Kate Louise Mathis
@drmaudbailey.bsky.social
Scottish European | #GreenYes | Academic | Lace knitter | Concrete enthusiast | Gaelic women's poetry | Celtic/Gaelic Revivals | Still acknowledging ongoing pandemic (She/her)
As have many other residents of Scotland; please do the same if you haven't yet.
![Four Scottish Nationals [sailing as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla] have been kidnapped in international waters. Please contact the FCDO NOW to request immediate intervention.
fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk
+44 (0) 20 7008 5000
When contacting: instead of mentioning the flotilla, state the four Scottish Nationals aboard are:
Jim Hickey
Sid Khan
Margaret Pacetta and
Yvonne Ridley
and they have been kidnapped by Israel in international waters](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7otxkpsqa7d6hs56itkkhnyx/bafkreiegq2sxhaaj42fohs2zsbzjyim26xo3btzkr3qqd43gcxsnvyhpni@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
As have many other residents of Scotland; please do the same if you haven't yet.
(image courtesy of one of the excellent @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social comms team).
![Four images in a narrative square riffing on *that* Star Wars meme, from top left: A sour-faced white man saying 'We spent too much on shiny buildings | Top-right, Natalie Portman's character, smiling: You're not going to blame staff, are you? | Bottom left: same sour-faced man smirking | Bottom right: Natalie Portman looking mortified: Are you...? | [Dear readers, yes he is!]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7otxkpsqa7d6hs56itkkhnyx/bafkreiavq5rbnwuknwmkplmvskvn7v63m56ckeam4wa4lnbtz2ir4opkqi@jpeg)
February 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
(image courtesy of one of the excellent @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social comms team).
One of Margaret Watkins's beautiful photographs of the Clyde from Springfield Quay, early 1930s.
(Watkins's unknown subject sits just about where Bill 'Dickie Bird' Paterson sits dejectedly in 'Comfort and Joy' in 1984, also prior to the advent of the Squinty Bridge).
(Watkins's unknown subject sits just about where Bill 'Dickie Bird' Paterson sits dejectedly in 'Comfort and Joy' in 1984, also prior to the advent of the Squinty Bridge).
January 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
One of Margaret Watkins's beautiful photographs of the Clyde from Springfield Quay, early 1930s.
(Watkins's unknown subject sits just about where Bill 'Dickie Bird' Paterson sits dejectedly in 'Comfort and Joy' in 1984, also prior to the advent of the Squinty Bridge).
(Watkins's unknown subject sits just about where Bill 'Dickie Bird' Paterson sits dejectedly in 'Comfort and Joy' in 1984, also prior to the advent of the Squinty Bridge).