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Katherine Mackinnon
@kamack.bsky.social
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Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com she/her
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archieislander.bsky.social
On 30th November audio of 141 women (inclusive) first heard in 2021 in Galloway Forest, Scotland will play in the Jardín Botánico, Trujillo, Perú, building dialogue and community beyond borders and language with new audio from those living in Perú as part of the Munanqui Festival de Mujeres Artistas
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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danigaravelli.bsky.social
Posting the carpet because it’s the law;)
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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glasgowcoa.bsky.social
First exhibition in 5 years - the boards are back!! Updated with loads of recent contributions. A selection of the crowd-sourced archive pics - including this cracker of Govanhill Baths from @druidic.org - getting shown at a Southside venue for the 1st time 😁🐦🌳🔔🐟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-co...
Glasgow Coat of Arms Exhibition Launch
Join us in Glasgow for the Coat of Arms Exhibition Launch and dive into the city's rich heritage!
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November 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
kamack.bsky.social
Just learned that there was actual seismic activity recorded in Scotland on Tuesday, at the 4th goal and the final whistle. How good is that
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Black Friday an absolute load of pish EXCEPT for The Waverley's Red White and Black Friday sale. Superior tat which funds the continuing existence of the best day out in the West of Scotland waverleyexcursions.co.uk/product-cate...
Red, White and Black Friday – Waverley Excursions
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November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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echomikeromeo.bsky.social
I'm glad to have signed this statement in support of queer and trans staff at the National Library of Scotland, who by the sounds of it are going through an awful time at the moment: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Look now, look quick – a shooting star!
Make your wish! It’s very far
From here to where the active light
Set out and streaked across a night
In Glasgow’s greatly dark November…

—Edwin Morgan, “Leonids”
in the @lrb.co.uk, June 2000
#poem #astronomy #leonids #meteors 🌠
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Leonids by Edwin Morgan Look now, look quick – a shooting star! Make your wish! It’s very far From here to where the active light Set out and streaked across a night In Glasgow’s greatly dark November To die there, a supernal ember. What was your wish? You wanted more? It’s granted! Up there is a store Of light. It’s breaking now in showers Not of stars but meteors, Spark after spark, scattering, dying, You could send your wishes flying In thousands, born, reborn, delighting To be part of that bright sighting Which disappears and yet appears Again in our unlonely years.
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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scottishtuc.bsky.social
🔊 St Andrew's Day Anti-Racism & Anti-Fascism March and Rally 2025! 🔊

📍🚶🏾🪧 Barrowlands Park to Adelaide Place
⌚ 10:30am > march at 11am > rally 12pm

Please share!
October 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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glasgowcoa.bsky.social
A wee wander round the Green today + spotted this banner someone has put at the front of the People's Palace - Elseth King RIP 🐦🌳🔔🐟
A banner draped on tailing at the steps of the People's Palace. There's a stone carved Glasgow CoA on the building behind
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
kamack.bsky.social
Bit of heroic bloodshed on a Saturday night, what a treat. I love Chow Yun Fat in 80s Hong Kong films - unbelievable levels of charm plus he always wears tremendous outfits
Photo taken in a darkened cinema of the credits of Ringo Lam’s City on Fire (1987), showing Chow Yun Fat in a freeze frame as the credits roll
November 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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trillingual.bsky.social
This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
kamack.bsky.social
Cycling along the Clyde this morning, was admiring the Waverley in its winter berth when 3 swans flew right beside me coming down to land on the river. What a noise their big wings make up close! An otherworldly sound
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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theferret.scot
🧵 For two years, photographer Rayna Carruthers has been documenting pro-Palestine protests in Scotland for The Ferret.

Over 20 people now face potential terrorism charges—for holding signs, wearing T-shirts, attending peaceful demos.
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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hhnnccnnll.bsky.social
Agitprop Cabaret!

