Reposted by Faye McLeodMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 02/12/2025“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas. 10139941053
Faye McLeod @saffiemcleod.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Not at all. Happy to admit to misadventures with Cointreau 000
Faye McLeod @saffiemcleod.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Have you been at the peppermint schnapps again? 110
Faye McLeod @saffiemcleod.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Ok, not if you follow the "language is constantly evolving" argument, but ykwim 100
Faye McLeod @saffiemcleod.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Words have solid definitions and meanings, Brannan 200
Faye McLeod @saffiemcleod.bsky.social · 02/01/2026For one horrible moment, I thought you were doing this irl and announcing it to the world 120
Faye McLeod @saffiemcleod.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Hi Hugh. I'm sorry, but I am no longer the archivist for Keble. My successor is Peter Monteith. Please contact him at archives@keble.ox.ac.uk 110
Reposted by Faye McLeodMaria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.com · 22/10/2025Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe. 10251931353
Reposted by Faye McLeodDaniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 10/09/2025A lovely endorsement on the back of this deed, "this deed was cancelled by cause it is forged" TNA C 147/1097 2267
Reposted by Faye McLeodRebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Accidentally took the mathematically perfect shot of our local cat. 3667
Reposted by Faye McLeodH e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Insult your local politicians, even your friends, like a true Shakespearean! 46219
Faye McLeod @saffiemcleod.bsky.social · 11/08/2025I adore 'East Lynne' - it's so fantastically trashy! The stage version is even more over-blown. I've never been able to work out what edition my copy is 110
Reposted by Faye McLeodOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out 612578938
Faye McLeod @saffiemcleod.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Struggling to believe the sloes are ripe so early this year, but they are soft and have their waxy coating. Time to make gin (and worry about the weather) 010
Reposted by Faye McLeodHeather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 04/08/2025ok cool not a big deal at all 32816
Reposted by Faye McLeodAaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 29/07/2025[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...aarontay.substack.comThe AI powered Library Search That Refused to SearchFrom Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched 26750
Reposted by Faye McLeodinthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 29/07/2025good morning. on the blog today, a piece i wrote in 2003 about love, marriage and what happens when "i love you" becomes meaningless to only one of you. it's about witnessing the end of someone else's relationship. please read to the addendum at the end michelecatblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/i...michelecatblog.wordpress.comi love you. i know.when words ring hollow [i originally wrote this in 2003, please see footnote for an update] I know this couple. They have been married long enough to have accumulated children and a complete set of… 2203
Reposted by Faye McLeodUniversity of Illinois RBML @illinoisrbml.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Have you ever seen a book made entirely of silk? One item getting a lot of reading room attention recently is this "Livre de Prières." This book was manufactured with the Jacquard process, which relied on perforated punch cards to operate a loom, and is considered a precursor to early programming. 12346128
Reposted by Faye McLeodThe Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 22/07/2025Time to update... nay downdate your slang! 719935
Faye McLeod @saffiemcleod.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Completely charmed by these fabric samples found in a file of Sir Louis Mallet's papers relating to Anglo-French trade agreements 1826-1877 #BalliolArchives 110
Faye McLeod @saffiemcleod.bsky.social · 17/07/2025I dare you to whisper this bsky.app/profile/ccur... 120
Reposted by Faye McLeodRebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Whispering different possibilities for pronouncing 'Boger' in the manuscripts reading room like I'm playing a weird version of Bogies 251
Faye McLeod @saffiemcleod.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Oooo. Goody. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comWarwickshire council boss vetoed Reform's Pride Flag removal requestReform UK accuses Warwickshire council's chief executive of a "coup d'etat" in a Pride flag row. 010
Reposted by Faye McLeodDavid Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Archive Monday: love these ink drawings from MS Tanner 118 in the Bodleian. Skeleton representing death with various scenes of a moralistic nature. Dress suggests late Elizabethan / early Jacobean. Scenes include royal court, hunting, duelling, trade/banking, religious/political persecution. 2269
Reposted by Faye McLeodJess M. F. Hughes @jessmfh.bsky.social · 24/06/2025TIL AI is not only stealing our archives, it’s killing them. www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...404media.coAI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.” 03718
Reposted by Faye McLeodHelen Dafter @historyhelen123.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Working on file appraisal today. The first file I picked up had the unholy trio - elastic bands, post its, and metal fastenings 😬 1122
Faye McLeod @saffiemcleod.bsky.social · 14/06/2025A great chance to get out some of my favourites from the @ballioloxford.bsky.social archives and show off the catalogue conversion project. 031
Reposted by Faye McLeodOld English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 12/06/2025þyrel, n.n: hole. (THUE-rell / ˈθy-rɛl) Image: De natura rerum; E France, 9th century; Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc.Nat.1, f. 26v. #OldEnglish #WOTD 14616
Reposted by Faye McLeodThe Rubaiyat of Victor Kiam @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 07/06/2025When I searched to see if Mary Shelley and Jane Austen could have met in Bath, Google AI informed me that they were, in fact, sisters... 47657212
Reposted by Faye McLeodOld English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 07/06/2025lǣwede, adj: lay, i.e. not learned, not of the church; by gradual change of meaning it became modern English ‘lewd’. (LAE-weh-duh / ˈlæː-wɛ-də) #OldEnglish #WOTD 02510
Reposted by Faye McLeodUniversity of Reading Special Collections @uorspeccoll.bsky.social · 06/06/2025‘The feminine monarchie…’ by Charles Butler revolutionised beekeeping in 1609 by confirming the queen bee existed. It also includes musical notation of bee’s drones, recipes for marmalade, and descriptions of bees building little wax chapels in their hives! [Bee Coll. Cotton 01] 1282
Reposted by Faye McLeodMuseum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social · 04/06/2025This Friday the Museum is open late for our Summer Late Night event. Both we and the Pitt Rivers Museum will be open until 10pm (free ticket required for entry) where we will have a host of activities, talks, tours, poetry, and film as well as a cash bar! 1156
Reposted by Faye McLeodBalliol College, University of Oxford @ballioloxford.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Balliol is delighted to announce that the Mastership of the College has been offered to Professor Seamus Perry, who has accepted and will assume the role in July 2026. www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/ma... 153