J MacKay esq.
@blueskymackay.bsky.social
Views not my own. Yer actual anarchist. The Jags. Fast Food Salesperson from Outer Mongolia. Big Yak anyone?
It's a busy week on the session scene in Scotland coming up:
Sunday 9th, Glasgow, Babbity Bowster, 2-5pm.
Thursday 13th, Edinburgh, Argyle and Cellar Bar, 7-10pm.
Sunday 16th Inverness, McGregors, 2-4pm
#gypsyjazz #manouche #django
Sunday 9th, Glasgow, Babbity Bowster, 2-5pm.
Thursday 13th, Edinburgh, Argyle and Cellar Bar, 7-10pm.
Sunday 16th Inverness, McGregors, 2-4pm
#gypsyjazz #manouche #django
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It's a busy week on the session scene in Scotland coming up:
Sunday 9th, Glasgow, Babbity Bowster, 2-5pm.
Thursday 13th, Edinburgh, Argyle and Cellar Bar, 7-10pm.
Sunday 16th Inverness, McGregors, 2-4pm
#gypsyjazz #manouche #django
Sunday 9th, Glasgow, Babbity Bowster, 2-5pm.
Thursday 13th, Edinburgh, Argyle and Cellar Bar, 7-10pm.
Sunday 16th Inverness, McGregors, 2-4pm
#gypsyjazz #manouche #django
July 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Glasgow Monthly Gypsy Jazz Session: 13/7 at Babbity Bowsters, 2-5pm. Tune of the month is "If I Had You". Players and punters welcome. #babbitybowster #glasgowjazz #jazzmanouche #gypsyjazz
July 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Glasgow Monthly Gypsy Jazz Session: 13/7 at Babbity Bowsters, 2-5pm. Tune of the month is "If I Had You". Players and punters welcome. #babbitybowster #glasgowjazz #jazzmanouche #gypsyjazz
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#OtD 27 Jun 1905 after a sailor was shot for objecting to the rotten food on the Russian ship Potemkin, the crew mutinied, shot their officers, raised the red flag, and formed a council to run the ship, with an anarchist as chair stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9919...
June 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
#OtD 27 Jun 1905 after a sailor was shot for objecting to the rotten food on the Russian ship Potemkin, the crew mutinied, shot their officers, raised the red flag, and formed a council to run the ship, with an anarchist as chair stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9919...
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Putting this story out there for free. Please read and share. Collectively we might be able to get an answer to the first question...
(I answer the second one in the blog)
open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...
(I answer the second one in the blog)
open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...
June 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Putting this story out there for free. Please read and share. Collectively we might be able to get an answer to the first question...
(I answer the second one in the blog)
open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...
(I answer the second one in the blog)
open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...
Sunday 11th May at Babbity Bowsters Glasgow, 2-5pm. Monthly Gypsy Jazz session. Punters and players welcome #gypsyjazz #jazzmanouche #glasgow #glasgowjazz
May 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Sunday 11th May at Babbity Bowsters Glasgow, 2-5pm. Monthly Gypsy Jazz session. Punters and players welcome #gypsyjazz #jazzmanouche #glasgow #glasgowjazz
Not much time left to back this : www.kickstarter.com/projects/212... #DickGaughan
Dick Gaughan: R/evolution 1969-84 - an 8-disc box set
Preservation, celebration, remuneration - recreating a fabulous lost legacy of music and rewarding the artist directly
www.kickstarter.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Not much time left to back this : www.kickstarter.com/projects/212... #DickGaughan
Petition parliament to have Tour De France on free to air TV in the UK. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... #TDF @nedboulting.bsky.social #ITV @itvsport.bsky.social @ukparliament.parliament.uk
April 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Petition parliament to have Tour De France on free to air TV in the UK. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... #TDF @nedboulting.bsky.social #ITV @itvsport.bsky.social @ukparliament.parliament.uk
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Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves...
A new exhibition at Maryhill Burgh Halls focuses on the life and times of local Suffragette, Jessie Stephen MBE.
As a teenage activist, she took part in the first of the "Scottish Outrages", involving acid attacks on pillar boxes, in Glasgow in 1913.
A new exhibition at Maryhill Burgh Halls focuses on the life and times of local Suffragette, Jessie Stephen MBE.
