Mrs Julie Scattergood
@doucelassie.bsky.social
Usually to be found geeking out over tea, science, cats, languages, politics, cats, food, crafts, books and cats. Deaf blind. She/they. AroAce.
Its maddening that so many people cannot join the dots to see the swastika forming over the UK. Rises in hate crime are across the board because hate is being weaponised to exploit us. Trans segregation is inextricable from this. Its all the same fascism. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients
Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff
theguardian.com
"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake. There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury's melancholy obituary for a dead world, is set today.
I've signed the petition to support Educators For Peace. Don't let UKLFI win in their cowardly attempt to control Scottish education. actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
Stand in Solidarity with Educators for Peace
Educators for Peace was established to build a powerful, transformative educational response to the contemporary global context. We view peace in the world as an urgent priority and are here to suppor...
actionnetwork.org
Mrs Julie Scattergood@doucelassie.bsky.social · 2d agoeducatorsforpeace.co.uk/public-state... UK Lawyers For Israel is trying to intimidate Scottish educators into silence, for supporting teachers with resources that are "designed to support critical thinking and informed discussion of complex and controversial issues." Support Educators for Peace.
educatorsforpeace.co.uk/public-state... UK Lawyers For Israel is trying to intimidate Scottish educators into silence, for supporting teachers with resources that are "designed to support critical thinking and informed discussion of complex and controversial issues." Support Educators for Peace.
Public Statement
educatorsforpeace.co.uk
Damien Donnelly@ddonnelly.bsky.social · 2d agoThey now have a statement and open letter for signing. Please share: Comrades, please see our full statement and the solidarity actions we are seeking. SHARE SHARE SHARE! ✊🏼https://educatorsforpeace.co.uk/public-statement
🧵A group of London lawyers are targeting workers who agree with the United Nations that Israel are committing a genocide in Gaza. Teachers work with and care about children. It is NOT radical to believe that all children have the right to live. I don’t understand why anyone wants to intimidate
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 4d agoEXCLUSIVE: A group of Scottish educators advocating for peace in Palestine have been forced to seek legal advice after a targeted campaign by pro-Israel lawyers
Giandis, giandis catte Protect thie folk of Dunbaur Hurry furry moggie Go gyve them courage Move at sped. - anon. c.1338-1400
She loved her surgery cone for the first couple days (it made her feel powerful and intimidating) so we got her a courted ruff to look sinister in.
Thread 👇 Trans people deserve better than JKR shite.
Aidan Comerford@aidancomerford.bsky.social · last wk.This is Rowling's pinned tweet, and yet, just this week, she is funding legal cases against Féile Belfast and Amnesty International for exercising their free speech and fair opinion. She is using her massive wealth to terrorise these orgs into compilance, because she doesn't believe in free speech.
... users can be found giggling, crying, or simply staring into the distance saying "Whoah..." We spoke to one, and asked how they feel about warnings that the practice is addictive: "I could stop, but I don't want to." Some experts say if reading was invented today it would be banned at once.
This seems like something you would understand, @drelvey.bsky.social 💚
Dr Laura Sangha@lsangha.bsky.social · 2w agoLast week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/
oh my god he emerges suddenly from behind a stable liKE A STALLION, YEAH? LIKE A BIG, SHINY, LONG-LEGGED, STURDY HAUNCH-ED, SEXY STALLION. OKAY JANE AUSTEN, YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO GO THIS HARD. HAVE MERCY ON ME, JANE FUCKIN’ AUSTENNNN!!! LET ME BREATHE, GOD DAMN!!!!
Thà gàidhlig beò. Farage kin bile his heid, the radge he is.
weegingerdug@weegingerdug.bsky.social · 3w agoMy latest blog post, Reform UK's latest front in the right wing culture wars catches Scotland's languages, Cornish, and Irish in the Anglocentric crossfire, Reform is a party of clowns which doesn't care about the consequences of its own policies. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/07/14/r...
I'm reading a gay romance set in Scotland about two candidates competing for the same job. It's called Leeted Rivalry.
KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 3w agoI'm writing a gay romance in Chaucerian English about two medieval knights who are in socially obligatory competition for the theoretical affections of their lord's wife. Tis called Meted Chyvalry
I am startled, yet not startled upon consideration, that I knew what all the ao3 tags are in the quoted post. #ao3 #FanFicNerd
Hipster Viking Amy@lasrina.bsky.social · 3w ago
HE'S HOME!!!! 40 posters around the area. Probs 100 or so doors knocked on yesterday. A young girl had come to the door with her dad at one, when we'd knocked. She spotted him while coming home from a park. She and her friends alerted an adult who got the number off a nearby poster and rang us /1
John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 4w agoWith immeasurable sadness I must announce that Napoleon, our best boy, went missing a few nights back. if you see a small black kitty with two white toes around Boundary/Markhouse roads in #walthamstow do DM me. if i post no photos of him anymore, this will be why. he was my very best boy 💔
A successful launch for my novel last week at my local library. All the copies that I took along were sold! But you can still buy from your local bookshop or online. #historicalfiction #publiclibraries
I had to stop and take a few minutes to doodle out a little dreamt visual of Mr Darcy.
Even Scottish Gaelic Duolingo knows what's the right thing to do.
She declines to go to Rosings for tea. What will happen next??? I will find out. Later. I need to recover from this brief but very punchy chapter that literally consisted only of Elizabeth going on walks and talking to Fitzwilliamses.
I like that Charlotte Brontë was basically telling a soapy saga about how the world is a hard and complicated place and sometimes Shit Happens, and Jane Austen is just like, “I’ve met the worst and simultaneously most boring people you can imagine. Hunker down, let me tell you all about them.”
oh wow, renowned author tom cox is blocking EVERYONE who calls him out about his misuse of alt text. what a guy!
They're also cone-ing every statue that will, uh, hold still for it. :) www.bbc.com/news/article...
Why are Scotland fans putting traffic cones on Boston's statues?
The practice is familiar to anyone from Glasgow, where the Duke of Wellington statue has been wearing a jaunty orange hat since the 1980s.
bbc.com
UK News 🇬🇧@news-flows-uk.bsky.social · 2mo agoBoston pubs struggle to cope as 20,000 Scotland fans ‘party locals under the table’ As the Tartan Army descended upon Boston for the World Cup, the city's hospitality venues are reportedly struggling to keep pace with the demand for beer.
may never be a trillionaire but life is good. happy solstice, folks. May the warmth of the good days sustain us through the dark. The wheel keeps turning but light will always come again.
Does anyone here know what this yellow flowering plant is? It's mysteriouly growing in my garden. 🌱
It appears my countrymen have arrived in the Americas and culturally appropriated a statue of George Washington.
Dogs spontaneously aid struggling humans the way young children do—whereas cats wait until they stand to benefit
Science confirms: Cats help you only when there’s something in it for them
Dogs spontaneously aid struggling humans the way young children do—whereas cats wait until they stand to benefit
scientificamerican.com
![Scene is a LONGBOAT sailing on the sea. It is all drawn in the style of the Bayeaux Tapestry. A voice is coming from the boat:
Owwww
Uuuuuuurgh
Ooooooooh
[Scene changes to on the deck of the boat - still drawn like the Bayeaux Tapestry. A SOLDIER is talking to HAROLD, who is lying on the deck of the boat, with the arrow in his eye.]
SOLDIER:
For God's sake stop it Harold!
HAROLD:
Oh I'm sorry. It's not like I've got an ARROW IN MY EYE or anything
SOLDIER:
Look, we discussed this. The arrow is your thing. People want to see the arrow.
HAROLD:
It's been in there for 950 years. I should really see a doctor
SOLDIER:
No! We are travelling to England to be displayed in the British Museum.
What do you think people would say if you didn't have your arrow in?
HAROLD:
I don't care. I want it taken out. It hurts.
SOLDIER:
No.
HAROLD:
But I could get it seen to in England! The NHS has some of the best tapestry eye surgeons in the world!
SOLDIER:
Oh right, I get it, so this is health tourism...
HAROLD:
Duh, no, cos I'm Anglo Saxon?
SOLDIER:
Ohmigod you sound so Brexit
[Silent pause,, they cotuinue to sail]
HAROLD:
Uuuurgh
SOLDIER:
SHUT UP
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