iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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RSPB Scotland @rspbscotland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Scottish Government can deliver much better outcomes for nature and climate by changing its approach to agricultural policy. We will keep making the case for change and working with government on farming and land use policy. You can read why Farming Matters here: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...

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Scottish farming policy must work better for farmers, nature and climate

The Farming Matters report reveals the current funding system is not fit for purpose.

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Superb performances in the brilliant ‘Through the Shortbread Tin’ by @martocon.bsky.social tonight at Urquhart Castle. Oh the irony of the setting. Thank you for going local @ntsonline.bsky.social - Eden Court was fab, this was perfect.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

a tributary connected to the Hackensack River. Crews have been working to contain and clean up the spill, but the extent of damage to wetlands and wildlife may take time to fully understand. This is exactly why the rapid expansion of massive data centers deserves far more scrutiny!

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Data Center Spills 5,500 Gallons Of Diesel Into North Jersey Creek

The spill happened Friday night at Equinix data center, which is located on Hartz Way and is expanding.

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Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌍 @foescot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

URGENT 🚨 Demand your MSPs vote for a moratorium on AI data centres before Wed 16 Sept! This Wednesday, MSPs will vote in the Scottish Parliament on a proposal to stop massive data centres. Urge your MSPs to be on the side of their communities - not big tech firms: act.foe.scot/data-centre-...

People outside the Scottish Parliament protesting against so data centres, with signs and banners. Text: Demand MSPs vote to stop AI data centres. On Wed 16th Sept, MSPs will have their first chance to vote to stop massive AI data centres. Email your MSP today to vote in favour of a moratorium!

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 13/09/2026

“Waulking was the last stage in the production of homespun tweed… Waulking songs would be sung throughout this laborious process in order to keep the rhythm and make the work a little easier.” blog.historicenvironment.scot/2017/05/scot...

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Singing for your Supper - an Introduction to Scottish Work Songs

Read our guest blog from Tobar an Dualchais about Scottish work songs and listen to clips of the tunes that were sung in Scotland for hundreds of years.

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Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌍 @foescot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Scottish Government must call an immediate moratorium on massive data centre plans - so proper safeguards can be put in place for people and nature. Email the Planning Minister now: act.foe.scot/stop-massive... 2/2

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Demand Scottish Government stop new data centres

Email the Planning Minister now to call for a ban on new AI data centres until proper safeguards are in place

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I've signed @zero-hour.bsky.social's petition calling on Andy Burnham to Secure Our Future—to meet the UK's climate and nature commitments, pass the Nature + National Security Bill, and reject all new oil and gas. Will you join me? www.zerohour.uk/andy

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Secure Our Future For Us

Andy Burnham has a chance to Secure Our Future. Will you tell him not to waste it? Sign the petition.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 01/09/2026

FLEMINGTON is also available as a free audiobook from LibriVox, from 2 different readers 💙📚 librivox.org/flemington-b...

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We should read, analyse and celebrate Violet Jacob's manifold work - poet, novelist, short-story writer, diarist, artist - so much more than we do currently in Scotland.

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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Secure Our Future For Us

Andy Burnham has a chance to Secure Our Future. Will you tell him not to waste it? Sign the petition.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 13/08/2026

Bring back the wolf! He’s not long gone, you know. He went out when sheep came in. Sheep cleared men and women. Now let wolves clear sheep… —Edwin Morgan, “Wolf” in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet 2020) A #poem for #InternationalWolfDay 🐺 www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

from BEASTS OF SCOTLAND

Wolf
by Edwin Morgan

Bring back the wolf!
He’s not long gone, you know.
He went out when sheep came in.
Sheep cleared men and women.
Now let wolves clear sheep.
A little wildness please,
a little howling to be heard from the chalets,
a circling of yellow eyes at Aviemore.
That legend much discredited,
of the following of the sledges,
let us test it in the Cairngorms,
in the winter playgrounds with their merry cries,
in the white paths through the forest.
It would be good to get not a few scalps
to crawl with fear when they hear
that eerie arctic song
as one by one the muzzles
lift and open in the dark,
and the dark is long.

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A new poetry collection has just been published by Mohammed Moussa of the Gaza Poets Society. It’s available now in the Gaza Poets Society shop bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/08/08/w...

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Where to Lay This Heart

A new poetry collection has just been published by Mohammed Moussa of the Gaza Poets Society. It’s available now in the Gaza Poets Society shop. Where to Lay This Heart features over 200 poem…

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Staying with friends for the night. Their view is magic. I was entranced by ever shifting light over the Sound of Gigha. Islay and Jura are obscured by a curtain of rain.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My latest newsletter, about high summer, culture and climate change, new writing and a workshop is out. If you like it, please consider subscribing! buttondown.com/Burnedthumb/...

