Aaron has a crash course on AI powered search in libraries #BLA25

Happy Parkun morning for all that worship 🤣 A new one for me today ✨️

Conference Organiser Neil making a start on his Recovery Pack (Irn Bru and chocolate). @blalib.org #bla25

Great tour of the Library to finish the Conference. I particularly love the Wellbeing Space and the blankets. @isstirling.bsky.social #bla25 @blalib.org

@blalib.org #bla25 It's been a great conference everyone. So much food for thought (and actual food... I am stuffed!)

A piper greeted us to our Gala Dinner last night. Thank you to @ebscouk.bsky.social for sponsoring our welcome drinks #BLA25

“Carewashing” is when organisations claim they care about your wellbeing, but their actions say otherwise. Having too many meetings is a part of this. #BLA25

So pleased you're enjoying it Louise. We are a friendly group!

BLA 2025 is almost ready to launch. #BLA25

The committee is busy preparing the final pieces to welcome delegates to our Summer Conference next week. The conference brochure is now ready: bla1.glasscubes.com/share/s/8dg6... #BLA25

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters:

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Trump ended the first-ever National Nature Assessment, which was trying to reveal how nature loss influences climate change and impacts humanity, but the researchers are trying to publish it anyway.

This energy.

*Summer Conference update* We've extended the early bird rate deadline 'til 28th Feb. Plus, we're offering travel grants for those who are self-funding their travel. View all the confirmed sessions on our website: blalib.org/members-area/conferences Apply for a travel grant: bit.ly/3WJN4l6

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

11 year old just said to me "you're not behaving and you need to go to your room". Took a book and a warm cup of tea and off I went. Happy times.

Well, well, well...🙄

An early contender for headline of the year…

This letter in the New Statesman a couple of years ago seems even truer now.

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.

What a thoroughly nasty man Elon Musk is. No-one elected him. He’s just a huge troll sat on a pile of gold, chuckling about what kingdom he can smash up next.

A former Facebook employee tells @caseynewton.bsky.social that Zuckerberg's surrender to the far right "is a precursor for genocide.” If that sounds extreme, consider Facebook's failure to curb online hate & disinfo in Myanmar, which fanned the flames of mass murder against the Rohingya minority.

Simply this. America is descending fast - and we need to ensure it does not pull down the rest of the world with it. Particularly in Europe, we need to regroup and operate without the US.

Word of the day is 'recrudescence' (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve. #TheCoupIsOngoing

I need say no more...

Musk’s latest intervention is objectively hilarious but the problem of a hideous human using his enormous wealth & power to promote lies & liars in the U.K., despite having no links to or other interest in the country, remains acute.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 11/20.

Word of the Day is ‘hunch-weather’ (19th century): weather so cold it makes you hunch your shoulders when you walk outside.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 10/20 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

In Greenland, as we speak.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. ##BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 9/20

US: what stage of imperial decline u at? France: I dunno lol maybe 3rd or 4th, you? US: you are like a little baby. Watch this

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 8/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. ##BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 7/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. ##BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 6/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days,in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. ##BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 5/20

I love the drone panic because its a reminder that despite all our technology and societal advancement we're never more than one unanswered question from reverting to peasants worried we'll make the stars mad

Who else is getting ready for #parkrun this Saturday morning?

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. ##BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 4/20

I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated. We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.

Some five-word horror stories for Friday the 13th: Running out of tea bags Someone talking in a lift Unexpected knock on the door Biscuit falling into your brew Stuck on rail replacement bus Forgetting to take an umbrella Missing bin day before Christmas Say a bit about yourself

“Old books exert a strange fascination for me — their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.” — Lauren Willig

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 3/20 📚💛