Reposted by Lucy Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 7hAre you carrying the burden of emotional labour for your family and your husband's family while simultaneously juggling work? Do you feel quite ratty and are sleeping badly? Must be hormones. Can't possibly be anything to do with the first point. Continue the emotional labour at all costs. 2202
Reposted by Lucy Molly White @molly.wiki · 19h“While OpenAI admits to agents behaving ‘unpredictably’, they must also acknowledge their responsibility to monitor and prevent these risks,” Wikimedia said. “AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause.” arstechnica.com/security/202...arstechnica.comOpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with trafficThe reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming. 1329190
Reposted by Lucy depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 19hit blows my mind that these bizarre AI people think “the commons” is just sitting around for them to strip-mine for free 141317186
Reposted by Lucy depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 19hwikipedia has been ANNIHILATED with AI bot traffic for a while now (because LLMs can't get enough of it) which puts a huge burden on its tech and server costs. and now it looks like bots are making unauthorized edits to pages and trying to hack community tools diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/o... 10885253
Reposted by Lucy Richard Nevell @richardnevell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It's encouraging to see this work. Documenting heritage destruction while using open licenses is difficult as many important resources are not open. diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/03/o...diff.wikimedia.orgOld Mosul on Wikipedia 2026: Documenting the Heritage of Mosul through Wikimedia ProjectsOn 26 September 2026, Wikimedia Iraq User Group – Mosul organized the workshop “Old Mosul on Wikipedia” at Mosul Heritage Library. The event brought together Wikimedians and participants interested… 074
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 20hI'd delete and repost this one folks, easy to get confused, but it's a nope! 110
Reposted by Lucy Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Please don’t buy our books on Amazon. If you can’t afford to buy them from a real bookstore or from us directly, pirate them from Anna’s Archive like God intended. 415649
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 20hYeah the general podcast is Gloves Off, and this is a series within. It! 000
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 22hOur talk was very well received, lots of enthusiasm for research on Leeds tokens (which is overlooked) and offers of help! The generosity of others was remarkable, not only did I get my personal 'dog taggy bag' but I got armfuls of journals, books, offers for the uni collection and EXCEPTIONAL MERCH 120
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 22hStand out talks during Token Congress included one on physical bitcoins and one on elephant tokens! 120
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 22hSadly not in the Leeds University collection is this one issued by Grace Brischo on 1650 - she and three others all issued tokens with the same hanging fleece that is on the Leeds Coat of Arms today! www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... 120
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 22hIn fact, the same pub was excavated a few years ago by West Yorkshire Archaeology Service (📸 📸) & hundreds of 19th century beer bottles were found! You can see @thetetley.bsky.social in the background! 120
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 22h...since it wasn't being supplied by the Royal Mint. This example was minted by Richard Atkinson who gave his location as Ye Scarborough Castle - which was a pub in Hunslet! explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-coll... 120
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 22h& inspired by #Leeds400 starting researching some of the people who issued them Leeds is celebrating 400 years since it's first Royal Charter, and these tokens were essentially issued by prominent 'second generation' people. These were wealthy folks, whose businesses required small change ... 120
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 22hAnyway, our @lulgalleries.bsky.social volunteers were giving a presentation on their big cataloguing project and research into 17th-century Leeds tokens!!! Here's the crew of Emma, Addy, Matt and myself! They've catalogued 500+ tokens from across the country ... 120
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 22hBut the society also covers paranumismatica which are "a whole range of coin-like objects ... consisting of Tokens, Tickets, Passes, Jetons and Medallions" This also includes dog tags (the woofing kind) & my task for next Congress is to tackle this group of metal-detected ones 🐕 120
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 22hWhat is a token, you may ask? Well they are "a coin or similar object which is issued for use in place of regular or official coinage" ... thetokensociety.org.uk E.g. tokens like this dazzling Pontefract one were used to fill the gap in small change in the mid-1600s (note the woman issuer!) 120
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 22hTOKEN CONGRESS ROUND-UP 🪙 Last weekend me & 3 @lulgalleries.bsky.social volunteers spent two days at Northampton Hilton, with an international cast of enthusiasts to discuss all things token! 131
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 22hMy colleagues made a podcast & The Guardian gave it their seal of approval & it's actually A Very Good Listen if you like Yorkshire, poetry, documentaries, Good History, speakers who aren't just men, and of course the intersections of collections and culture glovesoffleeds.podbean.comglovesoffleeds.podbean.comGloves Off: Stories from Cultural Collections & Galleries at the University of Leeds | University of Leeds Cultural Collections & GalleriesDocumentaries, panel discussions, interviews with artists and writers, and more from Cultural Collections & Galleries at the University of Leeds. 1135
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 22hYou know what makes great content? COINS (& let me tell you, I am shit at doing it myself) join the team, we are very nice! 152
Reposted by Lucy mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of 6162632411
