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Gordon Turnbull @gordonflute.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I absolutely love the way that Black Arsenal is being celebrated. The @arseblog.com podcast a couple of years back in which Andrew stepped aside and gave the floor to (I think) Clive Chijioke Nwonka was in that spirit too. More please.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 12/09/2026

“Glasgow is a magnificent city,” said McAlpin. “Why do we hardly ever notice that?” “Because nobody imagines living here,” said Thaw […] “if a city hasn’t been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.” #BookWormSat #Booksky 💙📚 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2026/06/alas...

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LANARK
A LIFE IN 4 BOOKS

"An ambitious and marvellously inventive novel" – Malcolm Bradbury

ALASDAIR GRAY

Publisher: Paladin

The artwork by Alasdair Gray – in black and white, with golden clouds – depicts a figurative State towering over a panoramic view across Scotland, looking from west to east. The figure is bearded, masculine, blank-eyed, and wears a crown. It holds a sword in its right hand, labelled "FORCE", and a crozier in its left hand, labelled "persuasion". Apart from the hands and face the giant figure is formed from little people: a ring of wigged judges around its throat, bowler-hatted men with pointing arms giving orders across its chest and shoulders, a teeming mass of faceless individuals making up its torso. Its left arm consists of kneeling worshippers and open-mouthed preachers; its right is a phalanx of marching soldiers.

Scotland, curved and distorted, is spread out beneath and in front of the figure. Discernible landmarks include Glasgow University tower; John Knox’s statue in the Glasgow Necropolis; the Wallace Monument; the Grangemouth oil refinery; St Giles Cathedral; Edinburgh Castle; the Forth & Tay bridges; & the experimental fast-breeder nuclear reactor at Dounreay. Also visible are oil rigs in the North Sea, nuclear submarines in the Irish Sea & Holy Loch, & the paddle-steamer PS Waverley sailing down the Clyde.

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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

AWKWARD SELF-PROMOTION ALERT. I have a new print available to purchase. The perfect gift for an Arsenal fan, or a Spurs fan you don’t really like. davidsquirescartoons.com/collections/...

Big comic illustration of a load of Arsenal players having a big old bundle at a set-piece.!

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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Our Policy & Advocacy Manager Simon met MSPs Finlay Carson 🔵, Duncan Dunlop 🟠 & Laura Moodie 🟢 at Carrifran Wildwood yesterday alongside Borders Forest Trust & Dumfries & Galloway Woodlands to press for sustained Holyrood policy & funding for landscape-scale restoration. 🧵1/2

A smiling group of nine people and two dogs pose by a low stone wall dotted with pink willowherb in a green, steep-sided valley under cloudy skies. A conservation field visit to Carrifran wild wood. Credit Simon Ritchie/WTML.

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Gordon Turnbull @gordonflute.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

AI data centre development is hugely problematic for many reasons. However placing a colossal one in a designated scenic area on a long distance path compounds them further. Consider signing this petition and supporting the campaign against the proposal. #AIdatacentre #Scotland c.org/THWwrNwCQc

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Save The Lammermuirs - Stop The Data Centre

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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 29/07/2026

As summer heat overwhelms the planet, are humans programmed to fail to react to slow, incremental threats, like the frog in the old story? | Naz Saad

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The boiling frog - Bylines Scotland

As summer heat overwhelms the planet, are humans programmed to fail to react to slow, incremental threats, like the frog in the old story?

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Count Binface v. Nigel Garbage. I'm not first to this one, am I?

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

That was when I threw the stone and then ran after; splashing into Smallholm burn I made the colours of a summer’s day cascade around me… —Ron Butlin, “Histories of Desire” from HISTORIES OF DESIRE, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 1995 #poem #poetry www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/histori...

Histories of Desire
Ron Butlin

At Carsethorn, Solway Coast

That was when I threw the stone and then ran after;
splashing into Smallholm burn I made the colours
of a summer’s day cascade around me.
That was when the water stilled to rowanberries,
clouds and dark green leaves I could never reach
before. I tried to pick one up –
that was when the earth and sky first slipped
between my finders.

