Katie G

I feel like the LLM era is the perfect time for someone to relaunch the text-a-librarian reference service. It doesn't have to just be text, we can do email. But you can submit a question and a reference librarian working remotely will respond to it within an hour with verifiable resources.

Etel Adnan.

And it forces people out of Westminster. I once had to go to the Tory party conference in Blackpool and the collision of cultures was, though sitcom worthy, really important.

Mycena inclinata, the oak-stump bonnet cap

Deadwood is not dead

I made this video 4 days ago.

As of today, Elfashir has completely run out of food, and the earthen barriers RSF have been building around the city are now complete.

Oh, and RSF drones struck a town in Khartoum State and another in Northern State.

In case anyone gaf.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Hi, is anyone available to be Prime Minister of France from Wednesday to Friday this week? Shouldn't take any longer than that but I've already got something in my diary.

desperately wish I had had this article to read and reference 10 or so years ago, but glad to have it now

Data from the Office of National Statistics shows Londoners are less likely to be violent crime victims (26.4 offences per 1,000 pop) than the rest of England & Wales (31.9 offences). Violent crime has fallen in every London borough in the past year.

The Cult Of The American Lawn | NOEMA Manicured grass yards are ecological dead zones. So why are they being forced on people by their neighbors and homeowner associations?

Looking through the back catalogue @noemamag.com and found this fascinating + gorgeous piece by @olliemilman.bsky.social - well worth your time: www.noemamag.com/the-cult-of-...

Russia launches major drone, missile attack on Ukraine, still ongoing Kyiv came under heavy drone and missile attack early on Sunday in what independent monitors said was one of the biggest Russian strikes on Ukraine's capital and the surrounding region since the full-scale war began.

Bloody hell

Russia launches major drone, missile attack on Ukraine, still ongoing - www.reuters.com/business/aer...

- Per a report by Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab, RSF has nearly completed building walls around the besieged city.

- The berms now stretch "for over 68km around Elfashir, leaving only a 3-4km gap before the city is fully enclosed". (Sudan Tribune)

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

A couple watching the news and hearing about all the horrors in the world, after a top story focused on women not having babies

Happy Monday from the @newyorker.com

Karel Martens ∘ Dutch graphic designer and educator known for innovative typography, minimalist aesthetic, and experimental printmaking techniques, '60s...'90s.

More Woman Bass Players is I think a concept we can and must all rally behind

This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else

Bangor Cathedral choir suspended after singing ‘inappropriate’ hymn In latest scandal embroiling the Welsh cathedral, choir performed piece during holy communion to protest about job losses

This is brillaint, up the Choristers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

More lives lost including 1 woman & 2 children.

Government have just closed refugee family reunion (RFR) safe route. 56% of grants for RFR were children & 37% were women. So the number of women & children crossing, and dying, is going to soar.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Nepal’s horrific reckoning with its failed political class Nepalis don’t often pay attention to the politics of their Southasian neighbours beyond India. But when Sri Lankans rose up in 2022 to boot out the Rajapaksa re

After anti-corruption Gen Z protests and a deadly uprising forced the prime minister and government to resign, #Nepal searches for a new politics that can jettison its failed establishment. Himal editor @romangtm.bsky.social writes from #Kathmandu
#GenZprotestnepal
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But with a slightly threatening undertone to the lyrics that belies that cheery guitar solo.

I once also posted this song in a fit of whimsy and my friend Bryan described it as ‘a cul-de-sac of a song’, and a)he was right, and b) I don’t care.

Heavy rains and floods have been wreaking havoc on communities across #Sudan.

Climate change + war + already fragile infrastructure (further destroyed by war) = disastrous, deadly combination.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

I can’t stop thinking about this article from @thecontinent.org

‘She (Angelique Nyirasafari) noted that boys continue with school even when they cause pregnancies.’

A great thread.
So many mispronounced words because I read them first.
Long live libraries.

Lap dogs are great, but have you tried a desk chicken?

Happy birthday to ya [sung, Stevie Wonder version]. Have a glorious day!

Volkswagen kept a dark secret in the Amazon. Then a priest made a call. Poor laborers were lured to the automaker’s cattle ranch in the Amazon and promised a better life. Brazilian prosecutors say many were enslaved.

The horrors of Volkswagen’s ranch were forgotten. Then a priest made a call. - Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Foreign interests drive local dynamics The who, why, and means of the Sudan war.

The who, why, and means of the Sudan war.

A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this