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Glasgow Review of Books @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A new review of Medha Singh’s debut collection, Afterbody. * Lèirmheas ùr air Afterbody, a’ chiad chruinneachadh de bhàrdachd le Medha Singh. * A new review o Medha Singh’s ferst collection, Afterbody. #poetry #review #book #glasgowreviewofbooks #scotland

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 15h

This is another of my new calendars for 2027, and it shows the variety of designs used for Glasgow's Victorian and Edwardian tenements. If you're interested, you can purchase it from my website at: www.thisismyglasgow.com/product-cate.... #glasgow #architecture #tenement #calendar #2027calendar

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 8h

The entrance to Graham House in the Jordanhill area of Glasgow. It was built in 1917 as a student residence for the Jordanhill Teacher Training College. It has recently been converted into flats. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #jordanhill #jordanhillcollege

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 20h

An Italian Renaissance style white sandstone Victorian commercial building on St Vincent Place in Glasgow. Designed by Campbell Douglas and Sellars, it was built in the 1870s. #glasgow #architecture #architecturelhorography #stvincentplace

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 20h

One of the many wonderful sculptures to be found on the memorials in the Necropolis in Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #necropolis #sculpture #cemetery #gardencemetery

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 16h

Lambhill Stables on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow. This was one of a number stables built to the same classical design (similar to that used for Canal House at Speirs Wharf) along the canal in the early 1800s. Cont./ #glasgow #lambhill #architecture #forthandclydecanal

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 15h

Pretty much everything that's going wrong in the world at the moment can be traced back to an out of control and irresponsible media.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 14h

opticians hate this one weird trick

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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 13h

A report from Axios explains that, in a final act of desperation over the forthcoming brutal losses Republicans are going to take, they are openly discussing “what about martial law?” Absolute lunatics.

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Glasgow Night Photography @glasnightphoto.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A couple of shots of Royal Exchange Square - December 2019

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Glasgow Night Photography @glasnightphoto.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Riverside Museum and the S.V. Glenlee - December 2019

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The David Pakman Show @thedavidpakmanshow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Comparing first press briefings

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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Trump is posting AI videos of him chasing a tiger as his party is collapsing around him and he faces a third impeachment. I guess it’s one approach!

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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It’s hilarious when people defend crazy things they’ve said with “it’s my right to say it.” Dude, no one is questioning that it’s your right, the problem is what you said is nuts.

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Lou Lyz @magpiehound.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Book 25 - All That Lives by @sirbenfro.bsky.social Spooky season continues with another Maclean mystery. Old bones, a new drug on the streets and new bodies in old graves. A really good one, this, and feels like it's setting up for something bigger.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's sometimes tempting to think of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson as quite staid and Victorian in his designs, then you visit Holmwood House in Glasgow and see design elements like this wonderfully curvaceous and minimalist pillaster. #glasgow #architecture #alexandergreekthomson

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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 12/10/2026

Tartan Noir: Scottish Crime Writing is a free online course exploring the history, themes and storytelling techniques behind Scotland's crime fiction tradition. Featuring insights from leading crime writers and academics. More ⬇️

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Exploring Tartan Noir: New online course examines Scotland’s crime-writing tradition

A new online course, Exploring Tartan Noir, has been launched to examine Scotland’s crime-writing tradition and its cultural impact.

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#Glasgow Join us on 21st October at Waterstones Sauchiehall ST to celebrate #GSFWC40! We'll have copies of our new anthology, Haverin, plus readings, chat - maybe homemade tablet too. #Haverin features British Fantasy Award winners Christopher Caldwell, Jenni Coutts and more. Get your tickets now!

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Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC today.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At the salon #CoosDay

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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At last night’s Trump rally, the crowd (and possibly also law enforcement) beat a female protester while Trump called her a “fat guy.”

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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I can’t imagine Trump’s new Press Secretary lasts longer than a month after that farcical fiasco today

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Looking up a stairwell in the former Old Cowcaddens Church in Glasgow. Designed by Campbell Douglas and Sellars, it was built in 1872. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #cowcaddens #stainedglass

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Govan-Partick Pedestrian Bridge in Glasgow at nightfall. #glasgow #bridge #nightphotography #glasgowatnight #govan

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Good morning, Glasgow. There was a brief, but rather beautiful sunrise over the city this morning, with the clouds on the eastern horizon lit from below. Unfortunately, the effect only lasted about ten minutes before it faded back into autumnal greyness. #glasgow #sunrise #autumn #goodmorning

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Serious bargain alert!

