"Listen to me:
Our profit from the post office is the post office.
Our profit from a library is the library.
Our profit from a school is the school."
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"Listen to me:
Our profit from the post office is the post office.
Our profit from a library is the library.
Our profit from a school is the school."
This story is nuts
The journal ‘Pediatrics and Child health’ has been published an article type, for case reports, that are made up and fictional without having any clear notice 😱
retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...
We now have 89 FREE online jigsaws at www.jigsawplanet.com/OrkneyLibrary - a collection we first started making during lockdown when the library was closed.
If you like jigsaws and books/nice views/old photographs/Orkney then this is the collection for you. 🧩
Can you solve them all? 🧩
OK, the Gorton and Denton by-election, I have some thoughts!
Let's take a look at some of the FACTS and burst a few of the more ridiculous takes doing the rounds
But first up, can we acknowledge just what bad losers Reform are?!🤣
Right, let's get started...
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A ceramic tumbler with the moon and a starry sky pattern on it.
Finally getting to use my beautiful new moon tumbler from @amyraehill.bsky.social . I keep grabbing glasses for cold drinks and handled mugs for hot, so it's been waiting for a bit due to being so special.
"With Nexus, Clarivate are essentially integrity-washing synthetic text, giving it an academic sheen without any academic rigour." www.hughrundle.net/does-clariva...
A dark blue leather pouch standing upright on a table, with a leather strap lying around it.
A dark blue leather pouch standing upright on a table, with a leather strap lying around it. The lid is folded open, backwards.
Our new Festival pouches, perfect for a phone and coin purse, handmade from real leather, are available in our shop 👝
With our glorious Garden Witch design, glittering with this gold inlay variation, and removable divider to keep items seperate.
We hope you love them! 💕
#leathercraft #handbag
Yarn bowl featuring blue and pink swirling nebula with kitten sitting on rock looking at the shining stars.
Yarn bowl featuring blue and pink swirling nebula with kitten sitting on rock looking at the shining stars. (Right)
Yarn bowl featuring blue and pink swirling nebula with kitten sitting on rock looking at the shining stars. (Left)
Yarn bowl featuring blue and pink swirling nebula with kitten sitting on rock looking at the shining stars. (Detail of kitten)
I look at images of the universe, inspired by the dazzling light that paints our incomprehensibly vast sky & listen to a story of someone who used to work with their kitten right beside them and my job is to put those two things together. I'm just incredibly humbled I get to capture life this way.
Emma's conference threads are always worth a read to get a tiny taste of what is being discussed in each presentation and the overall flavour of the conference.
This Saturday is the Goths for Breakfast charity day. Goths unite! We're raising money for Magic Breakfast to feed hungry kids with a teaching marathon of fascinating talks and writing workshops. Pop in and out as you like - the talks are recorded!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982926549...
A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions.
It does not.
It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed.
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Panel session: "Librarians as Diamond Open Access changemakers" moderated by @heroicendeavour.bsky.social with papers by Fatimah J. Abduldayan, Martina Benz, Jill Cirasella & Sarah Thompson. #copimconference
A green and brown leather handbag standing on a table. The gold inlay depicts a Leaf of Lorien design with stars and swirls around it.
Worked all day to make another one in green leather with gold inlay and TADAA 🌿
Also we kept a close eye on a timer so we can now properly calculate how many hours it takes to make one bag 👜
#leathercraft
Need a little more comedy to finish off your Feb? @tobyhadoke.bsky.social is back at 53two tomorrow night with our sister show Testing Testing, where top comedians try out new material. This month's lineup includes Hannah Platt, Harry Stachini & Danny Sutcliffe www.ticketsource.co.uk/53two/t-mjog...
Where can you get writing workshops from amazing writers like KJ Charles, cooking workshops with the incredible Allie Pino (or Gothic Cookbook fame) and talks on anything from cannibals to carnivorous plants to body-snatchers all in one day?
GOTHS FOR BREAKFAST of course!
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Three leather pouches standing upright on a table. They all depict swirls and stars, and LOTR inspired Leaf of Lorien design.
