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The Copyright Nonsense continues, with the extra excitement of them asking for something more, and linking to their public attack on my employer.

A collection of plants hanging from the wall and growing up a moss pole. The plant on the moss pole has a tall shoot heading towards the ceiling.

The shoot from the wall plant is fitting the ceiling and the newest leaf is beginning to fold due to hitting it.

Yeah, I don't think I can put off chopping and propping the variegated Monstera any longer...

I imagine the difference between the droppings of a lactose intolerant duck and an average duck dropping is negligible enough to take the risk. FEED THE DUCK CHEESE! 😁

Done, thank you! Now I just need them to send me the access info for the Zoom sessions, and remember to pick up my BSL basics book that's at work so I can brush up before the class starts on Tuesday 😁

Romance novelists who are loudly anti-AI are also currently 3D printing hundreds of thousands of whistles for ICE resistance, so anyone throwing around terms like Luddite without context can go hang out in the sea.

Can y'all remind me in the morning to set up payment for the BSL course I'm trying to book? It needs card details and my bank card is not here in bed with me. Unsurprisingly.

Kitten abandoned on train given new home by ticket inspector The cat was found in a carrier on a rail service between Helensburgh and Edinburgh last month.

Kitten happy ending!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I can see the family resemblance

The scroll eventually came into possession of the New-York Historical Society (now known as the New York Historical) and in 1948 came into the hands of the Brooklyn Museum. Flash forward to the 2000s, where a three-year effort, led by the superstar conservator Ahmed Tarek and museum conservators Lisa Bruno, Sara Bone, and Josephine Jenks, worked to separate the papyrus from the acidic backing that it had been mounted on, and find a way to stabilize it for generations to come. "It's kind of like if you took shredded wheat and had it flattened, it's just really brittle," said Bruno. The team used gels to deliver water to the scroll in a controlled manner, and they were able to painstakingly separate the moistened papyrus from the backing. They then mounted it again on special superfine, kozo-fiber Japanese paper, which can be a little as 0.02mm in thickness per sheet.

When reading any story about the painstaking restoration of a work of art by conservators (here, a gilded papyrus of the Egyptian Book of the Dead), I wait for the part where conservators describe how they had to undo the destructive work done by previous conservators, and it never fails to arrive.

Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…

🧵TL;DR the biggest AI companies and the New York Times are destroying history and accountability at the same time. www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

Now that the cat’s out of the bag, and there’s no way to put it back in:

I need everybody to know that yes, my last name really is Manlove, so that’s one more point on the board for nominative determinism

Very entertained by the American guy who looked at my profile and then connected with me on LinkedIn tand messaged me to ask me to buy his book and "help a vet out".

Mate, just because I have "librarian" in my job title it doesn't mean I buy random books. Didn't really read my profile, did ya?

I was planning on just sharing the cheese with the duck and ignoring the cigarette 😂

Reheated some pizza and tried to tell the dog he wasn't getting any, ended up combining the two phrases "it's not for you" and it's all about you" into "it's not a-for you" and you can just call me Mario now.

Should I meet him in the library?

Oh no, I've now seen the advert in the wild. What does Instagram think is wrong with me?

Don't answer that.

This is not helping to disabuse me of the Cluedo idea.

Right, event info signs done. Online feedback form and QR code signs done (across two laptops & accounts cos work block it). Comment slips done (just need to cut them up & nab the box for them to go in). Non alcoholic drinks info done. I think I'm almost sorted.

Related: my poor wee brain is mince.

This sounds like a very bizarre game of Cluedo.

As long as I get free reign over the garden, I'm in.

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Ford 'doesn't know what he's talking about' when it comes to basket weaving, Indigenous artist says | CBC News A third-generation Indigenous basket maker is setting the record straight about his craft — it's a part of his culture, it's valuable, and artists can make a living off of it.

Ford's casually racist comments are a dog whistle I've heard my whole life, reflected in notions of "high" and "low" technology. Baskets are a technology, and STEM courses should be teaching their historical trajectory. You can trace colonization itself through basket tech www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I mean, look (I still had to provide water and MrJaf wanted the Shloer):

Fentimans Curiosity Cola
Fentimans Rose Lemonade
Schloer - Red Grape
Schoer - White Grape
Bundaberg Ginger Beer
Belvoir Farm Sparkling Elderflower
San Pellegrino Sparkling Natural Mineral Water
Highland Spring Still Water

a woman sitting at a desk with the words " lots of jolly choices out there " above her ALT: a woman sitting at a desk with the words " lots of jolly choices out there " above her

You know what happens when a non-drinker gets to choose the non-alcoholic options for an event? YOU GET A LOVELY RANGE OF NICE DRINK OPTIONS THAT AREN'T JUST FECKING WATER.

Somebody please tell the BBC that if they want to speak to people who've *really* lost money investing in a brewery then our phone number's on our website.

Is this why we were for some reason subjected to an irrelevant photo of William and Kate for Valentine's Day? Did they know what was coming?

This is the ongoing saga of the person who wants us to supply something we're not licenced to supply, and whose interlibrary loan is being stymied by 'you want the first issue but what first issue of the three do we need to get you?'

Printed copy of "The Ancient Town of Leith", "A New Poem by Sir William Topaz McDonagall, Knight of the White Elephant, Burmah. No 21 Lothian Street, Edinburgh. VR. Copyright. All Rights Reserved. Composed May 1899". It is an original on yellowed paper, signed in pen by the author.

Look I know there's a lot of *waves hand* going on right now, but it's come to my attention that William "Worst Poet Ever" McGonagall composed in 1899 an elegy to "The Ancient Town of Leith" in his own, inimitable style. So if you care to gather round, I shall now retell it for the whole class 🧵🗣️🪑

Top tip: if you're publishing a new journal series, do not release a sample issue, then a few months later a pilot issue, then a few months later (in a different year by this point) an Issue 1.

Your sincerely, a very tired librarian.