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Stéise

@booksparrow.bsky.social

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Occasionally wears clogs/dances with swords. Left-handed book wrangler: Systems, Metadata & Cataloguing. Librarian📚 Likes heritage, social history & folk 🏳️‍🌈 unapologetically femme

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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · Dec 5

Mood:
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Cartoon of a fox in a purple dress with a bow on its head. It is stood at a library check out desk and has a book and date stamp in front of it. It is leaning back and looks to be screaming. The word librarian hovers next to it.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2h

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets

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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 7d

My dog has the right idea about WFH:

Photograph showing the paws of a black dog poking out from underneath a beige blanket.

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Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social · 9h

And some good news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #manchester #museums

Manchester Science and Industry Museum Power Hall to reopen

Visitors will be able to rediscover engines that powered everything from cotton mills to railways.

www.bbc.co.uk

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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 10h

🏳️‍🌈 Happy #InternationalLesbianDay to all the lesbians in #Library Land out there! 👭🪓❤️🧡🤍💗💜
bsky.app/profile/cili...

Image 1: From the #archive at @lselibrary.bsky.social
Image 2: Article from a newspaper reporting on 2023 census data.
#LGBTQ
#LGBT
#Lesbian
#WLW

photo of a pink badge with the text 'A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle'

A snip from a newspaper article with the headline: "Revealed the professions with the most LGB employees.
The text underneath the headline reads:
Census data shows librarians, café workers and flight crew have the highest proportion of homosexual workers-with roofers bringing up the rear.
The two pictures below the head Aside view of a librarian handing some books from shelves to somebody else and a picture of a lollipop crossing sig

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 11h

Just occurred to me that “stay tuned“ is one of those phrases we’ll have to explain to kids, because while the semantic meaning stays, the literal meaning is lost to them.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘October’
(From a 1958 calendar by the always fabulous Ronald Lampitt)

A scene on a busy, beautifully tended allotment. The star of the scene is the wonderfully delicate, slightly hazy October light.

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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 11h

Me: I’ll just meet a friend for a brew. Also me: I order the nonsense above.

Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 11h

Still on a sugar high from this last night.
It’s how I would like all my hot drinks from now on; topped with a brownie.

Hurrah for Hot Chocolate season!

Close up Photo of a hot chocolate in a mug and saucer sitting on a table in a cafe.
The mug has molten chocolate around the rim and the beverage is topped with with an entire brownie and a large peak of whipped cream dusted with chocolate powder.

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Ramona @alderdoodle.bsky.social · 2d

One from the lettering archives ✨

A hand lettered quote 'Though she be but little she is fierce' in vintage style lettering in black and gold. Around the quote is a floral scrollwork frame and engraving style black lines.

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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 23h

Gorgeous

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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 1d

As a big idlewild fan, and librarian this article is a joy!

Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 1d

This has lifted everyone’s mood. Defo recommend 🍰🧁 (macmillan coffee morning)
Also I think we’ve all been pretending it was still summer (ish) but the storm at the weekend put a pin in that.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 1d

If I get a set of matching notebooks with a really good pen then I will definitely do a better job of both planning and carrying through on projects. That's obvious.

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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 1d

Dyslexic me does this all the time, the ‘not quite’ words definitely make sense though… and I feel like other languages might have more vocab than us….

Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps a day late for #UKFungusDay, but enjoy this picture of fungus growing out of the window frame in my local 🍺

Close-up photo of a fungus against a white painted background

Photograph showing the fungus in situ growing out of the window frame.

Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 3d

Prezzie from a friend:

#GlutenFree
#PinBadge

Photo of a hand holding a pin badge in the shape of a piece of toast dating “I tolerate a lot of things but not gluten”

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 3d

Jan Pieńkowski Sticky Seals for Gallery Five, London 1970s #Caturday

Four black cats are covered in different pink and red flowers and pink polka dots.

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 6d

Quitquote tweet: sara (@morekissing • like thinking the stripper is in love with u
baber @bakerbakerbaker • librarian complimented the book i was checking out
Image of Homer Simpson walking through his smiling

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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · Sep 6

I’m liking this, perhaps also:

‘I don’t give a JISC’
‘For REFs sake’

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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 6d

My desk when cataloguing:
#Skybrarian
#LibrarySky
#Library

Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social · Aug 7

Green room #art #oilpainting

Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 7d

My dog has the right idea about WFH:

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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 7d

Great choice!

Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 8d

Unpopular opinion from a librarian,, but I love a tatty paperback- shows it’s been loved and read. I read in the bath too. #SorryNotSorry

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 8d

Breaking the spine of a book is psychopath behaviour. It doesn't even take much care to read without doing so, you have to go out of your way to be that clumsy and destructive.

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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 9d

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 9d

In 1906, the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) moved from Manchester to London, and specifically to Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence’s apartment at Clement’s Inn, find out more from @lse.library curator blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...

Clement’s Inn: the first home of the Women’s Social and Political Union in London - LSE History

Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union's first office was at Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence's home on Clement's Inn, now part of LSE's campus.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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