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Craig @whodo.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

So once again here's that link to the project if you'd like to fight an out of order time war and unleash the butterfly effect upon reality. The next stretch goal unlocks the solo game mode. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lun...

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The Words We Leave Behind

Rewrite history as you fight an endless war across time and reality by unleashing the butterfly effect in this duet RPG

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Please help kickstart my friend's ttrpg so I can put my editing hat on again (and buy his others! They're excellent!)

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The British Library is a copyright deposit library. If this means a wholesale undoing of copyright to redefine books, art, movies etc as 'data' to please the techbros, the creative industries and all of us working in them are screwed. And viewers and readers will get unoriginal, derivative slop.

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Wasn't expecting to get teary eyed over Timothy Spall and a cute robot, can recommend 'This Time Away' sci-fi short film for A+ adorable robot design.

Max the robot is a battered cream colour, with cute eyes and a spherical aesthetic.

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Remembered to use the vouchers on the christmas shop #winning

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Finished my latest volunteering project with The Ballast Trust! I have catalogued 190 legal documents (mostly leases and water rights) relating to the Caledonian Canal from the 1860s-1980s. Fascinating stuff! I had no idea there was an inland lighthouse on Loch Ness 💡

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Late night shift at the library and someone is practicing a beautiful piano piece one floor above; the faintest strains of jazz are filtering through the walls to lift my weary head 💜

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Thank you random lady on the street who stopped me to say my hair had made her whole day better 🩷

Me with bright pink hair, black glasses, purple eye shadow and light blue headphones. It's windy!

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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

The CILIP LGBTQ+ Network has arrived on Bluesky! If you'd like to keep up with our events and connect with us, you can find us here on Bluesky, our new LinkedIn page www.linkedin.com/company/cili... and our Facebook page www.facebook.com/ciliplgbtqne...

A graphic with a pastel rainbow background and pink text. The text says: Looking for support? Interested in LGBTQ+ library events? Searching for resources and information? Follow us on LinkedIn, Bluesky and Facebook!

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Book reviews (all opinions are my own etc etc): A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers - 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Pandemic by A. G. Riddle - 🌟🌟 The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler - 🌟🌟🌟🌟

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

Books I have read recently, a list. Opinions are my own. The History of Bees by Maja Lunde - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Seawitch by Alistair MacLean - 🌟 The Last Catastrophe by Allegra Hyde - 🌟🌟🌟 Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle - 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Fire in the Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster by Stephen McGinty (NF) - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 12/05/2024

Of course I missed the Aurora Borealis as we were off on our first holiday since pre-Covid. Dunoon was lovely but facing the wrong direction! Any chance of a repeat now I'm back in the city, Sol??

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 12/05/2024

Picked up a beautiful edition of an alternative history/dystopic Scottish sci fi book from 1936, enjoying it immensely. Weirdly prescient of the war yet to come and a commentary on pacifism, nestled in a love poem to the Scottish countryside.

The British Library edition of 'Wild Harbour' by Ian MacPherson. The cover of the book is a peaceful loch and mountain in grey, with moors and a deer in brown.

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

Evil Under the Sun (1982) hired the most wonderful milliner, I'm in love!

A hat that's wide, made of black mesh, with a pointy red centre that turns into a turban below. Paired with a white dress and chunky black necklace. Fabulous!

A wide white and navy hat with a cheeky curve to the rim, decorated with giant white buttons. Paired with a navy blue and white polka dot dress, white pearl earrings, and a disgruntled look.

A small black number with curved black and white decorations. Paired with a tightly fitted zebra coat and a condescending glare at the lower class driver.

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

Just tried to read a fanfic AU where a 'librarian' MC just purposely ignored another character's obvious need for help THREE whole times and I just can't with this terrible librarianing, that's a DNF from me 😆 Someone needs to go read S. M. Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science!

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Watching the 1971 Andromeda Strain and I miss when sci fi films were like THIS IS TOTALLY A REAL DOCUMENTARY AND YOU SHOULD BE TERRIFIED RIGHT NOW You know you're in for a good ride

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

I was having a bad day and then the opened sour cream fell out of the fridge hitting every shelf and then me 😭

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

Thanks for all the hard work, Ingenuity! www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-i...

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Mason @masonhawthorne.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

My weird horror novelette is now live! Earworm: A walking tour of the ends of worlds find it here: books2read.com/u/3kOvKn

An illustration of a goat's eye in vibrant greens, yellows, reds and pinks, which gives a sense of infection.
Green text over the illustration says Earworm, Mason Hawthorne, with the subtitle A walking tour of the ends of worlds...

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

Boys Like Girls covered TWICE's 'I Can't Stop Me' and I need to know if there's a German word for 'that feeling when your teenage years suddenly and unexpectedly slam into your adult interests' because I am reeling 😆

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

First year I could afford to go to Aye Write! and it's been cancelled due to a lack of funding. Fffffff.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

In a "no way!" moment, SLIM, JAXA's moon lander has only gone and woken up for a 2nd time!!! JAXA: "some temperature sensors and unused battery cells are starting to malfunction, but the majority of functions that survived the first lunar night was maintained even after the second lunar night!" 🥳🧪🔭

A rocky lunar survey, a large smooth mountain rising in the distance.

From: https://twitter.com/SLIM_JAXA/status/1773190431758508138

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/03/2024

Chandra, the space-based observatory that brings us incredible x-ray images of the most extreme environments in the cosmos, is at risk of cancellation. It’ll be a huge loss to astronomy if the mission ends prematurely for budget reasons. Go to www.savechandra.org to find out how to help #SaveChandra

A ghostly-looking image of powerful jets of radiation coming from a galaxy. (This is Chandra’s view of the galaxy Centaurus A.) There are wispy blue bubbles in the upper left and lower right and a bright blue jet of radiation emanating from the center of the image up to the upper left.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 12/03/2024

North American reskeet challenge! My book won a British Fantasy Award but it never really gets mentioned outside the UK. If you want to support a British writer in 2024, can you give it a boost? Available on Amazon and other online retailers over your way!

