Historian of 18th-century Scotland focused on Jacobite Studies and Digital History. Curator of JDB1745. Chair, Jacobite Studies Trust. PhD via University of St Andrews. In love with a swan and two cats. Currently watching the leaves in Portland, OR.
Darren S. Layne
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As part of the #JacobiteNations workshop this past weekend, we were treated to a special viewing of some of @uoacollections.bsky.social's gorgeous artifacts. Here I'm gingerly holding a pristine scroll butt pistol believed to be owned by Col John Roy Stuart during the '45. #museums #scottishhistory
Better angle of the incredible inlay. What a piece!
New project notebook and all the trimmings care of the wonderland that is Oblation Papers and Press. Every visit is an adventure and a balm for the soul. On either side of the counter!
I think we have to accept that there is no going back to normal. Trump fucked things up. Now we're all going to pay in ways we can't imagine right now. These are the consequences of politics. Maybe next time, Americans will take their democracy more seriously.
Pretty much anything to do with the nature of late-era Jacobitism. To the public it's a looking glass through which they see whatever speaks to them most through centuries of mythologised and appropriated history. But then I would say that, wouldn't I?
That's quite the sign:
there's a takeaway van at aberdeen beach that does a full scottish breakfast in a wrap
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Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/
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Historians, archivists, librarians, data preservationists. All attuned to this crisis, working to make and keep information accessible and available.
Because we know that democracy requires accountability and transparency.
Karin Wulf
just this week:
-- OpenAI killed Sora
-- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI
-- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content
...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?
Eric Ravenscraft
What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?