All histories are histories of desire, they tell me
how my life begins and ends: a stretch of water,
a stone a child sends skimming
to the other side.

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

Scots Whay Hae! speaks to the five shortlisted authors for this year’s @bloodyscotland.bsky.social Scottish Crime Debut of the Year award: May Rinaldi, Zoë Rankin, Linda Duncan McLaughlin, Frances Crawford, & Kirsty Lockwood 💙📚 #CrimeFiction www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXlA...

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Bloody Scotland - Debut Prize Shortlist 2026

YouTube video by Scots Whay Hae!

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 09/07/2026

Typical that this Guardian article about "Britain" and the "public wants change" doesn't mention the Northern Ireland/Ireland unification debate, nor the Scottish or Welsh independence movements at all. Once again a Guardian article about 'Britain' is actually really about England.

Screenshot of Guardian article about Britain's 'public' wanting change.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A loyalist bonfire featuring an effigy of a mosque has been condemned as an incitement of hatred

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

My latest blog piece. Alister Jack's recent colonialist intervention in the Lords may have been rebuffed, but it tells us that devolution has no future in the UK. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/a...

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Alister Jack’s colonialism remains a threat to Scotland

The former colonial governor of the northern province, Alister Jack, who was given a peerage by Rishi Sunak as part of a back room deal. Jack rejected an earlier nomination by Boris Johnson in 2023…

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

My latest blog piece. The unhealthy patron-client relationship between the anti-independence parties and the anti-independence British media in Scotland allows the Labour and Tory branch offices to escape the due scrutiny that's essential in a democracy. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/07/05/t...

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The junkies and their dealers

A number of peculiar developments have taken place in Scotland since the Holyrood election in May. These have been disguised by the anti-SNP media feeding frenzy which took place after the convicti…

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arseblog @arseblog.com · 06/07/2026

Here's today's blog which has football stuff, and yet more FIFA/Infantino corruption stuff. Have a read. 👇

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The Labour party is attempting to subvert the result of the Holyrood election and impose the Labour Holyrood manifesto Scotland rejected at the ballot box on the country regardless. The British media in Scotland colludes with this brazen electoral theft. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/l...

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Labour’s attempted theft of the Holyrood election is being aided by the media

Something is seriously wrong with democracy in Scotland, but the media has told us vastly more about Peter Murrell’s cruet sets than it has about what can only be described as an attempt by t…

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Ruth Wishart @ruthwishart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Could writers and broadcasters kindly refrain from using "us" and "we" and "the country"when referring to England - one of four nations in the current UK?

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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

UK Govt pushing for new nuclear in Scotland    despite ruling Scot Govt. SNP clear rejection. Westminster doing its thing ...👇 www.gov.uk/government/n...

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"Manchesterism" is the UK's new big thing. Unemployment in Manchester 6.5% Unemployment in Scotland 4.3% Child poverty in Manchester 37% Child poverty in Scotland 21% But Manchester DOES have loads of empty luxury flats. Seems the UK needs less Manchesterism and more ScotGov.

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walkhighlands @walkhighlands.co.uk · 29/06/2026

We've now revamped, rewalked and rephotographed all of our routes around Helensburgh. As well as changing the line of some of the existing ones, we've added new routes to Walkhighlands too - such as this circuit taking in Ben Bowie & Gouk Hill. www.walkhighlands.co.uk/lochlomond/b...

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

He’s right and he should say it and keep saying it. Think of how much we’re all loving the beautiful stories of togetherness and acceptance and people just having fun and still FIFA prefer to be in the pocket of politicians rather than encourage it. www.nytimes.com/athletic/740...

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Iran captain Mehdi Taremi accuses FIFA of staging ‘disaster World Cup’: ‘No one helps us’ (Gift Article)

Taremi described the World Cup’s logistical challenges as a “disaster”.

