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eclectech
@eclectech.uk
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I make silly animations & pictures.
Lots of taking photos then scribbling on them.
Leans to the left. Full of woke nonsense & happy about it.
Mainly on things.uk Mastodon for socials. Don't trust the broligarchy.
Scotland. She/her.
https://eclectech.uk
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If it's worth saying, it's worth saying with dancing frogs & rainbows. Oh aye. #resist #sillyScribbles
October 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Welcome to autumn #sillyScribbles
A photo of around 30 tightly grouped smooth domed mushrooms, pale cream coloured, drifting to more orange at their tops. The are growing by a wooden planter, slightly blurred in the backdrop. Each of them has a cute little smiling face drawn on.
October 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Probably a niche audience for this one, but I reckon the fact that this has really tickled me since it popped into my head should be sufficient proof of age for the Online Safety Act. But no. Bah.
An edited version of the 1980s Maxell casset ad with the 'blown away man'. In the ad a man sits low in an arm chair facing a speaker, with hair & necktie being blown back by the sound. The lampshade and glass next to him are also being blown back. I have made some rudimentary changes so the figure can be read more easily as a woman (much longer hair being blown back, some changes to clothing) and replaced the speaker with a large rotating cooling fan. The slogan has changed from "maxell - it's worth it" to "menopause - is it hot in here?
August 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Have a fluffy dollop of cuteness. You're welcome. #sillyScribbles
A close up photo of a small densely fluffy white feather caught in some long grass. The background is a blurred mottled green. The stem of the feather runs horizontally across, and I have turned it into a mouth, adding a bottom row of teeth poking up. It has two large eyes above, and arms folded over onto its fluffy belly (or chin, depending on how you look at it - below its mouth anyhow).
August 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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New petition to ban payment processors stopping services based on objections to legal content.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Ban payment processors stopping services based on objections to legal content
Government should legislate that payment processing companies may not place stipulations on use of their services regarding sales of otherwise legal content and, if they do so, must face legal penalti...
petition.parliament.uk
August 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Just a heads up that I'm not going to be trusting a random third party with my ID info so no direct messages or adult content here for me from now on. Such is life.

Article on the topic, with some details about the folk doing the verification, for anyone interested.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-age...
The Gist: Age Verification is an Epic fail
From the 21st July 2025, Ireland’s regulator will be enforcing age checks at the door for social media sites in the EU. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
July 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Thought I'd better pop in and say hello before BlueSky designates me a child and locks people away from me 😆

Hope you're all well. I've been traveling around and investigating the hidden secrets of our wildlife. Oh aye.
Close up photo of a yellow and black striped cinnabar moth caterpillar on a red stony path. I have turned the last few yellow stripes on the right hand side grey, and added a simple figure sitting with a pot of yellow paint and a paint brush, as if they are responsible for the yellow. Which they are, as obviously this is documentary footage. Yup, definitely.
July 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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I understand it must be hard for people who grew up in the 60s and 70s to accept music being political.
June 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I don't mind paying more taxes because people less well off than me can't. But I do object to paying more because billionaires and corporations won't.
May 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Looks like the minimum threshold for signatures of the EU Citizen Initiative on banning conversion-'therapy' was reached!
More than a million EU citizens supported it! Now the European Commission will have to debate the issue!

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
May 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Ban on conversion practices in the European Union, European Citizens' Initiative. On to the last day, nearly there. If you are a EU citizen and have not signed, please do so.

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
May 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Doing my periodic pop up to wave hello. Hope life is treating you well despite, you know, everything.
A close up photo of a flower and bud in my garden. On the right, filling the right half of the frame, is a beautiful bright orange flower with a dark red centre. On the left, blurred in the background, is a bud from the same plant. The orange flower has googly eyes looking left towards the bud, and a big, toothy, smiley mouth. The bud also has googly eyes, slightly wonky, and it is sticking an orange tongue out of its mouth.
May 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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👋Hello! Have a never ending bunny hop for a holiday weekend. Hope you're all as good as you can be on this good Friday.
April 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Hello! 👋Hope everyone is as well as can be. I am definitely not ignoring everything in order to maintain my spirits. Just, maybe, 99% of things.
April 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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- Hey, you know how salmon jump up waterfalls on their way to spawn? I managed to catch one on video.
- Nice. I hope you've treated it with appropriate respect?
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- I said...
- I heard what you said.

