Elaine
@elainefarrow.bsky.social
Data scientist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She/her
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Scottish friends! I'm looking for a voice actor (roughly 30-40 years old, female) for an unannounced game✨
You definitely don't need to be an established actor, but you must be UK based with your own recording equipment.
This is a paid role, DM for brief! #voiceacting
You definitely don't need to be an established actor, but you must be UK based with your own recording equipment.
This is a paid role, DM for brief! #voiceacting
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Scottish friends! I'm looking for a voice actor (roughly 30-40 years old, female) for an unannounced game✨
You definitely don't need to be an established actor, but you must be UK based with your own recording equipment.
This is a paid role, DM for brief! #voiceacting
You definitely don't need to be an established actor, but you must be UK based with your own recording equipment.
This is a paid role, DM for brief! #voiceacting
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> Aragorn son of Arathorn, who is certainly masculine, but is neither stupid nor wantonly destructive. We may ask ourselves: would Aragorn do this?
I shall call it the Strider Decider
I shall call it the Strider Decider
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
> Aragorn son of Arathorn, who is certainly masculine, but is neither stupid nor wantonly destructive. We may ask ourselves: would Aragorn do this?
I shall call it the Strider Decider
I shall call it the Strider Decider
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If anyone out there in Scottish education uses the excellent Scholar e-resources platform (based at HW), please know that it's under threat and they're collecting notes of endorsement:
heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk
Please help them if you can.
heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk
Please help them if you can.
December 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
If anyone out there in Scottish education uses the excellent Scholar e-resources platform (based at HW), please know that it's under threat and they're collecting notes of endorsement:
heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk
Please help them if you can.
heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk
Please help them if you can.
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To pretend all disability accommodations are like performance enhancing drugs, that will advantage all able bodied, neurotypical people, is an outright lie. I say this as a neurodivergent, chronically ill/ physically disabled teacher who has worked with disabled students for 15 years.
December 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
To pretend all disability accommodations are like performance enhancing drugs, that will advantage all able bodied, neurotypical people, is an outright lie. I say this as a neurodivergent, chronically ill/ physically disabled teacher who has worked with disabled students for 15 years.
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You want there to be a legal challenge to this? Support the one that's already in progress that, if successful, will remove the risk of legal action against Guides and WI, or other organisations, for being trans inclusive goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
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December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
You want there to be a legal challenge to this? Support the one that's already in progress that, if successful, will remove the risk of legal action against Guides and WI, or other organisations, for being trans inclusive goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
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I think this Advent I am going to spend a fair amount of time contemplating the rather bleak truth that it's easy to do the right thing until it costs you something.
And attempting to hold that mirror up to myself, of course.
And attempting to hold that mirror up to myself, of course.
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I think this Advent I am going to spend a fair amount of time contemplating the rather bleak truth that it's easy to do the right thing until it costs you something.
And attempting to hold that mirror up to myself, of course.
And attempting to hold that mirror up to myself, of course.
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Mind you, with enough organisation you could put together a very good programme of carols for a counter protest, many of them familiar, in their original non-English language. Infant Holy in the original Polish. Stille Nacht. The Angel Gabriel in Basque. Etc.
December 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Mind you, with enough organisation you could put together a very good programme of carols for a counter protest, many of them familiar, in their original non-English language. Infant Holy in the original Polish. Stille Nacht. The Angel Gabriel in Basque. Etc.
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apropos of absolutely nothing, no matter how suboptimal your union is, being a union member is better than not being a union member
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
apropos of absolutely nothing, no matter how suboptimal your union is, being a union member is better than not being a union member
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It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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I once started a conference paper about the number of churches in the medieval City of London with a quote from Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Giles: "forty-three churches in Sunnydale . . . seems a little obsessive"
Willow: It’s the extra evil vibe from the Hellmouth. Makes some people pray harder"
Giles: "forty-three churches in Sunnydale . . . seems a little obsessive"
Willow: It’s the extra evil vibe from the Hellmouth. Makes some people pray harder"
December 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I once started a conference paper about the number of churches in the medieval City of London with a quote from Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Giles: "forty-three churches in Sunnydale . . . seems a little obsessive"
Willow: It’s the extra evil vibe from the Hellmouth. Makes some people pray harder"
Giles: "forty-three churches in Sunnydale . . . seems a little obsessive"
Willow: It’s the extra evil vibe from the Hellmouth. Makes some people pray harder"
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This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
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I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
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God, in His wisdom, made the Void so we would have something to scream into.
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
God, in His wisdom, made the Void so we would have something to scream into.
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If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
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But Badenoch is *totally* wrong, as the idea that the poor deserved special care and attention was essentially a Christian idea, adopted by the state after Constantine’s conversion.
