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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Egan is ALWAYS the vibes for me 💛💙❤️🇨🇴

Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

OF COURSE I didn’t get any photos because I was chaos incarnate BUT it was an absolute pleasure to introduce more library professionals to Tiny Zines and the power inherent in a single sheet of paper #CILIPS25

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I would like to point out that my allocated @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social Storydeck card is ALSO cutie animals, so there is a clear theme to my @cilipscotland.bsky.social conference this year 🥰

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Shout out to all the cutie baby animals I have been privileged to witness on this train ride to Dundee for #CILIPS25 🙌

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Pride Month’s here and we’re ALREADY breaking my heart with this perfect WW1 romance 😢

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

One hundred percent would read this zine. I’ve heard Steven is the WORST.

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Thinking about what games are small to store, easy to learn, and quick to play beyond the usual suspects for school libraries - offering a different way of escaping into a narrative for a little time. Great list to investigate!

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Every single time I do a Tiny Zine workshop with young people (or adults) I get multiple versions of ‘I’m not creative’ ‘I can’t draw’ ‘I don’t have any good ideas’. And showing them that their personal creative expression has worth is my favourite thing in the world.

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Binni Brynolf (they/them) @brynolf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

On Tuesday 27 May 1-2pm, I'm presenting a webinar on behalf of @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social, "How to be a good ally to trans*, non-binary and gender-conforming people" I've spoken about this before but allies are more vital than ever now... Register and share please! www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...

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Simon James Green @simonjamesgreen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The world feels so bleak I almost didn’t post this… but fear and misery is what they want, so screw them! Out today! A YEAR OF PRIDE & JOY - 52 inspirational LGBTQ+ folk, from all walks of life, talking about JOY! Art by Ruth Burrows, curated by me. www.waterstones.com/book/a-year-...

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A Year of Pride and Joy by Simon James Green, Ruth Burrows | Waterstones

Buy A Year of Pride and Joy by Simon James Green, Ruth Burrows from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Excellent news for the day is book #2 is now officially in the works. Excited to working with @facetpublishing.bsky.social again to write what in my head is "Beth's big gay book of Libraries" (definitely not the final title). #ActualAuthor #QueerLibraries

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Hell of the North Weekend is the best weekend, the cobble love is strong.

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A year and a half ago I visited @stninianslib.bsky.social to chat Tiny Zines - today I visited and saw the HUGE AND AMAZING Tiny Zine Library they are creating and constantly expanding. I may have almost cried at how good they were.

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Robert G. Reeve @robertgreeve.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead” even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.

On her first day in the facility, Becky asked for a scrap of paper and a pen, and began to draw the inmates on the table next to her. She was immediately inundated with portrait requests. A Mexican woman called Lopez, who had a photo of her children stored on one of the iPads, told Becky she would buy her some paper and colouring pencils from the commissary if Becky drew her kids. She soon became the dorm’s unofficial artist-in-residence, with women huddling around the dirty mirrors to make themselves look presentable before they sat for her. They would decorate their cells with Becky’s drawings, or send them to their families. Lopez declared herself Becky’s manager. “She kept saying, ‘Becky, you need to ask for stuff in exchange. Ask for popcorn.’ And I’d be like, ‘Lopez, I don’t need anything.’ I thought, I’m here briefly, you’re stuck here a long time. I’m not going to take your food away from you.”

A three by three grid illustrating in blue pen cartoon portraits of women in an ICE detention center. “Mrs Kailey,” Bana, Lewelyn, Ikram, Asil, ‘Auntie,’ ‘F.Z,’ Kseniia, and “P.A.” Two have light hair, three have glasses, one wears a hijab, one poses, and one holds a drink.

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

On this Trans Day of Visibility, I stand with all my trans and nb homies, and Godzilla.

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Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library @rareuva.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

#MiniatureMonday "This little miniature accordion-book adorned with a gold frame accented with pearls highlights the history of how pearls became the hallmark of the American woman. Vintage advertising photos of women wearing all lengths of pearls highlights the text..."

Cover of miniature book titled “Pearlessence” featuring a vintage photo of a white woman dressed in elegant garb in a golden frame adorned with pearls.

Book open to a spread featuring vintage photos of two white women wearing pearl necklaces. Pearl beads have been glued onto the illustration as earrings.

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Not all feminisms are created equal. Our feminism is always antifascist & intersectional. Over the coming months we’re thrilled to be hosting authors who are boldly exploring new territories in feminist struggle - its pitfalls & possibilities @theskinnymag.bsky.social @rs21edinburgh.bsky.social 🧵

A bookseller stands in the bookshop holding two books in front of their face: Enemy Feminisms by Sophie Lewis and Pink-Pilled by Lois Shearing. They are wearing a black and white striped jumper and a cosy scarf in pink shades.

Two books laid out on a wooden floor: Pink Pilled by Lois shearing and Enemy Feminisms by Sophie Lewis

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 24/02/2025

You can read the full speech at the link below, and in the collection Dancing at the Edge of the World (Grove Press, 1989). serendipstudio.org/sci_cult/leg...

"I don't think we have any right to obedience. I think we have a responsibility to freedom." Ursula K. Le Guin, from her 1986 Bryn Mawr commencement address

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Creating a culture of kindness and connection to community through a cart - alliterative and actual perfection

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The perfect addition to your inspiring Tiny Zine collection

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Librarians aren't going to save us. Librarians aren't superheroes. They're just people trying to keep largely underfunded and overwhelmed public services going. Praise is nice; realistic expectations are better; material support is best.

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

These look amazing, what a great tool for sparking conversations and connections for students with books AND their librarian.

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Discussion points re board games in the library, convergence of my loves 💚

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Nothing in this world makes me happier! (maybe puppies. and accessible healthcare. but you get the idea) ((tiny zine about puppies and accessible healthcare‽ The Dream!))

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Keep it quick, keep it practical and find the (many many) gaps in the day-to-day knowledge of so-called Digital Natives. We all need help with the stuff we don’t know! It ain’t rocket science.

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Kate Lomax @katelomax.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

"The data shows that makerspaces support the core missions of libraries in innovative and expanded ways, reflecting the core values of social equity, access, and public good." chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

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Library makerspaces help enrich our communities

A University of Illinois professor explains her research on the benefits of Chicago-area public library makerspaces, where patrons can use tools and machines to create, repair or just tinker around.

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Treehouses are my forever favourite but rockhouses have a SOLID place in my heart.

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

My favourite children's book of the year: SAFIYYAH'S WAR by Hiba Noor Khan. Absolutely beautiful & brilliant; every school & library should have a copy. To which end, I am giving away FREE COPIES TO SCHOOLS & LIBRARIES! Repost & follow to enter; closes 25th Jan 2025! #BooksOfTheYear #books #giveaway

Cover of Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan, showing two children running through the Paris night, over the roof of a moque

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2025

Welcome to the public domain, THE BARN DANCE (1929)! 🐭🎶 #MickeyMouse & Pete compete for Minnie’s attention at a lively barn dance, but with a twist ending: Pete wins! 💃🕺 🎞️ Learn more. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome…

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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Clearly, this was a global issue.

A screenshot of a Tumblr post from user thehmn. It depicts two carved ivory figurines of foxes dressed as monks. The caption reads, Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

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CTU Librarians @ctulibrarians.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Librarians teach kids about media literacy, about how to understand, in the words of Tupac Shakur, ‘politician’s double speak’. We must interrogate the reasons why district leaders have defunded librarians, & demand they be returned to all schools. @ctulocal1

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Tucked into the Cass Report, deep in the appendices, you'll find that they reviewed thousands of patient records and found no one who'd been harmed by puberty blockers and fewer than 10 detransitions.

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I LIVE for kit reveal season - will this hot dog condiments number be the Big Winner of the Season

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Domestique @domestiquecycling.com · 06/12/2024

Tom Pidcock 🔜 Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team Julian Alaphilippe 🔜 TUDOR Pro Cycling Team Marc Hirschi 🔜 TUDOR Pro Cycling Team Should TotalEnergies already be worried about not getting invited to #TDF2025? 🤔

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Appreciating the commitment to The Lattice.

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University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Today we're going to tell about one of the more remarkable items from our Special Collections. If you look at the photo below, you'll immediately notice what makes this piece so extraordinary: the scale. In fact... we believe this is the largest 10 pence piece EVER minted. 🧵

Photo shows the Bijou Almanack 1851, with a ten pence piece for scale. The book is, of course, tiny; the whole thing is a poor attempt at librarian humour, really. Hashtag #LibraryBanter. We can only apologise.

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Heartbreaking news as the last men’s British conti teams says goodbye

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 24/11/2024

⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed. If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath. 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...

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Storyville Books Bookshop UK

Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.

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Rob @glastronomer.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Jimmy Somerville, magnificently telling the LGB Alliance to get it up em.

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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The untapped potential of using your library card to read cooking magazines on Libby for recipes

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Dream cycling outfit. Trying to work out if the guy in short-shorts did a diy jorts situation or if those are faux shorts-shorts printed on a full length legging.

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Dan Challis @globalpeloton.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

5% of the men's WorldTour are riders of colour - just 2% in the women's. Why does cycling struggle to be ethnically diverse, when most other elite sports in Europe are? I explored the ins-and-outs of cycling's diversity problem for @cyclingnews.bsky.social www.cyclingnews.com/features/eth...

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Ethnic diversity in pro cycling - Why is 95% of the WorldTour white?

Cyclingnews explores the drivers behind cycling’s lack of diversity and what can be done to remove barriers for riders of colour

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Zonule of Zinn @emkawe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It was the Busta Rhymes It was the Wusta Rhymes

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Amanda MacGregor @amandamacgregor.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Cindy Crushes Programming: Anime Club, by Teen Librarian Cindy Shutts Teen librarian Cindy Shutts discusses Anime Club and how to get a Crunchy Roll account teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2024/11/20/c... @tltkaren.bsky.social

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Cindy Crushes Programming: Anime Club, by Teen Librarian Cindy Shutts

Teen librarian Cindy Shutts discusses Anime Club and how to get a Crunchy Roll account

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Fi Johnston @fijohnston.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Perfect library programming. A+, no notes.

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