Cat Smith

Alexei Navalny’s Prison Diaries The Russian opposition leader’s account of his last years and his admonition to his country and the world.

Pursued relentlessly by the government of Vladimir Putin, the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison. He left behind an account of his final years—and an admonition to his country and the world.

Cò às a tha am facal sin? Chan eil mìneachadh math ag Macbain. @akerbeltz.bsky.social @macailpein.bsky.social

Is #Duolingo down?

YouTube video by Road Less Marveled May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

Funding for PBS has been attacked, and it is worth returning to Fred Rogers’ testimony to Congress on why PBS is worth our time. Share widely, because this message must continue to be known.

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We once broke down in the middle of #Baleshare causeway during a terrible storm. My husband got out of the car to push us and his glasses were blown off his face. Never been back in October.

Àlainn. Uibhist a Tuath?

Federal agency texts Columbia University and Barnard College employees a survey asking if they are Jewish | CNN Staff members at Columbia University and Barnard College in New York City said they were taken aback earlier this week after receiving text messages on their personal devices linking to a survey which...

Staff members at Columbia University and Barnard College in New York City said they were taken aback earlier this week after receiving text messages on their personal devices linking to a survey which asked, in part, if they were Jewish or Israeli.

If anyone in the Medway area can rent me a cheap room, let me know.

Agus mise!

Abair obair a bha sin! 😳

Sin thu fhèin Karolien! Meal do naidheachd! #Gaidhlig

Ealasaid bhochd.

What a spectacular photo Julia! It’s magnificent. Xxx

Hello Julia! 🩷

I’ve missed you since I left Twitter ages ago. I hope you are all well. 💕

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What a beautiful film you produced. I love this! 💕

The wee woman who painted that still makes me laugh out loud. Laughed again!!

ONLINE POETRY READING coming up! Featuring Tiffany Atkinson, Rachael Boast, Katy Evans-Bush & Adam Horovitz

4 Dec at 8pm London time - it's free, but book here:

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@rachaelboast.bsky.social
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#PoetsOnBluesky

Wooo! 🎉

Make sure your tattoo is correct!
#Gàidhlig

@ampherlaw1.bsky.social Hello Lindy! Good to see you here. Xx

@macklet65.bsky.social Hello dear heart! Please excuse my clumsiness until I can find my way around. 💕

Me too Scampo. 💕 I don’t know how to initiate a chat. 🤪

Hello dear Scampott. ❤️

Tha sin miorbhuilleach! Taing mhòr dhut.

YouTube video by ScottishPoetryLib Norman MacCaig reads 2 Poems

Norman MacCaig introduces and reads two poems, c. 1990. The first poem, “Tourist & Landlord” (1988), is previously unpublished. The second, “Two Men at Once” (1989), is included in The Poems of Norman MacCaig (Polygon Books, 2011)
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Assynt and Edinburgh by Norman MacCaig From the corner of Scotland I know so well I see Edinburgh sprawling like seven cats on its seven hills beside the Firth of Forth. And when I’m in Edinburgh I walk amongst the mountains and lochs of that corner that looks across the Minch to the Hebrides. Two places I belong to as though I was born in both of them. They make every day a birthday, giving me gifts wrapped in the ribbons of memory. I store them away, greedy as a miser.

Norman MacCaig (1910–1996) was born #OTD, 14 November. A self-described “Zen Calvinist”, when asked how long it took him to write a poem, he would reply “one cigarette – or two for a long one”
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“Assynt & Edinburgh”
from Between Mountain & Sea: Poems From Assynt (Polygon Books, 2018)
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Cuireadh | Invitation Òraid Chanaigh 2024 Canna Lecture Scottish Gaelic Texts Society Comann Litreachas Gàidhlig na h-Alba The Gaelic Way(s) of Life in the Poetry of Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre Dr Anja Gunderloch University of Edinburgh Time: 18.00, Tuesday 19 November Location: Room G.06, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9JU All are welcome

Òraid Chanaigh 2024 | Canna Lecture 2024
19 Nov, Edinburgh University (in-person only)
Free & all welcome

Dr Anja Gunderloch will speak on “The Gaelic Way(s) of Life in the Poetry of Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre”