Did you know there is a free online hearing test from RNID? You can screen yourself to see if you are showing signs of hearing loss and should get a hearing check. It’s quick and easy to do: rnid.org.uk/information-...

That critical analysis that I learned in those two years of A Level English and Media Studies, then an English BA and an MA in Information & Library Management means I am now the person who knows where to find the correct answer... #ArtsAndHumanities www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Any Health Librarians who were working in the sector in 2006 or thereabouts that could help Selena?

Great debunking thread from @monkemma.bsky.social - why are there so many batshit people claiming they have the majority view? We need to call it out for what it is - racism pure and simple. They want you to be too afraid to challenge them.

The BBC and the production companies which make topical shows need to wean their staff off X - everyone knows it's a hotbed of misinformation. Why are people still using it? And why aren't people questioning the content? #MediaLiteracy #CriticalThinking www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Anyway, in case you missed it, some wondering from me about whether Kemi Badenoch has ever actually read Terry Pratchett www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

As I move further into my working life I discover that every question I want answered is a sociology question. As ever, politicians would just like it if everyday folks stopped learning to ask questions and just did what the ruling classes told them to do.

Definitely autumn now. That wind is cold. Thoughts turn to buying new jumpers and cashmere wraps...

Recognise anyone you know? "...the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis." Dorothy Thompson, Harper's Magazine, August 1941

This is a very welcome development indeed IF the recurrent costs of funding school librarians is fully budgeted. ‘A pile of books is no more a library than a crowd of soldiers is an army’ to quote Gabriel Naudé who figured this out … 400 years ago… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Channel 5 appears to be showing American Football... Which always reminds me of this immortal line from Buffy... Rupert Giles: I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

Nigel Farage wants to drag Britain down the same road as Trump’s America: chaos, division and fear. Our NHS, our rights and our communities are at risk. Do not let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.

This is NOT just america. This is happening here. Local coverage of it, if you can bear the pop up ads.... www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2548259... #UKKidlit #Edusky

Writing in the Guardian, @pollytoynbee.bsky.social calls out dangerous supremacism: “On the Robinson march in London, the great wooden crosses looked like armaments… The marchers’ “Christ is King” flags declared a radicalised ethno-supremacism.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Paracetamol is pretty much the only thing you can do for anything in pregnancy. If you have pain, you can't even have a properly hot bath. Just paracetamol. It's not about autism, it's about making women suffer in pain.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

So now paracetamol 'causes autism'? Nobody knows what causes autism. But we know it's much more likely to be genetic factors than vaccines or analgesics. #DoTheReading en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_...

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

No, I'm sorry, I can't leave the house on Saturday for the next 13 weeks #strictly

A great thread about the dangers of relying on AI for anatomical information. Just get a book - anything by DK will have fantastic illustrations and diagrams. And they will be correct.

Be honest, it's what we've all been thinking...

@nlisn.bsky.social is attempting to assess the proportion/spread of neurodiversity across across all UK library sectors. If you identify as neurodivergent, with or without a formal diagnosis, or suspect you may be - please fill in our short survey! Reblogging/signal-boosting much appreciated!

Last week the Express ran with the following front page. So obviously I had to take a look! Is it true? How does it compare to other professions? Because anyone familiar with British RW media discourse knows they reserve a special venom for civil servants…🤷🏼‍♀️ 🧵 1/25 (1/1)

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

100,000 fascists in a rally out of 68 million people in the country = hardly the voice of the people. They are not the majority. Don't let the bastards win. #FightFascism #HopeNotHate #LoveConquersAll

So Yaxley-Lennon is creating merchandise and raising £300,000 for what, exactly? Black shirts? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Bernie speaking truth to power www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There is now a petition regarding the overwhelming news coverage given to Farage at the expense of other parties which are larger, like the Liberal Democrats and Greens. www.libdems.org.uk/bbc

Noooo!! #IrregularChoice are having to close! All stock is being sold. They will be closing the Brighton store on 28th September and the website will also be deactivated indefinitely in the following weeks. Statement here: www.irregularchoice.com/pages/dans-s...

Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3

Faversham in Kent is Lib Dem, but the county council is Reform, hence this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I look forward to every media outlet that platformed Nigel Farage and Reform for the entire summer now giving us wall-to-wall coverage of Zack Polanski and The Greens.

Damn I'm getting SICK AND TIRED of software sticking unnecessary AI "helpers" into every damn feature, unasked for. Just to pretend the billions invested are to meet "needs". I am Gen X and I remember Clippy - and we took an oath: NEVER AGAIN!

Children are ***82%*** more likely to be killed when hit by an SUV than by a regular passenger car. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why is anyone giving Farage airtime? He has 4 MPs. Labour have 398. What is the statistical probability he could ever gain enough seats to be Prime Minister? Any statisticians done the maths? State of the parties - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament members.parliament.uk/parties/comm...

Most notable person born in your town? Cool map using @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people

Here is a picture of an otter. Feel free to look at it to help you get through the week.

To quote this infographic "if you give the smallest shit about [online] privacy" take 2 seconds to make sure the links you send (and post here!) aren't dripping with personal information about you AND the people you share them with.

Should the world’s richest man, Elon Musk have a slice of the UK energy market? I don’t think so, which is why I added my name to the petition to Ofgem demanding they reject Tesla's application to supply energy here in the UK. Join me and add your name too? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-to-el...

Motherfucking wind farms…

I welcome a statement from CILIP on this but they also need to make clear that this is not solely an issue of banning books and authoritarianism. It's also about malicious disinformation from Kent council. There is no such thing as "trans ideology". Being trans is a state of human being. #UKKidlit

10 weeks of strength work with a PT and now I'm doing Boxfit, swimming and yoga all in the same week. I doubt I will ever run 5k again, but so far, so good.

"A concerned member of the public" has enabled a Reform council to enact censorship on county libraries. How many of these councillors has even read a library book recently? BBC News - Kent council bans transgender books in children’s library section - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CILIP, take note 👇 #conferences #accessibility

Once again, it must be said as loudly as possible: AI can't do the things described in this paragraph, and there is no pathway to it ever being able to do them.

Another email from CILIP begging me to go to their conference next week: "Day-only tickets start from just £340 (including lunch) and are a great option if you can only join us for one day". As this wildly expensive conference has nothing of interest or relevance to me as an info pro, I'll pass.

As somebody from Florida now living in Oxford, 32C *is* dangerously hot when virtually no houses and very few public buildings have aircon and almost all of them are masonry built and designed to retain heat, you cannot be comparing hot weather here to heat in a place EQUIPPED for it, come tf on

With misinformation about last night's vote on abortion in England and Wales rife online, particularly on X, here's a myth-buster about what last night's amendment really means.

Hurrah! About time. #AbortionIsHealthcare BBC News - MPs vote to decriminalise abortion for women in England and Wales www.bbc.com/news/article...