Lorien Festival Pouch test no.... 4? Starting to look good! We're now making sliding dividers you can take out of the pouch in case your phone(case) doesn't fit or you want to bring a sketchbook+pen 👜
#leathercraft #bag
Trying to resurrect the @nlisn.bsky.social newsletter! Bit rough and ready for this first one, but aiming for one a month again. nlisn.org/2026/02/18/n...
anti-AI “credo” I have a religious exemption from using all generative “A.I.” I am not a member of the Silicon Valley sect. Their beliefs and practices are an affront to my sensibilities. The tech is trained on stolen intellectual property. The output is riddled with mistakes, and it is incapable of comprehending the weight of its errors. It is not even an “it.” But sometimes, it is filtered and massaged by unaccountable human sweatshop workers and bad actors. I am not required to use “A.I.” any more than I am required to join Amway, buy black market rhino horn, or attend the Fyre Festival. As a human, I have a duty and right to limit my carbon and water footprint and protect my fellow human. As a union worker, I have a duty and right to oppose tech that is used to threaten workers or cheapen our product. As a tech consumer, I have a duty and right to oppose scams that lower the quality of our tools. As a scholar, I have a duty and right to oppose anti-intellectualism. As a taxpayer, I have a duty and right to oppose the misallocation of public funds and data. As a grown up, I have a duty and right to protect young people from predators. As a person with a conscience, I am appalled at the decadent disregard for user safety, the callous dismissal of responsibility for lives ruined and slaughtered. My religion is related to my identity, geography, and family, making it an irrelevant accident of birth. What matters is that I was born. I have an exemption from their digital rapture, their cultural austerity, their intellectual poverty. I practice wholesome hedonism and First Do No Harm. CS 12/9/2025
i included this in my syllabi this year
What's with all the ducks?
This is such a cute video! Ale and Dani Carr did an amazing job!
(I shoved words into place, ran it past my niece for Kids These Days quality control, and then ran away).
#book #books #BookSky
Book dedication in Textbook of anatomy and physiology
Black and white photo of nurse Louise Darche
Black and white photo of nurse Diane Clifford Kimber
A chance find in a Heritage Library book led to the story of 2 leading lights in nursing teaching in New York in the late 19th C, Diana Kimber & Louise Darche. Women who devoted their lives to their work & each other.
Discover their story👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/blog/diana-k...
#ValentinesDay #LGBTplusHM
A red heart shaped ring box with a white lining on a bright red background with a burgundy heart pattern. In an arc of white text over the ring box is the phrase "There's still time to propose" and in place of a ring is the text "a submission to the ALN Conference 2026 Call for papers"
It might be too late to book a fancy restaurant for a valentines proposal… but it's not to late to propose a submission for #ALN26
Further details on how to submit are at: www.academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/aln-conferen...
4 frame comic. A woman with a long purple scarf is waiting for the subway. a street journalist approaches her and asks : miss! do you think we're approaching a moment when the public will recognize that allowing children to be transed was a terrible idea? She replies : considering that with each passing day, the public sees how much of the anti-trans movement was engineered by the wealthy to fuel culture war hate on the back of a vulnerable community, I'd say we owe massive apologies to trans people. just this week, we learned that a decade ago, epstein suggested using trans rights as a wedge issue, and that jk rowling's team was courting him. we also learned that what we were told about the closure of the tavi- stock clinic, the only youth clinic in the u.k. for gender-affirmative care, was nothing but lies. rowling's pal hilary cass forced the clinic to close after reports of 1000 complaints from families. we learned this week that it only received eight over 10 years, mostly about delays. in the meantime, the health dep't has been concealing trans children suicide numbers, which we now know rose dramatically following the closure. The terrible idea was always to scapegoat trans kids.
We owe it to these kids to keep fighting for truth to prevail.
Looking forward to this #UKSGwebinar on Open Access and AI "does free to read mean free to train?" with Caroline Ball (@heroicendeavour.bsky.social), Stephanie Decker, & Rob Johnson (@rschrobuk.bsky.social)
#openaccess
2026 is the National Year of Reading! We think there’s a book out there to suit everyone, you just need to find it and we’ll be very happy to help! Pop in for a chat!
We have two book groups, an LGBTQI+ book group, a Folklore club, a poetry group and a Gaelic group! Join in! #GoAllIn2026
The date for our next event is the 25th Feb, so you've got plenty of time to get it booked😉
'The experiences of neurodivergent professionals in academic libraries'
Join Claire Camp (Kings college) discussing her research⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-experi...
#Library
#Neurodiversity
#Employment
#HE
Interesting aspect - kinda spurned by argument with a local bore in the neighbourhood Facebook group.
I'll start 🧵w. seemingly unrelated Q, but bear w. me:
If an alcohol-serving business is a focal community hang-out point where you're likely to just turn up & run into ppl you know, is it a pub?
A close up of a dark blue leather dice tray depicting a golden Nordic style dragon
A close up of a dice scroll with sketches of and notes about dragons in a fictional language
A green leather dice tray standing upright on a table depicting a Nordic style dragon
Our new Wyrm dice trays and painted Dragon scrolls are finally available in the shop! Feel free as always to email us with requests for special leather colours (with or without sparkles) and we'll see what we have in stock ✨
www.speechlessbard.com 🐉
I think this is my third or fourth Yokomizo. This is my first book vending machine but I have used a map vending machine in the past.
