Robot Mel
@robotmeile.bsky.social
Queer, Goth Librarian and Geek. Loves plays and knitting (they/them)
Fandom obsessions BSG, SOA, Chucky, X-Files, Resident alien, Star Trek, Xena, Twin Peaks, The Untamed, Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, Mary, Gillian Anderson
Fandom obsessions BSG, SOA, Chucky, X-Files, Resident alien, Star Trek, Xena, Twin Peaks, The Untamed, Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, Mary, Gillian Anderson
I’m a librarian and I approve of this entire thread! Especially after the burn you’d need a whole new level of information literacy, and ways to access restored knowledge as cultures rejoin.
Replies are talking about physical books, and those are nice (though Star Trek is a grim dystopia of All Hardcover, No Cover Art), but I'm actually thinking in terms of information literacy, research skills and community building.
I love SFA a lot, but at some stage we're gonna talk about how this is a series set in an educational facility, and yet there's no library.
February 17, 2026 at 11:03 PM
I’m a librarian and I approve of this entire thread! Especially after the burn you’d need a whole new level of information literacy, and ways to access restored knowledge as cultures rejoin.
Catching up on SFA. Skipped 3 but enjoyed 4. I really like our emo gay Klingon!!
February 17, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Catching up on SFA. Skipped 3 but enjoyed 4. I really like our emo gay Klingon!!
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Remember they think it’s your responsibility to vote for someone who’s ideologically opposed to your existence, so that someone who’s equally ideologically opposed to your existence in a different coloured hat doesn’t get power, and not their responsibility to give you someone worth voting for
February 17, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Remember they think it’s your responsibility to vote for someone who’s ideologically opposed to your existence, so that someone who’s equally ideologically opposed to your existence in a different coloured hat doesn’t get power, and not their responsibility to give you someone worth voting for
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RIVER is now available to request on NetGalley!!! 👀‼️🫣✨
A RIVER FROM THE SKY by @aijiang.bsky.social is now on NetGalley! 🌊
The moving follow-up to A Palace Near the Wind, as Lufeng and her sister Sangshu fight to protect their culture and their world.
www.netgalley.com/publisher/ti...
The moving follow-up to A Palace Near the Wind, as Lufeng and her sister Sangshu fight to protect their culture and their world.
www.netgalley.com/publisher/ti...
February 16, 2026 at 3:05 PM
RIVER is now available to request on NetGalley!!! 👀‼️🫣✨
Accidentally woke up at 10 today despite Calliope’s best efforts. 🤣
February 15, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Accidentally woke up at 10 today despite Calliope’s best efforts. 🤣
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There is zero evidence that their ban on puberty blockers has helped a single child and plenty of evidence that it has resulted in the deaths of over 20 trans children.
They know all this.
They are happy with how things are going.
They know all this.
They are happy with how things are going.
February 15, 2026 at 8:49 AM
There is zero evidence that their ban on puberty blockers has helped a single child and plenty of evidence that it has resulted in the deaths of over 20 trans children.
They know all this.
They are happy with how things are going.
They know all this.
They are happy with how things are going.
When you have to pause 20 or so pages before the end of the book because you think you know where it’s headed and you have to mentally prepare…
February 14, 2026 at 6:13 PM
When you have to pause 20 or so pages before the end of the book because you think you know where it’s headed and you have to mentally prepare…
Found all the bits I needed for my Alex Kingston Prospero cosplay! And got my tickets for LFCC! I’m excited to finally be doing this! I hope she recognises it!
February 14, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Found all the bits I needed for my Alex Kingston Prospero cosplay! And got my tickets for LFCC! I’m excited to finally be doing this! I hope she recognises it!
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Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone!
February 14, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone!
I did my first workout in months! Starting callisthenics. I can do decent headstands but want to do handstands too! I’m hoping I enjoy this one enough to continue having grown board of weights and cardio!
February 14, 2026 at 11:15 AM
I did my first workout in months! Starting callisthenics. I can do decent headstands but want to do handstands too! I’m hoping I enjoy this one enough to continue having grown board of weights and cardio!
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This is honestly just vile misrepresentation
If you out someone who is a member of a marginalised group. If you out their protected characteristic
IT IS NOT GOSSIP
It is a threat to their safety, their right to privacy, their equality & their life as well
Get in the sea with thee, cruel judge!
If you out someone who is a member of a marginalised group. If you out their protected characteristic
IT IS NOT GOSSIP
It is a threat to their safety, their right to privacy, their equality & their life as well
Get in the sea with thee, cruel judge!
5/ Office gossip
The judge also dismissed fears that forcing Trans+ people into third spaces could out them - which was argued as an act of privacy violation. The judge defends his dismisal of this fear on the basis that:
"A propensity for gossip is a feature of every workplace."
The judge also dismissed fears that forcing Trans+ people into third spaces could out them - which was argued as an act of privacy violation. The judge defends his dismisal of this fear on the basis that:
"A propensity for gossip is a feature of every workplace."
February 13, 2026 at 1:07 PM
This is honestly just vile misrepresentation
If you out someone who is a member of a marginalised group. If you out their protected characteristic
IT IS NOT GOSSIP
It is a threat to their safety, their right to privacy, their equality & their life as well
Get in the sea with thee, cruel judge!
If you out someone who is a member of a marginalised group. If you out their protected characteristic
IT IS NOT GOSSIP
It is a threat to their safety, their right to privacy, their equality & their life as well
Get in the sea with thee, cruel judge!
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38 is just bigotry. Women's toilets are single-sex even if male cleaners are in their all day long, but if a trans women walks in ALARMS GO OFF, LIGHTS FLASH they're no longer single-sex.
