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Mrs Julie Scattergood
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Usually to be found geeking out over tea, science, cats, languages, politics, cats, food, crafts, books and cats. Deaf blind. She/they. AroAce.
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A lovely story of an archivist reaching out for religious community support to fully understand a holy book in the collection, and that community getting a wonderful experience in return.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sikhs flock to see rare outing of ancient holy book in Edinburgh
The Guru Granth Sahib is so fragile it was taken to Edinburgh Gurdwara in a special convoy by curators for just a few hours.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Time for a re-read!
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you let a gunrunner rule an empire?

Smart-assed former princess. Weary BodyGuards. Political machinations. Queernorm world.

Come meet Hail Bristol. Gunrunner. Troublemaker. Empress.

#booksky 🌈📚💙
Links! Including the Hail Bristol trilogies - The Indranan War and the Farian War

A tired, done with your shit, former gunrunner is dragged back home to take over her mother's empire. She's not happy to be here and is going to make it everyone's problem.

bookshop.org/contributors...
November 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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In common with every camera-wielding lifeform in Glasgow, I have seen the Rebel Bear's latest piece.
November 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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On this day in 1501, Prince Arthur of Wales married Katherine of Aragon at St Paul’s Cathedral, London.

Panel from the Cromwell Narrative Cloth.
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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A family has handed over a 13th century book to the National Library of Norway. Conservator Chiara Palandri says its pages were made of calfskin parchment and that the cover appears to be hairy sealskin. The strap to hold the book together is thought to have been made from reindeer hide.
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
www.sciencenorway.no
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.

This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.

Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
@susanreadsbooks
Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.

Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!

2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Ballet [1/4]
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
My oldest selfie on my photo. I was taking a photo of the view and didn't realise that I was in the final shot.
November 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Today's a good day to remember Rosalind Franklin, British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose untimely death meant three men shared a Nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA for which she'd done most of the work.
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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LEGO posted this cute video for the launch of their first official #StarTrek set today

#LEGO
November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Some side eye
November 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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you guys have GOT to watch the whole thing

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOQT...
November 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Loved when Dolly partnered w/ Pit Bull on the update last year (Dolly rapping!)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=twoD...
Pitbull x Dolly Parton - Powerful Women (Visualizer)
YouTube video by Pitbull
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Blep, pride edition
#cuddleUnit6
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Halloween over...must be Christmas?🙈

There are few people & causes that could get me out my grinch mode & into Christmas gear in November👀

A dull rainy Monday brightened up with a little bit of filming for Who Cares? Christmas Day 🎁❤️🎅🎄

www.whocaresscotland.org/donate/?fbcl...
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Working Thomas Cromwell’s River. I’m surrounded by maps and nautical navigation charts and notes. Plus Wolf Hall on audio.
November 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Because it’s cis kids.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.
November 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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I really couldn't ask for a better review 😊 #TheWisdomOfTea #EveryDayAGoodDay 🍵
#NorikoMorishita

(Thought it was time I advertised my work here)

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...
November 26, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Lee Anderson can fuck right off, and keep fucking off forever.
Reform UK’s Lee Anderson wants to bring back the ‘invalid carriage’.

The Invacar was banned from English roads in 2003 over safety fears after some overturned and others caught fire.
October 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Series of horrifying bird photos with EXCELLENT alt text. Enjoy, my dears, and thank you, @rspb.bsky.social, for the Halloween inclusion 💘
Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻

Enter if you dare...🚪
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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I have looked upon
the works
that were in
an antique land
and which you were
probably saving
for eternity

Forgive me
they were decayed
so boundless
and so bare
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
October 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Look at this quoted post and click through to the posts quoting it and the posts quoting them. I love these chains. Trees. Brambles of creativity.
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
There was an old man you could gaze
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
October 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM