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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

The recorder I failed to learn as a child 40ish years ago. It was inherited by my niece who is the sa my e age I was back then but is more musically inclined

Brown Hohner recorder with cream highlights held in my hand against a background of bricks

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Listening to the phenomenal @ruha9.bsky.social at my library’s staff day this morning

Ruha Benjamin speaking to a room full of librarians

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey @nickabadzis.bsky.social look what arrived at work for me! Will be reading it this weekend!

Cover of My Beloved Other by Nick Abadzis & Angela Watson. A brown hand and a white hand form a heart with their fingertips lightly touching

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

I have been thinking a lot about South Africa in the dying days of apartheid. I was part of the last cohort of white students to get called up for military service; I objected, destroyed my papers and did not go. I spent a few years terrified that they would come looking for me, but they never did.

This poster is an offset litho in black, produced by the ECC, Cape Town This poster depicts conscripts who demanded the right not to serve in the SADF. The text reads: "WE CALL FOR A JUST PEACE IN OUR LAND : WE BELIEVE THAT IT IS THE MORAL RIGHT OF SOUTH AFRICANS TO EXERCISE FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AND CHOOSE NOT TO SERVE IN THE SADF : WE CALL FOR AN END TO CONSCRIPTION". This poster was digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 131 (number 232) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition. It is also included in the SAHA virtual exhibition - 'The Future is Ours: Commemorating Youth in the Struggle'.

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey @indyfromspace.bsky.social is this it? Source: www.worldhistory.org/Egyptian_Viz...

A depiction from the tomb of the vizier Rekhmire showing him and his mother receiving offerings. Rekhmire served under the pharaohs Thutmose III (1458-1425 BCE) and his son Amenhotep II (1425-1400 BCE). (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Not even the bombing of Cologne were as devastating as the bombing of Rafah and other cities of Gaza.

Close-up image of the remains of Rafah from Google Maps

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Not really loving the American reboot of League of Gentlemen! Welcome to Royston USAsey, you will never leave!

Steve Pemberton as Tubbs and Reece Shearsmith as Edward

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Doctor Poo is being filmed in my neighborhood

Almost as ubiquitous as Police Boxes were in England way back when, are portaloos

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Similar cover design palette - one horizontal, one vertical both by designer John Gall

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

This illumination? Source: shop.app/products/348...

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

As mentioned earlier, one of the Feegles as drawn by my little gingersnap

A Feegle as imagined by my daughter. A small blue man in a kilt, holding a sword. “We’d famous!” - Tob

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

White privilege means you can claim to be 'apolitical' and 'neutral' and no-one will demand that you disavow racists and other people that spew hatred that happen to look like you, because white folk are not responsible for the actions of other white people

Ed Sheeran in a powder blue jacket and shirt smiles and stares aimlessly into the distance

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

Out tomorrow! I think you should get yourself a copy (or request it from your local library!) it really is very good!

Cover of A Dubious Clamor by Marissa Lingen two wings are spread against a dark green background, a light musical stave with notes runs behind the wings

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

It is like the early days on Bluesky all over again!

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Jarnathan's more competent cousin

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Well this fucking sucks! I always used to enjoy The Proclaimers www.telegraph.co.uk/music/interv...

Torygraph article:
The Proclaimers: The trans lobby are truth-phobic

Ahead of a provocative new album, Craig and Charlie Reid on their anger at the SNP, Western warmongering and the imperilment of free speech

Craig and Charlie Reid sitting either side of a sign with the name of the band PROCLAIMERS on it looking like the reactionary gammons they appear to have become, if they were not always this way

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Just discovered that Hometown a new Shaun Tan Graphic Novel is being published next week! www.shauntan.net/hometown

The cover to Hometown by Shaun Tan

A woman with brown skin holds a black lizard-like creature as she stares out of the cover. Behind and around her are giant plants and a cloudy sky with stars. There is a yellowish-orange flower in her hair.

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

Thanks to Arkansas Act 362, the Craighead County Jonesboro Library is no longer a Public Library arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Minors are prohibited from using the self-checkout kiosks;
Children under 13 years old may only check out materials from the designated children’s collection, while minors age 13-17 can only check out from the children or teen sections;
Minors may not check out DVDs at all; and
Minors are prohibited from entering or purchasing anything from the Friends of the Library Bookstore.

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

I would love to, sadly I am unable to DM you (there are some people on here that I am unable to DM and you appear to be one of them) you can use my editor@teenlibrarian.co.uk email thank you

Screenshot of Rachel's bluesky account showing that DM is missing :-(

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

Ok Apple Maps has not licked the boot yet with Lake Ontario, but they did with the Gulf of Mexico

Screenshot from Apple Maps showing Lake Ontario

Screenshot from Apple Maps showing the Gulf of Mexico mislabeled as the Gulf of America

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026

Somehow Dolly returned ( as a tropical storm)

a map of the Caribbean showing parts of South, Central and North America and the progression of Tropical Storm Dolly

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026

I double checked and no, this is what you look like when I search for you in DMs:

Lioness
@lioness.bsky.social can't be messaged

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026

Six artists. One event horizon. A free public-outreach comic book pairing physicists from the Niels Bohr Institute with graphic storytellers from The Animation Workshop — turning black hole and gravitational wave physics into six wildly different visual stories. #GraphicScience bhcomics.github.io

