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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 13h

This is audacious, Scotland bidding for the Doctor Who contract. gizmodo.com/we-now-have-...

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 15h

In what way could it not be deliberate?

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 17h

On the day he is a main candidate in a very important by-election, Facebook has *suspended* Zack Polanski’s account. This ON ITS OWN should be reason to vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras. This is foreign interference in British democracy. And guess what, the media (and Labour) is silent.

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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 16h

CILIP School Libraries Group is supporting Banned Books Week. 80+ school & public libraries, schools & bookshops are celebrating the freedom to read. Pick up a challenged book, create a display or start a conversation about censorship. Find out more: ow.ly/UP9f50ZVN8U

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Banned Books Week UK - Index on Censorship

The next Banned Books Week UK will be held 4-10 October 2026. It’s a week to celebrate the books that have been challenged, removed or silenced

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 16h

On the first few singles in 1998 there wis b-sides cried "Mince Showercap (part 1)", part 2 and part 3. We didnae huv streamin back then an jist listened tae the same songs ower and ower. part 1 features a recipe fir hummus which Ah can still recite.

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 07/10/2026

okay so this anecdote in Margaret's obituary has me crying because this is exactly what it's like being in tech and trying to anticipate failures and having men basically tell you you're being hysterical and then you have to fix it later

"the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the
Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight - which
crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight.
She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of "defensive" programming, the

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Stefanie Neumann @kokopellibfree.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#Scotstober Day 7 Ilka year, thare ur puddocks veesitin the wee pownd at the pairk tae breed. - *Ah'm nae native spikker **wird: puddock @leftpeggers.bsky.social

#Scotstober Day 7

Ilka year, thare ur puddocks veesitin the wee pownd at the pairk tae breed.

© Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree

*Ah'm nae native spikker
**wird: puddock

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Question for fans of Scottish band Idlewild: Is a "Mince Showercap" one that is full of ground meat, or is it simply a showercap that isn't very good?

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Wilson McLeod @wilsonmcleod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A satirical poem by Tyler Baxter on Sir Peter Mathieson (soon to be but not soon enough former) Principal of the University of Edinburgh

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you are writing Scots, you might have strong views about which spelling to use, but this is the objective data about usage by other writers. If you're not particularly bothered, you might just use AW.

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Does it make sense? This word family is the seventeenth most common word family, the AW spelling is the one you're mostly likely to see, with 208 writers using it. AA, and ALL are less common, with 111 writers and 102 writers. A' is least common with just a handful of writers.

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Was discussing Scots with a correspondent on Twitter, and put together a word family entry for ALL It shows how there are four competing spelling variants in modern Scots writing, with one more common than the others Its not that one is right and the others wrong, merely that you will encounter them

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ah'm gonnae borrow that fur ma ain weans.

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

With the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, its arguable that the BBC came up with wikipedia before decades before wikipedia was a thing. Instead of paying celebrities vast amounts of money the BBC could be spreading funding around more broadly, for more rolls of the dice.

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Its possible that there is an opportunity for a UK video app with a UK-centric algorithm or options for different algorithms. Or god knows, some extension of the Local Democracy Reporting Service where anyone can submit reports of local news.

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It wasn't too long ago that my niece showed me an app called Musical.ly which then somehow became TikTok a few years later. The BBC could knock out dozens of little broadcasting-adjacent apps, and then cultivate the successful ones.

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Interesting thing this, in the context of the current BBC chart review. There was a time when the BBC was an internet pioneer with the "BBC networking club". If they had a bit of foresight the BBC could have been MySpace or YouTube. Arguably its not too late for the BBC to be TikTok.

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Moireibh na Chreig @muuuz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Delete "could steal" Replace with "takes" Reason: Guardian headlines' anti-Scots/Scottish bias "The 46-minute feature film, featuring spoken parts and synchronised sound throughout, premiered in Edinburgh in October 1926, a year before The Jazz Singer" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Scottish film could steal The Jazz Singer’s crown as ‘world’s first talkie’

Scots-written Till the Bells Ring premiered a year before the Hollywood film, which featured spoken words by Al Jolson

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#Scotstober Day 7 - TAPSALTEERIE This one is a good example of the nature of spelling variation. There are lots of variants, but they are mostly homophones and one is far more common than the others. Its difficult to argue that some spellings represent a regional pronunciation.

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#Scotstober Day 7 - PEELIE-WALLIE Examination of the word family within a corpus of 21st century Scots texts

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Paul McMc @paulmcmc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Everyone concern-trolling Z Polanski is defending this.

