for many, it will be the space left by those no longer with us that can be felt most intensely today. Here is a poem for my dad and one for my mum. Hope the ghosts bring happy memories too .

These are both opium-based medicines. Paregoric was given to young children to relieve teething pain and send them to sleep. Other opium-based medicines for children included Mother Bailey’s Quieting Syrup and Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup

Find out more in Hooked www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/hoo...

Scribbling in a Bruntsfield cafe

#Edinburgh #monochrome #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography #photographersofbluesky #blackandwhite #bnw #Scotland #urbangaze #blackandwhitephoto #eastcoastkin #photographersunited #bw #streetphoto #street #classicmono

Please don’t dismiss as 2 anglers moaning. Stuart’s seatrout stats tell a story of ecological collapse and I see evidence in all rivers I visit. It’s way bigger than water companies shitting in water (tho they’re major players) it’s proper existential stuff 4 fish, birds, bats and ultimately us x

Bus winners #edinburgh #edfringe #buses #portobello

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He picked up a pebble
and threw it into the sea.

And another, and another.
He couldn’t stop…

—Norman MacCaig, “Small Boy”
Published in The Poems of Norman MacCaig, Birlinn 2011
#poem #poetry
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'It endorsed the holocaust, started a wordplay game to spell out the N-word and praised Hitler.'
'Yeah, but apart from that...'

Tech journalist James Ball outlines to @mrjamesob.bsky.social just how outrageous Grok's Twitter posts really were.

#Greyfriarskirkyard

May 2025. Diving back into winter. Artist: Lars A Persson at Västerbottens Museum.

Wring the Scottish rain clouds dry;
Take sleet, the driving snow, the hail;
Winter twilight; the summer’s sun slowed down
to pearl-sheen dusk on hillsides, city-roofs,
on lochs at midnight…

—Rob Butlin, “A Recipe for Whisky” 🥃
WITHOUT A BACKWARD GLANCE (2005)
Today, 17 May, is #WorldWhiskyDay!
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heh Casey did a tell ye a goat
a couple a poems published
widizthatmean
widayyemean
dizthatmeanyegetmoneyfurrit…

—William Letford, “It’s aboot the labour”
published in BEVEL, @carcanet.bsky.social 2012
#WorldPoetryDay
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I absolutely love this from @mariafarrell.bsky.social

Words for our time.

“Despair is unethical, we have a duty to hope.'”

@carlhorsley.bsky.social @gideonrachman.bsky.social @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @samfr.bsky.social @indivisible.org @therickwilson.bsky.social

If you use AI to make art....

1) You are not making art. You are not, in fact, making anything.

2) You are a hack.

3) I am not your audience. Move along.

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Sisu.
We all need sisu!

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Rowan tree and red thread make witches thine their speed