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NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Glasgow launch
8 September, Waterstones Sauchiehall St, Glasgow – £5 / £12 with book

Celebrate the latest issue with a mix of readings of poetry, short fiction & non-fiction in English, Gaelic & Scots – all welcome!

https://www.waterstones.com/events/new-writing-scotland-44-launch/glasgow-sauchiehall-street

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortfiction #writingcommunity #Glasgow

The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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An Lanntair: Join children’s author Louisa MacDougall to celebrate her new book The Ugly Puffling and other stories. There will be story time, crafts and wildlife-themed games for primary-aged children. Pop in at any time between 12.30 and 2.30pm
The post https://lanntair.com/events/event/the-ugly-puffling-and-other-stories-book-launch/ appeared first on https://lanntair.com.

Source: https://lanntair.com/events/event/the-ugly-puffling-and-other-stories-book-launch/

#Gaelic #Gàidhlig

What's coming up in your yard this week?
#Chickweed #Foraging #Herbalism #WildFood #Herbs #Plants #Botany #FoodAsMedicine #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Druid #Garden #Solarpunk
↳ (self-reply) More in today's issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/zero-percent-asked-for-this-fuckery-now-name-the-lake-and-come-sit-down#3-things-that-you-absolutely-need-t?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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Read this part: skip it if pregnant or nursing, and talk to a doctor first if you take thyroid medication or sedatives, have an autoimmune condition, or any liver trouble. It's a nightshade. Short courses.

What do you reach for when the jaw won't unclench?

#Herbalism #Ashwagandha #FoodAsMedicine #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Druid #Pagan #Witch #Plants #Apothecary #Wellbeing #Folklore
↳ reply: Today's Gathering → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-trump-is-dying-and-we-all-get-to-watch#the-nurturing-food-as-medicine?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Half a teaspoon of ashwagandha root, cold into whole-milk yogurt, cinnamon, a thread of honey. Evening. No heat — everything else this month has already been simmered. It tastes like a barn in the rain and the yogurt carries it

There's no Gaelic name for this plant. It never grew anywhere near that coast, and I like saying so — the pharmacopoeia belongs to everybody or it belongs to none #Herbalism #Ashwagandha #FoodAsMedicine #Gaelic #Druid #Pagan #Witch #Plants #Apothecary
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Pangrattato. Italian grandmothers have called it poor man's parmesan for four hundred years. Cost: nothing. Keeps a week in a jar.

Aran — bread.

What does your house do with the stale end?

#FoodAsMedicine #Cooking #Frugal #MutualAid #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Bread #Kitchen #Herbalism #Pagan #Druid #Food
The rest of today's issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-trump-is-dying-and-we-all-get-to-watch#the-nurturing-food-as-medicine?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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The heel of the loaf and the two hard slices nobody wanted. Tear them with your hands — never a knife, the ragged edges are the entire point. Dry skillet, medium, a glug of oil, a smashed clove, salt. Six minutes, shaking.

They go the color of a paper bag and the kitchen smells like a bakery.

#FoodAsMedicine #Cooking #Frugal #MutualAid #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Bread #Kitchen #Herbalism #Pagan #Druid #Food
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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ✍️🏛️ At Cicero’s request, his freed slave and secretary Marcus Tullius Tiro devised Tironian notes, a #shorthand system of roughly 4,000 symbols for #Latin.

Used to transcribe the orator’s speeches, it expanded to 14,000 signs before emperors suppressed it as diabolical. The symbol ⁊ survives today as the Tironian et in #Unicode, preserved by #Irish and #Gaelic #typography.

👉 https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/discover-the-ancient-roman-shorthand-writing-system-with-4000-symbols-commissioned-by-cicero.html

#cicero #history #rome #writing #language #linguistics #typing #ancientrome #science

An talamh fodhad — the earth beneath you, keeping its own record of what this summer was.

