Siobhán

My sister’s cat, Poppy. She has short black and white and ginger fur, a pink nose and blue eyes. Shes a mix of snowshoe and Siamese.

My sister’s cat Inca. Shes very fluffy and her coat is a mix of light brown/white and black fur. She has blue eyes.

Another photo of Inca. She’s sitting on the couch looking grumpily at the camera.

Pls enjoy these pics of my sister’s cattes. Had to help wrangle them to the vets for their checkup. poppy, the one with short fur, yelled a lot in the car but was fine otherwise. Inca, the large fluffy cat absolutely kicked off 😂 both getting in the carrier and actually at the vets.

I've got a new piece at @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today following on from my previous piece about the British Library cyberattack and arguing that, since the UK Government clearly doesn't care about the UK knowledge sector, we need to develop our own community-led tech and infrastructure solutions.

A denim jacket with pictures of Princess Diana on the back

Keep thinking about the lady Di battle jacket I saw in Covent Garden today

One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.

a book, held up in my hand. The cover is green and on the cover is text saying ENGLISH METALWORK in an elaborate font.

The front cover of a book. The title is WAR POSTERS and it features an illustration of a man in military uniform in front of what looks like prison bars and a red heart. The book is from 1926.

a book, held up in my hand. The cover is grey and features an illustration of a pair of hands knitting. Underneath in cursive font is the title of the book: the pictorial guide to modern home knitting’. The text is made to look like it’s coming from a ball of wool.

Anyway I only seem to use this account for commute whinges, so have some nice old book covers that I stumbled across at work instead.

“Bro…bro…” you are in your late 30s/early 40s. Stop this nonsense.

A fellow train regular, who I know as stern faced library book woman is looking at them like she’s going to beat them to death with her book lol

Now three guys have been talking loudly across the aisle for about 45 mins about jujitsu and Bitcoin and it’s like some pieces of foam board have been made sentient. Protein shakes! Training! Stocks! SHUT THE FUCK UP.

A tiny polished wooden carving of a rounded rodent with detailed ears, paws, textured fur and glossy beady eyes resting on a light surface. Netsuke is a type of miniature ornament initially used to secure containers or kimonos. This sculpture is 2.5cm tall, tiny! 🥹

Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan

This evening’s train treat: a man whipping out a can of lynx deodrant and spraying himself with great abandon. The train carriage smells like a school disco from 1998.

Was trying to speak to a group of students at work earlier and was disrupted by the sounds of this.

The question we are all asking.

The start to the morning you want: a woman getting on the train with her kid and saying “it’s good this carriage is empty as nobody will be able to smell Mummy’s horrible egg sandwich…oh the carriage isn’t empty, oh well!”

Now everything reeks of evil fart. Too early for this shit.

Ahaahahahaaa

A 1 litre glass bottle held in my hand. It’s full of clear liquid (martini mix)

This week: absolute train hell for 2/4 of my commute days and reaching my absolute limit due to various things at work. Last night was DELIGHTED when I remembered this prebatched martini was in the fridge.

AI is really ruining the art of badly photoshopping something

Letraset inspired blanket. www.thedesignersfoundry.com/goods/goodma...

Very good.

Via @its-nice-that.bsky.social

Full credit to @simonxix.com for spotting that the French translation of 'radical librarianship' is 'bibliothéconomie militante'... watch out for our forthcoming article with the ever wonderful @sluginkpress.bsky.social.

When Bruce Springsteen sang "at night, we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines", he was talking about people who log on to LinkedIn after 6pm to write fanfiction about how good they are at their job.

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

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The London punk newsletter — November 2025 listings out now Hello, paper punks. Another Subculture’s issue for November is out now and making its away around town this Halloween weekend. Yes, I am getting back in the...

NOVEMBER 2025's punk listings zine is out now! A few plans, a few videos in the 'newsletter for the newsletter' below: buttondown.com/anothersubcu...

Are you a cataloguer or interested in cataloguing and have a view on whether LCSH is fit for purpose in a UK context? CILIP MDG @cilipmdg.bsky.social are hosting a Worldcafe event (a big meeting basically!) to discuss ideas at Wellcome Library in London Wed 26th Nov www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...

Support the British Library strikers More than 300 PCS members at the British Library in London are striking over their poverty wages for two weeks from Monday (27) to Sunday, 9 November and need your support in person and online.

This post has been in draft a while but it feels particularly timely given the strike over pay that starts tomorrow (27th Oct) at the British Library. If you've ever despaired at the low salaries at the BL now is the time to act in solidarity www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/... #BritishLibraryOnStrike

We could be in for a classic year

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!

No scabbing, please. Support your striking library workers.

Nothing but respect for these legends.

This is a govia Thameslink hate account

Monday: no direct trains from Brighton to Victoria.
Tuesday: no direct trains from Brighton to Victoria.
Today: had to try to go into work at short notice. Standing on the platform waiting for a train: they’re cancelled due to points failure.
Price of season ticket: £5.5k