I have uncooperative veins, apparently.

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Look how high up he got! The man beside him is jumping!

I say once more that there is a difference between cataloguing and classification.

Anyone who has seen House of Games, knows that this is a bad idea.

Dear Students, once again, I remind you that I love you and your crazy PhD endeavours, but an abstract is not or ever appropriate when it appears 7 pages in length. Love me.

With the exception of commenting of the quality of the Fantastic Four, my children have only interacted with me today in order to get codes for devices, to ask when lunch/dinner will be ready and to complain that I have asked them to empty the dishwasher or bring down laundry.

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

I want someone to make me dinner. @williamkilbride.bsky.social you are not allowed to go away again.

Ooh smugness of the Traitors!

Are we sitting comfortably?

On being presented with dinner: Ew, what is that supposed to be? (Dinner had been explained beforehand and it was very clearly mac'n'cheese.) Erm, mum, what is actually in this? Child 1 picked at it and pretended to be sick until @williamkilbride.bsky.social called. Le sigh.

I'm going to make macaroni cheese for dinner. I have 2 children who love pasta and who love cheese. Does anyone want to guess how many ways this dinner will not make them happy and it will clearly be part of my plot to make them miserable? And no, they are not toddlers.

While connected, cataloguing and classification are not the same thing.

Calling all Glasgow and Central Belt folks - please do join us at the Mitchell Library on Sunday for our event with Tim Ingold. Tickets are only £8! There may be a pub trip afterwards 🤔

As the shelling/fireworks continue, I am reminded again of how much of a dude Buzz was about fireworks. I think in part he was just excellent but also in part because when he was 1, & from the on, we used to walk his wee legs off to the point he was blissfully happy. I miss those days

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Watching some Eat, Cook, Repeat to distract the Peedies from the fact that their dad is in New Zealand. Not only do they both stop bickering when @nigella.bsky.social speaks, they are making a list of things to make when @williamkilbride.bsky.social gets home.

You'll like this, not a lot, but you'll like this....

🎉GET READY FOR #WDPD2025 TOMORROW🎉 Expect vlogs, blogs, campaign launches (including one from the #DPC 🥳), and plenty to think about as we raise awareness for digital preservation around the globe. Read up on buff.ly/uvCS2Jm and stay tuned for more - much more - posts!!

I have been confronted with an ad for Advent calendars and so it is time for the annual PSA: THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS BEGIN ON CHRISTMAS THEY ARE NOT ANY OF THE DAYS LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS THAT IS ADVENT WHICH BEGINS FOUR SUNDAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

First full day of @williamkilbride.bsky.social being away for work. I have been chastised twice by Child 1 for not having organised more "fun activities" (he's 14) and asked several times by both of them when the cakes and treats are coming. Sigh.

Cat being the only woman left means she's out tomorrow. Traitors should have saved Kate.

Joe is a big gem.

Nick is a wee gem

Get a Traitor or I'm not watching anymore

Has anyone seen my ability to read? I lost it when I fell over at the end of August and I haven't read anything successfully since then. It's making me sad.

Sing it baby!

This is most excellent news for both readers and authors of the trickiest books to write successfully!

I think it's hilarious that everyone thinks he's a genius apart from anything else.

Good grief! Tess? Claude? No!

We saw deer today. I loved them

My wee breakfast pal this morning

Do we think that Stephen Fry realises that Sherlock Holmes is made up?

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It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff follow Friday. This week let me recommend @legionofllama.bsky.social recently mived to newish role at Warwick University Press always doing interesting things and #digipres is in the mix.

JUST IN: An independent United Nations inquiry has concluded for the first time that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and that the country’s top leaders have incited genocide, in what it described as “the “most authoritative UN finding to date.” https://cnn.it/3VjaHzS

I will never underestimate the wonder of a bag of frozen peas.

I tripped up on the way to work on Friday and landed flat on my face. 4 men came to help me which was very kind but what really amazed me was the female student who came over and asked if I needed her to stay with me, and if I was comfortable with these men around me.

Just write the wee tiny wee presentation will you? Come on! You can do it.

Hour 3 of our neighbour's dog being left outside in the garden. She is a big dog, with a big old bark. Poor dog. Sigh.

It has been a strange week. Last Friday and this Monday, I mourned with friends on the passing of their mothers. Yesterday, while clinging on to the vestiges of needing my holiday sanity, I joined with colleagues in celebrating our librarian on her retirement.

Is it finishing up time yet? My emails are totally incoherent now. I should not be communicating with people today.

Is it Friday evening yet? I need my holidays.

If you see this, post a vampire.

honestly incredible for coldplay's whole deal to get a sudden rebranding as illicit, dangerous music with a heavily ironic layer of meaning, associated with both tiktok virality and high stakes infidelity

I genuinely now love the Fair Fortnight in Glasgow. Next year I'm running away with the circus or demanding more money for this week at work.

So, for Scottish viewers of a certain vintage, very sad news: Glen Michael has passed away. He was 99. He began Glen Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade on STV in 1966, for a handsome £14 a week #RIP

Want to come be my boss?