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kobayashi ḫamṭu
7 days ago
i am now the proud owner of a Scots grammar WRITTEN IN SCOTS
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Hawthorn and wild garlic being ridiculously pretty
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Yellow pimpernel
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Orange hawkweed and ivy-leaved toadflax decorating a car park wall
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Beechgrove Garden > Gardeners World
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Woodruff
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Sweet cicely
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Association for Scottish Literature
20 days ago
Higher than the craw-stepped gables of our institutes – chess-clubs, fanciers, reels & Strathspeys – the old kingdom of lum, with crowns agley… —Kathleen Jamie, “The Republic of Fife” first published in THE QUEEN OF SHEBA (Bloodaxe, 1994) A
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The National
20 days ago
🎶Absolutely amazing scenes in Wales as Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth - set to be Wales's first pro-independence first minister - is interrupted by an impromptu rendition of the Welsh national anthem
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Greater stitchwort and bluebells
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As usual the
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26 days ago
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Dog violet
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A patch of woodland floor in the shadow of a tree. Wood anemones, celandine, and bluebells just beginning.
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Wood sorrel
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Michael
about 1 month ago
It doesn’t change what I said above in the slightest - Sarwar and Labour should have recognised before now that a party you’re going to launch a fierce anti-racist attack on in TV debates is not one you can also brief the papers will be part of your path to a majority.
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Ballot Box Scotland
about 2 months ago
SP26: You'll have had your MSP then? Amongst the many lists of candidates published this week, here's one list sitting MSPs don't want to be on: those at risk of losing. With an almost certainly record-breaking turnover in MSPs this year, find out who is most at risk of an electoral sacking.
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SP26: You’ll have had your MSP then?
With 42 MSPs already retired or deselected, this year's Holyrood election is all but guaranteed to have the highest turnover in the parliament's history - but of the 81 MSPs trying to get back in, which are at most risk?
https://ballotbox.scot/sp26-youll-have-had-your-msp-then/
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Association for Scottish Literature
about 2 months ago
ach well all livin language is sacred… —Tom Leonard Published in GHOSTIE MEN (1980)
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Bryan Blessed
3 months ago
Accidental Aardman.
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Libby Brooks
3 months ago
Your daily order of JOY
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Whuppity Scoorie: the Scottish spring ritual bringing a town together
Children racing round a church tower at Lanark Cross reflects a renewed sense of community and folklore in unsettled times
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/04/whuppity-scoorie-scotland-spring-ritual-lanark-cross
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The crocuses are out and so are my bees
3 months ago
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Listening to a story on audible set in 16thC Edinburgh where the nobles have the accents of 20thC Glasgow hard men. So inconguous to the ear it's hard to carry on.
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Association for Scottish Literature
4 months ago
“Stevenson… could write his name on ice as readily as on paper, & could execute the most difficult figures with perfect grace & ease” A loss to
#FigureSkating
was a gain to literature… Robert Louis Stevenson at Saranac Lake
#WinterOlympics
#C19
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www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/opinion/colu...
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RLS on ice
“Walking over the fields, with a stick in his hand and his skates thrown over his shoulders, he looked and seemed his happiest.” — Bertha Baker, Saranac Lake Behind glass in Robert Louis Stevenson’s f...
https://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/opinion/columns/2020/12/rls-on-ice/
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Peter Arnott
4 months ago
Isn'ti t? Felt for the first time in 2010 that whatever was happening in the UK election had nothing to do with me. Logically, I knew it did...but emotionally? Nope. Nada. Felt weird.
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Allan Faulds
4 months ago
Wrote something, just to get it out of my head, about how fundamentally weird it is watching the panicked flailing and pathetic self-soothing defences of the UK Government from a Scottish perspective
medium.com/@allanfaulds...
