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Victoria Parkinson @vlparkinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy World Postcard Day, everybody!

Victoria Parkinson @vlparkinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today I spent some time playing Yourshire, from Button Shy, in the members room at the BL. Even though I have several games (some from Button Shy) that feel similar, I really like it, and the artwork. I'm not 100% sure I am scoring everything but I think this was 33, my PB.

18 cards are laid out on a table, all touching. The cards have different coloured blobs representing terrain types, and small flora and fauna icons such as worms, birds, and flowers. They're laid out to try and meet the wants of the five human figures who like to be near specific icons or terrain types. The colours are gentle and the artwork is quirky, no ruler-straight lines.

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

New post at ACRLog about the breakneck speed at which the Library of Congress implemented the #LCSH changes to Lake Ontario—just 8 days from proposal to approval, with no comments allowed. 📚 The title is from a letter written by our friend Sandy Berman. acrlog.org/2026/09/12/l...

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Library of Congress: “POTUS pawns” - ACRLog

In March 2025, I wrote about anticipatory obedience at the Library of Congress, describing how LC fast tracked changes to the Library of Congress Subject Headings relating to the Gulf of Mexico and Mo...

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nature fact: If you encounter a bear, make yourself look big From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1621, April 2024.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Secret Panel HERE 🐢 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/response-time-167299662

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 05/08/2026

Hounslow says: People who let their dogs foul pavements are dirty, bad-mannered, unhygienic and under Byelaw 15 can be fined £20

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Victoria Parkinson @vlparkinson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Doing cryptic crosswords and the minute I need a synonym it's like my brain has had a clear out. "Chair? Nope, a chair is a chair." I check a thesaurus and "ohhh, well, yes, seat of course, I guess that's an option. And moderator, well, yes *of course* moderator. That was too obvious to mention."

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 20/06/2026

Okay!!! Here is the beginning of a list, in map form. There should be a link in the description with a short form to submit additional suggestions maps.app.goo.gl/nJqcSWWfEi3H...

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Victoria Parkinson @vlparkinson.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

There's nothing I buy so often that weekly marketing emails are required. I don't even want to read the news that often, and that definitely has a quicker development cycle than veg boxes or eco deodorant. Monthly should be the absolute max for marketing emails, no matter how amazing the products.

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Brian Croxall @briancroxall.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Remember that class I taught this semester: AI for the Humanities? I've just published the syllabus, reading list, and all the assignments on @kcommons.bsky.social. Come and get them! #openaccess #citepedagogy works.hcommons.org/collections/...

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Search AI for the Humanities, 2026

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 05/04/2026

If you get self-conscious about posting repeated promo, let me give you all my long-standing promo-hack, for free. (I'm not currently using it, but I will be soon! lol) This is a site without an algo, but also one that does not punish links. So what you want to do is make a strategic thread.

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Terrific new article about how the idea of "neutrality" has been used for decades to deny the approval of #LCSH relating to marginalized people. Great description of how subject headings are created and how inordinate scrutiny is given to certain proposals in order to appear "unbiased." #critcat 📚

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Seeking Approval, Confronting Objectivity: Neutrality in the Library of Congress Subject Headings Approval Process – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

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gothHoblin's Grimoire @gh-grimoire.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

In 2025 we raised ~$300 to fund a new website which remains unspent. As our final act upon this material plane, we will be using that money to award 6x $50 USD micro grants to ttrpg designers or content creators that could use a small boost. APPLY HERE before Jan 31: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

a graphic with classical art in the background - "dramatic scene with monks at a crypt". the text overlaid on top says:
gothHoblin's grimoire
It's our funeral
ttrpg micro grants
6 grants - $50 USD each
Applications open until Jan 31

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 25/12/2025

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

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A real Good Samaritan

One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Gather 'round for the annual posting of... "A Mixed MARC/BIBFRAME Environment; or, A Visit from Ms. Henriette."

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring news about critical #cataloging. cataloginglab.org/2025/11/30/c... #critcat Metadata & cataloging librarians, please consider taking the surveys shared to help your colleagues! 📚

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Critcatenate: #critcat in November 2025 – Cataloging Lab

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

There's still time to register for our free World Cafe event on Subject Analysis and Subject Headings at the Wellcome Collection London, Wed 26th Nov 11:00-16:00 Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw Registration open until 25th Nov #cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics #changethesubject

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Victoria Parkinson @vlparkinson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Feeling festive as I've just sent round the giftees for the work Secret Santa 🥰 For the last few years I've been using the excellent planner from @mael.dev, which uses a clever link and is beautifully simple. It does exactly what I want for Secret Santa and no more, and I love it

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Tina @aboutness.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The American Library Association Core Subject Analysis Committee's Working Group on Local Headings seeks to survey libraries, archives, museums and associated institutions about their involvement in the work of revising subjects, genres, and other authority data in their local catalogs.

