illandancient.bsky.social
@illandancient.bsky.social
Manufacturing engineer, product configurator, corpus linguist (Scots language), amateur drainage specialist, Englishman
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Scots in different social contexts
This is a survey to check public perceptions and attitudes towards the use of Scots in different social contexts
forms.gle
Would anybody like to do my wee survey about attitudes to speaking the Scots language in different social contexts?
forms.gle/KNKQTQMXRH1Z...
forms.gle/KNKQTQMXRH1Z...
Its arguable that Trump is also an extremely controversial figure, and a lot of people don't like him.
Whether you like Trump or don't like Trump, "things happen".
Whether you like Trump or don't like Trump, "things happen".
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Its arguable that Trump is also an extremely controversial figure, and a lot of people don't like him.
Whether you like Trump or don't like Trump, "things happen".
Whether you like Trump or don't like Trump, "things happen".
Today in Scottish public library Scots language news!
We find that Perth and Kinross Libraries have acquired a huge number of Scots language books in the last month, twenty four titles!
We find that Perth and Kinross Libraries have acquired a huge number of Scots language books in the last month, twenty four titles!
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today in Scottish public library Scots language news!
We find that Perth and Kinross Libraries have acquired a huge number of Scots language books in the last month, twenty four titles!
We find that Perth and Kinross Libraries have acquired a huge number of Scots language books in the last month, twenty four titles!
Can we not just go back to being a country that welcomes migrants and refugees, helps them to settle here, become economically active and pay taxes?
This business of confiscating people's valuables is utter bollocks, that no civilised person should consider.
This business of confiscating people's valuables is utter bollocks, that no civilised person should consider.
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Can we not just go back to being a country that welcomes migrants and refugees, helps them to settle here, become economically active and pay taxes?
This business of confiscating people's valuables is utter bollocks, that no civilised person should consider.
This business of confiscating people's valuables is utter bollocks, that no civilised person should consider.
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🚨 SHOCKING 🚨
A HUGE illegal waste dump has appeared between the A34 and River Cherwell, linked to organised crime.
Every rainfall risks toxins washing into the river.
We’re calling on the Environment Agency & Cherwell Council to act NOW.
Our rivers cannot wait. 👇👇
A HUGE illegal waste dump has appeared between the A34 and River Cherwell, linked to organised crime.
Every rainfall risks toxins washing into the river.
We’re calling on the Environment Agency & Cherwell Council to act NOW.
Our rivers cannot wait. 👇👇
November 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🚨 SHOCKING 🚨
A HUGE illegal waste dump has appeared between the A34 and River Cherwell, linked to organised crime.
Every rainfall risks toxins washing into the river.
We’re calling on the Environment Agency & Cherwell Council to act NOW.
Our rivers cannot wait. 👇👇
A HUGE illegal waste dump has appeared between the A34 and River Cherwell, linked to organised crime.
Every rainfall risks toxins washing into the river.
We’re calling on the Environment Agency & Cherwell Council to act NOW.
Our rivers cannot wait. 👇👇
I'm still absolutely raging from being accosted by a "Smartphone-free schools" campaigner this morning.
It's the absolutist terms that really rile me.
It's the absolutist terms that really rile me.
November 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I'm still absolutely raging from being accosted by a "Smartphone-free schools" campaigner this morning.
It's the absolutist terms that really rile me.
It's the absolutist terms that really rile me.
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Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
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Yesterday I posted this survey, looking at the sorts of "social contexts" where people might hear Scots being spoken.
There's been a handful of responses, enough to put together an initial ranking.
Whilst its a smooth gradient, the contexts broadly fall into three categories.
There's been a handful of responses, enough to put together an initial ranking.
Whilst its a smooth gradient, the contexts broadly fall into three categories.
November 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Yesterday I posted this survey, looking at the sorts of "social contexts" where people might hear Scots being spoken.
There's been a handful of responses, enough to put together an initial ranking.
Whilst its a smooth gradient, the contexts broadly fall into three categories.
There's been a handful of responses, enough to put together an initial ranking.
Whilst its a smooth gradient, the contexts broadly fall into three categories.
Ooh, is "gadgie" the same thing as "gadze"?
I am using the term Romani throughout. This is because the term 'gypsy' is controversial. While embraced or reclaimed by some/many members of the British Romani communities, by others here (UK) and in Europe and the Americas, it is widely considered a slur. As a gadze (outsider), I do not use it. 6/
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Ooh, is "gadgie" the same thing as "gadze"?
Yesterday I posted this survey, looking at the sorts of "social contexts" where people might hear Scots being spoken.
There's been a handful of responses, enough to put together an initial ranking.
Whilst its a smooth gradient, the contexts broadly fall into three categories.
There's been a handful of responses, enough to put together an initial ranking.
Whilst its a smooth gradient, the contexts broadly fall into three categories.
November 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Yesterday I posted this survey, looking at the sorts of "social contexts" where people might hear Scots being spoken.
There's been a handful of responses, enough to put together an initial ranking.
Whilst its a smooth gradient, the contexts broadly fall into three categories.
There's been a handful of responses, enough to put together an initial ranking.
Whilst its a smooth gradient, the contexts broadly fall into three categories.