What's the plant in your ditch that hasn't opened yet?
#Phenology #Nature #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Druid #Pagan #Herbalism #Summer #Goldenrod #Weather #Solidarity #Writing
Today's Gathering, whole → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-trump-is-dying-and-we-all-get-to-watch?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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The tulip poplars started dropping yellow leaves in August. Not autumn. Thirst.

The ground went dry and the tree made a decision about it.

Fanaidh an talamh — the earth waits.

What's quitting early where you are?

#Nature #Phenology #Gaelic #Druid #Summer #Trees
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Fanaidh an talamh — the earth waits. It has done this before. It will do it again after every one of us is finished arguing.

What's gone early where you are this year?

#Nature #Phenology #Seasonal #Trees #Summer #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Druid #NatureWriting #Georgia #Kudzu #Cicadas

Today's Gathering → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/firesale-everything-blanche-must-go-also-the-uss-lincoln-is-an-awolfest?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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The tulip poplars have begun dropping yellow leaves in August. Not autumn — thirst. The ground went dry and the tree made a decision about it, ahead of schedule, the way anything does when the season asks too much.

Kudzu in bloom on every roadside, smelling absurdly of grape soda. Cicada shells still gripping the pine bark where the bodies climbed out.

#Nature #Phenology #Seasonal #Trees #Summer #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Druid #NatureWriting #Georgia #Kudzu #Cicadas
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Расследования ФБК Алексея Навального
документы, оффлайн
#Расследования #ФБК #Алексей Навальный #Навальный
#документы, #оффлайн
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/898

English Books Graded Readers Collection
Английский язык, книги на английском языке 🇮🇴
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/897

Португальский язык, Portuguese
Português, Португальська мова 🇵🇹
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/896

Голландский язык, Nederlandse taal en letterkunde in het Nederlands,
Dutch language and literature in Dutch, нидерландский, Голландська мова 🇳🇱
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/895

Old English, Древнеанглийский язык, Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc
#Old English, #Древнеанглийский язык, #Ænglisc, #Anglisc, #Englisc
Давньоанглійська мова, англосаксонский, Anglo-Saxon ⚔
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/894

Латышский язык, latviešu valoda
Latvian language, Латвійська мова, Латвийский язык 🇱🇻
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/893

Эстонский язык, литература на эстонском
#Eesti keel, eestikeelne kirjandus, eesti raamatud, eesti kirjandus, eesti õpikud, Eesti, Естонська мова, література естонською, Естонські книги, естонська література, підручники естонської, #Естонія Estonian language, literature in #Estonian, Estonian books, Estonian literature, Estonian textbooks, #Estonia Эстонские книги, эстонская литература, учебники эстонского, Эстония 🇪🇪
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/892

Норвежский язык, литература на норвежском языке
Norsk språk, litteratur på norsk, norske bøker, norsk litteratur, norske lærebøker, Norge, Norwegian language, literature in Norwegian, Norwegian books, Norwegian literature, Norwegian textbooks, Norway, Норвезька мова, література норвезькою мовою, норвезькі книги, норвезька література, норвезька підручники, Норвегія, норвежские книги, норвежская литература, учебники норвежского, Норвегия 🇳🇴
#Норвежский язык,
#Norsk språk, #litteratur på norsk, #norske bøker, #norsk litteratur, #norske lærebøker, #Norge, #Norwegian language, #literature in Norwegian, #Norwegian books, #Norwegian literature, #Norwegian textbooks, #Norway
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/891

Вьетнамский язык, Tiếng Việt, sách bằng tiếng Việt.
книги на вьетнамском языке. Vietnamese language, books in Vietnamese. В'єтнамська мова, книги в'єтнамською мовою. 🇻🇳
#Вьетнамский язык, #Tiếng Việt, #sách bằng tiếng Việt.
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/890

Непальский язык, नेपाली भाषा, नेपाली भाषामा पुस्तकहरू।
книги на непальском языке. Непальська мова, книги непальською мовою. Nepali Language books in Nepali language. 🇳🇵
#Непальскийязык, #नेपालीभाषा, #नेपाली #भाषामा #पुस्तकहरू।
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/889

