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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 20h

I miss thaim. Miss their quait haans restin lowssed oan dusty overalls deen wi the day’s wark, wachty buits ackwart in their sklaik o glaur or pentit spleiter… —Sheila Templeton, “Workin Men” from 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘓𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴: New Writing Scotland 34 (ASL, 2016) #poem #poetry

Sheila Templeton
WORKIN MEN

I miss thaim. Miss their quait
haans restin lowssed
oan dusty overalls
deen wi the day’s wark,
wachty buits ackwart
in their sklaik o glaur
or pentit spleiter;
the carefu wye they sat
on buses, gaan hame.

My granda’s waak
the pleesure o his waak
his hertsome dander up Station Road
lang widden jyner’s rule pokin oot
the nairra pooch o his dungers
spleet-new saadist furrin his jaicket.

An my faither, tall chiel
swingin alang a hyne-awa railway line
lang sicht taakin swatch o aathing
unner his ontak; fish-plates, bowts,
ivery sleeper in its cinner bed,
on the keevee for onything amissin
– yet his een shairp-set
oan the blae far-awa, the mischancie
o twa bairns, heelster-gowdie
ower steel-glaizie rails –
now racin lik a pair o slung-stanes
tae walcome his hame-comin.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 22h

This defines needs according to the bother it gives other people, rather than the distress the person experiences, and is a sure fire way to guarantee you won't even get to respond to people until they are in crisis. I an't begin to express how disastrously stupid that has been in my experience.

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Important if you've published anything (poetry or prose) in a U.K.-based print journal or mag with an ISSN in the past three years! The deadline to add it to your ALCS account is 31/10 this year. And if you haven't joined yet, do so for free. Get paid for your writing...! www.alcs.co.uk/join-alcs/

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Thinking of joining?

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

She is the reincarnation of Thatcher’s Miss Hardbroom act, and the media are mostly loving it.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Contemporary theology as blood sport!

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I feel she took the notion of the church militant just a bit too literally. On the other hand have you ever tried to read Maritain? I’m not challenging his theology, but after two pages I wanted to hit him with the Summa Theologica!

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He’s not going for elections any more. He’s going for chaos, and that money is going on enough SLAPPING court cases to keep anyone from doing anything about it.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not necessarily a decision for the cops. Though goodness knows the other is a fairly safe bet. But at this point I’m more worried about the big money behind the right, and what it’s buying.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So far. It may be that more serious charges depend on proving intention, and that will be harder. These people are lawyered up, and have serious money behind them.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s Time to Act for a just peace. Join Christians, churches and organisations across the country working together for justice and peace across Palestine and Israel. Stand together, sign the commitment and take action 👇 justpeacecoalition.com #TimeToAct #JustPeaceCoalition justpeacecoalition.com

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

I am glad that Scotland's leadership clearly articulated that our nation has a positive and forward-looking civic nationalism, where the key point to being a Scot is: 'do you live here? Aye? Then you are welcome to say you are from here.' www.thenational.scot/news/1817406...

Excerpt from The National Newspaper article's about Nicola Sturgeon's 20th of January 2020 speech to foreign nationals:

Addressing a conference room full of EU nationals, Sturgeon went on: “This event today gives me the opportunity to say again to every single person from another country, from Europe or further afield, who has chosen to come and live in Scotland: Thank you.

Excerpt from The National Newspaper article's about Nicola Sturgeon's 20th of January 2020 speech to foreign nationals:

“Thank you for doing us the honour of choosing Scotland as your home. Thank you for the contribution you make to creating the country we live in today. And to say very clearly, unequivocally and as loudly as I possibly can: You are welcome here. This is your home. It is as much your home as it is my home.

“You will always be welcome here. We’re honoured that you’ve chosen to live here, and we want you to stay. We need to keep encouraging people to come here if we’re to keep our working-age population growing and making the contribution to our tax revenues that we need.”

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Creative Ethnology @creativeethnology.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Well worth a read. Would it make university managers rethink their savagery? 🤔

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‘What is emerging is not simply a relationship between [Reform and Farage] and a wealthy Gulf state, but a channel through which an authoritarian government can cultivate political influence here, and abroad.’ Would really recommend a read of this democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-and...

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Reform and the UAE – a threat to British politics

Nigel Farage's embrace of the UAE is part of a wider effort by the Gulf petrostate to build alliances with the far right across the West, says Alex Carlen.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 72nd anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives, and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

Daily Mirror front page shows grainy image of horde of children in a cemetery, and the headline “Amazing scene as hundreds of children rush cemetery”

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's been an English fantasy for years!

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When Thatcher limited union rights in the 80’s my mother said that Labour would reverse nothing, and she was right - until Starmer, who did very little, but at least made a start. I thought she was just cynical, but she was right.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yes, that’s extra horrible. I can’t understand why there hasn’t been an instant reaction from parliament.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Or perhaps lifeboat volunteers could count as emergency workers, with the added protections that eg the police have?

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Most of us are not racist or misogynistic and we seem to take this for granted, as if the appalling behaviour we’re seeing is an aberration. But our politicians and our media really think we are, and it’s past time to tell them they’re wrong. We need to #getourwokeout.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thank you! Good luck with your upcoming event! I’m impressed with your activism!

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yes. Everyone with new books coming out shortly seems to have sought me out.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Unfortunately this workshop has had to be cancelled.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £354m a year tax free from the tax payer including £132m personal spending money and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed. Like if he needs a pay cut. RT if you want the Monarchy gone. #NotmyKing

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yup! How dare anyone do anything without me?!

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have a lot in my follows, maybe start with @sarasheridan.bsky.social and see where you get!

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Island Voices: Guthan nan Eilean @islandvoices.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Friends of Queen's Park are keeping Island Voices: Five Writers, on display in the Scottish Poetry Rose Garden until the Christmas break.. an inspiration to us as to how we might open up to the communities around us and celebrate their cultures and languages." guthan.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/f...

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I might say that most native men are sober and pleasant on the streets too. Apart from (some) supporters of (some) football teams.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hmm. People stand up for me on crowded buses because I am old. Most of them are migrants. And if I have to pass a bunch of men, at least the Asian and Middle Eastern ones are sober and respectful.

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Get signing you wonderful YESsers ! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ☘️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Love it 👇😂

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Dammit, that was my kids, doing no harm except existing in public. Some people’s reasonable concerns need to be addressed with anger management lessons not deterrent patrols.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thirty years ago the people whinging about migrants in the streets were saying the exact same thing about other people’s children in the neighbourhood. ‘Moving in packs’ was one gem I remember from a community council meeting.

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Parami @parami2u.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Here it is 👏👏👏❤️

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Are they actually allowed to spend their political donations on vigilante terror squads?

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We have this in Glasgow, with the applause, apparently, of the BBC.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Let’s get those millions donated to the RNLI instead…

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🔴 More than 80% of all the donations ever received by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK have come from just two cryptocurrency billionaires, new Democracy for Sale analysis reveals. “If that isn’t a massive corruption risk I don’t know what is.” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-8...

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BREAKING: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires

“If that isn't a massive corruption risk I don't know what is.”

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