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A new cut & sew tea towel to make bunting celebrating the return of @tallshipsaberdeen to my city in a few weeks! Featuring scenes of Aberdeen, local built ships, semaphore, morse code, etc. All you need to make this is some bias binding, a sewing machine or needle & thread. gra-small-stories.co.uk

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My new ‘Fash’ range is coming together. The design looks like old scientific illustrations/school posters - all numbered & named. Doric names came from a pal in a local fishing town & an old document I found. As far as I know the rest of Scotland says ‘fush’. Here is my tray. gra-small-stories.co.uk

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I’m so happy to share my new addition to the Doric food family of products, a bonnie birch ply tray, made by hand in Sweden!. Gra-small-stories.co.uk . . #tray #teatray #doric #rowie #buttery #aberdeen #skirlie #seeninthedeen #aberdeenbakery #scottishwords #doricwords #scottishdesign

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Bairns not Bombs! Im feeling very preoccupied at the moment. I am a pacifist, I do not believe in war. War only benefits the few, making some very wealthy. Peace has always been possible & should always be the first choice. Our world’s children should be safe. Sadly, there is always money for war.

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I’m raffling ’Madleen’ whale in aid of Palestine. Tickets are on my website gra-small-stories.co.uk/products/gaza-flotilla-whale-raffle Tickets are £5 & 1 ticket gives you 1 entry. It’ll be drawn on June 14th. UK only. My thoughts are with the amazing people onboard the Freedom Flotilla Coalition!

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Speak up for Gaza! Do what you can to spread awareness & have conversations. It is never okay when more than 17,000 women & children have been killed in one year! Being of Jewish decent I find this so difficult in so many ways but it is ever more important to speak up. #stopthegenocideingaza #peace

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At the start of this year I was delighted to be asked by the Rowett Institute to make an illustrated identity for their #wildedibles project. You can get involved, be a #sorrelseedsowers join their #citizenscience community on FB, find out about wild foods & get a packet of sorrel seeds in the post.

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New one for this month! Sizes Small to XXXL. Online noo. doric.studio/shop/harbour...

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Now for my other new #risoprint Jasper Cat, who loves lounging on his Persian rug. It’s available in my online shop gra-small-stories.co.uk Thanks again to Peacock, Aberdeen for a fab morning printing! . . . #catlady #catlover #catprint #catart #catclub #tabbycat #catperson #scottishillustrator

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Flora Cat is now a riso print thanks to a fantastic productive morning spent at Peacock, Aberdeen. She is available in my online shop gra-small-stories.co.uk . . . #lovecats #cat #cats #riso #risograph #printmaking

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Gaza needs food. Gaza needs peace. Ceasefire now! . . . #ceasefirenow #peaceforgaza #stopkillingchildreningaza #peaceforgaza

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I’ve been making some cat paintings too.. It’s been fun and good for me to get back to painting; to find the place where illustration and painting meet. Hope you like these too.

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Today is my son’s 14th birthday so I made him a celebratory badge as always. He is currently building a den/treehouse in our back garden after his den in the woods got destroyed. Happy birthday V! 🤎 Thanks to @peacockandtheworm for laser cutting the pieces for me!

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Imagine if one of the many sports bulletins that I hear daily was replaced by #climatechange information & an #arts story a few times a week! What difference do you think that’d make to our thinking!?

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It's not Bake Off. It's a global far-right insurgency. To normalise Nigel Farage, is to normalise Donald Trump. We, the media, have to wise up fast. broligarchy.substack.com/p/springtime...

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One bird. 399 pieces of plastic. 55 g. This is not our record.

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Dear @uklabour.bsky.social you don’t have to become more Farage to beat Reform! In fact, you are more likely to beat them by being the opposition, by showing empathy, by placing the the blame with the real problem minority #taxtherich

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While I'm not involved in any political party, I think @zackpolanski.bsky.social's analysis is correct. Thanks to Labour's multiple, infuriating failures, the Greens could become huge here, but only if they are bolder, more assertive and, yes, "eco-populist". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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And here are a few of my whale paintings on paper. Thank you so much for all the love you showed my wooden whale paintings! 🩵 it’s so appreciated! . . . #whaleillustration #whales #savethewhale #kidlitillustration #scottishillustrator #whalepainting #smallstories

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Even though I’ve not been sharing much online recently I have been painting & working away. I’ve been cutting, making & painting lots of whales etc. Not sure what I’m doing with them yet but perhaps an exhibition somewhere.. All ideas welcome! I also have lots of paintings of whales on paper!

