What a shame you didn't think to straighten your hair before your wedding.

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

The Chap's just got up, Boy One's gone to the gym, Boy Two's still asleep, and I'm getting present-hangry 🤣

Forgot to bring about the downfall of late-stage capitalist society. Hopefully in 2026.

Facebook has a dating bit now, if you wanted more evidence of how awful the world is

Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.

It's my first Christmas with The Chap and the boys. I am EXCITE!

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

Clearly putting the leisure centre right next to the sewage outlet.

I'm doing angry shelving. Other librarians will know this activity, I'm sure.

I drank 2.5 pints of 4.8% beer last night and lordy today is a struggle

bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok

If you missed this earlier in the week, I wrote a piece about the British Library cyberattack, the crisis in UK Higher Education, and what we can do to fix our infrastructure that isn't sitting around waiting for the Government to help.

'The perfect brand collaboration doesn't exist.' Agatha Christie/Mr Men:

@londonmousie.bsky.social Hallo???

AAAAAAAEEEEEEERRREUUUUURRRRGGGGGHHHHHH Work's doing my head in.

I've woken up with Paul Young's* Love of The Common People in my head. Ooh my mum loved a bit of Paul Young. *yes I know it is a cover, hush now and leave it be.

My mate went to the doctors to ask for either an increase in her antidepressant dosage, or to try a different one. The doctor told her to listen to Sarah Cox's podcast instead. I mean, full respect to the mighty Cox, but COME ON.

Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Thank you to everyone who credited the original UK outrage calendar. As ever, the calendar is kept under review. For example, both September's events are in jeopardy after a poor showing for the past couple of years, while confected Proms rage also seems to have subsided for now.

*approaching cheese section in supermarket* oh I see. The fucking part timers have turned up because it's Christmas. Fuck you. Fuck YOU. I'm here getting stilton every damn day of the year and you useless fucks come along in November and want fucking APRICOTS in it. You SAVAGES. You SCUM.

@chrisbrosnahan.com @cynderness.bsky.social It was this guy in the café! m.imdb.com/name/nm0265457

Today’s weekend read pulls together all of Mill Media’s reporting on one of the UK’s most prominent new movements: flag raising 🧵 livpost.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Super lovely day with @cynderness.bsky.social with bonus @chrisbrosnahan.com Bien.

Start HRT, get the most painful period in years. FML.

Went to a 50th birthday party last night. It was immense. Going to bed now.

It’s quite interesting spending the morning hearing about the importance of open information, open data, open infrastructure, open software - at the same time as the AWS outage perfectly highlights the risks of digital enclosure and the consolidation of infrastructure!

🎶And you may find yourself protesting beside David Byrne And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"🎶

[Exit pursued by a bear.]

Dulce et decorum est pro ChatGPT mori.

False dichotomy. My position is that "AI" is a deliberately diffuse marketing term pushed by commercial companies so that consumers confuse machine learning (very useful for e.g. tumour detection) with large language models (moderately useful in /very limited/ usecases)...

It's my birthday! The Chap made me breakfast in bed, Tabby The Random Cat came in for cuddles, and later we're off to That London for dinner at Mildred's, followed by a play at Soho Theatre. I'm a very happy 48 year old.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

@janjonesauthor.bsky.social Thank you for the card 💗

There is something to be said for having a boyfriend who did most of the parenting alone for years. He makes excellent packed lunches, and I am reaping that reward.

The bold font seems to me vaguely threatening.

"Do you still get paid in Roubles Ted?" 🐢💨

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. "The Elsevier invoice arrived."

We got up early to go to a car boot sale our friend was doing. I haven't been to one in decades. I can confirm they are just as shit as I remember and not worth getting up early on a Sunday for.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

Friends, send me all the Badass Librarian vibes you can spare today, as I attempt to get the enquiry inbox to fewer than 20 To Be Dealt with enquiries for the first time since a) becoming the only member of staff; b) breaking my leg; and c) losing my dad.

This whole thread, God help us.

We worry about Very Online Kids much more than their Very Online Parents, and I'm not sure that's wise

"The Chancellor Rachel Reeves" is a great name for a Psychedelic Funk/Jazz Fusion band.

It's just like the telly these days, all repeats

Could this digital whiteboard have been a document? Could this document have been an email? Could this email have been a DM? Could this DM have been the slowly fading memory of a lover's lips on yours, in an endless summer's evening in 20011... 🌄🌳🌷

can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about

Sorry...

*deep breath* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!