Mark Gould

@markgould13@ohai.social
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Currently on the brink of retirement, but looking for work that will take me through the next few years.

Continued from twitter (since September 2008)

He/him

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Mark GouldJun 4
Show threadFiona Grahame Orkney News LtdJun 4
@markgould13 that's interesting. This year I expect will be worse for accommodation because Orkney is hosting the Island Games
Mark GouldJun 1
The GistJun 1

Guest Gist: Empires of Certainty

Dermot Casey responds to "The Age of Diagnosis" and its suggestions that there are just too many ADHD people around these days. This is the Gist.

https://www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-empires-of-certainty/

Guest Gist: Empires of Certainty

Dermot Casey responds to "The Age of Diagnosis" and its suggestions that there are just too many ADHD people around these days. This is the Gist.

The Gist
Mark GouldMay 31
Assoc for Scottish LiteratureMay 31

Thae laddies in the Celtic shirts,
a baker’s dozen
lumbering all the way to the summit cairn
the hot last Saturday of May
as larks trilled
and the loch-side braes released their midgies…

—Kathleen Jamie, “Ben Lomond”
published in THE BONNIEST COMPANIE (Picador, 2015)

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/the-bonniest-companie/9781509801718

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry

Mark GouldMay 27
Anil DashMay 27
The entire modern internet has been built on platforms that don’t believe in asking for consent. What if we started demanding a culture of consent online? https://www.anildash.com//2025/05/27/2025-05-27-internet-of-consent/
The Internet of Consent

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash
Mark GouldMay 20
JA WestenbergMay 20
The Bible, the periodic table, and the three-act structure all succeed for the same reason: optimized compression architecture.
https://paragraph.com/@signalvs/architecture-vs-content
Architecture vs. Content

Drowning, as we are, in words — billions, in blog posts, tweets, articles, and books published each year — we instinctively believe that what we say matters most. The perfect turn of phrase, the elegant metaphor, the devastating counterargument. But when I recall the most persuasive arguments I've encountered, what lingers isn't always the specific words - it’s their arrangement. The architecture of ideas, not their individual bricks. Consider language models. They generate text by predicting...

Mark GouldMay 15
Project GutenbergMay 15

Want to reduce crime? Science says: build more libraries.

By James Folta

https://lithub.com/want-to-reduce-crime-science-says-build-libraries/

#libraries

Want to reduce crime? Science says: build more libraries.

I’m always happy to find a new reason why libraries make eveything better, and today I’m pleased to report that some very serious academics have concluded that public libraries are the urban planni…

Literary Hub
Mark GouldMay 13
Just Tom...May 13
A reminder to the current leader of the Labour Party from one of the former leaders. In case he might have forgotten what the party stands for
Mark GouldMay 12
Bella CaledoniaMay 12
"I do not consent to the false consensus that immigration is a terrible thing, that people should be forced to assimilate, and that people should be criminalised, dehumanised and deported."
The Island of Strangers https://fiftysixdegreesnorth.substack.com/p/the-island-of-strangers
The Island of Strangers

Echoing Enoch Powell, who said in 1968 in his infamous Rivers of Blood speech “For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country” today Keir Starmer said “We risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.”

Mike Small
Mark GouldMay 8
JadenMay 8
Why is #TyreNichols not trending on #mastodon ?????
This is a black man that was murdered by memphis police and were acquitted by an ALL WHITE jury !
He lay on the ground asking for help from his momma while the cops kicked him to death.
If y'all ain't racist on this app shout out this injustice 🗣🗣
#blacklivesmatter #BlackMastodon
RIP Tyre ❤️
Mark GouldMay 8
It’s not to everyone’s taste, but the Grade A listed stand at Gala Fairydean Rovers (designed by Peter Womersley) is an impressively graceful structure. Pictures don’t do it justice.