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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Join Scotland's leading historians, writers and performers on 21 November, at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, for the Centenary Conference of Hugh MacDiarmid's A DRUNK MAN LOOKS AT THE THISTLE. Opened by Sir Tom Devine, presented by Sally Magnusson. Tickets here: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/a-dr...
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A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle: Hugh MacDiarmid and a Hundred Years of the Scottish Renaissance - Glasgow Life
The Centenary Conference 1926 - 2026
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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 09/10/2026
As tiresome as it is to hear Andy Burnham saying "innovation nation" over and over, it's arguably even worse to hear this talk of industrialisation. We have great, valuable export industries in the arts, TV, the BBC and higher education. All are being filleted; thousands out of work, and what for?
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
truly disgusted to discover they were right all along about running and endorphins and stuff
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 01/10/2026
Hundreds gathered outside the Scottish Parliament today. UCU general secretary Jo Grady brought solidarity to striking staff at Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow Caledonian. We stand with you. ✊
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Incredible how I can still experience immense pain from this if I try and do such extreme things as roll over in bed or lift a cup of coffee.
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It certainly seems that dignity and respect are qualities that only apply in some directions (as seen in this email exchange shared in the student staff assembly)
An email exchange between a redacted student and the principal of the University of Edinburgh, Peter Mathieson. 

The student email ends "thanks for taking the time to read this email, and I hope that soon you will begin to take the feedback of my peers and professors seriously. Regards, (redacted)." 

Peter Mathieson's reply: "(Redacted), maybe you will learn to spell 'although'. Peter."
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Still it’s good to see the Dignity and Respect policy applies to someone in a university. Because things it lists - Transparency! Communication! Responsiveness! Have been very short in supply the past few years. Weaponising it is exactly the tone deafness that is making us all rage. 🧐
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should let people dream of something besides labor
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 22/09/2026
The first keynote speaker of #iPRES2026, Sibyl Schaefer, has upped the meme game to ask: if we're in this intersection of of crises while still having to work, where do we go from here? and how do we get there together?
Venn diagram showing us in between having to go to work and the apocalypse
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
desperate to stand in the cold north sea today.
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A university in the city that hosts the National Library of Scotland will no longer provide an opportunity to study Scottish Literature as a stand-alone subject...
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The specialised Med. History MSc is being rolled into a general History MSc, along with Contemp. History and Intellectual History. A huge loss for those who want to study these as a specialism.
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
well, "the only tory on bluesky" what is happening is that politicians and the media have been stoking racist sentiment every day for the last 30 years for their own benefit and publicly guffawing about how funny it is. Weird you haven't noticed
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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...
heraldscotland.com
Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape
According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 18/09/2026
The University of Edinburgh is a world-class institution and our members are determined to protect it. With an estimated 1,800 jobs at risk, staff are ready to strike for 25 days to defend jobs and the future of the university. Management can end this dispute: rule out compulsory redundancies.
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
90 arts and humanities courses to be cut at Edinburgh Uni from 2027 💔
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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 17/09/2026
The EU Kids Act changes the "open nature of the internet and makes it a permission-based system where you are required to pass through an identity checkpoint to access information. Imposing the same complex compliance requirements on [small] services risks pushing them out." ORG's James Baker.
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Tech companies under fire as Europe proposes social media ban for under-15s | Computer Weekly
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says technology platforms will have to prove they are safe before children can access them.
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
loved their first album
A badly peeled-off sticker on a road sign with 'WOKE ASTRO TURF' scrawled on it in black pen
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
someone across the road has an alarm that has been quietly but persistently beeping for the last 3 hours and there's a strong chance this may be what pushes me over the edge
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
genuinely gutting. I remember picking up a copy on my first visit to Glasgow/Edinburgh in 2007, a copy that I think I still have stashed somewhere. huge love to all the contributors over the years.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 08/09/2026
Knitting machine punch cards are a living form of computing history. 🧶💾 In "Punch Card Knitting," Nichole Misako Nomura explores how these binary codes are still used today, and the challenges of preserving them. 📚 Read it in VANISHING CULTURE, FREE: archive.org/details/vani...
What can knitting machines teach us about the history of computing?"They're an important piece of computing history—and crucially, one of the few that isn't only history because a broad community of people, on- and off-line, are still sharing knowledge on how to hack, restore, and use "Knitting punch cards are an important part of any feminist computing history, and surprisingly resilient." Quote graphic on a dark greenish-black background with light gray text and pixel-pattern bars above and below. Attribution reads Nichole Misako Nomura, Digital Humanities Scholar, with the Vanishing Culture logo."Working with knitting machine punch cards reminds me that the cloud is a metaphor, and lets me own and manipulate my code in a way I find both challenging and creatively liberating." Quote graphic on a light gray background with a dark green vertical bar and pixel-pattern accents on the left edge. Attribution reads Nichole Misako Nomura, Digital Humanities Scholar, with the Vanishing Culture logo.
