Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I had some fun creating a branded link shortener for citations in both my digital and physical publications. I expect this will make it way easier on readers to access URLs and additional content, including interactive data and visualisations. I'm using Rebrandly, but there are plenty of options. 010 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Our new JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshop Series launches Tue, 13 Oct at 5pm UKT with a discussion about academic publishing with @dparrish0.bsky.social (JST) and @siobhanmup.bsky.social (MUP). Make sure to bring your questions, tips, and anecdotes! Full programme: jdb1745.net/events/jstwo... 1179 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Incredible find by @juliettedesportes.bsky.social in the Seafield Papers at @natrecordsscot.bsky.social. A gem of 18th-century Gàidhlig for the Landscapes of Protest project at @uhihistory.bsky.social. Eager to see what else comes out of it. landscapesofprotest.co.uk/eighteenth-c... 0136 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 31/08/2026We drove out to the Gorge for our local CSA's farm-to-table dinner and got to meet some local farmers and ranchers. Fantastic scenery and so much fecundity. And we listened carefully to what our hosts were telling us about the challenges they're facing from the federal government. 171 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Things I Never Knew I Needed for three-hundred, Alex. Thanks so much, @marssie.bsky.social! We luff them bigmuch! 330 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Shadow of Cat in Window, Wildfire Edition. This gives some perspective on how unhealthy the air is right now in the PDX metro area. Thinking of those who are under physical threat. The Earth is angry, and she should be. 070 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Lightning jaunt to Astoria for an Oregon Historical Society educator visit to the incredible Columbia River Maritime Museum. The coast is clear but apocalyptic skies on the way home due to the PNW fires. Hoping some rains aren't too far ahead of us. 020 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Last weekend's PNW Pen Show yielded this Pelikan M481 demonstrator, a rare little gem that served as a prototype for the popular M200. I immediately brought it to Gena Salorino for a Journaler grind and filled it with Vinta's gorgeous Aegean. What a delightful instrument and what a joyful find. 0100 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Excited to share this CFP w/the Bluesky community! The sixth triennial conference of the Jacobite Studies Trust will be held in Aberdeen on 21-22 May 2027. Its theme is 'Jacobitism on the Home Front and Abroad'. Submissions are happily accepted until 31 Oct. jacobitestudiestrust.org/activities.h... 053 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Our final JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshop for the Spring 2026 term is on Tue, 5 May! We'll be joined by @alannamactavish.bsky.social, who will be updating us on her doctoral research at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social re: Jacobite education in the university curriculum. jdb1745.net/events/jstwo... 053 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Updated the kitchen window box with fresh moss poles and bedding, just in time for our Portland spring. One cutting from kind friends has transformed our morning moments, and that’s how we carry forward our impacts on each other. 070 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Coming up on Tue, 21 Apr at 5pm UKT, the JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshops will welcome @nts-archaeology.bsky.social, who will be sharing some of his team’s material and historical findings from their recent surveys of numerous late-17thC townships in Glencoe. jdb1745.net/events/jstwo... 051 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Our next JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshop fires off this Tue, 7 Apr at 5pm UKT. We'll be welcoming Richard Maher, biographer of Sir Charles Wogan, who will be speaking w/us about the Irish Jacobite's time in exile & what he deems to be perhaps his greatest triumph. jdb1745.net/events/jstwo... 031 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Better angle of the incredible inlay. What a piece! 060 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 30/03/2026As part of the #JacobiteNations workshop this past weekend, we were treated to a special viewing of some of @uoacollections.bsky.social's gorgeous artifacts. Here I'm gingerly holding a pristine scroll butt pistol believed to be owned by Col John Roy Stuart during the '45. #museums #scottishhistory 1172 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 30/03/2026New project notebook and all the trimmings care of the wonderland that is Oblation Papers and Press. Every visit is an adventure and a balm for the soul. On either side of the counter! 060 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Thanks, Aberdeen. Great to spend some incredibly productive time with a pretty fab consortium of scholars from all around the world. This is how we protect the Humanities. 060 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Coming up on Tues, 24 March, we'll be joined at the JST #JacobiteStudies workshops by @jennyb6565.bsky.social, who will be sharing with us her work on the Jacobite spy Rev George Kelly and how we've thought about him both through history and the Jacobite historiography. jdb1745.net/events/jstwo... 031 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Thankful to @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social's RIISS for flying me out on a quick weekend jaunt to present a paper for their 4th annual Jacobite Nations workshop. It's going to be a long trip but worth every mile: 'Digitising the Jacobite Record with JDB1745: From Data Fiction to Datafication'. 080 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Our next JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshop is coming up this Tues 10 March @ 5pm UKT. We'll be welcoming @stephengriffin33.bsky.social to speak about his forthcoming book on Count Owen O’Rourke, Irish Jacobite diplomatic agent to the Habsburgs and Stuarts. jdb1745.net/events/jstwo... 044 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Crivens has also had quite enough of these pieces of dookie in power just now. Quite enough. 1151 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Happy Birthday to my beloved @cygnoir.net on this 23rd of Hearts. Ever since she emerged from the water my life has been far better in every way. 🦢💜 080 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 23/02/2026A brand new programme for the JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshops is upon us and we're kicking things off on Tue, 24 Feb with a visit from Prof Allan Macinnes, who will be sharing thoughts about his new book, 'Conflict and Loyalty: Jacobitism in Europe and Beyond'. jdb1745.net/events/jstwo... 