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Anna McMahon

@jointhelibrary.bsky.social
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What can I say? I really like libraries. Library Development Officer, Cambridgeshire Libraries.

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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Be happy. Watch puffins. Puffin Bank Cam, live from Skomer. www.welshwildlife.org/learn/webcams
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Webcams | The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales
Our wildlife webcams give a fantastic insight into the lives of some of our precious island animals. From courtship to nesting, and even hatching! Be warned - it's addictive viewing!
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 16/20 #BookSky💙#Libraries📚
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. Image of Korean embroidered cranes and flowers
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 15/20 #BookSky💙#Libraries📚
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson. Cover shows a phone box, old style taxi, Belisha beacon and tea set strewn across a British flag
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 14/20 #BookSky💙#Libraries📚
The Magic Pudding, The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum by Norman Lindsay. A penguin, a swagman and a nattily dressed koala are in the centre, framed by other characters from the story
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 13/20 #BookSky💙#Libraries📚
The Omnivore's Dilemma A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan. Black and white image of grapes, egg, hambone and mushroom
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 12/20 #BookSky💙#Libraries📚#Skybrarians
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession. Yellow cover with a fish on it
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 11/20 #BookSky💙#Libraries📚#Skybrarians
Red silhouette of a girl on a rooftop. Can You See Me (Expected to fit in, proud to stand out) by Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 10/20 #BookSky💙#Libraries📚#Skybrarians
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver. Image of a pair of hands holding some beans
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 9/20 #BookSky💙#Libraries📚#Skybrarians
A man and a woman back to back in front of a stately home. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 8/20 #BookSky💙#Libraries📚#Skybrarians
Design of yellow book spines. Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, A Novel by Robin Sloan. New York Times Bestseller
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 7/20 #BookSky💙#Libraries📚#Skybrarians
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood. Half of a woman's face, reed lipstick prominent, a hand in a purple glove reaches across her
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20 #BookSky💙#Libraries📚#Skybrarians
White writing on black and image of a skull. A Kusnetsov, Babi Yar. "Superb...one of the most frightful exposures yet of human iniquity" quote from Anthony Burgess
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20 #BookSky💙#Libraries📚#Skybrarians
Book is Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, Rumer Godden, A Young Puffin. Image is two Japanese dolls in kimono holding a paper parasol
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 4/20 #BookSky💙#Libraries📚#Skybrarians
The Museum Makers by Rachel Morris. A journey backwards from old boxes of dark family secrets to a golden era of museums. Image of random artefacts on display shelves
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20 #BookSky💙 #Libraries📚
Book is Blind Spot, Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R Banaji and Anthony G Greenwald
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20 #BookSky💙 #Libraries📚
Text: Fever Pitch A Fan's Life Nick Hornby. Image: small boy in outsize football shirt
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep WaterA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof BeatsA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our MoonA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20 #BookSky 💙 #Libraries 📚
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Luke Oakes @lukeoakes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20 #BookSky 💙 #Libraries 📚
Front cover of The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman, showing two mice standing in front of a wall emblazoned a cat and swastika emblem.
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Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
youtube.com/watch?v=1w_l... Dinovember adventure at the library - roarsome
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