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Stéise
@booksparrow.bsky.social
Occasionally wears clogs/dances with swords. Left-handed book wrangler: Systems, Metadata & Cataloguing. Librarian📚 Likes heritage, social history & folk 🏳️🌈 unapologetically femme Typos- models own.
I bet the Germans have a word for when the chia seeds are stuck to the kitchen sponge.
I bet the Germans have a word for when the chia seeds are stuck to the kitchen sponge.
I’m in York! Today’s main character, from the stonemasons’ yard at York Minster, who I can only understand as a Dragon-Staffie crossbreed:
📚 The cultures most at risk of vanishing are often created and sustained by communities with the fewest resources. In WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, Alice Bridgwood reflects on everyday archives like handwritten cookbooks & zines. 🎧 Listen to Future Knowledge: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵
Does anyone work in museum interpretation? How's it been affected by social media and short-form content basically rewiring our brains? Are labels still in? Do we need to radically rethink things? I'm thinking of writing something.
Random post: over hearing a call in the office and the words “they don’t want no scrub”🎶 Aka not scrubland… I laughed out loud, no one is even smirking so I’m clearing showing my age! 😂
TLC No Scrubs: 90s Dance Performance
ALT: TLC No Scrubs: 90s Dance Performance
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i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
There has to be some perks of this commuter life: (Salted caramel of your asking)
Just gonna post this to every article with AI images Your AI slop looks bad and you should feel bad
Interesting meet & greet this morning (hard to get the scale, but these are massive) #manchester #suffragette
Contemporary Helsinki land artist Jonna Pohjalainen turns fallen aspen trees into giant coloured pencils sculptures #womensart
I thought we could make this costume our library uniform.
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
“Two women rest and have a cigarette during a horseback adventure through rough terrain circa July, 1954 in Jasper, Alberta, Canada. Photo by Hy Peskin.”
“Meteorites, aerolites, and fireballs.” Elements of astronomy. 1868.
Since people seem to like this—if you want your own boundary setting stamp card, here you go!
Sigrid Wallaert@sigridwallaert.bsky.social · 12mo agoThis is my boundary setting stamp card: every time I say no to something I get a stamp, and when I’ve collected 10 I can buy myself a book
I want companies to understand that when I see an AI flier, my brain instantly deletes it. I don't think, "Ooh, I should go to this event!" I rush past it like it's a pile of dog poop. Same for ads with AI models. I assume that if your marketing is cheap garbage, so is your product.
Medievalistmatt Is it even possible to be this happy? Image source: Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Don. A III 54, fol. 95v