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The Season of Grain and Long Grass

I’m going to do a thing I don’t usually do, and share a thing I just bought. It’s called a Butter Belle, and it keeps butter cool but soft without a fridge,...

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Stellar Quines @stellarquines.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Recruiting Now: Marketing and Administration Assistant 💻️ We are looking for an organised, creative and efficient Marketing and Administration Assistant to support our work as an organisation ✨ 📆 0.5 Contract 💰 £28,000 pro rata ⏰️ 14th September 12pm 🔗 buff.ly/Z928aNg 📸 Jess Shurte / Hexenhammer

An image of two young people laughing with party hats on on stage.

Text reads Marketing and Administration Assistant. Deadline: 12pm 14th September

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/07/2026

‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s new and self-created version of the modernist sentence mixes Scots and English to resemble “a meandering, live thought-process”, as Ali Smith puts it: “poetic and realist and soaring and dark and local and strange all at once”.’ Jenny Turner: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Jenny Turner · Hated and Loved in a Breath: On Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Gibbon’s new and self-created version of the modernist sentence mixes Scots and English to resemble ‘a meandering,...

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Culloden Moor. Flocking gulls, magic weather mountains, thistle-lush meadow lit by Skylark-song. Rain-glow horizon; wildfire smoke ayont. Red kite soaring above the Jacobite front line. Mass graves.

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Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Still some spaces for articles in the forthcoming issue of 'Review of Scottish Culture' -- you can submit at the link below or message me directly. Please share!

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 22/07/2026

And we left our beds in the dark And we drove a cart to the hill And we buried the jar of ale in the bog And our small blades glittered in the dayspring And we tore dark squares, thick pages From the Book of Fire… —George Mackay Brown, “Peat Cutting” from Selected Poems: 1954–1992 #poem #poetry

George Mackay Brown
Peat Cutting

And we left our beds in the dark
And we drove a cart to the hill
And we buried the jar of ale in the bog
And our small blades glittered in the dayspring
And we tore dark squares, thick pages
From the Book of Fire
And we spread them wet on the heather
And horseflies, poisonous hooks,
Stuck in our arms
And we laid off our coats
And our blades sank deep into water
And the lord of the bog, the kestrel
Paced round the sun
And at noon we leaned on our tuskars
– The cold unburied jar
Touched, like a girl, a circle of burning mouths
And the boy found a wild bees’ comb
And his mouth was a sudden brightness
And the kestrel fell
And a lark flashed a needle across the west
And we spread a thousand peats
Between one summer star
And the black chaos of fire at the earth’s centre.

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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Our very own Niamh MacKenzie, PhD candidate UHI Institute for Northern Studies, will be opening The Scottish Ecological Design Association Conference 18th-20th September 2026 with a presentation titled 'Intangible Culture of Drystane Dyking' institutefornorthernstudies.com/2026/07/22/i...

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INS PhD candidate chairs book launch event and presents at the SEDA Conference in September

UHI Institute for Northern Studies PhD candidate Niamh MacKenzie has a busy September, chairing a book event at 7pm-8pm September 3rd 2026 at The Protobello Bookshop to celebrate the book ‘Cr…

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Garden Buddleia is busy with an abundance of Small tortoiseshell butterflies and the less common Bee beetle. #pollinators #scottishhighlands

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

As well as fresh and thought-provoking perspectives on women writers of the Scottish Renaissance like Helen Cruickshank (Elaine Morrison) and Nan Shepherd (John Corbett). @elainemorrison.bsky.social

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Votes cast this evening. Turnout at my local polling station has been good. Let’s hope it bodes well for @scottishgreens.org on my regional list (+2 pls) and @snp.org for my constituency #highlandsandislands #skyelochaberandbadenoch

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Greg Moodie @gregmoodie.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

In case you didn't hear, the LibDems' Scottish branch manager compared a second Scottish independence referendum to having a poll on the death penalty. That's why this week's cartoon is called 'ALEX SHOULD PROBABLY STOP TALKING'. gregmoodie.com/alex-should-...

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Alex Should Probably Stop Talking

The LibDems' Scottish branch manager Alex Cole-Hamilton compared a second Scottish independence referendum to having a poll on the death penalty. Previously he said it was like believing in god. Yeah,...

