Thomas Meehan
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Cats, cows, lego. Work in a library. Sandy, Bedfordshire.
https://instagram.com/orangeaurochs
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Sam Freedman
about 5 hours ago
Imagine thinking even for a second that Bear fucking Grylls could do a better job in a wildly complex geopolitical envrionment that a seasoned diplomat who already had a track record with the administration.
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Finch Collins
1 day ago
Has anyone studied how researchers and academics use library catalogues? I'm struggling to find any literature on researcher (not student) information needs and information seeking behavior. Any leads? My focus is rare books/archives/special collections, but I'm looking broadly right now.
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Randall Munroe
3 days ago
Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs
xkcd.com/3204/
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Alistair Coleman
2 days ago
Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.
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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)
6 days ago
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
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Harriet Cannon
6 days ago
Oof.
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weeder
7 days ago
There's no easy way to say this: isthmus
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group
7 days ago
Full programme and registration for
#MetaFutures
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www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou...
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Simon Willison
8 days ago
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub
simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
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Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/the-world-factbook/
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Viz Comic
8 days ago
subscriptions >>>
shop.viz.co.uk/viz353bs
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
8 days ago
Yoo had won joob
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Bizarre gobbledygook 'rode closeb' sign leaves Staffordshire drivers baffled
The busy road has been closed for months
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/bizarre-gobbledygook-rode-closeb-sign-10795982#
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
9 days ago
I will vote for any political party which promises to end the scourge of structural engineers.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
11 days ago
A reminder that punctuation is important.
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Flowers in the garden
11 days ago
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Anna Orridge
12 days ago
Fabulous 10/10 no notes
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14 days ago
Scam alert: if you get a message saying free cinema tickets for “Melania” don’t open it. It’ll contain tickets for “Melania”.
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Strictly and The Night Manager.
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David Veevers
14 days ago
An absolute fucking disaster in the making.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
14 days ago
Please pay attention to this very important information.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
14 days ago
“Right, I’m off to the council meeting” “Have you remembered your pigeon head?” “Yes, I have remembered my pigeon head”
www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2580299...
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Received an email telling me to look out for something dropping through the letterbox, which is good as normally I spend months stepping over post before noticing it on the doormat.
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Andrew Cherry
15 days ago
This government clearly don't really understand the complexity or the danger of the situation. They show no sign of beginning to understand, and every sign of asking the monorail salesman how public transport should work. It's going to be an uphill struggle, but don't leave this to politicians.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
18 days ago
“That’s it Henry, I’m leaving. This film sucks.”
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Bizarre 'cemetery for vacuum cleaners' found inside historic Adelphi Cinema
It may once have been an historic Sheffield cinema, and for a while it was a nightclub - but today, the Adelphi is, of all things, a ‘cemetery for vacuum cleaners.’
https://www.thestar.co.uk/lifestyle/adelphi-bizarre-cemetery-of-vacuum-cleaners-5488593?page=1
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Tell me your pets name in a gif. It's one of them.
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A1 junction closed. Google maps shoving All The Cars into farm tracks.
21 days ago
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust
21 days ago
Digging up peat for garden compost harms bumblebees. It’s not good news for us either 🚨 It releases centuries of CO2 into the atmosphere and destroys irreplaceable habitats ⚠️ You can help. Urge the Government to end the sale of peat once and for all:
https://ow.ly/8k5g50Y11Ub
#EndPeatSales
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Bruce Lawson
21 days ago
Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge
www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/p...
"PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings"
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Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge
: PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/pwc_ai_ceo_survey/
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Pundamentalism
21 days ago
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth the sixth, the seventh we’re in a lift
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Abby Barker
21 days ago
I hate that I have to ask this, but are there any (barf) positive uses of AI in libraries - from a customer services perspective?
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Alistair Coleman
21 days ago
Board of Peas
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Stuart Langridge
21 days ago
Amazingly, the PC Gamer headline is a proper reflection of what was said. What most annoys me is they believe they have a right to do a thing they acknowledge is damaging, which'll maybe be good eventually (which they acknowledge it isn't yet) and the only limit is "quick! before the bubble bursts!"
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Types of coral plus a letter translated from Dutch that go before NFL teams that are anagrams of dusty bin.
21 days ago
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Viz Comic
22 days ago
subscriptions >>>
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Iain Roberts
23 days ago
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
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Atla Hrafney
24 days ago
In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights
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David Veevers
23 days ago
lol no burn it all fucking down
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Stephen Collins
23 days ago
Stressifily
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Hellebores,Tavistock Square. A squirrel tried to photo bomb both photos but then ran out of shot of both.
23 days ago
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Yay! These have been there for years, at least since 2020ish before we got the garden done and they took refuge in a pot for a bit. The rose bush is the only bit of original garden so at least 18yo.
24 days ago
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I went with "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" and they came back with "Yippee ki-yay, mf." So fair enough.
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But I don't want to change the world. I'm not looking for New England
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Cethan Leahy
26 days ago
Help! I can't stop thinking of someone taking a photo of the group rather than counting how many people want pizza.
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What ruins Traitors for me is that they don't say banishèd.
27 days ago
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Bryan Blessed
27 days ago
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Carl Maxim
27 days ago
"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
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Tits McGee
27 days ago
You will not regret scrolling up for the rest of this thread about the sheer audacity of cats to walk into houses they don't live in and swan around like they own the place Honestly, excellent cat behaviour 💯
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DocAtCDI
29 days ago
Me: Judge, 60% of my parking tickets are bogus! Judge: Repeat infractions? Me: Okay, 3/5 of my tickets are bogus!
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Alexander Clarkson
about 1 month ago
Denmark's geopolitical superpower is how even the most powerful leaders turn into happy little kids when they get a cool Lego model
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Kafka
29 days ago
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