Museum Library, Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux #silentsunday

Shout out to people who love ebooks but hate Amazon: Bookshop.org has started doing eBooks! They have an app! They have classics for free! They have daily 99p deals! Much excite! #books #bookstodon

Ed Zitron is killing it! "Every CEO talking about AI replacing workers is an example of the real problem: that most companies are run by people who don’t understand or experience the problems they’re solving, don’t do any real work, don’t face any real problems, and thus can never be trusted to […]

Condition reporting this 1620 parchment role for #exhibition early next year containing a list of Archbishops. It's previously been heavily conserved (see light cream coloured areas). We're now considering multi-spectral imaging to enable deciphering the […] [Original post on historians.social]

Orbital Samantha Harvey A single day in space. A quasi-journal from six character perspectives. Enjoyed the details about space: sleeping, cleaning, noise, routines, huge weather events... Not sure I'm remember it in x amount of time. #thebookerprize 2024 #samanthaharvey

Before you buy Girl Scout cookies you should know they support trans people and reject donations from anti-trans organizations, and then buy a couple more boxes!

Archive collections being catalogued now and in the future will produce difficulties. This plastic sleeve from the mid to late 1990s shows the result of office printer technology of the time along with plastic stationery. The top and bottom document were […] [Original post on historians.social]

“In my day the computers would scream and scream when we connected them to the internet… but did we listen? No. We did not listen…”

We're half way through the week at the Library, hosting classes each day this week. It takes effort and is especially worth it with: - great lecturers who teach to the manuscripts - engaged students who ask questions #archives #collectioncare #manuscripts #medievalmanuscripts @libraries

Last year I got Covid+Flu from the GP Surgery. This year I'm not eligible for Covid due to not being old enough. Mentioned this to the Nurse who said, "Health Care workers don't even get it this year". Which makes me think the GP Surgery should actually be paying to give them the vax as an […]

In 2011, Aaron Swartz was arrested after he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from JSTOR via the MIT network. He was charged under federal laws (including wire fraud and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) with up to 13 felony counts, carrying the possibility of […]

A high profile conservation membership organisation has just announced their next conference location is in Dubai. Nope! To make it worse, they are kicking off a review of their ethical framework at that conference. I can't even! #conservation #ethics

Spending a beautful day along the riverfront in #stpaul #minnesota. #MNastodon #twincities #rivers

Many sidewalks in Korea are built with bricks, which makes maintenance underneath them for utilities, etc. easier than have to jackhammer away concrete. Also, they get these neat rivers of moss in the cracks #Mosstodon #silentSunday #nature #naturePhotography #korea #southkorea

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

Sure sex is great, but have you ever made a label that says “label maker” and put it on a label maker?

We found the perfect ball of moss #mosstodon

Putting my feet away for autumn/winter.

Google Pixel system update overnight. What #enshittification do I need to turn off. Tried to search out and ensure Gemini & Google Assistant remained turned off.

There is a term in Chinese I think about. Sometimes we say ‘this person 会做人 / 不会做人’ Broadly, it’s like ‘this person knows how to be a person / doesn’t know how to be one’. Sometimes it is applied to some unwritten rules like ‘know how to bring a fruit gift to an elder family friend’. Or like […]

"Medieval writers also worried about how dragons coped with heat, given that some were believed to breathe fire. (...) There was a medieval tradition that overheated dragons solved their conundrum by eating elephants. According to these authors, elephants […] [Original post on social.sciences.re]

*Reads statement that museums are the last segment of woke* *raises mug to U.S. museums* Mug design by the great @HeliaXyana #museum #museumdocumentation #registrarlife #resistance #museums

"Mult postal services around Eur suspending shipment of many packages to US amid lack of clarity over import duties Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Italy will stop immediately. France, Austria Mon, UK Tues India temp suspend Mon except letters, docs gift items up to $100" […]

Mastodon UK #glam hive mind: Do non-museum collections need some sort of #ivory register? Not selling, advertising, etc. just checking about necessary due diligence and documentation for items with historic provenance later than 1918. I've checked the UK government website and Ivory act but […]

A good coat is a good coat, no matter who is wearing it.

Please, someone, invent a thing that kills sound broadcast on mobile phones. PLEASE! #whitehathacker #whitehatengineers

In thinking about optimizing how you work, try to distinguish between the parts of your job that are *necessarily difficult* versus the parts that are harder than they actually need to be. The former is the reason that you get the big bucks, and the latter is the reason why you may often feel […]

You have to love #British #humour for pointing out the absurdity of the current #policing inflicted by #KeirStarmer's government on its citizens, illegally arresting people (mostly pensioners) for opposing genocide in #Gaza and supporting the nonviolent […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Been working on something for #emfcamp https://github.com/pikesley/tildagon-countdown It won't install from the app-store, it says it's Out Of Memory 🤷‍♀️ , but it works fine if you push it from your laptop

Now that the #litphoto app has turned itself into by registration only use, any suggestions for an open access, non-data stealing app to compress photos? Google Photos doesn't offer this basic process. #enshitification

Stop and enjoy the #caturday! #cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour

Julius Caesar knife holder 😆

Sidewalk art #streetart #urbanexploration

The #summerexhibition at London's Royal Academy of Art is particularly good this year. My memorable piece is Frances Disley's We Are More ( A community of colours sourced from along the Mersey Estuary). #pigments #contemporaryart https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2025/artworks/frances-disley/782

Torsdag!

Male #boomer arrogance: 40 minutes of farting in a seated, hot, high humidity event. If you are at that level of gastro distress, leave the venue!

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Well #RoyalMail have outdone themselves: look what arrived in the mail! Turns out you can send me a letter with only "The Astronomer Royal, Edinburgh, Scotland" on the address! 🙏 to 95yo Mr Pritchard: a very lovely letter about telescopes 🔭 and his childhood ambitions to discover a new star 🥰.

Dev just messaged me, alarmed: a WordPress plugin's tech support logged into his site and broke everything! 😱 But Dev is sharp, and even at 22, he remembered his server runs FreeBSD and ZFS. With snapshots of his site and database every 15 minutes, we rolled back to the 20:00 snapshot, and his […]

It is a great testament to all of you that I blithely and without for a single second considering that there might be a reason for it, just thought, "oh, we're collectively riffing on gravy today? Yep, sure, why not. #gravy here we go" You lovely mad unpredictable lot ❤️

Surface cleaning archives may be considered mundane but for people who pay attention, one can see all kinds of interesting things like this early style of #paperclip. #vintagestationery #paperconservation #archivecollectioncare #ontheconservationbench

"A cyclist can go 3 or 4 times faster than a pedestrian, but uses 5 times less energy. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match metabolic energy to impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips efficiency of not only all machines, but all other animals as well." —Ivan Illich

Visited a national museum's relatively newly installed, sub-zero photo negative freezer today. It doesn't work. Relative humidity varies wildly. They need to commission a major overhaul. This+ 3 that I've worked at all had poor/ non-functioning freezers. I wonder if: - the engineers don't […]

It would be very interesting to see the RAMS and risk assessment for installing the Butts exhibition at the #whitechapelgallery. #registrar #riskassessment #glam #exhibitioninstallation

Sitting at an historic London pub. I'm drinking a pint watching @dtl book our next COVID vaccinations. #covidisnotover