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Fergus Murray
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Monotropic writer, science tutor, Autistic community organiser and independent researcher. Based in Edinburgh.

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Have you tried the Uplift feed? That's something, at least.

Here's a video of my dog doing a zombie stretch, in case you enjoy that sort of thing.
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Another pretty sunset yesterday.
A lot of purple clouds, with pink, orange and peach tones. There's a nearby skyline of terraced houses in silhouette.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Please rub belly (not pictured).
Dog face, from the nose down to the beard. Below, the upper part of her chest, with paws folded above it in expectation of affection.
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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...and here's the sunset through a zoom lens.
Dramatic clouds, dark with golden edges, narrowly obscure the setting sun. In the foreground, bare tree branches meet chimneys and TV aerials in silhouette.
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Here are the pictures of yesterday's sunrise-mist from the big camera.
Many layers of Edinburgh, receding into golden drizzle-mist. The Pentland hills are half-hidden by the glow of the rain. Nearby spires and trees stand out black against the layers of glowing gold. This angle is similar to the previous one, but closer to the sun, so the contrast is ramped up. We can see another church-spire in the distance, and tree-covered hills behind.
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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The haar from a distance, after sunset this morning.
The clouds in the sky are losing their dawn tinge. Not much sunlight is reaching the city. In the middle distance, a thick fog lays low over Edinburgh; it is impossible to see the bottom of the Pentland Hills, but their peaks are entirely unobscured. The fog hasn't reached the nearby church, so its spire stands out vividly against the white.
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Later...
Sunset clouds, and blue sky fading to orange. Not quite as golden as the morning, but still quite spectacular especially around the sun.
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Just the sheer volume of leaves really is something.

Here's the ground under that same sycamore, after a little more rain and wind.
A huge carpet of yellow leaves; above, sycamore branches still loaded with even more.
November 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Pretty amazing light in Edinburgh just after sunrise this morning.
The drizzle-haze over the city, especially towards the hills, glows with the warm yellow light of the just-risen sun. The glow extends into the clouds above.
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Lol, did a whole book fair event and totally forgot to mention anywhere that I have a chapter in a book that is obviously for sale here
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Piles of Someone Like Me on a signing table
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Sycamores are incredibly productive trees. Not just the volume of leaves they produce (this one has only shed about half its messes, and already covered an area larger than it is wide) but also its plentiful helicopter seeds, which rapidly root and shoot up - they're a major weed in areas like this!
A slender sycamore tree, taller than any of the nearby houses, is covered in golden leaves. So is the ground.
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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The emptiness of this shop feels like a very on-the-nose metaphor.
It's a shop front titled 'we're better together in the UK', presumably a reference to the campaign against Scottish independence. The shop is empty except for a pile of squares in the corner. Possibly old ceiling tiles. As if to emphasise the void, there are patches of sunlight at the back, shining on the bare lino floor.
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Kifl chills.
Sleepy (but not sleeping) dog, on her side. One of her ears is draped along the sofa behind her. The dog, on her back now, bends around and gives us a look. The whole pose seems to suggest she would like you to rub her belly now, please.
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Oh, this is even better: if I go into the app, it's going to cost me £43.49 plus tax.

What???
Another screenshot: Enroll Purchase Course 43.49+tax High quality video content, practice materials, graded assignments, and discussion forums Stand out with a valuable credential. Earn an employer-recognized certificate of completion
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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I would seriously consider paying £36 for this course, but not after clicking on an 'enroll for free' button. 😐
#coursera
Screenshot of a Coursera course from the University of Edinburgh. Philosophy and the Sciences: Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences Instructors: Professor Michela Massimi Dr. Alasdair Richmond Dr. Suilin Lavelle and others. The button says 'Enroll for free / Starts Nov 6'. Apparently 84,760 people are already enrolled. The next page says "This course costs £36. Start your learning journey now and master the material in this course to earn a certificate that showcases your knowledge and achievement."
November 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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This year's Edinburgh Radical Book Fair has started!

On Saturday at 4pm, I'm chairing 'Divergent: Weird pride, unruliness & outsider wisdom' with @cjdebarra.bsky.social and @acaciathorns.bsky.social (frank r. jagoe can't attend in person, unfortunately).

#WeirdPride
@lighthousebks.bsky.social
Flyer-style image for the event, 'Divergent: Weird pride, unruliness & outsider wisdom', party of Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair. Date: Saturday 8th November Venue: Assembly Roxy, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9SU Time: 4.30-5.30pm. The flyer shows the covers of of CJ De Barra's 'Neuroqueer: A Neurodivergent Guide to Love, Sex, and Everything In Between' and 'Significant Others, a collection of texts by Frank Jagoe'. The background shows leaves of gingko, perhaps the weirdest of all trees, and an image of hands cupping a source of ornate smoke.
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Clouds after sunrise, at 1 minute per second.

The constant creation of clouds in a particular region of space is especially striking in this one. It looks like it's centered on the church spire, but that's *probably* a meaningless coincidence.
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Kifl ponders.
Terrier with lies with her brown moustache flat on the sofa. We see her in profile; she sees me in side-eye.
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Morning dog.
A terrier (Kifl) tucked into a jumper, gazing into space, paws folded in front of her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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I love how you can trace the growth of leaf-eating critters by the width of the trail they leave.
A yellow fallen leaf with a curved black track, starting out very narrow before widening to maybe a couple of millimetres across.
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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*not actually a sunset
The gradient shown in the previous photo, but now we can see that it's an old painted metal box, and the gradient to orange is rust, probably spattered from the bridge above and the pillars around, by the rain. It's at a train station.
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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A beautiful sunset*
Grey-blue fading through to yellow, orange and rust-brown.
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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New profile picture, again (sorry).

I don't know if this will make sense to anyone else, but I felt like too much of the previous one (on the left) was my face.
My old profile pic shows me (a white person with long hair and greenish-blue eyes) holding up a copy of Someone Like Me, a book I have a chapter in. The new picture is me with warm shadows, thick-rimmed glasses and a smile, with a leafy curtain behind me.
November 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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More of Chambers Street, from a few minutes earlier.
A street in Edinburgh's Old Town, beneath a wildly colourful sky: dramatic clouds from purple-grey to pale gold, before the open sky performing an even more vivid version of the same gradient.
October 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Chambers Street at dusk.
A sunset sky, with that liquid quality that light gets sometimes when it passes through rain. Evening-blue through subtle purple to orange to gold. Below, the pavement has been turned into a rippling mirror; several pedestrians are reflected. Many of the windows in the old stone buildings over the road are illuminated, their yellow matching the gold of the dusk.
October 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM