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Audrey Dresser MSc
@lilaudio.bsky.social
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San Diego Native, Scotland raised.

Intercultural communication, economics, and engineering background.

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🏰 From one Scottish icon to another!

Snapped outside Edinburgh Castle today, but next week I’ll be climbing The Kelpies for the #KelpiesChallenge – raising funds for @waverleycare.bsky.social

Just £270 left & 1 week to hit my target! 💜

👉 Donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/audrey-...
Audrey wearing a Waverley Care fundraising t-shirt, standing proudly outside Edinburgh Castle with one arm raised, highlighting her upcoming Kelpies Challenge.
August 30, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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The turnout for today's protest in Edinburgh as part of national UK demonstrations is big and heartening.

Big support to everyone showing up around the country, and the world.

@scottishfop.bsky.social @sgpalestinegroup.bsky.social
#EndTheGenocide
#EndTheComplicity
Anti-genocide protesters and demonstrators sit in front of St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, resilient and strong as heavy rain soaks them. The group 12 diverse folks each hold placards with key messages of the campaign against genocide in Palestine and Gaza. They are the first of thousands joining the demonstration in Scotland and across the UK today.
July 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Finally got the chance to hear @benaaronovitch.bsky.social speak and chat in Edinburgh recently.

The mix of folks + their good spirits is a testament to the wicked-good vibes Ben puts out into the world!

Stone & Sky is a well braw latest installment for DS Grant and his magical kin 🦄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Ben Aaronovitch, author of the Rivers of London series, sits on a chair in a big church auditorium looking at an audience of fans. Everyone is smiling and he has his new book 'Stone & Sky' sitting by his side, ready for reference in questions and answers. A bright blue book, titled "Stone & Sky" with gold embossed images overlaid on an outlined map of the north east coast of Scotland. The Kraken, an oil rig, viking ships sinking, and whales jumping are all giving little sparks of action underneath the book title. The book sits on a light wood pew book stand in the church auditorium where Ben Aaronovitch is doing his talk about this book he has authored.
July 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Yesterday morning was playing dinosaurs on the beach with nephew-in-law, and smiling the biggest smiles when I saw happy dogs frolicking in the sea and sand.

Scotland gave us a chilly summer Sunday, and we rose to the challenge 🌦⛱️🦕🦖🦮🐕

#Scotland #Portobello #Edinburgh #Ankylosaurus
A big blue sky with fluffy clouds above a sandy beach. At the bottom lefthand corner of the frame, a woman and small boy can be seen crouching over tiny plastic dinosaurs in the sand. They are making stories with the dinosaurs, digging them moats and trenches, and giving them big bold lives of adventure.
June 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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My boy 💕

Such a squishy, sweet, 65kg guy. He may be nearly 8 y/o and huge, but he will always be a puppy 🥹🐺

#DogsOfBluesky #GermanShepherd #GSD #PuppyLove
A big white German Shepherd is curled up on a leather sofa, cuddled around a soft blanket. His big eyes staring at the camera from his big soft face that is rested on the blanket. His satellite dish ears upright and alert, despite the rest of him radiating a state of rest.
May 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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#Edinbrick2025, this year's #Lego builders event in Edinburgh, served up a 26ft (8m) long replica of the Forth Rail Bridge. 100k Lego bricks 🌉

Complete with Highland cows and wee folks painting the bridge, as they do in perpetuity IRL.