040 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 29/12/2025This week marked the release and delivery of a pretty remarkable edited collection from colleagues at Glasgow and @luathpress.bsky.social. It contains an incredible *44* contributions and represents an affordable, accessible tour-de-force of cultural connections between Outlander and Scotland. (1/2) 1122 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Wishing you a very happy holiday from one lordless pagan pomp-and-ritual-appropriating household to yours, whatever the heck you believe and brings you warmth, joy, and comfort in these remarkable times. 090 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Many things bring me a profound sense of thankfulness this year; not the least of which is the individual and community resilience that I see all around me. No matter your concentric communities and identities, I'm wishing you a bountiful and restorative harvest. Except for ICE. Fuck those guys. 070 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Downtown Portland, Oregon in the morning. Lawless. Overrun. Completely aflame. And no stores at all anymore. This is not AI. Nor is it fake news. This is my Portland and your Portland. It’s a wonderful place to be and we’re going to keep it that way. 080 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Today's task is calculating blackmail as percentages of assessed rent in western Stirlingshire just before the last Jacobite rising. What a way to create an economy out of thin air...until it almost inevitably backfired. Truly a rock and a hard place for both tenants and landlords. #ArchiveGlam 1131 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 12/11/2025h/t @threadinburgh.scot for flagging up this new release about the medieval coal mine beneath the Forth. One day during some volunteer work at Culross Palace garden, we trudged out at low tide to see what we could see. It's still there, after all these hundreds of years. 0175 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Two weeks of autumnal flux lead to the moment we wait for each year in our backyard. In two more, it will be no more, but at this moment it’s difficult to be anything but reverential of our relative peace and privilege. Small shifts with big results. Progress. Exhale. 050 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 27/10/2025We're only a day away from our next JST #JacobiteStudies workshop, which will feature @rmonsey.bsky.social sharing insights from her work on Jacobite manuscript poetry created between the Revolution and the Hanoverian Succession. Coming up Tues, 28 Oct, 5pm UKT. jdb1745.net/events/jstwo... 050 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Fifteen years today since the big party with many of the best folks we know. A flash in the pan; the wink of an eye. So many adventures shared and hopefully many more to come. I’ve been blessed to find my person in this crazy ol’ world, and every year I more exquisitely adore her. 080 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Finished a significant project today so we took a cheeky drive to the sea and watched the sun slip into the water. A fine time for brine. 070 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Check out the war zone that is downtown Portland, y’all. Taken today, where I risked my very life by simply stepping outside of the house. 171 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Enjoyed a quick flirtation with Vancouver the other weekend for a book launch, some social time with colleagues, and a few truly great meals and coffees. Hard to believe it’s just five hours up the road. 010 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Very excited to welcome Prof Clotilde Prunier to the JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshops tomorrow (Tues, 30 Sept) at 5pm UKT. Prof Prunier will be sharing some of her current work on the links between the Stuarts and the Catholic Mission in Scotland 1719-1788. jdb1745.net/events/jstwo... 062 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 28/09/2025My friends, I’ve finally arrived at the joy of poutine. Life was only black-and-white until this moment. I now know Epiphany. 040 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 26/09/2025First tour of the school season at Oregon Historical Society, which means autumn is right on our doorstep. We had a huge group of thoughtful, interested 8th-graders and they gave us far more back than we offered them. 040 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Pretty interesting record in one of Cumberland's order books from 11 May 1746, just a few weeks after Culloden. 5am rounds for troops to 'pluck heather for the tents', presumably to lay on top for insulation and protection from the rain. Later entries give orders to turn the heather to dry it out. 0183 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Happy unexpected publication day for a chapter I’d written in a magnificent edited collection from @edinburghup.bsky.social. So many remarkable contributions in here and I’m fortunate to be in such good company within. #ShapingJacobitism #JacobiteStudies edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping... 0136 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Second flush is upon us, and they’re gargantuan. With thanks to our red-arsed bees of the Pacific Northwest. 🐝🌼 030 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 19/08/2025The time is nigh! Another fab programme for the JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshop is up and ready to kick off on Tuesday, 2 Sept. Following the keynote launch, we'll have fortnightly sessions on different aspects of Jacobite Studies from a wide range of contributors. jdb1745.net/events/jstwo... 0158 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 03/08/2025I'm proud to announce the birth of our brand new baby tomato – the first from a trio of different vines. Indigo Rose is her name and she's about the size of a plum. Black and purple on the outside, pink and green on the inside. Musky and a bit of sweet, with lots of umami. We're pleased parents. 3240 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Make a wish and gather your strength for whatever it is you are and do. 020 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Have any of us adequately expressed our thanks lately to @natlibscot.bsky.social for their incredible (and free) digital mapping repository and resources? It's been of immense service as I write up a chapter on an 'incident' during the summer of 1746. And oh, Scottish place-names! 34513 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 03/07/2025When the world is crumbling and your government is eating its citizens, there's nothing like a stack of vicarage teinds to take your mind off things. Not. Vicarage teinds, vicarage teinds, I gotta get me some vicarage teinds. 020 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Hello, amateur historians. Please don't do this. It's okay to actually cite your sources and preserve the context so your claims aren't patently absurd. 092 0
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 21/06/2025One of the real gems brought back home to a town known for particularly good beans. Thanks for the in-house recommendation, Nicola! 000 0