AllyD
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As well as posting on this account, I use @ScottishPlaces (formerly at botsin.space) to post daily random thematic items of #ScottishHistory, generated using […]
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100 years of television.
The bust of John Logie Baird, on the front at #helensburgh
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Logie_Baird_bust_on_the_West_Esplanade.jpg
The bust of John Logie Baird, on the front at #helensburgh
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Logie_Baird_bust_on_the_West_Esplanade.jpg
File:John Logie Baird bust on the West Esplanade.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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January 26, 2026 at 8:45 AM
100 years of television.
The bust of John Logie Baird, on the front at #helensburgh
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Logie_Baird_bust_on_the_West_Esplanade.jpg
The bust of John Logie Baird, on the front at #helensburgh
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Logie_Baird_bust_on_the_West_Esplanade.jpg
Some Burns lines appropriate to events this weekend:
Here's freedom to them that wad read,
Here's freedom to them that wad write!
There's nane ever fear'd that the truth should be heard,
But they whom the truth wad indite.
Here's freedom to them that wad read,
Here's freedom to them that wad write!
There's nane ever fear'd that the truth should be heard,
But they whom the truth wad indite.
January 25, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Some Burns lines appropriate to events this weekend:
Here's freedom to them that wad read,
Here's freedom to them that wad write!
There's nane ever fear'd that the truth should be heard,
But they whom the truth wad indite.
Here's freedom to them that wad read,
Here's freedom to them that wad write!
There's nane ever fear'd that the truth should be heard,
But they whom the truth wad indite.
Two newspaper notices relating to the Carron Company from the 1770s - a time when Scottish coal miners were kept in a state of servitude.
#ScottishHistory #falkirk
#ScottishHistory #falkirk
January 21, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Two newspaper notices relating to the Carron Company from the 1770s - a time when Scottish coal miners were kept in a state of servitude.
#ScottishHistory #falkirk
#ScottishHistory #falkirk
A substantial new book presenting the visual works of artist and musician Brian McFie, along with English & French texts.
Can't be many books with back cover commendations by both Sam Ainsley and Fay Fife.
#ScottishArt #scottishculture
Can't be many books with back cover commendations by both Sam Ainsley and Fay Fife.
#ScottishArt #scottishculture
January 21, 2026 at 1:32 PM
A substantial new book presenting the visual works of artist and musician Brian McFie, along with English & French texts.
Can't be many books with back cover commendations by both Sam Ainsley and Fay Fife.
#ScottishArt #scottishculture
Can't be many books with back cover commendations by both Sam Ainsley and Fay Fife.
#ScottishArt #scottishculture
Long-standing tenants in West Wemyss in #fife facing eviction only a few months after Wemyss Estates sold out to a Torah Capital. Apparently assurances had been given...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23reny14yyo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23reny14yyo
West Wemyss tenants faces 'mass eviction' of 35 households
The move comes after a new landlord bought the properties in two villages near Kirkcaldy.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Long-standing tenants in West Wemyss in #fife facing eviction only a few months after Wemyss Estates sold out to a Torah Capital. Apparently assurances had been given...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23reny14yyo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23reny14yyo
Seeing my @ScottishPlaces bot choose Amhuinnsuidhe Castle, I tried out the new beta #wikidata mobile editor on it, to add the architect, etc.
The name is clearly #gaidhlig but Wikidata had no Scottish Gaelic label. I am wary of inventing names though. Might this C19 building be a taigh-maineir […]
The name is clearly #gaidhlig but Wikidata had no Scottish Gaelic label. I am wary of inventing names though. Might this C19 building be a taigh-maineir […]
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mastodon.online
January 9, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Seeing my @ScottishPlaces bot choose Amhuinnsuidhe Castle, I tried out the new beta #wikidata mobile editor on it, to add the architect, etc.
The name is clearly #gaidhlig but Wikidata had no Scottish Gaelic label. I am wary of inventing names though. Might this C19 building be a taigh-maineir […]
The name is clearly #gaidhlig but Wikidata had no Scottish Gaelic label. I am wary of inventing names though. Might this C19 building be a taigh-maineir […]
Yesterday I spent some time distinguishing and expanding #wikidata on the various Edinburgh Reviews published over the past 280 years.
Going on from that, I had a look at Edinburgh-based publications. Capturing these in a SPARQL Graph looks ok for these, as […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
Going on from that, I had a look at Edinburgh-based publications. Capturing these in a SPARQL Graph looks ok for these, as […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
January 4, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Yesterday I spent some time distinguishing and expanding #wikidata on the various Edinburgh Reviews published over the past 280 years.
Going on from that, I had a look at Edinburgh-based publications. Capturing these in a SPARQL Graph looks ok for these, as […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
Going on from that, I had a look at Edinburgh-based publications. Capturing these in a SPARQL Graph looks ok for these, as […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
A found page providing the floorplan for the original Transmission Gallery in Chisholm Street #glasgow 40 years ago.
