Sophie Lay

PCS union poster showing the calendar for the pickets and rallies at the upcoming strike for decent wages by library workers at the British Library.

The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better.
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!

The end logic of this if you’re in the UK btw is DEFEND THE BBC.

Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.

I submitted my dissertation proposal let's fucking goooooooooooo

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay - Research Professional News Two-week walkout planned on second anniversary of major cyberattack

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

It's nonsense that I had a headache last night so I finished d&d early and went to sleep early and I wake up this morning and... still have a headache

austin “eating out of the trash” swift and andrea “used to say she wished that you were dead” swift
The Swift family don’t play 😭😭

Becky Chambers!!!!

Yeah... when I said this I forgot we had to open a library in those two weeks so they have NOT been spent snoozing...

Ursula K. Le Guin's poetry collection So Far So Good: Final Poems 2014-2018, the cover of which shows a river in the foreground, with golden, rugged hills in the background.

AUTUMN gold of amber red of ember brown of umber all September

"Autumn" is the first part of "Six Quatrains," which appears in So Far So Good (Copper Canyon Press, 2018).

So jealous! 💖

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement * Middle East crisis – live updates A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts. It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Four photographs of chappell roan napping in various places

Completed my final assignment for library school... only the dissertation to go now

Unrelated anyway here's my plans for the next two weeks

No YOU thought the cute probably-queer person at the bus stop was giving you the eye until they said "there's a wasp in your hair"

I think about this a lot but when it comes down to it I love this horrible, benighted, miserable rock, I don't want to go anywhere else, and to paraphrase pam from archer I guess they're just going to have to fucking kill me aren't they

Actually Romantic is mine I can feel it

Ban trans women from single-sex spaces, equality watchdog to say

The EHRC is not changing course on their bathroom ban.

They don’t care what the consultation said.

So what happens now? 🧵

archive.ph/inGpF

A photograph of a green tree. One branch has been damaged, and as a result the leaves have turned red on that branch

Omg she dyed a streak in her hair

A little bit of bedtime chamomile? 🌼

Wow, turns out that moving house at the same time as working in a library undergoing a merger & physical move is actually... very stressful! Who could have guessed 🤷‍♀️

A drawing with text and images describing some of the basics of handling rare books, including: don’t slide along shelves, try not to touch the ink, touch materials with clean, dry hands, keep materials out of direct sunlight, etc.

Finally got around to doing a first draft of an infographic/drawing on the basics of handling rare books :)

I am no expert on this but something like this is Cal Newport’s thought too. He suggests: every device is age-locked when you buy it based on stated purpose, ID you show and card you use to buy it. A child device is managed by a named adult (or several). They can decide to make that an adult device

I had to wear my favourite skirt today, just in case I meet the love of my life in [checks notes] the local screening of a twenty-year-old movie

I have been working in libraries for four years now and I still parse the abbreviation 'facsims' (facsimiles) as 'fascism'

I fell in love the second I saw it!

The new RHSE guidance hasn't been published yet. The draft people are linking to was from the last government. I'm not saying it's impossible Labour have done a transphobia again, that's like one of their favourite things to do, but prob worth waiting for more details before reacting.

A photograph of a crowd watching a re-enactment of a medieval battle

A photograph of me, from over my shoulder, holding a rainbow fan outside an old abbey

A photograph of me using a bow and arrow

A photograph of me wearing a leather arm guard and holding a rainbow fan

You guys, medieval festivals are FUN

They left me alone in the office so it's time to put TTPD on LOUD 🤘

Photograph of three mugs hand-painted with strawberries, flowers, bows, etc.

My housemates ambushed me this weekend with mug painting 🖌

Higher Education Pay 2025/26 | UNISON National There is a major crisis within higher education. After years of low pay, below inflation offers and with the continuing cost of living crisis – your pay

Hard working, dedicated support staff in higher education have received a pay rise offer of just 1.4%. This is not good enough, especially in midst of a cost of living crisis. The online consultation is now open, and UNISON is recommending that members REJECT this offer. #fundourfuture #fundourpay