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Amy Lawrence @amylawrence.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This World Cup would have looked grimly different without locally-based communities who showed up to bring their love to matchdays. Given travel restrictions and exorbitant prices diaspora supporters have made this World Cup. Arguably, they have saved this World Cup. www.nytimes.com/athletic/739...

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How the love of the diaspora has helped give this World Cup soul (Gift Article)

This World Cup would have looked grimly different without the locally based communities bringing their cultural pride to matchdays

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

For most SNP and indy supporters, our issue with the media in Scotland is not that the SNP is subject to scrutiny. Scrutiny of political parties is vital in a democracy. Our issue is that media scrutiny of the SNP is obsessive but anti-indy parties are never subject to the same degree of scrutiny.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It’s happening. 🇨🇦💍🇪🇺

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Trump has now rolled back fishing protections in every U.S. Marine National Monument, opening millions of acres of previously protected ocean waters to commercial fishing. The move threatens critical habitat for whales, sea turtles, sharks, coral reefs, and other marine life.

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STATEMENT: Trump Opens Three Marine National Monuments to U.S. Commercial Fishing Interests

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

THIS is a much bigger political scandal than the Murrell affair. Someone hired an Israeli company to interfere in the Holyrood election, an attempt to use a foreign actor to subvert the democratic process. Yet there's near silence from the anti-indy media. www.thenational.scot/news/2619162...

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UK Government silent after Israeli firm found to have meddled in Scottish election

The UK Government has refused to comment on the findings of a French government report stating that an Israeli firm attempted to meddle in the…

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Campaigners have hit out at an event in London which is openly advertising the sale of land in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying it is 'unthinkable' that it should be allowed to go ahead

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Lewis @lgambrose.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

My levels of World Cup Fever have been at an all-time low, so I've tried to dig into as much of the tournament as possible - particularly the teams I'm most looking forward to seeing - to see how much I can get myself up for it: likeanewsletter.substack.com/p/world-cup-...

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World Cup Fever: Immune to all the nonsense?

Outsiders, storylines, favourites, and thoughts ahead of the tournament

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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Thanks @brooklyngunner.bsky.social @goonlighting.bsky.social For finding and sharing it. Another masterpiece. 🥹 #Arsenal 🔴⚪ Credit: rahulkrishn.jpg [IG]

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Queen Gooner @sofire.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The more I see them the more I love them. ❤️

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Queen Gooner @sofire.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This just wouldn't happen at any other club. I love my club.

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Catriona @catrio.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Just a reminder this is NHS England and it’s what Labour etc would bring to Scotland The SNP do not and will not do deals with Palantir and their ilk #VoteSNP

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Catriona @catrio.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

As always he gets away with no challenge to his lies about Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿the best performing staffed and paid NHS with no strikes 40% less crime & 25% more police than rUK Most teachers, highest educational outcomes & free tuition Lowest & reducing child poverty Labour can 🤬 off #VoteSNP

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 09/04/2026

Just for the sake of recovering I walked backward from fifty-six Quick years of age wanting to see, And managed not to trip or stumble To find Loch Thom and turned round To see the stretch of my childhood Before me… —WS Graham, “Loch Thom” from NEW COLLECTED POEMS (Faber, 2004) #BookologyThursday

Loch Thom
by W. S. Graham

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Just for the sake of recovering
I walked backward from fifty-six
Quick years of age wanting to see,
And managed not to trip or stumble
To find Loch Thom and turned round
To see the stretch of my childhood
Before me. Here is the loch. The same
Long-beaked cry curls across
The heather-edges of the water held
Between the hills a boyhood’s walk
Up from Greenock. It is the morning.

And I am here with my mammy’s
Bramble jam scones in my pocket.
The Firth is miles and I have come
Back to find Loch Thom maybe
In this light does not recognise me.

This is a lonely freshwater loch.
No farms on the edge. Only
Heath grouse-moor stretching
Down to Greenock and One Hope
Street or stretching away across
Into the blue moors of Ayrshire.

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And almost I am back again
Wading in the heather down to the edge
To sit. The minnows go by in shoals
Like iron-filings in the shallows.

