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Sam Gill

@samgill.bsky.social
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Librarian. Animation. Chief washer-upper. Drums in Rongorongo. Keyboards in Feral Wheel. Always scared of something. samgillanimation.com

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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wrote about the lovely Green Man festival here:
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A custom car, all dressed in black and sporting snake tattoos, meet Medea in Mexico, the *other* mythical Greek figure you should be reading about this summer. Niamh Thornton, Professor in Latin American Studies, reviews Dahlia de la Cerda’s latest book:
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Medea goes on a Mexican odyssey in Dahlia de la Cerda’s new book
Dahlia de la Cerda blends the myth of Greek tragedy with modern Mexican culture.
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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I made a music video for the first time in what seems like ages. Was a lot of fun. Head to @sun13music.bsky.social to check it out!
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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
There’s real triumph to be found in finishing a whole bag of spinach before it goes slimy…
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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
youtu.be/56680n1rzEk?... can't believe I didn't open my #bluesky account with this animation tbh. Another wasted opportunity for synchronicity... #animation
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Nothing But Blue Skies
YouTube video by Sam Gill
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Rize / Raphael Phaasiq @rize4eva.blacksky.app · 28/06/2026
in another liiiiife
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Another Life
YouTube video by D'Angelo - Topic
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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Boom boom boom, let me hear you say…
News story about UK hosepipe ban
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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Just got an email offering half price CMoS. Don’t tempt me!
Chicago Manual of Style books, yellow with red spine and lovely typography
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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 19/06/2026
It’s ironic that the President that has done the least self-reflection in history is the one that fucked up the Reflecting Pool
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
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Opinion | My Students Can’t Read
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
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Whirled Bizarre @whirledbizarre.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Support traditional data centers.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/06/2026
"Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem" www.theringer.com/2026/05/28/t...
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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Doing a gig in Brecon. Did the poster too. #psychedelic #music #gig
Poster for gig at The Muse, Brecon, Saturday 11th July. Bands playing are Feral Wheel and Misery Prize. The poster depicts an astronaut abseiling grey rocks with a psychedelic coloured backdrop.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
You can always tell when The Stranglers have been in to return their books.
A stack of books with their spines showing. Gordon Brown, Texture, Lakes, Sun
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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Faculty: libraries and librarians need your advocacy BEFORE our collections are shuttered and our workers are fired. Whether you think your library is in trouble, and it almost definitely is, write to your provost and tell them how essential the library and library staff are to your work. Right now.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/05/2026
"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026" New IEA report confirms this isn't a normal industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.
a chart shwoing data centre growth
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
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Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 26/05/2026
People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/05/2026
Inheritance, theft, whatevs.
AI systems are not engineered the way a bridge or an airplane is engineered. We understand an airplane because we designed every part of it and we understand the physics that act on it. AI models are not like that. They are grown, on a structure roughly modeled after the brain, on an enormous inheritance of human thought and speech.

