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LordWoolamaloo

@lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social

Bookseller, editor, blogger, reader, reviewer, writer, photographer, drinker, swashbuckler, cat tickler https://www.woolamaloo.org.uk/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/ https://linktr.ee/WoolamalooGazette

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 48m ago

The NHS data given to Palantir hasn't been anonymised so actually the USA/Israeli spy company has every single person's Medical Records. And they have even been paid £330m to steal them. AND the deal has been shown to have no measurable improvement on the NHS.

Debbie Crochets @debbiecrochets.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hi Everyone. I'm having a sale in my shop to help with the dogs past/future vet bills (charged on my c.c.) Ultimate goal is to get at least one paid off. And my wish list for the dogs. throne.com/debbiew/coll... Who wants to help a dog mama out? Thank you debbiecrochets.etsy.com

LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 2h ago

Nazi quits as Tory candidate. Good, fuck the hell off, and fuck Badenoch for even thinking having a twice jailed, misogynistic, racist Nazi stand as a candidate was a good idea www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate

It follows a backlash against the party's decision to pick Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a council candidate in Somerset.

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Bear Real Last Name Unknown @bearstrap.bsky.social · 2h ago

Time to bring this out again. I found one ( _ONE_ ) use-case for AI at work and it... failed. Lemme tell ya, making a 2026 desk calendar is TOUGH. You'd think that AI would be a CHAMP for this. You, like me, would be very very wrong.

A 2026 desktop calendar designed by Adobe Firefly AI. The year 2026 is wrong. None of the month names are real months nor are they readable. The numbers are in wrong sequences and also unreadable.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 9h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

Screencap of a social media post by: kavishj611

All the people who are anti-Al or want to
slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you
still get through an entire workday
without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?

Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it
up?

Angry Algonquin @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 2h ago

#BookSky 📚 💙

Callum McSorley@callummcsorley.bsky.social · 3h ago

Taking part in Edinburgh International Book Festival soon, where I'll be talking to fellow crime author Kim Sherwood about Rat Race. Tickets here: www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/callu...

The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 3h ago

Lovely visit from @lorabethjohnson.bsky.social today, signing copies of her new YA novel, Hell to Pay (published by Bonnier Books). #books #livres #YABooks

Close up of author Lora Beth Johnson, with her YA novel Hell to Pay, in the doorway of the Edinburgh Bookshop

Longshot of author Lora Beth Johnson, with her YA novel Hell to Pay, in the doorway of the Edinburgh Bookshop

The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 4h ago

Par Jupiter ! Nous avons une nouvelle sélection d'Astérix en français ! By Jupiter! We have a fresh selection of Asterix in French!! Ideal for helping learn the language! BYOP (Bring Your Own Potion). . #books #livres #comics #BandeDessinee #Asterix

Bookseller Stephanie holding up a selection of Asterix graphic novels in the original French, in the Edinburgh Bookshop

LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 6h ago

#LunchtimeReading : thoroughly enjoying the new John of the Night graphic novel by my chum, @acmedarryl.bsky.social , published by the excellent @averyhill.bsky.social crew. . #comics #BandeDessinee #books #Livres #GraphicNovels

Selfie with just my eyes and nose visible above the graphic novel I'm holding in front of most of my face

LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 20h ago

For the evening crowd: “Who would ever have believed that human beings would be stupid enough to blow themselves off the face of the Earth?” My review of the #BFI hi-def release of the classic 1950s #film On the Beach, on @liveforfilms.bsky.social www.liveforfilm.com/2026/08/04/b...

Anthony Perkins, Cary Grant and Fred Astaire gathered around a Geiger detector onboard a submarine, in the film adaptation of Neville Shute's book, On the Beach

LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 20h ago

Cycling by the school www.flickr.com/photos/woola... Union Canal at Boroughmuir High School #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #StreetPhotography

Cycling By The School

Cycling along the towpath of the Union Canal, by Boroughmuir High School, on a hot, sunny afternoon

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 20h ago

Coffee to go www.flickr.com/photos/woola... #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #StreetPhotography

Coffee To Go

Lady taking her coffee for a walk, alongside the Union Canal, on a warm, sunny day

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 20h ago

Congratulations to all the World Fantasy Award finalists! Great ballot this year.

