Dr Francis Osis

Person sitting cross-legged on a couch holding a mug, promoting wellbeing through local studies webinar on March 6.

We're: Promoting wellbeing through Local Studies at #CILIPMembersFest26. Evidence shows the positive impact of libraries for wellbeing. This session includes a keynote & opportunities to discuss & share examples with other practitioners.
Book now: https://ow.ly/8wmF50YkaRO

A Facebook comment reading "trying to wipe away all those lies you tell WLC?"

Posted a nice video on our council archive's Facebook page of me doing some minor conservation cleaning a historic letter and got this comment 😂

Premee Mohamed's These Lifeless Things 😁

Ah I thought you meant our first Solaris book so I went to hunt down my first order 😅

A watercolor painting of a satyr embracing a young man from behind, gently peeling apart the man's flesh on his chest. Birds emerge from the opening in the man's chest. The man reaches one hand to back to caress the satyr's face, the other presses the satyr's hand to his chest. There's some circular celtic knotwork designs on the borders. The overall colors are warm golds and browns.

Finally finished this up! It's done in watercolor, gouache, and color pencils. I know I should try to render it in more detail but I'm not sure I want to. I like the texture being able to be textures. Maybe that will change in the future. For now, though, I like it 😅

This is brilliant.

I used to think of the dinosaur of disconnection as a bad thing, but anymore, it can feel like relief. A crochet version is pure joy. #DHmakes 🦖

Close up photo of an embroidery of a red, yellow and blue helmet. A sponsor logo for Estrella Galicia is in the centre of the picture, with text a few mm tall

Some of my neatest ever stitched writing 😮‍💨

Desperately looking for anyone in Scotland to foster a 2 year old female cat named Bambi. Incredibly affectionate and friendly. Indoor-only. Whether temporary (a few weeks) or longer term.

She's going to be put to sleep otherwise -- due to a heart issue that won't affect her for another 12 months

Top surgery recovery going well enough that I'm finally able to embroider/sew again, woo! I definitely need a balance of creating/consuming media in my life, it feels so bland when I'm only taking things in...

Heritage & Design Officer - (Fixed-Term) - GLA14892 | Glasgow | myjobscotland View details and apply for this urban planning role in with Glasgow on myjobscotland

👀 Vacancy: "Based within Neighbourhoods, Regeneration and Sustainability and reporting to the Principal Planning Officer ... providing expert advice and guidance to development management colleagues and others in relation to heritage and urban design."

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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

That description made me instantly put it on my to read list!

This is almost certainly an undercount. Inquests into deaths can often take years. Even obvious suicides are often ruled as accidents due to cultural and religious norms. Further, many families may not be supportive and their trans identity may not have been known outside of friends.

a round pottery piece with pig eyes and a snout

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

Coming soon: The Thunder Perfect Mind An Occult Action Thriller Tabletop RPG

Get this occult action thriller ttRPG for 1-7 people. Perfect if you enjoy playing powerful undead revenants embroiled in breakneck action, interpersonal drama, and occult investigation. Soundtrack by @mollynoise.bsky.social and human-made art by @stregawolf.art. Jump in now for early bird deals!

Join the Club: ‘Heated Rivalry’ is Making Queer Hockey New York’s Hottest Sport The Pride Hockey Alliance has been bringing “hot queer friends” together for years before the buzziest show on ice.

so Heated Rivalry-pilled, I had to find the local angle about it 🏒🌈

New York’s queer hockey club is seeing a LOT more interest these days! (and so are leagues like it around the country.) new story from me:

New project+page started: "Home for Broken Wood Type". Celebrating: collecting, mending+understanding, preserving, printing w/broken wood letterpress type. Part of my printing+research during my Jan. artist residency+fellowship. Better+more photos+info to come. enthusiastictype.com/brokenwoodty...

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Obviously depends on details but yes very much interested!

Ah reasonable! I'm on surgery recovery so equally slow getting round to things, no rush 😁

Was busy last week so catching up but don't think I got a message! Let me know if there's still something you wanted to chat about 🙂

Announcing the Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminars for 2026

Regular registration is open until 26 April 2026. Numbers are limited so please register early to guarantee a place.
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A potato, All Officer Marges Are Bastards, Fat Tony, and a counterfeit jeans ring operating out of my car-hole.

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Community Engagement Officer - GEM The National Centre for Music (NCM) are seeking to appoint a Community Engagement Officer to play a fundamental role in the delivery of our Activity Plan supported by the National […]

New #job Community Engagement Officer at the National Centre for Music #Scotland

Apply by 18 February 2026

Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/communi...

#GEMJobs #ScotlandJobs #LearningJobs #CommunityEngagement

Sign the Petition Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year!

Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him.

He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary.

His health is declining.

Public outrage might save his life.

Say his name:

YouTube video by Who Hurt You? Actual Play Gallows Corner - A Farmer's Sin (Episode 1)

"Havering won't forget tonight. Or forgive it."

Episode 1 of our Gallows Corner actual play is out now and it is incredible, if we do say so ourselves.

Watch it back now!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVHD...

Finally got top surgery yesterday and trying to describe how I feel about it is less excited/joyful etc and more satisfaction at an irritating problem being solved, like how you feel when the council finally come and empty the bins after Christmas

THIS THIS THIS. And all of the thread (which will be achingly familiar to anyone who's ever done work-mandated bite-sized online training supplied by an external provider).

Seconding Philip Pullman - it's YA but doesn't feel patronising or too simple

A map is shown, with the logo of the Historic Towns Trust in the top left corner. The words "Mapping our Past, Shaping our Future" are written in the centre.

Join us tonight to learn about how an Atlas of London in 1666 has been researched!

This webinar is in collaboration with the Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-r...

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll