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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 6h

Started other side of the world Then jumped almost as far in the wrong direction #Worldle #1722 (09.10.2026) 3/6 (100%) 🔥 Current Win Streak: 26 days 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜➡️ 🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜↖️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 worldle.teuteuf.fr/share

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Worldle - Guess the Country

A daily geography game where you guess the country from its shape and get clues with every attempt. Play daily or explore the archive.

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 22h

it's surprisingly hard to explain to a 4yo why something going from hot to warm isn't "getting warmer"

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#Scotstober2026 Day 6: HOACHIN The SND has a very on-brand quote fae Trotter in his Galloway Gossip (1901): "There's a wheen Ayrshiremen gotten inta the Stewartry noo, an it'll sune be hotchin wi them."

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#Scotstober day 6 an anither antedating. Got LUMBER back fae 1992 tae 1968 bsky.app/profile/albe...

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#Worldle #1719 (06.10.2026) 4/6 (100%) 🔥 Current Win Streak: 23 days 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜↙️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜⬅️ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜➡️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 worldle.teuteuf.fr/share

worldle.teuteuf.fr

Worldle - Guess the Country

A daily geography game where you guess the country from its shape and get clues with every attempt. Play daily or explore the archive.

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Getting on for thirty years since I first picked up a copy - and gave up after a few pages - I've finally read The Silmarillion books.digitaltolkien.com/PGTE/

books.digitaltolkien.com

The Silmarillion, 1979 Paperback Edition, impressions 1–2

Unwin Paperbacks, 1979, Paperback, ISBN 0-04-823153-3.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Reverse side of a painting, 1670, Oil on canvas, 67 x 87 cm (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen)

A trompe l'oeil painting of the back of a canvas, and a little (illusionistic) tag attached with a wax seal that says "56)

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

😀 "it should just be floury tatties, fresh neep, salt, pepper and loads of Orkney’s delicious butter." www.orkney.com/news/orkney-...

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#Scotstober2026 Day 4: Forfochten Here's ma owersettin o Þórðr Særeksson's 'Þórálfs drápa Skólmssonar'. It wis furthset as 'Anent Thoralf Skolmsson' in Lallans 100: auldnorse.wordpress.com/2022/02/20/t...

Þórálfs drápa Skólmssonar
The airmy gaed aiger
tae the sword-swinge on Stord,
whaur the land-rackle’s battle-stuir tree-staigs
focht at Fitjar.
An the yin at labs the leem
o the troll-wife’s wather
o the ha’en-horse’s lee-muins
daured gan forrit neist the Norwegians’ guard.
The killer o moss-hag curs
widely fendit the airmy’s fore
– sicweys peace is sinnert.
They wantit their king tae age lang in thae lands.
The sturt stertit
whan Gunnhildr’s heir, wantin Gowd’s Grue,
– thon ruler wis fellt in flicht –
stegged frae the sooth.
Forfochten, woundit fermers
sat by steive airs.
A buddy quat his breith,
an monie mair forbye.
The sword-cravit comforters
o the gowk of Munin’s glaip
were sweyed by claddach swaws:
saund met their mous.
It kythed a kenspeckled deed
whan in sicna stour the Njord o battle
at dichtit Hugin’s drink
wun forrit wi the king.

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rough www.maptap.gg October 4 92👑 84😁 89🎉 90👑 68🙂 Final score: 828

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Only realised in the last two guesses that the hexes get smaller 🙈 HexHunt #47 · 847/1400 · top 50% 🇮🇹 🇨🇱 🇩🇯 🇺🇸 🇸🇩 🇧🇪 🇭🇹 4 first-guess · 12/21 guesses used thehexhunt.com?d=47&s=847&r...

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HexHunt #47 — 847/1400

Test your geography skills in HexHunt. Find seven locations each day by choosing the hex on the map where you think they are. How accurate and precise can you get?

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Am A bein daft or is this sense o cruck no in the SND? #Scotstober

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's also much bigger (2351ha) than Iona (877ha).

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An afternoon visit to the charming village of Rhonehouse near Castle Douglas. Its Fair Green or Kelton Hill was one of the primary sites of the Galloway Levellers Uprising of 1723–24. The village hosted a local football team called Deeside United though no record of them seems to exist.

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Day 3 of #maptober is 'Fix a fixme' for the #31DayOSMChallenge. I added cemetery:grave to this one: www.openstreetmap.org/node/1209188... @tagishsimon.bsky.social I see you added the fixme. Does this help? Should historic:memorial stay or go? www.findagrave.com/memorial/200...