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Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#Scotstober Day 7 PEELIE-WALLIE - Shilpit. No weel leukin. Fauchie. Pale. “Ye'v been awfy peelie-wallie syne yon vampire but yer thrapple, hen. Ye unner the wather?” “A'm fine. Noo shut up an gie’s a moothfu yer bluid, ya banger.” Repeat efter me: PEELIE-WALLIE.

A sick old man in bed looking at a thermometer.

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Sodhva an Yeth Kernewek | Cornish Language Office @saykernewek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🐀 Rath a'n Fordh Veur yn Kernewek | The Highway Rat in Cornish 🐀 Written by Julia Donaldson and translated into Cornish by Elizabeth Ellis. To help you get the most out of the book we have put together a new page with resources to help you enjoy the story: www.speakcornish.com/rath-an-ford...

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is cool. I used the "The purpose of a system is what it does" line earlier today in the same context. If those buggers are wiping biblical cities off the face of the earth, then that is what they are doing. There is nothing that can be said to justify it.

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There are approximately 800,000 Scottish-born living in England. If 31% of them can speak or read Scots (matching the proportion in Scotland), then that is about 250,000 Scots speakers in England. Is that enough to justify the creation of a Scots language GCSE in England?

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Now, if the criteria for the creation of a modern language GCSE is the number of speakers of said language in the UK, or indeed just England, then surely there is a case to be made for a Scots language GCSE in the English education system.

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was flicking through Instagram the other day and came across a video from Tessa Dunlop where she was making the case that there should be a GCSE in the Romanian language. Something to do with Andy Burnham unveiling "vocational GCSEs", and how Romanian is the most spoken foreign language in the UK

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If it was somehow devolved or outsourced, so that it wasn't bound by BBC's UK editorial line, that might help. But it would still be the same people in the building, with their same editorial sense. The National is owned by the same parent group as The Herald, but as a different editorial line.

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm not an expert in these things, but couldn't the BBC just outsource BBC Scotland to an organisation in Scotland? The BBC could just set a budget and let the organisation the telly.

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Alistair Carmichael MP @amcarmichaelmp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Much to criticise in this Tory proposal but I am particularly concerned that it rather pointedly appears to exclude most of Orkney and Shetland (and only Orkney and Shetland) from protection...

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can someone in the bookselling trade chime in? Does dispersing books, help people to find what they are looking for, more than keeping similar subject books together in the same place?

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But these Scots books are all dispered among English language books. So, instead of looking in one place for books written in Scots, you have to check each title in turn. I'm not a bookselling professional, but that doesn't seem right to me

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't want to RT or QT it, but there's a post by Publishing Scotland of their stand at a bookfair, and its kind of cool that there are a handful of books written in Scots on display. I can count three books written wholly in Scots and one book that is about a quarter in Scots.

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is that comparing the market capitalisation versus turnover?

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Anna Horroridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One of the most clear-headed threads I've seen about this so far.

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(I'm looking for a best-selling Scottish romance book that I can translate into the Scots language, as an experiment. But I don't want to pick something too long, because it will take ages)

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is 352 pages some cynical commercial sweetspot that the insatiable algorithm loves, or is there some weird ebook to paperback conversion thing going on?

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm looking at the "Scottish historical romance" genre on Amazon. For some reason it defaults to kindle rather than paperback. But when I look at the paperback versions of books, they all seem to have exactly the same pagecount, 352 pages. Is that for reals?

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From looking at that table, we can see why some courses have been cut, but its unclear what courses remain. The newsworthy story is poor communications, is there actually something we should be alarmed about?

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ah, I haven't thoroughly studied the literature in this field, and so don't really appreciate the nuances of your words. However I appreciate that the statement "If Israel wasn't wiping...." is a hypothetical. Biblical cities are being wiped off the face of the earth by Israel.

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The purpose of a system is what it does. If Zionism wasn't wiping biblical cities off the face of the earth and destroying centuries-old olive groves, then you wouldn't have to argue that is *also* something else.

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Those centuries-old olive groves that have been ripped up and burnt by the Israelis. Carefully tended to for millennia by the inhabitants of the region, now just gone, and those inhabitants and their families, executed.

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Does this movie end with Israel wiping Palestine cities off the face of the earth? Is that how it ends?

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illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wrote a Substack moaning about how the BBC Charter review from the Department of DCMS ignores the Scots language as a regional aminority language. chrisgilmour.substack.com/p/the-bbc-ch...

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The BBC Charter Renewal

In which, the BBC and the UK government negelct the Scots Language

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