As a teenage activist, she took part in the first of the "Scottish Outrages", involving acid attacks on pillar boxes, in Glasgow in 1913.
March 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves...
A new exhibition at Maryhill Burgh Halls focuses on the life and times of local Suffragette, Jessie Stephen MBE.
As a teenage activist, she took part in the first of the "Scottish Outrages", involving acid attacks on pillar boxes, in Glasgow in 1913.
A new exhibition at Maryhill Burgh Halls focuses on the life and times of local Suffragette, Jessie Stephen MBE.
As a teenage activist, she took part in the first of the "Scottish Outrages", involving acid attacks on pillar boxes, in Glasgow in 1913.
March 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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March 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
IWD greetings and solidarity to all. youtu.be/6-tc4uUtk8g?... #IWD
Ivor Cutler and Linda Hirst - Women of the World
YouTube video by profappleblossom1
youtu.be
March 8, 2025 at 7:14 AM
IWD greetings and solidarity to all. youtu.be/6-tc4uUtk8g?... #IWD
Monthly Gypsy Jazz session coming up at Babbity Bowsters Glasgow, 2-5 pm, Sun 14/3. Tune of the month 'Dream of You' #Jazzmanouche #gypsyjazz #djangoreinhardt #glasgow #glasgowjazz
March 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Monthly Gypsy Jazz session coming up at Babbity Bowsters Glasgow, 2-5 pm, Sun 14/3. Tune of the month 'Dream of You' #Jazzmanouche #gypsyjazz #djangoreinhardt #glasgow #glasgowjazz
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This is true. A pal of mine who is a policeman went to a Scottish island recently to investigate a missing person and when the locals found out he was a Christian they stuck him in a giant human-shaped willow branch construction and burned him alive.
February 17, 2025 at 6:08 AM
This is true. A pal of mine who is a policeman went to a Scottish island recently to investigate a missing person and when the locals found out he was a Christian they stuck him in a giant human-shaped willow branch construction and burned him alive.
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📝Experiences of an Internationalist in #YPJ:
"With YPJ we had found a hidden treasure – a treasure of hope and trust”
ypg-ypj-international.com/experiences-...
"With YPJ we had found a hidden treasure – a treasure of hope and trust”
ypg-ypj-international.com/experiences-...
“With YPJ we had found a hidden treasure – a treasure of hope and trust”
I wrote this text during my time in the YPJ in 2019, and now that the YPJ is again resisting with full commitment and some of the comrades have become immortal, I think it is important to share my imp...
ypg-ypj-international.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
📝Experiences of an Internationalist in #YPJ:
"With YPJ we had found a hidden treasure – a treasure of hope and trust”
ypg-ypj-international.com/experiences-...
"With YPJ we had found a hidden treasure – a treasure of hope and trust”
ypg-ypj-international.com/experiences-...
Hot Club of Babbity monthly session 9/2/25, 2-5pm at Babbity Bowsters Glasgow. #GypsyJazz #glasgow
February 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Hot Club of Babbity monthly session 9/2/25, 2-5pm at Babbity Bowsters Glasgow. #GypsyJazz #glasgow
FYC act.gp/3pIM9ns
If you agree the govt should not strip away our right to protest, add your name
act.gp
January 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
FYC act.gp/3pIM9ns
I think I'd rather hear the opinions of an arborist. What next, "Geologists say open heart surgery the only option", "Injured cat needs to be put down says chiropodist".
January 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I think I'd rather hear the opinions of an arborist. What next, "Geologists say open heart surgery the only option", "Injured cat needs to be put down says chiropodist".
Top night at Old Blind Dogs #OBD #CelticConnections
January 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Top night at Old Blind Dogs #OBD #CelticConnections
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1k followers @partickthistle.bsky.social
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January 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
1k followers @partickthistle.bsky.social
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We are listening however we only have so much resource to go around! If the audience grows - say up to 1,000 - putting resource into posting on @partickthistle.bsky.social is a stronger argument.
hint, hint
hint, hint
January 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We are listening however we only have so much resource to go around! If the audience grows - say up to 1,000 - putting resource into posting on @partickthistle.bsky.social is a stronger argument.
hint, hint
hint, hint