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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Just finished reading Drained by @leahruppanner.bsky.social and feel very seen! A wonderfully hopeful book that doesn’t shy away from the structural issues but gives practical strategies for everyday life too. Timely reminder of the link between mental load, identity and normative gender ideas.

Photo of book cover of Drained by Leah Ruppanner with the subtitle: reduce your mental load to do less and be more

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It’s time to say goodbye to Sheffield and #LILAC26 - it’s been a great conference with so many highlights! My fave was probably the zine workshops with Penn State Uni - looking forward to making some zines!

Photo of me standing in front of the Weston Museum, a neo classical building, trees and grass

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Thrilled to be in Sheffield for #Lilac2026 - great to see some familiar faces and meet new folks, and of course (most importantly) ride on trams!

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Just finished reading Becky Chambers’ gorgeously titled To Be Taught if Fortunate. Wonderful solar punk sci fi, beautifully written and inclusive. Interesting exploration of community funded space travel. Wished it was longer - too short to really do justice to either the topic or the characters.

Photo of book cover of to be taught if fortunate by Becky chambers. Illustration shows a rocky space canyon drenched in sun.

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Just finished The History of the World in 47 Borders by John Elledge and really enjoyed it. I also learnt a huge amount about the Holy Roman Empire.

Photo of the book A history of the world in 47 borders by John elledge

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Just finished reading Butter by Asako Yuzuki and have lots of feelings. Mainly hunger! But more seriously the importance of learning to care for yourself and what being cared for means to you, to both enable others to care for you and you to take care of others. Would recommend rice and butter!

Photo of the front cover of Butter, a novel by Asako Yuzuki. The front cover is bright yellow and depicts a black and white cow. There are traces of red paint smeared across the cover, hinting at blood.

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

What fresh hell is this...???? What on earth does "Paste with Copilot" even mean!? They've stopped CTRL+V from working properly in Word in order to pretend it's some amazing new Gen AI Feature, rather than something that's probably been possible for longer than I've been alive!!

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

On my way to Cardiff for @lilacconf.bsky.social and had to say hi to this little guy!

Photo of me with Paddington Bear statue at Paddington Station

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

I’ve just finished David Nicholls’ You Are Here and it was a lovely read. It doesn’t quite have the page turning suspense of One Day but like with most of his work, you do start seeing the characters as friends and wondering what they’re up to. I love anything to do with the coast to coast walk too.

Photo of the novel You Are Here by David Nicholls. It has a blue cover with a pin shape cut out revealing an OS map background above a cartoon drawing of a yellow bench

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Very much enjoying the big skies of the Solway Firth

Photo of me wearing a red coat and smiling in front of a muddy foreshore and marshes

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Great to be at the #LibrariesChangeLives event yesterday with @cilip.bsky.social London talking to MPs and Peers about the importance of libraries to the social fabric of the UK. Also lots of discussion about OA and the problems with the current scholarly publishing ecosystem.

Photograph of a Libraries Change Lives banner and a We Are CILIP banner either side of a House of Commons lectern, in a marquee.

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,283,616!

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Date yourself with a shop that doesn’t exist any more My first job was at Bacons Shoes. It was very much a “pile ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap” kinda place. We used to security tag one shoe in each pair and there was a LOT of theft of the other shoe. Ditto on the harassment unfortunately.

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Enjoying some evening snuggles with this one

A black cat with white paws curled up on a lap

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Today has been one of the hardest days as we said goodbye to a truly special and unique woman. But it has given me a timely reminder that what I have in life, is very special. And what’s more, it’s been built with love and care from the ground up, at times against the odds and against expectations.

Sun rising over a white stone cottage with a wooded hillside behind

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