During 1986 the inner "exhibition area 2" (actually a walled-in cobbled lane) began to be used for performance, notably across a couple of […]
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During 1986 the inner "exhibition area 2" (actually a walled-in cobbled lane) began to be used for performance, notably across a couple of […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
January 2, 2026 at 1:38 PM
A found page providing the floorplan for the original Transmission Gallery in Chisholm Street #glasgow 40 years ago.
During 1986 the inner "exhibition area 2" (actually a walled-in cobbled lane) began to be used for performance, notably across a couple of […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
During 1986 the inner "exhibition area 2" (actually a walled-in cobbled lane) began to be used for performance, notably across a couple of […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
Edward Zitron's thorough long-form article on "The Enshittifinancial Crisis" is as good a piece of end-year summation as you could want
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/
The Enshittifinancial Crisis
__Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird__
_This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It ’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly_
www.wheresyoured.at
December 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Edward Zitron's thorough long-form article on "The Enshittifinancial Crisis" is as good a piece of end-year summation as you could want
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/
Galileo and the Ice Stars
A fascinating article. And 'Damhán Alla’" too - Gaelic getting out and spreading in the Solar System!
https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/12/28/galileo-and-the-ice-stars/
#duncanlunan, #exploration, #space
A fascinating article. And 'Damhán Alla’" too - Gaelic getting out and spreading in the Solar System!
https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/12/28/galileo-and-the-ice-stars/
#duncanlunan, #exploration, #space
theorkneynews.scot
December 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Galileo and the Ice Stars
A fascinating article. And 'Damhán Alla’" too - Gaelic getting out and spreading in the Solar System!
https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/12/28/galileo-and-the-ice-stars/
#duncanlunan, #exploration, #space
A fascinating article. And 'Damhán Alla’" too - Gaelic getting out and spreading in the Solar System!
https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/12/28/galileo-and-the-ice-stars/
#duncanlunan, #exploration, #space
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A 2006 contract between the Post Office and Fujitsu shows that both parties were aware of bugs in the Fujitsu’s Horizon accounting software, and also that Fujitsu could take control over the system, contradicting statements by the Post Office in its action against hundreds of sub-postmasters […]
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mastodon.social
December 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
A 2006 contract between the Post Office and Fujitsu shows that both parties were aware of bugs in the Fujitsu’s Horizon accounting software, and also that Fujitsu could take control over the system, contradicting statements by the Post Office in its action against hundreds of sub-postmasters […]
A summary article on the experience of community owned wind energy assets in Scotland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62ne5l4j25o
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62ne5l4j25o
The communities seeking to cash in on wind turbine ownership
New Scottish government proposals will give local groups a head start when renewable energy projects on public land come up for new leases.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
A summary article on the experience of community owned wind energy assets in Scotland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62ne5l4j25o
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62ne5l4j25o
Squeamish reading about toilet issues at the #vindolanda fort on Hadrian's Wall. You'd like to think things have improved in 2000 years, but with the state of the English water companies that's not so sure […]
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mastodon.online
December 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Squeamish reading about toilet issues at the #vindolanda fort on Hadrian's Wall. You'd like to think things have improved in 2000 years, but with the state of the English water companies that's not so sure […]
A film project currently crowdfunding to cover post-filming costs
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/Dy420raW
#scottishculture #scottishmusic
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/Dy420raW
#scottishculture #scottishmusic
December 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
A film project currently crowdfunding to cover post-filming costs
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/Dy420raW
#scottishculture #scottishmusic
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/Dy420raW
#scottishculture #scottishmusic
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Starmer has zero convincing arguments for a £1.6bn policy that wasn’t in the manifesto. But if you’re a billionaire Silicon Valley bro - as Blair’s financial patron, Larry Ellison is - building a centralised database has many enticing possibilities
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www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id...
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www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id...
If Keir Starmer's digital ID is the question, Tony Blair is the answer
The government's wildly unpopular new policy is backed by Britain’s wildly unpopular former PM. It’s also a techno-authoritarian’s wet dream, argues Carole Cadwalladr
www.thenerve.news
December 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Starmer has zero convincing arguments for a £1.6bn policy that wasn’t in the manifesto. But if you’re a billionaire Silicon Valley bro - as Blair’s financial patron, Larry Ellison is - building a centralised database has many enticing possibilities
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www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id...
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www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id...
#otd in 1945 at Pollokshields East station in #glasgow two railway workers were shot dead and a third injured.
#scottishrailways #ScottishHistory
https://www.policemuseum.org.uk/the-pollokshields-railway-murders-1945/
#scottishrailways #ScottishHistory
https://www.policemuseum.org.uk/the-pollokshields-railway-murders-1945/
www.policemuseum.org.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
#otd in 1945 at Pollokshields East station in #glasgow two railway workers were shot dead and a third injured.
