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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 6h

#Scotstober2026 Missing @drmdempster.bsky.social Each day in October has a Scots word for you to make a poem, a story, a picture, a joke, anything! On Halloween we use 1 of the Scots words for turnip/swede (the traditional item to make a spooky lantern with). Use the hashtag & please share!

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Samuel Peploe @speploe.bsky.social · 20h

Kirkcudbright, Street Corner www.wikiart.org/en/samuel-peploe/ki…

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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spent a lovely afternoon in the fab @orkneylibrary.bsky.social #Archives this afternoon trawling a few more records for #PlaceNames! Today's focus was #Stronsay with names from a manuscript map and a poor distribution list! Love the drawing of the house of Huip! #Orkney

Collage of three photos of documents. One shows a little drawing of a house called Huip, another is titled 'Return for Stronsay Distribution 3rd June 1837, the last lists some of the places in the list.

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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible stuff.

Commentary|Essay

AI and the crisis of the author

By Anchit Sathi

September 4, 2026
Read this issue

Editor’s note (September 21, 2026): We have removed this essay. AI was used in its preparation. The TLS editorial guidelines prohibit the use of AI in the writing and editing process. The author states that he was unaware of the policy.

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A reminder that you can use this account to track how sunny it's been in Orkney Yesterday - not very

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I'm not sure I *need* GPS on my wrist, but pretty handy to have an OS Grid Reference just a glance away. #UnaWatch

Large circular dial showing a reference.

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Peter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Waiting for the Evri man, like some sort of medieval allegory

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Dark Galloway @darkgalloway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Hole Stone (or Crow Stone) in Galloway. Local tradition says that it was used during marriage ceremomies, by joining hands through the hole. It stands close to the White Cairn and another stone reputedly once accompanied it. #Scotland #History #StandingStoneSunday

Moody black and white photo of a standing stone in a grassy field. The stone is pierced by a hole, about one third of the way from the top. The sky is cloudy but light is breaking to the right.

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Grant Bulloch @bulloch.photography · 26/09/2026

Revisiting a trip to Colonsay over the next few posts, and the wonderful textures and patterns along its coastline. #photography #landscapephotography #photographers

Rock, showing through the sand on the beach

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A moving day for Kirkcudbright, RNLI & our active local RNLI branch. The official launch & dedication of the new RNLI lifeboat, the George D Dow, along with a new lifeboat station in Kirkcudbright Bay. A fitting ceremony to an important service & tradition saving lives.

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 A reminder #OTD that 'Hardrada' makes no sense in any language. The Norwegian king who died at Stamford Bridge in #1066 was called Haraldr harðráði in Old Norse. Such bynames or nicknames can (and should) usually be translated. His means something like 'Hard Ruler' or 'Stern Ruler'.

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 23/09/2026

New favourite passive aggressive bench!

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What happens to the 'I'm British not English' stance when the union is dissolved? Brought to you by accidentally reading a tweet that's been screenshotted here

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reading The Silmarilion. Handy to have Search Tolkien available to see how frequent 'moveless', which is new to me, occurs. Just twice

Screenshot of Search Tolkien results for 'moveless'

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the highlights of the recent edition. Go read it!

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Derek Hollingsworth @derekholly7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Forgotten Irish-Speaking Kings of Northumbria. Oswald, Oswiu & Aldfrith spent time in Dál Riata. The Venerable Bede recorded that King Oswald translated St. Aidan's sermons in Irish live to his court. My substack article link in comments... Grateful for RTs🙏 ❤️ #Gaeilge ☘️ #spéirghorm

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots gone thanks to Orkney Merkitplace Plenty still available Offers accepted!

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Digital Tolkien Project @digitaltolkien.com · 21/09/2026

Today is the 89th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit. Here's a thread on interesting glimpses the book gave us into the legendarium Tolkien had at that stage already been working on for over twenty years but which readers at the time would have had no sense of.

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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Spent a lovely windswept day delivering the Ragna's Islands Project #NorthRonaldsay booklets (saga-stories, poetry and place-names) to islanders. It is wonderful to be here again! #Orkney #OrkneyingaSaga #Placenames

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The BBC’s Ratcliffe interview is shocking. He’s allowed to spout unchallenged nonsense about politics, economics and energy. Ratcliffe is worth listening to because he represents an emboldened and retrograde section of Britain’s ruling class 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Krister Vasshus @kristervasshus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hutututu Old Norse interjection meaning 'so cold!' Still lives on in Norwegian "huttetu", which may have a slightly broader meaning. Not that I propose to read this inscription as "all this silver gives me the chills", or anything, but I'm just putting it out there.

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Undiscovered Scotland @undisscot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Looking up the steps from the bottom of the enigmatic and deeply unsettling ancient underground chamber of Mine Howe, at Tankerness on Orkney's East Mainland, when it was still open to visitors. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #MineHowe #Tankerness #Orkney #EastMainland

Mine Howe. The image shows a rather disorienting view up a set of honey-coloured stone steps within a stone chamber. These seem to climb to a landing and then continue to the right. There is a curving handrail on the right, with lighting attached to it. Most of the light comes from the flash on the camera and this makes the stone seem wet.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well, of course those hippy Marxists at the Financial Times would say that.

