Nicola Stratton
@nicolastratton.bsky.social
Librarian, runner, gamer, and fan of westerns and country music (amongst other genres). Goats are my favourite animal, and I love the outdoors and peaceful walks. Also at @nicolastratton@mastodon.scot
Ridiculous parking on Warriston Road this evening. This high lift is parked across the only pavement! I have reported to council but will anything be done on a Friday night / Saturday? It doesn't even have a registration plate! @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social @jackrmcaldwell.bsky.social
Currently, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) receives $208 million from the federal government. It will see a permanent annual cut of $22.1 million, which means spending cuts of nearly $50 million over the next three years.
Hey! I thought you might need a little bit of this….#babygoats
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Happy 25th Birthday to the Sony Playstation 2! 🎉 And yea, you read that correctly. 25 years. 🥲
Apple Music recently mangled my music library, mixing up albums, artwork and tracks. It would no longer let me play some tracks from CDs I'd already purchased, despite previous upload and sync via iTunes Match. I've now ripped some CDs to a standalone music player and finally I can enjoy them again!
For #Caturday this cheeky guy was a neighbour's cat who used to look at us through our patio door. #CatsOfBlueSky #cats
#nowplaying Look to the East, Look to the West by Camera Obscura. #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinyl @camera-obscura.bsky.social
'People like us don't become writers.' Tell me about it! I am *still* so often the only working-class person in one of these rooms. And it is *not* getting easier. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn
Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately
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A must read on the Clarivate announcement to end perpetual access to print, e-books, & digital collections by end of year. Siobhan Haimé suggests this disaster for libraries could be “an opportunity to radically explore alternative models to protect equitable access.” www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...
OPINION: A librarian's summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement - UKSG
Siobhan Haimé takes a look at detail the Clarivate announcement and its practical (and possibly unintentional transformational) effects.
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🔥 AMAZING. Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia. It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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Libraries and *librarians* didn’t just change my life - they saved it. Today I was honoured to be made a Centenary Champion for @natlibscot.bsky.social along with the great @valmcdermid.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Val McDermid and Damian Barr urge Scottish councils to halt library closures
Authors say plan to shut more than 20 public libraries could have devastating effect on Scotland’s cultural future
theguardian.com
National Library of Scotland to celebrate centenary this year The National Library of Scotland will celebrate its 100th birthday with a full year long birthday programme of events. There will be a Nationwide Love Libraries campaign focusing on showing love to a local library from Valentine's Day…
National Library of Scotland to celebrate centenary this year
The National Library of Scotland will celebrate its 100th birthday with a full year long birthday programme of events. There will be a Nationwide Love Libraries campaign focusing on showing love to a local library from Valentine's Day onwards. Authors Val McDermid and Damian Barr are now Centenary Champions The major exhibition opening in June 2025 this year is "Dear Library" which will show what people love about books and reading…
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There are some albums that represented a darker side of 'Britpop' - which was never just about British guitar bands and some dance music indie fans were 'allowed' to like anyway - that get conveniently forgotten about now. Life by The Cardigans was one. timworthington.org/2019/02/12/c...
Come On And Love Me Now
Life by The Cardigans is one of my favourite albums, even though it isn’t strictly a ‘real’ Cardigans album at all…
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"It is the moon, I ken her horn, That's blinkin' in the lift sae hie; She shines sae bright to wyle us hame, But, by my sooth, she'll wait a wee!" 🏴Happy Burns Night🏴 📷: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social #RobertBurns #BurnsNight #astrophotography 🔭
Safety AND happiness. Only bollards can deliver this every single day. #WorldBollardAssociation
Looking for some ideas for your Burns Night supper? How about some Mixtie Maxies and Trimlin Tams? In 2023 we worked with the Alloa Burns Club to digitise their amazing archive - find out more at: archives.stir.ac.uk/2023/03/23/m... #StirScanStudio #CultureOnStirCampus
"In a world of hawks, let us be the goat"
Sunflower Farm Creamery@sunflowerfarm.bsky.social · 2y agoToday there are endless stories of power playing out in the world, leaving their imprint. If we were lucky enough to awake with wings, Let’s use them to protect rather than consume. In a world of hawks, let us be the goat— protectors of the herd, fiercely gentle, alert and sweet.
The first lesson of Roxy’s dog training is repeating the word “yes” to the dog. What if we started there with ourselves too? YES to showing up in the confusing magical now. “If we say yes to a single moment, then we have not only said yes to ourselves, but to the whole of existence.” -Nietzsche
You get the sense that Keir Starmer just wants everyone to be patient + doesn’t really understand that the level of urgency that a lot of people feel. We need change now, and he needs to deliver that change. If he doesn’t, I suspect the person who’ll benefit is Farage. news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...
Sir Keir Starmer to outline his 'plan for change' focusing on schools, NHS and efficiency
The announcement comes as a new poll indicates that more than half of the public disapprove of the prime minister's performance.
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I talk about this endlessly in my book....how our current electoral system is NOT fit for purpose @petergeoghegan.bsky.social explains more re donations Jeez Labour...tighten up these horrors....
Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 2y agoNEW 🚨 Britain's electoral laws are broken - but successive governments have done nothing Musk's proposed $100million donation to Nigel Farage shows we are on the cusp of a real crisis for British democracy But it can be fixed. Here's how, by me democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...
Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.
Glenfinnan Viaduct yesterday. Lovely walk, a bit snowy on the way back! And yes, this is the bridge that features in Harry Potter... #GlenfinnanViaduct
