Viridian Archer
@viridianarcher.bsky.social
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Librarian, musician and crocheter.
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Sarah
28 days ago
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
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Open Britain
about 1 month ago
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.
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Vagina Museum
about 1 month ago
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...
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mia ridge
about 2 months ago
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!
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Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores
Help us to collect digital scores from composers and independent publishers.
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/call-for-composers-and-publishers-to-deposit-digital-scores
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Bouba's Delivery Service
about 2 months ago
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.
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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...
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https://actionstorm.org/petitions/protect-echr?ref=784827
about 2 months ago
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The Oatmeal
about 2 months ago
Let’s talk about AI art.
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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NLISN
2 months ago
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...
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Sacha Coward (who did NOT die!)🎄🎅🌲
2 months ago
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/
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Manchester University Press - Queer as folklore
Queer as folklore - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Queer as folklore by Sacha Coward
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781807070397/
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Melanie Richter-Montpetit
3 months ago
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):
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Nick Posegay
3 months ago
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
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Martin Lewis
3 months ago
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
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Random number generator made me do it - here's Spearow! 🧶
4 months ago
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Number 59 in my quest to crochet all gen 1 pokemon: Seadra! 🧶
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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?! 🧶
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Oli Mould
5 months ago
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
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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
5 months ago
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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
5 months ago
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Fair Political Coverage - we want to hear from ALL our parties
6 months ago
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...
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Thomas Jeram-West (they/them)
6 months ago
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!
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Because everyone needs to see this, even if you're not from Buckinghamshire
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6 months ago
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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...
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6 months ago
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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!
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A long read, but an interesting one
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7 months ago
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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 🐕 🧶
7 months ago
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Benito Cereno
7 months ago
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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/...
9 months ago
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This could be fun... MANIC STREET PREACHERS - huge outdoor concert at Audley End, 2nd Aug 2025
arep.co/2LOh6
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MANIC STREET PREACHERS - huge outdoor concert at Audley End, 2nd Aug 2025
Register now for access to the PRESALE
https://arep.co/2LOh6
10 months ago
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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"
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Randall Munroe
10 months ago
Archive Request
xkcd.com/3052
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Fy hoff fand Cymraeg ydy Super Furry Animals. Dw i'n caru eu gân Dim Bendith ^_^
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10 months ago
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Boo to Google dropping its DEI initiatives. Only Apple appears to have a backbone at the moment...(we'll see how long that lasts)
10 months ago
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Lots of good ideas here, for however many spoons you have..
www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-you-ca...
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Ned Potter
10 months ago
The only difficulty with this is choosing which of the many appropriate memes to use
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Cambridge University History Faculty
10 months ago
@mihatsch.bsky.social
@shiftingsovs.bsky.social
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
@jesuscollegecam.bsky.social
🔎Read more:
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/publication/...
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Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice | Faculty of History University of Cambridge
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/publication/shifting-sovereignties-global-history-concept-practice
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Simon
11 months ago
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/
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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!! 🧶
11 months ago
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Mary Burgess
11 months ago
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...
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Opportunities
We are currently recruiting for Tour Guide, Family Event and Front of House Volunteers. Join our team!
https://www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/about/opportunities/
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Peter Stefanovic
11 months ago
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?...
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Let’s make Jacob’s day and join a union today
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
https://youtu.be/jg0D2yNiqHM?si=4owXhT-koy_cpQCn
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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) 😊🧶
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Mylee Joseph
about 1 year ago
#Libraries
& Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library
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Libraries & Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library
In today’s society, libraries stand out as among the last truly public institutions. Providing access to resources without financial, social, or physical barriers, public libraries make a unique contr...
https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/libraries-well-being-report
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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 🧶😊
about 1 year ago
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Half-hour snail-cat yesterday!
over 1 year ago
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Dr Vanessa
over 1 year ago
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?
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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!
over 1 year ago
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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)
over 1 year ago
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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!
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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
over 1 year ago
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Rhona Watson
over 1 year ago
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
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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!
over 1 year ago
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