Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!

the new Rosalía album is absolutely incredible, apologies to my neighbours

OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.

it’s been three and a half years since I left, but I honestly still miss living in Gyeongju so much that even just looking at a map of the city makes my heart ache 🥲

Mental illness is not a trend. A reminder that just because more people are speaking up doesn’t mean it’s fashionable.

What do we want? Investment in #AILiteracy. When do we want it? About 3 years ago. AI chatbots are the ‘go to’ for millions of children | Internet Matters

AJP Taylor: not a referencing guy

I am now on a self-imposed book-buying ban but here is a selection of recent purchases ✨📚💙

Serenity now!

Absolutely shocking to hear that @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social are forcing trans staff to use repurposed disabled toilets, imposing a discriminatory policy which effectively makes trans staff out themselves (and reduces disabled provision). Important reporting from @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social.

got a whole tuck shop going in my desk drawer at work

accidentally lost about half of my weekend to Tiny Bookshop

this ad makes me die a little inside because you know there are medical staff out there doing this 😭 please do not put any sensitive or confidential information into ChatGPT or any other AI platforms!

we spent a long weekend in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 I went on so many family holidays to the Netherlands as a kid (my mum grew up there) and it has always felt like a second home - currently trying to work out how we might go about moving there 🚲

recent book purchases 📚 have also been dipping a toe into annotation - mostly particularly striking passages or quotes ✨

We all know about the hallucination problem but it's quite extraordinary to see it invent such a detailed, plausible fabrication. I'm in the privileged position of being able to saunter into the Bodleian Library and check - most people could be forgiven for believing the machine.

liminal dachshund

honestly hilarious that Stuart Heritage’s editor equated the video nasties of the ‘80s with the absolute depravity of 2006’s Slaughtered Vomit Dolls, of all things, and had the poor guy watch it for what amounted to a relatively brief mention in the finished article

turned 30 a couple of weeks ago and got some waterstones vouchers from friends who know me well - spent some of them in the paperback sale online and they arrived today 💙📚

Girls Aloud were far more important to music than Oasis in the 00's - the girls were changing pop music for boy/girl groups from dreary ballads to inventive and catchy songs like Biology and Love Machine. Meanwhile Oasis were doing dreary ballads like Let There Be Love.

I was on a roll with my book reviews - so here's what I read this month! 📚💙 open.substack.com/pub/bethgilc...

I am very very late with this (will be writing my June round-up very soon!), but here's what I read in May and some brief, unedited thoughts on each 📚💙 open.substack.com/pub/bethgilc...

I grew up in Bradford and have many happy memories of reading through the children's section at Shipley Library - in a city with such a high rate of child poverty and deprivation, it's sad to see funding cut where it is so needed

I keep seeing more and more health librarians talking about using AI for various lit searching purposes, including to summarise papers, and it makes me cringe - the worst was one who openly admitted to using Chat-GPT to find references for a lit search request 💀

we are already drowning in a sea of AI slop, but it feels extra galling when you have otherwise-reputable journals getting in on it and producing some truly appalling images - click the link to read about my beef with one journal in particular bethgilchrist.substack.com/p/screaming-...

It should be legally required that all AI responses are delivered in comic sans

what thought processes happen inside a man’s brain immediately before he tells a random woman on the street to smile?? anyway when I told him off loudly for it he went all sulky and called me a mardy arse, hope I embarrassed him enough to make him think twice next time

the introduction of the @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social Archive series is both the best and worst thing to happen to my bank account - feels like when I was growing up and I could get a book for £5 or £6 📚 also picked up a copy of The Moustache - been meaning to read it for a while!

love seeing kids get to see ghibli films in the cinema but why bring your kid if they’re clearly not ready to sit through a film yet? especially if your way of dealing with that is getting up and whirling your kid round right at the front below the screen, distracting everyone else

Read some very enjoyable books in April - see my new post on Substack for some mini reviews! #booksky 📚💙 bethgilchrist.substack.com/p/what-i-rea...

I’ve moved across to Substack from WordPress! I’ve combined my previous blogs and posts into one new home - have a look here: bethgilchrist.substack.com

I got to read an ARC of Bora Chung's Red Sword (translated by @antonhur.com), due out next month - thanks to @honfordstar.bsky.social for sending me a copy! Read my review here: meetmeinthelibrary.uk/2025/04/11/a...

didn’t read as much as I would have liked in March but I’ve already made a good start this month! here’s what I read in March and what I thought: meetmeinthelibrary.uk/2025/04/03/w...

new blog post featuring mini reviews for everything I read in February - got a lot of reading done this past week 📚💙 meetmeinthelibrary.uk/2025/03/01/w...

living in the middle of the city is terrible/great because it’s all too easy to pop out for new books whenever the urge takes hold of either one of us (in my defence only one of these is mine) 💙📚

decided to gather up all my books I’ve yet to read in one place and a book trolley was the perfect solution 📚 tsundoku ✨

If you post or repost gAI imagery, I will unfollow you. It is anti-human anti-environment and pro-oligarchy. We need to do far better.

went to Waterstones so my boyfriend could get a new book and couldn’t resist picking out one for myself too - I’m on annual leave this week so I plan to do a lot of reading 📖 #booksky📚💙

today’s book delivery ✨ many many thanks to @honfordstar.bsky.social for the arc of Red Sword - very excited to read it! also picked up Esc&Ctrl in the @influxpress.bsky.social sale as though I don’t already have enough on my tbr #booksky📚💙

per my New Year's resolutions, I updated my blog with a post about my January reads - will do so each month, along with some posts about library stuff 📚 felt good to write something again! meetmeinthelibrary.uk/2025/02/12/w... #booksky💙📚

School librarians absolutely should be professionally qualified wherever possible - we have a wealth of skills and knowledge to bring to such roles. However, the low pay was a big block for me in staying in my school library role - I struggled to make ends meet on such a low salary.

How can our sector spot and challenge fake news and misinformation? Follow these 8 simple steps from @iflaglobal.bsky.social giving you practical advice on how to verify what you're reading and check that what you're reading is telling you the truth. #FactsMatter www.ifla.org/news/how-to-...

Today’s wfh set up because it’s near impossible to get up the hill to work at the moment, trying not to get too distracted staring out the window

2024 reading wrap-up from the storygraph - didn’t read as much as I would have liked because of various life things going on, but I much prefer setting a pages goal to a books goal 📚

I kept a journal religiously between the ages of 14 and 24 and I’ve just found them all again - very weird realisation that I saw an Oscar-nominated composer perform in 2016 #journal #commonplacejournal

in the interest of maintaining a balanced social media presence I feel obliged to report that a bird did take a dump directly onto my head while I was standing outside Fargate Tesco earlier on this afternoon, so it’s not all sunshine and rainbows

we spent the Christmas period down in Devon - beautiful views, excellent food and lovely people ❤️ #devon

a cosy and surprisingly thought-provoking read - and now I want to open up my own little bookshop! the translation felt a little clumsy in places, but that’s forgivable as it’s hard to translate perfectly from Korean to English because of the differences in phrasing/language #recentlyread #booksky📚💙

#recentlyread I finally got around to reading Bunny, a solid year or two after everyone else… and it was a little underwhelming 😬 Astral Season, Beastly Season is an odd little book - I wish it had kept the tone of the first half all the way through! #booksky📚💙 #bookreviews

Whenever I visited Seoul I had to go to Starfield Library (별마당도서관) - a library in the middle of a busy shopping centre! Spot the convenience store hidden among the shelves 📚 📸 January/August 2020 #booksky📚💙 #별마당도서관 #seoul