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Node: 12091887085

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Juist fun WERSH 'bitter taste' in the Arbroath Guide (1910) sae there's anither antedatin fir #Scotstober / #Scotstober2026 Aiblins fae a 1908 ad tae "SWEETENS LIFE. When wersh and raw, try Cheyne's Home-Made Jams." Thon micht juist be 'bland' but

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

charge and fit he'd be in the squad even though he's absolutely humdinkin." HUMDINGING was submitted tae Collins Dictionar in 2012 an Urban Dictionar in 2006. WERSH is 'tasteless' fae 1720 an 'bitter' fae 1915. I've kent fowk tae yaise both but cannae mind which wis maist common back in Gallowa >>>

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#Scotstober / #Scotstober2026 day 3: HUM-DINKIN an WERSH The first yin's no in SND (there's no even HUM 'smell' at A can see). The Complete Patter (1985) haes HUM-A-DING-DONG 'very smelly. Ainly HUMDINKIN A've fun is fae a Tartan Army message board (2018): "History shows that Strachan was in >>>

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#Worldle #1716 (03.10.2026) 4/6 (100%) 🔥 Current Win Streak: 20 days 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨⬇️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨⬇️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨➡️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 worldle.teuteuf.fr/share

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

daily food amongst the rural population, the Cooling Wheen is the name given to a small quantity of that mess taken from the pot when nearly ready, in order to try it. This quantity or wheen is generally set at the door or window to cool — hence the name."

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The day's #Scotstober / #Scotstober2026 wirds are BAHOOCHIE (1985) an WHEEN (1757) Got BEHOOCHIE (a spelling no in SND) back tae 1979 an BAHOOKIE (1989) back to 1974. Havnae tried tae antedate WHEEN but SND lists COOLING WHEEN (1838), which A didnae ken: "In Scotland, where broth is an almost >>>

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Aye, nor sook for souch. Mibbes there's something different gan on

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I guess there's a lot of -ook words exerting influence on that pronunciation. Cannae think of many -ooch ones

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's my preference. I hear the /k/ variant a lot, even from folk who have /x/ in loch, broch etc

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Star have got a clunker of a headline this morning - I took about three hours and two pots of coffee before I went "oh, it's Traits as a pet name for The Traitors, and you're not supposed to read grant as a verb as well as a proper noun and there probably should be an "in" or at least a colon

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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

By The 4th Barrier By Bernie Bell. After some days of dismal weather, it was turning into a fine day so we decided to get out and about and go to see a new piece of sculpture which has been placed near the beginning of the Fourth Churchill Barrier, not far from the ‘Magnus the Viking’ totem…

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By The 4th Barrier

By Bernie Bell. After some days of dismal weather, it was turning into a fine day so we decided to get out and about and go to see a new piece of sculpture which has been placed near the beginning of the Fourth Churchill Barrier, not far from the ‘Magnus the Viking’ totem pole First, we wandered around and under the impressive structure…

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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spending time in Caithness prowling round #OrkneyingaSaga #PlaceNames! Today: Ham (hǫfn 'harbour, safe haven'), Halkirk (hár & kirkja 'church'), Scrabster (perhaps pers name Skári & bólstaðr ‘dwelling, farm’) but we did drive thru Forss (fors ‘waterfall’) & Murkle (myrkr 'muddy’ & hóll ‘hill’) too!

Colour photo of a small sheltered bay with a rocky shore, evidence of a stone built cassie-style pier, cliffs beyond and a blue sky. The place is Ham in Caithness, a simplex place-name from ON hǫfn 'harbour, safe haven'.

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Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hae mind gin ye fancy takkin pairt in #Scotstober an ur wantin a wee prompt, here a leet o wirds for ye, yin for ilk day o the month. OR DAE WHITIVER YE LIKE! Mon tae. Gie us a wee bit Scots 😀

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Richt, there's twa #Scotstober / #Scotstober2026 wird leets. Guid! A'm gonnae try an antedate as mony as A can. First yins - MOLLICATE (1985) an BAFFIES (1975; baffied 'slippered' is earlier - 1956) Got MOLLICATE back tae 1983 an BAFFIES back tae 1936

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Darryl Cunningham @acmedarryl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes, at last the Chips Shops of the North zine is available. I'll be selling these chip shop beauties, and a ton of my comic books work, at the Lakes International Comics Festival in Kendal this weekend. See you there.

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#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 · 30/09/2026

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

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#Worldle #1713 (30.09.2026) 5/6 (100%) 🔥 Current Win Streak: 17 days 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↗️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↗️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨➡️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨⬇️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 worldle.teuteuf.fr/share

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Worldle - Guess the Country

A daily geography game where you guess the country from its shape and get clues with every attempt. Play daily or explore the archive.

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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
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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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