@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot · 2d ago

Remember: your local library doesn't just contain books! You can also find comics, IT facilities, and hippopotamus skulls.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot · Mar 06, 2026

New signage opposite the Ramshorn Kirkyard.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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New-Cleckit Dominie

@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot · Mar 05, 2026

If anyone challenges you about your World Book Day costume, tell them you're Borges' Book of Sand.

*pause*

"Look, don't get me started."

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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New-Cleckit Dominie

@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot · Feb 26, 2026

An origami nudibranch looks itself up in the nudibranch book.

(Origami by Neil Banas and others, from an exhibition at the Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.)

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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New-Cleckit Dominie

@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot · Feb 22, 2026

New blog. This is my attempt to find a story in one of the shortest and least important streets in Blythswood.

https://new-cleckit.dominie.scot/free-st-peters/

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot · Feb 17, 2026

A rare sighting of Phalacrocorax ikea, the Badly-Assembled Cormorant.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot · Feb 10, 2026

Not sure how many of you are likely to be in Livi Tower today (iykyk), but if so: avoid Lift 105. The cleaners have warned me it's back to its kidnapping game again.

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University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot · Feb 08, 2026

New Glasgow nerdery post. This is about some of the least glamorous vessels ever to use the Clyde: the mud punts of the Clyde Navigation Trust.

https://new-cleckit.dominie.scot/inglorious-mud/

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot · Jan 31, 2026

A few days ago I was reading a mortsafe in the Ramshorn Kirkyard (this is normal behaviour if you're me). This is what I found out:

https://new-cleckit.dominie.scot/hammer-to-fall/

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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New-Cleckit Dominie

@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot · Jan 31, 2026

Distracting names in old PO Directories: the Friendly Bread Association.

(I'm assuming there was a counterpart Hostile Bread Association on the east side of Union Street, which broke up after two members were savaged by an enraged sourdough.)

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot · Jan 29, 2026

One of the lifts has an unnerving habit of pausing for five seconds before the doors open.

If you time it exactly right, you can intone the Elvish word for "Friend" in a loud voice just before they open, giving your awestruck fellow passengers the impression that you're a really strange nerd.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot · Jan 24, 2026

Please be briefly cheered up by this perfume bottle (Greek; c. 600BCE) from the Burrell Collection.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot · Jan 15, 2026

The votive ship in the lower church of Glasgow Cathedral, forever sailing into its own huge shadow.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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New-Cleckit Dominie

@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot · Jan 13, 2026

Saints Kentigern (left) and Columba (right) giving it their all in a famous no-holds-barred saint-off by the Molendinar.

[Stained glass by Lorraine Lamond in St Alphonsus at the Barras.]

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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New-Cleckit Dominie

@ncdominie@mastodon.scot

University maths teacher; very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the cerulean site.

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@ncdominie@mastodon.scot · Jan 10, 2026

"Hey, big guy. We're looking for some muscle for a seed bank job. You in?"

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