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Dialectographer (Mitch Miller)

@dialectographer.bsky.social

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Artist-illustrator, teacher. Words and Pictures from the edges of this and that. Off 'The Shows'/post-industrial nomad mostly located in Glasgow, Scotland. Find me at: www.dialectograms.com, www.recollective.org.uk and https://preferredfictions.substack.co

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Dialectographer (Mitch Miller) @dialectographer.bsky.social · Nov 9

Alright then. Starting from scratch it is. So...if you want to know what dialectograms are (or more likely, didn't know that you WANTED to know), this is not a bad place to start...
#art #illustration #socialengagement #dubiousneologisms

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Mitch Miller on Substack

https://open.substack.com/pub/preferredfictions/p/pigeon-vision?r=22n5gh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 20d

A multi-millionaire attacking working-class families isn't patriotism. It's cowardice.
www.thenational.scot/news/2548477...

Nigel Farage blasted over 'grotesque' plan to axe indefinite leave to remain

NIGEL Farage’s plan to axe indefinite leave to remain (ILR) has been slammed as “grotesque” ...

www.thenational.scot

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Fair Scotland @fairscotland.bsky.social · 19d

🎠The SHOW GOES ON!🎡
Come down to the ‘Sands to celebrate the OPENING of the amazing DUMFRIES ROOD FAIR!

The first Official Opening in living memory - & You're invited!!
📆Thurs 25 Sept ⏰5:30pm for 6pm.
📍Whitesands, Dumfries (gather at the Waltzer)
🎟FREE to attend, no need to book - ALL WELCOME

Dialectographer (Mitch Miller) @dialectographer.bsky.social · Aug 21

This week I sent the Cumbernauld Dialectogram to its new home. Can't say exactly where yet, other than I'm excited...

Also, myself, @alisonirvine.bsky.social & @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social will bring Concrete Dreams to @natlibscot.bsky.social in Sept. Tickets are free!

www.nls.uk/whats-on/con...

Dialectogram packaged for transit to London.

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Alison Irvine @alisonirvine.bsky.social · Aug 15

Free tickets to our event on Cumbernauld Town Centre with National Library of Scotland, including presentations & film screenings are available here: 3rd Sept
@chrislesliephoto.bsky.social
@dialectographer.bsky.social
@emilymunro.bsky.social
www.concretedreams.org.uk

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Concrete Dreams – The Rise and Fall of Cumbernauld Town Centre

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Fair Scotland @fairscotland.bsky.social · Jun 10

Today our Trustee and Jnr Vice President of the Showman's Guild Alex James Colquhoun will give evidence to the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry on the impact of lockdown on our community & the fairground industry. It starts in about 10 mins & you can follow it live here: www.youtube.com/@covidinquir...

Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry

The official channel of the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry. The Inquiry is investigating the devolved strategic response to the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2022....

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · Jun 6

There has been talk of a national memorial for Jane Haining for years now, but it doesn't seem to have come to much yet. There's a small plaque for her on a stone that's part of the cairn marking the Scottish Parliment in a lovely spot up on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, but I hope we do more.

Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · Jun 6

6 June 1897 | A Scottish woman, Jane Haining, was born in Dunscore. A Church of Scotland missionary in #Budapest.

In #Auschwitz from 14 May 1944
No. 79467
She perished in the camp on 17 July 1944.
Haining was recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.

Black and white portrait of Jane Haining, posing with a slight smile, wearing glasses and a dark sweater with a necklace. Her hair is pulled back and she has a contemplative expression.

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Dialectographer (Mitch Miller) @dialectographer.bsky.social · Jun 6

Not wild about it, but you need to take into account it being a by-election (opportunity for extending the middle finger) and the fact Larkhall is in this constituency (Reform seems to have devoured the Tory Orangeman vote). I note that Lab, Cons and Reform all had Lodge members as candidates too.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · May 29

Wrote about an effort to make social media companies pay for the hate that spreads on their platforms

badfaithtimes.com/theres-a-way...

There's A Way To Stop The Algorithmic Spread Of Hate

It's well past time social media companies are forced to face the horrors they've created

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alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · Jun 1

Not reliable reference but Social Changes had a poll were they modelled turnout scenarios. Big assumptions

Dialectographer (Mitch Miller) @dialectographer.bsky.social · May 1

Am I right in thinking that a neuroscientist doesn’t know that all science is theoretical and thus, has the same understanding of what theory means as a flat-rather?

Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · May 1

Philosophy has jumped the shark.

If anyone in the philosophy community wonders why their neuroscientist colleagues don’t pay them any mind, read this paper.

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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · Apr 30

My paper 'Representations are (still) theoretical posits' is forthcoming in a special of Theoria on representations in cognitive science. Preprint available at philpapers.org/rec/DRARAS-2.

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · Apr 23

In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.

Mayor Brown making Blight the head of DOPE- the Department of Pure Evil

Blight saying “Come on, let’s make Beanotown much worse”

Blight saying he’ll sack all the police officers

Blight saying he can do whatever he wants

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Dialectographer (Mitch Miller) @dialectographer.bsky.social · Apr 28

Lucca’s an amazing town. Need to go back there…

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Alison Irvine @alisonirvine.bsky.social · Apr 25

I loved our talk at the @riasbookshop.bsky.social on #Cumbernauld. Chaired excellently by architect Malcolm Fraser and full of heated discussion from the audience, it was a great night. @nlheritage.bsky.social @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social @dialectographer.bsky.social Thanks for having us, RIAS!

