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ashmowat.bsky.social
Antifascist, Edinburgh dweller, arts lover, film fanatic, book fiend, genderqueer, science and knowledge leaning: always kindness (except towards prejudice ridden narrow minded hatemongers).
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UH Berlin magazine October 1931

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Lava lamp vibes Carson McCullers and Elizabeth Gulland

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Carson McCullers born this day in 1917, treasured writer.

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Brutal pavement obstruction Fountainbridge Edinburgh. Nurseries, a hassle and hazard for all, especially those accessing schools, nurseries GP nearby and all with mobility or visibility issues.

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All very eraserhead David Lynch, aptly at rear of @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social

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Just received, can only hope does justice to the overlooked life of this queer antifascist gender defying icon. Slightly alarmed zero book reviews out there yet but had to take the plunge.

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Hundreds of jobs to be cut at the Mail and Telegraph, "reductive" page view targets at the Mirror, and AI-driven content at Reach titles (Star, Express, Sunday People) with no editing or legal oversight… Is journalism on its last legs? Find out in Street of Shame in the new Private Eye, out now.

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Ash has got a brand new hat.

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Kiss to the birthday boy: Sal Mineo. Like his co-star here Jimmy Dean, died way too young.

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Popping out to the shops. Always understated me.

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Edinburgh Meadows winter light and perspectives.

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Now THIS is the LIFE

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Why didn’t my middle school guidance counselor tell me about a job weighing penguins? 🤩 🔊 Sound up! 🎥penguinsofworld

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Lost a great friend to suicide eight years ago today. Will always miss you Suzi. Love this poem so much, it also breaks my heart

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Start of new tradition of rereading flash fiction/poem a charm for the world as it is by @helenmcclory.bsky.social : "a charm for the people walking out of the fog and into your circle of damp misery. A charm against politically induced depression. A charm against Trump. A charm for the living. ❤️

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‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads? - recovery without drugs.... www.theguardian.com/news/2024/oc...

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Merry Christmas to all…no not you Putin. 🎄🎄🎄

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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

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Negroni and Nick Drake time has told me playing: " a troubled cure for a troubled mind". Yes indeedy.

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"This brave memoir by a psychiatrist who has severe mental illness shows how lost & confused psychiatry and its patients have become. Future readers will be amazed... by how poorly we understood and how ineffectively we treated the troubled mind". www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

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Charles Hawtrey, born today 1914.

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Autumnal Dean village rust

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Sliver moon sunrise o'er Tollcross, Edinburgh

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Randomness of advertising

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Storyville, Queendom: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0024zj3 via @bbciplayer Please watch...such bravery amidst such brutality. We wish them well.

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