Annual exhibition of the Glasgow Group, opening tonight at 6pm, at New Glasgow Society in Argyle Street (opposite Clayslaps Road). The Glasgow Group is an artists collective which has been exhibiting since 1958. #ScottishArt

I found the installation disks for PagePlus v1. So many years of event posters, catalogues, newsletters using that and later versions. It is also the first software where after installing one later version (v9?) I chose to revert and stay on an earlier […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

An exhibition by David Mach and Robert Mach now on at the gallery in #Tighnabruaich https://tiggallery.co.uk/exhibitions/12-david-mach-hrsa-robert-mach-mach-squared/overview/ #ScottishArt

RE: https://mastodon.online/@AllyD/115933312615773219 Remembering Brian McFie, visual artist and guitarist (The Big Dish, Lola in Slacks, The Countess of Fife). There is an interview here: https://ayrshiremagazine.com/brian-mcfie/ #ScottishArt #scottishmusic

It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your […]

The geologist James Hutton was born in Edinburgh 300 years ago tomorrow. Two slices of Scottish geology I (an ecologist) have enjoyed studying. The Moine Thrust Mylonites at Faraid Head, Balnakeil Bay and lichens on a basalt dyke in Lewisian gneiss, Raasay.

Reading #ianpenman 's book on #eriksatie in the smart, austere Fitzcarraldo Editions. Got me looking out Max Paddison's 1981 translation of "Memoirs of an Amnesiac": typescript in a highly-coloured cover which time has rendered strange by light fading.

Recalling seeing #sonnyrollins play in Glasgow and realizing how much time has passed. Iain McCulloch's "Strathclyde" mural was still in place in the Royal Concert Hall - not yet ordered removed by Pat Lally - so around 1990. Rollins threw away the microphone early in the performance. Didn't do […]

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The Nerve @thenerve.news, launched six months ago by five ex-Observer journalists including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, is expanding its team to include Investigative journalists @mccoolingtons.bsky.social & @luciaoc.bsky.social Plus columnists @sangitamyska.bsky.social & @doctorow.pluralistic.net

At #callendarhouse for the opening of Tom Astbury's "Iron and Clay" exhibition of industrial photos from the early 1980s, I learned a lot from various photo captions. One in particular was a 1979 photo of Robert Shaw, patternmaker of #larbert. It is claimed that he was the first person seen on a […]

I noticed an item for Rowchoish bothy and wondered how many others are on #wikidata A query on "Bothy" and "Wilderness Hut" items in #scotland gives this map https://w.wiki/LtUW

Programme for the #threeriversfestival events in the #stirling area in July. https://www.threeriversfestival.co.uk/events-pages/2026-events It is good to see independent local initiatives such as this, looking to the needs of a range of age groups and using a variety of venues across the area […]

Adding basic #wikidata info for "Edinburgh plague of 1585" got me looking at data for other infectious outbreaks, and finding it a wee bit bare. Even the "1964 Aberdeen typhoid outbreak", which put #aberdeen in lockdown, is scant on Wikidata. And nothing on the "Glasgow plague of 1900-1901" […]

The Community Bakery in #Dunbar is seeking support to sustain it after suffering a fire on their premises in February. https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/Zn56PXBy

I spent some time looking at articles on Finella / Femball and her revenge killing of King Kenneth II in 995. Her technical contrivance for the assassination (getting the king to touch a "lucky" golden figurine which had been wired to primed crossbows) seems a long way from the wild mediaevalism […]

An interesting drama project repurposing "The Trojan Women" gets underway at Hillview Community Centre in #stirling this week. From Euripides to Cultenhove. #scottishculture https://www.europesays.com/2886276/

https://c.org/58D4fyzt5Q #scottishculture #glasgow

A Guardian article on The Shaggs, with the interesting claim that they played alongside Sun Ra in 1999. Hmmm https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/23/the-most-stunningly-awful-wonderful-record-how-the-shaggs-became-rocks-most-divisive-band Which puts me in mind of the evening in 1993 when […]

Finding Midget Submarine running in my mind, I was thinking about #SwellMaps a couple of days ago. And lo, they're back. #zeitgeist https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/10/swell-maps-interview-jowe-head

NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

#glasgow City Council commercial arm seeks to evict galleries and cultural entities from the purpose-built spaces at 103 Trongate. https://www.europesays.com/uk/799162/ #scottishculture

"From Websites to Wikidata: Digitising Scotland’s Stories" - an interesting paper on harvesting and uploading two distinct bodies of data into #wikidata for reuse and extension: Women of Scotland memorials and Scottish brick and tileworks […]

NEW: This is a terrific deep dive into Epstein & Russia by @professorshaw.bsky.social for @thenerve.news which starts with ‘Yachtgate’, Mandelson’s 2008 scandal involving Nat Rothschild, George Osborne & Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