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
But Badenoch is *totally* wrong, as the idea that the poor deserved special care and attention was essentially a Christian idea, adopted by the state after Constantine’s conversion.
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I disagree very profoundly with Mrs Thatcher, as did many of the members of the General Assembly, but she had actually thought her position out (and she was speaking from her own, genuine, faith, rather than rather oddly denouncing things as “unchristian” when you don’t believe in God).
Kemi Badenoch - one of the many, many politicians since Margaret Thatcher to talk about learning from Margaret Thatcher who, IDK, maybe they saw a meme about her one time?
November 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I disagree very profoundly with Mrs Thatcher, as did many of the members of the General Assembly, but she had actually thought her position out (and she was speaking from her own, genuine, faith, rather than rather oddly denouncing things as “unchristian” when you don’t believe in God).
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🙏 We will be opening our building from 10.30am-12.30pm on Saturday 29 November for the national Day of Prayer for the Church of Scotland.
There is more information on the Church of Scotland website at www.churchofscotland.org.uk/worship/pray...
🙏 All are welcome to come and pray 🙏
There is more information on the Church of Scotland website at www.churchofscotland.org.uk/worship/pray...
🙏 All are welcome to come and pray 🙏
November 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🙏 We will be opening our building from 10.30am-12.30pm on Saturday 29 November for the national Day of Prayer for the Church of Scotland.
There is more information on the Church of Scotland website at www.churchofscotland.org.uk/worship/pray...
🙏 All are welcome to come and pray 🙏
There is more information on the Church of Scotland website at www.churchofscotland.org.uk/worship/pray...
🙏 All are welcome to come and pray 🙏
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FFS. I know everyone was talking about this on Wednesday, but the lifting of the two-child limit framed as solely about appeasing Labour bankbenchers by a commentator on PM just now, not about TAKING HALF A MILLION KIDS OUT OF POVERTY WHICH IS A GOOD THING IN AND OF ITSELF, just had me screaming
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
FFS. I know everyone was talking about this on Wednesday, but the lifting of the two-child limit framed as solely about appeasing Labour bankbenchers by a commentator on PM just now, not about TAKING HALF A MILLION KIDS OUT OF POVERTY WHICH IS A GOOD THING IN AND OF ITSELF, just had me screaming
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In his Members' Business today, Patrick Harvie MSP will lead a debate on the unacceptable waiting times for accessing gender identity clinics.
📑 Full motion: https://ow.ly/tIUJ50XwYom
📺 Watch live from 5:10pm: https://ow.ly/6jjW50XwYn3
📑 Full motion: https://ow.ly/tIUJ50XwYom
📺 Watch live from 5:10pm: https://ow.ly/6jjW50XwYn3
November 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In his Members' Business today, Patrick Harvie MSP will lead a debate on the unacceptable waiting times for accessing gender identity clinics.
📑 Full motion: https://ow.ly/tIUJ50XwYom
📺 Watch live from 5:10pm: https://ow.ly/6jjW50XwYn3
📑 Full motion: https://ow.ly/tIUJ50XwYom
📺 Watch live from 5:10pm: https://ow.ly/6jjW50XwYn3
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Don't forget our Children's Come and Sing Carols at St Mary's! Sat 6th December, 9:30am-12pm, free. If your child loves singing, this is Christmas event for them: fun songs and a short performance at the end for the family.
www.cathedral.net/whats-on/christmas
@dioceseofedinburgh.bsky.social
www.cathedral.net/whats-on/christmas
@dioceseofedinburgh.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Don't forget our Children's Come and Sing Carols at St Mary's! Sat 6th December, 9:30am-12pm, free. If your child loves singing, this is Christmas event for them: fun songs and a short performance at the end for the family.
www.cathedral.net/whats-on/christmas
@dioceseofedinburgh.bsky.social
www.cathedral.net/whats-on/christmas
@dioceseofedinburgh.bsky.social
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All are very welcome to our service for World AIDS Day, on Monday 1st December. Whatever your faith or background, join us to remember those who have passed away, and those who are still living with this condition.
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
All are very welcome to our service for World AIDS Day, on Monday 1st December. Whatever your faith or background, join us to remember those who have passed away, and those who are still living with this condition.
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Happy World Linguistics Day! ⭐🎉🎊
Happy World Linguistics Day! Celebratory days take off when groups of people decide to make them happen so... let's see how many different locations we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Happy World Linguistics Day! ⭐🎉🎊
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If you are eligible for the mobility component of PIP and you want to spend *your own money on top of that* on having a nicer modified car, why shouldn't you? Should screen readers only work on Chromebooks?
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If you are eligible for the mobility component of PIP and you want to spend *your own money on top of that* on having a nicer modified car, why shouldn't you? Should screen readers only work on Chromebooks?