In the old days, you'd occasionally run into somebody totally normal who had one utterly insane belief, like a co-worker who just causally says he thinks the sun is alive. Social media is like if we extracted all of those individual bits of madness, cooked them into a stew and ate it for every meal.

Our CILIP LGBTQ+ Network seeks a new Chair. You'll act as a leading officer & inform the decisions made to raise awareness & advise Library, Knowledge & Information workers in UK on LGBTQ+ subjects. Role open to those who identify as LGBTQ+ or Queer. informationprofessionaljobs.com/jobs/chair-u...

📢 Upcoming event from The National Archives 📅 Tuesday 23 Sept, 13:00 (UK time) Queer places: Feelings, emotions & ways of rebuilding intangible heritage 🌈 With Luke Fawcett (Queer Places), Vicky Iglikowski-Broad & Giorgia Tolfo (TNA). 🔗 Sign up via The National Archives website 👇🏻

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

I had two weeks off my day job that I badly needed to rest and recover, but ended up having to catch up on so much other stuff that I've ended up working more over them than on a normal week and now I am exhausted and dreading going back to work 🥲

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered. And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

Any visibly minoritised person is on edge all the time at the moment, btw. Everywhere

Possible grant op for #DHmakes folks! www.centerforcraft.org/grants-and-f...

The image that inspired my most popular comic.

Wearing my Stanley Hotels t-shirt to go see the preview of the Long Walk 👌

This. The whole POINT of life is seeing others enjoy things, and savouring the feeling of a tiny portion of that washing over yourself.

I did an interview about my F1 embroidery and I tried to talk about the juxtaposition of "feminine/masculine" perceptions between the two & that I like to challenge that because fuck gender roles but unfortunately I'm inarticulate so now I'm just hoping I didn't say something misogynistic instead 😂

I'm doing a magazine feature thing with an American team and they just can't seem to stop telling me how excited they are to be working together 😅

I'm genuinely disturbed. I'm living in a country that is passionate about defending the 'free speech' of those who would incite violence against minorities, but equally passionate about arresting people for calling a genocide a genocide.

The gov really are just saying calls for violence against certain demographics are okay actually, more than okay, reasonable and maybe even policy ideas

100 VICTIMS is astounding. Even more astounding, that's less than 10% of Epstein and Maxwell's victims.

New product on my shop, The Longest Cat. This is a set of four stamps to create cute mutant cats. guypradel.fr/produit/the-...

How long after placing an order with a smaller business and them ignoring your (polite) email requests for an update do you assume they've just taken your money and you're not going to get what you ordered? 🥲

Golden moon #art ✧ #painting ✧ #bunny ✧ #moon

The Académie Française pushing to replace watersport with "control of the piss" was not on my bingo card for today.

"I watched Snow White when I was a kid and I ain't give a b*tch a poison apple yet" is my favourite line

My embroidery is (hopefully) going to be featured in a magazine and now I'm wondering at what point it makes sense to make myself an art portfolio website? Is it even worth doing?

🎉 Join us tomorrow for an event celebrating the project 900 Stories in Print! Sat 30 August 🖌️ 10-12: Collaborative Drypoint Print Workshop  📝 2-4: Creative Writing Workshop  🥂 4:30: Launch of Tess Glen's limited edition fine art print in Café KUBA 🖼️ All Day: 900 Stories in Print exhibition

The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16.

A new era. 💚 Gillian Mackay and Ross Greer elected as Scottish Greens Co-Leaders.

We’re proud to be the sole point of access in the UK to the International Tracing Service – a remarkable archive of over 30m pages of Holocaust-era documents relating to the experiences of 17.5m people 📸 The ITS Archive Manager, Elise, supports attendees of a recent AJR event 🔗 buff.ly/2sw8UE9

A little Margaret McDonald inspired textile sketch. Trying to work on my needle turn applique.

just two left of these lil prints 👀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/sgwr... #printmaking #art #witchsky #crow #skull

This fucking rules. Incredibly proud of all of my friends at IGN for taking this very brave stance.

Done. I really like this one. I mean I love them all but this one of my favorites. 🧶 #moche #peru #harmonia #tapiz #balance

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

One year this exact item was emailed to me by etsy as a suggested treat to – & I quote – "combat Christmas loneliness" Thank you for the reminder of what the internet thinks of me

The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!! Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

it’s not that we don’t know how to solve a lot of these problems, it’s that we don’t want to

Really love these tucks. Made by using a really narrow/short zigzag stitch at the edge of each tuck. 👌 🧶

"Queer Book History" zine is done (32 pages!), just getting final team edits pre-pub. Built on upcoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Queer Book History Bibliography—100s of resources by team led by SHARP Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social. Zine=fave reads, teaching examples, community+conf info +

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

It's my first proper day off in weeks so I'm playing with a different idea for my Rana Begum study (finally!)

Googled & see this sign is designed & sold by MATTER, which a 2020 news article describes as the only Black-owned bookstore in Colorado: www.shopatmatter.com/product/walk... (lots of other amazing art there, too)

For people in/near Philly... Wooooow this looks AMAZING

This week I have finished a major embroidery project, developed, manufactured, and shipped a kit for said project (which sold out preorders!), written two uni assignments worth 60% of my module mark, spent a day at Fringe and also attended my day job. I'm knackered & cannot wait for next weekend.

Got bored halfway through writing an essay for my archives masters, entertained myself by adding 100 words about the archivist-as-custodian model being rooted in oppressive and colonial notions. This is what people who use AI to write their essays are missing out on. 😌

I suppose this is the point when I should say again that: the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined* what this country is really good at is producing culture

Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.

Prints available and you KNOW you need it like I did💅

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Can't wait for the wall-to-wall media coverage of What This Means, the endless thinkpieces about Green Party dominance in a working class community meaning Labour has to take their concerns seriously and pivot towards them, you know like we'd get if Reform had won.