@justrandomwords

Words and things.

Joined October 2009
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Our third book at Tantallon Tìr is Gaels by Seamus Connolly. Pre-orders available now.
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Some wise words from Orkney’s own George Mackay Brown, who would have been 105 today…
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a good poem --- 082 Wrong way--- by Roger David Smith @justrandomwords One-sentence review: A poem about love and compromise. An unconventional love poem.
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A little poem about dishwashers for @TopTweetTuesday. Thanks, as always, to @MatthewMCSmith and @blackboughpoems for hosting..
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I don’t know about you, but it makes my toes curl when I hear TV and radio presenters use endonyms for places that have perfectly good exonyms (example Kyiv rather than Kiev). Why don’t we just use endonyms for all countries/places? Wouldn’t that be polite? Nope. 1/n
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Call of the Isles. A book that captures pieces of Scotland and beyond from some of the best Scottish and Scotland based writers alive today.
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A poem about the change of the seasons for this week’s @TopTweetTuesday. Thanks to @MatthewMCSmith for hosting..
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This is an abridged version of one of three short observational poems I had in @PaulDragonwolf1’s “Starbeck Orion Summer Feast” earlier in the year. You can see (and hear) them all here.. the880.substack.com/p/welcom…
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I think we can all learn some valuable lessons from the ghost of this lamp.
poorly drawn lines@PDLComicsSep 3
the ghost of this lamp
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Replying to @AeosMag
Made it to Caithness as well… 😉
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AEOS Issue 6 close to being fully sold out. Do you have yours? #aeosmag #litmag
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Issue 6 has been our fastest seller by a long way. Thanks to all those who picked up a copy (or multiple copies!). If you're still to grab yours, be quick, as they're going fast. #litmag #artmag #aeosmag
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Posting a short ekphrastic poem I had published recently, inspired by a Tom Waits’ track.. #fawn #TomWaits @TopTweetTuesday
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The very cool AEOS Magazine #6, featuring these wonderful writers, is out now! (I am in there too, but in a smaller font..)
AEOS PUBLISHING@AeosMagAug 7
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Just realised that @LukeHaines_News, one of my favourite songwriters ever, has had a new album out for a few weeks. (I used to know these things.) Trying to listen to it, but the first track has got the start time for Worzel Gummidge wrong (5.30pm on Sundays) which annoys me..
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ChatGPT knows who I am. (I know because I asked it.) I am not sure how I should feel about this.. 🤔
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Wait, what? We’ve made an artificial cell that can self-replicate? And nobody told me til I read this @tomgauld cartoon… 😯
Tom Gauld@tomgauldJul 29
My latest cartoon for @newscientist. Inspired by recent news about the SpudCell. NS subscribers can read about it here: newscientist.com/article/253…
Title: The artificial cell's diary Panel 1: An oval green cell with a face opens its eyes. Caption: Woke up to the scientists discussing whether I was alive or just exhibiting some of the symptoms. Panel 2: The cell looks thoughtful Caption: A bit heavy for first thing in the morning. Panel 3: The cell eats some little dots in the liquid around it. Caption: Had a swim, then ate some of the molecule soup that I live in. My day is pretty much all soup-based. Panels 4: The cell looks uncomfortable Caption: Then I began to feel rather odd. Panel 5 and 6: the cell hseems to be splitting in two Caption: But, I saved the big news for last: Panel 7: The cell smiles. A new, smaller cell smiles back. Caption: I made a new friend!

ALT Title: The artificial cell's diary Panel 1: An oval green cell with a face opens its eyes. Caption: Woke up to the scientists discussing whether I was alive or just exhibiting some of the symptoms. Panel 2: The cell looks thoughtful Caption: A bit heavy for first thing in the morning. Panel 3: The cell eats some little dots in the liquid around it. Caption: Had a swim, then ate some of the molecule soup that I live in. My day is pretty much all soup-based. Panels 4: The cell looks uncomfortable Caption: Then I began to feel rather odd. Panel 5 and 6: the cell hseems to be splitting in two Caption: But, I saved the big news for last: Panel 7: The cell smiles. A new, smaller cell smiles back. Caption: I made a new friend!

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Just realised that @LukeHaines_News, one of my favourite songwriters ever, has had a new album out for a few weeks. (I used to know these things.) Trying to listen to it, but the first track has got the start time for Worzel Gummidge wrong (5.30pm on Sundays) which annoys me..
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Picked up my copy of “dissolution” today, a new anthology of poems put together by @TheDarkestStar_ and @larotondereview and themed “poems at the edge of disappearance.” Interested to see how others have interpreted this…
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Everything David Davis said about Nicola Sturgeon in the House of Commons is true. I don't have parliamentary privilege. So sue me.
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