This thread! I work with archival materials that aren't available online, and it is slow and painstaking and totally inefficient, and guess what? I love it, and I find humor and heart and surprise and awe in my work. AI can't do that. It shouldn't even try.

The 10 Most Common Jobs in a Medieval City www.medievalists.net/2025/04/jobs... #middleages

I like this phrasing that sums up why we have negativity bias: “We evolved to survive, not to be happy or relaxed.” (CBT-I coach - cognitive behaviour therapy for insomnia.) So the task is to consciously question that negative bias as we go along, and build other circuits to default to, I suppose.🤔

Yesterday's show an oldie but goodie. The Happening 28/03/26 first broadcast via www.margateradio.co.uk www.mixcloud.com/DanceQueendq... #jazz #blues #reggae #vocalists #standards

Tiny detail? These people are unbelievable. Nice to make it about him acting out instead of them being insensitive jerks. #TheArchers

🌿 #SmallBeauties

What would you do if the turtle you were trying to catch was basking right on top of your trap? In her latest Herp Journal, Andrea Colton shares the highs, frustrations, and surprises of kicking off #SpottedTurtle season in South Carolina: www.oriannesociety.org/herp-journal...

"The number of people on Dysgu Cymraeg courses has risen every year since the programme began in 2016, and is up 61% since data was first published for the academic year 2017-18." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Okay "chicks" is doing some heavy lifting in this pic for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #AdultsWithChicks but these Baby Huey Oriole fledglings *think* they're still itty bitty babies and would like Mum to feed them NOW please! Mum Bullock's Oriole def needs some kind of award and spa day! #birds 🪶

Have I mentioned how wonderful the Aussie show RFDS (Royal Flying Doctor Service) is? Canadians and Americans can watch it on PBS. 📺🩺👩🏼‍⚕️👨🏽‍⚕️✈️🇦🇺 (Image of four people in uniform walking in front of A fire truck and another vehicle.) www.pbs.org/show/rfds-ro...

'“Just as western art has relegated women to one side when it comes to the history of art, so has the history of art been constructed according to racist parameters that have condemned African art to handicrafts or to savagery,” he said' www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I didn’t catch any reference to Northern Ireland in the BBC article on apologies for the government’s role in forced adoptions. Are they pretending it didn’t happen there?

Some 19th-century manuscript #ogham from the Russell Library @mulibrary.bsky.social at @maynoothuniversity.ie.

'Howe wrote to Pepys to “crave your acceptance” of a “small” enslaved boy, which “I brought home on board for your honour … Hoping he is so well seasoned to endure the cold weather as to live in England.”'

A regular reminder: books about the Ancient Celtic languages are availabe through the Maynooth University Bookshop (e.g., my book on Ogham at shop.universitybooks.ie/Books/Ogam-L...) or (soon again) in the shop of @nmireland.bsky.social.

How did I not know about this? Free, open-source, public domain ebooks, proofread and beautifully presented. 📚 standardebooks.org Image of a crest showing a stylised book with S and E on facing pages, an electrical cord making a nice curving line below it, and laurel garlands framing on either side

Miso. Sleeps in the sink by day, plays poker by night.

Thank you. #musicsky

Direct to consumer veg box sales of grassfed meat is a proven viable idea and a great way to increase profit w no overhead. Bridge is *perfectly* setup to do this at great profit, via veg boxes, tea room, farm shop. There really is no excuse for Tom & Hellin’s lack of thinking here 😒#TheArchers

The thing is there are so many more ways than mentioned here, to lower the overhead on Anguses and increase profits. Helen and Tom just aren’t thinking. I’m shocked Tony would submit to that lack of innovation and that he himself isn’t coming up with a more cost effective, natural sol’n🤷‍♀️ #TheArchers

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Bit more - tax year starting in April is left over from the time in 1700s when Lady Day was new years day. #TheArchers

I see by my calendar that I have an appointment at 6 pm on Saturday. Unfortunately, I didn't write down what that appointment was for… My guess is that it was a yoga class I thought I might go to. It had better not be anything more important than that! LOL

My Irish and British friends are all like, Oh, yeah, I’m just over in Denmark/Spain/Belgium/Latvia for the week whereas to me that is something you save for and plan for decades. Canada is cool but even here, it’s so damn far, nothing casual about it, and the US? Not fun at all. Jealous much? Mhmm.

When I had not had my main email address very long, I instituted a Good Words folder (actually called A A Good Words to put it up near the top) and I just put in messages that make me feel good, with the thought that if I ever need a pick me up, I can read some of them. And look:

I think it is a chaenomeles (sp?). If it is, I absolutely love those plants. We have one flowering in the parking lot right now. #SmallBeauties

Read the room, Helen. First she tells the guy who has run the farm her whole life that the one thing he really loves there has to go bc she wants it to, and then she natters on about her privilege in front of somebody who has always struggled financially and would love to own her home. #TheArchers

My choice for photo of the week! lol

Interesting what autosuggest thought were the top endings to my unfinished query: “Is it ever okay—" —to lie —to break the law —to be dishonest —to seek revenge —to steal —to deceive our parents This was not the direction I was going in at all.

Last night I listened to a podcast about the Devonian mass extinction to soothe me into sleep. Tonight I am going for the evolution of teeth. I love #BBCInOurTime.

The efficiency of the mail system (or any other delivery system, I expect). It isn’t taking long, but it sure is covering a lot of ground. Repeatedly. (Shows item going back and forth between cities.)

This is kind of fun (if a little hard on the eyes, and not great for those with motion sickness): "First land plants, early Devonian.” Video by Paleobiome. Image of simple green plants w yellow spore sacs & brown mosses by a pond. #Plants #SmallBeauties #Paleobotany www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4wI...

Class act, Brian. (And I use the term advisedly.) What an ugly, ugly man. #TheArchers

@nynzi.bsky.social I need the definitive pronunciation of your name. I have always pronounced it NINN-zee, but @jbertho.bsky.social pronounces it NINE-zee. Enquiring mind wants to know.

on green background with stylised yellow to orange four-armed Brigit’s cross. #BrigidGoddessAndSaint #PaganSky

New Book in the Works! "Brigid’s Worlds,” Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social, editor. brigitssparklingflame.blogspot.com/2026/03/new-... Image of a book cover with the title and editor’s name plus: Proceedings from the Brigid 1500 Maynooth University and Kildare County Council conference.

"Prayer to Brigid for the Queer Community" by Ever Conwell on Stone on the Belly, a Brigit poetry blog. stonebelly.blogspot.com/2026/03/pray... Image of two women kissing both sides of an old dogs face. They are in an urban park #BrigidGoddessAndSaint #QueerCommunity #PaganPoetry #PaganSky

I know they refer to care staff as " low skilled" workers. They have clearly never done a day in a care home. The skills are immense. Low pay doesn't equal low skill. Truly offensive

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

There’s a bookstore in Buenos Aires called El Ateneo Grand Splendid that’s housed in a former opera house. It’s easily the most spectacular bookstore I’ve ever visited.

News story plus open letter for signing: Correctional service cutting #librarians at federal prisons, in move criticized by advocates. CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is not a link as I feel any actual article could only detract from the promise of the headline

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Man, this show is crazy! Crazy good. Image shows a young Asian man flying backwards out of a broken window in a red-painted, green-awninged (?!) storefront. The words: INTERIOR CHINATOWN above “Generic Asian Man 1 |Interior Chinatown |CBC Gem gem.cbc.ca/interior-chi...