Artist Mitch Miller speaking in front of a wall of portraits of former RIAS presidents.

TV Screen showing the cover of Concrete Dreams book.

A room of audience members, Alison Irvine reading from a book, architect Malcolm Fraser, and many portraits on the wall.

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Dialectographer (Mitch Miller) @dialectographer.bsky.social · Apr 22

Thanks so much @riasbookshop.bsky.social !

RIAS Bookshop @riasbookshop.bsky.social · Apr 22

⭐️ BOOK OF THE WEEK ⭐️

‘Concrete Dreams’ by Alison Irvine, Chris Leslie and Mitch Miller

Explore the complex legacy of Cumbernauld’s iconic, but divisive, brutalist town centre through the stories of its residents in this lavishly illustrated volume.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · Apr 21

Giving this another wee punt in case anyone interested might have missed it yesterday. Fairs are a vital part of our heritage - it would be a great cultural loss if we were to allow them to fade away.

Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · Apr 20

“Fairs are an accretion of centuries’ of collective memory, their identities bound up - historically, aesthetically, emotionally - with the land on which they stand." I loved writing this @heraldscotland.bsky.social piece on fairs & the fight to save them. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2509695...

The show must go on: The fight to save the last of the Scottish fairs

Fairs are more than a mish mash of rides and stalls plonked on any old spot that keeps them out of the way, writes Dani Garavelli, they are an…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Dialectographer (Mitch Miller) @dialectographer.bsky.social · Apr 20

Superb article Dani! For those unable to access, please consider filling out/sharing our survey aimed at improving our knowledge of lost and endangered fairs in Scotland. You can access it here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Survey of Endangered and LOST FAIRS in Scotland

Help us identify ENDANGERED and LOST FAIRS in Scotland Fair Scotland is gathering a list of fairgrounds and local galas that are LOST or AT RISK of being cancelled due to nearby development, complaint...

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · Apr 20

The show must go on: The fight to save the last of the Scottish fairs

Fairs are more than a mish mash of rides and stalls plonked on any old spot that keeps them out of the way, writes Dani Garavelli, they are an…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Dialectographer (Mitch Miller) @dialectographer.bsky.social · Apr 18

Come and see Recollective (myself, @alisonirvine.bsky.social and @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social) at @riasbookshop.bsky.social this Wednesday (23rd April) at 6.30pm talking about Concrete Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Cumbernauld Town Centre.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bookshopla...

BookshopLATES... Concrete Dreams

Join the award-winning artists of Recollective to discover Cumbernauld Town Centre through the eyes of its residents, past and present.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Alison Irvine @alisonirvine.bsky.social · Apr 16

If you're interested in Cumbernauld, architecture, social history, stories, photography and illustration, & if you can get to Edinburgh on 23rd April, this is the event for you! @dialectographer.bsky.social @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social @riasbookshop.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bookshopla...

BookshopLATES... Concrete Dreams

Join the award-winning artists of Recollective to discover Cumbernauld Town Centre through the eyes of its residents, past and present.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Apr 2

For the @economist.com, I wrote about the Le Pen verdict. In liberal democracies, the law needs to be applied even if that strengthens the far right. But here, we should not just assume that this will help the RN. On the contrary. It's a good moment for democracy.

www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

The Le Pen ruling is good for liberal democracy, writes Tarik Abou-Chadi

The Oxford professor says it shouldn’t matter whether the verdict emboldens the hard right or not

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Emma Lennox @lennoxia.bsky.social · Mar 5

I returned to my own substack this week with musings of fascism on film. Do you remember the first Nazi you saw on screen? How did films of the past bring us warnings for the future? I take a look at a film that shook me to my childhood core; Au Revoir Les Enfants.
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Au Revoir Les Enfants

Trigger warning: Nazis

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Emma Lennox @lennoxia.bsky.social · Mar 19

Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only:

Jimi Hendrix in a relaxed pose and multicoloured striped trousers, orange shirt, black waistcoat with gold trim and an orange cravat tie.

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Dialectographer (Mitch Miller) @dialectographer.bsky.social · Apr 2

I note this was written by three policy interns, a tech-bro and an academic who should frankly be ashamed of himself.

We need immediate pushback on this garbage, although 'taxing the people so that billionaires don't have to pay a dime' has got to be a hard one to sell...

Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · Apr 2

The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today.

Some very brief highlights:

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Dialectographer (Mitch Miller) @dialectographer.bsky.social · Mar 20

I suppose the real question then is- is politics *doing* its job here? The government has shown very little stomach for addressing these issues so far. Having said that, these kind of political film show events tend in practice, to be rather empty gestures.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · Mar 16

This should really be all the evidence anyone needs to ensure that official accounts on X/Twitter for every level of government, every political party concerned for decency, and every pubic service should be closed down. It is no longer a social network, it is a Musk-Trump propaganda site.

Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · Mar 16

Last month I did a little experiment.

I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.

The results were...interesting...

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