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GrantAnd just like that it’s the weekend! <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/gay?src=hash" title="#gay" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gay</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/gayboy?src=hash" title="#gayboy" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gayboy</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/scottish?src=hash" title="#scottish" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scottish</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/gayleeds?src=hash" title="#gayleeds" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gayleeds</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/gayscotland?src=hash" title="#gayscotland" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gayscotland</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/underwear?src=hash" title="#underwear" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#underwear</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/boss?src=hash" title="#boss" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boss</a>

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Fedi.Garden 🌱Is ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net fear de dh’iomadh frithealaiche Mastodon neo-eisimeileach as urrainn dhut cleachdadh airson pàirt a ghabhail sa cho-shaoghal. Tha am frithealaiche seo ann do luchd na Gàidhlig.:Fediverse: <a href="https://ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net</a>Mu dhèidhinn: <a href="https://ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net/about" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net/about</a>Rianachd le: <a href="https://ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net/@gunchleoc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@gunchleoc</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/FeaturedServer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FeaturedServer</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/G%C3%A0idhlig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gàidhlig</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Gaelic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaelic</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/ScottishGaelic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScottishGaelic</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotland</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Alba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alba</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/FreeFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeFediverse</a>

StacesCases2I WHOLEHEARTEDLY invite the "president" to say those words to anyone with <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Scottish" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> blood in their veins. Please? Oh please Trump, for me??

Evan Sky artsAnother <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/throwback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#throwback</a> to another plushie I made two years ago with this little Nessie! I’m really proud of this design with its nice mossy green, simple embroidery and red highlights. It was adopted instantly! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/handmade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#handmade</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#artwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cryptid</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/embroidery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#embroidery</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastoart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fediart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pixelfed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pixelfed</a>

StoorydusterDecided to promote RSS on my <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> word a week <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illustration</a> website see alt txt for easier read. Not enough of the public really know what it is. <a href="https://stooryduster.co.uk/why-use-rss/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stooryduster.co.uk/why-use-rss/</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature<a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@gutenberg_org</a> “not only is there no invocation of the free market […Adam Smith] plainly sees that government, not private industry, is the only force capable of effectively ‘erecting and maintaining’ the technically unprofitable but nevertheless indispensable ‘publick works’ and ‘publick institutions’ […] essential to every modern state.”—Evan Gottlieb on the origins & legacy of Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand” <a href="https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/invisible-hand-over-fist-on-the-development-and-legacy-of-adam-smiths-famous-phrase/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/invisible-hand-over-fist-on-the-development-and-legacy-of-adam-smiths-famous-phrase/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AdamSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AdamSmith</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/18thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#18thcentury</a>

