Peigi MacKillop
@peigibheag.bsky.social
Heritage, archaeology, cooking, art, fashion, Gaelic, Berneray. Ex-librarian, rescuer of orphan data sets. I have my books, and my poetry to protect me. 💙 NHS
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Peigi MacKillop
@peigibheag.bsky.social
· Feb 16
Sadly, renewing this as my pinned post.
'The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness'.
Also; 'Under capitalism, man exploits man'.
John Kenneth Galbraith
'The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness'.
Also; 'Under capitalism, man exploits man'.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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CUNY is hiring a University Librarian. Amazing opportunity.
Academic library leaders, come join us at CUNY! Application review begins 12/10. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
Jobs | City University of New York
cuny.jobs
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
CUNY is hiring a University Librarian. Amazing opportunity.
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It is time. Time for the best thing to be found on Netflix: Fireplace for Your Home
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It is time. Time for the best thing to be found on Netflix: Fireplace for Your Home
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Swallows are extremely agile in flight and spend most of their time in the air.
My drawing is available on Folksy...
folksy.com/find/item/85...
#Swallow #Birds #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #ChristmasGifts #bsnm
My drawing is available on Folksy...
folksy.com/find/item/85...
#Swallow #Birds #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #ChristmasGifts #bsnm
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Swallows are extremely agile in flight and spend most of their time in the air.
My drawing is available on Folksy...
folksy.com/find/item/85...
#Swallow #Birds #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #ChristmasGifts #bsnm
My drawing is available on Folksy...
folksy.com/find/item/85...
#Swallow #Birds #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #ChristmasGifts #bsnm
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Wonderful forest silhouette fused glass coasters. Each made from clear, white glass and black glass powder. Fused together in the kiln.🌲
#ukgiftam #ukgifthour #christmasgifts
samphireglass.etsy.com/listing/1038...
#ukgiftam #ukgifthour #christmasgifts
samphireglass.etsy.com/listing/1038...
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Wonderful forest silhouette fused glass coasters. Each made from clear, white glass and black glass powder. Fused together in the kiln.🌲
#ukgiftam #ukgifthour #christmasgifts
samphireglass.etsy.com/listing/1038...
#ukgiftam #ukgifthour #christmasgifts
samphireglass.etsy.com/listing/1038...
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THREAD.
Hello new followers! This is my latest novel. It's about many things.
1 Old dusty objects (especially records)
2 The power of friendship, and landscape.
3 Quieter forms of magic
4 Folklore (the kind we know, and the kind still to come).
5 The differences between the 20th & 21st Century...
Hello new followers! This is my latest novel. It's about many things.
1 Old dusty objects (especially records)
2 The power of friendship, and landscape.
3 Quieter forms of magic
4 Folklore (the kind we know, and the kind still to come).
5 The differences between the 20th & 21st Century...
November 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
THREAD.
Hello new followers! This is my latest novel. It's about many things.
1 Old dusty objects (especially records)
2 The power of friendship, and landscape.
3 Quieter forms of magic
4 Folklore (the kind we know, and the kind still to come).
5 The differences between the 20th & 21st Century...
Hello new followers! This is my latest novel. It's about many things.
1 Old dusty objects (especially records)
2 The power of friendship, and landscape.
3 Quieter forms of magic
4 Folklore (the kind we know, and the kind still to come).
5 The differences between the 20th & 21st Century...
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I’ve just made the mistake of flicking through the House of Bruar catalogue while suffering a Covid fever.
What in the name of Atholl is going on?👇
What in the name of Atholl is going on?👇
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I’ve just made the mistake of flicking through the House of Bruar catalogue while suffering a Covid fever.
What in the name of Atholl is going on?👇
What in the name of Atholl is going on?👇
Short wheelbase Landie?
Quilted gilet?
Cords?
Brogues?
Army jumper?
Lads, it's House of Bruar!
Quilted gilet?
Cords?
Brogues?
Army jumper?
Lads, it's House of Bruar!
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Short wheelbase Landie?
Quilted gilet?
Cords?
Brogues?
Army jumper?