Icelandic Language
Исландский язык Íslensk tunga Ісландська мова Исландия 🇮🇸
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/888

Celtic languages (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Breton)
#Celtic languages (#Irish, #Scottish #Gaelic, #Welsh, #Breton)
Кельтські мови (ірландська, шотландська гельська, валлійська, бретонська). Кельтские языки (ирландский, шотландский гэльский, валлийский, бретонский), книги на кельтских языках, Шотландия Ирландия. Keltnesk tungumál (írska, skosk gelíska, velska, bretónska), bækur á keltneskum tungumálum. Cànanan Ceilteach (Gaeilge, Gàidhlig na h-Alba, Cuimris, Breatannais), leabhraichean ann an cànanan Ceilteach. 🇮🇪
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/887

Датский язык, датская литература
книги на датском языке. Danish language, Danish literature, books in Danish. Deense taal, Deense literatuur, boeken in het Deens. Датська мова, датська література книги датською мовою. 🇩🇰
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/886

Люксембургский язык
Luxembourgish Language, Люксембурзька мова Lëtzebuergesch 🇱🇺
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/885

Литва. Литовский язык, литовская литература, книги на литовском языке. Учебники, история, философия, литература, архитектура.
Lietuva. Lietuvių kalba, lietuvių literatūra, knygos lietuvių kalba. Vadovėliai, istorija, filosofija, literatūra, architektūra, dvarai. Li

Шэнизм
Кита‌йская наро‌дная рели‌гия (кит. трад. 中國民間信仰, упр. 中国民间信仰, пиньинь Zhōngguó mínjiān xìnyăng, палл. Чжунго миньцзянь синьян) или шэни‌зм (от кит. 神, пиньинь shén, палл. шэнь «божество, дух») — комплекс религиозных представлений, сложившихся в ходе исторического развития китайской цивилизации. Является эклектическим сочетанием религиозных верований и практик, основанных, прежде всего, на почитании предков и сил природы, добрых и злых духов, а также Неба; примерно к XI веку сложился синкретизм, основанный на буддийских представлениях о карме и перерождении, а также даосском учении об иерархии богов.
религии, верования, учения, religions, beliefs, teachings, Китай, China, релігії, вірування, вчення
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/873

Эсперанто, Esperanto, Есперанто
foreign languages, fiction, world foreign language foreign literature, иностранные языки, художественная литература, мировая иноязычная зарубежная литература, іноземні мови, художня література, світова іншомовна зарубіжна література, fremdaj lingvoj, fikcio, monda fremdlingva fremda literaturo.
#Эсперанто, #Esperanto, #Есперанто
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/872

Книги на испанском языке Libros en español
зарубежная литература, художественная литература, испанская литература, испаноязычная литература, испанский язык, Испания, латинская америка, мировая литература, испанский, literatura extranjera, ficción, literatura española, literatura en lengua española, lengua española, españa, américa latina, literatura mundial, español, Books in Spanish, foreign literature, fiction, Spanish literature, Spanish-language literature, Spanish language, Spain, Latin America, world literature, Spanish, Книги іспанською мовою, зарубіжна література, художня література, іспанська література, іспаномовна література, іспанська мова, Іспанія, латинська америка, світова література, іспанська 🇪🇸
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/871

Книги на испанском языке Libros en español архивы архіви archives archivo
зарубежная литература, художественная литература, испанская литература, испаноязычная литература, испанский язык, #Испания, #латинскаяамерика, #мироваялитература, #испанский, #literatura extranjera, #ficción, #literatura española, literatura en lengua española, #lengua española, #españa, #américa latina, #literatura mundial, #español, Books in Spanish, #foreign literature, fiction, #Spanish literature, Spanish-language literature, Spanish language, #Spain, Latin America, world literature, Spanish, Книги іспанською мовою, #зарубіжналітература, #художнялітература, #іспанськалітература, іспаномовна література, #іспанськамова, #Іспанія, #латинськаамерика, #світовалітература, #іспанська 🇪🇸
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/870

