Some humanity amidst all THIS *gestures around with arm* ♥️

"I am so sorry to let you down." - Robin Ince, letting absolutely no one down. Thank you, Robin.

The Government are deciding whether to approve the EHRC’s new inhumane Code of Practice that will exclude trans people from public life. Will you join @genderedintelligence.co.uk and email your MP to ask them to reject the EHRC guidance? link: gi.eaction.org.uk/EHRC

Shout out to the guy at the bus stop earnestly telling his friend that women who work in libraries are called 'lesbians'. His friend has asked whether he means 'librarians'? Much confusion. "No?"

The Christmas issue of The BMJ is coming soon! To get us in the mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to have a look at last year's issue, and respond to some articles. Inspired by this article evaluating the cognitive abilities of AI 🤖 www.bmj.com/content/387/... #BMJChristmas

It’s a bad flu year but its not too late to get your flu vaccine but don’t delay as they take a week or so to kick in. Supermarkets with pharmacies have the vax too.

Call for speakers! 📚 On 18.03.26 @nlisn.bsky.social is running a full-day online event on neurodivergency and entry into the LIS profession. We welcome proposals from current students, recent graduates, early-career, long-term staff, recruiters, anyone! More info & form - forms.gle/MjT2djGSXp1o...

Making this my 2026 motto: yes we're helpful, but 'Librarians also do not have endless time and bandwidth and resources'

Ok, the event is actually today, Wednesday 10th December. Probably a good job I'm not going, I'd only get lost.

Oh no. That's rotten luck for Wednesday, they did so well tonight 😭

I once cold-called a librarian in the US to see if she'd send me a couple of photos of a book WORLDCAT said they had, because I was having a fight with the author, and she had those images emailed over to me before I could even explain myself.

📢 London/near London library people: would anyone like to be my stunt double on CILIP London's Festive Literary Pub Crawl (18:30 - 20:30) tomorrow (9th Dec)? I have a bug and can't go. 😕 If you'd like my place, to have a whale of time/meet your soulmate (no pressure) please let me know.

Copilot is completely unserious. It claimed today that there were no copyright issues if full text articles were uploaded to it for synthesis, because...it doesn't read them anyway. Amazing. Even AI can't be bothered to AI. Just makes up a synthesis based on vibes.

This is nauseating... www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

Bunch of loud, foul-mouthed, misogynistic lairy teen boys at the back of the bus, but (the socially aware, reasonable) one of them is countering by being reeeaaallllly pedantic about criteria in a 'would you rather' game. It's taking the wind out of their fantasy sails, and it's glorious.

this is potentially TMI but also *v useful information* so: did you know that (in the UK) if you start to feel you're getting a UTI on Saturday evening you can do an online form with eg Boots and be picking up your antibiotics by 10am on Sunday morning? and then start to feel better by 11am?

Enjoying Google Travel's options for flying from Edinburgh to Malta. From the helipad at the hospital.

The BBC experiment with AI for football text commentary is a mess. Blackburn's goal showed at the top of the page but the text commentary was 6 minutes behind. It's boring as hell to read, and late. This is not a winner, BBC.

Hi, are you furious about everything? You make a good point. Do something with your rage. There are 3 days left of The Big Give Christmas Challenge, in which your donation to a good cause will be doubled by match funding: donate.biggive.org/christmas-ch...

Apps give companies more power because users can’t modify them, block ads, or protect their privacy. Live at Web Summit, Cory Doctorow spoke with @rabble.nz about how anticircumvention laws turned apps into ideal tools for data extraction and control. Full episode out now.

The Championship isn't messing around today, is it? 🦉⚽

This is so true. Bring back computer rooms!

Praise Jesus. Never again. I can't wait for the next one. #HiddenBooksGame (Many thanks to those posted hints. That wretched mug one...)

Somewhat late to the party, but I've decided to ruin my evening with the #HiddenBooksGame Beginning to wonder if I've just imagined being a librarian for the past 26 years.

Nerrrrrrrrrrrds! To celebrate getting 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I am offering some of you fine folks the chance to join me on a 2026 shark research expedition. Really! Enter here: forms.gle/iq3YQG31kbAC... Terms and conditions in thread below:

Issue 2 available for (pre)sale now: unchcrosswords.com

Get your flu vaccines, people. If you're in the UK you can get the vaccine at most pharmacies (in Tesco it's about £16) or check here to see if you're eligible for a free one: www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

Me, running: my body is a temple! Me, not running: my body is a warehouse for snacks

Hello from the bus stop, which I am somehow at, 7 minutes early despite waking up 30 minutes late. Hoping your Friday is similarly rescued. (Wait for me to discover I've forgotten my work pass, only put mascara on one eye, and the bus doesn't turn up.)

Almost just had the librarian equivalent of 'is there a doctor on board?'. Public library at closing time; staff all busy. I'm about to pack my study things away when a teen approaches. I thought: 'he's sensed an undercover librarian! He needs help with a reference!', but no...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory www.bbc.com/mediacentre/... #AI #medialiteracy #infolit #mil

I just got an email asking for feedback about my customer experience, which ended with another survey asking how satisfied I was with the email itself. 🤦🏻‍♀️ If we could just calm down with the rampant data harvesting, that would be great.

The government won't tell you that they are fascists, but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies.

The Crown Prince’s dancing monkeys Very few laughs at the Riyadh Comedy Festival | Ross McNally @sussexbylines.co.uk

The clock at my bus stop went back by 20 hours 🤷🏻‍♀️

I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.

British Library staff are out on strike from Monday 27 October until Sunday 9 November over pay: please do not undermine their action by attending this exhibition (or any other events at the BL) during that time. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

⏹️ Not the result we wanted but today was about so much more. Thank you all for your incredible support today 💙

I re-visited Hillsborough for the first time in years on Thursday. Having only been there on matchdays before it was weird to see it so empty. I'm regretting not staying on for the Oxford game today. If you're in row 13 seat 130 of the Kop (my former seat) yell extra loud for me. #WAWAW

Seven free multi-seat study tables free in the library (one single seat table is occupied) and two blokes randomly sit immediately opposite and next to me. 🤦🏻‍♀️ YOU HAD THE WHOLE STUDY AREA GUYS.

Ghosts fans, I respectfully suggest you do NOT stay in the holiday let being created by kicking this woman out of her home: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BlueSky friends, can anyone recommend somewhere/someone in Sheffield city centre that does make up and hair styling for the middle aged? Thank you.

Today is going to need a lot of Bruce Springsteen.

This is worth reading. #LymeDisease #ticks www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

'Even using ChatGPT summaries as a "starting point" for human editing "would require just as much, if not more, effort as drafting summaries themselves from scratch" due to the need for "extensive fact-checking".'

Ideal librarian fitness plan just dropped: www.independent.co.uk/health-and-f...

More and more of my time is wasted double-checking non-existent references, it's infuriating.

League tables be dammed, big up the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn for taking brilliant care of my Mum yesterday. ♥️♥️♥️

I just saw a comment that said "I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie." THAT ... that's what I've been trying to put into words.

This time last year I was titting about in a bonnet at the Jane Austen festival. I hope everyone taking part this year has a marvellous time 😊