Phillip Barlow ⚒️
@hammerslibrary.bsky.social
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West Ham fan who happens to be a medical librarian. Views are mine alone.
So, trying to get three points, and you take off our one and only striker. Please tell me there is a masterplan...
#WHUFC
about 12 hours ago
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Big up to library champion
@bobbyseagull.bsky.social
MBE. Make sure your morning suit is cleaned and pressed (and your hat fits properly) when you go to the palace. Here's to three points tonight too
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bobby Seagull appointed MBE for libraries work
The 41-year-old is currently completing his doctorate at the University of Cambridge.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgkgd5k19ko
about 15 hours ago
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I don't claim any expertise, but I know a little about the history of naval warfare, and one thing I am aware of is that three days in December 1941 definitively proved the era of the battleship to be over...
8 days ago
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Fixed it...
12 days ago
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US librarians tackle ‘manufactured crisis’ of book bans to protect LGBTQ+ rights
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US librarians tackle ‘manufactured crisis’ of book bans to protect LGBTQ+ rights
In at least half a dozen states, librarians have joined forces with civil rights groups to oppose book bans, often facing personal and professional repercussions
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/15/us-librarianbook-bans-lgbtq-rights?CMP=share_btn_url
16 days ago
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First time I've seen that warning template on Wikipedia...
22 days ago
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Being awarded the "FIFA Peace Prize" is like asking your parents for Megatron and then waking on Christmas morning to find they've got you Cy-Kill
26 days ago
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When do we hear who's been awarded the FIFA Prize for Medicine?
#WorldCupDraw
26 days ago
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What's the bettering that behind those piggy eyes the Orange-Faced Monster is looking at the trophy and thinking "I want that on my desk"
#WorldCupDraw
26 days ago
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Alternatively, "Trump wins bauble that Infantino thought up on the spur of the moment because the Orange-Faced monster wanted the Nobel Peace Prize but the Nobel committee knew better, and Infantino is the ultimate brown-nosing sh*t"
26 days ago
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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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‘Taking the gloves off’: Trump just held the Cabinet meeting from Hell
Holly Baxter reports on a wild-eyed, fast-talking Pete Hegseth and Trump’s detour from ‘fat drugs for fat people’ to extrajudicial killings to Melania’s thoughts on the construction noise around the n...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-hegseth-cabinet-meeting-war-crimes-boats-b2876669.html
27 days ago
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Phillip Barlow ⚒️
Mark Turnbull Author
29 days ago
The latest episode (44) covers Charles II's youth. Here,
@restorationhat.bsky.social
tells us about Charles's split with mistress Lucy Walter and the care of their son, James.
#CavalierCast
#historypodcast
#17thCenturyHistory
#EnglishCivilWar
#historylovers
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Ed Sperr
28 days ago
#MedLibs
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Top marketing from the city of Southend...
28 days ago
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What that horseshit Paqueta was pulling God alone knows
#whufc
about 1 month ago
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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Outrage after Trump’s bill reclassifying nursing as not a ‘professional degree’
Nursing organizations warn limiting access to student funding ‘threatens the very foundation of patient care’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/nursing-professional-degree-trump-bill-b2870045.html
about 1 month ago
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@cathryneap.bsky.social
- Scandal!!!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Barking Dog quiz cheating: BBC visits pub - and sees the questions
The weekly pub quiz at the Barking Dog in Urmston returns after a cheating team was rumbled.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33p05lyzlko
about 2 months ago
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Phillip Barlow ⚒️
Mark Turnbull Author
about 2 months ago
Latest Episode -
#CavalierCast
podcast. Claire Hobson discusses the formative years of Charles II and the traumatic events that scarred them. 👂Listen on your usual podcast platform, or via
www.buzzsprout.com/1194917
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Joanie might still love Chachi, but I think a lot of other people are less enamoured...
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about 2 months ago
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Have to admit, I looked at the image and thought it initially said "Megadeath in Partnership"...
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about 2 months ago
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Writing Life
about 2 months ago
Don't forget for a bonus point that Connery-Bond gets captured in the USA fucking around with state secrets. He's shoved in Alcatraz and escapes and spends the next *cough* years as a prisoner before being released in the FBI's custody to prevent a chemical attack.
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This means you can get to boss me around - who wouldn't want to do that?
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about 2 months ago
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Good list...
screenrant.com/cheesy-sci-f...
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8 Cheesy ‘80s Sci-Fi TV Shows Better Than Any Modern Series (#1 Is Still A Masterpiece)
Today's shows have stripped that cheesy charm.
https://screenrant.com/cheesy-sci-fi-better-than-modern-tv-shows/
about 2 months ago
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It's about sodding time we all saw Callum Wilson score for us instead of against us
#whufc
about 2 months ago
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There's been a stall advertising the benefits of the YMCA at Cannon St the last couple of days. Sorely tempted to go and ask if they have everything for young men to enjoy, and if it's a place you can go when you're short on your dough
about 2 months ago
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Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or ‘Humiliation’?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h...