Transphobic horseshit, as I expected from this judge
Transphobic horseshit, as I expected from this judge
February 13, 2026 at 1:23 PM
38 is just bigotry. Women's toilets are single-sex even if male cleaners are in their all day long, but if a trans women walks in ALARMS GO OFF, LIGHTS FLASH they're no longer single-sex.
Transphobic horseshit, as I expected from this judge
Transphobic horseshit, as I expected from this judge
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Today's ruling on the EHRC's interim guidance is a disappointing, confusing and mixed picture.
A trans woman who is a customer in a café can use the women's toilets, but if she works there she might not be able to.
Once again everyday life is being made a legal labyrinth for trans people.
A trans woman who is a customer in a café can use the women's toilets, but if she works there she might not be able to.
Once again everyday life is being made a legal labyrinth for trans people.
The High Court has ruled on our challenge to the EHRC’s interim guidance.
The judgment contains some good news for trans rights – but plenty of bad.
Read our analysis
goodlawproject.org/update/high-...
The judgment contains some good news for trans rights – but plenty of bad.
Read our analysis
goodlawproject.org/update/high-...
High Court rules on lawfulness of the EHRC’s interim guidance
High Court decides services may lawfully allow trans women to use women’s facilities – but the fight for trans rights continues
goodlawproject.org
February 13, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Today's ruling on the EHRC's interim guidance is a disappointing, confusing and mixed picture.
A trans woman who is a customer in a café can use the women's toilets, but if she works there she might not be able to.
Once again everyday life is being made a legal labyrinth for trans people.
A trans woman who is a customer in a café can use the women's toilets, but if she works there she might not be able to.
Once again everyday life is being made a legal labyrinth for trans people.
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The (fucking stupid) legal answer is, you both (1) don't need to come out to your employer but (2) legally shouldn't use the 'wrong' toilets (and should follow any lawful instruction from your employer). What a nonsense.
Thanks Jolyon.
As other clever people have informed me that this effectively nullifies the protections a GRC offers, does this require me to come out to my employer (which I thought the GRA made not necessary) or am I liable if I go stealth?
As other clever people have informed me that this effectively nullifies the protections a GRC offers, does this require me to come out to my employer (which I thought the GRA made not necessary) or am I liable if I go stealth?
February 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM
The (fucking stupid) legal answer is, you both (1) don't need to come out to your employer but (2) legally shouldn't use the 'wrong' toilets (and should follow any lawful instruction from your employer). What a nonsense.
Well this sounds promising...
The law now for trans+ people trying to go about their lives, and for our employers and service providers, is now completely incoherent - and the government needs to act. Full analysis to follow.
February 13, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Well this sounds promising...
Oooh! That sounds like fun! Even though currently planning on going to Paris for my Birthday a few weeks before that!
February 13, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Oooh! That sounds like fun! Even though currently planning on going to Paris for my Birthday a few weeks before that!
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JFC
This is what they've done.
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
February 12, 2026 at 11:35 AM
JFC
And I forgot to book a hotel room for Flux!
February 11, 2026 at 10:00 AM
And I forgot to book a hotel room for Flux!
Giving my (sold out!) LGBT history month collections talk today at the library! I’m wearing my Oh Mary tshirt to celebrate! Lot of emotions but mostly good ones!
February 11, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Giving my (sold out!) LGBT history month collections talk today at the library! I’m wearing my Oh Mary tshirt to celebrate! Lot of emotions but mostly good ones!
Tv wise rewatching OITNB up to s3.9 now.
Also watched Bookish which was a bit too silly to start with. But Polly Walker was an excellent Beard. And the more tragic 3rd story I engined more. Even/because Paul McGann is starting to look his age
Also watched Bookish which was a bit too silly to start with. But Polly Walker was an excellent Beard. And the more tragic 3rd story I engined more. Even/because Paul McGann is starting to look his age
February 10, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Tv wise rewatching OITNB up to s3.9 now.
Also watched Bookish which was a bit too silly to start with. But Polly Walker was an excellent Beard. And the more tragic 3rd story I engined more. Even/because Paul McGann is starting to look his age
Also watched Bookish which was a bit too silly to start with. But Polly Walker was an excellent Beard. And the more tragic 3rd story I engined more. Even/because Paul McGann is starting to look his age
I’m currently re-reading the hunger games and Damn these books are GRIM! And I’ve still got the last 100 pages of 3 to go
February 10, 2026 at 5:35 PM
I’m currently re-reading the hunger games and Damn these books are GRIM! And I’ve still got the last 100 pages of 3 to go
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someone asked me recently if i could rec some more SFF books with butches beyond mine, which reminded me that i made a list for google books a while back. i’ve included that list plus some others i’ve read in the last few years!
*as usual, fictional character identities are up for interpretation &c
*as usual, fictional character identities are up for interpretation &c
Butches in Books
Updating the list of my favorite butches in (mostly) fantasy
clclarkwrites.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:12 AM
someone asked me recently if i could rec some more SFF books with butches beyond mine, which reminded me that i made a list for google books a while back. i’ve included that list plus some others i’ve read in the last few years!
*as usual, fictional character identities are up for interpretation &c
*as usual, fictional character identities are up for interpretation &c
Realised this morning that my inability to stop thinking and stressing about work when I’m not there is probably one of those, autistic difficulty moving between tasks things. As my brain just doesn’t shut off because it’s a different time or place.
February 9, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Realised this morning that my inability to stop thinking and stressing about work when I’m not there is probably one of those, autistic difficulty moving between tasks things. As my brain just doesn’t shut off because it’s a different time or place.
Feeling depressed for the third weekend in a row. But dying my hair green while watching Boo’s I’m going to be queer no matter what! Felt good!
February 7, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Feeling depressed for the third weekend in a row. But dying my hair green while watching Boo’s I’m going to be queer no matter what! Felt good!