Lads, it's House of Bruar!
Quilted gilet?
Cords?
Brogues?
Army jumper?
Lads, it's House of Bruar!
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This is a great project: a reverse advent calender to donate to an Edinburgh foodbank this Xmas. Have a keek: edinburghfoodproject.org/reverse-adve...
Reverse Advent Calendar 2025 - Edinburgh Food Project
Reverse Advent Calendar With Christmas rapidly approaching, foodbanks are bracing themselves for a tough festive season. With rising food costs and the cold weather setting in, many people in Edinburg...
edinburghfoodproject.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is a great project: a reverse advent calender to donate to an Edinburgh foodbank this Xmas. Have a keek: edinburghfoodproject.org/reverse-adve...
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Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency & its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott
25 Nov, Glasgow. Free
@leoniejungen.bsky.social investigates CLAN-ALBIN, a novel by Walter Scott’s contemporary, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leonie-jun...
25 Nov, Glasgow. Free
@leoniejungen.bsky.social investigates CLAN-ALBIN, a novel by Walter Scott’s contemporary, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leonie-jun...
Leonie Jungen | Tales of a Grandmother
Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency and Its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency & its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott
25 Nov, Glasgow. Free
@leoniejungen.bsky.social investigates CLAN-ALBIN, a novel by Walter Scott’s contemporary, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leonie-jun...
25 Nov, Glasgow. Free
@leoniejungen.bsky.social investigates CLAN-ALBIN, a novel by Walter Scott’s contemporary, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leonie-jun...
Opposite of unit is tinu. @themerl.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Opposite of unit is tinu. @themerl.bsky.social
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Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS?
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS?
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
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Dress as the man you want to be.
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Dress as the man you want to be.
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BEYOND THE MARGINS
Streetreads are launching “A Place We Can Go”, a poetry zine written and designed by the people who use Streetreads - at Push The Boat Out poetry festival.
Date: 21st Nov, 4pm
Venue: The Pleasance: Upper Hall
MORE ON STREETREADS:
www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/streetread...
Streetreads are launching “A Place We Can Go”, a poetry zine written and designed by the people who use Streetreads - at Push The Boat Out poetry festival.
Date: 21st Nov, 4pm
Venue: The Pleasance: Upper Hall
MORE ON STREETREADS:
www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/streetread...
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
BEYOND THE MARGINS
Streetreads are launching “A Place We Can Go”, a poetry zine written and designed by the people who use Streetreads - at Push The Boat Out poetry festival.
Date: 21st Nov, 4pm
Venue: The Pleasance: Upper Hall
MORE ON STREETREADS:
www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/streetread...
Streetreads are launching “A Place We Can Go”, a poetry zine written and designed by the people who use Streetreads - at Push The Boat Out poetry festival.
Date: 21st Nov, 4pm
Venue: The Pleasance: Upper Hall
MORE ON STREETREADS:
www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/streetread...
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Interested studying human evolution at @ucl.ac.uk with a dedicated MSc in palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology, Ice Age fauna, isotopes, aDNA, ancient environments & more?
Get in touch for a chat or even a tour of the department with me.
@uclarchaeology.bsky.social #PaPa
🏺🦣🧪
Get in touch for a chat or even a tour of the department with me.
@uclarchaeology.bsky.social #PaPa
🏺🦣🧪
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Interested studying human evolution at @ucl.ac.uk with a dedicated MSc in palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology, Ice Age fauna, isotopes, aDNA, ancient environments & more?
Get in touch for a chat or even a tour of the department with me.
@uclarchaeology.bsky.social #PaPa
🏺🦣🧪
Get in touch for a chat or even a tour of the department with me.
@uclarchaeology.bsky.social #PaPa
🏺🦣🧪
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Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian.
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
Elspeth King obituary
Museum director and curator of the People’s Palace in Glasgow who reshaped it into a living record of the city’s social history
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian.
