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This is really intense and worth a listen: Brìghde Chaimbeul: Scottish smallpipes, vocals Shahzad Ismaily: synths bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/10/27/b...

🎟️ Tickets £30, including supper and a welcome drink. Tables of 10 are £300. A great night for a great cause! 🎟️ Info & tickets: belmontcinema.co.uk/... 2/2

The Belmont is a much-loved part of Aberdeen’s cultural life, and we need to help secure its future! 🎬 Join the Oscars-themed ceilidh and party night on Saturday 21 November for live music, a disco, raffle and more, all raising funds for the Belmont’s refurbishment. 1/2

Loving this thread. Progress is quieter than the reactions it provokes. But that isn't the same as defeat.

Two great things on tomorrow in Inverness. The Canny Linquist will be joining Blot’s open mic at the Victorian Market, then she will be bolting off to the Botanic Gardens.

The lifeboat volunteers I knew were the funniest, most relentless adults in my life as a kid. The job is an unimaginable combination of comedic tedium and abject, relentless terror. To do it at all is stunning. To volunteer to do it is incredible.

Coastal NE Scotland here, and had family in Orkney. Friends worked at sea, some on the rigs. Spent a bit of time on boats and ferries myself. The sea is beautiful, and terrifying. The RNLI will try to save you, no matter the conditions, or who you are. Ordinary, yet extraordinary people.

Oh no! I love Category Is. Got some great books and stickers from there - would also love to see them meet their goal

Also this is clearly a sword made of light. 🗡️ ⚡️ A lightsaber some would say…what do you mean this already exists?

Just another Hall / near total eclipse photo. Should we stop milking it now? Probably. Will we…? Look how atmospheric the Undercroft and chapel looks!

'Row, vassals, row, for the pride of the Highlands! Stretch to your oars for the ever-green Pine!' ~ Walter Scott. Tomorrow’s #BookWormSat coincides with the birthday of Walter Scott so it seems only right and proper that we have a day of Scottish literature. Join us! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

damp shrug of cow horn “we’re hairy for a reason” – summer in Scotland —a haar coo

My colorful, abstract renditions of Loch & Ben Lomond, are currently 50% off on my website: wgsaraband.com/scottish-lan... 39x31 inches / 100x80cm, acrylic on canvas These are some of the last few remaining pieces of my Abstract Scottish Landscapes series. I'd love them to go to loving homes 💙

Claire White selected as first-ever Scots scriever from Shetland Award-winning singer-songwriter Claire White has been appointed Shetland’s first Shaetlan scriever, taking up a year-long residency with the @natlibscot.bsky.social www.shetnews.co.uk/2026/07/28/c...

A story I love about Anthony Stewart Head. Thank you to this person for sharing it on Tumblr. What a mensch.

The spot at the head of our Welsh nationalist table is rightly reserved for peace. But there is also an important place set, whether the diplomats think it helpful or not, for righteous indignation. Because if not all Saes are bad, not all Saes are good either ✍️ Molly Stubbs

Farage claims Russian hack! Doesn’t make the donation legal or declared. ”ask him about his connections to Russia & the consequences of Brexit, he'll put a stop to the conversation.” “Brexit was the best thing to happen for Russia...”👇 Where is the UK? www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Diardaoin seo tighinn! This Thursday! Peter Mackay, Scotland's Makar, and Anne Frater, The Royal National Mòd Crowned Bard, in conversation discussing the new anthology of Gaelic poetry "Sradagan san Iarmailt / Sparks in the Firmament"!

Do I know anyone who’s F L U E N T in Scottish Gaelic? I have a phonetics question regarding a beguiling water spirit character name that I’ve created and I want it to sound authentic. #ScottishGaelic

Recently published, the first volume of Fight Like A Girl is back in print at last! wizardstowerpress.co...

The new Rainbow Map is out. The UK used to be a beacon for LGBTQ+ rights in Europe, topping the list in 2015, but over the last decade we have dropped year on year. We are now barely scraping a score above the continent’s average.

FAO Commissioners

New video! Watch here: youtu.be/7pFQsd9M4gQ A selection of Open Mic performers from the Loud Poets Open Mic at the Scottish Storytelling Centre and our February Showcase Open Mics in Glasgow and Aberdeen. Thanks to Creative Scotland for supporting our work in the Scottish Spoken Word scene.

“We need to stop talking about a majority in the same terms as a Westminster majority''. Had we adopted the same voting system as Westminster we would have ended up with -60 SNP -4 tories -4 Lib Dem's -2 labour -2 greens. Crunch those numbers, Then tell me we have no mandate for an Indyref.

John Swinney has stated he will bring a vote on Section 30 for #indyref2 in HR after yesterdays SNP/Green majority win. The unprecedented Cardiff, Belfast, and Edinburgh triskele for Independence facilitates forward momentum on the issue....

Last year, I posted about an incredible event in 2023: a megatsunami in Greenland triggering an initially baffling 9-day seismic pulse across the whole planet & a terrific piece of collaborative international scientific detective-work. Now there's a sequel. And holy hell, it's even BIGGER. 1/

This short thread is perfect.

For anyone in or around Inverness tomorrow, there's a Unity demonstration, standing against vile anti-immigration rhetoric being put out by the far right.

Here's a very short video that shows what things look like in real time with the bird singing. #wildlife #birds

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

AMELIA KING ❤️ "I said to them, if I'm not good enough to work on the land, then I am not good enough to make munitions. No one has ever suggested that my father and brother were not good enough to fight for the freedom of England."

Remember, you don’t have to be a member to join the jury pool

Just a reminder, in case anyone still needs to register. www.bbc.com/news/live/c7...

Comparative Investigation of Nazi Anti-Jewish Propaganda and Laws with Those Directed Against Transgender Communities in the U.S goodmenproject.com/f... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Not expecting 10,000 Aberdonians out on the say no to racism march today but remember we did once do that. Once we were the only city in the UK with no Moselys blackshirts. Let's be that again. #Aberdeen #Scotland #SayNoToRacism #StandFree

With voting now open for this year's British Fantasy Awards, we're calling for jurors. Once voting is closed, the shortlist goes to a jury of peers to choose a winner. Fancy being part of the action? Nominate yourself to be a juror for the British Fantasy Awards here: forms.gle/Kv1JTHBeSXaJ...

I’ve just heard that one of the true greats of SF writing, Ian Watson, has passed away. A huge figure of the genre and an enormously entertaining character. A real loss.

Porty Pride are running an access survey ahead of their 2026 event! They're looking to hear from d/Deaf and hard of hearing people about their experiences attending pride and ways that access could be improved. Respond here: portypride.com/deaf-survey 🏳️‍🌈

FACTCHECK UPDATE: No, the UK can't "be more like Norway" in the North Sea 🇬🇧 extracted most of its oil & gas after privatisation 🇳🇴 has much more left due to state stewardship 🤔Lawson spent UK windfall on tax cuts; Norway got a sovereign wealth fund www.carbonbrief.org/...

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.