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Hello Bluesky people! Rome info needed! Any tips for good things to see and do on a short visit (besides forum, Vatican, etc)? Especially nice eating places in Trastevere or centre?

New look for @britishlibrary.bsky.social blogs in future, plus access to archived blogs to come this month

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Sympathies, this sounds awful

Very good luck

Mine has arrived - looking forward to reading it very much

Pristine copy of Ring The Hill, by Tom Cox, bathed in dappled September sunshine

Here it is! My second copy of @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Ring The Hill, after the first one got eaten by Royal Mail. Looking forward to Everything Will Swallow You arriving this week too

Thank you!

Found myself swearing at the top of my voice while trying to stay alive on a roundabout this morning. Shakes you up for a long while

Fish scales and butterfly wings also in the Sloane MSS at BL I believe, but I guess works of art incorporating biological material slightly different from inserts?

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social (not sure how this even works - just spent half an hour cursing over bsky age verification and found I can't DM you anyway)

Alas, my envelope arrived damaged - minus the book! Do you have any more left?

Don't feel guilty! Protect your back and yourself!

I'd like one if any are left, and I'm happy to pay the postage.

That is beautiful.

Looking forward to attending this next week very much. Great model for a conference - 3 afternoons, remote, and very affordable. Real accessibility boost. I heard there are even some places left!

Our poor bin service doesn't seem to observe any bank holidays any more (except Christmas)

Though I rarely rose to the #JacobinDay day challenge in time, I admired the endeavours of those who did

Good luck

Well done. Grim adulting is very hard.

Our spring bulbs are coming up

Was that really 2012?😱

Well, it was autumn last week

Granary Square at Kings Cross is excellent in this respect - cafes, restaurants, fun water fountains and open-air cinema.

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Oh no, I'm sorry to hear this

I was sorry when your bluesky updates on this adventure ended, so I very much enjoyed your bonus bird piece on the substack!

We have some of these round cambridge. We also call them mirabelles, and they are delicious, but I think they are really wild or at least spread by birds

Post by @redrotmegaphone 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Hello World · A blog in 2025? How quaint! Tumblr in 2025? How quaint! 2025 inspires a return to quaint, I think. Remember the pre-algorithmic internet when we found things by RSS…

Inspired by the #RBMS26 conference theme, I decided to invest in advocacy by fighting against the algorithmic internet and returning to blogging, and our old friend Tumblr. I intend to compile the news I share here once a week into a big reading list of links like the days of RSS. 📜

By which I mean transcribing