Sadie Maskery

In fairness, they mainly say "Sadie, you are an utter waste of space " and I can understand just by the tone, be it avian or eldritch.

Scottish £10 note with otters on it

Meanwhile, Scotland has had otters on £10 notes for a while now

Damn, I have lost my Sweartrek badge :(

All my badges. (OH! Except my Dennisbtye Menace and Gnasher Fan Club badges, which are in their wallet with the guide to secret signals.) I particularly like the No Whimsy, and Delete The Banjax ones (Ed Fringe freebies from one comedian who made it and one sketch comedy group that didn’t). 2013 was my first PBH Free Fringe show with Arlen, 2019 my last. Sigh.

I don't collect badges, but just had a rummage and put the ones that somehow have accrued into one place, so that was almost a productive thing my brain managed, hurray.

I was obsessed with this. I had the book by Ben Bova and didn't even kmow it was based on a film. (*Goes onto eBay and Abebooks to find the novel because now I am thinking about it again.*)

"I am unable to respond as my isthmus is unavailable."

Yes, or Lindisfarne if it was uninhabited. Although the pub is pretty great. And the artisanal coffee place. Hm.

Quite fancy access from an isthmus covered by high tide, so there are options for paddling, repelling invaders, but also access to bookshops as necessary.

@craftygreenpoet.bsky.social

You're not going to make any money doing this and no one is going to read it, so you must hope for a secret third thing to happen

Calling all creators: Be part of the first-ever virtual Commonwealth Quilt I’ve just signed up to contribute to the first-ever Commonwealth Quilt — a massive digital art project to celebrate creativity across the Commonwealth🌍. They’re looking for dancers, musicians, poets ...

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Two cats sharing the same bed, although the tension reeks from the picture.

Foster and incumbent reach almost toleration stage. #Cat

A grid of nine images featuring a photo of Gail and the designs she creates.

Running a business on your own can be challenging at times.

Today feels like a good day to say that I'm proud of what I've built. And I'm proud to be part of a community of women who are out there doing the same.

Happy International Women's Day.

www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

Hello—here’s the official trailer for UNDERLAND, based on my book of the same name, dir. by Rob Petit, with a haunting, glittering score by @hannahpeel.bsky.social, & the ‘Storyteller’ voiced by Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest). Hope you like it.

In UK/Irish cinemas 27 March.

Small furry cat wonders why large ginger woman is staring at him

#Caturday

Oil painting, 1938 landscape (William E Reid signature).

Oil painting of three young women around a table. I particularly like the one on the right, who is fed up. Signature is tiny and illegible, and I am not going to mess around trying to clean it more than I have. It's shabbily splendid as it is.

Latest treasure from #SamBurns #EastLothian. I've cleaned them up a little, and the frames are on order so these are screenshots, but a massive hit of happy for a fiver each.

I like this beautiful poem from the latest @newyorker.com

It's not much hope, but it is all the hope in the world for kākāpōs, so that's made me smile x

Sadie Maskery lives in Scotland by the sea. Her short stories can be found in publications including Extra Teeth, Odd Magazine and Starship Sloane. Her most recent poetry collections are 'Overheard Lovesongs' and 'The Usual Apologies', with poems printed in The Scotsman, Poetry Scotland, Red Ogre, and various other awesome places. She can be found on Bluesky as @saccharinequeen.bskyb.social. When not writing she enjoys ambling and doodling. (That’s the blurb I sent in full. I like the ambling and doodling bit so I am adding it back in.)

Well now, there's happiness! @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social
#Overboard #ShortStories #BlueskyBooks @redogrereview.bsky.social @extrateethmag.bsky.social #StarshipSloane

Small fluffy cat blissfully sleeps with one paw embracing a human leg

I haven't been able to move my leg for hour

A Hebridean sheep with four horns

Today we met a sheep giving serious and impressive underworld vibes

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Alt Text: A picture of the latest Green MP, being hugged by the Green Party Leader. A speech bubble next to the MP proclaims ‘The cistern is broken’

Dear Private Eye: a lot of people read Bluesky with text to speech software. Please consider providing alt text so they too can laugh at your jokes <3

NIGHT OWLS 🦉 through the night with #TPTV
23:25 DOOMWATCH (1970) (s)
00:25 A GOOD READ: SHERLOCK HOLMES - The Stockbroker's Clerk
01:30 CROWN COURT (1974) (s)
03:00 BATTLE OF THE V.1. (1958) (s)
05:00 BURKE'S LAW (1964)
06:00 LAW OF THE PLAINSMAN (1960) (s)

I know you shouldn't judge by appearances but I have just done precisely that.

A small ragdoll floofcat stands on a record player and looks winsome.

A small ragdoll floofcat gazes at a spider offscreen.

Paint me like one of your French floofcats pose, by Scottish floofcat

We are catsitting this ridiculous creature #NotMyCat

Moon cloud sky

Moon and fabulous cloud patterns

Moon in the water

Forbidding clouds

Taking me a long time to walk home - looking at the Moon in the sky and the moon in the water

Wise old horticultural woman I met: “If you find a rabbit’s foot and tickle the leaves of your tomato plant with it your tomatoes will grow faster.”

Me: “Interesting. I might try that.”

Next-door’s rabbit, the following day: “Stop that, and put me the fuck down. I did not consent to this.”