And what has grown is far more subtle, odd, and beautiful than science fiction prepared us for. They are not the cold, calculating robots we were promised. They are made from us, from our words—and, as the Holy Father observes, they remain in important ways mysterious even to those of us who train them.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/05/2026
I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human | Wendy Liu
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I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human | Wendy Liu
As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move, says author Wendy Liu
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
SFAOK. Great gig last night, excellent setlist. Demons!
Picture showing the Super Furry Animals playing on stage in Manchester Apollo.
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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Stop Cardiff University from scrapping the ASSL's second floor!
7km of books and crucial study spaces are at risk. Cardiff Uni wants to repurpose the busiest library on campus into classrooms. Help protect our library and sign the petition today.
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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
margaretglaspy.bandcamp.com/album/echo-t... enjoying this one, Act Natural is a cracking opener.
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Echo The Diamond, by Margaret Glaspy
10 track album
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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
virginiaastley.bandcamp.com/album/from-g... one of the loveliest things you could ever put in yr ears…
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From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, by Virginia Astley
9 track album
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Baba Yaga's Hut @babayagashut.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Absolutely fantastic gig tonight at @eeih.bsky.social at @iklectikartlab.bsky.social . @rocketrecordings.bsky.social
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Another great project from the AI + Planetary Justice Alliance: "an open-access and evolving map" for "trac[ing] the true costs of the raw materials" used to develop AI technologies.
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Introducing Our New Project: Below the Algorithm — AI + Planetary Justice Alliance
Behind every battery, every circuit, and every device are minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel, and rare earth elements. This is the first Research Diary for our newly launched project, Below the Alg...
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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Marbling. Unsurprisingly messy.
Marbled paper in red, blue and black
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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Champion.
cover of the Beta Band Champion Versions EP with a tigers head, in front of record collection
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 08/06/2025
What is a University Press? On the acquisition of AUP by T&F (and my anger at it), the governance link between universities and university presses, and putting one's labour where one's values are. eve.gd/2025/06/08/w...
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What is a University Press?
I was having a pretty good week last week, until we got to the closing minutes of play. At that point, I learned that Amsterdam University Press (AUP) had been acquired by the for-profit corporate pub...
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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Did some artwork for the great @sun13music.bsky.social to accompany this lovely piece.
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Sun 13 @sun13music.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
In a first for the site, today we pivot from music and take a look at @liverpoolfc1.bsky.social's season and how Arne Slot guided the team to the Premier League title in his first year as head coach. Artwork by @samgill.bsky.social. sun-13.com/2025/05/30/t...
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The Power and the Glory: How Arne Slot guided Liverpool Football Club to the Promised Land
The Dutchman led the club to its 20th English league title in his first year at the helm.
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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
futureyard.org/listings/the... can’t wait for this one!
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THE CUBICAL | Future Yard | Future Yard
Live show with rockabilly band The Cubical at Future Yard, Birkenhead on 17 July 2025. Live music gig concert in Merseyside, Liverpool.
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 14/05/2025
Keith Hudson :: Pick A Dub aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/05/14/k... 2024 heralded the 50th anniversary of this seminal dub record – one of the first of its kind – and it’s no exaggeration to say this release from Jamaican producer Keith Hudson remains one of the genre’s high-water marks.
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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Historians know that incorrect information becomes increasingly hard to fact check over time. We are sleep walking into an age of misinformation as we increasingly rely on AI to think for us. #histsci #hps #sts #bookhistory #data #history #journalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t exist
Outlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partner, a ‘learning moment’
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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...
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What makes me mad about AI in education
How to crush a generation and tell them they're winning
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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This was a ton of fun. Twenty minutes’ gorgeousness for you. youtu.be/G_-DftINZKg?...
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Beth Gibbons: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
It turns out, it doesn't matter if you're a children's librarian in Kentucky, a medical librarian in Massachusetts, or the literal Librarian of Congress... They'll accuse you of the same culture war nonsense all the same. Like some of us have been saying for years. Ready to band together yet? 📚
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Shane Parish @shaneparish.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“Avril 14th” 2025. For those who celebrate. Thank you Aphex Twin for the timeless piece of music. Once you become the bearer of a beloved piece of repertoire, it grows and changes with you. It is new with each performance. And you can never stop visiting it, or it goes away. Music is magic. 🌸
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Calling all Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers - Join us for IHR@Liverpool on 9 June 2025. A one-day workshop on the subject of Difficult Histories. Travel bursaries available. www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...
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IHR@Liverpool: Difficult Histories
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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Always love these.
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Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Amen to this.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Attorneys general from 21 states (AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OR, RI, VT, WA, WI) filed a lawsuit against the administration to stop the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) & other agencies Git 'em www.infodocket.com/2025/04/04/n...
Group photograph of office staff members at the Fasken law firm, six women of various ages in an old fashioned office building behind desks with typewriters.
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Graeme Thomson @graemethomson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Happy April 5th, to those who celebrate youtu.be/h3vbVCRNcrM?...
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April 5th (1997 Remaster)
YouTube video by Talk Talk - Topic
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Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
A good chunk of the Gen AI argument is based on the same flawed discussion that there's been around skills for far too long. A fundamental lack of understanding of what an idea is. Visual art is not just 'a picture'. Having an idea about a single moment in a story isn't writing. Thread...
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Kirsten the Goblin Keeper @librarykirsten.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Librarians and other administrative/professional folks in UK higher education, now is the time to join a trade union. They can support you through a redundancy process or employment dispute, but typically you need to have joined before the issue arises, not after.
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