The nichts forecast

#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 3/10 IV2

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 ❄️

@tagishsimon.bsky.social 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...

Weel A hear it aff ma faither, an he's fae the Ayrshire/Galloway border, sae yer pairts soond richt tae me 😀

Not sure what the comparative of acher is but I'm going to find out what it feels like

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...

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.

Shree appreciation post. Not, as far as I can see, in the SND but used in Kirkcudbright and (I think) Upper Nithsdale

Range significantly extended thanks to Rebecca

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

Some context: Freysteinn comes across a severed head which recites a half-stanza. It's decided that this is portentous.

Unparalleled attribution skaldic.org/m.php?p=vers...

Started the new year with Darraðarljóð skaldic.org/m.php?p=text...

Happy #Skaldic New Year to all who celebrate!

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...

The Stromness creel tree is a thing of beauty commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St... 📷 C1614 CC BY-SA 4.0

Every sentence is LLM-ese rnli.org/news-and-med...

Is acher in gaíth in-nocht...but I'm on the boat

A nice surprise to find Dumfries Museum in Robert Rendall's Collected Poems

Ootside the Cromarty Hall

Otters Aboot www.flickr.com/photos/scots...

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...

Flickypedia's a neat tool. Lets you upload photos (with appropriate licences) from Flickr to Commons www.flickr.org/tools/flicky...

Another Orkney bench added

Carrot cake runology at Sheila Fleet

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...

Folk are fair lappin up the AI poetry on FB

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

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...

They should stick a roundabout here

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Category:Christmas trees in the Orkney Islands commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...

The Ba' now has it's own category on Commons: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor... 📷 Ian Balcombe CC BY-SA 2.0

Complete Esperanto #youmissedabit

First post on bluesky! Announcing a new preprint with @eiling.bsky.social : We “broke” the bouba-kiki effect. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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...

I've edited this to IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Scots noo available on Apple as a preferred language 👍 (Still gies English fir aw, but it's the grunwirk tae mak the fun wirk 😉)

Another good show at the Shapinsay pub quiz

Jubilee British Esperanto Conference #youmissedabit

Perfect bit-between-Christmas-and-New-Year reading arrived the day

Cannae pack away the Quality Street like A used tae

My first contribution to OpenBenches

Dr. No corrections

For a glorious moment i thought it actually said "i thought it was runes"

Got an ogham ('I thought it was runes') hat for Christmas

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