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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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And take the warning as seriously as the remedy: same family as aspirin, so if aspirin's off the table for you, so is this. Blood thinners, pregnancy, a child with a fever — no. Ask your pharmacist. She'd rather you asked than didn't.
What do you reach for when the weather gets into your joints?
#Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
Today's full issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/there-is-a-blue-wave-coming-our-salvation-fuck-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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And take the warning as seriously as the remedy: same family as aspirin, so if aspirin's off the table for you, so is this. Blood thinners, pregnancy, a child with a fever — no. Ask your pharmacist. She'd rather you asked than didn't.
What do you reach for when the weather gets into your joints?
#Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
Today's full issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/there-is-a-blue-wave-coming-our-salvation-fuck-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Seileach. Willow bark, and it is not folklore standing next to medicine — it is where the medicine came from. Salicin in the inner bark, converted by your gut into salicylic acid, which is aspirin's own chemistry with the factory left off
A teaspoon or two of dried cut bark, just-boiled water, lid on, fifteen minutes. Wet fence post with a bitter finish that arrives late #Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
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Seileach. Willow bark, and it is not folklore standing next to medicine — it is where the medicine came from. Salicin in the inner bark, converted by your gut into salicylic acid, which is aspirin's own chemistry with the factory left off
A teaspoon or two of dried cut bark, just-boiled water, lid on, fifteen minutes. Wet fence post with a bitter finish that arrives late #Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
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Question for speakers of #Celtic languages :BoostOK: : do you apply initial consonant mutations to non-Celtic names?

(My question is specifically about place names but I thought it'd be useful to know more generally as well)

#Kernewek
#cymraeg
#brezhoneg
#gaelg
#gaidhlig
#gaeilge

Question for speakers of #Celtic languages :BoostOK: : do you apply initial consonant mutations to non-Celtic names?

(My question is specifically about place names but I thought it'd be useful to know more generally as well)

#Kernewek
#cymraeg
#brezhoneg
#gaelg
#gaidhlig
#gaeilge

Question for speakers of #Celtic languages :BoostOK: : do you apply initial consonant mutations to non-Celtic names?

(My question is specifically about place names but I thought it'd be useful to know more generally as well)

#Kernewek
#cymraeg
#brezhoneg
#gaelg
#gaidhlig
#gaeilge

Question for speakers of #Celtic languages :BoostOK: : do you apply initial consonant mutations to non-Celtic names?

(My question is specifically about place names but I thought it'd be useful to know more generally as well)

#Kernewek
#cymraeg
#brezhoneg
#gaelg
#gaidhlig
#gaeilge

Question for speakers of #Celtic languages :BoostOK: : do you apply initial consonant mutations to non-Celtic names?

(My question is specifically about place names but I thought it'd be useful to know more generally as well)

#Kernewek
#cymraeg
#brezhoneg
#gaelg
#gaidhlig
#gaeilge

So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced.

Bi socair — be still.

What are you growing that won't pay off for years?

#Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking
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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced.

Bi socair — be still.

What are you growing that won't pay off for years?

#Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking
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A whole apothecary sitting in the wet ground at the edge of everything, and most of us walk past it.
What do you reach for when your throat's been used hard?

#Herbalism #Herbalist #Alder #Feàrna #FolkMedicine #Foraging #Botany #Nature #Gardening #Druid #Folklore #Gàidhlig
Full entry, with the food-as-medicine always → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/half-staff-for-a-woman-he-couldn-t-buy-dolly-s-gone-trump-s-numbers-are-in-the-goddamn-cellar-and-th#the-nurturing-food-as-medicine?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

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High in tannins: they bind iron and blunt oral medications, so leave two hours either side of anything you take on a schedule. Skip it in pregnancy or if you're anemic. And be certain of your identification — alder is not buckthorn, and buckthorn is a violent purgative. If you're eighty percent sure about the tree, buy the bark instead. #Herbalism #Herbalist #Alder #Feàrna #FolkMedicine #Foraging #Botany #Nature #Gardening #Druid #Folklore #Gàidhlig