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

@cilipmdg.bsky.social invites participants to a WorldCafe Event @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on the topic of Subject Analysis & LCSH within the current metadata landscape. Wed 26th November 2025 11:00-16:00 Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw #cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics

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Victoria Parkinson @vlparkinson.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

An amazing thread about someone saving two lives via bone marrow and stem cell donations

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Join us on Wednesday 3rd September from 2pm (BST) for our AGM Event with a Cataloguing Ethics Panel Discussion. Hybrid event: in-person at the University of Manchester, or online via Teams. Full details at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event... #metadata #cataloguing #cataloging #ethics #critcat #event

https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1958692

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Victoria Parkinson @vlparkinson.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Who's going to #igelu2025? I'm getting to go in person (woo, Siena!) and there are so many good sessions. Also a ton on AI--I'm interested to hear how people are evaluating the "research assistant" and if they've turned it on.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

“I’m just saying we’d collect more nectar if we weren’t in meetings all day” From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I’m looking for an accessible reading suggestion for non-librarians to better understand what an “archive” is and is not (vs a digital collection, a catalog, etc.) Any ideas? 🙏🏻 #DH #critlib

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

📢Call for papers for the MDG Conference 2026 (11-13 March) #MetaFutures #Cataloguers, #indexers and other #metadata specialists have a significant role to play in the future of information services and it’s something worth shouting about! Full details: www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou...

https://www.cilip.org.uk/members/group_content_view.asp?group=201298&id=1113783

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ARLIS UK & Ireland @arlis-uk.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Applications to the ARLIS UK & Ireland Global Majority Art Librarianship Scholarship for the 25/26 academic year are now open! Full scholarship guidelines and the application form are available on our website: Please share widely 📚 #Librarianship #Librarysky #Artsky

In-image text reads: ARLIS UK & Ireland is pleased to open applications to the ‘fees only’ scholarship to an individual undertaking a UK accredited Library, Information
or Archive studies postgraduate qualification as a small first step towards addressing the ongoing under-representation of Black library workers and library workers of colour within art librarianship.

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

TFW your company motto could either belong to a library vendor or a blackmailing syndicate

I'm holding a business card. The back reads: "Because what is known must be shared.®"

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Victoria Parkinson @vlparkinson.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

If anyone in #Leicestershire is looking for a dog trainer, my brother-in-law offers a range of training from the basics to more exciting scent work. His own dog is an absolute sweetheart. 📘 www.facebook.com/share/1JgTca... 📷 www.instagram.com/st.georgedog... #DogTraining #ScentWork

Text in image reads: St George Dog Training, build a better bond with your canine companion. 18 years of experience training/owning multiple dogs. Obedience, behaviour modification (reactivity, resource guarding, excessive barking, etc), puppy/adult dogs, scent training. Rewards based, science/ethically led training. Send your enquiries to st.georgedogtraining@gmail.com

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Amelia Haire @ahaire.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Louise Savage’s presentation, “Unsafe in Safe Spaces: an exploration of the workplace experiences of female library workers” is literally taking my breath away. Incredibly powerful, uncomfortable and scary. Thank you, Louise. #CALC25

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Librarian by Day 🏳️‍🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Hear ye! Hear Ye! The new Disability in LIS Journal (DisLIS) is now actively recruiting media reviews (books, movies, websites, what have you) of materials that have disability as a major component, from people who have experience with that disability. cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/

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Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS) | Journals | Minnesota State University, Mankato

<p><i>Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS) </i> is an open access, multimedia journal run by information professionals who work in various types of information-oriented jobs. All m...

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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Parliament is going to have a debate on self-ID on 19th May. If your MP is supportive of trans rights, it’s really important that you write to them to ask them to be there. The transphobes will turn out in force - we need to make sure allies do too.

A screenshot of an email that says:

Dear Arthur Webber,

Parliament is going to debate the petition you signed – “Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender.”.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701159

The debate is scheduled for 19 May 2025.

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Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Dreaming of a slower pace of life? Welcome to Georgian Property Listings. We’ve raided the archives and dusted off a set of charming 19th-century prints showing rural cottages near Colchester — and imagined what they'd look like as estate listings from the past. 🧵👇

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A statement from the Board of Trustees of the Vagina Museum regarding trans inclusion.

