Brooke

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6rmyrnwylwzo

"landscape" shawl is just gonna be blocks of colour but the gist is getable yes? The dark green I'm starting with is pretty and not as dark as first pic

Autumn colours

https://wildgameandfish.com/goose-jerky-in-dehydrator/

goose jerky!

some banners at parkrun in glasgow today

https://www.telesurenglish.net/peru-closes-sterilization-case-fujimori

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/americas/its-a-portrait-of-their-actual-ancestor-facial-reconstruction-of-indigenous-man-who-lived-in-ecuador-3-000-years-ago-shared-with-his-descendants

this looks pretty

https://www.lilylakeknits.com/coming-soon

https://kalmor.com.au/the-persistent-predatory-personality-model

Dr Uptonogood downunder

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16235793/amp/Doctor-quit-UK-Peggie-trans-row-centre-gender-storm-Australia-known-Lis.html

https://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/watch-how-experts-reconstructed-the-face-of-a-man-who-died-on-the-roman-frontier-in-scotland-9297055

Hey Yew

new banner

who crochets? rat bag!!!

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4529508940/digital-download-rat-tote-bag-crochet

https://www.terftimes.com/p/the-trans-war-on-reality/

my favourite aunt is in hospital, she may have a head injury on top of alzheimers, if she has to go into care her wife will lose thier home 💔

https://reduxx.info/exclusive-former-wpath-president-linked-to-multiple-pro-pedophilia-academics-and-activists-over-several-decades-previously-advocated-for-sex-offender-rights/

two swans arrived this afternoon, I hope they move into the nicer pond and stay

this morning the ravens were making a racket and when I looked out the window four ducks and a moor hen were lined up on the wall waiting for breakfast

Ducks and moor hens

https://genevievegluck.substack.com/p/exclusive-german-politician-under?r=97txz&utm_medium=ios

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nilia-tickets-1998780566480?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile

23 years! Wtf time

https://x.com/i/status/2094750868729995383

https://www.futura-sciences.com/en/this-natural-molecule-reduces-up-to-90-of-the-bacteria-responsible-for-cavities_30325/

https://www.terftimes.com/p/metro-apologises-for-jkr-holocaust-slur/

Walk yesterday

Raven is missing all the meat

https://www.isp.scot/august-15th-august-21st-2026/

The SNP is aiming to force public bodies to consider ‘gender identity’ when delivering policies and services, if controversial legislation gets through parliament. Its Human Rights Bill requires gender identity to be considered but gives no definition of it.

        Based on ‘stakeholder feedback’, the Scottish government have specified that ‘sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ethnic origin and disability’ will be added to the Equality Duty of the new act, adding these to their initial list of ‘race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status’.

        But For Women Scotland rightly pointed out that the Equality Act 2010 recognises the right not to believe in the concept of gender identity, but the Scottish government is essentially forcing a compulsory belief in it on the part of legislators and public bodies.

        The SNP denies trying to overwrite the Supreme Court ruling, but the proposed legislation appears to be attempting just that and is almost guaranteed to end up in court.

Wtf?!

https://www.westernstandard.news/bc/third-woman-in-two-weeks-accused-of-lighting-fires-in-bc-interior/76127

https://unherd.com/newsroom/anti-rape-guidance-for-asylum-seekers-is-a-failure-of-mass-migration/

There was a small break in the rain yesterday

Lascap nails it:

https://x.com/i/status/2088538080600895840

Jason Arday has died, which is a tragic development in the highly publicised plagiarism and fabulism DEI scandal he was in the centre of. We don't know how of why he died, but there's a lot of speculation that it was by suicide. Anyone who followed this scandal will know that none of the people who tried to hold Arday and the institutions that enabled him accountable, have called for such a terrible outcome. Instead, people called for admission of wrongdoing, reflection on the societal mechanisms that allowed it to escalate and go on for so long, and some, who were personally and negatively affected, sought justice. However, blame is already flying around, so I want to say something about this.

Firstly, no suicide has a single cause. There are helpful media guidelines about reporting on this topic and I suggest all journalists read them in order to cover this event responsibly.

Secondly, although loss of life for any reason is shocking and tragic, people need to consider that had Jason Arday not been exposed, he would have continued to lie, draw a large salary from a university and speakers fees, and misuse serious medical conditions for personal gain, while giving seriously sick people and their families a false hope as well as a feeling of being a failure.

Arday also had a history of slinging false racism accusations at anyone who tried to hold him to an account or simply question his dubious claims. He - or perhaps the ecosystem of self-serving people who enabled him, I don't know - even set a highly litigious law firm on journalists who attempted to expose him in the past.

All these are deliberate, systematic and consistent choices.

Coming clean, apologising, taking responsibility for his actions, were also some of the choices that were available to Arday. But this is not what he chose to do. Instead, he doubled down repeatedly, and now he is dead.

In case that this was a suicide, we need to keep in mind that sometimes people choose that way out instead of facing up to consequences of their behaviour.

None of this is the fault of people who exposed the lies, or spoke up about the ways they themselves were affected. People have not just the right but a duty to call out bad behaviour in others, and point out when something is obviously and blatantly wrong. It is not acceptable, or sustainable, to expect others to stay quiet about serious transgressions.

Our society has just gone through two decades of pernicious ideologies and practices, which explicitly use emotional blackmail and threats of suicide to stop others from holding them to an account. This tactic is never sustainable in the long term, because unopposed, harms just end up mounting and spiralling out of control, hurting more and more people.

If this tragic outcome was Jason Arday's choice, I wish he had made a different one. I wish that people who enabled him had de-escalated the situation far earlier and more effectivelly. I have no doubt we will hear more in the coming days, but I sincerely hope that the publishing of Jason Arday's memoir, which has been proven to be largely fiction, will be delayed, because that would be a responsible thing to do under the circumstances. And I hope that the society will engage with this tragedy mindfully, because there are a lot of issues that have been negatively affecting large sections of our society, which have came together in this scandal.

The yew near the river has berries!

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/08/15/no-edwina-currie-illegal-migrants-dont-need-brothels/

https://www.terftimes.com/p/the-sacrificial-sex/

RIP Milo, you were the most perfect kitten.

Raven family

Milo is still pretending to need to pee throughout the night when he only wants a snack. Being fussed over on a pillow and hot water bottle under cashmere blanky between us on the couch.

I babbled at Suzanne and she managed to edit it into a thing

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/08/03/afghan-migrant-arrested-athens-suitcase-murder-christian/

Three cheers for Maggie Mellon!

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/queer-milk-chestfeeding-group-reported-37504883?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1785741261

On the one hand Milo is moving around a lot better now the edema is gone, on the other now it's obvious just how painfully skinny he is. If the protein losing enteropathy doesn't spontanously reverse he won't survive, but his appetite is good so maybe I'm not an idiot for holding out hope.

https://dailysceptic.org/2026/08/02/bloody-awful-work-creeps-in-when-standards-are-relaxed/

Walk to the shop