You all have permission to go to bed whenever the heck you like tonight.

Horrifying/funny/horrifying again to spot how many of these were definitely written by ChatGPT giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society

It's #TransDayOfRemembrance so here's my usual England & Wales hate crime stats summary: 11/12 313 12/13 364 13/14 559 14/15 607 15/16 858 16/17 1248 17/181703 18/19 2329 19/20 [2630] 20/21 2799 21/22 4355 22/23 4889 23/24 4778 24/25 4120 #TDoR Source: www.gov.uk/government/s...

Based. 🗳 💚

User Experience in Libraries 2026: we have just launched our theme - Pathways and Possibilities - and our Call for Papers for our next conference in York in June 2026. If you are interested in applying to present then visit our website for all the details: uxlib.org/2025/11/13/c... #userexperience

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Zohran Mamdani proves you can win against incumbents and racists with a powerful message of redistribution and equality for all regardless of race. Moreover that you can stand up to the Israel lobby and win, even in America. This is a turning point.

Social media can be a cesspool, but it can also bring the most wonderful people in to your life. Katy was just lovely, so kind when I had my babies, so supportive of my campaigning, always ready to lift others no matter how down she was.

This is Her Royal Highness. She is the sweetest lady with the cutest little grinchy face! She was found as a pregnant stray, and when her own kitten didn't make it she very lovingly raised some orphaned kittens as her own. Adoptable in Burlington, VT! www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...

29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'

While this is illuminating a change in political trends, it’s still a long way to go before we know what these shifts mean and whether they are sustainable. But in any case, if you’re Labour and you’re not considering what’s wrong, something is very amiss. www.politico.eu/europe-poll-...

FYI for Google Drive users.

Four. Stars.

I've got (for those in the UK) a few signed paperbacks of this with a lovely free postcard of the map my dad illustrated for it. £9.99 RRP plus p&p. Drop me an email at [email protected] and a reply here if you'd like one. Hills, folklore, psychedelic music, social history, magic, rivers, ghosts.

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

As an incurable surfer of RightMove, one of my little obsessions is photographs of houses where a pet has wandered into the shot to get in on the action. This tousled behemoth of a cat is a notable favourite.

I've got about ten of these left (all with free bookmarks and postcards) in case anyone would like to grab one...

Thanks to @stephaniewalter.bsky.social for this wonderful joy making link in her newsletter (go sign up folks, it's excellent, and full of very interesting useful reads, including UX stuff stephaniewalter.design/subscribe-to... ): www.figma.com/community/fi...

Long-time followers might remember the podcast that @tyra-mancy.bsky.social and I did for 106 episodes (plus live shows and bonuses) about Mumsnet's Am I Being Unreasonable forum. Well, now all the episodes have been transcribed for improved accessibility and you can search the transcripts here.

The painting of Union Jack or Irish flags on paving in Northern Ireland is done as a form of intimidation & ‘ownership’. Recently, British Loyalist paramilitaries have painted Union flags outside homes of ethnic minorities to intimidate them & scare them to leave. Starmer is playing with fire

Another case of "feature hallucination". This time, it's Gemini. I was looking for a card sorting tool, that lets users add their own card (in case we missed some content, this is to test specific enterprise content), so, I launched a Google search.

The Journal of Information Literacy has announced a new special issue on information literacy and censorship- please consider submitting your work! Given political tensions, we will be permitting pseudonymous submissions. Please contact me or @bookelf.bsky.social with questions- DMs open!

EXCITING THINGS ARE AFOOT (Check your LIS-LINK).

Have been watching this on a loop and crying with laughter for about 5 minutes straight now 🤣🤣

I am torn between John Shuttleworth and Hundreds of Beavers with q&a, but if I could find someone to go with me I think this would win... hpph.co.uk/films/hundre...

"Artificial Intelligence will have an impact ten times greater than that of the Industrial Revolution," says somebody whose only knowledge of the Industrial Revolution must come from Artificial Intelligence.

Already hitting the time of year where I worry that I've said yes to clashing teaching sessions, or will forget I've said yes and book more in.

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

We were a most read article back in May AI in Academic Libraries, Part Two Resistance and the Search for Ethical Uses crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

Hi! I’ve been helping a friend these last few weeks with taking care of a stray mama cat and her 6 kittens. Unfortunately none of the local shelters or rescues can help us with vet care and eventually spay/neuter and vaccination. #Kittens #Fundraising #PleaseHelp gofund.me/8d768fd0

Today's cat news: thieving cat steals clothes from everyone. apnews.com/article/cat-...

BLACK C!S woman confronted by two security guys in loo because they thought she was trans. The state persecution of trans people by the UK and US will always impact more c!s and Black women than white trans. Sport too. It’s bigotry, it’s hate, it’s hysteria and completely unjustified.

Seems fitting that the initials of the goalscorers last night in the England Sweden match were ABBA.

Crafty friends: Are there people out there who will take t-shirts that are no longer wearable but have sentimental value, and turn them into a quilt, for a fee? If so, how much would you expect such a commission to cost? (And do any of you fancy a commission..?)

For anyone who needs this today, whether you saw it last week or not, Moo Deng turned 1 last week and had a party... www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

Please RT far and wide, I have no advertising budget! Can I interest you in working with me? Excellent entry level opportunity in an FE library, happy to have an informal chat ce0115li.webitrent.com/ce0115li_web...

For anyone who needs it, and was late to the party like me, Uniqlo/Studio Ghibli crossover time! www.uniqlo.com/uk/en/search...

And a cringey bit of professional self promotion - if you’ve ever wanted to hear me talk about Gen AI and the implications for digital accessibility (admit, you have thought about it), now you can! I’m in block 2 of the day.

These are the very last of the books I bought from my defunct ex-publisher. If you'd like one for the price of postage (just £4 UK), plus whatever YOU want to pay, please email me your address at [email protected]. Stephen Fry called the book "hilarious" but don't trust him. Find out for yourself

Advice please (even if it's to do nothing). There's a sparrow in our front garden with an injured wing, and it can't fly away. Don't know how it got injured, but it's hopping around, it just can't fly away. We were all already leaving seeds out there, which the rest of the sparrows are enjoying.

Watching Squid Game s2 (I know, fashionably late), and e3 is like the Brexit vote all over again.

If y'all thought book bans could never happen here, I've got bad news for y'all. BBC News - Kent council bans transgender books in children’s library section - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oooooooo... 👀 How did my town get to have access to interesting/good/niche cinema? £16 pp though. huddersfield.thelight.co.uk/radiohead-x-...

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country. Join us. The time is now. Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...

CAT HOROSCOPE. Gemini: This week brings a significant fork in the road for you, in the form of having to decide whether to sit inside an out-of-use shelf unit or on a pile of freshly laundered towels.

Heads up that someone is successfully spoofing the Cooperative Bank's number for text alerts - will show up in the same thread you've had genuine conversations with the bank, super convincing. Basically; never click on a link in a text, always call. :/

Trump = ‘releasing a fragrance’