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Place-names, maps, languages. dgplacenames.wordpress.com auldnorse.wordpress.com/owersettins/
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This map shows 5,800 Gaelic place-names in Ayrshire and the southern counties of Scotland that survived to be recorded by the Ordnance Survey in the 19th century. 929 of these are from Carrick's nine parishes.
carricknames.scot/conferences-...
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Doric Chas
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The nichts forecast
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Storyteller Fran
about 3 hours ago
#uksnow
KW16 8/10 quite blizzard-like in Orkney’s West Mainland, very strong winds and a lot of drifting. Here’s
@nessbattery.bsky.social
off on a mission of mercy! ❄️😳
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#uksnow
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UK Snow Map
about 1 month ago
Reminder: If it's snowing where you are, post with the hashtag
#uksnow
, the first-half of your postcode and a snow-rating out of 10 (x/10) and help draw a real-time map of where it's snowing right now on
uksnowmap.com
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I've added the Broad Stone (Inverness) to wikidata. Is there a Trove ID property or do we just use the Canmore one?
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137659...
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Broad Stone
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137659702
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Albert Kirk Jr
about 22 hours ago
Weel A hear it aff ma faither, an he's fae the Ayrshire/Galloway border, sae yer pairts soond richt tae me 😀
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Not sure what the comparative of acher is but I'm going to find out what it feels like
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about 23 hours ago
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Claire Boardman
1 day ago
Surprise find while tidying up my laptop tabs (a la
@drspacejunk.bsky.social
), this fantastic map of prehistoric tombs, settlements and standing stones located on the North Isles of Orkney from the
@uhiarchaeology.bsky.social
'Tomb of the Isles' project. 😍
archaeologyorkney.com/tombs-of-the...
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Paul Deane
about 23 hours ago
Here's a New Year's
#promosky
. I run Forgotten Ground Regained (
alliteration.net
), a website & poetry journal devoted to modern English alliterative verse. Follow my skeets if you want to see posts about poetry, scifi, Arthurian legend, & Tolkien, with occasional comments about LLMs & linguistics.
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Shree appreciation post. Not, as far as I can see, in the SND but used in Kirkcudbright and (I think) Upper Nithsdale
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Range significantly extended thanks to Rebecca
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Rebecca Ferguson
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Would the one in Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk count? I haven't taken a photo of it this year, but this is how it looked in 2020
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Some context: Freysteinn comes across a severed head which recites a half-stanza. It's decided that this is portentous.
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Unparalleled attribution
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Started the new year with Darraðarljóð
skaldic.org/m.php?p=text...
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Judith Jesch
1 day ago
Happy
#Skaldic
New Year to all who celebrate!
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A map of all the creel Christmas trees I've found on Commons. Just 4. Would be good to get more added if you've spotted any
wikimap.toolforge.org?cat=Creel_Ch...
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The Stromness creel tree is a thing of beauty
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Every sentence is LLM-ese
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Buoybles, not Baubles at Stromness RNLI | RNLI
https://rnli.org/news-and-media/2025/november/29/buoybles-not-baubles-at-stromness-rnli
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Is acher in gaíth in-nocht...but I'm on the boat
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A nice surprise to find Dumfries Museum in Robert Rendall's Collected Poems
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Ootside the Cromarty Hall
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Otters Aboot
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Otters Aboot
This sign bides in Tresta, Shetland, an reads "Otters Aboot" sae at fowk kens tae caw cannie. The Soothron for aboot is "about." Photie taen bi Sarah Mackie.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scotslanguage/53502760535/
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Can't stop thinking about a (suspected) AI poem on FB. Been trying to work out why it's bothering me. I've enjoyed listening to this piece for years so clearly don't mind generated art. I guess the difference is a) this is good and b) it's clear about the process
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIOi...
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Flickypedia's a neat tool. Lets you upload photos (with appropriate licences) from Flickr to Commons
www.flickr.org/tools/flicky...
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Flickypedia: Our Partnership with Wikimedia Commons - Flickr Foundation
Extending and expanding the Flickr2Commons tool in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation.
https://www.flickr.org/tools/flickypedia
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Another Orkney bench added
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Carrot cake runology at Sheila Fleet
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Plaques in Kirkwall is filling up. Each will get its own category and Wikidata item in due course. And at some point I'll get them into OpenStreetMap as well. Linked open data is grand. The linking takes a fair bit of time though
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...
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Category:Plaques in Kirkwall - Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Plaques_in_Kirkwall
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Folk are fair lappin up the AI poetry on FB
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Clouduhall Stone, South Ronaldsay Parking was tricky so didn't want to risk walking down to the gate. Will pop back on the bike another time
#StandingStoneSunday
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Here's an interactive map of the 14 Orkney Christmas trees I've manage to photograph so far, including the mighty Iain Laird Tyre Services tyre-tree. Hoping to get to Stromness to snap the creel-tree this week. If you're able to fill in the gaps, please do!
wikimap.toolforge.org?cat=Christma...
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They should stick a roundabout here
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Category:Christmas trees in the Orkney Islands
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The Ba' now has it's own category on Commons:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...
📷 Ian Balcombe CC BY-SA 2.0
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Complete Esperanto
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Wesley Leong
6 days ago
First post on bluesky! Announcing a new preprint with
@eiling.bsky.social
: We “broke” the bouba-kiki effect.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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OSF
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/vzah6_v1
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Hetan Shah
7 days ago
Over 24 years, Louise Cocker has captured almost half a million Norfolk Gravestones. ‘As a result, she has produced a remarkable dataset… which experts consider one of the most comprehensive photographic records of gravestones and memorials in England.’
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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‘The hidden engine room’: how amateur historians are powering genealogical research
Wealth of datasets compiled as private passions are now a goldmine for those hunting for their ancestors
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/dec/26/hidden-engine-room-amateur-historians-genealogical-research?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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I've edited this to IN LOVING MEMORY OF
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Dr Michael Dempster
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Scots noo available on Apple as a preferred language 👍 (Still gies English fir aw, but it's the grunwirk tae mak the fun wirk 😉)
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Another good show at the Shapinsay pub quiz
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Jubilee British Esperanto Conference
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Perfect bit-between-Christmas-and-New-Year reading arrived the day
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Cannae pack away the Quality Street like A used tae
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My first contribution to OpenBenches
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Dr. No corrections
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For a glorious moment i thought it actually said "i thought it was runes"
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Got an ogham ('I thought it was runes') hat for Christmas
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openplaques.org
currently unusable. I see from Mastodon that they're redesigning the site. As ever, probably best to complete the development before going live with it
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