not the Threat. Male Violence Is. - Not in our name
Trans women are not a threat to women's safety. Equalities advocate Saba Ali explores male violence and the risks facing Black, South Asian and trans women.
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__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 22h
Absolutely no idea what's happened, but very shocked to hear that @sinead1988.bsky.social has left us. Vale and thank you for all your allyship and hard work defending what's right. Very sad news indeed.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 13h
@karenadamsnp.bsky.social is the MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, and this is why I love #Scotland.
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 11h
🇬🇧 The Houses of Parliament’s bigoted, Protestant supremacist, Loyalist sectarian, Orange Orcs Front and centre is the notorious Child Sex Offender, His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Councillor, Knight Bachelor, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺
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Dáibhí The Spooky Pumpkin 🎃 @daibhi.bsky.social · 7h
Scots are not "uniquely minded" for fairness (although that is inbuilt to the national psyche). You have a massive problem with transphobes in the party. Deal with it.
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Creature From The Zach Lagoon @emo-sludge.com · 3h
It's funny that the owners of this site hate it so much here that they've become typical twitter supplicants.
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Alexalchemy’s Bluesky Thing 🇵🇷🇵🇸 🔜 TBA @alexalchemy.bsky.social · 19h
Hey @bsky.app @support.bsky.team, can you explain this? Cause the fact that you first posted this on Twitter and not here is VERY telling
A screenshot of a tweet from Bluesky quote tweeting a post from Attie, an AI site, that says the following: “Announcing Attie site builder!

Starting today, Attie users can build small social pages like a game, an AMA, or a quiz your friends will argue about for a week. We made a few to get you started. Go make a better one and share it:”

The Quote tweet from the official Bluesky account reads the following: “Vibe-coding, but make it social.

Starting today you can use Attie to make sites: Games, quizzes, guestbooks, your top 8, or whatever you dream up. Go try it!”
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Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 3h
Thank you for the help so far (and sorry that PayPal no longer allows me to send a more personal note of thanks) - if anyone else is able to please then I'd be super grateful. 😊
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 10h
Well, I wrote a lengthy email to Anna Ganley / @societyofauthors.bsky.social for what it's worth. tl;dr no I do not think you can decide for your entire membership what ethical use of GenAI in publishing looks like, or that it exists and is achievable.
You start by saying "We understand generative AI to be harmful to the creative industries, to individual writers’ livelihoods ... We are clear that there can never be any truly ethical use of generative AI because of the way LLMs have been trained on copyright works without permission or payment; the detrimental environmental impacts; and the harmful effect it has on disempowered communities". I absolutely agree. Where we part company is that your proposed Charter explicitly states that ethical AI use is possible. 

I understand that you regard this as realpolitik, a 'statement of intent', a framework for how things should be and what publishers should aspire to. I think it's jawdroppingly naive. 

Publishers who are using AI in the hope of cutting staff numbers and reducing spend on creatives already know they are putting people out of work. That's literally the point. 
Anyone who cares to read the news already knows about the harms AI is doing to the environment, to workers, to people near data centres, to democracy. If they are using it it's because they don't care. 
This offers the SoA ethical imprimatur to anyone who wants to claim it. Without checks, without safeguards, without qualification or inspections or consequences, you're proposing to let publishers slap a "We're Ethical!" badge on their website and call it a day. Talk about devaluing your brand. 

No publisher is going to read this Charter and think "Wow, I should find a way to retrain the four copy editors and six marketing people I'm going to sack!" or "Gosh, I'll invest in a proprietary model with a fully paid-for training set!" or "I was going to use AI to mimic an author's voice or artist's style, rather than pay them, but now I realise that's bad." Those things will not happen. You know they won't happen. This Charter simply offers those publishers a fig leaf for their GenAI use, whereby they can claim lofty aspirations and carry on as before. ("Where viable alternatives exist, we will favour services from developers who license their training data"-- come on. Anyone can sign this and then explain sadly that the alternatives just aren't viable.)

Again, I understand your aim is to set a high behaviour standard. But voluntary codes of practice depend on the majority of people involved being ethical in the first place. Since GenAI is, as you acknowledge, fundamentally unethical, it is naive in the extreme to expect its keen adopters to have a Damascene conversion.

