Paula Clarke Bain

For a #FollowFriday #FF: here’s my starter pack of freelance book indexers and indexing societies on Bluesky. There’s room for more if you wish to be included too. #IndexSky

Wishing I could be there but hope to see more about it from afar. Best of luck with it all.

Design Index featuring Shannon Mattern | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum A LIBRARY PROGRAM WITH Media & Design Scholar Shannon Mattern & DESIGN LIBRARIAN JENNIFER COHLMAN BRACCHI Join us for Design Index, a public program series at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library...

I've been the "Design Indexer" in rez at the Cooper Hewitt library this 😎. On Sept 10 we'll explore library resources that frame the INDEX itself — the Index of 🇺🇸 Design (the prjct's namesake), the index card, the manicule 👈, etc — as a material, designed thing, esp contra AI's indexical flattening

Scathing personal critisism via an indexn has excellent entertainment value. Courtesy of 'Index, A History of the: A bookish adventure' by @djbduncan.bsky.social

Another good @indexers.bsky.social session (thread below). The ‘passing mention’ issue never goes away. I mentioned Emma Warnken Johnson’s handy flowchart and colour-coding to aid decision fatigue from @indexerscanada.bsky.social conference. Those ambers are always tricky. 🚦

Conference 2025: ‘The Heart and Mind of Indexing’ The Society of Indexers 2025 conference will be an in-person residential conference at Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre at the University of Birmingham from Friday 19 September to Sunday 21 ...

Two weeks left to book for @indexers.bsky.social #SIConf25. With:
@carosanderson.bsky.social
@djbduncan.bsky.social
@tanyaizzard.bsky.social on AI
@closereadingie.bsky.social peer-review panel
@annkingdom.bsky.social and me on humour
plus more. Join us! #IndexSky
www.indexers.org.uk/conference-2...

Look forward to seeing more of what you’re working on, and happy to help further if I can.

Have a lovely cryptic picnic. Sorry I couldn’t make it this time.

That sold it to me already. Just ordered one, thanks!

Some lovely examples of index creativity in this thread begun by @shannonmattern.bsky.social, including one or two of my own. #IndexSky @indexers.bsky.social

Front covers of three books: – Index, A History of the (Dennis Duncan) – Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction (ed. Hazel K. Bell) – The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition (eds Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires)

Thanks Nina and hi Shannon. Yes, creative examples in Dennis’s book (e.g. Alejandro Cesarco’s Index series) and Hazel Bell’s Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction. And I enjoy doing an unusual index (like The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition @bethdriscoll.bsky.social @clairesquires.bsky.social).

Ozzy Osbourne funeral procession through Birmingham is being led by musicians playing Iron Man

🤘🥺🙏

Don't miss your chance to attend our 2025 Conference, The Heart and Mind of Indexing, 19-21 September, at The Writers’ Suite, Birmingham. We have a full programme for indexers at all stages of their careers. Book your place at #SIConf25 via buff.ly/agRO01Q

Thank you for this. It was a delightful index to do for @djbduncan.bsky.social’s marvellous book and always nice to see it in the wild.

Photo of part of a page of an index, black type on white. It includes three consecutive entries that start 'Google '.

The brain is a fascinating thing. Whenever I see this list of Google entries in this index, I catch a glimpse of the appropriate colours
(It is an appropriately excellent index by Paula Clarke Bain, attached to Dennis Duncan's enjoyable "Index, A History of the")

Rob Rouse: Funny Bones – UK Tour Show – coming to Thread #Stockport Thursday 9th April 2026 🔥

Star of BBC’s Upstart Crow, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Friday Night Project and Dave’s One Night Stand.

“He’s a man with genuinely funny bones” — The Sunday Times

🎟️ On sale now! wegottickets.com/event/668551

Still time to book for our 2025 Conference, The Heart and Mind of Indexing, 19-21 September, in person in Birmingham. We have a full programme of sessions and social events for indexers at all stages of their careers. Book your place at #SIConf25 via buff.ly/agRO01Q

Thanks for the tag-in. Always nice to see.

Buxton Festival Fringe programme cover 9–27 July 2025 www.buxtonfringe.org.uk children's events • comedy • dance • film • music • spoken word • street theatre • theatre • visual arts … and more! Cover artwork: ‘Joyful’ by David Steeden, High Peak Artists – a colour illustration of artists and musicians in front of a happy crowd with orange balloons and orange bunting

Buxton Fringe programme details and orchestra photo: MRO at the Fringe Manchester Recorder Orchestra MRO is back once more with a wide-ranging programme of music for large recorder ensemble. Contemporary pieces are mixed in with some Prokofiev and Verdi to guarantee something for everyone's musical taste – there's even a clarinet solo! Trinity Church (45) 19 Jul 7:30pm to 9:30pm £9 (Child Free, Conc £8), Ages 8+ Tickets on the door.

Manchester Recorder Orchestra concert tonight (Sat 19 July, 7.30pm) at Trinity Church for Buxton Fringe @buxtonfringe.bsky.social:
Prokofiev, Verdi, modern works including ‘Craft Brew’, on eight sizes of recorder from sopranino to subcontrabass. (I’m on tenor.) Come see us. We’re good! 🎶

Sloggers & Betters York 2025: www.fifteensquared.net/2025/07/07/s...

Hello there! Yes, hoping to and looking into it. I’ll confirm my interest on Fifteensquared for @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social.

One niche laugh still counts, right? I loved it all, thank you.

YouTube video by p0rtaccio Alan A'Dale

This is so wonderful, and stupid. Also, although there are five people in this, I defy you to take your eyes off Dudley Moore, whose face moves like stop-motion animation and, around the one minute mark, gives the impression through expression only that he has scandalous details he'll never reveal!

What a treat to see @misterabk.bsky.social in @undergroundvenues.bsky.social (Buxton Working Men’s Club) tonight at @buxtonfringe.bsky.social. If I wasn’t performing in Manchester Recorder Orchestra at the Fringe on Saturday, I would go twice, and be the biggest fan of the adverb material again.

Another hilarious, ridiculous and horrifying show at Thread last night! Murder Inc delivered laughs galore in the Tragic Kingdom. 😃

Join us next month for Play Dead, a murder mystery set at a dog show!
🎟️ wegottickets.com/event/668785

#Stockport #comedyclub #comedy #improv

Two of my professional membership logos in blue: – Society of Indexers Fellow logo – CIEP Advanced Professional Member logo. The i in the CIEP (Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading) logo is an upside-down exclamation mark.

Enjoyed many real and virtual freelancer meet-ups this week: @the-ciep.bsky.social Manchester local group Monday, more tips from @indexers.bsky.social Three Choirs Zoom on Wednesday, and an indexing Coffee Morning Zoom on Thursday. Important to stay connected and good fun too! #Edibuddies #IndexSky

A great Zoom with @indexers.bsky.social today and David Green on indexing his own true crime books. He highlighted the need for discipline (against author bias and self-indulgence) and sensitivity with such material. These indexes are well *written* by a human, not compiled automatically. #IndexSky

Peasants
-anticipation of misfortune
#indexoftheweek
@indexers.bsky.social

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Many congrats!