My mother is dead. My father is dead
And all the trout I used to know
Leaping from their sad rings are dead.

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I drop my crumbs into the shallow
Weed for the minnows and pinheads.
You see that I will have to rise
And turn round and get back where
My running age will slow for a moment
To let me on. It is a colder
Stretch of water than I remember.

The curlew’s cry travelling still
Kills me fairly. In front of me
The grouse flurry and settle. GOBACK
GOBACK GOBACK FAREWELL LOCH THOM.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 09/04/2026

Never has it been clearer that Scotland might have all the energy - but also none of the power. Fuel Finder has revealed that seven of the ten most expensive places to buy diesel in the UK are in Scotland, including the highest in the UK at £2.29 per litre in Thurso. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 𝘝𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘚𝘕𝘗 𝘰𝘯 𝟩 𝘔𝘢𝘺

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Karen Marshalsay @karenclarsach.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Yes the last print delivery just arrived! My 4th new book of 2026 - think I need a rest now. This one’s for wire harpers wanting to play common trad session tunes. Available at the harp festival in Edinburgh then on my website - PDFs will be available then too

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arseblog @arseblog.com · 07/04/2026

He did so much after that horrendous injury, but there's no doubt it had repercussions on his fitness for the rest of his career. I always liked how he wanted to play the game, and boy did he give us some great moments. Good luck!

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 07/04/2026

As by barren trackway on a mountain crest with view of scree and corrie, ridge and col, a traveller might pause… —“A cairn”, by Gael Turnbull (1928–2004) – born #OTD, 7 April from WHILE BREATH PERSIST (The Porcupine’s Quill, 1992) #poem #poetry 1/3 www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/cairn/

A Cairn
by Gael Turnbull

As by barren trackway
on a mountain crest
with view of scree and corrie,
ridge and col,
a traveller might pause,
take bearings, cast
in tribute to record:
“A man came here, went on,
left common token, shared
with those who went before
and shall come after.”

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 07/04/2026

As we near the Scottish election it is increasingly important that voters know that if the SNP does as well as predicted on constituency seats, their chance of list seats is very poor. Better to vote SGP2. Here's a mono version of my flyer about it for easy home printing and sharing.

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Scotland is an energy-rich nation - yet families face sky-high energy and fuel bills. While other European countries act, the UK government is sitting on its hands. Scrap the fuel duty hike. Remove VAT on energy costs. Cut the cost of living now.

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

While in Hungary to interefere in the country's election and help the corrupt autocrat Orban, JD Vance accuses the EU of interfering in the Hungarian election. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Vance accuses EU of ‘foreign interference’ in upcoming Hungarian election while endorsing Orbán – Europe live

US vice-president claims ‘the bureaucrats in Brussels have tried to destroy the economy of Hungary’

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

These comments are a threat of genocide, plain and simple. The US President must not act in this way. What the world needs is the courage of diplomacy and the wisdom of de-escalation. The UK Labour government must act now to ensure that de-escalation takes place.

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Lesley Riddoch @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Can Highland Scotland sustain trees? Absolutely. Proof is woodland planted in Arctic Glen Garry by Ron Greer & Derek Pretswell 50 years ago with sheep & deer fenced out. Incredible damage from overgrazing over centuries. Film plus Q&A Sunday Tayport. Tix lesleyriddoch.com

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 05/04/2026

Imagine that the UK was governed from Edinburgh, and England sent all its tax revenue £billions to Holyrood. Imagine that Holyrood then gave England half back, but spent the rest on ‘national infrastructure’ projects like upgrading the A9 to a 6-lane motorway . . indyposterboy.scot/other-way-ar...

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Other way around . . - Indy PosterBoy

Imagine that the UK was governed from Edinburgh, and England sent all its tax revenue £billions to Holyrood.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Using Spotify is just as bad as using X, in some aspects, even more consequential: Spotify is actively killing music, not just exploiting musicians. All other streaming platforms are better, and have as wide a choice. Migrating your playlists is dead easy. Please leave that evil platform - now.

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