Cover of the Black Holes graphic novel featuring a black hole funnel diagram and art deco elements featuring stars, lightning and suns by
Anna Helminen
Giorgina Walther
Leonor Silva
Pelle Ditmer
Freja Ytting Helldén
Wania Nowosielska

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026

Much like the tongue-eating louse

tongue-eating louse inside a fish's mouth

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

Building a deck of cards based on @librarian.bsky.social's www.librarian.net/notoai/ page with extra cards about the risks inherent in AI/LLMs to help people help others disable AI and also have talking points about why genAI is a bad idea

A spread of cards including cards about AI risks including Hallucinations, Grok Deepfakes, Claude Generative AI, ChatGPT and other cards with information in disabling AI in computer programs as well as on computers and other devices

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

Ooof! Kentucky Middle School Sends Students Home on First Day of Class With AI-Generated Educational Materials Full of Inexcusable Hallucinations, Including a Map Labeled With “North Dahota” and “Olkchoma” futurism.com/artificial-i...

AN AI generated map with multiple errors including: Kentucky was mislabeled “Venecky,” while states like Texas and Louisiana were reimagined as “Taxas” and “Lookoong.” Though South Dakota made it out unscathed, its northern counterpart was branded “North Dahota.” Other notable entries are Arizona and New Mexico, which became “Arizone” and “New Mizone,” while Oklahoma degenerated into “Olkchoma.”

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

For those who have long desired the ALA David Bowie READ poster, it is now available again: 📚📜 alastore.ala.org/david-bowie-...

READ
David Bowie for America’s Libraries

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026

Jeez, barely a day goes by without me needing to wheel this out:

Screenshot of a retweet by Jason (@longwall26)
Confident in my ability to properly tennis, I take to the court. I smile at my opponent. Serena does not return the gesture. She'd be prettier if she did, I think. She serves. The ball passes cleanly through my skull, killing me instantly

YouGov @YouGov 7h
One in eight men (12%) say they could win a point in a game of tennis against 23 time grand slam winner Serena Williams
yougov.co.uk/opi/surveys/re...
One in eight men think they could take a pint off Serena Williams.
Do you think if you were playing your very best tennis, you could win a point off Serena Williams?

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026

There should be a rule that if you don't turn up to accept your electoral win you will be disqualified and the second place candidate will be made MP in your stead! Congratulations @countbinface.bsky.social

10h ago
01.23 EDT
Nigel Farage isn’t at the counting centre to give a traditional victory speech – he said earlier in the morning that he would not attend the count, claiming Essex police had advised him about a plot to embarrass him on stage during the result announcement.

Count Binface stands with other candidates ahead of the declaration of the winner for the Clacton by-election, triggered by the resignation of Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage, in Essex, Britain, August 14, 2026.

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

Is America ready for a @countbinface.bsky.social style of electoral candidate?

Rough sketch of an American style version of Count Biface - possibly Mr Trashcanface or something similar with the motto "Trash Can do it!"

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

He needs to speak to his alien overlords - his skin mask is slipping

One of the most famous scenes in V comes when Jane Badler casually picks up a rat, opens her gaping maw, and devours it whole (and alive)

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026

Sharing my Dewey Decimal Classification Lego Card Game for any back to school Library folk who may need something new for library lessons this year teenlibrarian.co.uk/2014/09/09/d... 📚📜

Eight cards: four from the Dewey Deck featuring DDC numbers and four from the picture deck, featuring Lego minifigs

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 02/08/2026

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose ~ William Shakespeare (Antonio in The Merchant of Venice)

US Deprtment of War & Sean Parnell Facebook post

“Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’

And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me.’” — Isaiah 6:8

Four images of military personnel with the words “Send Me” superimposed over them

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026

Hank Green is not the only person using LLMs as search engines and research assistants. I am seeing more and more people visiting my site after being referred there by ChatGPT and other AI services.

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 edition)

Paul and his fellow soldiers superimposed over the image of a military cemetery

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

Reminds me of the discourse around men thinking they are better than women at the sport they excel in

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

Currently working my way through Through the Looking Glass an anti-trans attack document masquerading as a report on trans activism and the capture of children's literature and library services. The recommendations contained within are a dead giveaway for their censorship and banning aims

Stop publishing trans-activist literature – fiction as well as non-fiction – for all age groups catered to by children’s publishing, up to and including YA.

Children’s librarians must stop shelving trans-activist titles.

Librarians and booksellers must stop recommending trans-activist titles to parents and children

Instead of publishing trans-activist titles, children’s publishing should concentrate on putting out excellent stories with captivating characters

The CEOs of publishing houses, their imprint heads and publishing directors should be mandating that acquisitions lists are broadened out again to attract genuinely diverse and excellent submissions

Children’s publishing and the library services must move away from cancel culture by implementing robust HR practices

Educational publishing, libraries and schools must collaboratively observe statutory KCSIE and RSHE guidance, ensuring age-inappropriate and factually-incorrect, trans-activist books no longer find their way into children’s hands

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026

Avoiding Cyclosporiasis This list includes links to government health sites and news articles about the spread of Cyclospora The books listed have information in the description on what to do & avoid to help prevent Cyclospora infection📚📜 jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...

Book Covers

How Does Soap Clean Your Hands?
Vegetables
Basics: vegetables
Salads, Bowls & Beyond
Poop
Do the Work! Clean Water and Sanitation
Fruit!
Guess What? Fruit
The Organized Kitchen

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