Epic creations all round! What fun 😁 🧱🚂🚃🚃
A large red lego brick bridge, which is a replica of the legendary Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, stretches across the frame. People are wandering around it looking at the many little details of the lego display, including two fully functioning trains, boats and blue brick ground emulating the water of the Firth of Forth, and Highland cows chomping on grass. A view of a red lego brick bridge, looking from one end straight across the tracks, through to the other end. There are two rail tracks on the bridge, and it is set up on the wooden floor of a large gymnasium. A busy lego scene complete with cottage, pond, stoney ground, pigs in a pen, little forests, and two unicorns having a chat with swords! A lego lake scene, with a lego person catching a lego octopus from a lego boat in the middle of the lego lake. At the edges of the lego lake are lego houses, castles, and cottages, as well as a lego viking ship looming large as if in approach to the octopus catching activities.
May 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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This is Odin. He was very attentive at his Human-mother's birthday party in Inverness. Not a single morsel dropped from the plates of BBQ goodies was left for guests to have to clean up.

Such a thoughtful guy, in a sparkling green tie 👔 ✨️

#DogsOfBlusky #BerneseMountainDog
A big Berness Mountain Dog with fluffy toes and a beaming smile sits patiently on the grass of a back garden. His name is Odin and he is wearing his very best sparkly green tie
May 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Made it to Inverness. Frackin' love it here. Tomorrow we hit up gid auld Leakey's Bookshop and a dog park with local pals.

There's no glance into a place you don't live like going to an indy bookshop and doing the humdrum day-to-day things. Castles and battlefield tours can wait 🦄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
A sticker on a pole in the righthand side of the frame has a cute critter with words saying "Give Peace A Chance". In the rest of the frame, beyond the pole, the full width of a big river stretches across the frame, a bright blue sky reflected on its surface. A road bridge reaches across it in the distance. A woman with dark hair wearing headphones and looking at the camera stands at the front left of the frame, beyond here the full width of the river running through Inverness, in Scotland, shines in the bright daylight.
May 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Hitting high speeds on Cramond (Edinburgh) roads yesterday. Reckon I'd be happy cutting about the city like this regularly.

Low emissions, nifty for Edinburgh's little lanes, closes, and side streets. And a great parking space reduction.

Just needs a lil more legroom for these long, lanky legs 😅
A grown ass woman riding a suped up kids go kart down a road on a grey, gloomy, Scottish spring day. She looks like she's having a blast, with big beaming smile and hands gripped on the steering wheel to drive it with mastery! A grown ass woman riding a suped up kids go kart down a road on a grey, gloomy, Scottish spring day. She looks like she's having a blast, with big beaming smile and hands gripped on the steering wheel to drive it with mastery!
April 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Latest episode of being the resident dog sitter for Xi Engineering Consultants: meet Goose!

We conquered much of the converted railway paths around Edinburgh. And I have tackled the toys of several other dogs from him on these journeys - he promises he knows how to share, just can't help himself 🫣
A Golden retriever holds an orange ball in his mouth, looking directly at the camera with a sweet look of innocence. The asphalt pathway stretches out to its end beyond him, going from wooded area to main road. A golden retriever looks off into the distance with his ball in his mouth. He stands in the shadows under a bridge, the sun shining from the open sky beyond the bridge's cover. A golden retriever stands far into the distance on a long asphalt path. The sun is shining and he is looking back at the camera
April 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Latest episode of becoming the Xi Engineering Consultants team puppy sitter: Young Jack got many treatos and conquered many paths in Edinburgh whilst his family were away in York.

Jack loves chasing birds and gives amazing cuddles 🐦🐶

Next episode: Hanging out with Goose the Golden Retriever ✨️
A brown springer spaniel chews on a big treat with enthusiasm and determination.
April 1, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Leith streets, values, art, and pathways 🍉

#StreetArt #EdinburghGraffitti #Communidad #Scotland
Red tape letters on a high bricolaje wall, reading "THEY GOT MONEY FOR WAR BUT CAN'T FEED THE POOR". An old sandstone wall, with small white chalk letters reading "Free Palestine". Beyond the wall, over its top, stands a long stretched out graveyard with headstones old and new. The light blue sky above showing sunrise, with scattered silhouettes of the branches from leafless spring trees. A small concrete skate ramp stands under an old sandstone bridge, all covered in vibrant, lively graffiti. On the ramp there is a yellow tag reading "LOVE WILL CONQUER ZIONISM". A silver coloured metal pole stands in front of bright green grass. On the pole are two stickers, one depicting a young girl performing a stop-and-search on an armed soldier who is in fatigues with his arms against a wall, and his machine gun confiscated leans against the same bricks. Under that sticker is another, with a cute and playful scene from Studio Ghibli's Totoro.
March 30, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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24hrs in Oban, #Scotland, for work. Meeting people building practices + substantial research for environmental and ecological protection, whilst supporting green energy transition.