Биоакустика и биомагнетизм, Bioacoustics and biomagnetism, Біоакустика
биологическая акустика біологічна акустика biological acoustics, наука, физика, биология, коммуникация животных, звук, science, physics, biology, animal communication, sound,
#Bioacoustics and #biomagnetism, #Біоакустика
#биологическаяакустика #біологічнаакустика #biological acoustics, #наука, #физика, #биология, #коммуникация животных, #звук, #science, #physics, #biology, #animal communication, #sound
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/869

Акустика Acoustics Acustica
физика звук, аудио фізика, аудіо Acoustics physics sound, audio Fizyka akustyczna dźwięk 🔉
#Акустика #Acoustics #Acustica
#физика #звук, #аудио #фізика, #аудіо #Acoustics #physics #sound, #audio #Fizyka #akustyczna #dźwięk
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/868

Психолингвистика, Psycholinguistics, Психолінгвістика
психология, лингвистика, психологія, лінгвістика, psychology, linguistics
#Психолингвистика, #Psycholinguistics, #Психолінгвістика
#психология, #лингвистика, #психологія, #лінгвістика, #psychology, #linguistics
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/867

Книги на каталонском языке
4250 llibres ebooks epubs en catala
Llibres en català Books in Catalan Catalonia, Каталанский язык, каталонский язык валенсийский язык, valencià Libros en catalán Книги каталонською мовою мировая литература, зарубежная литература, художественная литература, каталонская литература, зарубіжна література, художня література, каталонська література, foreign literature, fiction, Catalan literature, literatura estrange

Старославянский язык
Old Slavonic language
языки, лингвистика, филология славянский
#языки, #лингвистика, #филология #славянский
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/858

Архитектура Architecture
журналы, периодика Architecture magazines, periodicals 🏠
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/857

IRC bookz archives архивы

Художественная литература на английском языке
англоязычная художественная литература, Художня література англійською мовою, Fiction in English (это ужасно), Ficsean sa Bheurla, Ficsean i mbéarla
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IRC bookz Художественная литература на английском языке
англоязычная художественная литература, Художня література англійською мовою, Fiction in English (это ужасно), Ficsean sa Bheurla, Ficsean i mbéarla
#IRC bookz #IRC
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Художественная литература на английском языке
Fiction in English
англоязычная художественная литература, Художня література англійською мовою, Fiction in English (это ужасно), Ficsean sa Bheurla, Ficsean i mbéarla
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Книги
книжное дело, библиофилия, книгопечатанье, книги про книги, книги о книгах библиотековедение + архивы, архивное дело библиография библиотечное дело библиотеки 📚
#Книги
#книжное дело, #библиофилия, #книгопечатанье,
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CA, cellular automata, клеточные автоматы
математика, моделирование самоорганизации, дискретные модели
#CA, #cellular automata, #клеточныеавтоматы
#математика, #моделирование #самоорганизации, #дискретныемодели
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Радио электроника радиотехника Radio electronics
журнал журналы периодика magazine periodicals Радиолюбитель, Радио всем, Радиофронт HackSpace Practical Wireless Elektronika dla Wszystkich 📻
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Радио электроника радиотехника Radio electronics
журнал журналы периодика magazine periodicals Радиолюбитель, Радио всем, Радиофронт HackSpace Practical Wireless Elektronika dla Wszystkich 📻
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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🎵🎈 The avant-garde group Spokanki combines traditional percussion, global vocal styles, and a theatrical mime-inspired #design to perform #folk #music.

Watch them perform the classic #Irish #Gaelic song Dúlamán on a green hillside with a colorful twist.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/spokanki-dulaman-acappella-music-video

#acapella #balloons #costumes #musicvideo #music #performance #play #running #seaweed #singing #song #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🎵🎈 The avant-garde group Spokanki combines traditional percussion, global vocal styles, and a theatrical mime-inspired #design to perform #folk #music.

