Maria João Kay
@joaokay.bsky.social
Lusitania, Caledonia, art, books, history and culture.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Just back from Lisbon where it was a pleasure to stay in the Palácio Ramalhete, the setting of one of the greatest Portuguese novels of the 19th Century, Os Maias.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Just back from Lisbon where it was a pleasure to stay in the Palácio Ramalhete, the setting of one of the greatest Portuguese novels of the 19th Century, Os Maias.
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Just finished one of the few RL Stevenson novels I hadn’t read The Master of Ballantrae. Part of it is set in America and recalled for me our trip to Calistoga in 2018, when @joaokay.bsky.social and I visited the monument to him at Silverado. What a wonderful storyteller, what a great Scot.
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Just finished one of the few RL Stevenson novels I hadn’t read The Master of Ballantrae. Part of it is set in America and recalled for me our trip to Calistoga in 2018, when @joaokay.bsky.social and I visited the monument to him at Silverado. What a wonderful storyteller, what a great Scot.
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A week the nicht I'll be in Saltcoats wi @natlibscot.bsky.social scriever Taylor Dyson. Ma book Born in Kyle is a love letter tae an Ayrshire Childhood. See ye there @ardrossanherald.bsky.social
@irvinetimes.bsky.social
@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
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@irvinetimes.bsky.social
@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
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Book Week Scotland: Scriever and Freens Tour
We are a national charity bringing the benefits of reading and writing to everyone in Scotland.
www.scottishbooktrust.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A week the nicht I'll be in Saltcoats wi @natlibscot.bsky.social scriever Taylor Dyson. Ma book Born in Kyle is a love letter tae an Ayrshire Childhood. See ye there @ardrossanherald.bsky.social
@irvinetimes.bsky.social
@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...
@irvinetimes.bsky.social
@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...
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1/ Farage is once again ranting about the safety of women and girls.
Here he is with monstrous sexual predator Andrew Tate, rapist Conor McGregor, and we shouldn't forget that Farage is happy to serve as rapist Trump's errand boy. We may also note Ghislaine Maxwell's very generous prison conditions
Here he is with monstrous sexual predator Andrew Tate, rapist Conor McGregor, and we shouldn't forget that Farage is happy to serve as rapist Trump's errand boy. We may also note Ghislaine Maxwell's very generous prison conditions
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
1/ Farage is once again ranting about the safety of women and girls.
Here he is with monstrous sexual predator Andrew Tate, rapist Conor McGregor, and we shouldn't forget that Farage is happy to serve as rapist Trump's errand boy. We may also note Ghislaine Maxwell's very generous prison conditions
Here he is with monstrous sexual predator Andrew Tate, rapist Conor McGregor, and we shouldn't forget that Farage is happy to serve as rapist Trump's errand boy. We may also note Ghislaine Maxwell's very generous prison conditions
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Delighted to contribute to this great evening in St Andrews organised by my friend Marion Mason. All the profits will go to local charities. 177 tickets sold but there's room for some more of you. I'll be talking about my books & my travels in the Scottish World. Signed copies will be available.
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Delighted to contribute to this great evening in St Andrews organised by my friend Marion Mason. All the profits will go to local charities. 177 tickets sold but there's room for some more of you. I'll be talking about my books & my travels in the Scottish World. Signed copies will be available.
This 👇🏻. Excellent
This article is an antidote to the all too common trope in the UK among Brexiters and exceptionalists that Europe is somehow a "global bully" (while simultaneously being too weak and unable to rein in emotional France and vengeful Germany. Or something)
No. Europe is a port in a storm.
A 🧵
No. Europe is a port in a storm.
A 🧵
November 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This 👇🏻. Excellent
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A passage from Scots the Mither Tongue on how the language is tied into the environment we live in, and how we need it to describe that environment accurately. You can listen to the whole book on Audible.
September 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Supporting Families And Residentsu In Palestine 🇵🇸 chuffed.org/project/1452...
Supporting Families And Residentsu In Palestine 🇵🇸
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November 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Supporting Families And Residentsu In Palestine 🇵🇸 chuffed.org/project/1452...
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Ma intro tae the chapter Hame in Born in Kyle - A Love Letter tae an Ayrshire Childhood. Folk fae the Irvine Valley will ken the sang Derval Dam that I quote fae, but theres local versions o it in a wheen airts in lowland Scotland & Ulster. Ye can lug intae me narratin the haill book on Audible.
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Ma intro tae the chapter Hame in Born in Kyle - A Love Letter tae an Ayrshire Childhood. Folk fae the Irvine Valley will ken the sang Derval Dam that I quote fae, but theres local versions o it in a wheen airts in lowland Scotland & Ulster. Ye can lug intae me narratin the haill book on Audible.
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“A Scottish poet maun assume
the burden o his peoples doom
And dee tae brak
Their livin tomb”
MacDiarmid
the burden o his peoples doom
And dee tae brak
Their livin tomb”
MacDiarmid
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
“A Scottish poet maun assume
the burden o his peoples doom
And dee tae brak
Their livin tomb”
MacDiarmid
the burden o his peoples doom
And dee tae brak
Their livin tomb”
MacDiarmid
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A passage from Scots The Mither Tongue on Scots abroad - this one recalls the speech of Mary Slessor in Calabar, Nigeria.
