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.

Well this looks excellent! Having traumatised myself with an element of work I was doing with records, I'm now VERY conscious of the risk to myself and others when dealing with these materials. Sadly I have a meeting clash for this, but you should all book! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/looking-af...

Oh man. If this ever makes it to PlayStation, I'll be there with bells on. It looks awesome.

I will defend with my last breath the value of fanfiction, and it's because of stories like this one.

Oh look, another rabbit-hole to go down.

This is a thing of beauty.

*ominous swan noises*

Apparently this weekend various cinemas are showing the Labyrinth. For its 40th anniversary. WHAT. This is not okay.

‘Hope isn’t a plan.’ Yeah? Neither is ‘this is really hard so let’s not even try.’

Am I listening to #9lc? No. However, I'm taking great pleasure in following the hashtag as a precursor to watching Carols From King's in a couple of hours, since they almost always duplicate the weird stuff for that broadcast. And it looks like we are in for some EPIC weird.

I refuse to give over the required age verification information to get my DMs out of hock. If you know me in real life, drop me an email; if not, whatever communication you're making should be appropriate for a public space anyway, so just pay a skeet.

Sad to hear this. He was a constant while I was working at UCL.

It's tonight, gentlebeings!

Worried about the environmental impact of using #LLMs in ( #DH ) research, but not sure where to start? I got you covered! We reviewed the research & ran a #DigitalHumanities case study with carbon reporting, sharing all the tools, code & info: doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... ( #DHd #GreeningDH)

Soon. Soon you can come discuss one of my favourite books with me!

IF YOU DON'T OWN IT PHYSICALLY YOU CAN'T GUARANTEE ACCESS. (Shouting at streaming services, not at Chris.)

Some I still know. One, I live with. Most have vanished into the dark night of lost social media sites.

"...generative AI tools always produce an answer, even when the historical sources are incomplete or silent. Because their purpose is to generate content, they cannot indicate that no information exists; instead, they will invent details that appear plausible but have no basis in the [...] record."

Why am I choked up, though?

Public transport isn't just for Middle Earth. Narnia's getting in on the act! I've drawn a subway map covering all 7 books of The Chronicles of Narnia. Follow the plots lines, but don't touch the third rail! #Narnia #Maps #Subway You can buy prints on my Etsy store: www.etsy.com/listing/4345...

Well these are breathtaking.

Major news for anyone interested in 20th-century history. Or, you know, how not to do a war crimes.