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Worm coasters are here! These cheerful invertebrates will brighten up tables & desks giving you a cheeky grin when you lift your drink 🩷 There are 4 styles online at gra-small-stories.co.uk Save a bit when you buy 2 or more. You can see from my pics how well glasses sit on them. Ltd numbers for now

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I love this so much!

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My motivation for being on social media has been super low recently,.. just been feeling hugely overwhelmed by it all. As we become increasingly polarised by issues that are being used to sew divisions & we look the other way.. the rich get richer & living standards get worse for every one of us!

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"Right when the movie starts to feel awfully bleak in the way it chronicles the destruction through global consumption, it shows something remarkable; people are starting to wake up to this reality." Our first feature documentary premiers next month in Copenhagen. Watch the trailer at Deadline!

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Fascism only pretends to be your friend, tells you what you want to hear, lies and takes. It will take everything you hold dear. Fuck Fascism! . . . #fuckfascism #fuckfascists #nevernazis #neveragain

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Tax the Rich! #eattherich My #flashnote illustrations on show in the Bank of England Museum. Worldwide politics have left me feeling chilled but I won’t be defeated! The far right want us to blame those with the least for struggling to get by. Let’s fight back by not consuming what they sell!

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How fantastic to have ethics in money management!

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Our planet is burning and our banks are fuelling the fire. UK high-street banks Barclays, HSBC, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds have funded fossil fuels with $556 billion since 2016. It’s time to go green. Switch to Starling, Nationwide or Triodos. Act now: makemymoneymatter.co.uk

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Song of Choice by Peggy Seeger is the song I’d choose to best represent the time we are living in. Please listen! m.youtube.com/watch?v=YWo3...

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NEW: Last week’s newsletter had ‘IT’S A COUP’ in big red letters on front page of NYT. Well, guess what? It still is. We have to stop framing what’s happening as in any way normal. It’s a coup & a collapse in the international order & none of this is ‘normal’ broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-ga...

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Thank You to @humananimal.bsky.social for one of the most daring conversations I’ve had, part of the Exuberant Animal series. Watch if you’re interested in: Consciousness in the Dystopia Necrocapitalism and Consumatrons Activism and Finding Sanity Your Own Radical Human youtu.be/5Vjc7f9z8fc?...

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Denmark, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands plan to build four artificial islands to quadruple offshore wind in the North Sea – the equivalent of 30 nuclear reactors. We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #climate #energy #tech #GreenNewDeal

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All of this @johnswinney.bsky.social why not Lynx for Scotland?

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Criminal . Help me fight them → petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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"Humanity’s war on nature is ultimately a war on ourselves. It’s time for the world to adopt a far-reaching biodiversity framework — a true peace pact with nature — and deliver a green, healthy future for all." @antonioguterres No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #biodiversity

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#holocaustmemorialday 80 years since Auschwitz was liberated. With all our hearts say ‘never again’ to genocide & war for everyone! This is my Dads family, his uncles were killed at Auschwitz, his aunt & Dad survived. His Dad escaped by jumping from the window of the train taking him to Auschwitz.

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Very timely... “Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn,” wrote Robert Burns."

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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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Fossil fuels were given over $7 TRILLION in subsidies last year: https://buff.ly/3P85KHU That's $19.2 billion per day, $799 million per hour, $13.3 million every minute. The first step in addressing the problem is to stop funding it. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy

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“The food industry became a drug cartel distributing toxic foods, witnessing its profits skyrocket just as humanity’s health plummeted. Healthcare and pharmaceutical conglomerates lined up to profit from this disaster” tsakraklides.com/2025/01/26/f...

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Here are 4 fun new wooden cat pins for you to look at. I think I must have been channeling #elmer with the patchwork ones & my dark side for the skulls & bones designs 😻 They’re available in my online store gra-small-stories.co.uk . . . #cats #blueskyartist #skulls #patchwork #woodenpin

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