Akerbeltz / Mìcheal an Fhaclair / LowRisingTone

Is it just my modern POV or is the lowercase text much more elegant than the caps in the first line? The caps (to non-expert eyes) look like the scribe wasn't hugely sure about how to do pretty caps

Left: Shabana Mahmood gloats about Labour values

Right: Shabana Mahmood blocked an 18 year old Afghan girl from accepting an education at York or Reading, abandoning her to the Taliban

justice is collective. This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating five women advancing human rights. From tackling poverty to defending Palestinian rights, they are fighting injustice locally and globally.

This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating five women advancing human rights. From tackling poverty to defending Palestinian rights, these women are fighting injustice locally and globally.

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Iceland locks in on date for EU referendum | Euractiv As a member of the European Economic Area, Iceland is already aligned with much of the bloc's legislation

Note this is a referendum on completing negotiations, not joining.

Iceland has gone about this in exactly the right way, including a proper parliamentary and public discussion on whether the euro is a good fit.

A vote of confidence in the Union a rich country

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www.euractiv.com/news/iceland...

What the Greens offer is more than a political alternative. It’s a cultural one.

People directly engaged in politics that impact their lives, shaping their community, MPs from their neighbourhood, not shipped in from Westminster.

I think that’s sometimes missed, but it’s the whole point.

Why would they bother? I mean, they can just abolish Holyrood IF they manage to capture Westminster.

What the actual f***?

Uf chan eil spùt agam lol

An rud a nì thu le pàipear?

Tha na mapaichean air ais, taing do Chatrìona agus @openstreetmap.bsky.social ❤️ soraidh slàn leis an fheadhainn ud a thòisicheas leis an litir G... dubh-bhleigeardan

During the Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill, MP after MP got up to point out what's missing from it: fixing the voting system.

The problems with FPTP can no longer be ignored - and neither can the growing calls for PR. 📣

Here are just a few highlights:

Meet Tatu and Loulis—the last of the 'talking' chimpanzees In the 1960s and '70s, a group of chimpanzees astonished the world by learning sign language. Only two remain, and one question still lingers: Was it worth it?

A piece on the last two of the #ASL signing #chimpanzees Tatu and Loulis

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/chimpanzee-sign-language-experiments

Instead of the article title, which is "*ʢʷneHª- in Greek" JSTOR has (highlighted) "Math input error in Greek"

Eric Hamp broke JSTOR lmao

Picture of David Gilmour playing a black stratocaster in the Pompeii amphitheatre, 1971.

Language pals - I've written a new blog post about Machine Translation and the philosophical issues caused by everything being instantly translatable - with some Pink Floyd and Dr Who!

treanaichean.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/d...

Chan e sin a tha mise a' cluinntinn aig devs. 'S dòcha gu bheil each aige san rèis - no fiù bot a tha ga shèideadh? Dè an fhìrinn an-diugh, chan eil e furasta... bhiodh an lìon spòrsail aig àm... dealbhan chat, seanchas is pòrnografachd an-siud 's an-seo. Tha fiù dealbhan nan cat fuadain an-diugh…

Tha do charaid, tha iad air ais gu ìre, feumaidh sinn rudeigin a chur ceart airson 's gum faicear leacagan a' mhapa ach fhad 's a thathar leth-eòlach air mapa na h-Alba, bheir e co-dhiù nòisean dhut aig an ìre-sa

"Why won't you.. give a judgement on what America is doing?"

Govt minister Darren Jones: "Its not for me to comment on the legal basis for actions undertaken by other countries"

So you're saying the govt hasn't commented on whether Russias invasion of Ukraine was legal or not?

Yeah but the worrying thought is that that doesn't mean they 'gone anywhere', they're just trying a different flavour for now. I think the potential for some 25% of the electorate being plain insane exists in any country. Unfortunately in FPTP, that can actually win an election...

Just sent this email in a response to a job request. I don't care if it's a nearly insignificant protest... But we're way past the 'pretend it's business as usual and hope it'll eventually go away' point...

No further comment 😜

Tha mi ag iarraidh ge be dè a chuireas tu dhan deoch sa mhuga agad 😂

You know when ppl go on about Britishness? I think this is going to be my answer in future. The liklehood of a Parliament dominated by Green vs Reform on 40% of the popular vote. Ay dios. 💚

Trump says ‘special relationship is obviously not what it was’ after Starmer’s refusal to back Iran strikes – UK politics live US president doubles down on criticism of the prime minister, saying ‘he has not been helpful’

Say “We think of you as a vassal state” without saying “We think of you as a vassal state”…
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

@dasg-glaschu.bsky.social chan eil a' chuibhle seo ag obair ro mhath idir, tha e ri fhaicinn fad an t-siubhail (Chrome, desktop) agus tha e doirbh fios a bhith agad a bheil rudeigin a' dol fhathast no an e deireadh an sgeòil a th' ann. Bu chòir dha crìonadh air falbh mur eil lorg a' dol fhathast 🙃

When we write about the first half of the 21st century in the future, I propose the name The Manbaby Wars ...

Paying Our Way: The Case For A Scottish Payment System — Common Weal A paper arguing for a Scottish payment system that would add resilience to the Scottish economy, save small businesses money on each transaction and would, eventually, ease the transition to an indepe...

Peter Ryan, payment systems expert, for Common Weal on the issue of payment systems echoed in his piece in the National for the SCG

www.commonweal.scot/policies/pay...

Glè dhuilich ach tha na mapaichean dheth. Bhuail cus bot farms orra am bliadhna agus tha Google a-nis ag iarraidh suim mhòr airgid oirnn. Tha sinn a' tagradh na aghaidh ach bheir sin ùine. Ag obair air fuasgladh eile ach aig an ìre-sa, chan urrainn dhuinn innse idir cuin a bhios iad air ais. 😭

Today's Ancient Celtic Seminar was very exciting. Most of the 3 hours were devoted to the (relatively) recently discovered Cisalpine Celtic rock inscriptions from Carona (Bergamo). We were fortunate that for the past few summers one of the participants, Dr Pietro Giusteri, has been part of...
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Thug Màirtinn Ó Conchobhair dhuinn òraid le pìosan dhen dealbh-chluich Through the Shortbread Tin ann an Gailearaidhean Nàiseanta na h-Alba rè Seachdain na Gàidhlig.

Lean an ceangal againn airson coimhead air an òraid air YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/eeRJeDF...