Watch them perform the classic #Irish #Gaelic song Dúlamán on a green hillside with a colorful twist.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/spokanki-dulaman-acappella-music-video

#acapella #balloons #costumes #musicvideo #music #performance #play #running #seaweed #singing #song #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🎵🎈 The avant-garde group Spokanki combines traditional percussion, global vocal styles, and a theatrical mime-inspired #design to perform #folk #music.

Watch them perform the classic #Irish #Gaelic song Dúlamán on a green hillside with a colorful twist.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/spokanki-dulaman-acappella-music-video

#acapella #balloons #costumes #musicvideo #music #performance #play #running #seaweed #singing #song #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🎵🎈 The avant-garde group Spokanki combines traditional percussion, global vocal styles, and a theatrical mime-inspired #design to perform #folk #music.

Watch them perform the classic #Irish #Gaelic song Dúlamán on a green hillside with a colorful twist.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/spokanki-dulaman-acappella-music-video

#acapella #balloons #costumes #musicvideo #music #performance #play #running #seaweed #singing #song #tksst #video

Dheigheadh sinn a dh’iasgach,
mi fhèin is m’ athair,
is lìonadh sinn an eathar le
peilichean de rionnach, liutha,
is dheigheadh sinn timcheall a’ bhaile
gu gach nàbaidh gus am biodh na peilichean falamh…

—Iain MacRath, “Dheigheadh sinn a dh’iasgach”
published in Don’t. Even. Ask. Too. Hot.: New Writing Scotland 42 (ASL, 2024)

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nws42/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #fathers #FathersDay

Gabh anail — take a breath — and let the next one be longer going out than coming in. Tha an talamh gad chumail — the earth is holding you. Not a metaphor: gravity, the floor, the oldest promise the ground ever made and never once broke. https://twp.ai/4hsZED
#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #EarthBased #Druid #Grounding #Breath #Mindfulness #Solstice #FolkWisdom #Rest #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA

Chatting about the weather in Gaelic with some fellow learners. We realised that none of us knew how to say "dreich" in Gàidhlig. I'm not having much luck finding it... can anyone help us out please? Thank you 🌧️ 🌧️ 🌧️

#Aimsir #IonnsachadhGàidhlig #Gàidhlig #Gaelic

Tha an Bealltainn a' tighinn gu crìch — Beltane is reaching its end, the wheel leaning toward Midsummer. The bees keep a calendar older than empires. A carpenter bee on the wisteria does not care about the policy paper in another tab. This is what the Druids meant: the land prays without us. Today's full Gathering:
https://twp.ai/9OVuiw
#Beltane #Druid #Paganism #WheelOfTheYear #EarthBased #Gaelic #Midsummer #SeasonalLiving #Mysticism #Animism

Beltane is reaching its end, the wheel tipping toward Midsummer. The carpenter bee on the wisteria does not care about the policy paper. The land prays without us. https://twp.ai/4hqfWs #Beltane #Druid #Pagan #Animism #Gaelic #EarthBased #Mysticism /|\

@thomas_michl

I liked this episode a lot, I thought it captured the multi-factored deterioration of the language playing out over a couple of hundred years.

While #AnGortaMór / #IrishFamine is one of the pivotal events behind the collapse of the language, it is far from the only factor

#Gaeilge #IrishLanguage #MastoDaoine #Irish #Gaelic

mar a rachadh sinn, clann na dùthcha,
mach as a bhaile-mhór, air feasgar àrd
samhraidh…

—Aonghas MacNeacail, “feasgar samhraidh (do Dhaibhidh A. MacDhòmhnaill)”
from THE HUNTERIAN POEMS, ed. Alan Riach (Freight, 2015)

Today, 15 April, is World Art Day

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/landscape-outside-glasgow-138431

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #art #painting #visualart #WorldArtDay

Banshees

A banshee (Bean si in Modern Irish & ben side, in Old Irish, meaning “woman of the fairy mound,” or “fairy woman”) is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member. She usually does this by screaming, wailing, shrieking, or keening. Keening is a traditional form of vocal lament for the dead in the Gaelic Celtic tradition. This is known to have taken place in Ireland & Scotland.