My faith in people needed that top up in the middle of all the shite political news.

Check out www.sams.ac.uk
Sunrise over a small harbour, with a floating pier lined with small fishing boats stretching across the horizon. The sun creating subtle glowing across the surface of the water. Sunrise over a small harbour, with brightly coloured buildings of various shapes and sizes on the street above the harbour wall. The sun creating subtle glowing across the surface of the water. Sunrise over a small harbour. The sun creating subtle glowing across the surface of the water, and shining on the windows of the victoriana style buildings standing behind the harbour wall. A giant circular stone structure stands tall atop the hill in the background. The sky bright in the east, and dark to the west, capturing the phenomena of winter sunrise hours in Scotland. Night-time sky above a small town harbour in Oban. Street light glinting from behind the harbour wall, reflecting on the surface of the dark harbour water to give bursts of glowing between the abyss like silky darkness of the un-illuminated waters.
March 14, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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My dear friend, Alison Johnston, has her textile works art exhibition #NeedlePullingThread now on in Edinburgh. Dundas Street Gallery, until 30th March.

Thoroughly encourage all to visit.

Alison is an amazing artist, good person, and wonderful support to others. You'll love her and her work 🥰🪡🪢
A sign in a Victorian street in Edinburgh, with the top title "The Dundas Street Gallery", with a poster on the main board sharing details for the current exhibition, called "Needle Pulling Thread" by Alison Johnston. Black painted rought iron railings cross the bottom of the frame, with perfectly cut and placed sandstone bricks of the surrounding buildings forming the backdrop. A well lit, low cielinged art gallery with light cream walls. On the walls hang brightly coloured textile art pieces depicting fire, suns, rolling hills and water. Two people stand off to the side, chatting over a welcome table. A bright blue textile art piece in the shape of curving waves to emulate the motion of seas and oceans. It is hanging on a light cream wall with light shining down from above, casting curly shadows onto the wall. A bright blue textile art piece in the shape of curving waves to emulate the motion of seas and oceans. It is hanging on a light cream wall with light shining down from above, casting curly shadows onto the wall.
March 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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To me, Paddington will always stand for welcoming refugees, asylum seekers, + generally being proactively kind to those we share a planet with.

He was an important character for me as a wee one arriving in Scotland exactly 31.5 years ago.

I love seeing these on my walks through Edinburgh 🥹
A sticker on a lamppost in a park, depicting Paddington bear in his blue coat and black hat, carrying his little suitcase. Words on the sticker say "Migration is not a crime". The morning sun is shining on the lamppost, sticker, and green grass in the background. In a park with a large obelisk monument in the background, there is a bench in the foreground, between two shrubs. On the bench sits a little statue of Paddington bear in his little blue coat and red hat, eating his much loved marmalade sandwiches.
March 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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That side eye 👀

Frankie giving it the most. I adore this fluffy unit 🤗
A big white and gold German Shepherd is lying on a rug, his ears pricked up and eyes glancing back at the camera. He looks nonchalant, gentle, and incredibly fluffy.
February 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Reunited with my golden wolf!

Frankie, a.k.a. Frankus Maximus, and I have been apart for ~1 month.