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 12/10/2026

Flinching in my hands this soiled and studded but good heart, which stippling my cupped palms, breathes – —Jen Hadfield, “Hedgehog, Hamnavoe” published in NIGH-NO-PLACE, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2007 #hedgehog #poem #poetry www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/hedgeho...

Hedgehog, Hamnavoe
Jen Hadfield

Flinching in my hands
this soiled and studded but good heart,
which stippling my cupped palms, breathes –

a kidney flinching on a hot griddle,
or very small Hell’s Angel, peeled from the verge
of a sweet, slurred morning.

Drunk, I coddle it like a crystal ball,
hellbent the realistic mysteries
should amount to more than guesswork

and fleas.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 12/10/2026

A gifted writer of #gothic & #horror fiction, Dorothy K. Haynes (1918–1987) was born #OTD, 12 Oct. Haynes & her twin brother spent 4 years in Aberlour Orphanage, from 1929 to 1933: in 2023, we republished her long out-of-print childhood memoir, 𝘏𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘠𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘬 💙📚 #Booksky asls.org.uk/publications...

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Annual Volume 53 (2023)

Edited by Craig Lamont Paperback, 240 pages Association for Scottish Literature, March 2024 Price £14.95 ISBN: 9781906841591 Order from our bookshop First published in 1973, Haste Ye Back is a lively…

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 12/10/2026

Beautiful Terrors “The sheer imaginative force of LILITH makes nonsense of our everyday notions of ‘good writing’. MacDonald aims not to make us read, but to make us dream” —David Melville on George MacDonald’s last – & very strange – novel #C19 💙📚 #Booksky www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/beau...

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Beautiful Terrors - George MacDonald and ‘Lilith’ - The Bottle Imp

A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. –George MacDonald, ‘The Fantastic Imagination’1 In the 1871 children’s fantasy At the Back of the North Wi...

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Make a war film rubbish. Full Metal Jacket Potato

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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Today Donald Trump starts a week of unhinged rallies which I’m sure will be REALLY HELPFUL to Republicans on November 3rd. Please, MORE RALLIES!

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

To be clear, I'm glad Twitter's a ghost town and all the Russian bots are gone, but this should be a lesson for anyone planning infrastructure.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

But sure, let’s keep on building hyper scale data centres.

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 10/10/2026

Here's a whole thread about our trans inclusive guidance, including the website, a professional pdf you can print, cite, and share directly, and a professional animated guidance video. Please help me share the work at inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A great resource for trans people trying to negotiate the world in these difficult and hostile times. Please spread far and wide so everyone can see it.

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Glasgow Review of Books @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

’S e cruinneachadh de sgeulachdan-goirid ficsein saidheansail a th’ ann an 'Iomall' (@luathpress.bsky.social) le Alistair Paul. Bha an leabhar air a’ gheàrr-liosta Duais Chomann Gàidhealach Lunnainn ann an 2026. Lèirmheas le Nathaniel Harrington @coimeas.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/543uh7r2

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Glasgow Review of Books @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Tha am Mòd Nàiseanta a’ gabhail àite ann an Glaschu an t-seachdain seo, agus bidh Coinneach MacIlleabthain a’ cur air bhog ‘Nicolson’s Traditions of Skye’ le Alasdair MacNeacail. Fhuair sinn cothrom bruidhinn ri Coinneach mun leabhar ùr seo. Agallamh le @poncarova.bsky.social. 👉 tinyurl.com/mryezzev

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The three stages of John Ewing Walker's development of North Kelvinside in Glasgow as viewed from the southern side of the River Kelvin. At the bottom is the remains of Walker's Bridge. Cont./ #glasgow #northkelvinside #architecture #glasgowhistory

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

James Miller's 1930 imposing Modern Classical style former Commercial Bank of Scotland of the corner of West George Street and West Nile Street in central Glasgow. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #westgeorgestreet #modernclassicalarchitecture

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins by James Young on a pediment of the Standard Building in Gordon Street opposite the Central Hotel in Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #gordonstreet

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10/10/2026

AUTUMN, by Ali Smith (2016) “Autumn 2016… the UK is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness… Here is time, ever-changing, ever cyclical. Here comes Autumn” #BookWormSat #Booksky www.penguin.co.uk/books/285171...

