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It was a particular low point when I had to explain to a marketing bod that no, she couldn't use the alt text field as a handy place to hide a creative commons attribution...

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For me, too! (please don't ask me to do the maths) But I work at a university so the freshers week experience is front of mind right now as the hoards descend...

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They also rolled a meningitis booster in to the induction process in my first year at uni. Very efficient!

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have an appointment tomorrow. Thank you for the reminder!

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Amazing! Though I can't help but mourn the lost opportunity to have had packs of noughts and crosses...

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

But Opus 88 pens are great! I love mine. I would recommend getting a blunt syringe to fill it, rather than the dropper they give you with the pen. Much easier and less chance of making a mess. (Not zero chance. The risk is never zero when ink is involved!)

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Don't put drawing inks in a fountain pen unless they are specifically labelled as safe for fountain pens! Some inks are only for use with dip pens and will mess your fountain pen up!

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Welp. There goes a good 70% of my workflow...

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Everything is either incredibly slow and painful or really fast and easy. And you can never know in advance which parts will be which.

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We were fully bracing ourselves for probate to take forever. But after we submitted the form and sent everything off we got the email saying probate was granted and certificates in the post a whole *40 minutes* after the email saying they'd received the application.

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Remember the weird shoulders on the ai designed world cup shirts? It'll be like that, but all over

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I have the same pen! One of my favourites. May also need the ink - that's lovely!

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yeah, the only reason I know what it said is screenshots from Bluesky! Bit of a flaw in the system...

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I have a fairly common name and was an early adopter of gmail. Oh, the insights into other people's lives that I really wish I didn't have...

xkcd.com

Reverse Identity Theft

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Selecting a jury this way is so weird to me. When I was on a jury in the UK we were asked if we knew anybody involved. If we did, we'd be removed and sent back to the pool. The defendants were also asked if they recognised any of us, and we'd have been replaced if they did. No other reasons.

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

And if they're using AI to do the OCR as well? That apparently has a tendency to "fix" what it identifies as "mistakes" in the original text, even when told not to, introducing even more potential sources of error.

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It depends on the context, but this a good use case for image descriptions in combination with tactile diagrams and/or 3D models if at all possible. Best guidance I could find on the topic is in this pdf, starting on page 79.

nwea.org

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

For people in the UK, I highly recommend The Real Cheese Project. Every month you get a really interesting cheese, delicious shortbread, and a sample of something to pair with the cheese. This month was an amazing blue cheese, rosemary shortbread, and a little pot of marmalade.

therealcheeseproject.co.uk

The Real Cheese Project | Explore, Support, Savor - Join Today

Discover Britain's artisan cheeses, support local cheesemakers, and celebrate authentic, hand-crafted cheese from farm to table.

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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I always get nervous when accessibility concerns are dealt with with sentences starting with 'surely'.

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I can't handle normal tights material - I find it a sensory nightmare. But I love Snag's wool tights and have several colours. Also bought one of their towels when they had them in purple and I love that thing!

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Huh. Now I'm wondering why I don't have problems with podcasts, given that I have frequent audio processing issues during in person conversations and over teams. Brains, why so weird?!?

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Today is the sort of day I really miss working in an archive. Climate controlled storage would be so nice to hide out in right now!

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Really pleased for Notts County today. And slightly weepy wishing my dad was still here. He'd have been chuffed to bits.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Congratulations to Notts County, the oldest football club in the world, on their 2026 promotion to League One of the Football League, the club's fifteenth promotion season in their history

Nottingham Civic Society plaque
NOTTS COUNTY FOOTBALL CLUB
The World's Oldest Professional League Club Founded 1862

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Thanks! It was a lot of fun to make.

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Realised I posted some pics of this in progress, but never the finished item! So for #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 here's the finished crochet rocket ship I made for a coworker's baby, it has a bit of yellow:

A grey amigurumi rocket ship, with a red nose cone, red support struts, and a blue porthole window. There is a star shaped blanket attached to the base, with stripes of yellow, orange, red, blue, and navy. The idea is that it looks like the engine flames fading into the sky.

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

So I would never say "he's a ponce", but would say something like "he's a right poncy git, isn't he?" with "poncy" meaning putting on airs/trying to be posh/thinks he's better than he is?

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hilaryonline.bsky.social @hilaryonline.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Give this a share if you get chance please. So many cisgender women who do not want this for the trans+ community or the division it causes for us all notinourname.org.uk

notinourname.org.uk

Home - Not in our name

Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Stopping at 30, but so far I'm absolutely terrible at this except in two cases: 1) When the labour ladies colour code themselves with the red jackets 2) I've correctly identified every single reform one shown to me?

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Afterwards, someone muttered something about fibroids (never mentioned again), put a diagnosis of PMDD in my records (didn't bother to tell me about it for 10+ years), and started me on the mini pill (their universal solution).

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I got through the transvaginal ultrasound by disassociating entirely. I know I had one done, but everything that happened after I entered the room is locked up in a filing cabinet in my brain, with a sign saying "Beware of the leopards." A total blank.

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I would really like to fast forward the next part of this year... But not THAT far! Not THAT fast!

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Personally, I recommend needle felting - stabbing something repeatedly is very therapeutic!

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

PDFs are genuinely the best format for my particular use case (unless I was given 10x my current staff and resources) and I open every talk or training session I give on accessibility with "Don't use this format unless you absolutely have to..."

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

For us it was just Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Every single time.

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Nothing like trying to watch ice hockey to remind you to clean your laptop screen!

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Yes, I bought a Hongdian M2 entirely because of the cats on the finial. But it's also a really great pen and comes with a proper converter!

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

What's really depressing is that some of the worst attitudes I've encountered come from the academics working as Faculty Disability Liaison Officers.

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Introducing people to Bookshare might be one of my favourite parts of my job! Such a great service!

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

A related tip, whatever kind you go for: tailors hams really help - especially the ones shaped for sleeves. I find it much easier than just laying the piece flat to debobble.

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Once, many years ago, I flew out of Luton and there were a large group of Elvis impersonators there at the same time. Very surreal. I did wonder how passport control would cope with them all.

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I used to be annoyed that I'd had to buy a second copy of Good Omens when I had a chance to have it signed by Pterry - I already had a copy signed by Gaiman, it was just on the wrong side of the planet at that moment! Now I'm really glad that they're separate.

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bibliocat @bibliocat.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Someone recently threw apple crumble at the crown jewels, beans would fit the developing theme...

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