Film you've watched more than six times with a gif.

Farage and his cronies went up to Shetland to try to peddle their lies and pretty much got run out of the place. He called the protestors ‘pure Marxism’ and apparently also parked in an accessible parking bay.

Maintaining my record of not releasing when the shops would be closed on a public holiday. It’s ANZAC day, the shops aren’t open and, judging by the vigorous coughing followed by some extra dank smoke, one of my neighbours is doing bongs on their balcony. It’s not even 8am. Impressive!

Sharing our new paper led by Reham Alsuhaibani from her doctoral research and coauthored by me and Huan Vo-Tran. After completing her studies at RMIT, Reham went back to Saudi Arabia and is now Head of Department at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My Mum sent me this photo of my now former house in Aberdeen which is now sold. Rare day of blue skies and the cherry blossom tree looks gorgeous

The fire alarm in my building went off at 1:15am. It was a false alarm thankfully but I feel legit hungover today. I had absolutely no alcohol yesterday so it seems extra unfair. People were relatively upbeat considering half the street was taken up with people in PJs, confused cats in boxes etc

We're pleased to invite you to an ASA REDSIG online seminar with Adrian Cunningham to talk about Records in Context (RiC), the new International Council on Archives (ICA) standard for describing records. Join us on 6/05/2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM AEST www.archivists.org.au/iCore/Events...

📢 Call for Papers | Research Symposium Shared from a Linkedin post by by Prof Anna Hickey-Moody Resisting #SWERF ‘n’ #TERF Rhetoric: (Online) Discourse, Networks and (Re-)Activism 📅 Thursday, 11 June 2026 🕘 9:30 – 17:00 📍 Room 1.37, Arts and Humanities Institute (MUAHI), I Maynooth University

Rise Up - Feminist Digital Archives #archives #library 📚 riseupfeministarchive.ca

"concern about being qualified... was not the main barrier to [non-Māori librarians' willingness to engage with Māori issues]... much of the time, the knowledge required was at the level of attempting a basic reference desk request or consulting an online dictionary."

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

Today, the Archive published a Disappearing Data Chronology--a timeline tracking changes in access to federal information under Trump, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to information takedowns, and threats to archival collections. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...

There’s a youtube video of some guy singing this song to randoms on Chatroulette and it’s fabulous

A coauthor based in Saudi Arabia is having trouble receiving emails from a publisher and isn't able to access links to the page proofs. She's the corresponding author so it's not optimal. The messages aren't going to her junk mail and don't seem to be bouncing back either but it's the correct email

What’s your favourite gif

No Kings is worth attending for the entertaining signs.

Free event at State Library Victoria April 30th 5pm. Richard Ovenden OBE and Adjunct A/Prof Mary Carroll. The Power of Research Libraries. What is the role of libraries in shaping knowledge, community and democracy – and why does it matter now more than ever? www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/con...

Arrrgh just back from supermarket and forgot to get dishwasher thingies. Flashback to last time this happened... Do NOT put washing up liquid in a dishwasher. The resulting bubble monster is funny for about 10 seconds but then you're just stuck with a bunch of bubbles and an unhappy dishwasher.

Dr Tim Chen, one of my Adelaide Uni colleagues has done analysis of ARC award data. He included a gender analysis of CIs that show that, of CIs who have been awarded 3+ Discovery projects, 71.2% are men. Here's a link to the data ht-timchen.github.io/arc-discover...

Overthinking an otherwise inconsequential social interaction where I accidentally interpreted something literally and then felt embarrassed…. Are there people who accidentally interpret things too figuratively and then get teased for that?

Goblin Ha’—a hidden chamber tied to one of Scotland’s best legends. In the 13th century, Hugo de Giffard, the ‘Wizard of Yester,’ supposedly summoned goblins to build it. Magic or myth, it’s been standing for centuries, and that’s spooky enough on its own #legends #folk #wizard

Our (@mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and I) book GAME STUDIES: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD is officially OUT everywhere in the world except the US for some reason. So here is an actual thread about why we wrote it and what we were trying to achieve with it.