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Autumn

Autumn 2016: Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. And the UK is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10/10/2026

Captain of oats, braw brose, fine gruel, you are thi Scotsman’s constant fuel fae New Year’s Dey till end o Yule (we don’t do Simmer)… —WN Herbert, “TO PORRIDGE” Happy #WorldPorridgeDay to all who celebrate! 🥣 #poem #poetry #porridge poetryinternationalweb.org/pi/site/poem...

WN Herbert
TO PORRIDGE
'Auld claes and parritch...'

Captain of oats, braw brose, fine gruel,
you are thi Scotsman’s constant fuel
fae New Year’s Dey till end o Yule
(we don’t do Simmer):
oan ilka morn ye bring renewal,
thi stomach’s zimmer.

Ye greet us lyk a fu-fissed mune
and guarantee tae fill wir spune
wi fushion – see, ye’re cratert roond
wi seas o bubbles –
tranquillity is aa yir tune,
and ease fae troubles.

Grey revolutionary fur guts,
jump-starter fur thi slo-mo slutz
that sends us loupin fae wir cots
intae wir sarks
(a dram in you gets slob and klutz
back tae thir wark).

When snaa faas owre thi Border’s pale
and Southron bairns can plunk aff skail
then even English journos hail
wir Northern mannah –
are sudden experts oan oatmeal
tapped wi a sultana.

Ye’re like a clood-occludit sun
that casts grey licht oan ivrywun;
thi siller ash on grieshoch; grun
ablow thi slush
that derns oat-germs that sune will wun
thru Winter’s crush.

Tho Doctir Johnson caaed ye food
fur foals – mair fulmar him – ye’ve plooed
thru Scotia’s lard-imprisoned bluid
and freed oor veins:
dae mealie puddins dae us good?
Great Oat, explain!

Hoo dae we luve ye? Some wi cream,
wi hinny, spice or jeely reamed,
while Calvin’s crew hae sauty dreams
o fare of auld,
powred in a draaer fur bothy teams
tae slice oot cauld.

‘Auld claes an parritch’ gaes thi creh
wance we hae drunk thi Daft Deys dreh
and neath a sober, saft grey skeh
we view thi year –
we’re nae whit bettir, but we’ll treh
wi sic guid gear!

Editor's Note: Fushion—wholesomeness, strength; slutz—a leap in skating; sark—shirt; grieshoch—red-hot embers; dern–hide.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Perhaps if Lawrence of Arabia had got his tyres rotated he wouldn't have died in that bike crash, but otherwise this exactly.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is so weird, but also typical it would seem. Why the fuck did senior leaders purchase the software if they didn't know how they would implement it? (And yes, I know the answer, but fuck me it's grim.)

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Love this elegant but sleek commercial building on the corner of West George Street and West Nile Street in Glasgow. Built in 1911 and designed by Frank Burnet and Boston, it has a mix of Glasgow Style and Art Deco elements. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #westgeorgestreet

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A mermaid brushing her hair on a gravestone in the Glasgow Necropolis. This might seem like an odd thing to have on it, but it indicates the family buried in this lair is part of the clan McNair and the same mermaid features on their family crest. #glasgow #sculpture #mermaid #gravestone

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Most of AI (in business terms) is driven by a false belief that TECHNOLOGY is what drove the internet and telecommunications booms of the last two decades. Technology unlocked better communication and business processes. THOSE then drove the boom. Tech was a means to an end, not the end in itself.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you're ever offered a contract that expects you to waive your copyright, walk away. A contract is a licence to exploit rights, not own them. It's bad enough that publishers are failing in their duty to protect your rights, without actually trying to take them away from you altogether.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Bluesky, I am up for an award! You can vote for me! Please vote for me! It's for the "best children's book of the decade". Yes I realise the decade isn't over. Maybe it's counting from 2016 to 2026 or something. Vote Stowell early and vote Stowell often! nationalbooktokens.com/readers-awards

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Book Are My Bag Readers Awards

The only book awards curated by bookshops and chosen by readers like you!

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thanks to the multi-talented Iain Ronayne, I have a new website. Shiny!

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James Oswald

Website of author and farmer James Oswald.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Have these researchers ever met a Labrador?

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