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Checked a link while editing an article on 20th C fascism and was met with this 😫 #AmEditing #NoThanks
This 18-year-old Afghan girl had offers from York and Reading – thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...
Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies.
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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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Maroon Chartered Week 2026 graphic with headline: 'Public trust depends on professional standards.' Text states that standards are upheld through human judgement, ethics and accountability. It explains that as the UK’s only chartered body for editors and proofreaders, CIEP stands with the chartered community in strengthening trust in information the public relies on. Includes illustration of an editor working at a desk, CIEP logo, website URL and Chartered Week badge. Chartered Week runs from twenty-third to twenty-seventh February 2026.
Chartered Week 2026 highlights the importance of trust in professionals.
As AI expands, human judgement, ethics and accountability matter more than ever. Editorial professionals help ensure the information we rely on is accurate and accessible.
Read more: lnkd.in/gVjrgp8h
This morning we went to the West Bank to plant olive trees, in a joint action organized together with Rabbis for Human Rights, in an area where settlers had uprooted and destroyed them not long ago. (1/3)
This year, we are celebrating Wikipedia turning 25 and Wikimedia UK marking its 15 years as a registered charity 😱🎉
Time, skills, curiosity, expertise or support: every contribution matters. Take part and celebrate with us: https://wikimedia.org.uk/gift-knowledge-your-way/
Today is your LAST CHANCE to get involved with our Christmas appeal, in association with @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social 📕
Find out how you can give a child the gift of reading HERE: www.heraldscotland.com/opin...
One of the weirdly English things about Reform is that they keep forgetting Britain’s other indigenous languages. It’s true Glasgow is a big international city with lots of “foreign” languages. It’s also true that it’s a city where thousands speak Scots and Gaelic as well as English.
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Research on this is clear: the uncertainty created by this policy will lead to people integrate less into British society. It is trading-off the reasonable policy goal of integration for the useless symbolism of immigration numbers. Bad policy to appease the far right.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
📚Calling all contacts in Scottish arts, culture, literature and publishing: Please do all you can to help support and spread the word about The Herald's Christmas appeal with the Scottish Book Trust.📚
I'm appearing at Aye Write (yipee) on Friday 7th of Nov at the Mitchell Library. It would be lovely to see some of you there #sheilawakefield #maxmulgrew #catherineogston #ayewrite www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/post...
Interesting thread 👀 #amEditing
"The rhetoric & especially the tropes — the boats spewing out their unwelcome cargo, the swarthiness of the incomers’ skins, their tendency to stick with their own — are startlingly similar." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column on lessons from the UK's 1940 programme of mass internment.
“I had to break the news to my wife. She hasn’t been able to stop crying since she heard the news. What is the value of this life if you have to be separated from the people you love? Both of us are completely shattered by this.”
This heartbreak a thousand times, for what?
Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism iandunt.substack.com/p/labours-co...
👉OUT NOW!👈
"A Handbook of Integration with Refugees: Global Learnings from Scotland"
Edited with @alisonphipps.bsky.social and @esaldegheri.bsky.social
The book is FREE to download from www.multilingual-matters.com
A sign reading ‘It’s our birthday! 100 today’ in front of the National Library of Scotland building in Edinburgh.
🎪 The mayhem begins!
Celebrate with us! Doors open at 10am at George IV Bridge (Edinburgh) and Kelvin Hall (Glasgow). Be among the first 500 at each site to get your special edition centenary comic, created by Beano!
#NLS100 #Beano
pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...
NEW WRITING SCOTLAND ASL is seeking applications to be a co-editor of New Writing Scotland, from writers currently based in Scotland. Applicants should have a strong publishing record of their own, with a focus on prose; previous editorial experience would be an advantage. The post will run for up to three years from 2026, for volumes 44, 45, and 46, publishing in 2026, 2027, and 2028 (dependent on funding). Our editors jointly select approximately 50 pieces – poetry and prose – from the English- and Scots-language submissions we receive each year. The submissions are anonymised, and we provide editors with paper copies to read. As an editor, we’d ask you to attend launches in Edinburgh and Glasgow (travelling expenses would be paid). Editors receive an annual £1500 stipend and full editorial credit. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from people who are under-represented within the sector, including from BPOC applicants (Black people and People of Colour), disabled people, LGBTQIA+ applicants and those from a low socioeconomic background. Please send a CV and a one-page application letter, outlining your qualifications for the position, to admin@asls.org.uk by midnight on Monday 4 August 2025. Submission to New Writing Scotland is free and open to all. You can find our submission instructions here.
WRITERS!
New Writing Scotland seeks a new co-editor for English- & Scots-language work. Applicants should be currently based in Scotland & have a strong publishing record, with a focus on prose. Post is up to 3 years: stipend £1500 per issue.
#writers #writing
Pls RT 👇
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Martin Dewhirst reviews 'The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB' by Gordon Corera - #RightsinRussia www.rightsinrussia.org/dewhirst-24/
BREAKING: The EU Commission has released a mandatory template for AI developers to disclose training data. Unlike the Code of Practice, this is not optional. It could have global fallout, as rights holders abroad might use it to sue over copyright.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/e...
Two sides of a traditional trade union banner ("Glasgow Typographical Society / Instituted 1817"). One side shows a vaguely Classical scene with the mottos "Let there be light" and "Union is strength"; the other shows the interior of a printworks.
Banner of the Glasgow Typographical Society (1817), an early trade union founded by the letter-press printers of Glasgow.
Imagine carrying that at a rally, knowing that every single person present was surreptitiously checking the kerning.
(Pic: pistachio.gla.ac.uk/case-studies/)
I’m with @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social here on his wet blanket. Writers who try to render accents phonetically assume everyone reading speaks the same way they do – frequently RP. It’s extremely distracting to read on a page, often comes across as patronising and snobbish, and is sometimes baffling.
Welcome to Balfron Book Festival, a brand new festival celebrating books & storytelling in the Stirlingshire village of Balfron. From author events & creative writing to family storytelling sessions,we’re excited to bring you a fun-filled programme for readers of all ages
www.balfronbookfestival.com
“I don’t write about people that are nice people. They’ve got to be sinners, with a wee touch of goodness here and there, you know.”
Giving “people like that” a voice: a conversation with Agnes Owens (1926–2014) – born #OTD, 24 May
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