Pernille Strande-Sørensen

We’re delighted to see @sundaypost.com celebrate Alasdair Gray ahead of Gray Day (25.02.26) at Òran Mór.
At The Alasdair Gray Archive, we keep his work open, active and alive. Culture is a shared right—join us!

For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs.

Peter Thiel.

Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it. But we by a love so much refined, That our selves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

-John Donne

YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein and the Politics of Betrayal

Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein and the Politics of Betrayal

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Need more #18thC in your life??
OF COURSE YOU DO!

Click below for an incredible programme of events from our friends @cecs-york.bsky.social
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️

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I19 Conference 2026 Hosted via Zoom, May 1-2. Submissions due April 4.

CFP
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Fairy Tale
1–2 May, free online

Presentations invited on any aspect of #sciencefiction, #fantasy, or #fairytale in the Long #C19 as well as modern reinterpretations of the #C19 in literature & media
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again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are

his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

📢 We’re excited to share our programme of events for this semester, accessible on our events page. We’re offering some seminars as hybrid so we hope you can join us in York or online. Full details at www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

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Can’t make Gray Day on 25.02.26? Explore Gray’s Lanark online with Gray: Beyond the Horizon—an interactive multimedia exhibition bringing Lanark: A Life in 4 Books to life - www.graybeyondthehorizon.com

Gray Day 2026: Reimagined Glasgow—45 Years of Lanark. Alasdair & Agnes: connected archives & literary lives with Sorcha @sorchadallas.bsky.social @aowensarchive.bsky.social & Laura MacDonald. 25 Feb, Kelvingrove, 2–3pm. Free: Katie.bruce@glasgowlife.org.uk

DreamHaven Books owner Greg Ketter emerging from a cloud of tear gas that ICE agents fired into the streets of Minneapolis.

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

Robert Burns “Ae Fond Kiss” Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, and then forever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I’ll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I’ll wage thee. Who shall say that fortune grieves him, While the star of hope she leaves him? Me, nae cheerfu’ twinkle lights me; Dark despair around benights me. I'll ne’er blame my partial fancy, Naething could resist my Nancy; But to see her was to love her; Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lov’d sae kindly, Had we never lov’d sae blindly, Never met—or never parted— We had ne’er been broken-hearted. Fare thou weel, thou first and fairest! Fare thee weel, thou best and dearest! Thine be ilka joy and treasure, Peace, Enjoyment, Love, and Pleasure! Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, Alas! for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I’ll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I’ll wage thee.

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, and then forever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I’ll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I’ll wage thee…

—Robert Burns
published in SELECTED POEMS & SONGS (OUP, 2013)
#BurnsNight #romanticism #C18
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No, people were not quiet in the face of rising fascism. No, the fascist regimes were not efficient economically. No, fascist science was not cutting edge but politically incorrect. No, fascist leaders were not evil geniuses. No, fascist state agents were not reluctant to carry out their orders...

*DANISH PENSION FUND AKADEMIKERPENSION TO EXIT US TREASURIES

Everything Trump says here is verifiably untrue. During this period of time the number of US installations on Greenland went from 17 to 1 as a result of US determinations that they were not needed.

Just a reminder that Trump is selling Venezuelan oil and depositing the proceeds into a bank account in Qatar that is NOT under any control by the US government or Congress.

He's just stealing it. It really is that simple.

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?

Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.

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Protests in Greenland and Denmark as Trump repeats tariffs threat – Europe live ‘Hands off Greenland’ rallies have been organised in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense and Nuuk

A Saturday in Copenhagen. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

A cottage on Islay from Thomas Pennant's A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, published in 1774. The image shows a traditional Scottish cottage construction: stone walls with what appears to be a thatched roof made of straw, heather, or turf. People can be seen near the cottage, giving scale and showing daily life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islay#/media/File:Cottage_on_Islay_(18thC).JPG https://archive.org/details/tourinscotlandvo01penn/page/n3/mode/1up

New Open-Access Book Maps a Medieval Kingdom of the Isles

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About Hebrides at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...

#archeology #cartography #history

#WorldCup2026

DON'T GO.

Anon. The Twa Corbies As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane; The tane unto the t’other say, “Where sall we gang and dine to-day?” “In behint yon auld fail dyke, I wot there lies a new-slain knight; And nae body kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. “His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady’s ta’en another mate, So we may make our dinner sweet. “Ye’ll sit on his white hause bane, And I’ll pike out his bonny blue een; Wi’ ae lock o’ his gowden hair We’ll theek our nest when it grows bare. “Mony a one for him makes mane, But nane sall ken whare he is gane: O’er his white banes, when they are bare, The wind sall blaw for evermair.”

As I was walking all alane,
I heard twa corbies making mane;
The tane unto the t’other say,
“Where sall we gang and dine the day?”

—“The Twa Corbies”, first published in Scott’s MINSTRELSY vol. 2 (1810), is a darker, grimmer, #Scots version of the English ballad “The Three Ravens”
#WyrdWednesday

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen:

"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."

"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

Remember, Scott Adams won't see your posts focusing on his late-career bigotry, but J.K. Rowling might.

These Billionaires Bet Big On Greenland—After Trump Took Interest As Trump increasingly threatens to take control, some of the most powerful people in the world have taken their own interest in the mineral-rich territory to the North.

As Trump increasingly threatens to take control, some of the most powerful people in the world have taken their own interest in the mineral-rich territory to the North.

Neanderthals Repeatedly Dumped Horned Skulls In This Cave For An Unknown Ritual Purpose We don't know how long they kept up the tradition, but it certainly persisted for a prolonged period.

Cultures without writing store vast amounts of pragmatic information through song, story, dance - essential for survival. Memory devices (such as skulls) are involved.

Why is the role of knowledge systems not included when interpreting performance sites?

www.iflscience.com/neanderthals...?

Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online It took 90 years to complete. But, in 2011, scholars at the University of Chicago finally published a 21-volume dictionary of Akkadian, the language used in ancient Mesopotamia.

Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online

www.openculture.com/2026/01/dict...

#books #literature #language

I guess we know why they cover their faces now

The Trump doctrine: Violence is us The message is clear—be afraid.

NEW: The ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, the Venezuela attack, the new White House Jan. 6 website—these each convey a powerful & unsettling message from Trump, Miller, and their crew: Violence is ours to use, at home and abroad, to get what we want. Beware.

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I'm going to be speaking at this symposium in Cambridge next week about my practice and current work-in-progress 📚 Can't wait to hear the other speakers & see what emerges!
#MedievalSky