Banshees are strongly associated with specific Irish families. The belief is that the banshee is a family spirit attached to a particular lineage. Her mournful wail/cry is heard only by family members as a warning of an imminent death.

Another of the banshee characteristics is their unwavering attachment to certain Gaelic families such as the O’Neills, O’Brians, O’Connors, O’Grady, & Kavanaghs, among others. Some traditions hold that the banshee is the ghost. This is perhaps a mother of a famous poet/singer from the family who died tragically. In this sense, she’s an ancestral spirit tied to the bloodline & the land.

She appears or is heard only to mourn & warn the family of an impending death. Often before anyone has received news of it. This direct, specific role makes her an inherently familiar guardian or omen for that clan/family.

They aren’t family pets, the banshees presence is a known, if terrifying, part of the family’s history & destiny, linking her fate to theirs across generations.

A banshee is an autonomous entity, a powerful fairy-woman (bean sidhe) or ghost, isn’t under the control of any living person.

Sometimes she has long streaming hair, which she may be seen combing, with some legends specifying she can only be keen while combing her hair. She wears a gray cloak over a green dress. Her eyes are red from continual weeping. She’s sometimes dressed in white with red hair & a ghastly complexion.

In Ireland & parts of Scotland, a traditional part of mourning is the keening woman (bean chaointe), who wails a lament. This keening woman may be a professional, in some cases. The best Keeners would be in high demand.

Irish legends talks about a lament being sung by a fairy woman, or banshee. She would sing it when a family member died or was about to die. Even if the person had died far away & news of their death hasn’t come yet. In those cases, her wailing would be the 1st warning the household had of the death.

The banshee is also a predictor of death. If someone is about to enter a situation where it’s unlikely they’ll come out alive, she’ll warn people by screaming/wailing. This gives rise to the banshee also being known as a wailing woman. The banshee was also linked with the death coach. The banshee is said to either summon the death coach with her keening or travel in tandem with it.

When several banshees show up at 1 time, it usually indicates the death of someone holy or great. The story sometimes tells that the woman (though called a fairy) was a ghost. She’s often a specific murdered woman, or a man who passed away in childbirth.

In some parts of Leinster, she’s referred to as the bean chaointe or ban nigheachain (“little washerwoman”) or nigheag na h-ath (“little washer at the ford”). She’s seen washing bloodstained clothes or armor of those who are about to die.

In Welsh folklore, there’s also a similar being known as the cyhyraeth. The cyhyraeth gives a disembodied moaning voice before the person’s passing.

Some sources suggest that the banshees Laments only the descendants of pure Milesian stock of Ireland. The Milesians were the final race to settle in Ireland. The original belief appears to be associated with a number of ancient Irish families. According to tradition, a banshee wouldn’t lament or visit someone of Saxon or Norman descent or those who came to Ireland later.

Most, not all, of the last names associated with banshees have the “O” or “Mc/Mac” prefix. That means people with the last names of Goidelic origin. This means a family native to the Insular Celtic lands. Rather than those of the Norse, Anglo-Saxon, or Norman.

There are some exceptions to the banshee lore. A banshee may lament a person who’s been gifted with music & song.

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#AngloSaxon #BanNigheachain #Banshees #BeanChaointe #BeanNighe #BeanSi #beanSidhe #BenSide #Celtic #Cyhyraeth #DeathCoach #Gaelic #Goidelic #InsularCeltic #Ireland #IrishFolklore #Kavanaghs #keening #KeeningWoman #Milesian #ModernIrish #Norman #Norse #OBrians #OConnors #OGrady #ONeills #OldIrish #Poet #Saxon #Scotland #ScottishFolklore #Singer #WelshFolklore

2024 air a siabadh air falbh.

