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#otd in 1984, The Smiths appeared live at the Queen Margaret Hall, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Thanks to Passions Just Like Mine and Headmaster for audio and notes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQET...

Please! No more street interview videos. crop.photography/p/speaking-t...

Internet scrapbook @are.na commissioned a "revival" of the Arial typeface for their website. The changes are subtle, but beautiful to see. Arial / Areal

While awaiting dinner, I thought I would check out the new @momuspda.bsky.social song. It's superb. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW4Z...

Happy to see this. I was just listening to Sam's interview with @lukekemp.bsky.social who I am going to see speak in Leith (Edinburgh) in March.

Thanks to everyone who came to our AGM last night 👏 It was great to meet so many new members & hear your ideas for building our campaign for better public transport 🚍🚇🚉 Join us here 👇 getglasgowmoving.org/join Take action for @betterbusesspt.bsky.social here 👇 betterbuses.uk/strathclyde

Publication day for A BAD BAD PLACE. Feel like an anxious mum at school gate. Good luck wee book, hope you make a friend. Don’t lose your lovely jacket.

Presumably they didn't sell it, given the gallery just went into administration. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/04/s...

Whatever you think about the future of cities, this post about the expansion of Victorian cities is absolutely thrilling. www.worksinprogress.news/p/many-victo...

The idea of “reforming the House of Lords” has become a memetic shorthand for Labour’s uselessness over time. The HoL now seems like a sort of Democracy Black Hole where the chumocracy consigns their cronies for eternity.'

For Jo Spence, it wasn’t enough to be reconciled with the world; the point was to change it. crop.photography/p/photo-ther...

Is tall poppy syndrome still a thing in Scotland? Can you call yourself a flâneur? crop.photography/p/the-flaneur

Sophie Calle is known for making elusive, seductive artworks about her life. But it can be difficult to know what happened when. This week, I played detective and attempted to create a definitive timeline: crop.photography/p/playing-de...

It's deeply weird that Scotrail and Glasgow Subway both still use X for real time travel info. There isn't even a public feed for X! At least, not officially. However, it is possible to see what is happening via Xcancel: xcancel.com/ScotRail

Our briefing is out now 🗞️ 🚨 Omnishambles at the CCA: why did its chair just resign after only a month in charge? 🚌 McGill's buses millionaires take a crash course in politics 🚢 Is Greenock really rough, or has Google just got it in for Inverclyde? www.glasgowbell.co.uk/cca-resignat...

I have been thinking about Sophie Calle again this week and through her discovered Hervé Guibert, a photographer and novelist who was apparently the lover of Michel Foucault and who died of AIDS. The photography is great.

Saw twin Henry Hoovers being delivered in Argos today.

New #zines coming soon! - #Community #protest from the Southside of #Glasgow. ‘Save Our Pool, 2001’ from #Govanhill, and ‘No M77 Carhenge, 1994/95’ from Pollok Park. See the new covers and info here. www.jeremysuttonhibbert.com/glasgow-base...

“Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.” David Hume

Thoughts inspired from meeting someone who thinks the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare's plays and from watching Ira Sachs' Peter Hujar's Day. crop.photography/p/the-biogra...

It's a Camilla Grudova week 1. Camilla Grudova interview in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social thelondonmagazine.org/interview-ca... 2. Camilla Grudova short story on BBC Radio 4 today (Friday) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Save the Date: Gray Day 2026 – Reimagined Glasgow. Join us 25 Feb at Òran Mór, Glasgow (7–10pm) as we mark 45 years of Lanark with talks, art & celebration with partners @canongate.co.uk Tickets on sale now (link in bio).

Scotland, Caracas and the Trump Corollary open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

reading thread, 2026 edition

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My whimsical list of 2025 cultural highlights. neilscott.substack.com/p/cultural-h...

Be part of the #PowerShift at Celtic Connections. Come & imagine better stories of a clean energy future for Scots communities. The crew’s gathering… & now with Scotland’s Makar, Peter Mackay. 3pm, Sunday 18th Jan, Green Room, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow spring.site/blog/power-s...

2026 is around the corner. I, ever impulsive, started a Medium. medium.com/@polariskoi/... #adhd #planning #productivity

What's it like to work over Christmas? The @glasgowbell.bsky.social sent me to find out. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/workers-glas...

Good post about unexpected things that are legally people: bengoldhaber.substack.com/p/unexpected...

Want to use the phrase "flipped through my mental rolodex" but realise that no one under forty will have a clue what that means.

Turns out that if your Spotify Wrapped is too embarrassing you can just put together a list of thing you like and post them on your blog: neilscott.substack.com/p/what-i-lis...

Amazing how Stanley Kubrick anticipated the Reels/TikTok era.

Glad to see Glaswegians have chosen the @limmy.com version of Nelson Mandela

In which I have a Sartrean experience in Ayrshire: neilscott.substack.com/p/missed-con...

I assume @peteralanross.bsky.social and Anthony Seldon have the same graphic designer, otherwise someone is in trouble.

The artist Sophie Calle shows that in our rush to surveil and be surveilled we have overlooked the fundamental fact that the most important parts of human experience remain invisible. open.substack.com/pub/tiffanyj...

Saw THIS dog in front of a shop with THIS ornament.

Gorbals from the air in the 50s, 70s and 90s from Joshua al-Najar’s presentation at the Studies in Photography conference.