After reading the #nyrb "Shithole Cinema" article (paywalled) a couple of months ago, I was looking forward to #RaduJude's "Kontinental '25". It is now on #BFIPlayer and doesn't disappoint. The disturbing collision between self-regard and real events, and the multiple ways to seek to use others […]

Following the death of David Harding, town artist during the construction of #glenrothes , retrieving this 2023 news story the subsequent travails of the public art there. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-64346303 #ScottishArt

Seeing that the saxophonist Michel Portal has died, I noticed that the English Wikipedia omits his involvement in crucial improvised music settings such as Aus Den Sieben Tagen and New Phonic Art. By comparison, the French article does mention the former, on which it has an article, whereas the […]

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

100 years of television. The bust of John Logie Baird, on the front at #helensburgh https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Logie_Baird_bust_on_the_West_Esplanade.jpg

Some Burns lines appropriate to events this weekend: Here's freedom to them that wad read, Here's freedom to them that wad write! There's nane ever fear'd that the truth should be heard, But they whom the truth wad indite.

Two newspaper notices relating to the Carron Company from the 1770s - a time when Scottish coal miners were kept in a state of servitude. #ScottishHistory #falkirk

A substantial new book presenting the visual works of artist and musician Brian McFie, along with English & French texts. Can't be many books with back cover commendations by both Sam Ainsley and Fay Fife. #ScottishArt #scottishculture

Long-standing tenants in West Wemyss in #fife facing eviction only a few months after Wemyss Estates sold out to a Torah Capital. Apparently assurances had been given... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23reny14yyo

Seeing my @ScottishPlaces bot choose Amhuinnsuidhe Castle, I tried out the new beta #wikidata mobile editor on it, to add the architect, etc. The name is clearly #gaidhlig but Wikidata had no Scottish Gaelic label. I am wary of inventing names though. Might this C19 building be a taigh-maineir […]

Yesterday I spent some time distinguishing and expanding #wikidata on the various Edinburgh Reviews published over the past 280 years. Going on from that, I had a look at Edinburgh-based publications. Capturing these in a SPARQL Graph looks ok for these, as […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A found page providing the floorplan for the original Transmission Gallery in Chisholm Street #Glasgow 40 years ago. During 1986 the inner "exhibition area 2" (actually a walled-in cobbled lane) began to be used for performance, notably across a couple of […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Edward Zitron's thorough long-form article on "The Enshittifinancial Crisis" is as good a piece of end-year summation as you could want https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/

Galileo and the Ice Stars A fascinating article. And 'Damhán Alla’" too - Gaelic getting out and spreading in the Solar System! https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/12/28/galileo-and-the-ice-stars/ #duncanlunan, #exploration, #space

A 2006 contract between the Post Office and Fujitsu shows that both parties were aware of bugs in the Fujitsu’s Horizon accounting software, and also that Fujitsu could take control over the system, contradicting statements by the Post Office in its action against hundreds of sub-postmasters […]

A summary article on the experience of community owned wind energy assets in Scotland https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62ne5l4j25o

Squeamish reading about toilet issues at the #vindolanda fort on Hadrian's Wall. You'd like to think things have improved in 2000 years, but with the state of the English water companies that's not so sure […]

A film project currently crowdfunding to cover post-filming costs https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/Dy420raW #scottishculture #scottishmusic

BBC News on the #rockstar North workers' struggle https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp89990rgdno

Starmer has zero convincing arguments for a £1.6bn policy that wasn’t in the manifesto. But if you’re a billionaire Silicon Valley bro - as Blair’s financial patron, Larry Ellison is - building a centralised database has many enticing possibilities 2/ www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id...

#otd in 1945 at Pollokshields East station in #glasgow two railway workers were shot dead and a third injured. #scottishrailways #ScottishHistory https://www.policemuseum.org.uk/the-pollokshields-railway-murders-1945/

Looking at a photo-feature in today's Guardian about Simon Phipps' "Brutal Scotland", that's two books about postwar #scottishbuildings in just a couple of months, the other being Bruce Peter's "Modernist Scotland" […]

Visited Adam Geary's "Utopia" exhibition at #Dunfermline Carnegie Library Gallery yesterday. Recalling his exhibition "The promise of tradition" at Transmission in Glasgow back in 1987, it is good to see a creator developing their project over the long term […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

⚽ Uill, abair gèam a bha seo 😅 Mealla naidheachd air sgioba na h-Alba agus Steve Clarke! 👏 Rinn iad e, chluichd iad chun an diog mu dheireadh agus thèid iad gu cuach na cruinne an ath bhliadhna. Tha cothrom aig an Dànmharg fhathast tro na play-offs. Làn-ùine🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SCO 4-2 DEN 🇩🇰 Oidhche mhath […]

The Carpow logboat on display in Perth Museum 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It was found in the Tay Estuary near Perth and dates to around 1000 BC, in the Late Bronze Age. #Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology