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Marion Boddy-Evans
@marionbe.bsky.social
Artist in northeast Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦄
Studio blog on my website www.marion.scot
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Pinned
"Depict frustration"
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We lived in a pub when I was growing up and when I was 3 (50 years ago!) we had someone in to draw the pub for a business card. I sat next to him and watched him draw every line. I was transfixed and it was a huge inspiration for me. I’ve dreamt about owning that drawing for years…
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The next pandemic is highly likely to be airborne. We need clarity on whether the government is prepared.

Are medical supplies up to date? And what action is being taken on ventilation and air filtration to keep public spaces safe?

#PublicHealth #PandemicPreparedness
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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The federal government is in overdrive trying to arrest people for speech online.

Anarchists snd other left varieties are getting hit all over the site the last couple days with these it appears. This is like the fourth account I have seen posting something like this since last week.
Getting subpoenaed by the US government over bluesky posts
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Before she died, Alice Wong was kind enough to give me an interview for my book, Who Wants Normal?

Here’s her wonderful advice to disabled women (from the Guardian extract): www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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🥀Labour are launching another vile attack on fundamental human rights.

It is not illegal to seek asylum and refuge here, no matter the circumstances. No human is illegal.

We strongly oppose Labour's Trump-style plans.
November 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Note to everyone objecting to Aberdeenshire council reducing speed limit in towns/villages to 20mph.👇
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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One thing that strikes me about the so called ‘trans panic’ is how much it tells us about egalitarianism. It doesn’t matter what’s inside your head, but what it looks like from the outside. It doesn’t matter what sort of person you are it’s just your physical body that counts. This after…
November 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Painting in progress, or maybe finished. Will ponder for a few days to decide if it truly needs anything more.
#Portsoy #art #painting
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Hello, world!

We are a new children’s bookshop which will open its doors in Edinburgh in 2026.

Much work is going on behind the scenes to make it happen, but in the meantime we are doing a pop-up to introduce ourselves to our lovely city and its community.
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Got a couple dozen crows flying in front of a rainbow, best one was when it was faint, so really had to edit. Not sure if I missed the mark.

Edited / original 🪶
November 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Was feeling blue thinking about Alice so I visited the neighborhood house of worship to pray, which just happens to be the National Mosque of Uganda, the largest mosque in Eastern Africa
November 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Painting in progress, or maybe finished. Will ponder for a few days to decide if it truly needs anything more.
#Portsoy #art #painting
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Most people contract COVID-19 after inhaling SARSCoV2 virus in surrounding air. @ukhadds.bsky.social @chemistryworld.com
👉Note: critical importance of ventilation and maintaining low CO2 concentrations in indoor environments for mitigating disease transmission.
www.chemistryworld.com/news/elevate...
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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For those learning about the devastating loss of Alice Wong or those newly discovering this fierce disability activist, you can get to know her through her own words here, (via @emilybeitiks.bsky.social) disabilityvisibilityproject.com/author/alwon...
Alice Wong
Read all of the posts by Alice Wong on Disability Visibility Project
disabilityvisibilityproject.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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If you ever lose sight of how improbable this life is, and therefore what a privilege to die after having lived, this is for you: www.themarginalian.org/2021/07/25/r...
Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death
“The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Not made any sales this weekend so far. Fingers crossed for tonight & tomorrow, but it's looking like a quiet Christmas.
I am sure I will see some UK buyers in December, but I'm usually very busy in November with US orders, they are not happening this year, despite art being exempt from tariffs😔
November 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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hello marine biology bsky, does anyone know the orcas' phone numbers
how good is the Abundance Agenda

luxurylaunches.com/transport/dr...
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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"To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."

Georgia O'Keeffe on the art of seeing: www.themarginalian.org/2018/11/15/g...
Georgia O’Keeffe on the Art of Seeing
“To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Objects in mirror are closer than they appear… Ruby Bridges is only 71 (from my 2024 election comic spinweaveandcut.com/election-202...)
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
New on the Westminster government's bingo card: "cranky heating".

#VoteGreen
No.10 Downing Street is a building that sprawls backwards over four floors and has cranky heating, patchy phone signal and a basement with mice.

So for all its history, does the building itself undermine the work of the state?

🔗  politi.co/4pdPS5V
November 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Most people in the UK still believe in the power of royalty. And we accept that a knighthood is created from nothing with a tap of the King’s sword. Yet many refuse to accept that the government creates money in exactly the same way: by tapping a few keys on a keyboard. youtu.be/Nt-_qzKRI2Y?...
The magic money sword: Why money works like honours
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Alice was a mentor, a friend and one of the people who I credit with helping me find my voice.

She gave me the strength to embrace my disabilities and use my skills as a writer to help others.

My life is forever changed because of her.

I will have more to say once I’ve processed 💔
November 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Why shouldn't you trust someone you see drawing on graph paper?

They're definitely plotting something.
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM