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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I'm so tired of it. Neil Gaiman claiming autism. Musk claiming autism. Autism doesn't make you do terrible, terrible things. Stop. Blaming. Autism.

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Has anyone had eyes on Dame Judi? 😳

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I’ll never forget going to see Mulholland Drive on its opening day. (What a film!) It was just after Noon. There were a total of 8 weirdo loners scattered throughout the auditorium: me (a spiky-haired, bleach blonde Art History student) & 7 perfectly bald bespectacled men. #DavidLynch

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Just found out about #DavidLynch passing away & I am utterly gutted. What a mind. What a loss. #RIP

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Don’t know if it’s the colour that’s adding to the perception… but this soap at work really has a more than a whiff of The Calpol. (Back when it tasted lovely because it was full of sugar)

Lurid dark purple hand soap in pump dispenser called ‘Driving Gnome For Christmas’ and alleges that the scent is cotton candy and winter berries. Illustration on the bottle features a very snowy, gently rolling landscape with snow laden fir trees, a gonk (gnome creature) with its head out the window of a small red ‘proper’ Fiat 500 style car (that would never be able to traverse that landscape) with a small fir tree poking out the other car window.

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 28/07/2024

Bit of a drive-by posting. (Sorry. Life is being… difficult, but I’m getting there.) The versatility of cardboard comes though for me again. A Birthday Cake box for Harry Potter’s Birthday Party (which will contain wee, ickle fairy cakes on the day) #LibraryLife Just finished it yesterday.

A trompe l’oeil Birthday Cake box. The bottom, inner, portion is crudely painted to look like a Victoria sponge, dribbled bits of jam included. The top part (which slides down over the bottom/inner) is covered in lots of layers pink, wrinkled and PVA glued tissue paper.

The top/outside of the pink Birthday Cake box has green ‘icing’ (string liberally coated in green tinted PVA glue) that reads - HAPPEE BIRTHDAE HARRY.

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

Visiting an old haunt today. Very surprised (& pleased) to see this tiny addition I made to the notice board yonks ago still there ☺️😇🤭 #publibs #LibraryHumour #ForThoseOfACertainAge

A teeny tiny bit of paper doodled up to look old and featuring a few fake bullet holes at the bottom right.
(Read in the style of The A Team into)

"In 1972, a crack North Lanarkshire Library unit was sent to prison by a Dewey Decimal Court for a shelving crime they didn't commit.
These bibliophiles promptly escaped from a maximum security repository to the literary underground.
Today, still wanted by the Head of Libraries they survive as shelvers of fortune.
If you have a problem bookshelf, if no one else can help, and if you can find them.... maybe you can hire THE A TO Z TEAM."

🎶 Nah na nah. Duh duh duuh. Da dada da d’ daa. Nah nanana nah! 🎶

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

You can do all of these things online, but If anyone needs forms downloaded and printed or help filling them in pop in to your nearest library for assistance. I’ve had all the various forms printed and ready to go for folk since the start of the year so don’t be shy, we’re there to help you ☺️

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

When I was 4 years old I had a very lovely, & very well loved, pair of these in blue. First go of having my feet sized in the big machine you had to stand on (that DIDN’T squash your tootsies even though it certain seemed like it would) to get them. I was convinced these shoes made me run faster.

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Well! The library is ready for #TowelDay Still undecided as to whether or not I’ll fully Arthur Dent cosplay it on the day. 🤔 #DouglasAdams

A tall library display shelf filled with Douglas Adams books, a sign proclaiming Towel Day 25th May Don’t Panic, with a very retro pit towel draped onto the first shelf.
There are another two shelves below these ones, but the books are a wee bitty more well-loved so the ones in the photo are the prettiest.

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

I don’t know why this happens, but eventually the back pain books always end up on the bottom shelf. #ironic #publibs

Photo of a library bookshelf - the bottom shelf which is maybe 15cm from the floor - that is currently where you will find the bad back/back pain books.

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

If I’m going to be here for 12 hours ( @damianbarr.bsky.social is doing an author talk this evening which is fully booked 👍) I WILL be properly caffeinated with a high roast Cuban Altura Lavado. #publibs

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

incredible book cover

A cover for Moby Dick, made from beige leather with whale skin markings carved in and 1 3-D eye

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

Aha! #TowelDay is not far off *rubs hands* Let the gathering of books begin.

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Andy Warhol @warhol.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

History books are being re-written all the time.

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Now THAT is some impressive problem solving… 👏👏👏👏#RedneckEngineeringScottishStyle

Interior: supermarket
A large piece of plastic sheeting is attached to the ceiling forming a funnel of sorts. A length of clear plastic tubing is fixed through the bottom of the makeshift water catcher/funnel. This runs directly into a bucket on the floor below.

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 20/04/2024

Folks did you know you can subscribe to the AI Imagery Labeler, and it will filter out AI image content from you feeds? Works very well, is totally free and makes your life so much better. 🧡

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

#weirdthingsfoundintheLibrary A pair of of balled up knickers (black) hidden behind a row of book sale hardbacks yesterday. 👍🙄🤢 Swiftly removed by way of broken ruler straight into the bin. The broken ruler also went binwards. #publibs (Shelf and nearby books got a good disinfection as well.)

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

Think it’s safe to put the summer wheels on the motor. (Watch this space… it’ll snow in the next few weeks because I’ve done this early 😒)

Mint green car with Baby Moon wheel trims which are basically mirror chromed convex discs on the wheels.

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

If you see this, post a monster… I was tempted to make this a skosh political, but went with childhood nightmare fodder instead.

