The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!

"While high-quality content is posted more and receives more total engagement across platforms...a given author attracts higher levels of engagement when they post lower-quality content" "pattern we find seems to be driven more by an underperformance of particularly popular high-quality outlets"

Please join me in a big round of applause for Jean-Baptiste Kempf from @videolan for his contributions to #SoftwareFreedom 👏 (Together with Raphael Barbieri I had the honour to hand over the European #SFSAward 2025 to him in the name of #Lugbz and @fsfe . ) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Since it's #NonFictionNovember this It’s Weekend, Let’s Read, I'm re-sharing this post on my blog where you can download right here, right now, two #books about libraries and books (at the end of the post) thanks to @gutenberg.org paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/i...

Vêem as consequências de falarem mal da burocracia? Comissão Europeia prepara-se para dar cabo do RGPD, direitos dos consumidores, etc. (tradução automática) #DigitalOmnibus EU Commission wants to grind out General Data Protection Regulation and AI regulation netzpolitik.org/2025/digital...

Have you already stopped at our booth? Our staffers and volunteers are there willing to meet you Small tip 💡 - if you buy our merchandise, donate or be home a supporter, you get homemade Italian ice cream 🍨🍦 (super yummy one) #softwarefreedom #freesoftware

Congratulations and thank you to Jean-Baptiste Kempf! All-in-one media player for all operating systems you can download here: www.videolan.org #FreeSoftware #VLC

Jean-Baptiste Kempf receives the European SFS Award 2025 at #sfscon for his outstanding and lasting contributions to the Free Software movement and his long-term dedication to the VLC project.🏆 https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251107-01.en.html #softwarefreedom #freesoftware

The 2025 European SFS Award goes to... · #freesoftware #softwarefreedom

Non-fiction November: choosing non-fiction You can find what fiction I like to read by looking into my non-fiction readings #NonFictionNovember

The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of it. What’s on Her Mind by Allison Daminger is now available worldwide. Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Sociology

Moss 🌱 #moss

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, & @BrewsterKahle chat with Wired’s @LaurenGoode.bsky.social on the Future Knowledge #podcast about the web’s rise, its impact, & why preserving it is vital for cultural history. 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/bui...

Celebrating Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2025 Internet Archive Hero Award Recipient blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/c... #books

Seixal, Torre da Marinha, pasta de trabalho perdida a 4 de Novembro na paragem de autocarro "Rua Luís de Camões". Autocarros 3103 e 3120 Partilhem. 😉

Foi dado o tiro de partida para a privatização

A pancada de água, vento, e trovoada que passou aqui, foram vocês aí em Lisboa que a mandaram cá para cima? (Que estejam todos bem e não haja estragos de maior)

YouTube Erased 700 Videos of Israeli Human Rights Violations theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

"We need to be bolder: It is our duty to ensure library collections remain open to the public in a form that empowers 21st-century readers. If our intellectual heritage gets enclosed in proprietary tools, we will find ourselves making the same bad bargain we made with scientific publishers"

Lutem, porque já não há ninguém para lutar por vocês.

Find a NGO you like and, if you can, support it. "(...) EU institutions and national governments are deploying a five-step playbook to eliminate the independent organisations that stand between corporate power and the public interest." euobserver.com/eu-political...

It’s not ever about the numbers—you can bring insane audience engagement, views, eyeballs to your verticals, shape the conversation in wonderful ways, win awards and on and on And they still will nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring

'The Reader', a 1817 painting recently identified as the work of Marguerite Gérard, French painter and printmaker #WomensArt

Study of a fir tree, c.1842 by Emily Brontë, best known for her classic novel 'Wuthering Heights' #WomensArt

Embroidery in suffrage colours of violet, white and green by UK Suffragette Janie Terrero, embroidered with the names of fellow hunger strikers imprisoned in Holloway Prison, 1912 #womensart

I don’t want your OS, I want #FreeSoftware🐧 💻 Manufacturers and vendors must not force specific operating systems or bundle costs into every purchase. https://en.refund4freedom.org/ #refund4freedom #softwarefreedom

"The sensational murder that took place on the 8.33 motor-bus that runs from Esting to Raybourne" #MurderEveryMonday #crimefiction #coverart with a bus. #booksky Not sure what #MurderEveryMonday is? Here's the link: crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/m...

My determination to avoid posting Christie for #MurderEveryMonday meant I nearly missed 'the bus' for this week's theme 😆 crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverym... #Mystery #BookSky

For today's #MurderEveryMonday cover of a crime fiction book with a bus, I didn't have many covers, but thought London would never disappoint and it didn't! More at:

"Canada also tried forcing payments to Canadian news agencies from tech giants, and failed in the most predictable way imaginable." pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/r...

Launching Cross Examining Crime on Patreon crossexaminingcrime.com/2025/11/02/l...

Country diary: A little remote control goes a long way in farming | Andrea Meanwell www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How Google won friends and influenced people - while slowly gobbling up a quarter of all ad revenue on the internet. Here's my look at two decades of Google’s ruthless tactics to secure its dominance. www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...

Open-source project that allows you to turn e-books to audiobooks. Can be run locally, totally free. #foss

Eek. How to spot arsenic coated books. blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/how-...

Autumn in the garden at Snowshill Manor, Gloucestershire. #autumn #fall #garden #SnowshillManor #Cotswolds #Photography

Let's read! The next two #books by Elizabeth Fair. Loved Fair's first two, and found her because @deanstpress.bsky.social #ReadOnlyDay #BirthdayPresent 💙📚

Grow your groceries paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/g...

Did anyone else feel their heart leap with the news that the British Library are aiming to relaunch their archives and manuscript catalogue in early December? Can't wait to see you old friend 😭

#novembro #november ©Edith Holden

Let's celebrate women's historic, contemporary & global creativity & achievements in the Arts! ❣️ The Womensart book series tells their fanrastic, often untold, stories in textile arts, paint and print!! 🧡💛❤️ bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Portland, US, annyal event known as the "Standup Paddleboard Witch Paddle" #womensart (Image S.Bugarsky)

At PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature

7 Best-Selling 19th-Century Female Novelists Who Aren’t Jane Austen Add these forgotten novels to your TBR pile. By Rebecca Batley www.mentalfloss.com/literature/a... #books #literature

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee & Vincent Price www.openculture.com/2025/10/edga... The Raven at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192 #books #literature

‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir

Do we avoid books that will upset us? And Agatha Christie vs Ethel Lina White - it's ep143 of Tea or Books?! www.stuckinabook.com/143-do-we-av...

If you're thinking of doing #NovellasInNovember, you're in luck - here is an A-Z of brilliant novella suggestions! www.stuckinabook.com/an-a-z-of-br...

We celebrate the Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium, a model built for sharing blog.okfn.org/2025/10/30/w...

A D3 continuará a seguir o #ChatControl, a nova proposta, e votação. E ainda que isto não signifique que acabou, esta mudança da Presidência aponta para um melhor caminho. (3/3)