I live on this road!! These are my neighbours - please help them in this vital mission. What a legacy - the most extensive Black library in the UK.

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 9h ago

This will probably be me in 30 years. Broke with a million books im trying to rescue for future generations. But anyway, I'd be remiss if I didnt include the link: www.gofundme.com/f/save-1-mil...

The fundraiser for the collection at the Maa Maat Centre in Tottenham is being organised by the *amazing* Selina Brown. Donations needed but also volunteer expertise in cataloguing, fundraising, building security, etc. #BookSky let's do this.

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 9h ago

This will probably be me in 30 years. Broke with a million books im trying to rescue for future generations. But anyway, I'd be remiss if I didnt include the link: www.gofundme.com/f/save-1-mil...

Hey goth nerds - anyone got a copy of Ed Cameron's 'The Moral Value of Gothic Sublimity', in Morality and the literary imagination, Religion and Public Life vol 36, (2009)??? I'll owe you a favour!!

A book is not a product like the shelf upon which it sits. Art is not a product like the frame in which it is displayed. If you think of stories or art like that sort of product, if you use AI to "create" it, you are not a storyteller. You are not an artist. This is not an opinion. It's a fact. 5/6

You are loved by women around the world and this movement’s growing

Mags L Halliday@magslhalliday.bsky.social · 19h ago

A reminder that cis women can sign the @nionwomen.bsky.social pledge to show they stand with our trans sisters and brothers here in the UK.

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.

Followers of WNBA news will be surprised to learn that Women’s and Gender Studies scholars have produced a body of work detailing how Black women in sports are understood by some as inherently non-female, in ways dating back to slavery.

Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!

I went to a cool event at a queer bookshop, and it was full of interesting nerds. And now I have social anxiety that I was weird and off-putting and will never be welcome at any future events... Sigh.

Holy shit. No depths unsunk.

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 3d ago

I wonder what else might come to light about Liddle I. The next few months. Keep receipts like these everyone…

There goes my last job - I teach American humanities students visiting the UK. So, that's career no.4 over. I am now too disabled to retrain, again. But what would I even choose, is there a single stable sector???

Anise K. Strong@anisekstrong.bsky.social · 2d ago

Well, this is going to be a death knell for the arts and humanities, not to mention social workers and clergy.

"It is obvious that the Kennedy Center is being gutted. While everyone is being distracted by the drama of the removal of the name and the tarp cover-up, the interior is quietly being gutted and readied for some sort of renovation or just plain demolition." open.substack.com/pub/mbmatthe...

The Art of the Distraction: The Gutting of the Interior of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Look here at the tarp, not here inside the buildings!

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Few people understand that the UK university system is in crisis, but even fewer realise that many of the people losing their jobs are amongst the best in their fields

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

Please share with all women (yes it affects cis women too) and trans + people. goodweeplace.com

I suddenly became ill on a bus, stumbled off and was sick in a bin on the high street. A man checked in that I was safe, then went and bought me a bottle of water, and I still have no idea who that angel was, he went as fast as he appeared.

☀️@stel.energy · 5d ago

quote this with a time a bystander helped you out

This person could basically be me - exact same symptoms, but I have the UK welfare state currently. If you can help them prevent homelessness, do donate. (I'm paying down some large debt or I'd help direct)

Juniper@gravepixie.bsky.social · 4d ago

This. I got covid in March 2020 before a vaccine . Assuming I got the strongest strain with no protection. It has continuously fucked up my health 6 years later. I now have POTS, ME/CFS, uterine fibroids and ptsd from it. I have lost the ability to work. I now depend on online help.

Excellent customer care in local Specsavers. There's just always some nice kid with a screwdriver in there who doesn't even blink at the state of my frames. Just fixing my glasses and my faith in humanity.

I was supposed to be hosting a friend this weekend, but am now not. I have a fresh clean flat all to myself. Someone should threaten to come stay with me, and then cancel, like quarterly.

Gordon Lawrence, Suffolk in the 90s. Michael Bolton hair, reciting Jabberwocky from memory, prowling the room making kids jump. Later let me sleep through A-level seminars full of homophobes he clearly wanted to throw books at. Memorable, kind, and enthusiastic despite the system.

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 5d ago

Who was YOUR great english teacher (if you had one)? For me it was Hugh Epstein at Richmond college (RUTC). I hope he's well, wherever he is!

The email from Amnesty International UK is even more gaslighting than their public statement… 😖 Including ‘gender critical’ transphobic tropes such as “rolling back women’s hard won rights” and treating trans people with “dignity”! F*ck them!!! 😖😣 Donation cancelled.

so fucking tired and like 1/3 through unfucking my habitat caused by minor DIY of installing 4 shelves. Going to invoke the Monica protocol for ADHD reasons

Monica's Hoarder Secret Revealed to Chandler

Alt: Monica in sitcom Friends, in front of an overflowing hallway closet, telling a grinning Chandler 'you weren't supposed to see this'

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Amnesty International is a huge organisation. They’re not Parkrun or Girlguiding. I don’t believe they didn’t have the funds to litigate this

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 6d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

Because I am thirty or forty years old. And bisexual.

Oded Fehr as Ardeth Bay

Alt: Oded Fehr as Ardeth Bay offering a blessing to his fellow surviving of The Mummy

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐@lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 6d ago

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli

Concerns over fake phenomena cannot be held in good faith. There's no such thing as "good faith" concern over razorblades in Halloween apples or vaccines causing autism. If you still have 'concerns' about these issues you are uninformed, a bigot or being manipulated. No other option.

This took three weeks because of disability. But I'm really proud to have almost finished!! Just the filler make the gaps less obvious to go!

The only good-faith concerns about trans women in sports I’m willing to hear are: 1) Are trans women in sports doing an adequate warmup routine to avoid injury? 2) Are trans women in sports staying hydrated? 3) Are trans women in sports getting to wear cute outfits at practice and/or competition?

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 7d ago

i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

For those in UK, hourlong BBC investigation into Leto now available. in US/elsewhere, 15 min version of the film on YT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XW5... The hope is that the full documentary will be available internationally some time soon, will post if that happens. I worked with this film's team +

Hollywood’s darkest open secret

YouTube video by BBC deepwatch

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Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

New BBC investigation. Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There should be a law precedent, call it the "come on now" precedent, where if over one hundred people come out with credible allegations against you, people can stop calling them allegations.

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

New BBC investigation. Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have another lovely #buyastrangerabook offer for you. @lulabelli.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person a copy of either of these two books. ‘Did I Ever Tell You This' by Sam Neill or ‘Great-Uncle Harry’ by Michael Palin. If you'd like one of them, let us know! UK only

LauraJane@lulabelli.bsky.social · last wk.

I’d like to #buyastrangerabook please @biggreenbooks.bsky.social Either: Sam Neill’s ‘Did I Ever Tell You This’ or Michael Palin’s ‘Great-Uncle Harry’. Both absolutely fantastic reads, and cannot recommend them enough!