Love is when @waspsummer.bsky.social hangs up your Christmas card.

By accident, in the Library Science section, main library, University of Birmingham. Where I also was, 14 years ago this month. August 2012 vs August 2026. Part of the Z674 shelf. Some Information Science / Web / Digital Library books retained, others weeded.

Find someone who will happily [redacted*] when you are [redacted*] and discuss the logistics over a lunch chat. *get your minds out of the gutter, filthy Bluesky.

This local stopper train gets into Birmingham. Opens doors. Some people with luggage pile in. Panicky announcement: "This train is not for Plymouth. This train is for Bromsgrove." ...which is ignored by a family loudly faffing around. This may not end well.

I love #EmilyCBanting. Could happily have a lore book from/on her wild wisdom.

(1/2) Today is an excellent book day. My cute attaché in Berlin had two author-signed copies of Hookland Fragments by @hookland.bsky.social sent to me, via Treadwell Books. One for me, one for wonderful her which I'll hand-deliver. Been reading my copy for a while; as for the content...

If you stare at the right pattern from exactly the right angle, Pinhead reappears.

ianVisits@ianvisits.co.uk · 2d ago

If you've ever wanted to live in a MagicEye house... www.anthonywebb.co.uk/properties/2...

Travel deep enough into the Backrooms and you will find Bjork.

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 2d ago

Björk in 1996, by Takashi Homma

Geophysical Research Letters, March 2026: Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly (G. Foster, S. Rahmstorf). agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

As per usual, having to use Google to accurately search the BBC website as their own search engine is *still* a useless piece of crap. Here, in 2026.

Getting up like a gran in a low chair after 4 sherries

Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️@snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Southern Three-Banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus) is one of the only armadillo species capable of rolling into a completely sealed sphere: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

"Why do we need a three hour film adaptation of that old poem?" This is why we need a three hour film adaptation of that old poem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1d3...

These Contestants Hit a HOMER!!!! - Tipping Point

YouTube video by Game Show Videos

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"That's why I'm easy, I'm easy like Sunday morning." #Caturday plus one day.

Disabling insidiously-placed AI on a few bits of tech I'd missed, using the check-list compiled by @librarian.bsky.social (thanks): www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

Six online meetings, of varying kinds and degrees of formalities, sprawled across this weekend. Tomorrow I will mostly hide in the air conditioned university library, away from 29C outside, and quietly resume my major arc reading program around the Planetary Boundaries framework.

I showed this to my partner and he said “no” with an expression of alarm before I could even ask. Please give me your best pro-skull toilet arguments

The Jealous Cactus@jealouscactus.bsky.social · 4d ago

Somewhere there is a guy complaining his wife won't let him have a skull toilet

No, no, no! It doesn't become a bagel just because you put a hole in it!

Ethics and Planetary Boundaries is now out in the world! Our Open-Access(!!), interdisciplinary book with Cambridge University Press has two chapters on each of the planetary boundaries. Read it here now: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... #PlanetaryBoundaries #Ethics

Ethics and Planetary Boundaries

Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Ethics and Planetary Boundaries

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They don't make pulp sci-fi novels like they used to. With adverts for cigarettes bound between the pages.

Scientists of the Nautilus research ship capture a Big Fin Squid on camera, at 5454m (17’800 ft) depth. This was their live reaction: 🔊 #AGoodPlace

This isn’t mine but it’s so audacious that I’ve never forgotten it. In a biography of Bernard Sumner from New Order/Joy Division, the author claimed “dollar for dollar, Kraftwerk are more influential than the Beatles.”

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

I think the Coldplay vs Radiohead debate was a stupid debate. That isn't to say Coldplay is a bad band, they are not and I don't think they've ever been. I love their music but come on, compared to Radiohead? It's a bit of a coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb match up

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

It is August. At the end of this month, the first Christmas foods will be on the shelves of some supermarkets. Mince pies: now imminent.

U2 should have retired after the 4 album Achtung Baby - Zooropa - Pop - Passengers run. Or, even better, sacked Bono (tedious live speeches, increasingly cringe lyrics, weakening vocals) and replaced him with Trent Reznor.

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

A musical mystery needs solving. Please share and help me find this song before my heads bursts. Female fronted band, I think #Scotland 2000s?, galloping #indie folk-punk and the chorus "My medicine, my medicine, my medicine, my medicine" It is not The Pretty Reckless.

Added 7 more tracks today, making a (current) total of 292 tracks. Looks like the 39 hour listening party planned for the apartment in Berlin will have to be slightly extended.

Silversprite@silversprite.bsky.social · 2mo ago

(4/?) a total of 285(!) tracks. Other BoC fans repeating this will come to a different number, set, of tracks for many, many reasons. The spreadsheet tells me (I know you're smiling at this point, <3 in Berlin) I'm currently playing track #43. So I'll finally... www.youtube.com/shorts/BKiq8...

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

If you’re a librarian dreaming of adventure, come work with us in Na h-Eileanan Siar! It’s a temp post but opportunities like this are about as likely as Gandalf actually knocking on your door. Closes Aug 13 👉 myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/com... #libraryjobs #librarian

Senior Librarian, Stornoway Library (0466) - FIXED TERM - CNS06406 | Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | myjobscotland

View details and apply for this community learning & development role in with Comhairle nan Eilean Siar on myjobscotland

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Intrigued and excited to visit Berlin soon, for many reasons, including of course my cute attaché. Another reason is that the street art and graffiti (pictures 1 and 2) generally seems of a higher quality than the street art and graffiti around here (picture 3).

Not quite sure why I have three online meetings tomorrow (Saturday) morning, all starting and finishing before 10am. But at least I'll have achieved a lot by second breakfast. Because after 3 meetings there *will* be a second breakfast.