Cover of Under the Moon: Collected Speculative Fiction by E.M. Faulds

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

The fruits of my evening shift - testing out basket designs for the balloon/papier-mâché Easter eggs we're painting next week. My supervisor has requested a library 'that looks like the Easter Bunny has exploded in it' 😆

Somewhat wobbly Easter baskets made from pipe cleaners, in shades of white, pink, yellow, green and purple.

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Trying a new tea today! Yuzu Tea from Korea, it comes in marmalade form!

An open jar of Yuzu tea, which looks like marmalade, next to a teacup with hot water and a spoonful of jam swirled in.

A jar with orange-y marmalade, labelled 'Yuzu Tea'.

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Dave Fraser/Hatari Teenage Riot @discodave75.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

Bella the beithir's a total babe, lads.

a water dragon in concrete and tile, like an Alasdair Gray design built by Gaudi

curlicues and dots of colour in the tiles

a compound eye comprising moorish swirls of tile

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

There is nothing funnier to me than meeting a person for a second time, and them cocking their head to the side and seriously asking me if I've 'always had my hair like that'. Reader, I've dyed my hair the same shade of neon pink for at least 7 years 😆

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Less good news, but between the 'we didn't turn on the landing lasers before it left earth' and 'it fell over on the side where some NFT related 'artwork' was', much funnier. apnews.com/article/moon...

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Sideways moon landing cuts mission short, private US lunar lander will stop working Tuesday

A private U.S. lunar lander is expected to stop working Tuesday, its mission cut short after landing sideways near the south pole of the moon.

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

Ingenuity's resting place has been named the Valinor Hills. I'm not crying, you're crying 😭 gizmodo.com.au/2024/02/nasa...

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

It's official Odysseus has landed on the moon!! The 1st commercial lunar landing and the 1st US landing since Apollo 17 in 1972. This is a major milestone for the future of lunar exploration. Watch out for the EagleCam landing footage which should be released in the next hour or so. 🧪🔭🛰️

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Congratulations on the landing, Nova-C Odysseus! Hope you enjoy the moon!

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Why the everloving fuck is someone blasting out Last Christmas by Wham! on my commute home, talk about psychic damage 😑

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

My supervisor greeted me this morning with a "Congrats! You're a person now!" as I have completed my first three weeks training and count as an actual member of staff. I'm so happy for me 😆

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

without downloading new pics, where are you at mentally?

A cross stitch pattern in a hoop that reads 'WARNING This is proof I have the patience to stab something 1,000 times' with a pretty floral and skull pattern underneath.

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

Feeling that emotional nadir from investing 10 glorious hours into a romance drama only to be wading through the writing dregs of the last few episodes. I will be haunted by the ghosts of wasted story hooks and excruciating heel turns tonight.

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Books I've read since Christmas, all opinions are my own: The Crimson Labyrinth by Yusuke Kishi (trans. Isetani and Nieh) - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth by Chris Hadfield - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Decagon House Murders - Yukito Ayatsuji (trans. Wong) - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

A longread ostensibly about data centres has a lot to say about the fragility of digital preservation www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

The massage place I'm waiting at has the most aggressive sounding water feature I've ever heard. TINKLE TINKLE ARE YOU RELAXED YET

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Rafah is a city of 170,000. 1.3 million people have tried to seek shelter there. It takes up this little corner of Gaza. All of Gaza is the size of Philadelphia.

A map drawing of Gaza, with a small piece in the southwest filled in red indicating Rafah

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

A cartoon about libraries for the Guardian.

Title: Methods of defending your local library from government cuts.

1. Comminity Support: families stand round the licrary with placards
2. Fortifications: The library now has crenellations, a high wall and guards with spears.
3. Camouflage: the library has been painted with a camouflage pattern.
4. Black magic: the library has been painted with a huge pentagram , a sorceror casts a spell from an altar.
5. Time Travel: weird machinery is attached to the library, it is in a prehistoric jungle, a dinosaur walks past.
6. Disguise: the library has been dressed to look like a vape shop
7. Attack!: the library has tank tracks and large mechanical arms, it speeds forth, a librarian urges it on from a hatch at the top.

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Friday seratonin boost - tiny wee Matilda fan came in for her first library card and had a great time helping me stamp the books! Librarian in the making 🤩

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Emzy @emzyesque.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Perseverance's last shot of Ingenuity. You did damn well, my wee friend 💜

A photo of Mars with the plucky space helicopter Ingenuity in the distance.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

For a month Voyager1 has been sending NASA the same short repeated loop of binary. X-Update from NASA: "Engineers are still working" 🤞 If you're in the North and awake late in the night, send her a "get well soon wave". She's 20.4 billion km away, just below Hercules' left foot. 🧪🔭

A star map showing the Constellation of Hercules that looks like a stick man doing a funky dance. Just below his left foot and above the fuzzy haze of the Milky Way marks the location of Voyager 1.

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 06/02/2024

National library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, Wellington /r/brutalism

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Oliver K. Langmead @oliverklangmead.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

There is going to be a launch event for CALYPSO at Lancaster Litfest next month! It will be on the 17th of March at 2pm in The Duke's Theatre. Especially pleased to be hosted by the brilliant Catherine Spooner! Link below, and entry is free: litfest.org/events/olive...

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