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
someone make a joke about archive catalogues please, I'm too tired
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
nearly time for my annual "wow glasgow is really beautiful at the turn of the seasons" post
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 05/09/2026
DIY web archiving is way more doable than you think. Trust me, we taught elementary schoolers and retirees as part of SUCHO. Then we made a zine about it! Making time for web archiving things that matter should be like shoreline litter pickup or community garden weeding events.
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DIY Web Archiving | Zine Bakery
Zine Bakery Bakeshop #2, by Quinn Daedel, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kreymer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
depends on how well disclosed that is, and how much they're extrapolating any outcomes, I suppose? feels like the next gen of pseudoscience 'n=1' studies...🙃
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
c.2005 a friend of mine set up a fake photography website in order to blag a press pass for a Popular Indie Band. He got backstage, met the band, and ended up working as Personal Illicit Goods Getter for the singer for the next few years...
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
listening in parallel
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
take your attempt at an edinburgh fringe meet-cute somewhere else you perverts, some of us are trying to have lunch
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
strange how grief can justify eating marshmallows for breakfast
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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"I've never seen a feature for a word processor that I said 'That's so cool we should bet the world's economy on it, and by the way, we should probably also put all the writers in a woodchipper now that it exists.'" - @doctorow.pluralistic.net
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
There's been a rumbling crisis building at Scottish and British universities for a couple of years now, including huge job losses, course and department closures and even threats to the future of institutions. It's staggering how little political attention it has received.
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
just saw a guy unironically wearing both a top hat and a bowtie. and lo, the people did know that fringe season was upon them.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me... We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet. 1/n
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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
sorry to confirm that it is both soggy and warm in Glasgow, the worst of both worlds 🥲
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I have a classics degree so I'm authorised to confirm that the best thing about the Odyssey for Complex Bros™ is Tom Holland's leather kilt
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/07/2026
‘Future generations will curse us for its loss’: can nothing save Glasgow School of Art, Mackintosh’s masterpiece?
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‘Future generations will curse us for its loss’: can nothing save Glasgow School of Art, Mackintosh’s masterpiece?
Stratospheric costs could prevent the fire-damaged landmark from returning to its former glory. Now, unless a wealthy patron is found, the building seems destined for ‘soulless’ facade retention or ‘curated decay’
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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 24/07/2026
Someone just posted this and I was gonna boost it but my timeline refreshed and I lost the post: Newly discovered archive of half a million of the lost myspace mp3s now playable here lostmyspace.com
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"gee why is my heartburn so bad" I wonder as I chase my marmite toast down with my 4th coffee of the morning
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 10/07/2026
redstonedust on tumblr: "its actually easy to de-enshittify your digital experience all you need to do is install this browser extension and this browser extension and this browser extension and input this custom script into the advanced box and go into your system settings and reconfigure all these options you didnt know existed and change your entire workflow and switch to this alternative operating system and this alternative web browser and this alternative chat client and this alternative word processor and this alternative- sorry that one turned out to be malware delete that one okay now double check your task manager for unwanted background processes and element block these ads and invest in a good VPN and append all your searches with AI blocking keywords and wait a few years until everything you just did becomes shitty too so you can do it all over again okay kitten. its literally that easy."
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Um, apparently this was *very* soon, as it was published yesterday. Delighted to share my latest article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Against cultural heritage wastelands
The twin scholarly booms of the 2010s, digital humanities and public humanities, introduced a relatively accessbile suite of platforms for managing digital and digitised content. Sudden interest in...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 06/07/2026
💾 We often think of online platforms as permanent homes for our photos & videos. They're not. On the Future Knowledge #podcast #VanishingCulture series, Luca Messarra explains why relying on them puts our cultural memory at risk. 🎧 Listen & subscribe: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/07/2026
embracing beerware mindset is the only way to make computers cool again
Engling, for one, wasn't in it for the money. He distributed Opentracker as "beerware," an open-source license guided by the notion that anyone who found it useful should buy him a beer, as he half-jokingly explained in a 2007 talk. "I thought: A lot of people are using BitTorrent, so…."Amid that resurgence, he still sometimes tinkers with Opentracker's code, reenergized by new technical challenges. And just last month, a Spanish anime fan took him out for beers in Berlin to thank him for his contribution to BitTorrent's global infrastructure.
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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
deliver me from the weaponised incompetence of men
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Nature-based solutions as greenwashing for the military-industrial complex: rocket waste 'will be left to sink to the seabed where, [Rocket Factory Augsburg] argues, they could become “artificial reefs” and benefit marine wildlife'
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Out for Independence @outforindy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Edinburgh Council has passed a motion across party lines calling on the UK Government to withdraw the EHRC Code of Practice and take legislative action to protect trans people's human rights. We would like to highlight this moving speech by Cllr and SNP group leader @lesleymacinnessnp.bsky.social.
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