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.
02.12.2025 16:32 β π 25 π 16 π¬ 2 π 0
Using a conceptual metaphor based on a container schema π€Ά
03.12.2025 07:59 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Ouch.
30.11.2025 10:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This is too funny. (You donβt have to have seen the Sid James/Benjamin Britten meme, but it might help.)
26.11.2025 23:07 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Everybody has a right to make their own mind up, informed by a range of good information - that's power. It's also a fundamental issue for our profession. Yet is under attack. CILIP members & non-members can join this new #IntellectualFreedom Committee www.cilip.org.uk/news/713670/...
26.11.2025 10:30 β π 7 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
LOL - and then thereβs PΓ©cs β PΓ©csettπ
26.11.2025 22:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Great writing Hazel!
I know a very rude phrase in Hungarian that Iβd like to send in Dr MatΓ©βs direction for the upset he has caused in this household π‘
14.11.2025 23:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
As god intended π
07.11.2025 22:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...
28.10.2025 17:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yup. See also RTDβs Years and Years.
11.10.2025 08:04 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Nah, itβs using fuzzy matching and treating Moffat as the same as Moffett.
10.10.2025 22:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Kinda chilling.
I was wanting to post sth about Boom, AI & war.
10.10.2025 21:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Iβve been severely rationing my news intake since the pandemic. Need to balance βbeing informed & ready to actβ with βbeing healthy & able to actβ.
10.10.2025 21:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!
10.10.2025 21:28 β π 184 π 37 π¬ 2 π 3
@scribblesscript.bsky.social Googleβs AI thinks you are Steven Moffat π (only superficially funny)
10.10.2025 21:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Well I googled the name of the act + βterritorial applicationβ and it pointed me to a Wikipedia entry that suggested the Act applied to E, W, NI, but not S (which has its own act).
09.09.2025 09:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Perfectly valid choice in an English context.
07.09.2025 19:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Er, hello?
Interesting choice of GIF there β¦
07.09.2025 19:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yeah, sheβs the one who when working for the politically impartial BBC described Jeremy Corbyn βleaving his lairβ. A memorable phrase.
07.09.2025 18:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Long got summers are overrated.
Emily BrontΓ« had it right!
05.09.2025 13:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Aha! So thatβs who they named the library after!
My first encounter with an OPAC was there.
05.09.2025 12:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Fabulous! But at least your parents were there. In 1989, the year it was 99.9% certain I would graduate, my parents double-booked themselves to a holiday abroad and couldnβt come.
Iβm still bitter β¦
05.09.2025 12:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I shook her hand when I graduated.
Didnβt curtsy though π
05.09.2025 11:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Perfect timing for the first weekend of Autumn - the new issue of The Linguist has just been published on the CIOL website! Full of features and news from the world of languages, download your copy hereπ
www.ciol.org.uk/thelinguist
#CIOL #TheLinguist #Translation #Interpreting #LatestNews #Languages
05.09.2025 09:59 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
What would life be without a TBR pile?
I have to admit that I actually shelved some of mine yesterday in a sudden attack of realism. And the need to actually write something.
04.09.2025 14:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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It stinks when even reading is tiring.
There's always doomscrolling ...
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In diese Stadt hatte ich mich verliebt.
In der Stadt auch.
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