Eejit Street 4 - the latest edition of the Scots language comic for bairns - is out now. I've scripted some stories for it, along with Thomas and Sara Clark and Matthew Fitt. You can download it here: www.scotshooseyaldi.com/.../Eejit-St... and schools will be able to order free hard copies.

Some wather, eh? Bucketin doon.

Wull ye be owersettin ‘A Git Aboot’ an ‘Guid Dinnles’?

A micht no ayeweys luve ye Lang as thare starns abune ye but Ye niver need tae dout it A'll mak ye sae siccar aboot it God ainlie kens whit A'd be withoot ye BAM BA DA DAAAAH

FIVE SLEEPS TAE #SCOTSTOBER

Thanks to all who read at and attended yesterday's online launch - what a fantastic event! Our final launch (for now!) is in Edinburgh on 15 October at Golden Hare Books with Scotland's Makar Pàdraig MacAoidh | Peter Mackay and a range of lovely poets! Get your tickets ⤵️ shorturl.at/Xg3XC

Pleased to receive @rhonabrown.bsky.social and @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social’s brilliant collection of poems responding to Robert Fergusson, the bard of ‘Auld Reekie’. I’m also glad to have a wee Franco-Scots piece in there (riffing on Fergusson’s Jacobite/apocalyptical eclogue, ‘The Ghaists’). 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

To let folks in the Glasgow area know. #scowth is on tomorrow. At Spud Shack Matcha Man at Anniesland Cross. All poets and just folk who love poetry welcome. Follow @keeksmc.bsky.social and Scowth on IG for more. Fab poetry and open mic slots.

#WritingCommunity! Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct! Submit free via Submittable 👇 nws.submittable.com/submit

There is a good simple media story in doing a mystery shopping reporting exercise of 100 uses of p-word and n-word racism to get the snapshot % for Twitter protecting hate crimes , with pressure not just on the platform execs, but on ministers, police, ofcom, ehrc and select committees.

🎆It's out!🎆 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson is out NOW! Check out our blog post for more info about the publication, about our wonderful Glasgow launch on Wednesday and for the link to buy your own copy! robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/publication-...

NINETEEN SLEEPS TAE #SCOTSTOBER

This event was such a joy. An array of brilliant poets responding to the poet’s poet, Robert Fergusson. More launches are on the way, so join us to hear some great new poetry and remember Fergusson. You can order a copy from Taproot Press by following the link 👇 #ScottishLiterature #18thC 📖

🪶We'll be celebrating Fergusson next Wednesday in Glasgow at our SOLD OUT book launch for 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson.🪶 Free tickets are still available for the online launch on Thursday 25 September @ 6pm. ⤵️ www.eventbrite.com/e/online-boo...

YAASSSSSS #BELSCO #BLRSCO

Jeez... ....O MAN Scotland ma hert cannae tak this. #BLRSCO #BELSCO

Meet our Scots Language Publication Grant Awardees 2025! ✍️ Congratulations to all the brilliant publishers who will receive funding this year, and thanks to the funders that make this grant possible. www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...

RAT'LL DAE #DENSCO

Hert's thumpin here #DENSCO

Happy Birthday to Robert Fergusson, born #OTD 275 years ago! For more info on what we've been up to on Project Fergusson as the official end of the project approaches, see our website: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk We've got online exhibitions, other resources, project updates and much more!

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🚨Annooncement!🚨 Here yer #Scotstober 2025 wirds! A'm sharin on aw platforms, but maistly follaein on BlueSky this year. A'm luikin forret tae yer warks 😁 Wirds as text ablow

Heezin a licht. Hoisting a light. #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #lamppost #streetlamp #hill #rock #sky #people

Looking forward to this halesome tribute to Robert Fergusson, the Jacobite bard of ‘Auld Reekie’. Thanks to @rhonabrown.bsky.social @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for featuring a wee piece of mine and more importantly for linking scholarship and contemporary poetry in a way that’s only too rare still!