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Grey alder — Alnus incana, feàrna. For the throat that's been screaming.
Dried inner bark only, aged several months, never fresh — fresh bark will make you vomit, which is exactly why the old preparation insists on the drying. One teaspoon to a cup, simmered ten minutes, strained, cooled to warm. Gargle and spit. Good as an external wash on weepy skin and foot soaks.
#Herbalism #Herbalist #Alder #Feàrna #FolkMedicine #Foraging #Botany #Nature #Gardening #Druid #Folklore #Gàidhlig
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The Boy Maeve will be in bookstores this Tuesday 26 May 2026! | Bidh The Boy Maeve a' tighinn a-mach! (Ann an Astràilia co-dhiù.)

#LoveOzYA #DebutCrew2026 #PublicationWeek #Gàidhlig #TransBooks

🔥The Boy Maeve is being launched!🔥

🔥Sydney Gadigal Launch
When? 6.30pm, Thu 28 May
Where? Better Read Than Dead Bookstore, Newtown
Tickets available at https://www.betterreadevents.com/events/the-boy-maeve-launch-kai-ash-in-conversation-with-margi-brown-ash

🔥Melbourne Naarm Launch
When? 6pm, Thu 4 Jun
Where? The Little Bookroom, Brunswick East
RSVP at https://events.humanitix.com/the-boy-maeve

🔥Brisbane Meanjin Launch
When? 4pm, Sat 13 Jun
Where? Where the Wild Things Are Bookshop, West End
Tickets available at https://wherethewildthingsare.com.au/pages/14315-TheBoyMaeve-BookLaunchwithKaiAsh

#LoveOzYA #KidLit #DebutCrew2026 #TransBooks #Gàidhlig

Look what I found on my doorstep today! 🔥🔥🔥 Seall air seo!

Cover art by the wonderful Janelle Barone. Published by the most supportive crew one could hope for at Hardie Grant Children's Publishing

#DebutCrew2026 #LoveOzYA #TransBooks #Gàidhlig #AusLit

- Or perhaps you find millennial fiction fascinating; stories set around the turn of the millennium when smart phones were still science fiction and brick-like Nokia phones dominated the market?

If any of the above list tickles your fancy, The Boy Maeve might be just what you're looking for, and it's arriving on shelves on 26 May 2026.

https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/books/the-boy-maeve-by-kai-ash/9781761212468

#LoveOzYA #DebutCrew2026 #TransBooks #Gàidhlig #millennials

#StartHereSocial Fun Fact #2

There are 15 servers listed that support a language classified as Vulnerable or Endangered by UNESCO

These spaces promote digital language equity and help safeguard cultural heritage, enabling communities to connect and express themselves in their own languages online.

#Brezhoneg
#Català
#Cymraeg
#Euskara
#Føroyskt
#Gaeilge
#Galo
#Gàidhlig
#Lëtzebuergesch
#Lombard
#Stellingwerfs
#Sámi
#TeReMāori
#беларускаямова

https://jaz.co.uk/projects/startheresocial/shs-language/

Closach bun-craoibhe aosmhor air Mòinteach Rainich.

The bones of an ancient tree stump in a Rannoch peat bog.

#Gàidhlig #Gaelic #RannochMoor #Rannoch #PeatBogs #ThickTrunkTuesday #Scotland #Highlands

This is a terrible time of year!

Not only is it dark most of the time in the Northern Hemisphere (Gaelic speakers aptly call the last month of the year An Dùbhlachd ‘The Darkness’)

But most of December is basically an assault on those of us who value routine and sameness

Then the liminal period between Christmas and New Year is an opportunity for media (including social media ‘content creators’) to put out low-effort compilations and retrospectives – which for the most part none of us want to read/watch/listen to

And now, a few days into the year, comes the awkward period when I would dearly love some social contact, but I don’t want to pressure any of my friends into talking or meeting up because they probably need a break from all their excess socialising in December (which I did none of)

#ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #AuDHD #neurodivergent #routine #sameness #socialising #friends #darkness #Christmas #NewYear #Gàidhlig #ScottishGaelic