I know a not-insignificant number of people who will feel personally attacked by this tingler.

Well this looks absolutely delightful.

Praxis, sister 🙏🌈 #pridemonth

Dear weather, This feels unnecessarily dramatic. Respectfully, Me

I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying. Strong work, Durham Pride and Durham trade unions!

Well there's a quote to memorize.

I feel it is extremely important to tell all of you that there are SIX cygnets in this year's clutch.

A THREAD, which I have decided to call 'Bloody Hell, Aren't Doors On Old Walls Fucking Brilliant?' You will find the all-important captions to each photo in the alt text.

Rare books gang, got any good resources for me on early modern printed blank books? I'm working with a manuscript (likely 17th-century) that has been written in a notebook with printed decorative borders on each page, but no printed text.

I'm not sure what I'm feeling about this piece of artwork, but I'm having a LOT of that feeling.

Some professional reading for later in this thread.

Apparently we're doing bees today? This is a buff-tailed bumble I met a couple of years ago.

@hookland.bsky.social, I feel like this is probably relevant to your (terrifying) interests!

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

On one hand, delightful. On the other, how dare you inform me that my formative years are now archivally significant?!

Typology of Frogs Feet. australian.museum/blog-archive...

Note to self, pre-order this new translation for the library.

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

Not sure which is better, the video, or the description "predatory socks".

I have been sitting here giggling like a loon for approximately 10 minutes. Because seriously, fuck that organ in particular. YEETERUS!

amazing that our own small creations connect us directly to the moment of our universe erupting out of nothing and the unfathomable power of existence itself and yet we look at our drawings or stories and are like 'this is bad.' bud it is not bad it is the leading edge of a billion years of beauty

I would sit my ass down and actually have time to learn to draw. Do I want to Draw(TM)? No. I want to be able to sketch competently to support my other craft work.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

It is frankly unreasonable to expect me to do anything useful this afternoon when I have just picked up a library copy of @amalelmohtar.com's 'Seasons of glass and iron'. Stupid adulting.

Wait there were books?!? HOW DID I MISS THIS INFORMATION

"This volume is open to a paper on a lunar eclipse and, inexplicably, an anatomical engraving of a lobster. " Sometimes writing exhibition captions is tremendously entertaining.

Thought exercise for the cataloguers. At some point, AI-created books are going to end up in libraries. When they do, how will they be credited? Do we only record human input? Do we record the AI tool(s)? If yes to the latter, are AI tools corporate entities? People? Something else? 1/?

Funniest thread of the month candidate, right here.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database is a comprehensive resource designed to cover all aspects of science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural and bizarre fiction. History, critiques, commentaries, fan fiction are all included. Ca 90% of the entries are in English. #siteoftheweek

"The maintenance of archives is an act of faith that there will be a collective future and that our knowledge of our collective past is valuable to establishing that future." No, I'm fine, I just need a minute to sit with this masterpiece of a sentence. Thanks, colleagues. I needed this today. 💚💚

"... the fact that [the First Order] are preserving only a single copy of a digital file makes us suspicious of the Empire's digital preservation training." FINALLY, people who are as salty about Rogue One as I. @lynnemthomas.com and Katy, my hat is off to you both.

@lynnemthomas.com, look what I've just picked up from the library!

Moon mission. Amazing. Worth staying up past bedtime to watch, even if I'm now full of adrenaline and completely wired.

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One of our prettiest manuscripts has gone for a nice holiday. If you're near Hereford this year, you should call in and say hello!

Living Water: Poetry, Art and the Fight for Clean Rivers, is open! Explore the work and legacy of artist Barrie Cooke, and his remarkable creative friendship with poets Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes. 🎟️ FREE 📍Cambridge University Library & @pembroke1347.bsky.social 🔎 https://loom.ly/64SyJug

You can treasure your memories of stories that were important to you without choosing to give money to a person who is using their intellectual property to fund literal hate crime. Read other stories. Play other games. Fund love and inclusion and trans rights. Make better choices.

Today in ‘things that are funnier than they should be…’

There is a car out on the kerb waiting for someone in the shop. Their music is blasting so loud I can feel the bass in my chest inside my house. It's not an unsocial time of day, so I'm not mad about it, but how do they even have eardrums left?

"Comics" are a medium, not a genre, and you can use them to tell any kind of story. It's not all about superheroes.

Exciting news - I have actually updated the Library Conferences on BlueSky page, and it now has current and previous 2026 sections! Lots to do to add in events I have noted in screenshots and saved emails, but good progress.

This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so: 🍃

@saraluckelman.bsky.social, relevant to your interests!

Oh fun. Will still personally verify when I'm not on my phone, because librarian, but plausible.

JayHenge is happy to announce a new call for stories! Clockwork Oceans & Lunar Dreams: A Vernean Odyssey. Have you ever been inspired by the works of Jules Verne? Now's your chance to share your imagination's adventures with us! zurl.co/b49pI

Recent Commissions! Weird round dinosaurs inspired by cattle painting :3

I cannot stress enough how good this book was, nor how important to read. Section 28 was monstrous. I don't think the post-millennial queer gang, who didn't grow up with its bullshit permeating their lives, realise just how bad it was.

The State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, and I would take "Landscape with five houses' by Malevich. It looks very meh in photos, but I saw it in person when it was in London for an exhibition and was moved to tears. It's transfixing.

Oh no. Oh Pete. A beloved friend and colleague. I will miss him.

Sarah's bedroom in the movie Labyrinth is one of the best examples of set design as environmental storytelling and foreshadowing/backstory in the history of cinema. Everyone knows it is filled with things that you see later in the film, but there's even more that you don't notice at a glance.