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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 1h

Hopefully László Krasznahorkai will now be able to afford to buy a keyboard with an operational full stop key.

Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 1h

One of the few good things to come out of covid is the regular Drink with the Idler, featuring @askwilliamblake.bsky.social's thought for the week.

Last night was @irvinewelsh.bsky.social but I am particularly looking forward to hearing from Tim Richardson.

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 17h

I was going to post something about Jim from the Office for winning the Nobel Prize for Literature but stopped myself for fear of the Bluesky police. But nowadays my feed is full of people mocking sanctimony so I don't know what to think.

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 2d

This tour is pretty well organised but I don't envy the three days going between the Isle of Man, Middlesbrough, and Buxton.

Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 5d

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mr.neil.scott on Instagram: "When it rains (+)"

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 6d

What were they (I) thinking!!!

Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 6d

If you want something to watch in a storm, Powell and Pressburger's I Know Where I'm Going is perfect.

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Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert @jshphotog.bsky.social · 7d

#Glasgow by Raymond Depardon - PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN photos from 1980, by the #Magnum #photographer who brought out widely discussed book of Glasgow photos in 2016. www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture...

A World in Color: Across the United Kingdom | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 7d

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 8d

How it started / How it's going

poster for Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh's performance tied together for a year

Youtube thumbnail for MrBeast where people are chained for a month

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 9d

Are we allowed to put the heating on now?

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 9d

We're all going to capitalist hell

Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 9d

Talk about Capitalist Realism. Someone has condensed Mark Fisher's book in a nine minute audiobook.

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 9d

Talk about Capitalist Realism. Someone has condensed Mark Fisher's book in a nine minute audiobook.

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 10d

That time of year thou mayst in me behold when I listen to sonnet 73 open.spotify.com/track/6m58FC...

Sonnet LXXIII

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 10d

Thank you! Too lost in the moment to take accurate notes.

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 10d

"A stone circle is an oil rig in embryo" and "the past is where we go to argue about the future."

My notes from seeing @peteralanross.bsky.social on Saturday.

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 10d

Stick with it!

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 11d

I've been on a Geoff Dyer bender this summer and currently reading Paris Trance.

Did revisit The Moronic Inferno a few weeks back but found it hasn't aged as well as the pieces in The War Against Cliché.

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 11d

How is Other People coming along?

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 11d

The show is open until 12 October ... by appointment!

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Machine on Instagram: "'Sick and What is Holy' Isabella Widger Reception Saturday 27th September from 5:30 - 9:00 PM Open by appointment until Sunday 12th October"

83 likes, 0 comments - machine_glasgow on September 17, 2025: "'Sick and What is Holy' Isabella Widger Reception Saturday 27th September from 5:30 - 9:00 PM Open by appointment until Sunday 12th O...

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 11d

What is most intriguing is that the whole show was inspired by 'A Burial at Ornans' by Gustave Courbet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Buria...

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 11d

Saw Isabella Widger's exhibition in a spare room of a flat in Shawlands.

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 11d

"I feel like social media is a party drug that we all started taking 10, 15 years ago in big doses. It was like, this is so fun. And now we're all addicted to it, and no one's getting high off it anymore. It's just maintenance."

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Might As Well Face It

A conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert about her new memoir.

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 11d

Finally saw that mural of hot Mary Barbour.

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 13d

It's a short article, but links off to deeper dives like @danigaravelli.bsky.social's in the @lrb.co.uk

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Dani Garavelli · ‘Bang! I was out’: On Drug Consumption Rooms

For some critics, providing a safe space to inject seems too much like enabling or endorsing drug taking. But for those...

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