Also, cooking requires time and electricity. I know empathy is in short supply these days but please try.

Friends fear that she's listening to Crowded House's seminal 1993 album 'Together Alone' again.

The Symphony of the Cat, Moritz von Schwind, 1868. #Caturday

Morning all. Photographer Oscar Marzaroli. Off to School, Hill Street, Glasgow 1959.

I often get compliments on what I wear but in reality it's my long-standing commitment to make/thrift/buy clothes within a very limited colour palette that's to be commended.

I particularly enjoyed ".. more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality.." which sums up SO MUCH of legacy media rn.

This beautiful seal bag, embroidered with the Royal Arms of England, was made in 1280 to protect the wax seal attached to a charter from the reign of Edward I. It's a fine example of 'opus anglicanum' - highly-prized English embroideries with gold and silver thread. #Museum30 #Stitch

A Dublin woman who has crocheted thousands of 'Michael Tea Higgins' tea cosies is preparing for a new presidency

Emergency stop for caffeine. (Catterline jumper. Burnet hat.)

Early morning coffee mishap. Poured coffee into the coffee container rather than into *me*. It's going to be one of them days.

Note to self: don't ever get on Derek's bad side.

Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚 The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602... This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅

Today's a good day to remember Rosalind Franklin, British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose untimely death meant three men shared a Nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA for which she'd done most of the work.

Watson was a racist who, "near the end of his life, faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people are less intelligent than white people"

The Oxfam bookshop on Glasgow’s Byres Road moved, recently, to a new location further down the hill – but I’m very pleased that they managed to take Alasdair Gray’s mural with them! I think he did this when on a break from painting the ceiling in Òran Mór … @agrayarchive.bsky.social

Artist be like if I shift this line 0.05 cm to the left, increase overlay by 2%, and move this character’s head slightly by 3° will make a life changing difference that everyone notices

Tell me about your music streaming app of choice that's not Spotify. What made you choose that app over others?

In all my years of inhabiting craft spaces, I learned this: when people meet and hands are busy creating, minds are changed. That is why some of the most radical policies can be traced back through quilts, needle points, and lacemaking. That tradition is alive & kicking.

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

This is how I flirt

What if - and this is a very big IF - they were early Warhammer figures?

Neolithic carvings of eyes above the entrance to a tomb, 6000 years old... What were these for? 👀🤔 📍 Holm of Papay South chambered tomb, Orkney, Scotland #TombTuesday #archaeology #photooftheday

And this is why I stress that we cannot let genAI take over library processes. Try having genAI figure out how to catalogue that book. Humans use reasoning, our knowledge of the field, patron needs, and yes, our own biases and priorities. Cataloguing tells you a lot about a system's values.

As stressed as cataloguing makes me, I find it fascinating how true it is that everyone catalogues differently. It's really more an art than a science. Take Marie Kondo’s new book Letter from Japan: NYPL: 306.0952 LAPL: 309.52 Multnomah: 305 SFPL: 952 Denver: 390.0952 My library: Bio Kondo

Holy shit Mamdani has been winning since he was a little kid

the day's winner, folks, and it's not even 0800 my time. pencils down. no contest.

one of my favorite icelandic words is "óveður" ("storm") because its literal translation is "unweather" which absolutely fits the vibe of your typical icelandic storm

Increasingly the Venn diagram of my intellectual interests & commitments—digital humanities, book history/bibliography, book arts, critical making—perhaps meet in the region "Luddite Humanities" Not technological rejection—but slower, deliberate, critical, historicized engagement with technology

This goes for your local branch library too, I've been reliably informed.

I don’t mind it per se, but am unsure about the efficacy/reach/depth achievable by the V&A ‘outposts’ - are you a museum without your own collections? It’s very ‘heritage sector does franchising’ which is fine, but does raise questions.

The job adverts for EHRC Commissioners (4 posts) are finally out. Deadline: 1st December. If you, or anyone you know, feels brave enough to apply, please do consider putting in an application! apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9026?b...

Anyone who claims to "support the veterans" and then uses fireworks need to be before a judge.

I hate fireworks.

One of the headlines on the BBC website right now: "This is what a UK government led by Reform would really look like."

Starting tomorrow, every major news organization will be publishing thinkpieces saying that Zohran Mamdani's victory isn't signficant, and even more crucially, that it couldn't happen in a city like yours. They're wrong. It is important. And every city could have this.

As ever... the vast, vast majority of people don't want the hellscape the right is forcing on us. they really are the minority viewpoint. vocal? yes. powerful? unfortunately, yes. But there are so many more people who don't want to live in the world they're trying to make.

Parihaka’s mana, resistance, and courage, can never been forgotten. While fireworks tonight go off remembering *that* failed plot, I’ll think of the wāhine, tāne, and tamariki, who for a time got to live freely once again in our own land. Me maumahara tonu tātou 🪶🪶🪶 🖤🤍❤️

The day Parihaka was inavded, adults sat quietly on the marae while children sang. No resistance was made by the community, but in the end, the town was destroyed, taonga stolen, livestock slaughtered. About 1600 people were arrested, with many sent to labour camps in Dunedin in the South Island.

Parihaka was founded around 1866, near Taranaki Maunga by the ariki Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi. They wanted Māori to regain their land, pride and self-respect after the land confiscations throughout the North Island by the colonial government during the 1845-72 New Zealand Wars.

one thing i have not seen enough of is your dogs and cats tbh

News | Tributes paid following death of Scotland’s ‘powerhouse’ curator Elspeth King – social historian remembered for her work to expand working-class collections at People’s Palace in Glasgow

Sharing a recent puppy pic for all in need of something calming to look at today

When people say "when X happens, we will fight back" typically X has already happened. Your time is always now.

I suspect that many policymakers don't think women have interior lives.

there's nothing i love more than following somebody at the top of their game and learning all the little hacks they use to get their work done like learning how woodworkers use jigs neither jigs nor "XX OCCULT STUFF" in a novel would've occurred to me!

Related to what @kateatherley.bsky.social said about a video saying Wrong Things about knitting techniques. In the age of the personal brand, sometimes the appearance of knowledge is sold over the actual skill of knowing.

I'm super stressed right now so here's a recent favourite landscape from a few months ago again - Dunvegan in Alberta, Canada. This aerial embroidery took forever but was worth it 💚 the higher up perspective is more intricate and slower to sew I've found, more fiddly! #art

Lads, did you know that if you live in the UK you can JUST JOIN THE NATIONAL POETRY LIBRARY & send them proof of your address and then you can borrow all their e-books and audiobooks & poetry publications and shit? Because I did not know!!!! Thank you @ruthh.bsky.social for telling me they exist!

I'm constantly worried that I'm doing art history "wrong" because I don't know how to relate to things formally before I think of the historical contexts. Or perhaps I have internalised formal analysis to the point that I quick jump to the historical and philosophical contexts. Hmm.

Great example. I’ve often heard people say they believe medieval people discouraged or punished female literacy, whereas Mary is usually shown reading during the Annunciation, so every medieval person constantly saw images of the #1 female role model reading. The anti-learning Middle Ages is a myth.