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 20h ago

There is a lot of struggle in life, but sometimes the world is magical for a few moments.

Acid Rain@bearysweet.bsky.social · 2d ago

And now, a little Vivaldi. Michel Tirabosco, a renowned pan flute player, collaborating with Raphaël Froissart. He is a professor at the Geneva Conservatory. Born with physical differences, he began playing the pan flute at 7 and has achieved international recognition for his skill. #streetmusic

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · yesterday

damp shrug of cow horn “we’re hairy for a reason” – summer in Scotland —a haar coo

James Oswald@sirbenfro.bsky.social · yesterday

Lonesome coo

Lone blonde Highland coo stands in the long grass, background fading into the mist that dulls the whole scene.

LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 22h ago

This evening's viewing: Whistle. I saw both director Corin Hardy & writer Owen Egerton with their movies at the #Edinburgh Film Festival years back, but missed this as the released coincided with my diagnosis. Nice to catch up now, Aztec Death Whistle ahoy! #horror #film

A young, dark haired high school student blowing into a carved Aztec Death Whistle, shaped like a stylised skull

LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · yesterday

A very mixed cloudscape, moving slowly across the sky, alternating bright sunlight then dark clouds obscuring the light, drops of rain, then a moment later, brilliant sunlight again. Sometimes you just need to sit & stare at the sky. #photography #photographie #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #sky #ciel k

LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · yesterday

There's a Go Fund Me for @johnfreeman.bsky.social 's indispensable British comics site, Down the Tubes. DTT has celebrated & championed UK comics creators for years, & richly deserves any support you can give (I've just chipped in a few galactic groats) gofund.me/12fe2afa1 #comics #BandeDessinee

Donate to Can you help downthetubes.net continue to promote comics?, organized by John Freeman

I'm John Freeman, publisher of the web site, downthetubes - and… John Freeman needs your support for Can you help downthetubes.net continue to promote comics?

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · yesterday

This book is absolutely full of it 😁😋💩 . #books #livres #LivresJeunesse #ChildrensBooks

A hardback children's book called Marvellous Poo, with a cartoon emoji style poo with a flower growing out of it on the cover.

The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · yesterday

#WhatWereReading : @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social has published Hiroshima, 8.15, by Rev Tanimoto, an eyewitness account of the atomic bombing & its aftermath, lost in an archive for decades. Not an easy read, but it is an *important* read of the worst & best in humanity. #books #livres

Bookseller Joe holding a red hardback copy of Hiroshima, 8.15, in front of bookshelves in the Edinburgh Bookshop

JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · yesterday

We’re serialzing the first 2 chapters of Wilomina: The Land of Dreams and Nightmares on Substack. Read now for free and subscribe to receive the next episodes in your inbox (also free). metaphrog.substack.com/p/wilomina-t...

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · yesterday

It gets late early out here in the lacklustre places, wind in the trees and the foodstalls’ ricepaper lamplight, fading and blurred with rain… —John Burnside, “Travelling South, Scotland, August 2012” from BLACK MIDDENS: New Writing Scotland 31 (ASL, 2013) #poem #poetry

John Burnside
Travelling South, Scotland, August 2012

“Necessity is not the mother of invention; play is”
—Ian D. Suttie

It gets late early out here
in the lacklustre places,
wind in the trees & the foodstalls’
ricepaper lamplight, fading & blurred with rain,
the wire fence studded with fleece
& indelible traces
of polythene wrapping; marrowfat clogging the drains
on the road that runs out to the coast
then disappears.
A last bleed of gold in the west, like a Shan Shui painting,
then darkness.

The animals are gone
that hunted here:
wolves coming down from the hills, that
immaculate hunger,
rumours of bear & cat, quick
martens & raptors.
The rain is darker now,
though not so black,
oil-iridescent, streaked with the smell of lard
– it gets late early out here; though late, out here,
has a different meaning:

stars in the road
& the absence of something more
than birchwoods or song,
pallet fires, tyre-tracks,
grubbed fields clouded with grease
& palm oil, hints
of molasses and lanolin, tarpaper,
iron filings.
A narrow band of weather on the road,
then houses; though we scarcely think of them
as that.

