Needed something light to watch while recovering from a migraine, so have dived into kdrama Take Charge of my Heart. Change of pace from our horror film watch, Hokum, at the weekend.

Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

What do you do with the chains when reading a chained book?, I hear you ask. As of today, we'll put them into these little calico bags made by the broderers! Inspired by a conservator who told us she put it in a sock while working on one of our books.

When your home office tech setup is old enough that moving it from one room to another means it doesn't like you anymore. Docking station says nope. Probably time to see if work will replace it...

Trying Raspberry Mead by the Cornish Mead Co (though apparently it's mead inspired, rather than actual mead). Topping mine up with cream soda 🤣 Bought on honeymoon - inspired by this sign in a cafe...

Losing track of what shows are dropping when... So I have admitted defeat with my paper notebook & moved it over to my Todoist account. Made a start (mainly #blseries added so far). Will stick to paper for tracking completed shows.

This is one of those things I'm going to keep reposting until you're sick of it. It's not just because I want to make sure everyone sees it. I want everyone to see it multiple times. I want it in your long-term memories so that it's something you use and share and don't forget when you scroll away

Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️@canopyrobin.com · 3w ago

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

Realised Goodreads hadn't logged the read dates for some books this year, so I've read more than I thought! 39 books (actually more than that due to Patreon books)... This is a lot more than I've managed for several years. Mainly thanks to gay, & not so gay, ice hockey romance books 😉🌶️

Antique leather-bound folding library pole ladder. IG: Vivre Interieur Authentique Netherlands www.instagram.com/vivre.nl?stk...

Running an online Library Induction on Monday on my laptop & I couldn't actually read my slides in Teams.... Good job I've been doing library inductions for 26yrs 😉 Have dug out my docking station & screen for teaching tomorrow. On kitchen table until the home office furniture is back in place.

I'd held off watching Heartstopper Forever while I was in temporary TV-less exile. I did read the last graphic novel as soon as it was released 💜 Watched the film today 😭❤️

Thank you for coming to my information literacy instruction session. That is all. You are now free to go 📚

Went to MK Lit Fest Book Fair today... In news that will shock no-one we bought quite a few books 🤣 I mean, we only bought 1 book at Edge-Lit the weekend before so...

Owl Asks: Did Somebody Say Books?

Alt: Owl Asks: Did Somebody Say Books?

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Ah, the joy of being able to watch shows on a TV again & not just on my phone 📺 Second week back in our house after the stress & low winded shenanigans of unexpectedly having to get the house rewired.

I'm so excited to be able to help host the next Fan Studies Network conference at @lancasteruni.bsky.social, as supported by our School of Arts! Looking forward to seeing all you #FanStudies folks next year... (do complete the survey to help planning!)

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We are planning to hold a hybrid (in-person and online) conference on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd July 2027 in Lancaster, UK. We would love to hear from the fan studies community about what you want from the event so please complete the expression of interest questionnaire below.

Doves living at Charlestown Harbour, due to being released as part of the filming of the 1999 adaptation of Mansfield Park! #austen #mansfieldpark #doves

Catching up with a few #blseries while on holiday. Enjoyed Connecting to You so far & the concept of the coloured threads. Plus the Fourever You special eps. Particularly liked the ThitDao storyline. Higher stakes and more emotional core than you normally get from a specials ep. Plus ghosts.

Charlestown Harbour, Cornwall, today. This does accurately portray quite how windy it was. #seaside #sea

We went on a lovely day trip to Penzance. I feel this pub sign was painted by a mediaeval style painter who had never seen a dolphin.

We have arrived in Cornwall for our Honeymoon. Yay. We are knackered for various reasons (including the drive down), so suspect this will be a low-key holiday.

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

Updated for the fall semester - my bibliography of readings, both academic and popular, about the many problems with and pitfalls in using Generative AI. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Had a good time at (Pirate) Caption comic festival - one of the only non-capitalist motivated comic cons in the UK (as pointed out by @karriefransman.bsky.social ). Exhausted now. Will write more about it at some point. Well done to the committee. Lovely to see old friends & make new ones.

Today at @captioncomicfest.bsky.social! Come, let us rant about GenAI and all its bullshit wankery. 👹🖕🤖 Also on a panel just after - “can comics change the world?” - with @myfanwytristram.bsky.social @rickardsisters.com and @richjohnston.bsky.social 💥

kitsuneart 🦊🔜 MCM London F-22@kitsuneart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📆 Sunday 9th of August! @captioncomicfest.bsky.social Panel: Small Press vs AI Absolutely honoured to join @petetrainor.fyi @streakofpith.bsky.social and @karriefransman.bsky.social on this talk! 📍Seacourt Hall, Oxford ⏰ 2-3pm Join us and let’s rant about AI!

Week 6 of the Couch to 5k for reading, inc recent press for this project (!), themes from readers and my suggestions of totally unputdownable books. YOU ARE NEVER BEHIND with books. all you need to do to start is put your phone down and read a book for 10 minutes. substack.com/@naomialderm...

reading will give you more agency (yes)

couch to 5k for reading week 6: how reading makes you feel more sane, thoughts from Henry Eliot, and reader comments, plus! a very personal list of books I really could not put down

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Happy birthday, Headington Shark: 40 years old today www.headington.org.uk/shark/

exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!

Dr Katie Twomey@k2mey.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

Arguing that LLMs are anything more than a load of numbers going into a complicated mathematical function and spitting some more numbers out. Yes they simulate. But they simulate *language*. They do not simulate the cognitive processes underlying communication.

I obviously very much enjoyed the talk yesterday at Caption by @rickardsisters.com about their graphic novel adaptations of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, No Surrender & This Slavery. Which one to read first?!

I'm awake, honest... At least I know what I just drank 🤣