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Aaron has a crash course on AI powered search in libraries

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Happy Parkun morning for all that worship 🤣 A new one for me today ✨️

Conference Organiser Neil making a start on his Recovery Pack (Irn Bru and chocolate).

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Great tour of the Library to finish the Conference. I particularly love the Wellbeing Space and the blankets. @isstirling.bsky.social #bla25 @blalib.org

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It's been a great conference everyone. So much food for thought (and actual food... I am stuffed!)

A piper greeted us to our Gala Dinner last night. Thank you to @ebscouk.bsky.social for sponsoring our welcome drinks
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“Carewashing” is when organisations claim they care about your wellbeing, but their actions say otherwise.

Having too many meetings is a part of this.

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Haha, first time I've ever been quoted on social media.

So pleased you're enjoying it Louise. We are a friendly group!

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Sculpture of four books with 'University of Stirling' and 'Be the difference'

University of Stirling sign with Loch behind

BLA gift bags lined up in hotel foyer with desk and flowers behind

BLA 2025 is almost ready to launch. #BLA25

The committee is busy preparing the final pieces to welcome delegates to our Summer Conference next week.

The conference brochure is now ready: bla1.glasscubes.com/share/s/8dg6...

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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men . ALT: a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men .

Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped.

American voters:

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. (Gift Article) The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”

Trump ended the first-ever National Nature Assessment, which was trying to reveal how nature loss influences climate change and impacts humanity, but the researchers are trying to publish it anyway.

This energy.

Stirling uni campus with view of Wallace Monument

*Summer Conference update*

We've extended the early bird rate deadline 'til 28th Feb.

Plus, we're offering travel grants for those who are self-funding their travel.

View all the confirmed sessions on our website: blalib.org/members-area/conferences

Apply for a travel grant: bit.ly/3WJN4l6

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.

Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.

Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

11 year old just said to me "you're not behaving and you need to go to your room". Took a book and a warm cup of tea and off I went. Happy times.

Well, well, well...🙄

Headline stating: I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down - Ijust didn't expect them to be such losers by Rebecca Shaw

An early contender for headline of the year…

This letter in the New Statesman a couple of years ago seems even truer now.

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.

What a thoroughly nasty man Elon Musk is.

No-one elected him. He’s just a huge troll sat on a pile of gold, chuckling about what kingdom he can smash up next.

Meta surrenders to the right on speech “I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer

A former Facebook employee tells @caseynewton.bsky.social that Zuckerberg's surrender to the far right "is a precursor for genocide.”

If that sounds extreme, consider Facebook's failure to curb online hate & disinfo in Myanmar, which fanned the flames of mass murder against the Rohingya minority.

Simply this.

America is descending fast - and we need to ensure it does not pull down the rest of the world with it.

Particularly in Europe, we need to regroup and operate without the US.

Word of the day is 'recrudescence' (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

#TheCoupIsOngoing

I need say no more...