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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A #NorthRonaldsay stile (L) for @lakesstiles.bsky.social & @judithjesch.bsky.social near Roofed Geo, formerly Sodlis Geo from ON söðull m. 'saddle' with gjá 'coastal gully, inlet', both apt #PlaceNames! #Orkney

Colour photo of a stone wall with a wooden stile very close to a rocky shore with a covered coastal gully giving it a roofed appearance. The sea is foaming and rushing into the gully.

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Community Ownership Support Service (COSS) @communityownership.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is an extraordinary amount of money to raise local in a fortnight - well done - fingers crossed for the next £20,000 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Purchase price raised for Parton church linked to James Clerk Maxwell

A Galloway community raises more than £50,000 to buy the church linked to James Clerk Maxwell.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sept 16: Feast of Nyniau (Ninian) (5/6thC), bishop. Apostle of the southern Picts whose seat lay at Candida Casa, ‘White House’, (Whithorn, Galloway). His name may be a corruption of St Uinniau / Finnian, who taught Columba while the latter was deacon. Whithorn Priory 📸HES

Bird’s-eye view of Whithorn Priory and Museum.

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Who is supplying folk with these islandless shapefiles #youmissedabit

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todaysflag.bsky.social @todaysflag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Flag of the General Directorate of Customs Protection, Türkiye

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Undiscovered Scotland @undisscot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The impressive Drumtroddan Standing Stones, before the nearest to the camera fell over. They enjoy a magnificent location with distant views, some two miles inland from Port William in Dumfries & Galloway. The tallest is some 10ft in height. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland

Drumtroddan Standing Stones. The image shows a rough grassy field with a stone wall in the background and distant views beyond that. On the left of the image is a large standing stone covered in lichen and there is another standing stone, a little more distant, on the right of the frame. A third stone is lying on the ground in the bottom middle of the frame. The scene is in sunlight.

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 13/09/2026

Emily Wilson kicks to kill

In the UK it's cultural capital remains high enough that Boris Johnson ... managed to hold the highest office in the land for an astonishingly long period of time, and even maintain the illusion of being an intellectual partly in the basis of his ability to parrot a few garbled lines of Homeric Greek

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

answer so evil it had me shrieking, doubt anyone even 5 miles south could get this 1716 5/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A reminder that my Scottish Place-Name Wordle survived the great NYT wordle clone cull. Review from FB: "I thought this would be fun but it isn't. The place names are so obscure it's almost impossible." spnle.vercel.app

spnle.vercel.app

SPNle

A daily Scottish place-name puzzle

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What’s a cedilla’s favourite Disney song? Under the C.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Make a band edible Siouxsie and the Bánh mì

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Early medievalists may be happy to know that Simon Keynes’s collection of maps of Anglo-Saxon England has now been made freely available via @trincolllibcam.bsky.social These were commissioned by Simon and drawn (by hand) by Reg Piggott between 1991 and 2012. archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/ma...

archives.trin.cam.ac.uk

Maps of Anglo-Saxon England - archives.trin.cam.ac.uk

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Rolling Stonebaked Pizza Fleetwood Macaroni Cherry and the Pacemakers The Cured Ham The Almond Brothers The Red Velvet Cake Underground The Grapeful Dead Queen Scallops Red Hot Chilli Peppers [no change needed but debatable whether edible]

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 10/09/2026

Kirsch House, Oak Park, IL, USA | Errol J. Kirsch | 1982 [OC] r/brutalism

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Andy Wightman @andywightman.scot · 10/09/2026

In the hills of Galloway there is a Flesh Market. The name feels out of place. Just as interesting, however is who owns (or doesn’t own) it. 1/4

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Esperanto sur la batalkampo archive.org/details/Espe...

Esperanto sur la batalkampo. — Franca militkaptita samideano en Germanujo, S-ro Th. Penisson, nun en Merseburg, sendis al ni la jenajn liniojn pri interesa ekzemplo pri la utileco de nia lingvo sur la batalkampo:

„La 27 aŭgusto 1914 mi estis militkaptito jam de tri tagoj, mi morale suferis, kaj mi malsatis, kiam venis al mi la ideo, uzi la elementojn de Esperanto, kiujn mi estis lerninta en Francujo. Mi turnas min al germana soldato kaj demandas: „Ĉu vi parolas Esperante?" Li nee respondas, mi demandas du aliajn; la tria, je mia granda surprizo, jese respondas; kvankam „malamikoj" ni interparolas kiel veraj kamaradoj; mi petas de li panon, kaj li malavare donas al mi sian porcion, kiun mi ne estus havinta, se mi ne povus min komprenigi. De tiam, mi, laŭ mia eblo, disvastigis Esperanton. En la sola kaptitejo de Altengrabow, mi gajnis du cent adeptojn."

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's absolutely not a competition but 5 panels in Orkney - @holm-solar.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy - are going to outperform this today. I'll post the results tomorrow

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 07/09/2026

…I’ve seen the arc of the earth, From the Birsay shore, like the edge of a planet, And the lifeboat plunge through the Pentland Firth To a cosmic tide with the men that man it. —Robert Rendall, “Angle of Vision” from The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (EUP, 2005) #RNLI #poem

Angle of Vision
Robert Rendall

But, John, have you seen the world, said he,
Trains and tramcars and sixty-seaters,
Cities in lands across the sea –
Giotto’s tower and the dome of St Peter’s?

No, but I’ve seen the arc of the earth,
From the Birsay shore, like the edge of a planet,
And the lifeboat plunge through the Pentland Firth
To a cosmic tide with the men that man it.

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

@iassl.bsky.social would you consider updating your logo to include Shetland?

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