OBTImagingAn Indian Peacock at Talisker Bay on the Isle Of Skye, somehow seems right at home... <a href="https://socel.net/tags/peacock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peacock</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/interior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interior</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/wallart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wallart</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/prints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prints</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/greetingcards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greetingcards</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/posters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#posters</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#birds</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#India</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> 15% Off at <a href="https://shop.photo4me.com/1388718" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://shop.photo4me.com/1388718</a> <a href="https://shop.photo4me.com/1307017" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://shop.photo4me.com/1307017</a> & <a href="https://obt-imaging.pixels.com/featured/one-of-the-talisker-bay-indian-peacocks-obt-imaging.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://obt-imaging.pixels.com/featured/one-of-the-talisker-bay-indian-peacocks-obt-imaging.html</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/buyintoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#buyintoart</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/gift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gift</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/asia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#asia</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#africa</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastoart</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/fashion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fashion</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/eggs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eggs</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/easter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#easter</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/nest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nest</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/Spring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spring</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homelab</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/style" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#style</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/gallery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gallery</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#artist</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/photographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photographer</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/Skye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Skye</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/oscars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oscars</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trees</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> Prof Alan Riach – who appears, briefly & fictionally, in Alasdair Gray’s 2007 novel OLD MEN IN LOVE (although not, I should add, as an old man in love) – discusses LANARK at our 2022 Schools Conference8/8<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTCGw6e_OSI&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WaVgzFyI3JdP1V-XAopXEgR" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTCGw6e_OSI&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WaVgzFyI3JdP1V-XAopXEgR</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlasdairGray</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrayDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lanark</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> “Taken together, the four prints underscore the oft-disputed unity of LANARK, as well as the sheer will of Gray’s effort to portray the individual’s capabilities for art & love against the backdrop of the modern industrialized state”—David Auerbach on the sources of the frontispieces for LANARK’s four books, and how Alasdair Gray used them7/8<a href="https://www.waggish.org/2020/alasdair-grays-lanark-the-four-frontispieces/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.waggish.org/2020/alasdair-grays-lanark-the-four-frontispieces/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlasdairGray</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrayDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lanark</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> (although we’re still waiting for “The Provision Merchant as Agent of Evil in Scottish Literature from Galt to Gunn” tbh)6/8<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlasdairGray</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrayDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lanark</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> Which academic will finally dare to write the long-awaited paper “The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Alasdair Gray’s LANARK: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes”?5/8<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlasdairGray</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrayDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lanark</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> Alasdair Gray’s LANARK: Calvin & Hobbes, avant la lettre4/8<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlasdairGray</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrayDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lanark</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> The frontispiece’s quotation“By Arts is formed that great Mechanical Man called a State, foremost of the Beasts of the Earth for Pride”is based on Hobbes: “For by art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE…”The 2nd part draws on the Bible—the description of Leviathan (Job 41.34):“He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.”3/8<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gray-lanark-book-four-p20974" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gray-lanark-book-four-p20974</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlasdairGray</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrayDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lanark</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> Discernible landmarks include Glasgow University tower; John Knox’s statue in the Glasgow Necropolis; the Wallace Monument; the Grangemouth oil refinery; St Giles Cathedral; Edinburgh Castle; the Forth & Tay bridges; & the experimental fast-breeder nuclear reactor at Dounreay. Also visible are oil rigs in the North Sea, nuclear submarines in the Irish Sea & Holy Loch, & the paddle-steamer PS Waverley sailing down the Clyde.2/8<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlasdairGray</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrayDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lanark</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> The cover of this edition shows Gray’s frontispiece for Book 4. Based on Abraham Bosse’s 1651 frontispiece to Hobbes’ LEVIATHAN, it depicts a figurative State towering over a panoramic view across Scotland1/8<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlasdairGray</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrayDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lanark</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureINTERVIEWER: When somebody asks you to describe your book LANARK, what do you say to them? ALASDAIR GRAY: I say it is a Scottish petit bourgeois model of the universe. I: Just like that? AG: Yes, I’ve rehearsed it & honed it down to as few words as possible.It’s <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrayDay</a>! Alasdair Gray’s LANARK was first published on 25 Feb 1981 <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> 🧵 preface/🎨 Screenprint of the title page to LANARK, by Gray & Murray Robertson<a href="https://shop.glasgowprintstudio.co.uk/artists/38-alasdair-gray/works/23001-alasdair-gray-lanark-title-page-2014/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://shop.glasgowprintstudio.co.uk/artists/38-alasdair-gray/works/23001-alasdair-gray-lanark-title-page-2014/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlasdairGray</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lanark</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureAlasdair Gray’s Portrayal of Glasgow as a Disappearing City 25 Feb, Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery, Glasgow – freeThe perception of the city & its people as vulnerable to being forgotten or erased inspired Gray’s lifelong commitment to explore, preserve, & reassert Glasgow’s identity across his visual & literary works.<a href="https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/2/talk-alasdair-grays-portrayal-of-glasgow-as-a-disappearing-city" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/2/talk-alasdair-grays-portrayal-of-glasgow-as-a-disappearing-city</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/visualart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#visualart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlasdairGray</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> Why has Iain Banks’s Culture series – “a world where your Bezoses & your Musks are not just irrelevant, but actively sought out & disempowered” – garnered a billionaire fanbase? Kurt Schiller examines ultra-rich misreadings & delusions 10/10<a href="https://bloodknife.com/culture-war-iain-m-banks-jeff-bezos/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bloodknife.com/culture-war-iain-m-banks-jeff-bezos/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/IainBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IainBanks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/IainMBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IainMBanks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TheCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheCulture</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> “Our strange wee country is as complex as any alien civilization, & getting it as right as Banks did in THE CROW ROAD required every bit as much world-building skill as his Culture”—Simon Stephenson travels THE CROW ROAD for REACTOR magazine9/10<a href="https://reactormag.com/the-difference-is-entirely-one-of-setting-iain-banks-the-crow-road/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://reactormag.com/the-difference-is-entirely-one-of-setting-iain-banks-the-crow-road/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/IainBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IainBanks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/IainMBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IainMBanks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TheCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheCulture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotland</a>

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