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That’s why they call me ‘Noelstradamus’ ;)
I don’t post on twitter any more, but I access it periodically for reference. @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social has always been up front about The Apprentice “star” so I revisited one of his posts from a couple of years ago. I’ll remove this if he objects, but for now, here it is. Prophetic, isn’t it?!
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
That’s why they call me ‘Noelstradamus’ ;)
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It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"
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Would anybody like to do my wee survey about attitudes to speaking the Scots language in different social contexts?
forms.gle/KNKQTQMXRH1Z...
forms.gle/KNKQTQMXRH1Z...
Scots in different social contexts
This is a survey to check public perceptions and attitudes towards the use of Scots in different social contexts
forms.gle
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Would anybody like to do my wee survey about attitudes to speaking the Scots language in different social contexts?
forms.gle/KNKQTQMXRH1Z...
forms.gle/KNKQTQMXRH1Z...
Would anybody like to do my wee survey about attitudes to speaking the Scots language in different social contexts?
forms.gle/KNKQTQMXRH1Z...
forms.gle/KNKQTQMXRH1Z...
Scots in different social contexts
This is a survey to check public perceptions and attitudes towards the use of Scots in different social contexts
forms.gle
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Would anybody like to do my wee survey about attitudes to speaking the Scots language in different social contexts?
forms.gle/KNKQTQMXRH1Z...
forms.gle/KNKQTQMXRH1Z...
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Martin Luther burling in his grave
When I last checked, all of the places of worship belonging to non-Christian religions offered help with no questions asked. A couple of Catholic Christian churches also helped, but the rest either flat out refused, or asked if she was a member and much she'd previously donated. 2/3
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Martin Luther burling in his grave
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
What are the chances of this sort of thing being a thing in Gaza?
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Horrifying ‘sniper safaris’ saw rich foreigners ‘pay to shoot civilians’
www.independent.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
What are the chances of this sort of thing being a thing in Gaza?
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
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I wrote another substack article about #TartanNoir writers actively oppressing the Scots language.
open.substack.com/pub/chrisgil...
open.substack.com/pub/chrisgil...
More on the depictions of Scots speakers in Tartan Noir
In which I note which writers are disproportionately oppressing the use of Scots in their literary works, and attack a real life knight.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I wrote another substack article about #TartanNoir writers actively oppressing the Scots language.
open.substack.com/pub/chrisgil...
open.substack.com/pub/chrisgil...
Would we consider the phrase "at all" to be an adverb?
Or not at all?
Or not at all?
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Would we consider the phrase "at all" to be an adverb?
Or not at all?
Or not at all?
I love how the layout looks just like Amstrad Action, circa 1988.
It’s live!
Please do buy a copy if you can, I’ve put a lot of work into making it a nice object and the programs are genuinely fun and/or impressive
Please do buy a copy if you can, I’ve put a lot of work into making it a nice object and the programs are genuinely fun and/or impressive
🚀 NEW MAGAZINE ⌨️
Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages!
10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed
vole.wtf/doctype/
Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages!
10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed
vole.wtf/doctype/
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I love how the layout looks just like Amstrad Action, circa 1988.
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It’s live!
Please do buy a copy if you can, I’ve put a lot of work into making it a nice object and the programs are genuinely fun and/or impressive
Please do buy a copy if you can, I’ve put a lot of work into making it a nice object and the programs are genuinely fun and/or impressive
🚀 NEW MAGAZINE ⌨️
Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages!
10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed
vole.wtf/doctype/
Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages!
10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed
vole.wtf/doctype/
DOCTYPE magazine 🚀⌨️
’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!
vole.wtf
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
It’s live!
Please do buy a copy if you can, I’ve put a lot of work into making it a nice object and the programs are genuinely fun and/or impressive
Please do buy a copy if you can, I’ve put a lot of work into making it a nice object and the programs are genuinely fun and/or impressive
I wrote another substack article about #TartanNoir writers actively oppressing the Scots language.
open.substack.com/pub/chrisgil...
open.substack.com/pub/chrisgil...
More on the depictions of Scots speakers in Tartan Noir
In which I note which writers are disproportionately oppressing the use of Scots in their literary works, and attack a real life knight.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I wrote another substack article about #TartanNoir writers actively oppressing the Scots language.
open.substack.com/pub/chrisgil...
open.substack.com/pub/chrisgil...
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She seems to fly under the radar as a truly disgusting person so share this clip
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
She seems to fly under the radar as a truly disgusting person so share this clip
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17th-19th century Irish scribal abbreviations that look like text-speak: numeral 8 edition
"beannacht" (x2), "Connacht"
"beannacht" (x2), "Connacht"
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
17th-19th century Irish scribal abbreviations that look like text-speak: numeral 8 edition
"beannacht" (x2), "Connacht"
"beannacht" (x2), "Connacht"
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17th-19th century Irish scribal abbreviations that look like text-speak: numeral 2 edition
("cróda", "ní fada", "damh")
("cróda", "ní fada", "damh")
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
17th-19th century Irish scribal abbreviations that look like text-speak: numeral 2 edition
("cróda", "ní fada", "damh")
("cróda", "ní fada", "damh")