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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just think of the entirely trivial things that generate investigations for other demographics, and watch this man get away with on-camera fraud, breaking of electoral law, and then found to be not teaching his classes. Double standards are a given but my god, the blatancy, if I might coin a term

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When I did work experience, there was a kid in year 1 who apparently read Wikipedia for fun (according to the TA) and he and I had a great convo about tectonic activity. Little older tho, end of year one so he was… six or seven?

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m just as interested in every discipline’s pursuit of knowledge and art — practical or not — because to learn and create new things is what civilization is for.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's Black History Month in the uk! Schools, businesses etc this is your reminder to book Black authors and speakers IN OTHER MONTHS not just october.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ah only an hour left on my current audiobook but here’s my StoryGraph September wrap up #booksky

Wrap up graphic showing my reading stats for September: 4 books 304 pages, 46.53 hours & average rating 4.19. 50/50 fiction/non fiction. Highest rated reads: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (5 stars), The Tale of Truthwater Lake by Emma Caroll (4.5) and Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (3.75)

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

dark gritty santapunk world where the Great Powers of Europe both mandate celebration of Christmas and encourage their subjects to be as naughty as possible to preserve unlimited access to coal and continued industrialization.

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A uni I struggled to start the work - having those hours scheduled would have meant I wasn’t cramming in the work at the end & would probably have meant I got a better grade overall. Very few people have no set work hours, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to allow students the same structure.

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Honestly this would have made such a difference to me as a student with untreated ADHD. Maybe part of uni is learning to manage your own workload but my day is WAY more directed now I have a job vs as a student! I have hours scheduled to do stuff that needs doing & I can manage that easily.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Other men who like to talk about me just think it’s fine that their friends do these things and that the real danger is women like me who know about it and think it’s a problem All of this is a culture where women are objects, not fully enfranchised people, and rape culture is structured by that

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How are they pronounced? Is this a way of writing non-Latin letters in text typed on a Latin alphabet keyboard? I’ve seen that before eg for Chinese tones but also in I think another SEAsian language? Maybe Thai? Tagalog?

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reading the (excellent) Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi and it includes a few lines in Yoruba, some of which include numbers as letters. From a cursory google, these aren’t in the standard Yoruba alphabet - can anyone tell me more? #linguistics

“Ìm311 t1, ìm311 kán, ìm311 dáríjọ síbíyìí—“

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spoke to someone the other day whose kid had been waiting over 3 years for a dx and hadn’t been told about RTC. Referral in year 2, now year 6 & worried about moving to secondary school with no dx + huge change + overstimulating environment. It’s horrific

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Our people are literally DYING

Shelford said that, on average, a woman with ADHD would die nine years younger than her peers and a man seven years younger.

“In almost any other area, those numbers would have this treated as a health emergency, but the stigma and misunderstanding around ADHD means instead we’re treated as an inconvenience and proposed to be ‘disappeared’, untreated, from the waiting lists

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We just got a full set of dog man & bunny vs monkey at my library and a) most of them immediately went out to fill holds and b) those that didn’t were greeted with “LOOK DOG MAN” by the kids coming in and then immediately borrowed. The kids are reading!!!

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This howl’s moving castle cover is so lovely I might have to buy a second copy. Actually I might have to do that anyway, mine is falling apart 💔

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Birmingham UCU @birminghamucu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Please read and share this open letter from staff at risk of compulsory redundancy in Modern Languages at the Uni of Birmingham. It calls for the redundancies to be halted, for the equality impact assessment to be released, and for meaningful consideration of alternatives.

birminghamucu.org

“A national catastrophe” at home: open letter on redundancies

We write as Translation and Interpreting staff at risk of compulsory redundancy at the University of Birmingham, together with the Birmingham UCU Committee. In brief: a University whose Vice-Chance…

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Now one thing I do think has changed somewhat is that children’s fiction is more racially (and sexuality & gender) diverse. But I’m sure (/s) she wouldn’t say that Goldilocks is normal and Goldilocs is not because that would be even more absurd than the rest of her baseless claims

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Finally… of course most fiction is going to have some element of unreality to it. It’s a story for a reason, something has to happen. Whether that’s a group of girls sharing the same trousers (seems unrealistic to me) or a kid detective or superheroes… it’s all a narrative device

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Stories with superheroes often (usually?) show them struggling with normal emotional issues that she claims aren’t shown. Plus, thinking of popular series… diary of a wimpy kid. Lottie Brooks. Dork Diaries. There ARE still contemporary kids books, just as there were always fantasy ones.

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Baffling take here… ah yes a neglected & abused child with superpowers is a “normal” child. An orphan who makes friends with enormous bugs living in a giant peach. A girl who befriends a big, friendly giant. A boy who wins a raffle and watches rich kids die and acquires a factory. Totally normal.

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have a friend who’s a secondary school librarian and they’ve just finished replacing Dewey. Circulation is way up! She says it DOES make library lessons about Dewey more difficult tho 😅

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026

Once again this isn't like gay marriage. We're not asking for something new. We're asking not to lose rights we've had for decades. When Dems say they agree with enacting new restrictions on trans people, that's a betrayal. They are actively going out of their way to harm trans people.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The question of rightful ownership should remain the more important one. But I do find it interesting that this exhibit shows the BM's continuous insistence on its own accessibility to be rather hollow. People are just far more able to engage with their history if they can see it right next door.

