Mark Faulkner
@markfaulkner24.bsky.social
Librarian, Knowledge Manager, Data Protection Officer and Records Manager. Let me know if I can be of any further help.
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Mark Faulkner
@markfaulkner24.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Bored, so I thought I'd 🧵 my #DoctorWho and professional #library, knowledge management, records management and book related passions together, and chart the occurrences they appear in the time travelling programme. No doubt I've missed some, so please let me know.
Sorry, but librarians were way ahead of you when it comes to 'sex cardigans'.
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Sorry, but librarians were way ahead of you when it comes to 'sex cardigans'.
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Evergreen advice:
just use the fucking library.
November 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Evergreen advice:
Had everyone woken up today with the intention of being annoying, or have I woken up today just being annoyed by everyone?
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Had everyone woken up today with the intention of being annoying, or have I woken up today just being annoyed by everyone?
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
I'm gonna say Bob Holness.
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I'm gonna say Bob Holness.
The strings only version of Something on The Beatles Anthology 4 is 😘👌
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The strings only version of Something on The Beatles Anthology 4 is 😘👌
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
I do hope that Olly Murs's new album - Knees Up - is just covers of Chas 'n' Dave songs and pub classics.
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I do hope that Olly Murs's new album - Knees Up - is just covers of Chas 'n' Dave songs and pub classics.
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I guess the sexy Arthur Dent look must be a thing in Cornwall...
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I guess the sexy Arthur Dent look must be a thing in Cornwall...
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Encouraging to see the scandal of changes to the BBC Written Archives Centre mentioned in this important piece for City AM from the British Academy's Hetan Shah. "We must remember that ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation." www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Encouraging to see the scandal of changes to the BBC Written Archives Centre mentioned in this important piece for City AM from the British Academy's Hetan Shah. "We must remember that ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation." www.cityam.com/the-british-...
Starting my watch of Object Z tonight.
Everyone seems remarkably calm since they only have six weeks to live.
So far, so UNIT-era Doctor Who. Is there nothing that programme hasn't r̶i̶p̶p̶e̶d̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶ paid homage to?
Everyone seems remarkably calm since they only have six weeks to live.
So far, so UNIT-era Doctor Who. Is there nothing that programme hasn't r̶i̶p̶p̶e̶d̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶ paid homage to?
You had me at "Unseen since its first transmission on ITV in 1965..."
November 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Starting my watch of Object Z tonight.
Everyone seems remarkably calm since they only have six weeks to live.
So far, so UNIT-era Doctor Who. Is there nothing that programme hasn't r̶i̶p̶p̶e̶d̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶ paid homage to?
Everyone seems remarkably calm since they only have six weeks to live.
So far, so UNIT-era Doctor Who. Is there nothing that programme hasn't r̶i̶p̶p̶e̶d̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶ paid homage to?
An always welcome Neil Innes thread.
From @ericidle.bsky.social & Neil Innes' brilliant & criminally overlooked/unavailable RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION, here's a truncated glimpse of George Harrison's Christmas 1975 guest appearance runner, where he didn't want to perform a song - He really just wanted to play a pirate...
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
An always welcome Neil Innes thread.
I had a dream last night where I saved a local community library and I've woken up in a good mood.
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I had a dream last night where I saved a local community library and I've woken up in a good mood.
I'm suing the BBC for $1 billion to finally make the third Tripods series.
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I'm suing the BBC for $1 billion to finally make the third Tripods series.
Ooh, intriguing. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘We had to dumb ourselves down to fit in’: Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford on finally making the first album they wrote as teens
Written in 1974, the Bowie-influenced songs on Trixies are set in a fictional south London nightclub, but were shelved when punk took the band in a new direction. Now, after Squeeze’s 50th anniversary...
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Ooh, intriguing. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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Cursed shelves and ghoulish libraries... 👻
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Cursed shelves and ghoulish libraries... 👻
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
No, YOU'RE wiping away a tear.
November 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
No, YOU'RE wiping away a tear.
I'd assumed after all these years that Bond/007 was a pseudonym/job role, hence different actors playing him (and therefore, anyone could play him). I didn't realise it was meant to be the same person.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I'd assumed after all these years that Bond/007 was a pseudonym/job role, hence different actors playing him (and therefore, anyone could play him). I didn't realise it was meant to be the same person.
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We're in safe hands: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaXY...
Sparks - Now That I Own The BBC (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by S P A R K S
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
We're in safe hands: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaXY...
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Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...
Vic Reeves Big Night Out - 30 April 1989
YouTube video by Peter Brooke Turner
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...