Jennifer Findlay
@jenniferfindlay.bsky.social
Delegated my memory to the internet long ago. Kindness is cool. Scotland's Library and Information Professional of the Year 2023. All views my own. She/her. Trans rights are human rights. Greatest achievement: using up an entire lip balm.
Awful news for a local archive, somewhat mitigated by the fact that many of the photos they held had been digitised and stored online. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Archives and former World War One drill hall destroyed in blaze
The building in Coigach had also served as a village hall and venue for a piping school.
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It's really tedious to send a complaint to a supplier about their shoddy practices, and the response comes back as a regurgitated version of your words, spat out by an LLM. It's just showing that the supplier can't even be arsed enough with customers to get a human to respond with their own words.
"Fellowship connecting civil servants with researchers opens for applications Programme funds public and civil servants to spend time in universities discussing their policy challenges with relevant academics" www.civilserviceworld.com//professions...
Fellowship connecting civil servants with researchers opens for applications
Programme funds public and civil servants to spend time in universities discussing their policy challenges with relevant academics
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Delighted to hear the Lord President mention the issues being caused for the courts by AI generated junk, and the importance of avoiding wasting court time with it.
Another excellent Jennifer Findlay doing fun things with smutty books! I myself have a collection of over 100 pre-2020 librarian-based dirty books 😈
Glasgow Times@glasgowtimes.bsky.social · last wk.From a cupboard under the stairs to an international following 📚✨
ladies and gentlemen, this is columbo no. 5 a little bit of me getting outta your hair a little bit of suspect standing there a little bit of facts about my wife a little bit of you killed him with that knife
The first trace of a future Burke and Hare victim in the Edinburgh archives: Sex, Edinburgh Style, or, Life in -- and out of --the Asylum burkeandhare.substack.com/p/sex-edinbu...
Sex, Edinburgh Style, or, Life in -- and out of --the Asylum
Caledonian Mercury, 15 January 1825; Jowita Thor, "Mary Magdalene and the "Fallen" Sisters" in Kloes and Mair, Social Christianity and Beyond, 1800-2000 (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), pp. 115-132
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A webinar about the conservation and stabilisation of Anne Lister's ('Gentleman Jack') diaries, with all proceeds going to Lavender Menace Queer Books in Edinburgh to support their work preserving LGBTQ+ books? What a combination. Book up!! www.icon.org.uk/events/conse...
Conserving LGBT+ History Webinar: Anne Lister’s Journals
Learn all about the conservation of the diaries of “the first modern lesbian”!
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Dear All Websites With News Sections: please, please, PLEASE put dates on your news items! Otherwise it's impossible to know if news items referring to things happening 'recently,' 'last week' or 'soon' exist in the past, present or the future!
Did an induction. Gave them homemade tablet. We're now their favourite people.
Scottish Legal News asked if they could share my trial by combat research, so you can also read it here.
Our Legal Heritage: To duel, or not to duel?
A 1540s depiction of a judicial combat in Augsburg in 1409, between Marshal Wilhelm von Dornsberg and Theodor Haschenacker. Dornsberg's sword broke early in the duel, but he proceeded to kill Haschena...
scottishlegal.com
This is not misinformation. That's what I normally cover - something out of context, an opinion quoted as fact, or a deliberate misinterpretation... This is none of those. This is full-on disinformation. Because that is NOT from the Express. It is entirely fake😱 🧵 1/10
Imagine if other professions got the same kind of TV and movie attention that cops do. *Gravelly VO* "In a city without remorse, In a world full of chaos... She brings order. It's ...The Librarian" [Montage of a woman stamping/sorting books, before leaping over a library cart with explosions]
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
law.berkeley.edu
"Wait time for High Court trials set to triple by 2028" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wait time for High Court trials set to triple by 2028
The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) forecasts that the average wait will increase from 50 weeks to 135 weeks
bbc.co.uk
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
How did you spend your Sunday? Me, I spent it trying to see if it was still possible to ask for trial by combat rather than trial by jury in Scotland.... www.linkedin.com/pulse/duel-j...
To duel, or not to duel?
In December 1984 an Edinburgh post office was robbed at gunpoint by two masked men. Using a shotgun, they compelled the two terrified female staff to give them money before they escaped.
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Today's random musing: advocates can appear in the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary, but there's nothing to stop them (other than it involving spending more money than needed) appearing in the sheriff or JP courts, is there?
What was going on in Parliament House in 1703? Were people selling butter illegally?
My NRS reader's ticket has expired, so I need to go get a new one. This requires two passport photos. The only passport photos I have are the ones I got taken for the original card to be issued. I don't look any different. Can't I just reuse the photos? Also: why no option for digital photos?
A nice handful of Stevenson bottle stoppers for the collection. Fun wee Donoghue v Stevenson case (AKA the Paisley Snail) related items!
If you're interested in reading and readers, you might enjoy the Festival of Politics event "The collapse of reading and its consequences" festivalofpolitics.citizenticket.co.uk/events/the-f...
The collapse of reading and its consequences - Buy tickets
What are the implications of a less literate and less reflective public unable to devote deep, sustained focus on reading? Does it make them more vulnerable to misinformation and less capable of meani...
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Join our team! Glasgow Women's Library is hiring: womenslibrary.org.uk/2026/08/05/j...
Job Vacancy: Archivist (Parental Leave Cover)
We are seeking a full-time, temporary Archivist to join our dynamic team. This is a post that will cover a period of parental leave. This post holds a central role [...]
womenslibrary.org.uk
Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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I would really like it if people stopped assuming that gavels are currently, or have ever been, used in Scottish courts. Or any court in the UK, in fact.
🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇
We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project
The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back
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I kind of find Bloomsbury's commitment to making their ebook platform as awful as possible quite impressive. Want to be able to actually find an ebook? Want an author to go with the book title? Want an edition number? Want an ISBN? All apparently outrageous and illogical demands to make.
Shea Whitney: At This Point, It's Getting Ridiculous
ALT: Shea Whitney: At This Point, It's Getting Ridiculous
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