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Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or ‘Humiliation’?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/health/cdc-kennedy.html?smid=bs-share
2 months ago
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This is a crisis. A large crisis. In fact, if you have a moment, it's a twelve storey crisis with a magnificent entrance hall, 24 hour porterage, carpeting throughout and a sign on the roof saying "This is a Large Crisis"
#whufc
2 months ago
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Why medical students are choosing Bulgaria over UK
The BBC has spoken to students choosing Bulgaria due to UK's strict cap on medical school places.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgz8g8jg48o
2 months ago
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techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/w...
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Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video | TechCrunch
Looks like Wikipedia isn't immune to broader online trends.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/wikipedia-says-traffic-is-falling-due-to-ai-search-summaries-and-social-video/
2 months ago
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Barrister found to have used AI to prepare for hearing after citing ‘fictitious’ cases
Judge rules Chowdhury Rahman used ChatGPT-like software and then tried to hide it, wasting immigration tribunal’s time
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/16/barrister-found-to-have-used-ai-to-prepare-for-hearing-after-citing-fictitious-cases
2 months ago
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Has the United States issued sanctions against Norway yet?
3 months ago
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Here comes the Nexus...
www.earth.com/news/astrono...
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Astronomers spot a massive wave rolling across our galaxy
A colossal wave is rolling through the Milky Way’s stars, mapped by ESA’s Gaia telescope and reshaping our understanding of galactic motion.
https://www.earth.com/news/astronomers-spot-a-massive-wave-rolling-across-our-galaxy/
3 months ago
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There's all kinds of data...
3 months ago
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Phillip Barlow ⚒️
Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
3 months ago
Manaaki Whenua have appointed Siobhan Leachman as their Wikimedian in Residence! Supporting staff to share their expertise,
@siobhanleachman.bsky.social
will be assisting the group with contributing content from their nationally significant collections to openly accessible Wikimedia platforms.
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From Collections to Commons: Announcing a Wikimedian in Residence at Manaaki Whenua
From Collections to Commons: Announcing a Wikimedian in Residence at Manaaki Whenua Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research Group now have a Wikimedian in Residence on board, […]
https://www.wikimedia.nz/wikimedian-in-residence-at-manaaki-whenua/
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Fixed it...
3 months ago
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"I want to be unlimited World Ruler with no possibility of ever being prosecuted for anything ever again, and I want to remain World Ruler perpetually, so no one can take the title from me even after death"
3 months ago
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It is inordinately painful to watch this at the moment
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3 months ago
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sexy christmas lukedovician
3 months ago
"Once you use ChatGPT, you don't want to think for yourself anymore" THAT IS A TERRIFYING SENTENCE
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‘They said I should be purged and killed’: The librarians who stood up for free speech
In 2019, Martha Hickson was told by the school superintendent to remove the graphic memoir Fun Home, by the gay writer Alison Bechdel, from her school library in Annandale, New Jersey, where she had worked as a librarian since 2005. She refused. Two years later, a small group of parents demanded during a school board meeting that two further books ...
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/they-said-i-should-be-purged-and-killed-the-librarians-who-stood-up-for-free-speech/ar-AA1MKDGh?item=module_ad_enabled:false?c/jwu3qfe1aa80ferr
3 months ago
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So, how long do we reckon before Nuno takes over? 🤔
#whufc
4 months ago
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There is a special place in Hell reserved for all of the individuals that have left me stuck at Imperial Wharf for the last 40 minutes trying to get on a train to go home
4 months ago
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Richard Carr
4 months ago
AJP Taylor - not a referencing guy
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Greenwich and Kent announce merger to form 'super-university'
Universities are facing ongoing financial worries, with the regulator saying other mergers could follow.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy85905dj2wo
4 months ago
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Kennedy, Rejecting Data, Fuels Distrust of His Own Agencies
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
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Kennedy, Rejecting Data, Fuels Distrust of His Own Agencies
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/us/politics/kennedy-health-vaccines-cdc.html?smid=bs-share
4 months ago
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You know you're losing the argument if you end up pressuring your lackeys to change the rules in your favour
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Missouri governor calls special session to redraw congressional maps to aid Republicans
State follows Texas’s lead in Trump’s push to gain more House seats for Republicans in 2026 midterms
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/29/missouri-governor-special-legislative-session-congressional-maps
4 months ago
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There can't be many international organisations that are as stuck up their own backside as UEFA...
4 months ago
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Now it seems America's public health system is in the hands of someone who can divine illness by simply looking at a person. If we didn't think Kennedy was a Whack-a-doodle before, we sure as hell do now. America, you're going to kill us all.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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RFK Jr claims he can diagnose children by just looking at them
Kennedy has often raised concerns about the increasing juvenile diabetes and autism rates
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-children-health-diagnose-no-medical-degree-b2815849.html
4 months ago
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Fired CDC director Dr Susan Monarez says RFK 'weaponising public health'
The White House removes Dr Susan Monarez from her job running the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy3zjxy3dwo
4 months ago
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