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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 23h

If anyone is looking for a Christmas present idea @markdourish.bsky.social cough> this looks splendid.

Emma Thane of Cawdor @redwellyfeats.bsky.social · 23h

It's in this lovely pop up book about frogs. I hadn't heard of it either until I read this.

A beautiful pop up book about frogs, tied in a pretty pink ribbon.

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 1d

It is truly amazing how quickly transfusions sort the symptoms of anaemia. When 9yo had her first units of blood way back <waves hand> the colour in her cheeks showed just how used we had got over time to her ghostly appearance. Hope you have a similarly miraculous improvement.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 1d

“Both discoveries show the crucial role of county council archives and their staff in preserving this musical heritage.”

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 2d

Shimmering clouds above @theul.bsky.social at home time today.

A tall square tower above a large red brick building. The sky is blue and there are rippled white clouds.

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 2d

If there was a word I would absolutely *not* use for the @theul.bsky.social catalogues, it would be SMOL.

Green hardback volumes of a library catalogue. One volume contains authors from SMOL to SNH, although the last author in the volume is actually Snezhnitsky.

A beautiful long 1930s room with ornamented windows through which the autumn light is shining onto some of the hundreds of green volumes that make up the old catalogue of Cambridge University Library.

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R.L. Stine Cold Steve Austin @bolt451.bsky.social · 5d

Cant even have men Archbishops any more

Because of Woking

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 6d

When you see something very cool in a bookseller's catalogue, but by the time you reply to the email *6 other people* have already enquired about it.

a blue cartoon character is crying with tears falling out of his eyes

Alt: A very sad blue animated character is sobbing copiously

media.tenor.com

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In Quires and Places where they meme @quiresandplaces.com · 6d

That's real Britain.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 7d

In the reading room today: the absolutely wonderful Light Car magazine from 1934. #TrafficLight #Aeroplane #GuildfordBypass @theulspeccoll.bsky.social L429:8.b.20

A beautiful 1930s car next to a small aeroplane, in black and white. "The light car of today and its equivalent in the realm of travel by air."

"The robot traffic controller" also known as a traffic light. Queued up are two light cars, a cyclist, a van and a double decker bus, all mid 1930s models.

"The modern light car really is a go-anywhere vehicle!" A 1930s three-wheeler driving through a river.

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 7d

@camhistory.bsky.social the Stirling building standing dignified behind its hoardings in yesterday's early evening light.

A tall glass-covered 1960s building with wooden hoardings enclosing the lower levels. The late evening light reflects from the glass against a pale sky.

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 8d

I spent the first couple of hours at work (some years ago I hasten to add) with a kids' dressing-up monkey tail velcroed to the back of my skirt. Not sure why it took so long until someone gently asked "Are you aware...?"
THANKS KIDS. THANKS A LOT.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 10d

is there a word for things like chapstick and glasses cleaning cloth that jump unpredictably between "how is it possible I have none of these I can find" and "why are there four of these on my desk and two in my pockets/bags right now"

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 10d

Wonderful! Is it just the juice or do you need to do more processing?

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 10d

Very pleased to see the Chappel viaduct on your list. I grew up in Earls Colne but considerably too late to be able to get the train from there across the viaduct. Instead I went under it twice a day on the school bus...

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 10d

Who needs the real Bayeux Tapestry to cross the Channel when there's this fab version at Mountfitchet Castle starring (15 years ago) my lovely daughter as Harold 😁

A very large reproduction of the Arrow In The Eye scene of the Bayeux Tapestry, with cut-outs so that visitors can put their faces into the story. Harold is represented by an extremely cute and smiley toddler with chubby cheeks and a blonde bowl haircut.

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 11d

How do you choose a good acorn to grow? There are lots and lots at the park, some green, some brown, some beige...

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12d

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night:

Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?

**pause**

Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 14d

Yesterday: successful stint as last minute duty manager on the late shift at the UL.
Today: threw out from the staff fridge a pot of pineapple with expiry date 26 July.
Maybe the power's gone to my head...

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 14d

Per Mary from the National Theatre of Brent Messiah, "She's having John the Baptist, and doesn't she just know it!"

BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 14d

John the Baptist was wonderfully born,

Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 15d

Another artist after my own heart: Carlo Crivelli is a one man book-history lesson.

Four saints holding beautiful books, from Carlo Crivelli's Demidoff altarpiece in the National Gallery, London

Saint Jerome holding two lovely books in Carlo Crivelli's Madonna della Rondine in the National Gallery, London

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 16d

There was a rapture due on the day now-14yo was baptised. It was almost disappointing when there *wasn't* a huge crack of thunder at the key words followed by the roof flying off the church and everyone getting whisked upwards.

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 16d

Floris van Dijk is definitely my kind of artist. #NationalGallery #WantCheeseNow

Still Life with Cheese, Fruit, Bread and Nuts by Floris van Dijk. Almost all his compositions centre on cheeses on a plate... Caption from the National Gallery.

A painting by Floris van Dijk which does indeed feature a whacking great pile of cheese surrounded by very realistic fruits and other delicious foods. Original painting is held in the National Gallery, London.

Another painting by Floris van Dijk also of delicious foods and featuring four yummy cheeses. Original painting in the National Gallery, London.

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 16d

16yo trainee heroneer spotted this beauty in our neighbours' garden - we're very suburban and this is only the third time in 15 years we've received a visit. @everyheron.bsky.social

A very elegant heron standing tall on the roof of a back garden garage.

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