It's funny how you can always tell when a book description is AI generated because it will say something like 'this book would be an excellent addition to any collection', which is of course a complete misunderstanding of book collecting

When you arrive in hell to steal Satan’s throne

Ozzy, in the underworld, screaming at the ferryman: Charon! Charon! news.sky.com/story/ozzy-o...

Paddington Bear, who as we know is the psychopomp of all British national treasures, is very very veeeerry tentatively taking Ozzy Osbourne by the hand 😬

Ozzy relaxing this evening

Today in incomprehensible brain farts, I asked the bus driver for a first edition instead of a single ticket, so of course I can never catch the bus again.

Difficult to conceive of a more ill-judged decision then the one the Home Office took here. It is an affront to free speech of a kind which is really indistinguishable from what you'd see in a police state.

I mean, I also experience this quite regularly (with early medieval history, not quantum physics), but for me it comes from doing actual research in actual sources and having real thoughts with my own human brain. Travis Kalanick should try it sometime.

framing this any other way than "deranged old man sues everybody who he regards as being to mean to him" is journalistic malpractice

*taps mic* Ok, here’s The Thing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sometimes you just want to make absolutely sure nobody misses your favourite aspect of a book... From the first edition of Gerard's Herbal, 1597 blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

I used to do Bastille Day parties every year, thanks to an abiding love of stories set in the French Revolution. This photo is from 2006, when we used a kitchen torch to light the candles on the cake so we could sing “Happy Bastille Day to France.”

love when an auction says 'taken out' instead of 'lot withdrawn', implying this footstool was fucking assassinated

Excited to announce my new venture as insect uber. Chauffeured my first satisfied customer from Jesus College to Lincoln College Library, where I assume he had some books to check out

DR LIGHTFOOTSOOO OOWORKESOO VOL. 1 OOOOO Spotted this week @queenslibcam.bsky.social

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

I’m going to the Chateau de Chantilly Très Riches Heures exhibition after @imc-leeds.bsky.social , so I thought I would treat myself to some illuminated manuscript inspired nails ✨

Lorraine and Puff. 💕 Photo from my collection, no date or other info.

I’m not bothered by who plays Bond, but I don’t want Tom Holland to waste his prime years on such a dull role unless they make it a musical and let him dance. Then I’m in

Good morning to the huge fluffy black cat I just watched make an unstoppable terminator-style beeline through Radcliffe Square in order to sniff the voluminous red dress of a couple having a photoshoot in the gate of All Souls

I started writing something important to me tonight. Not really sure what it is, but I’ll share the end of it. Watching the tech industry do what it’s doing sickens me, and I want people to know why.

One of the most important skills of bookdealing is, of course, a high score in tetris

When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely

This was a bit of a rush job, but it was v fun to do. Might have another crack at it one day, or something similiar... The Hobbit illumination with Smaug as a weird mediaeval dragon?

The Harvard Law Library Magna Carta find sounds amazing. If you were at the 1945 sale, you could have followed your purchase of the M.C. manuscript with - next lot - an Italian C15 Boccaccio’De Claris Mulieribus’ (On Famous Women) MS (£10 to Maggs Bros). Different times!

Yes, I just tried to use my stapler as the computer mouse, but in my defence...

Elisabeth: Samuel Pepys is not having a moment. Me: is that your professional assessment? Elisabeth: it is Me: we're not going to have a Hot Pepys Summer :(

The Cass Review gets peer reviewed and absolutely shredded Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight

The current UK government wants to 'turbocharge' AI with new purpose-built data centres in this country (there are already 153 data centres here). Meanwhile United Utilities just asked us to start considering our water usage because reservoirs are more than 20% lower than this time last year.

Fucking hell. I know nobody’s in greasy overalls for you to fetishise, Labour, but this is still an industry full of working people on marginal incomes that you are voluntarily destroying, you dumb tech-fetishising goons. You just sold us for corporate strip-mining. Up the workers.

Cat in the Old Schools Quad! Cat in the Old Schools Quad! Maybe he's been mewsing on philosophy in the Divinity School? Or reading Pawlatonic ideals in the Old Bod? Because he's a catademic? Better puns gratefully recieved.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

I'm not sure you have a @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social reader card.....

This event @blackwelloxford.bsky.social is free to attend, and our manager Sian plans to bring something nice upstairs to the third floor to show off to attendees

This illegally issued cedola, or receipt of a betting slip, for the papal #conclave of 21-24 April 1585, was undersigned by the Medici ambassador to Rome (👀), who wagered 100 gold scudi on the victory of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. (+ a blank version for all your #papalelection betting needs ...)

I’m at the conclave. I’m at the CVS. I’m at the combination conclave and CVS

Proud and excited to announce my discovery of the worst sensation in the world: static shock directly on a papercut

Not that it helps anyone now or does anything to lessen the untold damage this transphobic ruling will surely cause, but in 10, 20 years people will look back on this with the same disgust that people now view Section 28

Whether these campaigners want to admit or not, they are absolutely perpetuating the kind of biological tyranny generations of racists and sexists have used to oppress others to uphold fundamentally grotesque forms of social control. Now it is up to the courts to reject this oppression.

It is a truth universally acknowledge that any Victorian illustration of sperm whales will be in want of some distressed whalers flying through the air, no matter how relevant it may or may not be to the work... this from an 1855 work on perfumery.

As far as simple pleasures in life go, nothing beats when the bus driver commends your running for the bus technique

Received one of the greatest compliments of my life today (dog owner told me I should get a dog because I'm 'very good with them')

Semi-regular reminder that one of the best views in town is from the top floor of @blackwelloxford.bsky.social when the sun is setting (currently slightly marred by scaffolding but only slightly)

We love a good scrap book, pressed flowers, and watercolours of irritable dogs, and lucky for us this album contains all of the above! Compiled by Mrs Charlotte Sutton over a couple of years starting in 1864, it's a charming glimpse into Victorian provincial life blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Nothing beats the joy of finding a paw print in a book

Overheard in the bookshop: "How are you?" "Well, I'm still a librarian, but otherwise I'm okay."

I hope Miss Baker got her man :(

“This is bad, full stop. It creates a class of person who are forever excluded from civic life no matter how long they live here. It’s also a clear breach of the refugee convention.” Damn straigt, @colinyeo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...