I remember a meadow at dusk
in another rain
(and this is nostalgia now); I remember
I stood in a wind like gossamer and watched
three roe fawns and a doe
come quietly, one by one, through the silvering grasses,
wary, but curious, giving me just enough space
to feel safe,
their watchfulness reminding me of something
lost, a creaturely
awareness I could only glimpse

in passing.
That meadow is gone, and dusk
isn’t dusk any more
– or not out here –
just miles of tract and lay-by on the way
to junkyards and dead allotments,
guard dogs on tether,
biomass, factory outlets,
the half-light of ersatz dairies petering out
on rotting fields
of rape and mustardseed.

We’ve been going at this for years:
a steady delete
of anything that tells us what we are,
a long
distaste for the blood warmth and bloom
of the creaturely: local
fauna and words for colour, all the shapes
of ritual and lust
surrendered where they fell, beneath a fog
of smut and grime and counting-house
as church, the old gods

buried undead beneath the rural sprawl
that bears their names, or wandering the hills
of Lammermuir and Whitelee, waiting out
the rule of Mammon, till the land returns
– with or without us –
chainlink going down
to bindweed, drunken
thistles in a sway
of wind and goldfinch on the dead estates, fat
clusters of moss
and gentian, broken

tarmac with new shoots
of coltsfoot breaking through
like velvet, till the darkness of the leaf
unfurls into a light we could have known
but failed to see
by choosing not to find
the kingdom-at-hand:
this order;
this dialectic;
this mother of invention,
ceaseless play.

Phil Edwards - Live for Films @liveforfilms.bsky.social · yesterday

Blu-ray Review: On The Beach – “a classic, and an important part of film history.” Read it here bit.ly/4bra27X by @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social #OnTheBeach #film #GregoryPeck #AvaGardner #FredAstaire #StanleyKramer #AnthonyPerkins #WWIII

Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · yesterday

John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · yesterday

Two years ago, I ran a crowdfunder seeking support to keep my comic news site Downthetubes operational, and was blown away by support. Thank you. Can you support the site now? www.gofundme.com/f/downthetub...

Donate to Can you help downthetubes.net continue to promote comics?, organized by John Freeman

I'm John Freeman, publisher of the web site, downthetubes - and… John Freeman needs your support for Can you help downthetubes.net continue to promote comics?

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · yesterday

"Wait." "For what?" . #photography #photographie #Edinburgh #Edimbourg

Wait signal on a pedestrian crossing, to which someone has added "for what?"

Ginger Nuts of Horror @gnofhorror.com · yesterday

Mason Coile wrote about a man sealed in a box, carried towards an ending he did not pick. Andrew Pyper died twenty months before the book came out. Driven is the last Coile novel, and the most schadenfreude thing horror has published this year. https://gnofhorror.com/driven-by-mason-coile-review/

Driven By Mason Coile: The Horror Of The Self-Driving Car - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website

Mason Coile’s Driven turns a self-driving car into a locked room doing eighty. Andrew Pyper’s last novel i

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 2d ago

Coffee al fresco, Princes Street Gardens www.flickr.com/photos/woola... #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #StreetPhotography

Cafe Culture 01

The small, outdoor cafe in Princes Street Gardens, in the shadow of the towering Gothic rocket of the Scott Monument, is always a good subject for a few people watching snaps! The first couple were ...

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Prof Martin Attrill @martinattrill.bsky.social · 6d ago

As a Brit can I apologise for what has become of the BBC

LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 2d ago

I really, really don't care for this reboot of M-m-max Headroom at all...

Beleaguered FIFA boss Infantino, looking like Dr Evil's less charming cousin, in front of diagonal glowing lines reminiscent of the 1980s show, Max Headroom

Actor Matt Frewer made up to look like a 1980s computer generated character, with a background of coloured lines

LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 2d ago

One for @stevebrusatte.bsky.social methinks...

Dawn Whiteside Rubin@dd-rubin.bsky.social · 2d ago