Gordon Anderson
@librarygordon.bsky.social
Let's get this partly started.
Libraries / poetry / music / other. Cardigan enthusiast. Cat fan.
Hotel Familiar EP: https://gordonanderson.bandcamp.com/album/hotel-familiar
Cardiff, Wales.
Libraries / poetry / music / other. Cardigan enthusiast. Cat fan.
Hotel Familiar EP: https://gordonanderson.bandcamp.com/album/hotel-familiar
Cardiff, Wales.
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Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
Just a heads up (for UK folk) that on normal telly at 7pm on Sky Mix.... iiiiiit's Darmok!
WATCH as Picard takes absolutely fucking ages to work out the obvious!
CONSIDER the tremendously impractical limitations of a language bound solely by metaphor and idiom!
BIG WEIRD MONSTER GUY, also!
WATCH as Picard takes absolutely fucking ages to work out the obvious!
CONSIDER the tremendously impractical limitations of a language bound solely by metaphor and idiom!
BIG WEIRD MONSTER GUY, also!
a man with a mask on his face is standing in a forest .
Alt: Alien in Star Trek TNG exclaiming 'HIS EYES UNCOVERED!'
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Just a heads up (for UK folk) that on normal telly at 7pm on Sky Mix.... iiiiiit's Darmok!
WATCH as Picard takes absolutely fucking ages to work out the obvious!
CONSIDER the tremendously impractical limitations of a language bound solely by metaphor and idiom!
BIG WEIRD MONSTER GUY, also!
WATCH as Picard takes absolutely fucking ages to work out the obvious!
CONSIDER the tremendously impractical limitations of a language bound solely by metaphor and idiom!
BIG WEIRD MONSTER GUY, also!
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Felicity is turning herself upside down to fit me in.
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Felicity is turning herself upside down to fit me in.
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It's that time of year
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's that time of year
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Happy 75th birthday to Tina Weymouth. Love this photo of her and Grandmaster Flash, taken by Laura Levine in 1981. Spotted at MAC's fab Golden Age of Hip Hop exhibition in Marseille several years ago
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Happy 75th birthday to Tina Weymouth. Love this photo of her and Grandmaster Flash, taken by Laura Levine in 1981. Spotted at MAC's fab Golden Age of Hip Hop exhibition in Marseille several years ago
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I'm sure if we just give Hitler the Sudetenland, he'll stop invading other countries, and we'll have peace for our time.
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I'm sure if we just give Hitler the Sudetenland, he'll stop invading other countries, and we'll have peace for our time.
I was amazed by how little 'front-page' press the Nathan Gill story had got up to this point. Not today, though.
10.5 years of which he will likely serve half in prison.
Let's just keep saying it: Farage /Reform = Russia / Corruption
Liars and fools, heads turned by any flapping of paper money.
10.5 years of which he will likely serve half in prison.
Let's just keep saying it: Farage /Reform = Russia / Corruption
Liars and fools, heads turned by any flapping of paper money.
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I was amazed by how little 'front-page' press the Nathan Gill story had got up to this point. Not today, though.
10.5 years of which he will likely serve half in prison.
Let's just keep saying it: Farage /Reform = Russia / Corruption
Liars and fools, heads turned by any flapping of paper money.
10.5 years of which he will likely serve half in prison.
Let's just keep saying it: Farage /Reform = Russia / Corruption
Liars and fools, heads turned by any flapping of paper money.
Just look at the play of light in this painting by John Elwyn. Stunning.
. . . and his ‘The Enclosed Balcony’ (1980), National Museum Wales, Cardiff:
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Just look at the play of light in this painting by John Elwyn. Stunning.
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John Elwyn, Painter, Illustrator, #BornOnThisDay in 1916, in Adpar, Newcastle Emlyn, Wales
‘Miners Returning on a Wet Evening’ (1953), National Museum Wales, Cardiff
‘Miners Returning on a Wet Evening’ (1953), National Museum Wales, Cardiff
November 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
John Elwyn, Painter, Illustrator, #BornOnThisDay in 1916, in Adpar, Newcastle Emlyn, Wales
‘Miners Returning on a Wet Evening’ (1953), National Museum Wales, Cardiff
‘Miners Returning on a Wet Evening’ (1953), National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Tales of snow and ice around the country made me think of this painting, and an essay that I'm still really happy about....