Huge escalation for UK school library censorship. Nearly 200 books targeted in one school, with the excuse of “safeguarding”. A librarian has lost her job & can never work in schools again. The fate of the books remains to be seen. @indexoncensorship.org www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

Bless the librarians of Aberystwyth University for sending this blog out to their students: "Wait a Minute…What If I Don’t Want to Use AI?" #LibrarySky

💯 Big news! @Brewster.Kahle.org , founder & digital librarian of the Internet Archive, has been named to the 2026 #Curious100 by the Eames Institute, celebrating leaders using curiosity to preserve knowledge, spark innovation & shape a better future. More: www.eamesinstitute.org/curious-100/... 🧵

Googling I have done this afternoon ‘how to play a YouTube video in PowerPoint’, ‘how to play a video while recording in PowerPoint’, ‘how to screen capture a PowerPoint video’, ‘Screen capture with sound’. Last lecture of the term is going slowly

Check out this cool bug I saw yesterday. I guess it is a sort of stick insect. As this is Australia I assume it is in some way poisonous even though it looks quite cute.

I'm delighted to be keynoting next Thursday at the Online Symposium "Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches" organised by the Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. I will present on "Play It Again" & the #AusEAASI network. @aarnet.edu.au www.digitalscholarship.ox.ac.uk/event/videog...

#NYC Trans Archives is a “new, independent, community-based archive dedicated to trans liberation and social justice.” Expanding their collections, they’re seeking: photos, art, posters, signs, #zines, news articles, magazines, and more. 🏳️‍⚧️ transarchives.org/acquisitions/ #activism #archives #LGBTQIA

Yesterday I was in the vicinity of a very scary accident on a level crossing in Brunswick. So glad that the driver of the car, train driver and passengers are all ok. brunswickvoice.com.au/driver-survi...

I just checked a flight booking, panicked because I thought it was on the wrong date, cancelled it feeling smug that I had bought refundable tickets then immediately realised I had booked the correct date all along. Now can’t rebook as they say it is a duplicate booking.

As promised! Here's my @acmimuseum.bsky.social #FACT2026 write-up over at @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Latest article from me in The Conversation this morning. I discuss a new Nature study that finds X's algorithmic feed is politically biased (surprise, surprise!). I explore the idea of social media platforms as faulty infrastructure in need of a fix. theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-...

On ransomware and under-funded GLAMs: 'At no point was the British Library particularly negligent or unprepared. Instead, it was hindered by vulnerabilities shared by the majority of cultural institutions. ...the attack [is] a warning to the whole sector.' informationsecuritybuzz.com/the-cyberatt...

Absolute pearler report from Gideon Haigh about the new, staggering situation at the #StateLibrary of Victoria: appointment of a person who was on the interview panel that rejected all applicants for the role?! FOI-redacted Board minutes of a PUBLIC institution?! www.cricketetal.com/p/what-happe...

Is anyone aware of research around neurodivergence and ‘track changes’ in Word. It makes my brain want to explode and I just can’t look at it. This might be one of those ‘yeah everyone hates it Lizzy’ things but I know another nd academic who finds it the same. See also Discord.

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

Feeling inspired after the #FACT2026 symposium in Melbourne. One of my favourite events of the year and so well run by the ACMI team. I especially enjoyed seeing Jason Scott’s presentation on the Internet Archive

The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential! gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...

Five classes I took in college: 1. Twelve tone composition 2. French 3. Environmental politics 4. Relational databases 5. Web design

Historians, have I got a choice grant application opportunity to share with you: @anthonyzougras.bsky.social @blairwilliams26.bsky.social can you please share on for the political nerds?

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been too Smashing Pumpkins (when Melissa Auf der Maur was on bass) Suede Terrorvision Serj Tankien (SOAD) Dananananaykroyd (my friend Duncan was in the band!)

Due to a combination of factors including (but not limited to) my super human procrastination it is looking like I will multiple papers that have been languishing in review seemingly forever published this year. Woohoo!

First class in new uni taught last night. Great to meet the first cohort of Records and Archives students in Adelaide Uni. Biggest thing that went wrong was that I couldn't figure out how to turn off the waiting room in the AU version of zoom so definitely could have been worse.

I wore makeup twice over the festive season and this justified my Boxing Day sale purchase of some glitter gel pen eyeliners. They are actually really good- I tested them on the back of my hand and couldn’t get the colour off.

Survived my first week in the new uni. Figured out how to upload my lecture recordings etc for next week and embed all the videos. First actual class next week. Feel like the new bee but everyone is so it’s going to be an interesting term.

Yesterday was my Uncle’s funeral in Shetland. Planes were cancelled due to the snow and storms and so my parents and sister had to get the boat. My sister sent this photo from the graveyard. It’s a heatwave and over 40 in Australia today and so really like another world.

I’ve got a digital piano! It’s so awesome and I love it but I have actually totally forgotten how to read the bass clef. It’s as bad as my brief stint as a viola player when I just had to memorise the music as could not get my head around the alto clef.