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is so very very true. He was also a very kind editor and an inspiration to me 020
Reposted by Lucy Isabella Lewis @irvlewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026On Saturday, 7 November, I will be running a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon around the theme of Byzantine women & genderqueer saints. I hope that this workshop will help to improve the coverage of women and LGBTQ+ history on Wikipedia. To attend, follow this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wiki-edit-...eventbrite.co.ukWiki Edit-a-Thon: Byzantine Women & Genderqueer SaintsAn in-person edit-a-thon that aims to improve the coverage of Byzantine women & genderqueer saints on Wikipedia. No prior experience needed. 35228
Reposted by Lucy Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Andy Burnham announces end of triple-lock on the state pension from 2030. It will be replaced by double-lock, slower growth in state pension. Full state pension is already less than 50%of the minimum wage. Poverty awaits future retirees. £500bn of taxes not collected by HMRC since 2010. 55459265
Reposted by Lucy Wikimedia UK @wikimediauk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New course for secondary & FE teachers: Thoughtful Media Literacy, a 6-week online course building critical thinking, debate and oracy in partnership with Thoughtful. First 8 places subsidised by us at a special price: www.thoughtful.org.uk/our-offer/cou… 003
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026@britishmuseum.bsky.social is your collection online down/struggling? I've been trying to view the token collection for the past week, with no results! 010
Reposted by Lucy Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9653043276
Reposted by Lucy Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Living in caves. With their West Bank homes demolished, Palestinians turn to living in caves reut.rs/4hBTAEi 📷 Mussa Qawasmareut.rsWith their West Bank homes demolished, Palestinians turn to living in cavesTheir homes demolished by Israeli forces, some Palestinians in the West Bank have turned to carving caves into the hillsides for shelter. 02715
Reposted by Lucy Debbie Iron Bow @ironbow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As a child of a survivor of these hellish places called residential school, I can tell you with everything in me that the children who survived told the truth. Everything they said and what they didn't say, happened. We lived with the shell of the humans who came back. We know what they experienced. 519972
Reposted by Lucy Smell Studies Group @smellstudiesgroup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Join the SSG! Our first meeting of the academic year is upcoming on October 2, 2026. New members are welcome! 052
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Who knows about medieval/early modern beavers? (& would be happy to give me some advice!)static.klipy.comTulip BeaverALT: Tulip Beaver 021
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I've had loads of support from the team, highly recommended getting in touch ☺️ 020
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Leeds CoHoperative Hop Drop today! A bunch of us grow hops, a local brewery makes a keg ,& the good people of Leeds get a truly local brew! Keg by Anthology due to be cracked in October! 020
Reposted by Lucy Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hi @dannychambers.bsky.social since you're an MP from Hampshire, can you please ask Andy Burnham in parliament why the actions of the balaclava-wearing goons in Portsmouth isn't being treated as domestic terrorism? Thanks. 18827
Reposted by Lucy Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 17/09/2026finally, the three genders 011
Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Experts, non-experts and machines is not audience segmentation. 110
Reposted by Lucy Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening 171188399
Reposted by Lucy Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026🚨 New publication (as Early Access) alert! You can now read Hanna Hoorenman's (@hannahoorenman.bsky.social) review of Francesca Pierini's latest book: Romancing Literature: When Literary Fiction Meets Genre. Follow the link to read and download: doi.org/10.70138/XNU... #RomanceResearch 073
Reposted by Lucy Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026So Internet Archive, Open Street Map, and Zenodo all currently getting hammered by fucking AI bots. Core pieces of research infrastructure under threat. And those of us trying to keep resources online for the public become the unpaid servants of the mega-rich AI shysters. 115482
Reposted by Lucy Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Lost oyster beds rediscovered thanks to Gaelic and Scots language www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukLost oyster beds rediscovered thanks to Gaelic and Scots languageScientists searched for the inclusion of the Gaelic and Scots words for oyster or oysters in place-names around Scotland's coast. 04220
Reposted by Lucy John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Launched today: The Register of British Slave-Traders "presents biographical data related to each of the known investors in the transatlantic traffic in enslaved African people from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries." britishslavetraders.org/about-us/ #History #EnslavedHistorybritishslavetraders.org 1208
Reposted by Lucy Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"So tell me Mr Farage, what was it about a system favoured by money launderers that allows donations to be totally untraceable that first attracted you to crypto?" 272189662
Reposted by Lucy Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 11/09/2026In a context where « reducing the benefits bill » is an oft stated goal and disabled people are routinely assumed to be « faking », pressure Is inevitable. Unless other policies change to make it a real choice, this is eugenics. 074
Reposted by Lucy Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Early medievalists may be happy to know that Simon Keynes’s collection of maps of Anglo-Saxon England has now been made freely available via @trincolllibcam.bsky.social These were commissioned by Simon and drawn (by hand) by Reg Piggott between 1991 and 2012. archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/ma...archives.trin.cam.ac.ukMaps of Anglo-Saxon England - archives.trin.cam.ac.uk 413568
Reposted by Lucy Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns 522037941