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Can you believe this

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Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's Monday! I wrote a free post about the accusations against Ed Brubaker, creator of the Winter Soldier. Also PTSD, gender, bears, fridging, defrosting, and what characters who regain agency can mean to people whose agency is conditional at best. www.patreon.com/onbearfeet/p...

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What I Didn't Say to Ed Brubaker | OnBearFeet - Kat Beaufort

Content warnings: Workplace harassment, comic-book violence, oblique references to real-world sexual harassment and assault. According to Th

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Let’s be real, terfs have been ableist since day one - I remember jkr et al saying all trans men were confused autistic girls (who couldn’t be trusted to make up their own minds about their bodies). It may be about cis girls now, but it’s always been there.

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want to live in a place where Nazis are more nervous being out in public than trans people

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It’s super unprofessional. I wish more corporate folks would recognise that.

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

the background noise & janked up QR code make sense considering it’s a probability machine but it still looks BAD. And the poster pictured above was so simple & could have been made by hand v quickly. The first version actually went out to partners, we found out when someone came in asking for help

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

even when gen ai does an apparently acceptable job, it’s still not actually good. this very simple poster for a digital skills class for eg - loads of background noise & on the first draft, the QR code got messed up & didn’t lead anywhere. noise seems p standard for AI gen posters/images ime

A zoomed in photo of a simple poster with black and purple text on white paper. The whole background is full of random pixels that look like photocopying noise, but is in fact just a part of the original document.

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Love when a suggestion goes down well - suggested @louiestowell.bsky.social ‘s Loki series to a kid a few weeks ago and mum came back in today for the next one. Best one she borrowed that week, apparently!

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We had a squirrel walk in the front door of the library the other day!

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

one thing that stuck out to me here was the idea that groups can’t be simultaneously fringe and well-funded/powerful. Consider the “race realism” research & money from Thiel etc into fringe & pseudoscientific theories meant to validate racism. “Gender critical” research is v similar

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hi #booksky, here’s my august #StoryGraph wrap-up. What was the best book you read last month?

Libraryella’s august 2026 wrap-up graphic from StoryGraph.
Books: 6, pages: 834, hours: 42.33, av. rating 4.38highest rated reads project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicholl, The Salt King by Natasha Pulley
Average book length: 373 pages
Average time to finish: 7 days
83% fiction, 17% non fiction
3 sci fi, one each of LGBTQIA+, contemporary, horror, and middle grade

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

But if you’re a bit small then blue tack works perfectly fine.

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libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We have these shelves! We have acrylic sign holders that slot over the edge which honestly I DON’T recommend because they slide around everywhere and get in the way when shelving. Easier is to print out & laminate labels small enough to fit in the inserts. If you get the right size they can slide

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You may think I post too often about trans people? Tough. I want them to have lives of joy and freedom and safety and love. But until all of us are free, none of us are free. Protect queer kids. Protect trans kids. Rights can taken away in an instant. That’s why I shout.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Reminder, she can write all the paragraphs she wants, but she’s not a doctor, not a psychiatrist, not a psychologist, not a scientist, has no experience with gender dysphoria or indeed queerness. She’s a billionaire with an opinion and clearly a studio pressuring her to “moderate”. Thank u, next.

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Emily Higgs Kopin (spooky) @ehkopin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Corollary: if someone is “brilliant” but an asshole to women and junior colleagues, they are not brilliant. They are bad at their job and should be treated as such

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

On the plus side, a very lovely reader who’s come to many of my events brought me a pen with “Just a dumb bitch writing some dumb shit” written on it and I couldn’t be more delighted.

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 26/08/2026

Well, this was inevitable. Forstater is now using her own case to argue that racism should/is protected as a philosophical belief 🤮

"Even comments which are “serious, severely hurtful and
prejudicial”are covered by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human rights (freedom of expression) which doesn't mean absolute freedom of expression in a situations, but employers should treat beliefs equally.

As the judge said in my case even beliefs that are profoundly distressing and offensive to many others are beliefs that must be tolerated in a pluralist society."

"Cofnas's hereditarian belief has already been found to be "worthy of respect in a democratic society" by a court in the UK.

Though not binding in Belgium, but its anti-discrimination law is based on the same principle.

Still it's better to have a good job than a good legal case.

Ghent uni could string out the suspension - the process is the punishment.

If there are calls for a staff member to be discriminated against because of their beliefs the answer should be No (unless the belief falls below the v low threshold for belief discrimination), not "oh well if 2000 people object..."

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If you falsely but strongly believe that your students' intelligence is based on race and gender you will be unable to treat or grade them fairly. This includes giving white and male students too high grades as well as giving Black and female students too low ones

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Also it is important to highlight the letter leads with the fact Nathan Cofnas is committing academic fraud by instead of working on what he was hired to do, he is working on race science and his revolution.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I am not a doctor, but: the fact around 80% of people successfully lose weight on GLP1s & around 80-95% of people do not successfully lose weight with diet & exercise looks like a pretty strong signal that people’s weight has very little to do with “self control” and a lot to do with hormone balance

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 21/08/2026

Trade unions representing millions of workers are standing together against the erosion of trans rights. UCU is proud to be among the unions challenging the EHRC guidance and defending trans, non-binary and gender-diverse staff and students.

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Unions pledge to resist EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces

Eight unions representing millions of workers have vowed to fight new rules that restrict access to facilities based on biological sex

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

As a radicalization pipeline, transphobia is as good as incel anger. All those nice, middle-class people talking themselves into the most hideous fascism because people were mean online about their bigotry. What a sociological disaster the internet has been for those people.

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