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The Gaelic Books Council @leughleabhar.bsky.social · Sep 16

Meal-a-naidheachd air Tim Armstrong a choisinn an duais airson An Làmh-sgrìobhainn as Fheàrr do dh’Inbhich 2025 le ‘An Luinges Dorcha air Fàire’.

@publishingscotland.bsky.social
@creativescots.bsky.social ‬
@bordnagaidhlig.bsky.social

#DuaisLit25 #Gàidhlig

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The Gaelic Books Council @leughleabhar.bsky.social · Aug 26

Geàrr-liosta: Làmh-sgrìobhainn as Fheàrr do dh’Inbhich

An Luingeas Dorcha air Fàire – Tim Armstrong
Aonar – Iain Cuimeanach
Faidhean is Taibhsean – Calum L. MacLeòid
Gun Tiotal – Marcas Mac an Tuairneir

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · Aug 23

A bhampairean, gabhaibh bhuam!

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · Aug 19

Via BoingBoing
boingboing.net/2025/08/18/k...

Kevin Kelly shares tips to successful book publishing in 2025

Kevin Kelly shares insider secrets to successful book publishing in 2025

boingboing.net

Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · Aug 19

Is toil leam an aiste seo air foillseachadh san 21 linn. Lorg mi a' chomhairle innte air na buannachdan an lùib "unmonetised publishing" gu sònraichte inntinneach. Mas e ùghdar a th' annad, mholainn i:
kk.org/thetechnium/...

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · Aug 18

Cha do mhothaich mi gun tàinig leabhar Alistair a-mach! Ciamar a thachair sin? Chan fhaca mi sanasachd ma dheidhinn. Saoil, an robh bogadh ann dha?

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · Aug 16

Once you understand that a driving principle of American politics is there is no such thing as a compassionate solution that's cheap enough or a cruel solution that's too expensive, a lot of things click into place.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Aug 16

I think it's possible that Trump's illegal invasion of DC will really in some sense "get rid of the tents." If that happens, elite commentators will rush to praise him and attribute it to the effectiveness of cruelty, and not to the fact that they spent millions of dollars per tent cleared.

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · Jul 22

Tha blog agam, The Socialist Entrepreneur, a tha air a bhith a' dol fad còrr is 10 bliadhna a-nis(!), ach a tha air sìoladh às beagan on a stad mi a phostadh o chionn greis. Leis an nobhail ùir agam deiseil, saoilidh mi gun tòisich mi a-rithist ag obair air, le corra lèirmheas leabhair is dòcha...

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · Jul 12

bràigh a’ bhàta

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · Jul 11

Beò ann an saoghal saibeir-punc. Fianais an latha an-diugh: “autonomous narco drone sub”.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · Jun 25

Deagh leughadh ann am Port-adhair Inbhir Nis.

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · Jun 12

Tha mi a' coimhead an-diugh air an ealain dhan ath nobhail agam le @phineas.bsky.social, agus tha i craicte math. Tha mi a' dèanamh fiughair mhòr ri a foillseachadh!!!

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · Jun 10

Òraid seachad. Phew!

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · Jun 3

cothrom=còir?

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · May 26

The e a' leantail air, "[...] it’s very clear that this idea of sensibility, which we go on about a lot – “no machine could ever replace my sensibility, which is so rich, varied, complex, and arising from experience and from history” – that’s all rubbish. You can actually manufacture that."

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · May 26

Dh'fheuch mi ChatGPT sa Ghàidhlig an-dè, agus tha e air fàs eagalach math, feumaidh mi a ràdh.

"How do you think AI is going to affect you as a writer?

It’s going to be the end of us all."

observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Colm Tóibín: ‘AI will be the end of us. Maybe that’s good’ | The Observer

The US-based Irish author on the inevitable decline of the novelist, fulfilling a lifelong ambition by writing for opera – and why he won’t even look at Trump

observer.co.uk

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · May 5

Fuc dhea...

Gun Ghaol @gunghaol.bsky.social · May 5

Tha bhidio ciùil aig DEISEIL

Our new Chappell Roan cover (entirely in Gaelic) has a video & subtitles check it

youtu.be/cqi5fxyy1nU?...

GUN GHAOL - DEISEIL

YouTube video by Gun Ghaol

youtu.be

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · Apr 24

Professor of Gaelic and translation at the University of Aberdeen Moray Watson began working on a Scots Gaelic draft of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit prior to the first Covid-19 lockdown.

The Hobbit translated into Scots Gaelic for first time

Moray Watson, a professor of Scots Gaelic and translation at the University of Aberdeen, began working on a Gaelic draft of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit prior to the first Covid-19 lockdown.

www.rte.ie

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · Apr 12

“daor-chleachdadh” Dè ur beachd?
drilseach.net/2025/03/30/d...

Daor-chleachdadh

Dè a’ Ghàidhlig a chuireamaid air ‘exploitation’ anns an t-seagh shònraichte a’ ciallachadh a bhith a’ cleachdadh cuideigin no rudeigin ann an dòigh mhì-chothromach no…

drilseach.net

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · Mar 31

Tim Tréanlamhaigh!

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · Mar 14

A really interesting article proposing the abolition of Boards of Trustees at universities and other aspects of top level administration:

For Democratic Governance of Universities: The Case for Administrative Abolition muse.jhu.edu/article/917791

Project MUSE - For Democratic Governance of Universities: The Case for Administrative Abolition

muse.jhu.edu

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · Mar 5

Via... boingboing.net/2025/03/04/c...

Computer with 800,000 human neurons launches for $35,000

Australian company Cortical Labs launched the world's first commercial biological computer made from human brain cells fused with silicon hardware. As reported in New Atlas, the CL1 uses 800,000 lab-g...

boingboing.net

Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · Mar 5

Thachair sin nas luaithe na bha mi an dùil. Beò ann an saoghal saibeir-punc mar-thà...
newatlas.com/brain/cortic...

World's first "Synthetic Biological Intelligence" runs on living human cells

The world's first "biological computer" that fuses human brain cells with silicon hardware to form fluid neural networks has been commercially launched, ushering in a new age of AI technology. The CL1...

newatlas.com

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Wilson McLeod @wilsonmcleod.bsky.social · Feb 25

Excellent news that @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social's summer immersion course will be running again - provides a very helpful new pathway into Gaelic further and higher education

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Feb 25

A GAELIC summer school on a Scottish island is offering fully funded places to complete beginners to learn the national language ...

Gaelic summer school offers fully funded places for beginners to learn language

www.thenational.scot

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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · Feb 24

Nicolson, 128. Chan eil e ceàrr.

Cha shoirbh triubhas a chur air cat. It is not easy to put trews on a cat. Gaelic proverb

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