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It’s weird being Scottish in today’s UK
As Keir Starmer’s Labour Government limps past the 18 months mark I find myself viewing this all as if from a completely separate country.
https://medium.com/@allanfaulds_73637/its-weird-being-scottish-in-today-s-uk-fc5e39621bc5?postPublishedType=initial
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Maxine Ross
4 months ago
They’re on site cutting down the Muirhead Oaks for the AI data centre that’s been all over the news today and I swear it’s going to become my villain origin story
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I like the rich tapestry of accents etc but please stop pronouncing mayor as 'meh'
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Jack Bernhardt
4 months ago
TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
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Until I read the replies I didn't realise that people outwith Scotland don't know who Stephen Daisley is
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Leah McElrath
4 months ago
Canadian PM Carney’s speech at Davos reportedly received a standing ovation. The speech marked the end of an era. It will no doubt be looked to as part of the historical record of the end of the transatlantic rules-based international order. You can read the speech in full here:
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The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulwells/p/the-carney-doctrine?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Waiting for Starmer to say something meaningful
4 months ago
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 months ago
Holy hell, what an obituary
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Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/world/africa/renfrew-christie-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ElA.l_uO.quxTSV0lHbGV&smid=url-share
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Helene von Bismarck
5 months ago
As a more general point, those who worry about the rise of British nationalism should remember that there is more than one form of nationalism within the U.K., and that those different forces may be pulling the country in different directions. You underestimate that underlying tension at your peril.
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James Hawes
5 months ago
If these models predict next GE, the lie at the heart of “Great Britain“ will be clearer than at any time since 1746: it will no longer be about a tactical alliance (aka “Labour”) of the North + London 5th column + the Celts vs the Tory South but a straight fight against English Nationalism.
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Jim Pickard
5 months ago
media focus on Reform UK has obscured the likelihood that Plaid Cymru will lead the next Welsh government
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Leona
5 months ago
Wise words
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Aileen McHarg
5 months ago
Kind of extraordinary that the new Local Growth Fund is to be distributed by the Welsh Government in Wales, but directly by the UK Government in Scotland, and that the rationale for the difference seems to be no more than "we don't trust the Scottish Government".
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Looking at flight radar. It's mobbed out there.
5 months ago
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Tim Onion
5 months ago
There we go. That there’s a headline.
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Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
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molly conger
5 months ago
the photographer was definitely like, "ok everybody, look tough!" but we know they're all just reading tweets with their arms crossed in a country club dining room divided up by bedsheets tacked to the beams
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Mark McGeoghegan
5 months ago
Take three "nowcasts": mine,
@devolvedelections.bsky.social
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@ballotbox.scot
, and the seat projections right now are in these ranges: SNP: 63-64 Lab: 18 Ref: 17-18 Grn: 10-12 Con: 9-11 LD: 8-10 So a pretty strong consensus on a large SNP minority and pro-independence majority.
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A night out in the town. Involves stashing wellies at the road end before proceeding in good shoes.
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Devolved Election Projections
6 months ago
Our projection for Scottish Parl '26 based on the latest @Ipsos_in_the_UK / @STVNews poll 🎗️ SNP — 63 🌹 Lab — 18 🌳 Con — 10 🌱 GP — 16 🐤 LD — 5 ➡️ Ref — 17 🔵 Alba — 0 ⚪ Other — 0
devolvedelections.co.uk/scotland/
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Mark McGeoghegan
6 months ago
Good Q. The short answer is yes, provided that's how someone concerned about anti-migrant rhetoric would themselves see the immigration code in the question. We can't tease that apart in this data, but we might make inferences based on how voters concerned about immigration intend to vote 1/3
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Robert
6 months ago
Bad flu season in England: Filed under "Health" with doctors asked for comment. Bad flu season in Scotland: Filed under "Politics" with Labour BritNat fanatic Dame Jackie Baillie asked to comment.
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A good result as far as I'm concerned. A high reform vote, but the anti-reform vote was enough. Probably one of the most likely seats in Scotland for reform to have won.
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6 months ago
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Sam Whyte
6 months ago
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation" As opposed to doing what with their children??
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Dani Garavelli
8 months ago
This is the essay that won the Anne Brown prize. It's called Firle, it's by Tamara Fulcher and it's totally brilliant.
www.wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/firle-b...
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Wigtown Book Festival | Firle by Tamara Fulcher
Winner of the Anne Brown Essay Prize 2025
https://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/firle-by-tamara-fulcher
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Tristan Grayford
8 months ago
Quite apart from anything else - This is going to go down *so* badly in the devolved nations. The "Brit Card", in Northern Ireland? Are you out of your mind?
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WillieMillersMoustache
8 months ago
If you're only recognising a state if it has a government you like, then you aren't recognising the state at all. Are you?
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Association for Scottish Literature
10 months ago
“Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye’re sleeping.” —The Laird of Dumbiedikes, on his death-bed, to his son (in THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN, by Walter Scott) 28 July is
#WorldConservationDay
. Here’s “Dumbiedikes”, by James Robertson
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