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The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

PLEASE SHARE ✨ Celebrate Agnes Owens this spring (Apr–Jun 2026) in Milngavie & Alexandria. Join the Polygon launch + live event (9 May, 4–6:30pm, Milngavie Town Hall) with readings, Q&A & signing. Tickets via Eventbrite.👇🏽

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Agnes Owens: A Life in Conversation & Polygon Publications Launch

An evening celebrating Agnes Owens at Milngavie Town Hall

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Back to basics. A day in the company of my muse’s poetry.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 13/04/2026

To have carved on the days of our vanity A sun A ship A star A cornstalk Also a few marks From an ancient forgotten time A child may read… —“A Work for Poets”: the final #poem of George Mackay Brown (1921–1996) who died #OTD, 13 April in CARVE THE RUNES (Polygon 2021) birlinn.co.uk/product/carv...

A Work for Poets
George Mackay Brown

To have carved on the days of our vanity
A sun
A ship
A star
A cornstalk

Also a few marks
From an ancient forgotten time
A child may read

That not far from the stone
A well
Might open for wayfarers

Here is a work for poets –
Carve the runes
Then be content with silence

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Trees for Life @treesforlife.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” - Robert Swan We all have the power to help create a nature-rich future. Nature is for everyone, and #nature needs all of us. 🌳 Discover more about #rewilding 👉https://treesforlife.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 11/04/2026

“[I]f you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat.” —Nancy Hawkins, the majestic narrator of Muriel Spark’s A FAR CRY FROM KENSINGTON, on why a writer should own a cat #BookwormSat 🐈‍⬛ 💙📚 1/2

So I passed him some very good advice, that if you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work, I explained, the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk-lamp. The light from a lamp, I explained, gives a cat great satisfaction. The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquillity of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence alone is enough. The effect of a cat on your concentration is remarkable, very mysterious.

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Emma Grae @emmagraeauthor.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I'm spending my weekend editing 'The Puddock Wioot A Pond' after being poorly all week. Ah want Scots weans tae know thit the way they speak isnae wrang. If you're able, please consider buying one of my books. Shares are much appreciated too. luath.co.uk/pages/emma-g...

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I’m with Stevenson. As the keeper of six cats (plus interlopers), writing is a distant dream.

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Islands are far from remote. It is all about perspective. Take Finlaggan, in Islay, for example: a centre of power and cultural significance from prehistoric times to the medieval period. It was right in the heart of a maritime world connecting Scandinavia with what would become Scotland.

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The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

PLEASE SHARE ✨ Agnes Owens at 100 ‘Out of the Margins’ celebrates her life & work with exhibitions, events & talks across Milngavie & Alexandria this spring. Join us to rediscover a vital Scottish voice. More details soon! Curated by @sorchadallas.bsky.social @agrayarchive.bsky.social

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Wind-rattled night in our tin box on wheels, but it is the Hebrides and with a sunrise like this…

Photograph of sun rising over a hill. The sea is dark in the foreground.

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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 29/03/2026

Life, letters & low tide in Shetland “Valda is clearly the more practical of the two. It would become apparent that without her at the helm, they were doomed.” Dr Colin McIlroy @natlibscot.bsky.social examines the letters of Hugh MacDiarmid & Valda Trevlyn Grieve www.nls.uk/collections/...

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Life, letters and low tide in Shetland: Valda and MacDiarmid | National Library of Scotland

Letters between Valda Trevlyn Grieve and her husband, poet Hugh MacDiarmid, shine a light on a story of hardship, creativity, and devotion.

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I’ve been at this for a while. The photo is from 2017 - the last time I stood in an election - Mid Argyll ward. I’ve stood for Westminster (Argyll & Bute), Holyrood (Highlands & Islands and Mid Scotland & Fife) and Europe (in the good old days). Electioneering days gone, voting habits remain.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

For whoever needs to hear this I'm the only Jewish person to lead a political party - third largest in the country. The Daily Mail have been & always will be my enemy - they historically supported fascists & continue to do so. I'll take no lectures from them on Antisemitism.

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

In the archives today: Helen B Cruickshank and Hamish Henderson exchanging letters in 1952 - he expresses gratitude and she mock-protests having received and laundered a parcel of his clothes, mended a sark and returned all to him, whilst he was recording bothy ballads in Banffshire. An orra loon.

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Altocumulus and a vigorous Great spotted woodpecker. Waiting for a bus in Mid Calder. Bodes well for a day in the archives @edinburghuni.bsky.social

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Brilliant evening at @cultarlann.bsky.social for Metagama - Atlantic Odyssey. If you get a chance to catch it , you won’t regret it. Tapadh leat @dsmurray.bsky.social and the rest of the talented team.

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