(I might have just remembered that I can post wee anims here now, so have some old silliness)
March 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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What's that? The world has changed and so you need to make some changes? OK, we can all see the shitshow happening, maybe it's time to be brave and raise ta... WHAT?! FFS.

#taxTheRich #UKPolitics
Three simple drawn figures in a mossy garden hold signs that read TAX THE RICH after reading the news that the UK government is planning to take money from the poorest instead.
March 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Some silliness, because silly is important.
#sillyScribbles
A square close up photo of a rusty old nut and bolt type thing (I'm not much of a DIY-er but I think that's what it is, it was taken in a Maritime Museum so was presumably once held bits of a ship together). The main body is hexagonal in two parts, I have presented the split between the two parts as a mouth, added teeth and a lolling out tongue, and added eyes above. The bolt sticks out through the top, like an odd little round hat with lines running round it.
February 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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*waves hello*
Limiting social media at the moment because dear-fucking-lord what a mess. I need to look into how to manage my feed here a bit, as every time I visit it's full of doom news. Insightful doom, but still...
Anyhow, hope you're all doing OK. Have a thing.
#sillyScribbles #cloudCreatures
A photo of a big fluffy white cloud against a bright blue sky with a tall green tree on the right hand side. I have drawn eyes, arms and a bottom row of teeth onto the cloud. They look quite approachable. Also big, they look very big.
February 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I'm not a big action movie person, but I would watch the shit out of this #MyfanwyAndFriend

(yes, I am ignoring things and living in my own wee world at the moment, it feels sensible)
A pastiche of the Mad Max Fury Road film poster. At the top, in large blood splattered yellow letters it says "MAD MYFANWY FURY ROAD". It is set against a stormy sky, above a stylised desert landscape. Myfanwy, a large knitted chicken, replaces the woman, facing right wioth a large gun hanging from a chain around her. On the right the ma is replaced by the friend, a simple drawn figure, but in this case with the metal casing over their face and a chain dangling down. They point a gun to the left, over Myfanwy's head. An indistinct dead person lies on the ground by a felled motorbike.
January 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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This has been stuck in my head since reading all the rubbish about how US businesses are pre-caving in to their new orange overlord and running away, like the pathetic creatures they are, from any semblance of decency. Needed to shake it out on to the screen to move on to something nicer.
Two panel pop art style Lichtensteinesque comic strip (not particularly accomplished, this sort of thing is not a strong area for me). Left hand side is a close up a dotty face, a white man with brown hair looking slightly perturbed. There is a thought bubble leading to the man, reading "But what if people different to me are happy and successful too?!". The right hand panel shows an explosion in the bottom left, a huge bright yellow spiky DEI in the centre, and a man running away in the top right hand corner.
January 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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My wee folk have been making art in the garden. They call this piece "The Transient Nature of a Sunbeam on a Winter's Day in Scotland" #sillyScribbles
A photo of a stone surrounding by a flat semicircle of ice, standing upright on a mossy lawn. The ice has been "painted" with translucent yellow stripes going out from the stone centre. To the right a simple drawn figure stands in the grass, gesturing towards the ice.
January 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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It's important to protect our mushie friends from the morning frost.
Oh aye.

*nods wisely*

#sillyScribbles
A photo of two light brown mushrooms growing in a mossy frosty lawn. They are both wearing knitted hats (the one on the left a white one with a bobble, the one on the right a blue and white stripey one). They both have faces drawn on and are smiling. Well, they would, wouldn't they? Someone has knitted them lovely hats!
January 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Good evening bluesky. I continue to be a bit rubbish over here. I offer a moment of calm from a recent sunrise as recompense.
January 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Happy Hogmanay to all, and a Happy New Year when it comes
#MyfanwyAndFriend #HNY
An edited version of Bacchus by Caravaggio, with Bacchus represented by a large teal and cream knitted chicken (Myfanwy). She has grapes and vine leaves in her hair and wears a draped robe. On a stone table in front is a bowl of fruit and a large carafe of red wine. She holds a shallow goblet of the same wine. The painting has been extended to a square and to her right is Friend, a simple drawn figure also with grapes and vine leaves on their head. They have their arm around Myfanwy and the other holds a pineapple hollowed out and filled with a fruity drink, with straws poking up from it. In front of them on the table is a wooden calendar marking it as 31 December. There are also two party poppers, waiting to be popped at midnight.
December 31, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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Still haven't quite got into a rhythm with checking over here, but hope you're all having a splendid holiday period
*waves hello*
December 30, 2024 at 1:29 PM