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The old packhorse bridge on the #Glenlivet Estate #scotland #silentsunday

A stone arch bridge covered in grass spans a calm river, surrounded by trees displaying autumn foliage. The scene is tranquil, with mist adding a soft atmosphere to the landscape.

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Dunkeld 🍂 #AutumnVibes 🌲 #Scotland 💛 #lovers

Two lovers strolling by the Tay River during autumn — Dunkeld bridge, yellow-orange trees in the background

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Is ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net fear de dh’iomadh frithealaiche Mastodon neo-eisimeileach as urrainn dhut cleachdadh airson pàirt a ghabhail sa cho-shaoghal. Tha am frithealaiche seo ann do luchd na Gàidhlig.

https://ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net

Mu dhèidhinn: https://ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net/about
Rianachd le: @gunchleoc

#FeaturedServer #Gàidhlig #ScottishGaelic #ScotsGaelic #Gaelic #Alba #Scotland #Scottish #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

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Island Life

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/island-life-justin-farrimond.html

This is it, this is the life. Waking up every day with sea air caressing your lungs and that view to stir your soul.
Island life.
Iona.
Yes please.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #Art #Print #Travel #Scotland #Iona #IslandLife #InteriorDesign #GiftIdeas #CoastalPhotography

Panoramic colour photograph showing rural properties with the sea and distant hills in the background.

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Here is my latest video. Created with many thanks to Cathy McIver, the project manager at Stroanfreggan Dig. Also thanks to AOC Archaeology Group, who Cathy works for, and Carsphairn Heritage Initiative.
Thanks to Jo at the CatStrand too for putting me in touch with Cathy.
The dig was funded by Historic Environment Scotland and Carsphairn Renewable Energy Fund.

https://youtu.be/dkjyCgwYyrU

#SCOTLAND #galloway
#history #ironage #archaeology #video #hillfort

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Reading Scotland with Margaret Bennet
Why Scotland Celebrates St Andrew's Day
2 Dec, online – free

Dr Margaret Bennet talks about the relevance of celebrating St Andrew’s Day today & dives into the origins of this national holiday

https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/

#Scotland #Scottish #literature #culture #StAndrewsDay

READING SCOTLAND
with Margaret Bennett

Why Scotland Celebrates St Andrew's Day

Tuesday 2nd December 2025
6.00–7.30 pm (German time) on MS Teams

www.scotland.uni-mainz.de

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The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)

The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.

—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Little White Rose”

A poem for St Andrew’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/the-little-white-rose

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scotland #HughMacDiarmid #StAndrewsDay

A small spray of white Scottish roses, some open, some just beginning to bud. Prickly stems bearing neat, fern-like, dark green foliage carry cupped, single, creamy-white flowers with pale yellow centres.

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The ninth day of snowfall……. #Aberdeenshire #Scotland

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An image of a tree canopy in a snowy landscape

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"ya jabby wee cunt"

#scotland

You don't know what fun is until you've witnessed a drunk on the Edinburgh to Glasgow train screaming "A fucking hate hedgehogs, come at me ya jabby wee cunt" while angrily circling a hairbrush that's been dropped on the floor...

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and here is that video of the talk.
The Glenkens is the wide valley of the Ken river and Loch on the eastern end of #Galloway. flanked by the Rhins of Kells on the west, with the Southern Upland Way going through it Travelling from north to south, we will take you on three walks that give both a flavour of the beautiful landscape of the glen, but also a flavour of the history and folklore of this corner of #Scotland .

https://youtu.be/XbNITSAKWW4

#history #walking #hiking #video #talk #film

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In Conversation: Aslı Tohumcu with Kirsty Logan
28 May, Glasgow Women’s Library – free

Aslı Tohumcu & Kirsty Logan unpack the power of queer feminist folklore re-tellings. Drawing on their own writing, both writers will explore how traditional folklore, whether from Turkey or Scotland, can help us understand present-day complexities

https://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/in-conversation-asli-tohumcu-with-kirsty-logan/

#Scottish #Turkish #literature #folklore #queer #queerfiction #feminism #Scotland #Turkey

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I'm slowly starting to share more images from my multi-year project "This Land Remembers", an odyssey into the last remaining ancient native woodlands of Scotland (like this one from a brilliant Autumn morning in 2025). I also have an upcoming exhibition at Gallery Photiq this April/May featuring 12 prints from the project, including this image.

#photography #LandscapePhotography #scotland #uk #nature

an autumnal scene from a birch woodland in scotland. backlighting spills through the dew laden trees illuminating golden grasses and bronzed bracken in the woodland understory. a rhythmic dance of 4 characterful birch trees are balanced across the frame

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Hey, Glasgow-local people, want to do an experiment? Come into my lab and have your eyes tracked while I study how you process sound and syntax, predict meaning, and encode memory!

One hour, and I pay £15 cash in hand.

Boosts welcome (especially people on Glasgow/Scotland-related servers!)

Edited to add link: Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/46AtS0ikaj

#Scotland #Glasgow #linguistics #experiment #psycholinguistics #academicChatter

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If we lose our languages, do we lose ourselves?
21 Feb, free online

Investigating how languages travel with people through migration, conflict, economic pressures, & chance; reflecting on the love & connection languages bring; & the losses that can come with changing languages or disappearance

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/if-we-lose-our-languages-do-we-lose-ourselves-online-tickets-1976704651825

#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #BSL #minoritylanguages #immigration #belonging

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Who Speaks Scots Where: What Crowdsourcing Reveals
2 February, Edinburgh Futures Institute – free

Jennifer Smith & Brian Aitken present findings from a new crowdsourced resource – Speak for Yersel – which sets out to map dialect use in Scots throughout Scotland

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-speaks-scots-where-what-crowdsourcing-reveals-tickets-1975120018143

#Scotland #Scottish #language #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguages #linguistics

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“Not your typical social issue film, this documentary utilizes a touch of humor & a wide diversity of perspectives to call upon people to stand up for their neighbors. In a time when xenophobia & authoritarianism are on the rise, the power of collective action here is a global rallying cry”

EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET wins the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival

https://festival.sundance.org/blogs/2026-sundance-film-festival-everybody-to-kenmure-street

#Scotland #film #cinema #Glasgow #Sundance

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What is going on in the Moray Firth?
Lots of vessels all in a line! They're mostly off-shore supply vessels

#MorayFirth #Scotland

edit to add 2 pics. Seems they're taking shelter 😃

Marine Traffic screenshot showing several vessels, in a light blue dot, just off the coast between Nairn and Findhorn. A few more vessels, like MSC Dragon, are further out in the firth.

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screenshot from windy.com showing large waves becoming smaller as they enter the Moray Firth between Nairn and Findhorn; going from a purpley-pink to a blue

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marine traffic screenshot showing many ships taking shelter between Nairn and Forres as well as between Banff and Fraserburgh. THe Moray Firth is largely devoid of vessels in the wind farms.

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Oor Wullie and The Broons celebrate 90 years of mischief and family fun https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rjxppeqdko #Comics #Dundee #Scotland #Newspapers

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I believe in democracy, real democracy, not democracy skewed in favour of the rich and powerful who, to say the least, have questionable motives. I believe that wealth and opportunities should be shared more equally, promoting cooperation and social cohesion. I believe that society should be measured by how well we look after those near the bottom of the heap. I believe that we can have these things with independence. A Scottish socialist republic would be a country to be proud of.
#Scotland

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Level Vibes: Burns Night 2026

Level Vibes spotlights the relationship between Scotland & Jamaica through the creativity of Jamaican poets, curated by Jamaican artist Fabian Thomas.

You can read the poems online, as well as articles examining Burns’s attitudes to slavery & Scotland’s connections with Jamaica during the poet’s lifetime

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/burns-night-2026/

#Scottish #literature #Scotland #Jamaica #RobertBurns #poetry #slavery #18thcentury

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Just a reminder that if you like my writing on Substack, it’s very likely that you will also like my book ‘Drystone - A Life Rebuilt’

If you buy it on bookshop.org you support me and indy bookshops.

https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15919/9781846976469

#Books #Book #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Scotland #UK

Book cover for Drystone: A Life Rebuilt by Kristie De Garis. The design shows a stack of abstract, stone-like shapes in green, yellow, blue, black and purple on a pale background. The title ‘DRYSTONE’ appears at the top, with the subtitle ‘A LIFE REBUILT’ arranged across the stone shapes, and the author’s name at the bottom. The cover is set against a mustard-yellow background.

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"More steam, MacPhail!!!" Historic Clyde puffer given restoration grant https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e52x014g3o

#Ecosse #Scotland

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Mastodon.scot is a Mastodon server mainly intended for people in Scotland or those who identify as Scottish:

https://mastodon.scot

You can find out more at https://mastodon.scot/about or contact the admin @trumpet

#FeaturedServer #Scotland #Scottish #Scot #Scots #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

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Beauty In Simplicity

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/beauty-in-simplicity-justin-farrimond.html

I love the simplicity of this small stone building on the Isle of Iona, Scotland. Not sure of its purpose but it's easy to find between the nunnery ruins and the village hall.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #Architecture #Photography #Art #Print #Scotland #BelieveInFilm #BlackAndWhite #35mm #NoirEtBlanc