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A passage from Scots The Mither Tongue on Scots abroad - this one recalls the speech of Mary Slessor in Calabar, Nigeria.
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Usually I only get a handful of 'Likes' on Threads. Not today!
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Usually I only get a handful of 'Likes' on Threads. Not today!
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Tae be yersel an tae mak that worth bein
Nae harder job tae mortals has been gien.
Hugh McDiarmid
Nae harder job tae mortals has been gien.
Hugh McDiarmid
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Tae be yersel an tae mak that worth bein
Nae harder job tae mortals has been gien.
Hugh McDiarmid
Nae harder job tae mortals has been gien.
Hugh McDiarmid
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Amang guid companie. See ye in Saltcoats.
November 4, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Amang guid companie. See ye in Saltcoats.
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Twa weeks the nicht, I’ll be celebratin the guid Scots tongue in Saltcoats in Ayrshire alang wi the unco talented actress an scriever Taylor Dyson. @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social Tickets are free but please register here. www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...
Book Week Scotland: Scriever and Freens Tour
We are a national charity bringing the benefits of reading and writing to everyone in Scotland.
www.scottishbooktrust.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Twa weeks the nicht, I’ll be celebratin the guid Scots tongue in Saltcoats in Ayrshire alang wi the unco talented actress an scriever Taylor Dyson. @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social Tickets are free but please register here. www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...
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My article on another young New York Mayor is up! www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Meet the grandson of an Irish nationalist who became mayor of NY
Zohran Mamdani will be New York's youngest mayor in more than a century - the youngest before him was the grandson of an Irish nationalist and largely forgotten
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November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
My article on another young New York Mayor is up! www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Scots is rooted in our land, people, culture & history. Along with words like gemütlichkeit in German, or saudade in Portuguese, words like scunner, shuilpit, sonsie and nyaff are impossible to translate accurately, and any attempt to do so will be peelie wallie compared to the original.
November 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Scots is rooted in our land, people, culture & history. Along with words like gemütlichkeit in German, or saudade in Portuguese, words like scunner, shuilpit, sonsie and nyaff are impossible to translate accurately, and any attempt to do so will be peelie wallie compared to the original.
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Like Petter Dass in Norway, a famous Danish Scot is one whose name is immortal due to the 85 hymns he composed which are sung in the church today. Thomas Kingo (1634 - 1703) was Bishop of Odense and a renowned baroque poet whose father was a weaver called Kinghorn from Crail in Fife.
November 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Like Petter Dass in Norway, a famous Danish Scot is one whose name is immortal due to the 85 hymns he composed which are sung in the church today. Thomas Kingo (1634 - 1703) was Bishop of Odense and a renowned baroque poet whose father was a weaver called Kinghorn from Crail in Fife.
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Cut benefits, cut minimum wage, raise retirement age, means test pensions, get rid of the NHS.
Why are you voting for Farage?
Why are you voting for Farage?
November 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Cut benefits, cut minimum wage, raise retirement age, means test pensions, get rid of the NHS.
Why are you voting for Farage?
Why are you voting for Farage?
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Why is the UK and Other countries not banning this absolute prick? All his businesses need banning especially X and Starlink he has basically admitted fixing the US election and now he is getting involved in the UK politics close this tosser down FFS !
November 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Why is the UK and Other countries not banning this absolute prick? All his businesses need banning especially X and Starlink he has basically admitted fixing the US election and now he is getting involved in the UK politics close this tosser down FFS !
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Many years later I met Roger Ball from AWB in the Shed at Tannadice. He was there with another Dundee soul legend, the drummer Donny Coutts.
I saw Average White Band in Honolulu in 1975 when Pick up the Pieces was No 1 in the American charts. With my Scots voice I managed to talk my way backstage to meet them. Great then to be able to dance to them 50 years on out in Dundee tonight with @joaokay.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Many years later I met Roger Ball from AWB in the Shed at Tannadice. He was there with another Dundee soul legend, the drummer Donny Coutts.
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Thanks to everyone who has bought the Audible versions of Born in Kyle and Scots The Mither Tongue. Over 1500 people have now listened to my narrations. It makes all the hard work worthwhile. 🏴♥️🏴♥️
The saiciont o twa passages fae Born in Kyle set in a recently independent Scotland. It’s comin yet for aw that 🏴. Ye can get the book on Amazon or Kindle, order signed copies fae me or lug intae me narratin it on Audible. I’m also readin fae it in Saltcoats on November 19th.
November 2, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Thanks to everyone who has bought the Audible versions of Born in Kyle and Scots The Mither Tongue. Over 1500 people have now listened to my narrations. It makes all the hard work worthwhile. 🏴♥️🏴♥️
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Interesting that neither the Tories nor Labour seem that interested in this problem. Normally finance is the invisible hand.
They should be interested. The money machine is a large part of what pays for UKG services, productivity issues and deficit, and it is a big multipler.
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They should be interested. The money machine is a large part of what pays for UKG services, productivity issues and deficit, and it is a big multipler.
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November 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Interesting that neither the Tories nor Labour seem that interested in this problem. Normally finance is the invisible hand.
They should be interested. The money machine is a large part of what pays for UKG services, productivity issues and deficit, and it is a big multipler.
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They should be interested. The money machine is a large part of what pays for UKG services, productivity issues and deficit, and it is a big multipler.
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Byline Times: Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
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Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
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November 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Byline Times: Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
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