Frosty the Snowman Spawn of the Elder Gods He’s got three eyes and he’ll hunt you down With his seagull-headed dogs

Dualism, pessimism and original sin. What more could you want from margin annotations?

You got wormfished by a guy who eats roadkill and looks like fucking Krang. A guy you were tasked with covering neutrally, for half a milly a year, while he ran for fucking president on an "every disabled person should die" ticket. Well, now your career is back, and so is measles. Well done.

Not even going to get in to the weeds of how self-pitying Nuzzi's "I Did A Shit With My Clothes On: A Survivor's Tale" press tour is, OR that she landed another six-figure salary at a legacy publication ten months later. Look at this prose. If my mag got sent this, we'd have the writer arrested.

"Children’s toymaker FoloToy says it’s pulling its AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” after a safety group found that the cuddly companion was giving wildly inappropriate and even dangerous responses, including tips on how to find and light matches, and detailed explanations about sexual kinks"

A lovely story of an archivist reaching out for religious community support to fully understand a holy book in the collection, and that community getting a wonderful experience in return. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bellum, Latin for 'war', is the origin of martial English words like 'belligerent', 'bellicose' and 'rebel'. Bellum was a later form of the word. It had previously been duellum, before a 'DU > B' sound change, and Latin writers remembered and continued to use the old form too. This gave us 'duel'.

Oooohhgg, we have a copy of Peter Manuel's fingerprints at work 😁

We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December. To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches. Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...

You know who else had trouble with Virgin Media and women of negotiable affection?

Patron saint of lipbalm.

Loving the whiplash here from "AI is being used in the courts by party litigants" to "what about that football, eh?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK-F...

FAME! Next...fortune? 🤔😂

I collaborated with a library user on research regarding spies brought before the Scottish courts between WWI and WWII. Spoiler: they tended to be pretty incompetent. It should be in the Scotland on Sunday tomorrow.

You haven't had a cursed old-timey patent in a while, lucky you! Let's break this winning streak by showing you a gizmo from 1846: the "wife's protector", a contraceptive device patented by JB Beers of Rochester, New York, USA.

roses are red some wolves are dire

If you want an excellent source on the science behind some solved, unsolved and contentious cases in Scottish history, this series from the University of Dundee's Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science is brilliant: www.dundee.ac.uk/leverhulme/p...

The brilliant Scottish Book Trust's Xmas campaign. Donate here: www.scottishbooktrust.com

I've been helping this researcher with her PhD and it looks like she's doing really interesting work. She's looking at the health needs of people who are now adults but were born prematurely. If you're 18+ and were born in the UK before 37 weeks of pregnancy please do this 20 minute survey. Thanks!

Callie got papped (again) 😸 Forestry and Land Scotland's Maree Morrison spotted wildcat Callie, who has become somewhat of a local celebrity. Maree managed to get this beautiful photo before she darted away. Wildcats are typically elusive, but if you are lucky enough to see one ⬇️

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" www.scottishlegal.com/articles/and...

In case you were wondering how ghosts fare in the court system... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

In case you were wondering how ghosts fare in the court system... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

It's a terrible thing to hope to find a body, but in this case it's the only thing left for the family to hope for, as time has taken the chance of justice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Earl of Glencarne is clearly lying.

Scotland's Crofting Commission is the latest public sector website to be hijacked by spammers www.google.com/search?q=sit... #govtech #spamspamspam

This is a very welcome development indeed IF the recurrent costs of funding school librarians is fully budgeted. ‘A pile of books is no more a library than a crowd of soldiers is an army’ to quote Gabriel Naudé who figured this out … 400 years ago… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So, A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away for real then, eh? Watch out for Rank Badjin! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Big_B...

SAVE THE DATE! The Stair Society AGM and Annual Lecture will be taking place on Saturday 15 November 2025 in Edinburgh. More details to follow, but we are pleased to announce that Professor Julian Goodare, University of Edinburgh, will be delivering a talk on ‘Witchcraft and Scots Law’.

The Solicitor's Legal Information Centre (SLIC) team at the Scottish Government are recruiting for an Assistant Librarian for an initial 5 month contract, salary is £17.79 p/h. itproservices.venesky-brown.co.uk/job/assistan... An absolutely lovely team, and varied work!

Amazing opportunity for a specialist librarian at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. The Crawford Collection really is outstanding #histSTM 📜🔭 fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

19th century insults: ‘He said that the pursuer was “a damned puppy and a low blackguard, a degraded, impertinent, base, vile, scurrilous, vicious, ill-conducted fellow, and utterly incapable of holding the honourable office of the Procurator Fiscal of Auchtermuchty.”

Normal text between library colleagues.

I am shocked. Shocked. www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

Found this reference online: "In 1886 the Children In Prisons Act was passed by Parliament – ending the centuries-old practice of imprisoning children as young as six years of age in the nation’s Jails alongside adults." However I can find absolutely zero evidence of such an Act ever existing.

Some books you just feel... strangely drawn to, right? 😂 www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...

Wanna buy a letter written by famous librarian Casanova, while he was employed as librarian for Count Waldstein in his court in Bavaria? Wel, this is your lucky day! www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...

You BETTER all appreciate how snazzy the books behind look, cos that was hours of work from my colleague and I to fit appropriate materials into historic shelves that all vary in height just enough to have made it a nightmare 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We asked our members what they thought about the Club, and here are the headlines. The full survey report is on our website. oldedinburghclub.org.uk/about/steeri... Thinking about joining in - our membership year starts on the 1st September. #edinburghhistoryclub #oldedinburgh #edinhistorylectures

Today's narrowly averted typo.

Learned about this amazing woman after coming across old newspaper reports: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercede... I aim to emulate her retirement approach by becoming "increasingly reclusive, lying about [my] past to...neighbours and not discussing [my] achievements". The lies will be that I was a spy.

At GCU Law, we are very pleased to be launching a new academic prize for our miscarriages of justice class, named in memory of Fife "witch" Lilias Adie and generously sponsored by the Witches of Scotland campaign founders Zoe Venditozzi & Claire Mitchell KC. www.scottishlegal.com/articles/gcu...

If Books Could Kill! This year at Innerpeffray we discovered that we have some poisonous books in our collection. Join our poet in residence Jennie Turnbull on Friday 5th September for a creative foray into the power of the written word. innerpeffray-library.arttickets.org.uk/innerpeffray...

THREAD: v niche sport-based plea! The N.U.T.S. (National Union of Track Statisticians) Athletics & Olympic Archive & Library will be evicted from its current premises in ten days, and urgently needs either a) a permanent home or b) temp storage. Croydon area preferred but all offers welcome. (1/4)

Woooooo, I'm getting to do tours for Doors Open Day again this year! What spurious legal history fact should I make up to chuck in?

Massive thanks to the Lothian Buses number 8 driver who beeped to let me know if dropped my travel card wallet when I walked away from the bus at the Robins Nest. Hero!!

Excited that Scots Law Talks are bringing their Scottish criminal events to Edinburgh for one night. I've already booked my ticket, looking forward to being a juror! www.scotslawtalks.com/event-detail...

How about a little good news?