The Vagina Museum Board of Trustees response to the UK Supreme Court ruling

In light of the UK Supreme Court ruling, the Board of Trustees of the Vagina Museum wish to express their unequivocal support of and solidarity with their trans staff, volunteers, community partners, visitors and wider audience.

From the outset, the Vagina Museum has always been trans inclusive. An important part of its mission around spreading knowledge and raising awareness of gynaecological anatomy and health has been to challenge normative assumptions around our bodies and how they may or may not be connected to experiences of gender, gender expression and broader sexuality.

In doing so, we highlight that sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation and other characteristics related to sexual identity exist in various different combinations and their relationship to one another is never clear cut. What is clear to us is that everyone, regardless of their body parts, are deserving of human rights, dignity and the power to identity as they wish to.

Just as we act as a forum for women’s reproductive health and rights from a feminist, inclusive and intersectional perspective; we will continue to advocate for trans+, non-binary and queer communities and rights.

We cannot talk about feminism unless our feminism includes trans folks.
We cannot talk about reproductive rights without trans rights.
We cannot advocate for human rights without trans rights.

The ruling comes amidst an increasingly frightening climate for trans people in the UK and globally. We will continue to abide by our values, and ensure that the Vagina Museum remains a space in which trans people are included, welcomed and celebrated.

In solidarity.

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Thursday April 24th: join me for a free webinar, "Working Together to Improve Disability and Medical Subject Headings." Thanks to Minitex for a terrific webinar series focusing on #critcat collective action! 📚 #MedLibs 🦀 minitex.umn.edu/events/webin...

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Working Together to Improve Disability and Medical Subject Headings | Minitex

The library profession has undergone a sea change in controlled vocabulary in the past five years—cataloging librarians are working together to improve Library of Congress Subject Headings and rethink...

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 16/04/2025

Currently reading the draft 2025 edition of the International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) from the @iflaglobal.bsky.social Cataloguing Section - #cataloguers and #metadata professionals worldwide are invited to review and comment on the 2025 ICP by Friday 16th May see: www.ifla.org/news/interna...

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Just launched: International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) worldwide review

The ICP working group is proud to present the revised version of the International Cataloguing Principles (ICP), approved in 2025 by the IFLA Cataloguing Section. A worldwide revie...

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Allison @readaway.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We're still looking for volunteers for a working group on local authorities to address the recent #LCSH changes to Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali. The working group aims to provide guidance on how libraries can either change their subject display or create local authorities #critcat

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/04/2025

Excuses. An older comic.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, there's an excerpt from an email that says "Re: New Tasks. Thanks for your email. Please be advised that I may take longer to answer emails because I'm swamped." And there's a person sitting happily on a rock, deep in a red maple swamp, with a frog and ferns and such. Another email excerpt says "I'm just really bogged down." The person is sitting on a bog boardwalk, surrounded by bog and fen fauna like an arethusa orchid, a pitcher plant, larch and spruce, and a canada jay. The email says "I'm not out of the woods yet." The person is happily wandering through the forest, looking at lichens and mushrooms. The email says "Sorry, it's crunch time." The person is kneeling in a forest, watching a red squirrel crunch away at a pine cone.

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Victoria Parkinson @vlparkinson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I really, really need companies to understand that there is *no* product that I want to have AI embedded in. I want AI to be separate so I can use it if I want and not have it at all for the majority of the time. This message brought by the sudden appearance of a purple AI blob in my WhatsApp.

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Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Hey my loves if you could send me anything you've got about why it's important for academic libraries to have a fiction collection I'd be most grateful because right now all I have in my head is screaming, yelling, flipping tables etc.

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

My first post as a regular contributor to ACRLog is about LC not only implementing the changes to "Gulf of America" and "Mount McKinley," but *fast-tracking* those changes. acrlog.org/2025/03/28/a... #critcat #LCSH

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Anticipatory Obedience at the Library of Congress - ACRLog

On February 18, the Library of Congress (LC) sent an email announcement through its regular channels about a special list of revisions in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). This list con...

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Join me August 4-8th at @calrbs.bsky.social for Critical Librarianship in Praxis. Let's learn together how to make the change we want to see in our field. Priority application deadline is April 1. www.calrbs.org/critical-lib...

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Critical Librarianship in Praxis (2025) – CalRBS

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Victoria Parkinson @vlparkinson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Very grateful for the February Critcatenate summary of the LCSH changes to the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali headings as it made it nice and easy to explain to colleagues cataloginglab.org/2025/02/ #critcat

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February 2025 – Cataloging Lab

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