Sat 22 Nov, 2-4pm Market Gallery, Glasgow

performances, readings, resurrections and insurrections to celebrate the launch of Berta Lask's 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 𝕸𝖚̈𝖓𝖟𝖊𝖗: 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖈 𝖉𝖊𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕲𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝕻𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖘’ 𝖂𝖆𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝟏𝟓𝟐𝟓 (1925)

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Book launch: Thomas Muntzer: dramatic depiction of the German Peasants’ War
As part of Joey Simons' solo exhibition 'Their Theatre and Ours' at Market Gallery
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November 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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“The most unfortunate of all cards, as far as one tradition goes”

The ♦️9 is known as “the Curse of Scotland” – supposedly because “Butcher” Cumberland scribbled the order “No quarter” on the playing card the night before Culloden. But…
#FolkloreThursday #C18
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Nine of diamonds, or the curse of Scotland: an etymological drama in two acts: Act 1
The origin of this mysterious phrase, "nine of diamonds," has been discussed for over two hundred years. Nor are surveys wanting. I cannot say anything on this subject the world does not know, and I h...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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John Maclean: All that life can give us
19 Nov, University of Stirling – free

Author & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean (1879–1923), followed by an open archive & poetry reading
A striking black, red, and white poster for the event, featuring a black-and-white portrait photograph of John Maclean, aged around 40. He looks directly at us, a clean-shaven man wearing a jacket, shirt and tie, with a Homburg-style hat on his head. His right arm is raised, one finger extended, to make an emphatic point. JOHN MACLEAN: ALL THAT LIFE CAN GIVE US. A TALK BY HENRY BELL Archives and Special Collections and the Creative Histories Research Group present a talk and poetry reading with award-winning author Henry Bell on Scottish socialist John Maclean WEDNESDAY 19th NOVEMBER UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SYMPOSIUM JISC HUB LEVEL 3, 3-4PM POETRY READING LEVEL 2, 4-5PM REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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hhnnccnnll.bsky.social
Very excited that my book has been translated into Spanish!! 🤯
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
kamack.bsky.social
I'm writing about dawn raids on asylum seekers of the early 2000s, and how the communities who organised against them were part of a longstanding Glasgow tradition of grassroots housing struggle. The housing activism histories are often missing from work on asylum and vice versa
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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suchmayer.bsky.social
Citation is how we knit the world.
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Was listening to the new ep of the Allusionist this morning, and Helen was interviewing So Mayer who promptly name-checked @carriem.co.uk because the Internet is a tiny tiny village
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
kamack.bsky.social
Research assistant
A lovely tabby cat called Susan with white feet and kind eyes, sitting on top of a pile of notes on a table. In the background are various coffee mugs, a pile of books and a computer. It’s cool Susan I wasn’t even using those notes anyway
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
kamack.bsky.social
Did a @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social tour for some young people from the Uni of Wisconsin today and one of them drew these amazing notes including a portrait of me 😭
Beautiful pen and ink notes with a portrait of me with notes and words in different scripts surrounding me including “Glasgow: city of defiance” , “Nelson Mandela” “the past we inherit the future we build” and then in big capitals at the bottom it just says RADICAL. I love it so much
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
Page from a 1960s primary school English textbook with a lovely cartoonish illustration of a red haired white girl in blue shirt looking at a cockatoo on a black perch. It is in the centre bottom and takes up about a third of the page, above is black serif text which reads Have you ever noticed? Every day we "see" things without really looking at them at all. On the way to and from school look at just one thing that you have often passed but never looked at very closely - it may be a street lamp, a small plant in a hedgerow, someone's front gate, the wall and windows of an ofice building, the balcony of a house, an object in a shop window. You are a secret service agent, and exact knowledge of this object is your password. Your life depends on it. Learn it by heart, and then describe it to the fellow agent who has to test you by your knowledge.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
kamack.bsky.social
I’ve been rereading a load of Alan Moore comics. Full of tremendous sentences:
Photo of a page from Swamp Thing book 1 showing a guy in green scrubs and face mask holding up something that looks a bit like a marrow with text beside his face that reads I WONDERED ABOUT THE UNWORKABLE PSEUDO-KIDNEYS
November 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
kamack.bsky.social
Current reading while hanging about outside kids gymnastics classes: this beaut new book edited by @suchmayer.bsky.social celebrating maps in the work of Ursula K Le Guin 💙
Front cover of The Word for World: the Maps of Ursula K le Guin with the title in a beautiful font with curling lines around the words, in glossy cobalt ink on a matt black background Highly detailed map of the islands of Earthsea with gorgeous names like Havnor and Karego-At. My favourite are two wee islands shaped quite like hands labelled The Hands Sparse drawing of the the continents of Anarres from The Disposessed Snakey map of the labyrinth from The Tombs of Atuan looking a wee bit like Celtic knit work with no symmetry at all
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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gavinbrewis.bsky.social
Book sale, raffle and refreshments tomorrow at Unity Books, Glasgow.

Get yourself along if you're in the city. it will be worth it!
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM