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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's the start of soup season and I'm here with facial injuries to remind you to microwave it on a low setting, for short bursts, and stir frequently, especially if it's minestrone, or something else that might heat unevenly. Related: can anyone recommend antiscarring cream for scalds?

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Still on a bit of a high from the Grand Regency Costumed Promenade at the Jane Austen Festival at the weekend. I'm now hoping someone invents a drag queen version. That would be incredible.

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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bus commute reading following the King's Fund compassion report last week. Such an important message, but the writing style is infuriating and there's a distinct lack of grace about the work of libraries in making research available.

Photo shows a copy of Compassionomics by Stephen Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli.

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is anyone able to help out someone in hospital in Bury St Edmunds with no local support?

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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Once more to Bath, to tit about in a bonnet at the Jane Austen Festival. We got the same train as all the Bristol City fans heading to the away game in Southampton. There was also a wedding party in our carriage (car?) so that was quite the journey.

A photo of a woman in regency dress, with matching bonnet, standing on a stone bridge in Bath.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 10/09/2026

okay so what you’re gonna do for this one is, you’re gonna scroll down a bit, click on ‘Google street view’ and then go thru the house that way www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...

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Check out this 5 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

5 bedroom detached house for sale in Wonersh, Guildford, Surrey, GU5 for £2,000,000. Marketed by Queenwood Property, Surrey

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...

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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just pausing to marvel at Strava wanting to charge me to look at my own data. Now I'm wondering if I can submit a FOI request to find out what my 10K PB is.

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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

People with breasts, this is your reminder to please accept a breast screening appointment when you're offered. If this isn't you, but you can help someone attend an appointment by given them a lift, or offering moral support and encouragement, please do. 🙂🙏🏻

Photo shows two mugs of tea, one decorated with robin red breasts, the other with blue tits. Between them are two iced Belgian buns topped with cherries. In front of them is an NHS leaflet entitled 'Your guide to NahS breast screening'.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In case anybody is planning a day out, I can highly recommend the Black Country Living Museum, where they have a #vintage #library! 📚 Still on a high tbh. #librarysky #booksky #librarian #BusMansHoliday #retro #museum #archive

A photograph of a wooden library counter, on top which sits wooden card catalogue drawers. There is also an array of ephemera such as tickets a record keeping book alongside typewriter various vintage stationary and desk lamp.
in the background along the corner wall sits a display of books under a sign that reads leisure corner.
the Room itself is painted in green up to head height and cream above this.

Photograph of the back wall of the vintage library showing a shelf of books with books on the top on display. in the mid ground a wooden filing cabinet can be seen, not far from a table and chairs alongside a taller book case. dotted on the wall is a sign that says’ silenice’.

A perspective shot of the library showing a large wooden table with eight chairs around it. On top of the table sits two desk lamps.
The outer walls of the room can be seen and show filled bookcases. There are also large period sash windows through which another brick building can be seen.
there are a few people standing in this picture looking at books and newspapers

Photograph of the back of women walking away from the photograph. She has her head turned to the right, looking away from the row of bookcases on her left. The setting is the vintage library black country living museum. The woman wears a denim miniskirt and colourful floral top printed with books. a mustard coloured handbag on her left shoulder.
From the ceiling lit pendant lights can be seen.

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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m begging you, please don’t rake my sand

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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm very confused by this driver-like logic. There were too many people in the queue for this lady the reach the summit, so the problem is the people who aren't in the queue? The queue is for the steps, not the summit. I am sorry for her; 30 mins at the top isn't long. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I couldn't reach Yr Wyddfa's summit because of queue jumpers

Scores of visitors have climbed Yr Wyddfa this summer, with some facing long waits at the top.

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sorry? What? Was this thing real? Like an actual in reality thing? This actually happened? (Sort of).

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 25/08/2026

Someone in a big blonde wig with a big heart on their chest handing out books to kids with the words “always be more Dolly”

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Mobeena @mobeena.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don’t know what the library equivalent of dimming our lights is but whatever it is, we should be doing it for Dolly because what that woman did for literacy deserves so much more recognition than it got

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Jimmy @stink67.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 24/08/2026

I was in Littlemore Library in Oxford today and I saw this on the wall. I love it, anonymous small person. You are absolutely correct ❤️

In a child’s writing in grey ink: It doesn’t matter where I am the book I’m reading is where I am. (With green grass and a drawing of an open book)

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Mornin' Please could I ask you to sign (and ideally share) this petition. It was submitted by a local councillor, but it concerns the proposals to site DCs & BESS in wholly unsuitable locations right across the country, not just the one they wanna stick near me. So, it's in everyone's interest.

petition.parliament.uk

Petition: Introduce urgent moratorium on AI Data Centres and BESS outside AI Growth Zones

Introduce: (1) an immediate moratorium on planning approvals for BESS (Battery Energy Storage Systems) and Data Centres outside designated AI Growth Zones; (2) mandatory Rural Impact Assessments condu...

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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The TG Jones (formerly WH Smith) on our high street is closing. When I went in there today I found they were selling OHP film, for all your overhead projecting needs, and I think that might have explained something.

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All Hallows’ Steve @qqzm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty AI: the half is cup

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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Friends of Indian heritage, please can you help me with etiquette for a colleague's Master's graduation celebration? It's a massive deal; family coming over from India. Any do's/don'ts, ideal gifts/outfits I should know? I realise 'India' is sweeping and I'm likely missing a lot of nuance. Thank you

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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Librarian: (("the cup is half" ADJ (full OR empty)).ab,ti.) NOT (Generative Artificial Intelligence/ OR ("generative AI" OR "generative artificial" OR "gen AI" OR "AI-gen$").ab,.ti))

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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just exhibited untold bravery evicting some wildlife from the house and then had a mini panic thinking I'd locked myself out because I didn't have my work swipe card with me. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I do not work from home. The door was unlocked. #Friday

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Absolutely! #BookSky

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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Have a fabulous time if you're at Hillsborough tonight. I very much wish I could be there, but will be following as best I can. It's going to be epic 🥰. #WAWAW #UTO 🦉#SWFC

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dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

it’s difficult to overstate just how anti-intellectual this entire enterprise is. books contain words, yes, but particularly in the case of rare books, they contain histories of use, lives lived, and often serendipitous glimpses into how people in the past intimately engaged with the object.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

For what it's worth, I'd argue that a guy willing to let 14 million people die in a cost cutting exercise that doesn't even affect him is absolutely NOT someone I'd trust with my survival on a Mars colony, where the oxygen I breathe costs thousands per litre.

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Geraldine Herbert @gerherbert.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Looking to speak to women about feeling safe on public transport, particularly after dark. Have concerns about buses, trains, stops, stations or the walk home changed how, when or whether you travel? Email gerherbert6@gmail.com. Shares appreciated. #journorequest #PublicTransport

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Bertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In the aftermath of yesterday's unannounced emergency alerts, I thought it might be useful to repost the Women's Aid instructions for turning these alerts off and preventing alarms that might reveal the hiding place of spare phones kept by vulnerable people. womensaid.org.uk/uk-emergency...

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UK emergency alerts: How to stay safe - Women’s Aid

UK emergency alerts: How to stay safe A nationwide test of the UK’s emergency alert service will take place at 3pm on Sunday 7 September 2025. The alerts will warn you if there’s a danger to life ne...

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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wednesday won AND I smashed my Parkrun PB. 🥳 Truly this is my greatest day of sport this summer since the England v France bronze final thingy. #SWFC

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Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Following up on the #wildfire announcement, here's my version of a public service announcement: 1. Check your smoke alarms, no excuses, it's a Saturday, do it today. Nothing else matters if you don't get out alive. 2. Check your insurance cover, they can deny cover if you're underinsured. Cont.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It’s funny how if you are a member of the demographic that holds power you are just a part of that demographic whereas if you are a member of a minority you represent that minority.

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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If, like me, you are standing in the park wondering what exotic bird is calling so insistently, perhaps consider that it is a child enjoying a squeaky swing. Follow me for more birding fails.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!

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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bless Microsoft's little heart for giving me a feedback survey to see how I'm getting on with Office 365. In short - it's an abomination and has damaged my productivity almost a much as other people's use of AI has.

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