The auld year being blown away.

#Hogmanay #OidhcheChallainn #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Queensferry #Scotland

#Imbolc (or #Imbolg) marked the first day of #spring in pre-Christian #Gaelic culture. Between the darkness of winter and the brightness of summer, spring was a time of planting, or renewal, and of rebirth; as such, it was associated with the goddess #Brigid.

Brigid of Kildare was named after the goddess, so naturally she became associated with the day after being declared a saint (and absorbing many of the goddess' other attributes). That's why Imbolc is also #SaintBrigidsDay

Let’s have a look at this patch of central Glasgow as drawn by George McCulloch in 1852. It’s not spectacular; there are only a handful of recognisable buildings; but it tells a few tales about the growth of Glasgow and the human lives — and deaths — that underpinned it.

First, let’s orient ourselves. Hope Street runs diagonally across the map; near the centre is the junction with Gordon Street. Near the bottom is Argyle Street, and rising towards the top left is the ridge of Blythswood Hill.

The empty plots in the middle lie between Bothwell Street and Waterloo Street. They would be the last part of central Glasgow’s grid to be completed, and to understand that we need to look at how the city spread.

By the early nineteenth century, Argyle Street was an urban tentacle running parallel to the Clyde, toward the village of Anderston. The space between it and the river, with easy access to the quays, was filling up with works and warehouses. To the north and west lay a feued but undeveloped region, belonging to the Campbell family and marked on the map as the Blythswood Building Ground.

Development of the Blythswood lands had been projected by the entrepreneur William Harvey, who in 1802 had purchased the estate of Sauchy Hall and anglicised it to Willowbank. (The ubiquitous James Cleland also had property nearby.)

To the south was Grahamston: an odd enclave shaped by Alston Street and Union Place, defiantly squint — as it still is — to the Blythswood grid.

Grahamston, just beyond the old city limits, was largely owned by John Alston, heir of the maltman John Miller who’d developed Miller Street. It was also the site, from 1764-80, of one of Glasgow’s earliest theatres.

As Glasgow grew, the commercial zone edged northwards. On Alston Street lay Alexander Galloway’s brewery, and next to it Wilson, Strang & Co.’s sugar house. (The sugar house was built in 1809, a reminder that Glasgow’s involvement with enslaved labour didn’t end with the slave trade.)

Meanwhile, the elegant townhouses of Blythswood were advancing downhill towards Grahamston. The awkward area between the residential and commercial districts saw a few changes of street plan before it was soldered together, and the grid still takes a wobble there.

McCulloch’s View also bears witness to Scotland’s national genius for inventing new flavours of Protestant. In sight are seventeen churches from nine denominations, all building keenly for the future, and offering over eighteen thousand seats between them.

A decade on from the Disruption there were five Free Churches to three Established. Others — United Presbyterian, Reformed Presbyterian, Original Secession, Episcopal — reflect earlier splits. Others still, like David Dale’s Old Scotch Independents, followed their own course.

Three of those seventeen churches were Gaelic-speaking, serving generations of new Glaswegians displaced from the Gàidhealtachd. The most prominent was St Columba’s, originally the Gaelic Chapel on Ingram Street, which in 1904 would be displaced again to St Vincent Street. Gàidhlig-language worship in the “Highland Cathedral” lasted until 2021. A few decades later, the stretch of Argyle Street to the east of Hope Street would become a less official gathering-place for Gaels: the Hielanman’s Umbrella.

Missing entirely from the scene is any Roman Catholic church, despite the city’s growing Irish population. (There were at this time eleven Catholic churches in the city and surrounding burghs. The Free Kirk had 37; the Established Church had 38.)

On the corner of Waterloo Street and Hope Street is the Corn Exchange, opened in the 1840s, and conveniently located near the great grain stores towards the wharves.

There’s also evidence of the labour behind the ongoing building boom. There are about a dozen timber, slate and stone-yards: much of the land that looks empty on the maps was anything but.

With wealth being generated in the quays and factories and flowing uphill into Blythswood, raising churches and public buildings on the way, the city was a model of Victorian prosperity — the model Thomas Sulman would present a decade later.

But.

Let’s turn our attention more closely to the blocks either side of Alston Street. In the 1870s everything in these blocks would disappear, replaced by the first phase of the Caledonian Railway’s Central Station.

Much of the area is occupied by warehouses. The line of low buildings along Hope Street include a smithy, a reminder that it was not just human labour that kept the city running.

Behind St Columba’s Church is the windowless bulk of a gas holder, three or four storeys high and surrounded by highly inflammable grain and bonded warehouses. (Glasgow’s dire reputation for fire deaths was probably not helped by urban design like this.)

Dominating the block, with its tall chimney gushing smoke, is the Wilson sugar refinery, a legacy of the original industries of Grahamston that we’ve seen already. It was not, though, the original building, and the fate of its predecessor opens a grim but informative window into the age.

At about 7am on October 30, 1848, the sugar house on Alston Street suddenly collapsed. It took more than a week to clear the rubble and recover the bodies of the fourteen workers who had died, either crushed by debris or scalded to death by molten sugar.

Many of the victims were Irish. They ranged from middle-aged men with families who had been in Scotland for decades to Andrew Broadley, a lad of twenty who was sending money home each week to support his widowed mother in Tyrone.

Many of the victims’ dependents were left destitute. We know this because the Chief Superintendent of Police was sent to investigate their circumstances, to make sure charity went to those who deserved it. His appraisals — “dissipated habits”; “well spoken of” — appeared in the newspapers while they were still grieving.

Even before the last body had been recovered, rumours started. The building had been repaired a few years earlier; there were hints that corners had been cut. The authorities found, and tersely reported, that there were no grounds for prosecution.

Nevertheless, the Dean of Guild’s Court – the equivalent of the Planning Committee – embarked on a programme of inspection, ordering the demolition of other dangerous buildings across the city. Many of the buildings they targeted were in the slum areas where the immigrant workers lived, and it seems that “being full of Irish people” was considered to be a risk factor. It’s the story of economic migrants through the ages: the young men come first; they do the dangerous, badly paid jobs; they send money home to their families; and everybody blames them for everything.

In total, the appeal for the victims’ families raised around £400. (For comparison, the cost to property was estimated at £15000.) The refinery, as we’ve seen, was soon rebuilt.

I came across the story of the Alston Street disaster by accident; it’s mentioned in passing in a few books. I don’t doubt that there are other disasters less well known. Cities rise on wealth; and wealth, too often, rises because we place too low a price on human lives.

The last thing to notice in McCulloch’s picture: the thousands upon thousands of dotted windows.

Imagine the folk behind them. The natives, the immigrants; the workers, the wealthy; the citizens by whom, or for whom, this city rose.

What price on them?

Main sources

My access to McCulloch’s View was granted by the Mitchell Library. I’ve made heavy use, as ever, of the Post Office Directories and maps digitised by the National Library of Scotland, and of newspapers supplied by the British Newspaper Archive. Fhuair mi eachdraidh nan Gàidheal bho glaschu.net.

I’ve also used assorted information from Senex’s Glasgow Past and Present (vol. 1). After the Alston Street disaster, the Glasgow Herald ran a series of columns following the work of the Dean of Guild Court and commenting on the old buildings they were examining. These columns were written by Robert Reid, aka Senex, and when compiled as Glasgow Past and Present they became the basis for practically everything that’s since been written about Glasgow built heritage. If it weren’t for that atrocious industrial accident, you might not be reading this now.

https://newcleckitdominie.wordpress.com/2023/12/28/danger-city-under-construction/

#alstonStreet #blythswood #centralStation #gaelic #GeorgeMcCulloch #grahamston #history #stColumbaS #sugarRefinery