Patrick Hart

Repair Manifesto: If we can't fix it, we don't own it.
- Repair is better than recycling.
- Repair saves us money.
- Repair teaches basic engineering.
- Repair saves the planet.
- Repair connects people and things.
- Repair is sustainable.
#Minimalism

Stoat (formerly Revolt) is an open source Discord-like app that can host communities or can be installed on one's own virtual private server. stoat.chat

The Vue St Enoch strike is temporarily suspended until 17 February 2026 to test management's claim that the workers can achieve their aims through internal processes. We shall see. www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/co...

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Radical Glasgow Tours Walking through the radical histories and present-day struggles of the city of Glasgow

Lots of new radical history tours open for booking over the next few months including Queer Glasgow, radical West End and Migrants Made Glasgow. Free tickets always available if cost is a barrier, just drop us a line. See you in the streets! radicalglasgowtours.com

The sad thing is, every time I think about how critical Zotero is to me I remember that most users, even though it's also crucial to them, do not financially support the software (although they also "sell" synchronisation storage plans).

We NEED to find a better way to support such infrastructures.

Viktor Sjöström as Dr Borg in Wild Strawberries. An old man stands in front of tree branches

Feeling very

CHASE placement opportunity at the Open Library of Humanities The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties as part of our small, hardworking team. The placement is only available …

We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE institutions. 📅 31/03: www.openlibhums.org/news/883/

🎉 We’re proud to be members of the newly launched Open Journals Collective!

At OLH, we believe in community-led, non-profit diamond open access publishing. OJC is a big step toward a more equitable future for journals and the wider scholarly publishing ecosystem

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📣 Call for Papers!
Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies Postgraduate Symposium | 28 May 2026
Theme: People, Place & Movement in the Celtic World
15-min papers, all methods welcome, hybrid (Glasgow/online).
Submit by 2 March 2026
📧 arts-cscs@glasgow.ac.uk

Today's reading matter - at the National Library of Scotland. The very first book dedicated to football, published in 1866 by Samuel Beeton.

FORM and Copim - Community building in MENA - Copim During Open Access Week 2025, Opening the Future presented, along with Lucy Barnes, a project partner and editor at Open Book Publishers, at the Forum for Ope…

[CATCH UP] @kirahopkins.bsky.social shares her experiences of presenting to @forumforopen.bsky.social last year during #OAWeek

Just one thread in a growing relationship between ourselves and #OpenAccess #Publishing in the Middle East & North Africa 🌱

Find out more 👉

Overcoming the horrors of Liverpool’s 1970s and 80s care system - Nu Origins Magazine While one can’t legally purchase alcohol or gain a commercial driver’s license (CDL) until 21 years of age in the U.S, turning 18 marks a significant landmark throughout most societies, allowing indiv...

New article on @malikalnasir.bsky.social's story here. Makes some interesting connections between UK and US. www.nuorigins.com/overcoming-t...

Roma in the Medieval Islamic World Winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize for outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of histo…

The earliest reference to blockprinting in Iran associates it with the "Banu Sasan," a perceived underclass of thieves/magicians who we now think are related to modern Romani. Some of the Arabic terms used for blockprinting may also be loaned from their language. www.bloomsbury.com/us/roma-in-t...

1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball You know how I am not overly interested in stats and who won what? It is because I focus on how Football mirrored society. Scottish Combination spread because it was the right time. I want to come back to the Glasgow Charity Cup and to whom the Committee gave grants.

“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them, I am not a pacifist.”
Renfrew Christie South African scholar & antiapartheid activist

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Sponsored places for the Copim Conference 2026 - Copim Copim is offering a minimum of three sponsored places to this year’s conference ‘Exploring the future of community-led open access books’. Find out more in th…

Do you work in a UK HE library? Are you early-career? Would you like a sponsored place to attend the Copim Conference at the end of February?

Find out how to apply for these sponsored places, which are offered in memory of our beloved friend and colleague, Elaine Sykes: buff.ly/sbU2eRP

#OAbooks

Hundreds of staff leave Edinburgh University amid cuts drive According to the university, 345 of these departures were the result of a targeted voluntary severance (VS) scheme run by the institution in 2025.

Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...

This is one of my favorite positive stories from Turkey: my latest, on @newscientist.com

Tile, 16th century Diyarbakır, Turkey. (Musée du Louvre)

An orange moon with branches in front of it. The image is a little blurred or out of focus

4/365. Migraine superwolf.

Rear of Hampden Bowling Club Pavilion with the Cathcart Railway in the foreground and the tenements of Kingsley Avenue behind. On the rear wall of the Pavilion is the Mural celebrating the 5-1 win over England in 1882. The Game That Broke English Hearts.

1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball On my walk on Friday, I passed by Hampden Bowling Club. It looks fine, despite its impending closure. By the end of February, it will be no more. I have no idea what Glasgow City Council are going to do with it. That £150,000+ repair to the roof is not going away.

PLEASE KEEP SHARING - the press are listening

"Dear BBC Radio Scotland, We are musicians from Scotland... there is one thing we share. It was BBC Radio Scotland late-night shows that gave our music a chance."

Full letter: tr.ee/9uKS89 @angusrobertson.bsky.social @thesmia.bsky.social

🎯 Anthony Moser put it perfectly:

But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Thanks @stephenpinfield.bsky.social for interviewing me about my book for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast.

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Striking BL staff, struggling to pay their rent, advised to consider not giving presents this year, and interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, has the nerve to tell them they ‘don’t live in a real world’. Only 17% of staff guaranteed the Living Wage (£14.80 ph) suggests acute familiarity with the ‘real world’.

a man with a beard is holding a cup of coffee ALT: a man with a beard is holding a cup of coffee

Employer: please embed sustainability into your teaching
Employer: here’s a list of cool ways to use AI

Front cover, The men who made Scotland by Andy Mitchell

Stuck for a Scottish football book as a Christmas present? My Who's Who contains comprehensive biographies of every one of the 615 internationalists who represented Scotland between 1872 and 1939. Every review on amazon is five stars! www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

Just a reminder that Aaron Swartz was threatened with 50 years of jail time for downloading public domain documents and meanwhile AI companies bulk download copyrighted works