AmadanCoirce

@amadancoirce.bsky.social

Founder member of @TheDylanRabbit.bsky.social . Not a librarian.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

Blodeuwedd Hours too soon a barn owl broke from woodshadow. Her white face rose out of darkness in a buttercup field. Colourless and soundless, feathers cream as meadowsweet and oakflowers... Her night lament beyond conversation, the owl follows her shadow like a cross over the fields #BookWormSat

✍🏻 Born in Cardiff, Gillian Clarke was National Poet of Wales 2008-2016.
In ancient Welsh myth, Blodeuwedd was, much like Eve, created by magic for the satisfaction of a man. However, her heart, desire and will were bent towards another. For this sin of freeing herself from something imposed upon her, the maiden made from flowers is turned into an owl, a night haunter deprived of human company but returned to her element of the more than human 
🎨 'Blodeuwedd; Flower Face' Christopher Williams (1974)

Kerry CoCo is the first local authority in the State to unveil a statue dedicated to the women of the revolutionary period, 1912-1923-Standing in Tralee Town Park,the sculpture, Spiorad Ban Chiarraí, depicts a woman striding forward while clutching the tricolour www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

Tralee reveals ‘Spirit of the Kerry Women’ statue honouring women of revolutionary period

The 2.5m bronze sculpture in Tralee honours the contribution and sacrifice of women during Ireland's struggle for independence, in what is believed to be a first for a local authority

irishexaminer.com

HOW WILL WE LEARNE THINGES? Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun? HOW ABOUT WE MAKE A MACHYNE THAT DOTH KNOWE STUFFE Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun? AND IT DOTH STEALE & HURT THE EARTHE Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun? YEAH THE MACHYNE

Did you know part of Bugsy Malone was filmed in Reading, long before Shinfield Studios? In the all child cast gangster story Bugsy Malone starring Jodie Foster and Scott Baio from 1975, the bar scenes were filmed in the Huntley & Palmers factory at Reading.

Director and two actors in 1920s dress sitting at a table, Reading Museum