Fair tricket tae hae a poyum o mines in this here buik. It's cried Foostie Oysters, an it's a repone tae yer man's Caller Oysters. Thare'll be a gey wheen ither braw poyums in it an aw fae a hantle braw makars. Get the dammt thing bocht 😃

Whit youse up tae this wather? Cheery that the fitba's back? Blithe at the sicht o a lown blae lift an wee stuckies sookin wirms oot the gress? Wanhowp at the daith o douce humanity an common dacency? Jine the club 😃

Hopefully the BBC will stop showing any sort of art altogether, in case it has the wrong ideas in it.

A wheen Scots saws - proverbs - fae Born in Kyle, A Love Letter tae an Ayrshire Childhood. Ye can hae a total immersion experience o the guid Scots tongue in yer heid by gettin the book fae me or Amazon, or by luggin intae it on Audible. I can guarantee ye at least ane guid greet an ane big lauch!

£3000 bursaries for Scotland based novelists (including graphic novelists) with at least one existing publication, to develop a work in progress! opportunities.creativescotland.com/opportunity/...

On this day in 1986, Maradona scored the greatest header of all time, with what came to be known as the ‘head of God’. Here’s how he did it… (1/14)

it’s quite funny that my 15yo thinks the music being made now is the best music in the world and my 80yo dad thinks the best music in the world was made when *he* was 15, but the *actual* best music in the world, empirically, was made when *i* was 15. they both look so stupid lol

Plans tae forder and uphaud the uise o Gaelic and Scots hae been passed by the Scots Pairliament. www.gov.scot/news/scottis...

Denholm Elliott is the only actor named after what ET would say if he was asked what jeans were made of.

Awbodie haes thir favourite. Mines chinges aw the time, sae A'll gang for this yin the day. The dowie melodie gets haud o ma muid the noo. Cheery bye #BrianWilsonRIP youtu.be/gikGLzkKElw?...

Still astonishing to me how a city like Glasgow - the birthplace of much great and important music - has TRNSMT as its big yearly music event. TRNSMT's the Brewdog of music festivals.

Any thoughts, music peeps? :-) Scotland’s most reliable sunshine! Teenage Fanclub’s greatest songs – ranked www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

Three days to wait! Join us at 2pm THIS SUNDAY for Scowth at Anniesland Mansions, Glasgow to hear the cracking words of Nazaret Ranea and Hadley-James Hoyles as well as a fabulous line up of open mic'ers! It's our 1st birthday too! Can't wait to see you all!

A poyum in Scots fir ye:

IT'S BACK! Richt. Whit daes "wastery" mean. THE YIRD MAUN KEN!

dsl.ac.uk is doon. Repeat: DSL IS DOON Gaunnae somebodie gang ontae the ither steid (X) an get them telt? An get them telt tae get on here while ye'r at it 🙂

Not many people know that AA Milne had a much smaller brother called AAA Milne

Blithe St Dod's Day tae ilka Sudron bodie, nae maitter whaur they ur on the Yird. Aw the best 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Derek Adams has got Morecambe relegated

People say the Four Corners has the most chaotic energy in all of Glasgow, but this is a noob opinion. Real ones know the truest distillation of the city's madness lies 150 yards up Union Street, at the bus stop next to the scaffolded building with all the vape shops.

Our Scots Language Publication Grant, designed to support publishers to publish and promote work written in Scots, is now open for applications for 2025! ✍️✨ Find out more about the grant and how to apply 👇 www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...

Scots is the senior Germanic language o Scotland. "Aye" insteid o "yes" "Heid" insteid o "head" "Drap" insteid o "drop" "Cannae" insteid o "can't" "Maist" insteid o "most" an uisin wirds lik "skite", "scunner","dreich","wabbit","dytit","gowster","lum" aw hae the mair provonance!

For mair #Scots content on BlueSky follae: @scotslanguage.bsky.social @lairnscots.bsky.social @asls.org.uk An pit mair in yer replies tae this!

How many ex-X folk are here fae Scottish Twitter?

Finally took the time to read Colin Bramwell´s brilliant Scots translation of the great Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa. Stuart Kelly called it a ‘modern Scots language masterpiece’ in The Scotsman: this isn’t an exaggeration. (1/3)