Seems like a good day to mention Welsh artist Charles Byrd (1916-2018), who I wrote about last year for the good folks at
@artukdotorg.bsky.social.
artuk.org/discover/sto...
Painting shown is Canton, A Snow Scene (c. 1960), on view at Canton Library, @cdflibraries.bsky.social
#OnlineArtExchange
@artukdotorg.bsky.social.
artuk.org/discover/sto...
Painting shown is Canton, A Snow Scene (c. 1960), on view at Canton Library, @cdflibraries.bsky.social
#OnlineArtExchange
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Tales of snow and ice around the country made me think of this painting, and an essay that I'm still really happy about....
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Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Well from the looks of things.... yes.
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Well from the looks of things.... yes.
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Some of my friends are going through stuff and this is exactly how I feel.
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Some of my friends are going through stuff and this is exactly how I feel.
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For the last few months I have been working with a bunch of friends on a mutual aid project, with the goal of helping people in our community help each other out where we can, giving out grants to community members of up to £150.
www.cupburger.org
www.cupburger.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
For the last few months I have been working with a bunch of friends on a mutual aid project, with the goal of helping people in our community help each other out where we can, giving out grants to community members of up to £150.
www.cupburger.org
www.cupburger.org
Some Hopper sun, amongst the emptiness.
Sun in an Empty Room - 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40480
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40480
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Some Hopper sun, amongst the emptiness.
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Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow
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Clem Burke, standing in London’s Kings Road in front of a great many concert posters, including one advertising Television & Blondie’s May 1977 Hammersmith Odeon gig, by Chris Stein.
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Clem Burke, standing in London’s Kings Road in front of a great many concert posters, including one advertising Television & Blondie’s May 1977 Hammersmith Odeon gig, by Chris Stein.
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Coast Guard Station -1929
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104403
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104403
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Coast Guard Station -1929
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104403
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104403
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Right @mbalazo.bsky.social has informed me that in his hometown there's an English-themed pub called Bollocks. This would be like someone here opening a US-style diner and calling it Jerking Off or something.
bollockspub.com
bollockspub.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Right @mbalazo.bsky.social has informed me that in his hometown there's an English-themed pub called Bollocks. This would be like someone here opening a US-style diner and calling it Jerking Off or something.
bollockspub.com
bollockspub.com
I support Joanne's point, but even as a Library Guy, I have literally never heard one person espouse the view that eBooks or audio are 'lesser' or 'not real books'. Not once.
Preferences? E.g. 'Oh, I tend to stick to paper books, I just like the experience' - yes, absolutely.
Preferences? E.g. 'Oh, I tend to stick to paper books, I just like the experience' - yes, absolutely.
People who dismiss e-books or audiobooks as being somehow less worthy or less meaningful than physical books are missing the point of books. Books are not ink and paper, just as human beings are not defined by their physicality. Books are connections; emotions; ideas; just like their creators.
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I support Joanne's point, but even as a Library Guy, I have literally never heard one person espouse the view that eBooks or audio are 'lesser' or 'not real books'. Not once.
Preferences? E.g. 'Oh, I tend to stick to paper books, I just like the experience' - yes, absolutely.
Preferences? E.g. 'Oh, I tend to stick to paper books, I just like the experience' - yes, absolutely.
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I've largely got used to being unable to go to gigs anymore, 7 years down the line. But when an old favourite American band reunites and comes to play the next town over, and a new favourite plays the same city a fortnight later, it does feel a bit... lonely?
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I've largely got used to being unable to go to gigs anymore, 7 years down the line. But when an old favourite American band reunites and comes to play the next town over, and a new favourite plays the same city a fortnight later, it does feel a bit... lonely?
The answers you seek are, respectively, Yes and Yes.
Left the back door open for barely even two minutes and the local stray cat wandered in. Helped himself to the best and warmest spot on the couch. Has since refused to leave the house. So I guess he owns the house now? Is that how it works? At least he's cute.
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The answers you seek are, respectively, Yes and Yes.