And that’s #NLISN26 done and dusted! I am buzzing with happiness and exhaustion. Having a space where everyone felt able to unmask, fidget and be themselves was amazing. Here’s to the power of neurodiversity and community! Now, I’m off to sleep for a couple of days…

Also I realised afterwards that this must be what it feels like for NT all the time! A world designed for them surrounded by people like them who interact the same way. And honestly those fuckers have no idea how easy they have it 🤣🤣🤣

Another fantastic day at #NSLIN26! It’s been so helpful to hear everyone’s experiences and learnt so much. Never felt such a welcoming and relaxed atmosphere before. Truly inspired and looking forward to going back and trying to implement similar projects at work.

🌞Happy Friday All! Make time for your hobbies this weekend ✨

I'm darting home early as my little girl leaves primary school tomorrow. Thanks for a good day #NLISN26, I wasn't my usual super-chair self, but after today I think we'll definitely be doing this again. I will return next year for the full thing, and by then...

Bright and early to deliver the opening keynote for #NLISN26 the Neurodivergent Library and Information Staff Network (pronounced ‘En-Listen’), the peer support network for neurodivergent people working in libraries and information. @nlisn.bsky.social #Neurodiversity #NeurodivergentSpeaker #AuDHD

✨Hoping we're winning the 'strangest table decorations at a conference' award🫧 #NLISN26

A mutual aid T-Shirt seemed appropriate for a peer support style conference #NLISN26

Off to set up for #NLISN26 in a few minutes! This is where I panic massively for the next few hours until we actually start....

Hotel breakfasts don't count as proper calories, right? RIGHT?

Excessive LOLOLOLOL AI isn't like moving from horse + cart to a Ferrari It's moving into a palanquin: inefficient, a sign of conspicuous consumption from pretentious asshats, movement at the expense of and carried upon the pained backs of stolen/uncompensated labour mostly in the global South

Pure evil.

Heading off early to Leeds for #NLISN26 With a *massive* bag full of stuff for workshops and fidgeting with on tables.

Tomorrow’s the day! The first ever @nlisn.bsky.social conference kicks off tomorrow, and I am so excited! It feels really special to take part in organising a conference where we put a lot of thought into sensory needs and neurodivergent needs. Counting down the hours!

📣 #RLUK27 CALL FOR PAPERS | The Living Library, Shaped by People | 10-12 Mar | Belfast Research libraries are living infrastructures of knowledge & progress. A library’s life is expressed via evolution - #RLUK27 will explore how this ‘life’ is shaped. Read the full #CFP at rlukconference.com

I am planning next year's Empower sessions - who would you like to see come and speak? Any great speakers from conferences this year?

Here's the link for anyone who wants to read the full interim report, the screenshots above are from the conclusion: www.gov.uk/government/p...

Jesus. 35 UK universities quietly- without debate - joined the Ministry of Defence’s “Battlefield Alliance” which seeks to “reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security” They’re destroying the social sciences and humanities while militarising the institutions

It's been said before, but the biggest small act of resistance you can embrace is to choose kindness. Give people the benefit of the doubt*. Take a moment to reflect on how someone's circumstances may have impacted their choices. Take a breath before you speak. *Not the billionaire class.

Packing *very important* things for #NLISN26

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com Many more here: www.theguardian.com/profile/tom-gauld

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

As a historian professionally interested in comedy, I can confirm Binface is classic British humour drawing on deep satirical traditions, and is thus ‘funny’

I was going to do a load of contrasting words representing the conflict between ADHD and Autism, but it's still too warm upstairs! So instead, a cut down idea on my letterpress to catch the idea, will have to come back to it another day.

Why yes, I do have fish on my plate, why do you ask?

I've just witnessed the scotch egg man at the local farmers market have to explain to a confused potential customer what scotch eggs are! He'd never had one in his life...

Exclusive: Vice-chancellor George Holmes among those arrested on suspicion of fraud. It marks an unprecedented moment in British higher education - the first time a university vice-chancellor has ever been arrested in the UK as part of a criminal investigation. manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-vi...

Lovely and calm here this morning, cool air too... Very nice.

🐈 Catlas Daily Challenge #6 🟩 🟩 ❌ Today: 2/3 guessed My collection: 3 cats 🐾 Play here: catlasgame.com

EXCUSE ME I KNOW THINGS ARE GOING ON BUT LOOK AT THIS

Oh, this is *so* suited to library Bluesky...

Another custom letterpress print for someone today. (It was far too hot in my little print room / spare room to do this!)

Trying to write a few hundred words for @jsecker.bsky.social and Jo Parker this morning in the open air office...

What’s that, Dale? You want to give me an unconditional personal gift of £5million to do whatever I want with? Sure! I just need to fill out a form. If I didn’t declare it that would be silly.

Progress on "The Neurodiverse Library" book with @ahaire.bsky.social - over 26,000 words, getting close to 200 A5 pages (186 pages and a big chunk left to type up!) Aiming for 50,000 words by the end of August!

Bugger! Bargain Hunt has just shown a "weird old object" for people to identify that I used to use... A stamp/ envelope moistener. How f-ing old am I now?!

Count Binface belongs to a long, noble tradition of fools and court jesters who mock kings and politicians by enacting grotesque imitations of them. In doing so they hold up a mirror to society.

Still coming down from a dentist check up (they stress me enormously), so treating myself before going home.

I'm not sure "he's not even a real bin" is the winning electoral argument some of Count Binface's opponents imagine. I think the voters of Clacton had pretty much already realised that on their own.

We’ve unbelievably been ranked No.1 in the UK in the National Student NSS Survey 🫶 (*based on question 21, part-time female students studying Maths from Denbighshire aged 41-42 only)

Reeves to approve Farage’s resignation, saying ‘if he wants to spend summer arguing with a bin, I won’t stop him’ – UK politics live

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...

American liberal: Our politics are uniquely broken, corrupted, illogical to the outsider. British liberal: Hold my bin. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

When do we start finding out funding scandals about @countbinface.bsky.social? I bet he's in the pocket of Big Ceefax, someone must be funding his intergalactic travel...

Filled up the pen! Good excuse for a writing break as well as a change in colour, always love the green inks 🖋️

Trying to write a bit more outside this afternoon, but I appear to be melting....

If elected, Count Binface may face a parliamentary standards investigation after it’s revealed he often makes collections on the wrong day

Doing loads of little bits of prep for #NLISN26 next week!