Stéise
@booksparrow.bsky.social
Occasionally wears clogs/dances with swords.
Left-handed book wrangler: Systems, Metadata & Cataloguing. Librarian📚
Likes heritage, social history & folk
🏳️🌈 unapologetically femme
Left-handed book wrangler: Systems, Metadata & Cataloguing. Librarian📚
Likes heritage, social history & folk
🏳️🌈 unapologetically femme
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You might not have put up your decorations yet… but if you know you have some to clear out, do it now!!!!
and take them to the charity shop because there’s a good chance someone will buy them& lessen the need for the charity shop to store them for a year
and take them to the charity shop because there’s a good chance someone will buy them& lessen the need for the charity shop to store them for a year
More generally, wherever you are in the world: if you have kids’ toys, books, clothes or anything else in just-about-giftable condition that you were thinking of decluttering some time soon, please do it now, this week ideally, and get them to your local charity shop.
Hey Ottawa folks: I gave some kids' books to Twice Upon a Time and they said they've receved fewer donations than usual for this time of year. So if you have any kids' books in good condition, or time or money to spare, here's the info:
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
You might not have put up your decorations yet… but if you know you have some to clear out, do it now!!!!
and take them to the charity shop because there’s a good chance someone will buy them& lessen the need for the charity shop to store them for a year
and take them to the charity shop because there’s a good chance someone will buy them& lessen the need for the charity shop to store them for a year
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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Evergreen advice:
just use the fucking library.
November 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Evergreen advice:
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One for @todmordentweets.bsky.social
Don't know if you'd be interested in a bit of work on Saturday 1st July, they're booking people to roam around in wild animal costumes uptown.
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
One for @todmordentweets.bsky.social
One for @todmordentweets.bsky.social
Don't know if you'd be interested in a bit of work on Saturday 1st July, they're booking people to roam around in wild animal costumes uptown.
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
One for @todmordentweets.bsky.social
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Use tech mindfully. Rather than doom-scrolling, choose bloom-scrolling
Image: www.instagram.com/mymind
Image: www.instagram.com/mymind
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Use tech mindfully. Rather than doom-scrolling, choose bloom-scrolling
Image: www.instagram.com/mymind
Image: www.instagram.com/mymind
You might not have put up your decorations yet… but if you know you have some to clear out, do it now!!!!
and take them to the charity shop because there’s a good chance someone will buy them& lessen the need for the charity shop to store them for a year
and take them to the charity shop because there’s a good chance someone will buy them& lessen the need for the charity shop to store them for a year
More generally, wherever you are in the world: if you have kids’ toys, books, clothes or anything else in just-about-giftable condition that you were thinking of decluttering some time soon, please do it now, this week ideally, and get them to your local charity shop.
Hey Ottawa folks: I gave some kids' books to Twice Upon a Time and they said they've receved fewer donations than usual for this time of year. So if you have any kids' books in good condition, or time or money to spare, here's the info:
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
You might not have put up your decorations yet… but if you know you have some to clear out, do it now!!!!
and take them to the charity shop because there’s a good chance someone will buy them& lessen the need for the charity shop to store them for a year
and take them to the charity shop because there’s a good chance someone will buy them& lessen the need for the charity shop to store them for a year
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Never let the cynics and naysayers grind you down. You *can* have it all at once.
November 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Never let the cynics and naysayers grind you down. You *can* have it all at once.
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'Capitalism also depends on domestic labour' by See Red Womens Workshop, feminist silk-screen poster collective, UK (1970s-90s) #womensart #Monday
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 AM
'Capitalism also depends on domestic labour' by See Red Womens Workshop, feminist silk-screen poster collective, UK (1970s-90s) #womensart #Monday
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Thanks to Tim Mitchell
Andy Ellis
-Monk - so how do you want me to do this R?
-Bishop - cat owl with crossbow being climbed by a woman with her hand in a fish's mouth and a flying crocodile please
-Monk - All over it boss. No stress
Andy Ellis
-Monk - so how do you want me to do this R?
-Bishop - cat owl with crossbow being climbed by a woman with her hand in a fish's mouth and a flying crocodile please
-Monk - All over it boss. No stress
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Thanks to Tim Mitchell
Andy Ellis
-Monk - so how do you want me to do this R?
-Bishop - cat owl with crossbow being climbed by a woman with her hand in a fish's mouth and a flying crocodile please
-Monk - All over it boss. No stress
Andy Ellis
-Monk - so how do you want me to do this R?
