Had an incredibly rare attack of Finish-itis yesterday and got these both finished up. Despite the mistakes on the evenweave banner, I think I fudged hiding them all enough in the end!

Is anyone able to help out someone in hospital in Bury St Edmunds with no local support?

manta del ray@seafoamghost.bsky.social · 13h ago

extremely niche but important question: does anyone know of any charity or service that can help get supplies to someone in hospital in bury st edmund’s i’ve got a friend who was brought in by ambulance yesterday and they need to stay at least another night, and they don’t have anything

Watching Last Night of the Proms on my last (scheduled) night in the UK for this year. 🫣 In my defence, I went for a shower while Land of Hope and Glory was on. Urgh.

I just had to download an app, create a profile, and attach a credit card *to do one load of laundry* in a place I will never be again. I really hate the modern world sometimes.

I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.

Making progress on my #FamilyForestry26 tour: we found the grave of my 3 x great grandparents, Richard and Jane Williams of Tŷ Mawr Wybrnant, in St Tudclud’s graveyard at Penmachno. Off to visit the house later today. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wales/...

Making progress on my #FamilyForestry26 tour: we found the grave of my 3 x great grandparents, Richard and Jane Williams of Tŷ Mawr Wybrnant, in St Tudclud’s graveyard at Penmachno. Off to visit the house later today. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wales/...

Just found a box containing Mum’s bridal veil and graduation hood, plus my grandfather’s graduation hood. 🥹

what the fucking fuck www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/

Arcade

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Close encounter with a legend of the #Aberystwyth classical / theatrical music scene. ❤️

Independent Historians! Fancy a meetup in Birmingham (6pm on the 16th) and/ or Leeds (30th)? Informal drinks/ chats...It will be great to see you! Non-members welcome 🤗 DM @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social for more details. See you there 🤩.

Independent Historians Network (UK)@indyhistnetwork.bsky.social · 2w ago

Have you heard that we are hosting two meet-ups for independent historians? If you are in the North or the Midlands come and join us for drinks and chat! Open to non-members Near the main train stations B'ham - 16th Leeds - 30th DM for details We are super friendly and can't wait to meet you!

Hello from sunny #Aberystwyth! 👋 🌊

Section 28 is back then.

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 2w ago

New guidance - set to come into force this month - says teachers must not use materials that “encourage” pupils to question their gender.

My parents got married 60 years ago today. Feels quite poignant to be making this trip at this point. #FamilyForestry26

Off to Wales for 2 weeks to visit family present and trace some of my ancestors in the north. Hashtag here and on IG will be #FamilyForestry26 Today we are mainly attempting to get from Freiburg to Birmingham.

Fantastic piece @carolecadwalla.bsky.social This stuck out for me: "Any [UK worker] has the right to minimum health & safety protections in the workplace." Universities are _atrociously bad_ at protecting staff mental H&S and staff with mental health disabilities 1/2 substack.com/home/post/p-...

A Digital Lynching

A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather

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Explaining to hubby where something is in #Aberystwyth - "It’s just behind the #Hinterland police station”. 😅

@ingress.com Hi, is there a known issue with Mod Battle points not being logged right now? None of my actions in the last 15 minutes have been logged.

Satisfying how the Protestant urge to religious self-criticism gets you an eighteenth century Welsh Methodist writing things like "and are we not also rather like the Hindus ourselves, because we only marry people who go to the right kind of chapel and are extremely attached to our cows?"

Who would have thought that visiting an archaeological site could be so dangerous 🫣😉 The critical one is the central picture..'the danger of wondering if archaeologists have misinterpreted the monument 🤔' - always trouble 🤯 Have a great holiday weekend everyone! 📷 My own, Lamphey Palace

Allen Lane, co-founder of Penguin Books, extracts a book from the brand new "Penguincubator" – a vending machine with a range of Penguin titles available for sixpence, placed outside Collet's bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road in July 1937 🗃️

#Freiburg is full of Scottish accents today as the city‘s football club plays against #Motherwell an hour from now. At least the visiting fans‘ kit blends with the background a bit. 💅

An unintended consequence of the decline in free and decent music education is the rise in shark attacks, as people are unable to recognise sinister, low cello and double bass semi-tone notes.

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

CALLING LONDONERS 📣 My friend has spent FIVE YEARS developing her play—a queer horror story—and she's hardly sold any tickets. She's travelling down from Leeds and I'm devastated 🥺 The Haunting of Verity Evans, The Hope Theatre, 25th–26th August. I hope you'll join me! Please share if you can't!

Die früheste bekannte schriftliche Verwendung des Wortes „Studentenfutter“ stammt aus dem Jahr 1691. In Kaspar von Stielers Wörterbuch bezeichnet es schlicht eine Mischung aus Mandeln und Rosinen.

This sounds fascinating! 👇 Sharing for my #archives peeps (and more).

Archives for Learning and Education Section@ales-araukie.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Archives for Learning and Education Section's next lunchtime training session is Wednesday, 9 September from 1-2pm on Microsoft Teams: Divergent Minds in the Archive - Neurodivergent Professionals and Accessibility aralearning.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/a...

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll. Taken yesterday above Bickensohl (Kaiserstuhl, BaWü), looking over towards France.

Jenn Odd@jentranslations.bsky.social · 3w ago

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll. Sunset over Osaka.

For today’s @ftweekend.com I am at Dante at Claridge’s which is serving an extraordinarily dreary menu of room service quality food at excruciating prices while trading off the name of a New York landmark. A few extra notes in the alt text. www.ft.com/content/9649...

An excuse to share one of my favourite memes. 😊 🦋 #butterfly

Jasonconga@jasonconga.bsky.social · 3w ago

Butterfly is the one word I like to learn in different languages, eg, Welsh - pillipalla Estonian - liblikas Romanian - fluttere Norwegian - sommerfugl All spellings with (sic) Is there a word you like to learn in different languages or am I just a reformed language teacher?