The greetings are so swell 🤗

#BlueskyDogs #GSD #GoldenShepherd
A white and gold German Shepherd runs down a patchy green grass hill, his tail in the air and eyes looking towards the camera. A big white and gold German Shepherd is standing close and looking up to the photographer, big smile beaming and tongue sticking out, looking happy and excited!
February 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Similarly, in late 2020, another jaunt took me to St. Abb's, climing across the cliffs - carefully social distancing with any other walkers I encountered.

Ain't Scotland braw?
A woman stands in the sun on a cliff, wearing sunglasses and smiling close to the camera. A sun drenched small harbour town, viewed from high cliffs above.
February 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Dec 2018, I was so glad to be done w/studies. Taking that liberatory moment by the horns, I drove from Edinburgh to Mallaig to catch a boat to Skye in freezing weather.

Even the memory is freeing.

I wish access to such radically restful roaming for all the good folks out there.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏔🏞
A woman with long dark hair flowing from under a white beanie hat stands in the breeze on a cold winter day, the sea and islands off the West coast of Scotland are behind her, with big gray and light blue skies looming large behind her. She's bundled in a cosy jacket and scarf, gently smiling at the camera.
February 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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If only N. America had a well funded, maintained, and accessible public rail transport system like the ones we built in our 3 rounds of #TicketToRide!

Locally owned and run game shops for the win, though. Good vibes, and new friends in the neighbourhood made.

🎫🚂🃏
Two tall men are sitting at a large wooden table with a board game on the table top. On the game board there is a map of north America with routes marked between major cities, and small plastic train cars are placed along the segments of route where players have placed them throughout the game thus far. The man on the left is deep in focus, but the man on the right is making a funny face to the camera.
February 16, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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6 months on, he still wanders in my peripheral vision. I'd be ok with his gentle soul haunting me, so long as he was happy.

I think I'll always turn and look up those stairs each time I walk past them, expecting to see his sweet wee face.

Theo, my sweet, furry gent 🐺🩵
A big, gentle, black and tan German Shepherd laying down at the top of carpeted stairs. His head resting on the top step, looking down at the person taking the picture. Light from a skylight shines down, creating a soft little scene, complementing the German shepherd's long, soft, furry halo.
February 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The Racoon in question 🦝🍋‍🟩
A raccoon is busily using his little hands to remove limes and other fruit from bags in a big blue trash can.
February 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Being back in Mexico for the first time in 10+ years was food for the soul. #FloraAndFauna that stole the show.

Plants, lizards, bugs, fish, and even Raccoons (my favourite critters of all).

Mexico is a wonder of nature, wonderful people, and culture.

#GulfOfMexico 🇲🇽
A small rodent called an Agouti sneaks around some foliage of long green rainforest leaves. It's cheeky little face looking back at the photo taker. Stunning red flowers pop out from the frame with a backdrop of vibrant green leaves. An iguana peers over the edge of an Aztec rock pyramid. Sun beating down and shadows showing from below. Big grey fish with sleek bodies swim through crystal clear waters, with coral and rocks visible from the sea bed.
February 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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It was such a lovely experience joining my first #TechMeetup in Edinburgh.

@selbycary.bsky.social you have created a wonderful event space for intellectual stimulation, idea sharing, problem solving, and kindness.

Looking forward to next time 😊

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An full audience sits attentive watching the host of the Edinburgh Tech Meetup, Selby, introduce the event. Screens are placed all around the room showing a slide with the event title in blue. The walls have bright, bold art, showcasing the venue host FanDuel's values and brand.
February 5, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Porty beach under the winter sun, on 25th Dec '24. It hangs so low at this time of year in Scotland, it creates a surreal feeling.

These peaceful moments keep us going. Reminding us of the peace we're striving to achieve for everyone - not keep from them.

Rest is a radical act, in so many ways.
Two tall adults, a man and a woman, face each other speaking, off to the distance. They stand on a sandy beach, the sun hanging low in a winter sky. The sea is calm. They have a large gold and white German Shepherd with them on a red leash. The dog is happily sniffing at the sand.
January 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM