Sadly this memorial is where the bins are kept and the mural is now vandalised. (This is actually a pattern—bins and vandalism—a theme I address in the book.)
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It’s my book birthday! Ashes & Stones is two years old today. I’m holding it at the Waterstones in #Aberdeen—the closest bookshop to where I was living at the time. The other pic is me beside the Aberdeen memorial to women accused of #witchcraft in Aberdeen and activists in the shire—including women who opposed T#%*!’s annexation of land. Carrie Reichardt used ceramic tiles in a zine-like format. #Witches #WitchesOfMastodon #Scotland #Aberdeenshire #bookstodon #WritingCommunity
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Posted from @AllysonShaw@pixelfed.scot because I’m having myriad issues with @pixelfed and I’m not sure how I feel about posting there. I took this photo of the Stones of Stenness yesterday morning. #StandingStoneSunday #SilentSunday #standingStones #Orkney #scotland #neolithic #SacredSpace #LandscapePhotography #Sunrise
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I don't know who posted this information turning off AI in Gmail, but thank you. It also gets rid of the ham-fisted tab sorting Gmail does, that I've hated for years. Cheers! 🥂 #gmail #NoAI #generativeAI #Hack
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15604322?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
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[#]histodons #Scotland #Witches #ScottishHistory
[#]witch #Fife #archaeology
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I’m going through photos I took while researching Ashes & Stones. One of the first ones—the intertidal grave of Lilias Adie. She was not executed but died while being held for interrogation. Her grave was later robbed by phrenologist Joseph Neil Paton, father of the #Scottish painter of fairies, Joseph Noel Paton. Wood from her coffin was used to make a walking stick for Andrew Carnegie. The people of Fife have called for a return of her missing remains. (X posted cause Pixelfed is misbehaving)
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Fuyu-Syogun is much more blue than Herbin’s Cloud Grey on the right. A dusky denim blue with some shading and no sheen. Marley is on the left, a blue leaning grey.
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[#]SwatchWednesday
Iroshizuku Fuyu-Syogun, ‘Old Man Winter’ #ink swatch with a Zebra G nib dip pen and brush on mnemosyne paper. Smaller swatches on card with a glass dip pen. This was part of a Ironshizuku set called ‘Morning Moon’. I had hoped it would be close to Herbin’s Cloud Grey—a colour I love but haven’t found the right #FountainPens for it—it seems very temperamental. Marley, from this year’s #Inkvent calendar is the strongest contender. When do the #inkvent fulls come out?
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[#]Invent Day 25, Good Tidings. A cool toned black, almost blue-black with a deep green sheen. I really love this one and I know I will use it a lot. It’s so goth and witchy. I stopped posting these, though I did do a sketch for them all. (If anyone wants to see a sketch for a particular Diamine Inkvent ink, let me know.) This swatch is on Mnemosyne paper. Sample was done with a brush, a glass dip pen and Zebra G nib dip pen. #FountainPens #inkswatch
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Ironshisuku ‘yama-guri’ Wild Chestnut ink is different on every paper I’ve tried, sometimes it’s dusty plum, grey-green, or khaki brown. This #InkSwatch is on Mnemosyne paper—not great but old habits die hard. (Would love to hear what paper notebooks #FountainPen users love.) syringe swatch shows its plum side with incredible moss green sheen. This is one hell of a goblin core ink. Currently in my Sailor x Wancher pen, but sample was done with a glass dip pen and Zebra G nib dip pen.
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Did someone say #caturday? Floki is looking melancholy. He can tell I’m sick!
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A heavily filtered image of the beach near where I used to live in #banffshire #Aberdeenshire I wanted it to look like a painting. #scotland #Mextures
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My partner said they just played this song in Tesco. Maybe life is ok. “Rip it up and start again/
I hope to God you're not as dumb as you make out:
I hope to God
And I hope to God I'm not as numb as you make out”
joinIn https://youtu.be/UzPh89tD5pA?si=N9PiajmN1VwJwfmo
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Mastodon friends, I just realised my old profile on mastodon.scot is still up there. I switched instances years ago. Maybe I did it wrong or thought I had to keep both. I don’t remember! Is it easy to deleted the original? I don’t want people following that one instead of this account-and it seems the .scot one is very search engine optimised. Advice please! 🙏🏻 #mastodon #ChangingInstances #MastodonAdvice
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Graffiti inside the Unstan portal tomb for #TombTuesday #neolithic #acheology #graffiti #orkney
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Has anyone had a good experience buying glasses online in the #uk? Looking for recommendations. #scotland #glasses #advice #eyeglasses #recommendations
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I am pretty sure this painting is by #JohnAtkinsonGrimshaw but I found it on teh internets without attribution. Does anyone recognise it? #victorianPainting #moonlight #landscape #winter #LandscapePainting #MondayMood
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[#]StandingStoneSunday this is the Janet Horne memorial stone in Dornoch. She was supposedly the ‘last witch’ killed in #scotland but even her name is an invention. A woman was executed here in an extrajudicial trial but little is certain. I write about her and this place in my book Ashes & Stones. #witches #witch #histodons
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I have been using this Konami code to search the web without AI and the results are amazing in that doing research on the web is actually possible. It's easily available through this URL. Long may it last. #research #AI #Google #SearchEngine
https://udm14.com/
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Day 1 #creatuanary ‘Clicker’-A lot of the creatures in this challenge are from video games or teevee…so I am playing hard and fast with these. I won’t be able to do one a day because I end up being too ambitous. This a Chytrid Elder named is Eukaryota. They are in full spore.
Zebra G nib pen and brush in Pilot Black ink & Iroshizuku yama-guri inks on paper. #FungiFriday #FountainPens #ink #drawingprompts
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