Rachel J Kirkwood

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.

Using a conceptual metaphor based on a container schema 🤶

Ouch.

This is too funny. (You don’t have to have seen the Sid James/Benjamin Britten meme, but it might help.)

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/...

LOL - and then there’s Pécs — Pécsett😆

Great writing Hazel!
I know a very rude phrase in Hungarian that I’d like to send in Dr Maté’s direction for the upset he has caused in this household 😡

As god intended 😉

www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...

Yup. See also RTD’s Years and Years.

Nah, it’s using fuzzy matching and treating Moffat as the same as Moffett.

Kinda chilling.
I was wanting to post sth about Boom, AI & war.

I’ve been severely rationing my news intake since the pandemic. Need to balance ‘being informed & ready to act’ with ‘being healthy & able to act’.

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!

@scribblesscript.bsky.social Google’s AI thinks you are Steven Moffat 😆 (only superficially funny)

Well I googled the name of the act + “territorial application” 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).

Perfectly valid choice in an English context.

Er, hello?
Interesting choice of GIF there …

Yeah, she’s the one who when working for the politically impartial BBC described Jeremy Corbyn ‘leaving his lair’. A memorable phrase.

Long got summers are overrated.
Emily Brontë had it right!

Aha! So that’s who they named the library after!
My first encounter with an OPAC was there.

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 couldn’t come.
I’m still bitter …

I shook her hand when I graduated.
Didn’t curtsy though 😆

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 here👇
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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.

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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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