Evil Edna from Willo the Wisp (an early 1980’s children’s cartoon)
Edna is basically a TV (the 1980’s kind of massive box with buttons and dials) with four chrome legs and feet who used her aerial antenna to zap the other characters with zigzag witchy energy of some kind. Her face takes up the entire 4:3 olde TV ratio screen. She has only two random teeth and evil ochre eyes. She’s always scowling and has very heavy, grumpy eyebrows. Inexplicably (& horrifically for 5 year old me) she has a few random wisps of hair in a fringe that disappears into the casing of her telly body.

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Kay Orchison @handle.invalid · 16/04/2024

Modern architecture is shit

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

I’m so excited! And it’s such a cliche that I’m excited about a new book, but… … it’s finally here! Kirsten Bakis’ ( @kirstenbakis.bsky.social ) second novel. I’m going to be good and keep it until the weekend. I am. Yes.

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

A truly Labour politician. Not too many of those left…

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 05/04/2024

Alasdair Gray: Works in Print 5–27 April, Glasgow Print Studio. Free – also online Alasdair Gray (1934–2019) was uniquely influential in Scottish arts & literature, & followed a tradition of writer–illustrators such as William Blake & Rudyard Kipling shop.glasgowprintstudio.co.uk/exhibitions/...

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Alasdair Gray: Works in Print | 5 - 27 April 2024

Alasdair Gray (1934 - 2019) , was an author and artist, whose work has been uniquely influential to Scottish arts and literature. Born and raised in Glasgow, Gray studied Design and Mural Painting at ...

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

Och… Sod it! It’s my day off tomorrow so I declare this Vodka Gimlet o’clock. Cheers! 🍸

A stemmed Gimlet glass filled with 1 part Rose’s Lime Cordial and 1 parts Reyka vodka (in front of bottles of the same), rendered in a very bad comic book filter which makes everything look kind of watery and wiggly and reddish.
Don’t know why I used it.
Never mind it’s Gimlet o’clock!
Huzzah!

Short excerpt from The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler:

"We sat in a corner of the bar at Victor's and drank gimlets. 'They don't know how to make them here, he said. 'What they call a gimlet is just some lime or lemon juice and gin with a dash of sugar and bitters. A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's Lime Juice and nothing else. It beats martinis hollow!"

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

You wouldn’t stone a temple pilot.

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

Since it’s World #Autism Acceptance Week… I thought I’d do a thing in the #library & help spread the word on behalf of my people. ✊😊 #publibs 📚

A display of books in a narrow section of library display shelving has a colourful spectrum header Autism Acceptance Week 2-8 April with oodles of fiction and non-fiction books about, by and for Autistic and Neurodiverse folk.

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

Yup! ‘Oh, but you’re soooo difficult to buy presents for…’

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

What would’ve taken maybe ½ an hour’s worth of conversation by phone to a person in the correct dept. is going to take days (if not weeks realistically speaking) by ‘Employee Self Service Portal’. Ad interim, yeah just keep underpaying me by £300 a month. Thanks ever so 👍 📉 employees ≠ 📈 efficiency

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 31/03/2024

The time has been, That when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end; but now they rise again

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 31/03/2024

A beautiful Harry Wingfield Easter egg for you - and yes, it is a painting (1971) Happy Easter

A photo realistic painting of a large, traditional, partially-opened Easter egg in purple foil with a yellow bow

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Tom Gauld @handle.invalid · 31/03/2024

Hunting for Easter Eggs with Werner Herzog

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

If you see this, I invite you to post a picture from whatever device you were using without explanation

A student is seen from behind, seated at an individual study booth which is claret in colour. He has short red hair, is wearing a grey top and has his black jacket slung over the back of his chair, black backpack beside him. He rest his chin on one elbow. He is wearing large white ear protectors.

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Widdershins @widdershins.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

What’s your best cinematic experience? 📽️ Fri 4th Jan 2001 11am UGC Glasgow Mulholland Drive 1st showing I go alone By the end I feel… off balance & enervated Nobody leaves Lights go up post credits & I see there were only 8 of us at that early showing: me & 7 completely bald men All of us alone

A 22 year old cinema ticket for the first showing of the latest David Lynch film - Mullholland Drive.
information on the ticket:
Screen 18, 11:00, 04/01/02
UGC Cinemas UGC Glasgow
MULHOLLAN
EARLY B £3.00
GA GA
04/01/02 10:44
0000002 PG 6 Cash

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

The fish doorbell in Utrecht is up and running! Watch an underwater livestream, see a fish, press the "doorbell" to signal the Weerdsluis lock operator to open the lock and let the fish into the canal

A grid of 16 images from an underwater camera show a variety of fish in a canal, waiting for a lock to open so they can swim through

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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 27/03/2024

Farewell to the American artist Richard Serra (1938-2024), whose grand steel works defined the Minimalist art movement. Frequently overpowering and menacing they pushed sculpture into new conceptual realms.

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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 24/03/2024

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

Screenshot from a scan of page 289 of an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote. The text is set in two columns. In the left column, we read in part “thou hast hit the point, Sancho, which can alone shake my resolution”, and on the right “thy share of the booty would would have been at least the emperor’s crown of gold”; by coincidence, these align so that the phrase “shake my booty” can be read across the columns.

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 25/03/2024

We open 5 non-compliance investigations under the #DMA. It concerns: 🔹Alphabet’s rules on steering in Google Play 🔹Alphabet’s self-preferencing in Google Search 🔹Apple’s rules on steering in the App Store 🔹Apple's choice screen for Safari 🔹Meta’s pay or consent model More ↓ europa.eu/!4NF6bV

Text saying Digital Markets Act and non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta

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