They need to be forced, which means we need consequences. We need the SoA facilitating a 'name and shame' for publishers using GenAI's stolen work to replace creatives, or to push slop into the workflow (which puts an additional burden on authors who have to rewrite the slop copy and fix the slop edit). We need a strong united voice saying we don't accept this. We need our union pushing for a class action suit against the book thieves, and drawing a hard line that says we must be made whole before there's any talk of publishers ethically using LLMs. We need to give publishers a really hard time on this. I'm sure the last two days have made you aware that authors are capable of giving people a hard time. 

The very existence of this Charter constitutes authors' bodies agreeing that "ethical" GenAI use is possible and acceptable. This cedes an astonishing amount of ground, and it is unconscionable that the Society of Authors should have decided to capitulate to the interests of AI companies and publishers without even consulting its members. You cannot serve two masters. 

I remain convinced this is a gross misstep, and one you had no right to take in the names of your members, and as such my resignation stands.

Yours
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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 6h
BBC Scotland is not really hiding the fact that it’s just another arm of the UK establishment. Live broadcasting Andy Burnham’s speech while not providing live coverage of the SNP conference. Shameful and brazen.
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Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 7h
www.paypal.com/paypalme/wir... Sorry, me again. I am skint until at least next week, so if anyone can please help me eat this weekend I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance 😊❤️
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Pay Hannah Nicholson using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/wirhannah and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 8h
If all the people that believe long COVID is in the mind were right (they’re not) it would still be an emergency, and it would still require disease prevention… because preventing infection is still the only way we can be sure this thing won’t turn up… and what they have tried to treat it has made
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Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 7h
www.paypal.com/paypalme/wir... Sorry, me again. I am skint until at least next week, so if anyone can please help me eat this weekend I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance 😊❤️
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Pay Hannah Nicholson using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/wirhannah and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 9h
I need everyone wanting to advertise on YouTube to understand that I keep a mental list of things I see YT ads for and then intentionally avoid those products.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 10h
"ITV spent a year investigating Reform UK, secretly filming councillors and candidates making racist, misogynistic and deeply offensive remarks. And somehow, some people's biggest concern is that ITV had the audacity to broadcast it." via The Daily Scar Inside Reform ... www.itv.com/news/2026-10...
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hear hear, Zack! 👏👏👏 I'm an ordinary member and supporter of the Green Party, and of the RNLI. People can find them at www.RNLI.org, where they can make a donation or, even better, sign up for membership! 👍
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 10h
“A Reform candidate who said Hitler was “brilliant” at inspiring people & Assad “gentle by nature” is now in charge of the party’s vetting process…Zia Yusuf, claimed that the party is now vetting candidates in a more rigorous way than any other party” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK candidate who praised Hitler and Assad put in charge of vetting
Jack Aaron, whose past comments on controversial leaders led to widespread criticism, is now overseeing candidate selection
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12h
UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows
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UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows
Analysis of countries’ broadcasting rules confirms Ofcom code is highly unusual, amid concerns about impartiality The UK has been confirmed as an outlier in Europe for allowing Nigel Farage and other serving politicians to present TV shows covering current affairs, according to an unprecedented analysis of broadcasting rules. Farage is one of a series of Reform UK figures who are permitted to present shows on the rightwing network GB News. The Reform MP Lee Anderson and former candidate Matt Goodwin also have regular slots on the channel. Continue reading...
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 12h
I've encountered a "but he's chaaaanged, he's not the man he was" #RussellBrand Stan. Ok let's say he's now a man of god, and of righteousness. Would a good man put these women through this? Or would he plead guilty to what he has done, apologise to them, and do his penance?
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Andy Bonar @aquarama.bsky.social · 12h
I don't care if his company has made a flying car, he's still a massive racist transphobic fascist arsehole.
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Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 12h
I guess the winter duvet and electric blanket are going back on the bed this weekend...oh well
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Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 12h
Don't have too much fun without me now 😉
The 'Undertaker Behind AJ Styles' meme format.

