Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co

What's behind Nigel Farage's deregulation plans for corporations? Follow the money 👀 He isn't a party leader. He's a CEO. And his investors have spoken.

It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...

Do you compose or publish music in the UK? 'Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores' with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries? www.bl.uk/stories/blog... Please share with any musicians you know!

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

I've written to my MP to urge her to prevent the UK from leaving the ECHR (but she's LibDem so hopefully wouldn't want to anyway). If you want to do the same click here: actionstorm.org/petitions/pr...

Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Roses are red 🌹 Violets are blue 💙 Words may twist and turn 📝 But I’ll find my way through. Happy #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek all! #Dyslexia #Dyslexic bsky.app/profile/nlis...

Hey... You, yeah you. Psst, over here. *Opens grimy trench coat* Gay aliens, want some gay aliens?! Some trans pirates for ya missus? Lesbian witches? Yeah, check out these beauties! ✨Preorder Queer As Folklore from @manchesterup.bsky.social!✨ manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781807070397/

Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today. A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09... LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert. Pls share

Random number generator made me do it - here's Spearow! 🧶

Number 59 in my quest to crochet all gen 1 pokemon: Seadra! 🧶

Fearow took 15 months on and off to complete. I'm now counting up hope many birds I have left to make and weeping 🤣 but maybe there'll be some patterns for the others?! 🧶

Ways to keep cool in the record-breaking heat: 1. Put ice in front of your fan 2. Put a damp towel around your neck 3. Close your curtains 4. Dismantle the rapacious, extractive fossil-fuel dependent capitalist system via any means necessary 5. Sip, don't gulp water

Tomorrow (Saturday) - if you're in Cambridge and like the idea of a free concert: Scheherezade at St Clements church at 1pm! fb.me/e/3s4v4wXdc

I think enough Cambridge people follow me to make it worth publicising my free 1-hr concert at St Clements church on Saturday afternoon at 1pm - so come! Scheherezade is gert lush! fb.me/e/3s4v4wXdc

Farage is being allowed to respond to events like he’s the PM in waiting. We have 4 years of a parl. We have 6 parties that are ALL minorities. They don’t speak with one voice. On Iran/Israel, LibDemsGreensSNPPlaid have a different take. We demand to hear them petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Reposting my call for participants for my PhD project! #Nonbinary, aged 15+ and live, or have lived, in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)? Does what you wear help create your identity? How do clothes matter to non-binary people? How do *you* dress 'authentically'? I want to hear from you!

Because everyone needs to see this, even if you're not from Buckinghamshire

One of my favourite aspects is seeing where my blood ends up. I've saved lives in Luton, Bedford and London! And during the pandemic, my blood travelled further than I did...

Maaaaaybe we shouldn't have preceded no-mow May with no-mow October to April, but dang, hope the wildlife are having fun in there!

A long read, but an interesting one

Oh hai, I have not been bothered to say much, nor do much, because <gestures vaguely at the state of everything> But while at a conference I did finish crocheting a balloon sausage dog. Here it is, with its buddy 🐕 🧶

Getting fed up with the backsliding on EDI. Join me and @GoodLawProject and tell Trump loud and clear: not in the UK. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

This could be fun... MANIC STREET PREACHERS - huge outdoor concert at Audley End, 2nd Aug 2025 arep.co/2LOh6

Saw photos of my old library workplace yday - it's been gutted and redecorated to look like the parents' waiting area in a soft play centre. Apparently it's meant to be a reflective space, but in electric blue and bright orange, I'm not sure how much reflection anyone can do beyond "this is fugly"

Archive Request xkcd.com/3052

Fy hoff fand Cymraeg ydy Super Furry Animals. Dw i'n caru eu gân Dim Bendith ^_^

Boo to Google dropping its DEI initiatives. Only Apple appears to have a backbone at the moment...(we'll see how long that lasts)

Lots of good ideas here, for however many spoons you have.. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-you-ca...

The only difficulty with this is choosing which of the many appropriate memes to use

@mihatsch.bsky.social @shiftingsovs.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social 🔎Read more: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/publication/...

A new newsletter post about the importance of archiving your tweets (or your cultural institution's tweets) anywhere but 𝕏 and how I'm doing it using the Internet Archive and open source tweetback software. https://opensauce.simonxix.com/twitter-archive/

Had a go at making a worry worm today, ahead of running some crochet sessions with the students - it will be awesome if any show up!! 🧶

The Museum of Cambridge is looking for a new director. It's a permanent, full time post in the middle of Cambridge and you've got till 20th February to apply #museumjobs www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/about/opport...

Without trade unions we wouldn’t have • a minimum wage • maternity & paternity rights • pension provision • holiday & sickness entitlements victories which have benefited every single person in this country Join a union👇 www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion youtu.be/jg0D2yNiqHM?...

I turned my @mothyandthesquid.bsky.social yarn advent calendar (a gift from me to me) into this gorgeous wrap over Xmas, and here is one of the snowflakes I made for my colleagues being blocked (the ❄️ not the colleagues!) just before being glitter-glued (still the ❄️ not the colleagues) 😊🧶

#Libraries & Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library

Is this the critical mass we needed? In which case maybe I need to blow the dust off and post a bit more! Have some pictures of recent(ish) crochet projects 🧶😊

Half-hour snail-cat yesterday!

Entomology sky request (pls add the right emoji/feed tag & share): UK caterpillar, 10-12cm long, extremely hairy, yellow/black stripes (could be light orange/v dark brown). Found in Scottish highlands. no pictures. NOT cinnabar b/c of size/hair, fox moth too small & not enough dark bars. Any ideas?

I've not been working on my crochet pokemon (hit a rubbish one and feeling uninspired) but I've been catching up on some other projects instead. Made a deer to be a library mascot recently and exhibited it!

Proud of being able to keep this going so long! One day I want to take Welsh gcse (but I'm not quite there yet)

I was in New York this week - we'd booked it not even realising that we'd get a 91% eclipse while we were there. Didn't notice the earthquake a few days before as I was on the subway, but got a few good pictures (and sunburn) from the eclipse!

Beyond delighted to have finally finished Magmar! Had to write a pattern for this one, so took a long time to produce, but I'm quite proud of the result! 🧶 #Pokemoncrochet

Don’t forget the 105th Conversazione &NatHistFest on the 19th and 20th April in Cambridge, especially if you love learning about local wildlife and nature! Exhibitors welcome - use the booking form on the Cambridge Natural HistorySociety website

Just come from a marvellous workshop on Cambridge book bindings led by David Pearson - lots of things to know to look out for now! Many thanks to @liamsims.bsky.social and everyone involved, always such a treat to handle these treasures!