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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 02/10/2026

Chiitan loves transgender people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Even a plain statement like this now brings slander and insults, but I think a society where people can live happily as themselves matters more than silence, so I will keep saying it until the account is gone. love everyone🤍

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the Jacob Geller stuff really blows. as someone who really enjoyed his stuff, I find myself in a strange in-between place.

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

up at 4:30am with my little crafts. the Christmas crafting crunch is Now

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

had truly just the best weekend with my lovely partner. I'm so lucky to have her in my life ❤️ I think for the first time I truly understand the concept of sharing all parts of my life with someone and the peace I feel when we just sit together on the sofa in cosy silence is indescribably wonderful

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

at the bus stop seated waiting for my girlfriend. local authority claiming that her bus is stuck in traffic and trying to remove me from the premises but I am simply too seated

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the leaves are turning autumnal, my girlfriend arrives today and I've been listening to Pavarotti arias all morning, I have so much joy in my heart

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

new term of jazz dance begins at my local dance studio and of all the promotional photos they chose my dirty socks to promote it with (I'm very tickled by this, and it's a cute photo!)

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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Beloved local bookshop Category Is had their window smashed at the weekend; we are running a fundraiser with all ££ going to help them get shutters. One off mashup of two popular tours, Queer Glasgow and Radical Print Cultures. Tickets £20-£25-£30 if you fancy it! www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-glas...

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Queer Glasgow x Radical Print

Fundraiser for our pals at Category Is Books

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 02/09/2026

my girlfriend only has eyes for me #EnormousSegmentedGirlfriendEyes @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

this is a chronicle of Ellen's first experience at the Edinburgh Fringe @ellenfromnowon.co.uk

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

the romance of someone studying a whole language for you

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

guys my girlfriend is helping me rediscover a love for the Bulgarian language ❣️🥹

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. 1. I'm about to cuddle up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a blanket and my knitting and my cat 2. I came out to my parents this week and they were wonderful about it 3. Medjool dates

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

my therapy homework is to be nice to myself so I got some yarn to make a present for a close friend

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

speaking of tweets that have permanently entered the vernacular

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

1. “in a Petersonian sense, to elevate alternative sexual archetypes in the marketplace (‘fastest mario’) 1/14” 2. scottish transphobes saying my girlfriends cat is sectarian because he’s orange 3. “mr sky walker I saw your chanel boots” 4. “im just a little guyyyy, im a little birthday boyyyyy”

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 08/08/2026

Last week up by Dunblane in Scotland. The Romans could've maintained this road a bit better! Pothole central station up here

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

so I spent many years being skeptical towards Dear Evan Hansen but I saw Dear Evan Hansen today and reader I’m afraid Dear Evan Hansen is actually like really really good

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

not to be melodramatic but every rare books librarian needs to be worried about this

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

there’s that one TikTok of this lady who explains how there’s an interconnected system of baby names that’s like Mrs Baby and Mr Baby and so on and so forth and it has embedded itself so deeply in my vernacular

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

watching The Other Bennet Sister and seeing Dónal Finn in it reminds me how my friend and I accidentally ended up in his box when I first went to see Hadestown on the West End

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

oh I forgot to share this when the news was officially public but - today was my last day in my post as Metadata Assistant. from Monday I will be taking up the post of Metadata Team Leader - still within my team at the University of Edinburgh! ✨

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

when news hit of The Middle Ale opening I promised Ellen I’d take her on a date there. I always keep my promises 🙂‍↕️

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 20/07/2026

sunday day drinking at the LIDL pub with @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

we went to our friends’ wedding anniversary party last night and absolutely lit up the dancefloor. may have forgotten to take a photo of our outfits until it was almost midnight and we were sweaty as hell @ellenfromnowon.co.uk

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 19/07/2026

Presenting our crop for inspection. The little bug guy flew off, dw. They are delicious!

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 19/07/2026

out picking raspberries with @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social. bumper crop this year!

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

happy birthday to my sweet old granny. she would have been 86 today. I miss her in such strange, unexpected ways sometimes. I often find myself hoping she would be proud of me.

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

gorgeous vegan pizza today at the Sunflower Pub in Belfast 🌻 🌞 🍕

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Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

this doesn't even have the full context which makes it funnier

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

[voice of guy who does not care about football one bit] IGRAI BOSNOOOOOO ‼️‼️

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

if you were at The Roundhouse last night and you heard Orville Peck sing Let Me Drown I don’t care that it happened to you it should’ve happened to me instead

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

my girlfriend was talking about the World Cup and abbreviated it to the WC and I’m so fucking sleepy I genuinely thought she meant the toilet

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Last month two library workers reached out to Public Collectors to ask about making a booklet version of Fobazi Ettarh's essay "Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves" for a Celebration of Life event. We did, and it is now available for all: halfletterpress.com/vocational-a...

This booklet is a standalone print publication of Fobazi Ettarh’s essay, in which she defined vocational awe as the ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries are inherently good and sacred, and therefore beyond critique. Fobazi first presented on vocational awe at the Identity, Agency, and Culture in Academic Libraries Conference in 2017. Later on, she fleshed out the idea into this essay, which first appeared in the journal In the Library with the Lead Pipe on January 10, 2018. It sparked immediate rippling conversations about dynamics of systemic underresourcing, undercompensation, job creep, and exploitation across the library profession. It was cited more than 500 times in her lifetime, and she presented dozens of invited presentations and keynotes on it. In 2020, she was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker; true to her own values, she voluntarily revoked the award to protest Library Journal’s awarding of a Library of the Year that had been widely protested for hosting an event with a virulently anti-trans organization earlier in the year. In this time, public scholars and intellectuals in fields such as social work, teaching, nursing, and technology began to engage with vocational awe, including Cory Doctorow in Enshittification, Anne Helen Petersen in Culture Study, Simone Stolzoff in The Good Enough Job, and more. At the time of her passing in January 2026, Fobazi was a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, furthering her research on vocational awe across domains, with a specific focus on tech work. May her memory politicize us all.

— Anastasia Chiu

The proposal to publish this text as a booklet came from library workers Mimosa Shah and Jorge López-McKnight. With the cooperation of Fobazi’s widow Elena Maris, Public Collectors has designed, printed and published this essay for that celebration, as well as more widespread readership.

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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I’m not gonna lie but life is pretty good right now. my work is fulfilling and interesting, I’m in a loving wonderful relationship, I’m healthier than I’ve been in years and I’m surrounded by lovely friends. I feel like I’ve been given a second lease on life. it’s so wonderful.

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