Over AJ Styles is the caption "Me getting the flat to myself while Daibhi is in Glasgow for the weekend"

Over The Undertaker is the caption "My messy flat and several loads of laundry"
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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The British Fantasy Society does not allow the use of generative AI in any of its spaces. For more on this, read the interview with outgoing chair Shona Kinsella from earlier this year. This position has not changed since last week's AGM. ⬇️ britishfantasysociety.org/its-a-cheat-...
Text says We say NO to generative AI in the creative arts
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Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 12h
I don't fully understand what I just experienced but I think I enjoyed it? Definitely a Tiny Desk worth investigating, at least!
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 12h
Just think about this for a second, Yes I appreciate that housing refugees is a costly expense for any country, But we did used to get money for it from the EU. But it's the narrative from the elite that conditions the poor to believe that we are losing out in preference for them. #ShiftingBlame
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The Powerpuff Girls Buttercup's Mischievous Grin
Alt: The Powerpuff Girls Buttercup's Mischievous Grin
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Anastasia Beaverhausen @semisophrosyne.bsky.social · 17h
Listening to the wind rustle through the trees with Radiohead in the background is really helping my mood transition into the bottom of the trashcan
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juno Rylee Stump-Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 18h
Hey I haven’t eaten since yesterday morning I don’t have any groceries Can I have some help getting food to eat with my mouth
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 20h
"I had to stay with my Mum in an emergency ward because my mum might have been scared by a trans person being there, who may or may not have actually been trans." Is the sort of moral panic logic that should be inexcusable from our elected officials, actually.
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The NHS is already one of the biggest perpetrators of anti-trans violence in the UK. This new guidance, which refers to trans people using slurs, demands that we be segregated and abused. I’ve said it before: senior NHS managers must be sacked and punished for what they’ve done to us.
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Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 18h
Said it before and will again - if these LLMs had existed at the same time as Napster they'd have been shut down ages ago.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
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Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 19h
Again thanks for the help tonight, if anyone's able to please give me a hand for tomorrow and this weekend I'd really appreciate it please 🙏
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
One of the common arguments from so called "gender criticals", transphobes, is "what rights are trans people losing". The answer is so many. Just today we have seen in practice that trans people are being excluded from healthcare., to add to public spaces, education etc. It all costs lives.
Trans people should use hospital spaces according to biological sex, NHS England saysThe UK's new plan for trans students: bathroom bans, forced outing, & no social transitions

The plan is likely to place trans and gender non-conforming children at greater risk.Single-sex spaces open to the public, such as toilets and changing rooms, should be organised based on biological sex, according to official guidance that has come into force.

The code, published by Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), says trans people should use either gender-neutral facilities or the ones that match their biological sex, in places such as gym changing rooms or rape crisis centres.Trans people are dying of suicide more than the general UK population, data shows

By Alice McCool and Ludovic Parsons

Investigation finds that trans people make up 1% of the UK population and 7% of child suicides, but official data is full of holes
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Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 19h
I'm so sick of the transphobic capture of Britain. Despite no complaints abt trans ppl in UK hosps, we now have nationwide NHS 'guidance' that will kill some of us. High nos of UK trans ppl already avoided GP/hosp bc of realistic fear of discrimination (Trans Lives 2025). Now this. It's just grim.
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Holly-ween III: Season of the Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · 19h
I have one of these and it's lovely. Well worth buying if you can
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Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 19h
I don't imagine many do tbh. Even the local press is getting poor circulation, the more national ones won't be faring much better.
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Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 20h
#Worldle #1728 (15.10.2026) 2/6 (100%) 🔥 Current Win Streak: 158 days 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↖️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 worldle.teuteuf.fr/share
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A daily geography game where you guess the country from its shape and get clues with every attempt. Play daily or explore the archive.
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Isthatyourdonkey? @paulma.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Andy Burnham is endangering British Jews by conflating Zionism with Judaism. Not all Jews are Itamar Ben-Gvir. This is not just crass ignorance from the UK prime minister, it’s Israeli propaganda.
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naoarte @naoarte.bsky.social · 20h
Reminder that TV Licensing enforcement really hate thier photos being circulated on the internet.
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