-Bishop - cat owl with crossbow being climbed by a woman with her hand in a fish's mouth and a flying crocodile please
-Monk - All over it boss. No stress
It is the book birthday of children's book 'Where the Wild Things Are'
This was published #OTD in 1963.
It’s also world kindness day.. I’m sure there’s a moral here somewhere…
This was published #OTD in 1963.
It’s also world kindness day.. I’m sure there’s a moral here somewhere…
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It is the book birthday of children's book 'Where the Wild Things Are'
This was published #OTD in 1963.
It’s also world kindness day.. I’m sure there’s a moral here somewhere…
This was published #OTD in 1963.
It’s also world kindness day.. I’m sure there’s a moral here somewhere…
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
Don’t mind me… I’ll just be dreaming about the pink Pyrex I didn’t buy and am now regretting.
#midCentury
#vintage #retro
#midCentury
#vintage #retro
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Don’t mind me… I’ll just be dreaming about the pink Pyrex I didn’t buy and am now regretting.
#midCentury
#vintage #retro
#midCentury
#vintage #retro
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fun fact: Halloween in the north of England used to be known as nut-crack night.
people would mark nuts with the names of lovers and place them around a fire.
nuts that sizzled, spat or jumped indicated romantic incompatibility. nuts that burned together suggested peaceful, happy partnerships.
people would mark nuts with the names of lovers and place them around a fire.
nuts that sizzled, spat or jumped indicated romantic incompatibility. nuts that burned together suggested peaceful, happy partnerships.
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
fun fact: Halloween in the north of England used to be known as nut-crack night.
people would mark nuts with the names of lovers and place them around a fire.
nuts that sizzled, spat or jumped indicated romantic incompatibility. nuts that burned together suggested peaceful, happy partnerships.
people would mark nuts with the names of lovers and place them around a fire.
nuts that sizzled, spat or jumped indicated romantic incompatibility. nuts that burned together suggested peaceful, happy partnerships.
🐦Not sure what the bird intends to do with the funds… but I am here for it
Also did the pigeon do the crochet? so many questions.
#Vinted #Pigeon #Bird #PigeonPounds
Also did the pigeon do the crochet? so many questions.
#Vinted #Pigeon #Bird #PigeonPounds
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
🐦Not sure what the bird intends to do with the funds… but I am here for it
Also did the pigeon do the crochet? so many questions.
#Vinted #Pigeon #Bird #PigeonPounds
Also did the pigeon do the crochet? so many questions.
#Vinted #Pigeon #Bird #PigeonPounds
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And now for something completely different. 3rd November 1310 was the earliest use of the F-word.
#MedievalSky #Medieval
www.medievalists.net/2023/08/earl...
#MedievalSky #Medieval
www.medievalists.net/2023/08/earl...
November 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
And now for something completely different. 3rd November 1310 was the earliest use of the F-word.
#MedievalSky #Medieval
www.medievalists.net/2023/08/earl...
#MedievalSky #Medieval
www.medievalists.net/2023/08/earl...
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Tutting; eye rolling; pointed sighing; sarcasm; muttering passive aggressive comments to yourself; and a Paddington Bear hard stare.
What IS legal in the UK in terms of self defense?
Throwing Hands?
I read there was a knifing recently - how can Brits protect themselves?!?
Throwing Hands?
I read there was a knifing recently - how can Brits protect themselves?!?
November 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Tutting; eye rolling; pointed sighing; sarcasm; muttering passive aggressive comments to yourself; and a Paddington Bear hard stare.
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Dressing up as a catalogue ghost, that product of a 19th c typo that drains the time of researchers and librarians and which—after initial banishment—reappears unexpectedly elsewhere. For extra horror: the ghost entry seems to describe a source which will solve all your research problems, but alas.
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Dressing up as a catalogue ghost, that product of a 19th c typo that drains the time of researchers and librarians and which—after initial banishment—reappears unexpectedly elsewhere. For extra horror: the ghost entry seems to describe a source which will solve all your research problems, but alas.
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Busy woman, Miss Todd.
October 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Busy woman, Miss Todd.
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Did you know that if you chant “add alt text” three times in the mirror, a social media manager appears behind you with a cat meme!
October 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Did you know that if you chant “add alt text” three times in the mirror, a social media manager appears behind you with a cat meme!
I think Vinted is trolling me:
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I think Vinted is trolling me:
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Remember, the clocks go back one hour tonight, except for reform voters as you’re already living in late 1930s Germany.
October 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Remember, the clocks go back one hour tonight, except for reform voters as you’re already living in late 1930s Germany.