Emzy
@emzyesque.bsky.social
Working in libraries by day, writing (also by day)
So once again here's that link to the project if you'd like to fight an out of order time war and unleash the butterfly effect upon reality. The next stretch goal unlocks the solo game mode. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lun...
The Words We Leave Behind
Rewrite history as you fight an endless war across time and reality by unleashing the butterfly effect in this duet RPG
kickstarter.com
Please help kickstart my friend's ttrpg so I can put my editing hat on again (and buy his others! They're excellent!)
Craig@whodo.bsky.social · last yr.Moments like these are why I run crowdfunders - they give me the opportunity to hire people like Carly and @emzyesque.bsky.social (and Val and @blairsmithdesign.bsky.social on previous projects) to make my games shine and I consider myself lucky to be in a position to do so.
The British Library is a copyright deposit library. If this means a wholesale undoing of copyright to redefine books, art, movies etc as 'data' to please the techbros, the creative industries and all of us working in them are screwed. And viewers and readers will get unoriginal, derivative slop.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2y agoListening to #radio4 discussion of 'sovereign data' such as the British Libraries books as a resource that can generate income by being leased to Ai tech companies. Rather wish government had recognised its sovereign data status for the rest of us when the Library was hacked. #AcademicSky
Wasn't expecting to get teary eyed over Timothy Spall and a cute robot, can recommend 'This Time Away' sci-fi short film for A+ adorable robot design.
Finished my latest volunteering project with The Ballast Trust! I have catalogued 190 legal documents (mostly leases and water rights) relating to the Caledonian Canal from the 1860s-1980s. Fascinating stuff! I had no idea there was an inland lighthouse on Loch Ness 💡
Late night shift at the library and someone is practicing a beautiful piano piece one floor above; the faintest strains of jazz are filtering through the walls to lift my weary head 💜
Thank you random lady on the street who stopped me to say my hair had made her whole day better 🩷
The CILIP LGBTQ+ Network has arrived on Bluesky! If you'd like to keep up with our events and connect with us, you can find us here on Bluesky, our new LinkedIn page www.linkedin.com/company/cili... and our Facebook page www.facebook.com/ciliplgbtqne...
Book reviews (all opinions are my own etc etc): A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers - 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Pandemic by A. G. Riddle - 🌟🌟 The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler - 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Books I have read recently, a list. Opinions are my own. The History of Bees by Maja Lunde - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Seawitch by Alistair MacLean - 🌟 The Last Catastrophe by Allegra Hyde - 🌟🌟🌟 Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle - 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Fire in the Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster by Stephen McGinty (NF) - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Of course I missed the Aurora Borealis as we were off on our first holiday since pre-Covid. Dunoon was lovely but facing the wrong direction! Any chance of a repeat now I'm back in the city, Sol??
Picked up a beautiful edition of an alternative history/dystopic Scottish sci fi book from 1936, enjoying it immensely. Weirdly prescient of the war yet to come and a commentary on pacifism, nestled in a love poem to the Scottish countryside.
Evil Under the Sun (1982) hired the most wonderful milliner, I'm in love!
Just tried to read a fanfic AU where a 'librarian' MC just purposely ignored another character's obvious need for help THREE whole times and I just can't with this terrible librarianing, that's a DNF from me 😆 Someone needs to go read S. M. Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science!
Watching the 1971 Andromeda Strain and I miss when sci fi films were like THIS IS TOTALLY A REAL DOCUMENTARY AND YOU SHOULD BE TERRIFIED RIGHT NOW You know you're in for a good ride
I was having a bad day and then the opened sour cream fell out of the fridge hitting every shelf and then me 😭
Thanks for all the hard work, Ingenuity! www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-i...
My weird horror novelette is now live! Earworm: A walking tour of the ends of worlds find it here: books2read.com/u/3kOvKn
Boys Like Girls covered TWICE's 'I Can't Stop Me' and I need to know if there's a German word for 'that feeling when your teenage years suddenly and unexpectedly slam into your adult interests' because I am reeling 😆
First year I could afford to go to Aye Write! and it's been cancelled due to a lack of funding. Fffffff.
In a "no way!" moment, SLIM, JAXA's moon lander has only gone and woken up for a 2nd time!!! JAXA: "some temperature sensors and unused battery cells are starting to malfunction, but the majority of functions that survived the first lunar night was maintained even after the second lunar night!" 🥳🧪🔭
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3y agoAnd lo, the Sun has set on SLIM, JAXA's moon-lander that managed a just few days of science ops before the lunar night drew in. They'll try to restart when the Sun shines again (~2 wks), but it's unlikely to work given the harsh cold night ☹️ 👇 SLIM's last lunar landscape just before dusk 🧪🔭
Chandra, the space-based observatory that brings us incredible x-ray images of the most extreme environments in the cosmos, is at risk of cancellation. It’ll be a huge loss to astronomy if the mission ends prematurely for budget reasons. Go to www.savechandra.org to find out how to help #SaveChandra
The King of England lies dying and one of his sons has been exiled. A princess has vanished. Plague stalks the land and the Treasury has been plundered. NOW is the time for strange women lying in ponds to distribute swords to form the basis of government.
North American reskeet challenge! My book won a British Fantasy Award but it never really gets mentioned outside the UK. If you want to support a British writer in 2024, can you give it a boost? Available on Amazon and other online retailers over your way!
The fruits of my evening shift - testing out basket designs for the balloon/papier-mâché Easter eggs we're painting next week. My supervisor has requested a library 'that looks like the Easter Bunny has exploded in it' 😆
Trying a new tea today! Yuzu Tea from Korea, it comes in marmalade form!
Bella the beithir's a total babe, lads.
There is nothing funnier to me than meeting a person for a second time, and them cocking their head to the side and seriously asking me if I've 'always had my hair like that'. Reader, I've dyed my hair the same shade of neon pink for at least 7 years 😆
Less good news, but between the 'we didn't turn on the landing lasers before it left earth' and 'it fell over on the side where some NFT related 'artwork' was', much funnier. apnews.com/article/moon...
Sideways moon landing cuts mission short, private US lunar lander will stop working Tuesday
A private U.S. lunar lander is expected to stop working Tuesday, its mission cut short after landing sideways near the south pole of the moon.
apnews.com