Lorna

This sounds very interesting. I presume the RMS Empress of Ireland disaster was further away from the areas you are looking at and more inland but could the fog affecting it be similar to that of your work at all? Thanks.

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So in a level of WTAF .....

This morning went to Barclays Bank (which was open for a few hours) but UNABLE to pay in cash because my notes have been folded!!!!!

Advised that if I tried the machine would eat them and they couldn't access. Told to go to Post Office instead. #Banking

Okay my Mum has always shared her Clinique free gifts with me but this morning's offering seemed harsh.

I had the choice between a large or small pot of Wrinkle Correcting Cream!!!! 🤔

Don't think need it but can't be definite since my sight is that bad I can't see my reflection easily.

Mother: Frances 'Fanny' Cramp

Just come across this family in a tree. 😆

However what is so demoralising is even when tell people NO or not interested get no respect for this or ME?!

Absolutely not and most then actually worse to be around (can't cut some from my life unfortunately). Just feels like I'm screaming into a void that even when I try my voice goes unheard.

Not the kind of post I like to put out but just getting very fed up of people absolutely incapable of respecting boundaries and that no means no.

I've always been easy going and won't make waves so ended up having people tell me to stop letting myself be walked over etc which is hard when nice.

How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? A digital endorsement process gone wrong

Found over on Mastodon: how bad UX design has led to Iceland having 82 people running for president, with many not even knowing they were running...

uxdesign.cc/how-do-you-a...

Table on riverside terrace at Phoenix Wharf, Wapping.

There’s an obvious health and safety issue for anyone using one side of this riverside table at Wapping.

I already got Mad Enough to Blog It™ yesterday about the WordPress thing but here it comes again—the time-suck of just having to figure out whether or not any particular service you used for some fully unrelated purpose is selling your stuff off for AI fodder indignity.substack.com/i/142156685/...

Genealogy and FamilyHistory people with blogs on WordPress 👇ICYMI

Mum was reading the book whilst pregnant...... 😛

Digital Domesday Book lasts 15 years not 1000 Databases recorded in old computer formats can no longer be accessed on new generation machines, while magnetic storage tapes and discs have physically decayed, ruining precious databases.

This is always worth recirculating: www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/mar/... The cautionary tale of the first gosh-wow excited attempt to digitise Domesday Book.

Just checking - all empty?! 😛

Same here. Saw The Stranger then a gap before Fool Me Once and decided that's enough.

Block and move on. Block and move on. Block on a whim, Block weird replies. We are not here to "win" the internet, we are here to read cool posts from experts and artists we would never ordinarily be able to interact with, and occasionally promote our own cool stuff to like-minded weirdos.

Bluesky is now open. Science Twitter, here’s how to use it! The once-great science twitter is, depending on who you talk to, either dying or dead. Once a vibrant place for many discussions related to my fields of marine biology, ocean conservation, and publ…

Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter.

Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪

www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...

Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Sustainable Access in a Digital Age Digital library services experts field reflect on the sustainability of research practices in the current age

Event:
The cyber incident at the British Library has called into question our reliance on online systems to consult medieval manuscripts.

Join this conversation on the current situation, and on rethinking practices
🕔 5-6.30pm
💻 Wed 7 Feb Online (free)
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/feb24/...

I am horrified that the University of Kent is planning the closure of many excellent programmes, including Anthropology, and is proposing up to 58 redundancies among academic staff! This further destruction of UK centres of academic excellence is heartbreaking.

I've always had issues with certain shampoos but will bear that in mind thanks if get them again.

Why is it that after years of being the nice person doing everything for others at cost to yourself and encouraged to not be such a doormat that when you dare to try and put yourself first that told so wrong for that too?!

Good to see this petition calling for a rethink of government plans to destroy post-1858 wills circulating. Important to share as widely as possible across all those interested in history and heritage. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/65...

My issue with Bluesky is I see so many posts from just the few that I don't see those I'm following that may wish to interact with.

And half the time if I go search under the ancestry type threads can't find much different from the same few again.

Do I just need to post for sake of posting?

Ancestry are now telling me there's 47 DNA matches who are on both sides on my tree. Probably should apologise to those poor people related to me at least once. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

DNA Family Secrets Stacey Dooley helps people find answers to life-changing questions using the power of DNA.

For those of you who have been asking if there is going to be a series 4 of DNA Family Secrets, I hear the Beeb are waiting to see what the iPlayer figures are. So, do pop it on if you've not seen it yet. All episodes are here! 😀🧬

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

This project about the history of Tiger Bay in South Wales looks amazing... You can sign up to volunteer too! If only there was time to do everything History-related that comes across my desk. ☹️ www.tigerbay.org.uk

Yes sadly I'm finding same.

Thumbnail montage of the Origin draft sheets - reunited here for the first time since Darwin's lifetime.

🧪 Cool!
To mark the 164th anniversary of ‘On the Origin of Species’

A fantastic piece of detective work has been published on the Darwin Online website showing scans of all known surviving pages from Darwin’s original hand-written manuscript:
darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialInt...

Rather sadly - my first post on here is to let anyone who will listen know that English/Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes is facing massive redundancies - 40% of staff to be culled by January including my own role. Please share and support, we are trying to save our livelihoods #SaveBrookesEnglish

Sent some to our ballroom dance mates (3 other couples) few years ago and had a competition. They loved it.