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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Always good when your background helps you with your work. Inside knowledge, however gained, is good.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today I learned the police helicopters also have sirens. Wow. Nee naa in the sky!

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think I was hanging out with Hazel Bell who is the real TEL indexing expert. We went to a conference where she presented a paper and we hobbed and nobbed with authors over dinner in Magdalen College. Quite an industry.

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Society of Indexers @indexers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our online conference #SIConf26 will showcase aspects of indexer collaboration, including mentoring, peer review, team indexing and working with clients. Book your place at buff.ly/c900y92

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Conference 2026 ‘On the Same Page’

Conference programme The Society of Indexers' 2026 online conference will take place via Zoom on 11–12 November 2026. We will have a full programme over two day

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Indexer here and looking forward to seeing what Ben makes of it in his next book!

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Ben Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yesterday’s Word Count = 1,004 Yesterday’s book haul… LONDON TRANSPORT IN THE 1920s, Michael C. Baker INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE, Dennis Duncan

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dry I would think to absorb some moisture and give it a bit of body.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

See also World Book Day dress up - costumes or make up ideas from the normal stock. Got a nice toaster (two-long slot, rare these days) and an unused cast-iron pot recently.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But you've got Sandi and plenty of emotional content.

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you're considering dressing your child, self or home in Halloween tat this year, PLEASE consider charity shops first. Went on my lunchbreak, all of them had racks of stuff identical to what's on sale new elsewhere. Also, you MIGHT get a £130 De'Longhi espresso machine for £15! I know I did! ☕

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The BBC still needs help with editing and proofreading - ... while Myha'la added she wants to be perceived as "doughy-eyed, fun, and maybe a little naïve" - I think she was going for "doey-eyed" (eyes of a female deer) which looks terrible but has the right words www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If it is any consolation my son (now 24) had tons of books available as a small child, was read to every night but wasn't much of a reader during school. Since graduating last year he has been devouring 20th century classics like they are going out of fashion. Don't give up yet.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's not just London. Driving is appalling everywhere.

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A short anti-AI thread: I was reminded of the proofreader who was hired for two volumes with which I was involved a few years ago. The proofreader is extremely capable & conscientious about the job, & proved immensely helpful, especially beacuse they knew a lot about the subject matter as well.

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Society of Indexers @indexers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Join us for #SIConf26, online from 11-12 November 2026; we'll explore mentoring, team indexing, peer review and client relationships - and many other ways in which we're on the same page. Check out the programme and book your place via buff.ly/aoZu0RT

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Conference 2026 ‘On the Same Page’

Conference programme The Society of Indexers' 2026 online conference will take place via Zoom on 11–12 November 2026. We will have a full programme over two day

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Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I received an email from IndexerLabs, addressed to myself and my co-author, mentioning our forthcoming book and offering their services to help us make an index. No idea how they got our details or knew about the book, but if this review is to be believed (and I do), they're a shower of AI shite.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I just get the aura without the pain. Good luck with that.

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Society of Indexers @indexers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bookings are now open for #SIConf26, online from 11-12 November. Join us to discuss how as indexers we can connect and collaborate. Explore the programme and book your place via buff.ly/aoZu0RT

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Conference 2026 ‘On the Same Page’

Conference programme The Society of Indexers' 2026 online conference will take place via Zoom on 11–12 November 2026. We will have a full programme over two day

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just popping away for a minute to take a look at Stage 18 of La Vuelta which finishes in Jerez today. Just under 25 years ago we were there, just after the September 11 attacks. Feeling a bit old.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They are quite heavy. Some of the ones in Milton Keynes ended up in the canal. Otherwise once the novelty wears off they go down in numbers, just the local supermarkets seem to have a few.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Takeaway food mostly goes by Deliveroo.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They are alive and well in Milton Keynes, apart from the few that were tipped into the canal. Once the novelty wears off they go down in number because the retailers work out if they aren't worth the money for them. Most here seem to be used by small local supermarkets.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Henry Scampi has some good companions in this index. What did he do I wonder?

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social a bit more on admin problems that used to be easy to do and now aren't.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Taking a minute to listen in as our band is trying to play this for our autumn concert.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Everything that's supposed to make everything simpler ultimately makes everything more complex, and in a way that makes everyone more unhappy, because it cuts human beings off from other human beings & is not actually there to make things simpler at all; it's there solely to make rich twats richer.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We've gone from 'send me your invoice with the following information - amount, bank details, and this PO number' to this nonsense.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It is the removal of intermediary service staff that's caused this. Same as self-serve tills. Now everyone has to be an expert in all the half-baked admin systems everywhere and all the different iterations of self-service tills.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It would be most interesting to @indexer.bsky.social and its readers.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nice work by @adrianashton2.bsky.social on the loo talking about his book and the index.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Book index word sorting orders. There are two kinds, word-by-word and letter-by-letter. My brain prefers word-by-word, but some publishers require letter-by-letter so my brain gets a bit upset when it produces peanut, peanut butter, pea pods, peas, pea sellers, pease porridge.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#TinyJoys - when work shows me things I don't know about - today indexing about peas and beans and it includes this vessel www.artic.edu/artworks/915... depicting the Assault of the Bean Warriors. Cute!

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Bean Warrior Vessel | The Art Institute of Chicago

Moche, 600–800

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Society of Indexers @indexers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Today's the deadline to submit your proposal for our 2026 conference. #SIConf26 will be held online on 11 and 12 November, and our theme this year is collaboration in indexing. Find out more and submit your proposal via www.indexers.org.uk/training-dev...

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Conference 2026 ‘On the Same Page’

Call for contributions The Society of Indexers invites contributions for our 2026 online conference, taking place via Zoom on 11–12 November 2026. We will have

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A quick skim of the index is sometimes all you need.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Have they not heard of Six Dinner Sid?

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Thank goodness for book indexes!

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Shakes head at latest efforts at getting AI to write 'history'. Yes, it is regurgitating material it has been fed in a way that looks academic and relevant to topic. No, it is not doing research and it is not bringing new material or new ways of looking at said old books to the table. No-I, not AI.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

No chance of a night out in that London by public transport from here. Never mind if one was disabled and wanted to use a free bus pass. Let's just have some public transport at times that are useful for everyone in your constituency.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

@chriscurtis94.bsky.social The last bus to where I live from the nearest cinema goes at 9:29pm, it is also the last bus from the railway station, so should I want to be home by public transport I have to get to the railway station before 9:21pm.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Another book I had the pleasure of working on. Excellent book.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yours is nice because it is a personal event, not related to royalty, politics or a famous person.

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

my main interest is the East London Printing Co. which did cheaper ones - we have a family connection to them www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/...

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Napkin, handkerchief, serviette

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Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I am randomly interested in some of these printed ephemera - MoL has a bunch by Burgess. This one has the same flowers. www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/...

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Great law abiding Women's Suffrage pilgramage Great Demonstration in Hyde Park and service in St Paul's Cathedral, Saturday and Sunday, July 26th & 27th

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