#scottishrailways #ScottishHistory
https://www.policemuseum.org.uk/the-pollokshields-railway-murders-1945/
#scottishrailways #ScottishHistory
https://www.policemuseum.org.uk/the-pollokshields-railway-murders-1945/
Looking at a photo-feature in today's Guardian about Simon Phipps' "Brutal Scotland", that's two books about postwar #scottishbuildings in just a couple of months, the other being Bruce Peter's "Modernist Scotland" […]
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mastodon.online
December 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Looking at a photo-feature in today's Guardian about Simon Phipps' "Brutal Scotland", that's two books about postwar #scottishbuildings in just a couple of months, the other being Bruce Peter's "Modernist Scotland" […]
Visited Adam Geary's "Utopia" exhibition at #dunfermline Carnegie Library Gallery yesterday.
Recalling his exhibition "The promise of tradition" at Transmission in Glasgow back in 1987, it is good to see a creator developing their project over the long term […]
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Recalling his exhibition "The promise of tradition" at Transmission in Glasgow back in 1987, it is good to see a creator developing their project over the long term […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Visited Adam Geary's "Utopia" exhibition at #dunfermline Carnegie Library Gallery yesterday.
Recalling his exhibition "The promise of tradition" at Transmission in Glasgow back in 1987, it is good to see a creator developing their project over the long term […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
Recalling his exhibition "The promise of tradition" at Transmission in Glasgow back in 1987, it is good to see a creator developing their project over the long term […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
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Uill, abair gèam a bha seo 😅 Mealla naidheachd air sgioba na h-Alba agus Steve Clarke! 👏
Rinn iad e, chluichd iad chun an diog mu dheireadh agus thèid iad gu cuach na cruinne an ath bhliadhna. Tha cothrom aig an Dànmharg fhathast tro na play-offs.
Làn-ùine🏴 SCO 4-2 DEN 🇩🇰
Oidhche mhath […]
Uill, abair gèam a bha seo 😅 Mealla naidheachd air sgioba na h-Alba agus Steve Clarke! 👏
Rinn iad e, chluichd iad chun an diog mu dheireadh agus thèid iad gu cuach na cruinne an ath bhliadhna. Tha cothrom aig an Dànmharg fhathast tro na play-offs.
Làn-ùine🏴 SCO 4-2 DEN 🇩🇰
Oidhche mhath […]
Original post on mastodon.scot
mastodon.scot
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Uill, abair gèam a bha seo 😅 Mealla naidheachd air sgioba na h-Alba agus Steve Clarke! 👏
Rinn iad e, chluichd iad chun an diog mu dheireadh agus thèid iad gu cuach na cruinne an ath bhliadhna. Tha cothrom aig an Dànmharg fhathast tro na play-offs.
Làn-ùine🏴 SCO 4-2 DEN 🇩🇰
Oidhche mhath […]
Uill, abair gèam a bha seo 😅 Mealla naidheachd air sgioba na h-Alba agus Steve Clarke! 👏
Rinn iad e, chluichd iad chun an diog mu dheireadh agus thèid iad gu cuach na cruinne an ath bhliadhna. Tha cothrom aig an Dànmharg fhathast tro na play-offs.
Làn-ùine🏴 SCO 4-2 DEN 🇩🇰
Oidhche mhath […]
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The Carpow logboat on display in Perth Museum 🏴 It was found in the Tay Estuary near Perth and dates to around 1000 BC, in the Late Bronze Age.
#Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology
#Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The Carpow logboat on display in Perth Museum 🏴 It was found in the Tay Estuary near Perth and dates to around 1000 BC, in the Late Bronze Age.
#Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology
#Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology
My copy of "Modernist Scotland" arrived yesterday. There's so much #ScottishHistory in the book. And not just buildings. The 1960 logo for #glasgow electric trains had got lost in my memory, subsumed under the later similar British Rail Intercity logo.
Glasgow's streamlined blue-yellow arrow […]
Glasgow's streamlined blue-yellow arrow […]
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mastodon.online
October 31, 2025 at 10:33 AM
My copy of "Modernist Scotland" arrived yesterday. There's so much #ScottishHistory in the book. And not just buildings. The 1960 logo for #glasgow electric trains had got lost in my memory, subsumed under the later similar British Rail Intercity logo.
Glasgow's streamlined blue-yellow arrow […]
Glasgow's streamlined blue-yellow arrow […]
An archival photo of #markinch Co-op butchers sometime in the 1930s(?) in front of a mix of horsedrawn and motor delivery vans.
#ScottishHistory
#ScottishHistory
October 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
An archival photo of #markinch Co-op butchers sometime in the 1930s(?) in front of a mix of horsedrawn and motor delivery vans.
#ScottishHistory
#ScottishHistory
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October 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I spent this morning 's extra hour enhancing #wikidata for Scottish scheduled monuments which have #wikipedia articles, using Petscan, along with the wikishootme and View it tools which are a great help in finding Commons photos.
Started to look further at the scheduled monuments which have no […]
Started to look further at the scheduled monuments which have no […]
Original post on mastodon.online
mastodon.online
October 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I spent this morning 's extra hour enhancing #wikidata for Scottish scheduled monuments which have #wikipedia articles, using Petscan, along with the wikishootme and View it tools which are a great help in finding Commons photos.
Started to look further at the scheduled monuments which have no […]
Started to look further at the scheduled monuments which have no […]