Tina Reynolds
@tinareynolds.bsky.social
Chartered librarian. Interests include KM, gin, languages, reading especially Girls Own books, and road racing. Usually found trying to improve my very rusty French or searching for sun. Herts/London. She/Her
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I worry about the ceiling material. Especially in the bathroom...
December 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I worry about the ceiling material. Especially in the bathroom...
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Nazis always obsess over fonts.
In Germany, the Nazi Party initially pushed Fraktur and declared Futura 'un-Germanic', with designer Paul Renner going into exile.
Just before the war they flipped, adopting Futura for its modern feel and declaring heavy types like Fraktur as suspiciously Jewish.
In Germany, the Nazi Party initially pushed Fraktur and declared Futura 'un-Germanic', with designer Paul Renner going into exile.
Just before the war they flipped, adopting Futura for its modern feel and declaring heavy types like Fraktur as suspiciously Jewish.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Nazis always obsess over fonts.
In Germany, the Nazi Party initially pushed Fraktur and declared Futura 'un-Germanic', with designer Paul Renner going into exile.
Just before the war they flipped, adopting Futura for its modern feel and declaring heavy types like Fraktur as suspiciously Jewish.
In Germany, the Nazi Party initially pushed Fraktur and declared Futura 'un-Germanic', with designer Paul Renner going into exile.
Just before the war they flipped, adopting Futura for its modern feel and declaring heavy types like Fraktur as suspiciously Jewish.
It makes me really sad how small my Christmas card pile is. People just don't seem to send cards any more. You don't know people's addresses. Every year someone dies off. Depressing, really.
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
It makes me really sad how small my Christmas card pile is. People just don't seem to send cards any more. You don't know people's addresses. Every year someone dies off. Depressing, really.
Tell you what lad, you sort out some maternity leave for people and see if breast feeding increases 🤔
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Tell you what lad, you sort out some maternity leave for people and see if breast feeding increases 🤔
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This tradition along with gender reveal parties were created in our lifetimes. We have the agency to reject them in our own lives as well as the responsibility to minimize the impact on future generations.
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This tradition along with gender reveal parties were created in our lifetimes. We have the agency to reject them in our own lives as well as the responsibility to minimize the impact on future generations.
1 in 7!
My colleague points out here that possibly one in seven requests to our library now may be assisted by LLMs.
When those point to fictional documents, that's a huge staff time drain. There's often no quick way to check if an undigitized primary source doc exists beyond physically pulling some boxes.
When those point to fictional documents, that's a huge staff time drain. There's often no quick way to check if an undigitized primary source doc exists beyond physically pulling some boxes.
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
1 in 7!
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I once cold-called a librarian in the US to see if she'd send me a couple of photos of a book WORLDCAT said they had, because I was having a fight with the author, and she had those images emailed over to me before I could even explain myself.
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I once cold-called a librarian in the US to see if she'd send me a couple of photos of a book WORLDCAT said they had, because I was having a fight with the author, and she had those images emailed over to me before I could even explain myself.
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So because everything can be a ~ teachable moment ~ if you're nerdy enough, let's learn about Speaker Denison's rule-- a convention established in the nineteenth by (you guessed it) a Speaker of the Commons called John Denison.
TIED VOTE in the Commons on the Lib Dem customs union ten minute rule bill. 100 votes each, deputy speaker Caroline Nokes breaks the tie by voting aye, to continue debate
December 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
So because everything can be a ~ teachable moment ~ if you're nerdy enough, let's learn about Speaker Denison's rule-- a convention established in the nineteenth by (you guessed it) a Speaker of the Commons called John Denison.
Then worms shall try that long-preserved virginity,
and your quaint honour turn to dust, and into ashes all my lust.
The grave’s a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.
Just lives as proof that even back in the 1600s, things were basically the same
and your quaint honour turn to dust, and into ashes all my lust.
The grave’s a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.
Just lives as proof that even back in the 1600s, things were basically the same
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Then worms shall try that long-preserved virginity,
and your quaint honour turn to dust, and into ashes all my lust.
The grave’s a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.
Just lives as proof that even back in the 1600s, things were basically the same
and your quaint honour turn to dust, and into ashes all my lust.
The grave’s a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.
Just lives as proof that even back in the 1600s, things were basically the same
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One of December's many faults is that it's both way too short to get anything done and unbearably long.
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
One of December's many faults is that it's both way too short to get anything done and unbearably long.
There is only Africa.
So what Lynx body spray y'all want for Christmas?
December 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
There is only Africa.
So true. Although, also, please tell me she doesn't actually have this on her actual CV because that too would be very strange behaviour
This is a borderline psychotic thing to put in a newspaper.
This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
So true. Although, also, please tell me she doesn't actually have this on her actual CV because that too would be very strange behaviour
Really getting sick (lol) of not being able to fully shake off the tail end of this flu. Frustrating.
December 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Really getting sick (lol) of not being able to fully shake off the tail end of this flu. Frustrating.
I was not expecting this to go so well!
November 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I was not expecting this to go so well!
She follows brilliantly. Wish they weren't making her do stairs though!
November 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
She follows brilliantly. Wish they weren't making her do stairs though!
Chaos. Even judge cushion chaos.
November 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Chaos. Even judge cushion chaos.
How do you fault that?
November 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
How do you fault that?
This is what happens when you're also having to practice a bunch of other dances for the instant dance thingy, isn't it? Not enough time getting the main dance baked into the brain...
November 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is what happens when you're also having to practice a bunch of other dances for the instant dance thingy, isn't it? Not enough time getting the main dance baked into the brain...
They'd have bitten off your hand for that kind of score for a rhumba if you'd have offered it on Monday
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
They'd have bitten off your hand for that kind of score for a rhumba if you'd have offered it on Monday
That girl's choreography is just madly good
November 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
That girl's choreography is just madly good
Gorgeous. Lovely to watch a Quickstep and lovely to see him in a decent outfit for once.
November 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Gorgeous. Lovely to watch a Quickstep and lovely to see him in a decent outfit for once.
That was painful. I always thought this was a risky week for her given the dance isn't a fan favourite but now... 🤷🏻♀️
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
That was painful. I always thought this was a risky week for her given the dance isn't a fan favourite but now... 🤷🏻♀️
I'd quite like a Zoë Ball & Janette Manrara combo. They like promoting from within on Strictly so maybe...
Who would you choose to host Strictly?
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I'd quite like a Zoë Ball & Janette Manrara combo. They like promoting from within on Strictly so maybe...
Three more weeks at work and I need to find time to take a day off too. Argh
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Three more weeks at work and I need to find time to take a day off too. Argh
You're 20. Stocks and Shares LISA for you my boy or inflation will eat your money!
Josh Hall, 20, is 'worried' about how the cash ISA allowance cut announced in Wednesday’s Budget will affect his long-term savings plans
➡#Read More: trib.al/UPCzygg
➡#Read More: trib.al/UPCzygg
November 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
You're 20. Stocks and Shares LISA for you my boy or inflation will eat your money!