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Peigi MacKillop
@peigibheag.bsky.social
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Heritage, archaeology, cooking, art, fashion, Gaelic, Berneray. Ex-librarian, rescuer of orphan data sets. I have my books, and my poetry to protect me. 💙 NHS
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Peigi MacKillop @peigibheag.bsky.social · Feb 16
Sadly, renewing this as my pinned post.

'The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness'.

Also; 'Under capitalism, man exploits man'.

John Kenneth Galbraith
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richove.bsky.social
Just caught up with the excellent episode of BBC Radio4's Start the week, this one featuring @naomialderman.bsky.social on her new book 'Dont burn anyone at the stake today' & Cory Doctorow, on his 'Enshittification' - wonderfully hosted by @tds153.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Digital Futures and Information Crises
Cory Doctorow, Naomi Alderman and Oliver Moody with Tom Sutcliffe.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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kristiedegaris.bsky.social
If you can't attend my event tomorrow at University of Glasgow, it s available to live stream at the link below

uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/8484798525...

It's going to be an interesting and lively conversation.

1pm start.

#Scotland #Glasgow #Reading #WritingCommunity #Books #Events #Accessibility
A woman with short, greying dark hair stands outdoors beside an old red British phone box. She wears a teal button-up shirt tucked into high waisted dark jeans and black shoes. A pair of sunglasses hangs from her shirt. Behind her is a stone wall, a flowing river, and trees with early autumn foliage. Two small blue andwhite utility markers are set into the grass near her feet. The atmosphere is calm and slightly overcast.
November 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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soozuk.bsky.social
It’s two months away todayyyy! 20% of tickets already sold which blows my mind coz it’s big in there. Anyway. January 30th 2026.
soozuk.bsky.social Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 13d
TL;DR....Friday 30th January 2026 @ Royal Vauxhall Tavern

An Evening with Sooz Kempner. All funds go towards lead-up and recovery from an operation on my damn larynx.

£10 TICKETS: www.outsavvy.com/event/31688/...
it's me on a cool forest background with red curtains I found that's probably AI but I didn't make it so whatever
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
peigibheag.bsky.social
Fosgail

Open your hand
It contains lifetimes
Shell-sand
It ground a bottle
Port, passed by sailors
On their last voyage
A dish, broken by a nervous maid
Screwing her eyes against dismissal
Lives, in your grasp
All of us sailing to the stars
Atoms beckoning
Back
To our white-hot birth

#PegsPoyums
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
peigibheag.bsky.social
This is lovely
beccathorne.bsky.social Becca Thorne @beccathorne.bsky.social · 10h
Based upon images from Gearrannan Blackhouse Village, Isle of Lewis. Oil on Fabriano, 70 x 100cm

#oilpainting #scotland #isleoflewis #outerhebrides
Coastal scene of historic thatched cottages on the Scottish islands: sketchy mess of grasses and scattered snow in the foreground, 2 cottages nestled into the landscape, with headland and rough sea beyond. Simple grey sky and limited palette of browns, blues, greys and splashes of orange.
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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archaeoborders.bsky.social
If anyone is looking for a present for a book lover who has an interest in the Anglo-Welsh border, its landscape, heritage and folklore I can highly recommend Sarah Siân Chave’s Hafren
Book cover of Hafren by Sarah Siân Chave
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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omgisme.bsky.social
You spin me right round . 😍
November 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
peigibheag.bsky.social
Getting to Christmas I'm remembering my mum's magnificent Christmas dinners. She made her own marzipan from scratch, her own fruit cake, her own mincemeat. She was, as I am, not a fan of dried fruit so much of what she made was gifted, cakes posted out. #Christmas #ChristmasDinner 1/2
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
peigibheag.bsky.social
Look @scarredforlife.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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tessmachling.bsky.social
Ok folks, I've got a task I need help with.

I need to know about high money value detector finds found since 2019 (not including tudor heart or Chew Valley hoard) from news reports, social media posts etc.

England & Wales only.

Please share, thank you 😊

#Archaeology 🏺 #Treasure #Detecting
November 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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sardonicus.eu
A Car Dumped On The Beach Has To Be Outmanoeuvred By The Seacoalers, Lynemouth, Northumberland
Chris Killip, 1982

flashbak.com/chris-killip...
man in the sea with a horse drawn cart, an abandoned car lies covered in seaweed as the tide comes in
November 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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gailmyerscough.co.uk
Christmas Order dates are now up on my website.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-or...
Christmas Order Dates | Gail Myerscough
Avoid disappointment and get your orders in early!
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
peigibheag.bsky.social
#pegspoyums
November 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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samphireglass.bsky.social
Beautiful shimmering silver. Perfect for the Christmas and winter season. Wonderful sparkling radiant dichroic glass necklace.

#handmade #etsy #giftideas

samphireglass.etsy.com/listing/4399...
November 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
Today is a good day to remind you that I have lots of cool things for sale through my Etsy shop. LoTR subway maps, landscape drawings, & more.

Like this squirrel, or a grumpy raven! They looks great on a coffee cup, or as a print.

Who doesn't love a Christmas raven?
www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...
Black and white drawing of a raven, looking away from you as if you've done something terribly wrong. The drawing is made of abstract shapes and lines. A black and white drawing of a squirrel, made of abstract shapes and lines. It is standing on it's hind paws, with it's forepaws raised like it's about to grab your lunch.
November 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
peigibheag.bsky.social
Buidseach

A table scrubbed
with salt and sand
Wooden top washed up
bleached as bone
Tools hang on rusted hooks
Pushed into drystone
Edges shine
Drawn along a glittering gneiss
*
A tool hangs
Washed in sand
Hard whalebone
A clavicle
Dried in the cleit
Enough to cleave
The head
Of a bull

#PegsPoyums
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
peigibheag.bsky.social
Got the cold / virus. Slumped in armchair. I watched 'A Scottish Cristmas secret', with Caprice, so you don't have to. Seriously, you dont have to.
A blonde woman wearing a green dress. And a dark haired man wearing a grey plaid shirt and red t shirt stand in front of snow capped mountains and a wierd non scottish castle with turrets and flags.
November 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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silversprite.bsky.social
A long time since last looked at the Wikipedia page for Berneray, and remembering there's still a few of my 2004-09 pictures on there (below).

Higher quality pictures of, and around, the island are now taken by @eilidhcarr.bsky.social (former neighbour!) who runs Coralbox: coralbox.ecwid.com
A small red fishing boat passing between the west beach of Berneray, and the island of Pabbay. A view of the settlement of Borve, on the islands of Berneray, taken looking down from high on Borve Hill. Several houses, crofts, and many stone walls, are scattered on an island landscape with the sea in the middle distance.
November 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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peigibheag.bsky.social
That is beautiful
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
peigibheag.bsky.social
Night
youtu.be/LtYujyhvIyQ
ADAMSKI - Killer
YouTube video by OLD TAPES
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November 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
peigibheag.bsky.social
Jarvis! Once saw a Pulp gig they played behind venetian blinds. #totp
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
peigibheag.bsky.social
Other half watching Annie Lennox. 'Is that no more I love youse'
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
peigibheag.bsky.social
Please Stop

Stop again with 'battle'
Stop again with 'fight'
Others fight for us
Keep us upright
Dress and help
We just put one foot
In front of the other
Until
We can't

#PegsPoyums
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
peigibheag.bsky.social
Nothing more to be said here. #totp
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
peigibheag.bsky.social
Great song, terrible lyrics. Surely this is a cover? #totp
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM