Pavement poetry at the entrance to the Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow. Now a live music venue, it's good to acknowledge any restless ghosts.

Love this wall, seen from a bus trundling down Possil Rd to Rockvilla, Glasgow. Railway line runs over the top, it seems to be built of huge sheets of sandstone(?) rather than hewn blocks like a normal...wall. My best guess is the holes were for moving these mammoth chunks into position c1840?

Holiday sock knitting in ferocious Croatian heat. I am nothing if not determined. Thank chuff for air con in public transport. Autumn boot socks for back home in cold rainy Glasgow. #knitting #muchneededtimeoff

First public performance tonight with my fellow absolute beginners classmates. Haven't been this nervous since I went into labour with my boy thirty years ago 😬

Good luck, @stuartdouglas.com, thinking of you for the next 90mins. May today bring you long, long, long awaited joy! (And I say that genuinely as a Celtic fan)

📣 New GCPH Publication for Glasgow 850! From Provand's Lordship to the Red Road Flats, the provision of clean water to the 1915 rent strikes & this year's Housing (Scotland) Bill, this timeline shines a light on events that shaped Glasgow's health www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...

850 years of change – A timeline of Glasgow’s health history from 1175 to 2025

850 years of change – A timeline of Glasgow’s health history from 1175 to 2025

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Just a boy in a beam with twinkly whiskers.

Can any paleographers help me out with the name of this street? Located in Govan, Glasgow 1871 - ta!

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Eight of my academic publications scalped - thieving expletive sods

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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FFS at least four of my papers on here. Hope there is going to be an authors’ class action against these thieving bar stewards

Michael Livingston@michaellivingston.com · 2y ago

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Tunnock embraces his magnificent honker. #caturday

Clementine has had enough of our shit, frankly. (Day late) #caturday

Rare and precious object, spotted in North Ayrshire Museum in Saltcoats. Medal awarded to George Guthrie (of the Ayrshire publishing family) dux in art at the High School in 1910. Donated by the legendary Fra Newbery, Scottish painter and head of Glasgow School of Art. Isn't it beautiful!

The banks were particularly bonnie this afternoon, if a bit broody. The light was amazing.

Tunnock totally respects his sister Clementine's personal space. Happy Caturday #catsofbluesky

The root of my ongoing research. A forgotten grave in a public cemetery, listing the names and dates of death of 30+ young women and girls who died while incarcerated in an Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th century. Any advice re campaigning to have it preserved? It's fading fast...

Using bottles of grog to hold flat this 19thC map showing the location of every pub, licensed grocer, and places of Christian worship in the city at that time feels a tad disrespectful to its original purpose, but they're way more effective than Blutack. At least they're mostly Scotch Whisky.

The Hielan Jessie, built 1771. The original patron must have been cock-a-hoop when a substantial army barracks was built across from it in 1795, plenty soldiers looking for a convivial beer or 10. The barracks moved to Maryhill in 1872 but the pub survives, even if her petticoats are a bit dingy.

Banana for the energy required to get my head around the 1845 Poor Law (Scotland) Act. Intrigued that 'test wards' in Glasgow Poorhouses housed suspected able-bodied women paupers by making them knit - showing they could support themselves outside, thus disqualifying them from admission.

MOVING MOUNTAINS: Writing Nature Through Illness & Disability launches in paperback on 6th March 2025! You can preorder now from the usual places & do ask your local bookshop/library for a copy too. Available as an ebook/hardback now. 📚💚 #NatureWriting #Disability uk.bookshop.org/p/books/movi...

Moving Mountains: Writing Nature through Illness and Disability a book by Louise Kenward.

'An anthology to treasure and return to' ELINOR CLEGHORN'Uniquely compelling, dynamic and powerful' LUCY JONES'Deeply affecting' TOM SHAKESPEARE'Promises to change the landscape of nature writing' LIZ...

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Louise Kenward@louisekenward.bsky.social · 3y ago

...and the birds approve! #MovingMountains from Footnote Press is available from the 26th October. This beautiful anthology has been so much work and it has all been so worth it to see it in its final form.

www.waterstones.com/book/social-... Went to this excellent book launch last week. Data confirms 'austerity' shredded public services and consequently killed people. Lots of people. 350,000 and counting. Grim, yet galvanising. Buy it (all profits to the NHS), read it, send a copy to your MP.

Social Murder? by David Walsh, Gerry McCartney | Waterstones

Buy Social Murder? by David Walsh, Gerry McCartney from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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A new book by Dr David Walsh and Gerry Mccartney exposes the devastating impact of UK austerity measures on life expectancy, calling out politicians for a ‘dereliction of public health duty’. Read more on the #SocSciHub: www.gla.ac.uk/explore/glas...

In a Madrid public park, originally a private estate, sits a quaint 18th century cottage with a lush yet humble veg plot. Turns out it's a folly, an aristocrat's whim, a sanitized imagining of peasant life. It originally housed full-size fake yokels, an old couple and a boy, sitting at a fake table.

Love the black and white stripes on the heel of this sock, but the monochrome parquet effect on the back is even funkier. Trial knit with cheap yarn to test the pattern before I knit them with rather more expensive investment wool.

Historic Glasgow from a bus window: the gateway to Glasgow's old cattle and meat market, Dennistoun. I got it in my head it was a fish market and this chap was Neptune, but not so far away from the river,duh. Any idea who was casting such an intimidating glare upon Victorian punters?

Tunnock Teacat and Clem(entine) (C)Attlee, once again take gold at the Synchronised Cat-napping World Championship.

I love this yarn, 100% wool, the colour of grouse on a Scottish hillside in autumn. The original jumper, knitted for my Beloved, was worn through at the elbows, so it was frogged, skeined, soaked, dried, trimmed, wound into new balls and reworked. A lot of work but a lovely result.