At least they included a "Close" option.

A strong piece from @hetanshah.bsky.social waving a flag for investemnt in National Libraries as research infrastructures: "The government should treat the UK’s major manuscript collections as an important national and international resource..."

This was peak internet.

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

Simon Jordan on TalkSport, unchallenged yet again. As a Talksport employee, I am embarrassed by this rebuttal of what Neville said. This moron pontificates without question. It is bonkers. And yeah, i'll probably be sacked. Fuck it. youtube.com/watch?v=FrXr...

Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Whether it's Republicans flagrantly abusing Articles One and Two of the Constitution or Democrats being bad at messaging, both parties are pushing America to the brink.

The median voter is by definition just one voter. Happy to take the hit if it means we can call out racism.

A very good thread making key points the Royal Society has missed.

Stretching the definition of “social” to breaking point…

I’m still 100% convinced that a manual switch is the best way to control devices in the home.

Lessons from a (much more) privacy conscious country To get this narrow approval the Swiss system was made free, optional and entirely publicly run

Got my performance review.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Contentment is 90% who you chose to stand next to.

The smart play is to have an iPhone is too old to support iOS 26.

this exists it is called thinking

I refused to placate the bully. Then I refused to placate the institutions who placated the bully. Then I refused to placate the shills who placate the institutions who placate the bully. I'm still standing; the rest are down. Never placate the bully.

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Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

“Hey, man. Stop being weird.” - the key line to deploy against men’s high-performance influencers

Historical tech tree www.historicaltechtree.com

Cloudgazing cloudgazing.online

Deleted Twitter. Amongst many reasons, the man who owns it is a fascist.

This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.

Elon, speaking at the Tommy Robinson march today: “This is a government against the people and not for the people, this is why everyone is gathered here today…we don’t have another four years…there’s got to be a dissolution of parliament” And the government just…continues to use X.

Expect more silence from the Royal Society in the face of their most notorious fellow advocating for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of a country he is neither a citizen nor a resident of (yet he is a fellow of their most prestigious learned society).

Elon Musk has *personally*posted in favour of the racist remigration agenda of the maximalist racist abusing the Home Secretary with this on X & endlessly posting racist harassment on X This should be a story. It should be a scandal. Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament

Sunday album: Who is the Sky? David Byrne 🎶 youtu.be/c1zuWaau9EM?...

We’re delighted that Cricket Scotland has chosen the National Library to be the new home of their archive 🏏 The records cover the history of the Scottish Cricket Union and Cricket Scotland, from 1908 to the present day.

It is bizarre to have "zero tolerance" for racial abuse in football and cricket from government, media & governing bodies, yet infinite tolerance - simply silence in media, politics & inaction - for unlawful racial hatred online against elected representatives of every party & other civilians.

Sunday morning album: Tapestry, Carol King 🎵 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapestr...

These people have no idea what goes in to collecting, cleaning and processing data into a usable state. Every data scientist/AI hypeman should have to come into the field and experience where their data comes from.

Sublime 🐦 🏠

There are more parkrun *volunteers* than anti-asylum protestors (and counterprotestors). Let's hear their voices & stories! What are they hoping for this bank holiday?

A lovely little map legend this morning from the National Library of Scotland maps portal (a great combo with your morning coffee). This is for the 1inch map of Great Britain which you can find in full online here maps.nls.uk/view/239260573

Time-travel to @orkneylibrary.bsky.social in 1957 ✨📖 This clip from ‘Life in the Orkneys’ shows a box of books being packed up in Kirkwall Library to go to families on more rural islands. The box contains books for everyone in the family.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

librarians everywhere

🎪 The mayhem begins! Celebrate with us! Doors open at 10am at George IV Bridge (Edinburgh) and Kelvin Hall (Glasgow). Be among the first 500 at each site to get your special edition centenary comic, created by Beano! #NLS100 #Beano

It’s crazy that we increasingly rely on a technology with no contextual understanding of the world to judge the truth of real events.

Horrifying I thought the civilised world had said they would never let this happen again? Why is Starmer not acting? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

16% of people in the UK were born overseas so the prison population shows that 'foreigners' are less of a risk.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

“We've created a culture that treats depth like inefficiency. One that wants love without awkwardness, wisdom without confusion, transformation without the growing pains that crack us open and rebuild us from the inside out.” HT @dbcurren.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/maalvika...

Hello. I am an expendable character in an action film. If you shoot me with a regular gun I will scream in pain before I die. But if you shoot me with a silencer I will - obligingly - just let out a quiet gasp.

I like that if you search bsky for "bronze" and "tibia" you get lots of people praising Lucy Bronze for being hard as nails and then if you go back far enough you get some posts about archaeology