18C & 19C Scots ballads. Macpherson, Burns, Scott, & Child. R. Browning. Text theory, Book History. Semiotics. Feminist. LibSoc. MS & RA. Angry & bitter. B.A: English lit(major) & folkloristics (minor). MA: medieval lit and languages, and my PhD tried to mix all that: what happens in terms of txt/genre/value when oral txts are written down.
This profile is mainly a mirror of @spstrande@bsky. Not a bot.
RSE Investigates: The history of Scots and English in 10 objects
What can objects tell us about the history of our languages?
Prof Jeremy Smith uncovers the unique stories & histories of English & Scots through ten extraordinary objects: a bone, a piece of jewellery, a stone cross, a jug, two manuscripts, two letters, a broadside sheet, & an early printed book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8MEEn47TRc
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #languagehistory
How the Brilliant Colors of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts Were Made with Alchemy
Hot take: #opensource projects MUST stop being hosted in USA.
1000 richest people are approched. "The end of the world is here. Time to go to your doomsday bunker", they are told. The billionaires nodded. They knew this was coming. They were prepared.
So they gathered their loved ones and locked themselves in luxury bunkers. No contact to outside world.
10 years later they emerge. The world has healed. The air is breathable, people are happy. "What was the catastrophy?" they ask the first person they meet.
She screams: "THEY GOT OUT!!!"
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A video of William Neill from âPoets of the South-Westâ, created for Dumfries & Galloway Education Department in the 1980s & online via Hugh McMillan. Neill reads some of his poetry & discusses his use of Gaelic & Scots
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opff3zwIAek
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
If you've recently left school are are about 6 months into your first adult job... and are wondering if this is really all there is to your life now.
The answer is NO!
You've also got back pain to look forward too.
The Color Game. âHumans canât reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. Weâll show you five colors, then youâll try and recreate them.â I scored 39/50 but got a perfect score on one color. https://dialed.gg/
If you are writing contemporary fiction you can make sure things like sunrise times and the phases of the moon are accurate. You can do a quick Google search (add -ai to keep from getting a wrong answer from AI) and you can find calendars with those details.
You wonât read a more interesting and engaging introduction to the art and science of textual criticism than this one (and I promise thatâs not damning with faint praise.) Plus, I learned the fun new word sphalmatology. https://antigonejournal.com/2026/02/science-of-blunders-confessions-textual-critic/ via @metafilter
@attribot @linguistics In Danish (which has strong lexical similarities with German) my favourite adjective (and adverb, because thatâs how Danish works đł) is âøretĂŚveindbydendeâ, which translates into âface-slap inviting(ly)â - and yes we have a specific noun for face slap: âøretĂŚveâ which in Literary translates into âear-beat.â Incidentally, the words for beat and bitch are homonyms in Danish, but I digressâŚ
From the 2025 Recommended Reading List, check out WE WILL RISE AGAIN edited by Malka Older, Annalee Newitz and Karen Lord https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Will-Rise-Again/Malka-Older/9781668095959
Musical Diplomacy on the Global Stage: Dallam's Organ & Lymond's Spinet
The Dorothy Dunnett Society lecture 2024
Dr Jennifer L Wood compares the historical Thomas Dallam presenting a self-playing organ to the Ottoman Sultan, with Lymond taking the horological Spinet there in Pawn in Frankincense (The Lymond Chronicles 4)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQE8uW6poo
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #history #16thcentury #music #musichistory
The Scottish Highlands: Epic Mode
23 March, online â tickets from ÂŁ3.35
Prof Dòmhnall Uilleam StiÚbhart investigates the ancient heroic tales of the Fèinn/Fianna & Fionn mac Cumhail/Finn Mac Cool. These exciting, complex, & often moving stories are part of the common heritage of Scotland & Ireland.
#Scottish #Irish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #legends #mythology #epic #Highlands
⌠is, instead of making all content from an account invisible, present a warning that the account has been shut down along with information about why, and a mechanism for viewing the accountâs contents anyway, so all users can see for themselves, what this account has been doing.
(When legally possible, e.g. not child porn, death threats, etc.)
Open court documents is essentail to any democracy, as this upholds the trust in the fairness of the courts.
Mastodon should learn from that.
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Sorry, the marketplace of ideas is closed. Welcome to the pawnshop of delusions.
Tried to google trauma dumping but autocorrect changed it to trauma dumpling, the results however did not disappoint
I read Nearly all Octavia Butler's body of work, though long ago, recently reread it. It got even more potent the 2nd time through. Here's a tiny snip, via meme.
Begs the additional assertions:
To be led by a rapist is...
To be led by a performative victim is...
What does disgust for disabled people look like in its purest, most densely crystallized form, like a black diamond of hatred spat out by one of the most twisted, hollowed-out, f*cked-up criminals in US history? Imagine supporting this man and calling yourself a "patriot," a "Christian," or even a "human being"? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/general-mark-milley-trump-coup/675375/