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
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This is what happens if you leave the To Do list out of the fridge over the weekend
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This is what happens if you leave the To Do list out of the fridge over the weekend
Just watched @realgdt.bsky.social Frankenstine in the cinema. My father was a poet. His favourite poem in English was Ozymandius. I cried at the reading. Many years ago I bought this original print. Bankrupted myself. @agrayarchive.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Just watched @realgdt.bsky.social Frankenstine in the cinema. My father was a poet. His favourite poem in English was Ozymandius. I cried at the reading. Many years ago I bought this original print. Bankrupted myself. @agrayarchive.bsky.social
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In Scottish fairy folklore, we love stories about cats! Scottish mythology explained; Cat Sìth the fairy cat! #scotland #scottishculture #mythology #cat #finalfantasy7
November 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
In Scottish fairy folklore, we love stories about cats! Scottish mythology explained; Cat Sìth the fairy cat! #scotland #scottishculture #mythology #cat #finalfantasy7
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Wendy Carlos diorama from heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com (it was her birthday on Friday but I didn't realize!)
November 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Wendy Carlos diorama from heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com (it was her birthday on Friday but I didn't realize!)
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Vanity isn't worth the life of a child. Get these stupid deadly toys off of our streets.
Trigger warning.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
November 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Vanity isn't worth the life of a child. Get these stupid deadly toys off of our streets.
Rattle
On the steps of the museum
I sat down and wept
And shook into a sock
Rattling with nails
Emptied out onto the step
I saw a skeletonised fish
Eaten by beetles
Hair taken by drifts
My wig is hot and itchy
A squid
As long as a house
Captured in a tube
Trapped in glass
#PegsPoyums
On the steps of the museum
I sat down and wept
And shook into a sock
Rattling with nails
Emptied out onto the step
I saw a skeletonised fish
Eaten by beetles
Hair taken by drifts
My wig is hot and itchy
A squid
As long as a house
Captured in a tube
Trapped in glass
#PegsPoyums
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Rattle
On the steps of the museum
I sat down and wept
And shook into a sock
Rattling with nails
Emptied out onto the step
I saw a skeletonised fish
Eaten by beetles
Hair taken by drifts
My wig is hot and itchy
A squid
As long as a house
Captured in a tube
Trapped in glass
#PegsPoyums
On the steps of the museum
I sat down and wept
And shook into a sock
Rattling with nails
Emptied out onto the step
I saw a skeletonised fish
Eaten by beetles
Hair taken by drifts
My wig is hot and itchy
A squid
As long as a house
Captured in a tube
Trapped in glass
#PegsPoyums
Vision
I walk through a tunnel of trees
Bent towards each other
They have all the gossip
My boots are soft on needle mulch
Walking to a light
In a clearing, a candlelit table
Heaped with porter and crowdie
My Grandmothers sit
A last night with those I never knew
But wished to
#PegsPoyums
I walk through a tunnel of trees
Bent towards each other
They have all the gossip
My boots are soft on needle mulch
Walking to a light
In a clearing, a candlelit table
Heaped with porter and crowdie
My Grandmothers sit
A last night with those I never knew
But wished to
#PegsPoyums
November 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Vision
I walk through a tunnel of trees
Bent towards each other
They have all the gossip
My boots are soft on needle mulch
Walking to a light
In a clearing, a candlelit table
Heaped with porter and crowdie
My Grandmothers sit
A last night with those I never knew
But wished to
#PegsPoyums
I walk through a tunnel of trees
Bent towards each other
They have all the gossip
My boots are soft on needle mulch
Walking to a light
In a clearing, a candlelit table
Heaped with porter and crowdie
My Grandmothers sit
A last night with those I never knew
But wished to
#PegsPoyums
I've bought both Smiley and Columbo and can confirm they are excellent.
Just one last thing...
Recipients loved them.
Just one last thing...
Recipients loved them.
Decorations that you can send as greetings cards! George Smiley! Joni Mitchell! Big Daddy! Giant Haystacks! Columbo! Available from: heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I've bought both Smiley and Columbo and can confirm they are excellent.
Just one last thing...
Recipients loved them.
Just one last thing...
Recipients loved them.
Suzi Quatro is a goddess # TOTP
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Suzi Quatro is a goddess # TOTP