Gorgeous translation of Auld Lang Syne in the subtitles here

And a Monk and Robot omnibus too!

I really recommend listening to the new Ethel Cain album in an unheated office for real 2025 vibes.

Reading Anna Bogutskaya’s Feeding The Monster ahead of her talk at Granite Noir that will feature a screening of Prano Bailey-Bond’s fantastic Censor, which has been programmed in partnership with The Belmont Cinema.

Culture is the beating heart of who we are. The Scottish Greens will always #celebrateculture. We're calling on Scottish Government to commit to multi-year funding for cultural & creative orgs 🏛️⚱️🎭📜

This includes the fab 'Media and Memory' course, on which I'm teaching together with my fab Aberdeen Uni LLMVC Art History Aberdeen & AberdeenHistory colleagues! CC Fransiska Louwagie @fransiskalouwagie.bsky.social Nadia Kiwan Dr. Bárbara Barreiro León Thomas Weber.

Getting announcements of the new Perfume Genius and Lucy Dacus albums on the same day Porridge Radio breaks up has been a heck of an emotional rollercoaster.

A tragedy that Sayombhu Mukdeeprom shot the fuck out of four films this year and wasn’t nominated for any of them by his peers

I first watched Eraserhead the last night of the 1992 Democratic National Convention, flipping back and forth between the film and Clinton's acceptance speech and Fleetwood Mac. Explains a lot, as they say, about my entire generation. Kinda flabbergasted.

Deadline extended for call for papers until Friday 7 Feb – bacls conference on all aspects of contemporary literary studies.

if trans people wanna comment surgery gofundmes, I’m gonna give away 10k in $500 increments until it’s gone, & if other people wanna scroll through and make donations, please do the government will never be the source of our validation or protection, we have to do it ourselves

(Photos of after and before) I have no more words to say. The is what remained of the Edward Said Public Library in North Gaza. Photos were taken today. This is what I worked in the past seven years to build for my people with the help of friends in Gaza and outside. I waited for

This is terribly sad news that I know will dismay many friends. I met him & his remarkable wife, Edna, on several occasions, chiefly through the Robert Graves Society––most memorably in Mallora in 2010. An unflaggingly generous man & a poet of immense gifts. RIP #MichaelLongley

There's something about this shopfront on Dumbarton Road near Partick Cross that really appeals to me. I think its a mix of its unusual nature and its old-fashioned charm. That and the slogan Glorious Geggies - so very Glaswegian! #glasgow #shopfront #partick #gloriousgeggies

.John Murray Press has pre-empted The Mirror Halls, a 'masterful blend of high-concept fantasy, magical realism, horror and ancient mythology' by Cailean Steed 🏳️‍⚧️, in a six-figure deal bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)

joy williams list of eight essential attributes of the short story and one way it differs from the novel: 1. There should be a clean clear surface with much disturbance below. 4. An animal within to give its blessing.

UK universities’ annual spending on severance payments has skyrocketed past £200 million, with more than 10,000 staff losing their jobs last year, reports Paddy Jack ow.ly/1M8s50UQs7T

Deadline approaching for the Unquiet Shores conference. Edinburgh Napier and online, 18-20 June. Get your abstracts in by Monday 10 Feb. haunted-shores.com/unquiet-shores…

Looking at this in awe: how on earth did you organise that many people across the uni to be there at the same time, in a line, clapping? That's an extraordinary celebration of a lecturer. But *how*?!

Why does horror have such a strong hold on us? Join us at Granite Noir on Sun 23 Feb, 4.30pm at Cowdray Hall with Anna Bogutskaya, as she sets out to dispel the notion that there is something not quite right with the people who make and enjoy horror. aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/grani…