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One of the visible signs of the abysmal situation with trans rights in the UK is that every public bathroom I've seen has had a sign warning that both male and female workers clean the facilities. Literally cannot imagine caring.

#common L for the UK #holiday blogging

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Edinburgh is a beautiful city though

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Edinburgh is a surprisingly late-rising city. I set off from my hotel toward the centre and I walked for 1.5km before finding an open cafe.

#it's after 7! #obviously excluding greggs and pret etc #holiday blogging

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This is the most Asian Small-Clawed Otters I've ever seen in one zoo habitat? Look at them hunting worms and gambolling. Adorable

#cute animals #otters #holiday blogging

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Also Edinburgh Zoo has all these incredible dinosaur animatronics

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I went straight from the airport to the zoo to meet with my friends and their kids, spent the morning wandering around looking at all the animals, and it's a cliche but my heart is so full. It was so lovely seeing my friends again; the term gets thrown around but they really are part of my chosen family. Their little kids are also a delight. The AuDHD five year old and I had pure autism-to-autism communication and we are now besties lol. I love being in aunty mode!

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Hello Edinburgh! Surprisingly lovely weather.

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Is there some kind of law decreeing that all dwellings in the UK must be pebbledashed?

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Joy of joys: I treated myself to a latte while waiting to meet my friend, and it's drinkable! It's not great, but it tastes mostly normal!

#rare w for the northern hemisphere #holiday blogging

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I'm so discombobulated. I have no idea what time it is or what date it is. All I know is I definitely didn't get enough sleep on that last flight.

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Second leg rapid fire reviews (with added sleep deprivation!:

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit - I thought I had not seen this previously, but while watching, I realised I'd watched it on a prior long haul flight. It's the perfect film for hour 20 of a 24 hour flight.

Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 - yeah, I mean, I love Lower Decks. Sure, it's often relying on callbacks to pander to Trekkies, but on the other hand I'm one of the Trekkies being pandered to, so it's good actually. (While Disco and Picard use nostalgic references in place of developing new engaging plots and characters, Lower Decks uses nostalgic references to make really, really, really dumb jokes. This is an important difference.)

Rapid fire plane movie reviews:

Killers of the Flower Moon - fantastic film. Beautiful, haunting, incredibly aggravating and depressing. Lily Gladstone was phenomenal. I hope to see her in more things.

Saltburn - fun but ultimately ephemeral. By the end it was just kind of nothing.

Some tv doc where David Attenborough talks about a pliosaur skull - it was fine. Don't know why docus try to tart up already interesting subject matter with bad CGI and tabloid headlines. I wanted it to be drier.

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Lily Gladstone at the 2024 Oscars, wearing jewellery by Bulgari and Joe Big Mountain (Ironhorse Quillwork), a Mohawk, Cree, and Comanche artist renowned for his quillwork jewellery.

He also worked with Gucci's Creative Director, Sabato De Sarno, on Lily's gown.

Vogue: “It’s Not Just Mine”: Lily Gladstone on Her Historic Oscars Nod and Powerful Red Carpet Look

#they are soooo pretty #lily gladstone

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#I love her #lily gladstone

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What are your most reread books(/series) and why are they so dear to you? Or merit the rereads in ur opinion?

Thank you for providing me entertainment as I sit in an airport waiting on the last leg of my already over 24 hour journey 😄

Discworld - in terms of rereads, these truly benefit from being books I had in the house as a teenager. They're also great, though. I have reread as an adult several times as well. They're definitely comfort reads. The Witches are my favourite. I actually met Terry Pratchett twice!

Malazan Book of the Fallen - I first read these in my late teens/early 20s (I can't pinpoint exactly when but it was pre-21 as I met one of my friends at that age because we were at a party and found out we were both Malazan fans). I think I'm on my 5th reread right now? They're just so dense, on every level. I pick out something new each time, and have found myself enjoying different story arcs more on subsequent rereads.

Realm of the Elderlings - or at least, the Fitz & the Fool ones. I didn't like any of the third person installments. I don't think this one specifically benefits from a reread, as it's not particularly multi-layered, but it is a great story well told.

This is probably a bit left field, but Jane Austen. They may as well be science fiction for how little Austen's world resembles mine, but she's such a sharp skewerer of ridiculous and contemptible people. These are also ones I read first in high school (assigned reading in this case) but have come to favour different stories as I've gotten older.

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Rapid fire plane movie reviews:

Killers of the Flower Moon - fantastic film. Beautiful, haunting, incredibly aggravating and depressing. Lily Gladstone was phenomenal. I hope to see her in more things.

Saltburn - fun but ultimately ephemeral. By the end it was just kind of nothing.

Some tv doc where David Attenborough talks about a pliosaur skull - it was fine. Don't know why docus try to tart up already interesting subject matter with bad CGI and tabloid headlines. I wanted it to be drier.

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this guy gets it

#NO YANKS ON THE THREAD!! #fuckin love this post #will always reblog

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Airport lunch of champions (overpriced chain Chinese food)

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