Misread one of the cartoons and though you'd found three zines complaining about James Dyson. It seemed a very specific niche of zine!

Painting of a close-up of two blue and white blossoms, one in front of the other

Blue Morning Glories, 1935 by Georgia O'Keeffe #Womensart

I opened my work iPad to check a meeting invite (I'm not back until tomorrow) and saw emails in the triple figures. Yikes.

I am female enough to take it the other way - oh god, they think I'm pregnant! But I've now reached the age where someone thinking I'm pregnant would be a compliment.. (and whatever the reason, you get to sit down!)

It's back!!! Looking forward to this next year of daily pics.

On the last half hour of my journey and can't wait to see my two kits!

This was amazing, some brilliant work being done, preparing students for post-16 education and employment.

That @lilacconf.bsky.social know to run an outstanding conference. I saw so many great presentations but missed so many more, three days just wasn't enough. Great support from @sheffielduni.bsky.social in keeping us fed, watered and going in the right directions. Thanks to the organisers #LILAC26

This was so good! Really enjoyed this.

White hot chocolate, with a toasted marshmallow topping. Small tray on a wooden table.

White hot chocolate with a toasted marshmallow topping, after a long, jam-packed day at #LILAC26 If any fellow attendees fancy a drink, it's the Chocolate Bar, open 'till 9pm

A ball of sock yarn in a rucksack, on a train seat.

On my way to #LILAC26 first conference in 7 years! Prepared for a Sunday train timetable...

What session are you doing? I've booked pretty much all my sessions but I wasn't looking too much at names - would be good to see you present.

I naively thought students realised the reading list was just the starting point, only to see some lists attract maybe 20% of the cohort on that course.

I see some reading lists where the tutors have placed the readings in context, from weekly chapters, to "read this if you didn't study X at A-level". I am so impressed they do the work with core textbooks, supplementary material and background reading.

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library.

193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel

www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

noooooo!? That is so creepy.

Me!

Oh, someone's lifted their head up and said it's good that Queen wasn't around to see what's happened, the shame of it all. I think possibly they didn't understand where Andrew got the money to pay off the lawsuit...

So far, all very much on one side, cracking jokes about 'happy birthday what are, sorry, WERE your plans for today?' 😄

I'm heading over to Threads too, because there are some crazies over there and I want to see how the Royalists spin this.

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Photo of a group of translucent fabric small orbs with colourful plant like three dimensional centres

Japanese artist Mariko Kusumoto turns textiles into delicately sculpted orbs that can be worn as jewellery #WomensArt

And it's so well-organised - every time I do it, I think "Nah, they sounded too calm to have really got my details down correctly" and then as if by magic, the stuff is whisked away.

If the issue is uncollected reservations, why not add the fee to a user's record, and take it off when they collect the book? It seems spiteful, otherwise, to punish users who use the service responsibly, and especially those who have small, part-time libraries, as their local library service.

Well done Tin Can Knits! A pattern I bought years ago has just been extended, so they've automatically sent me a copy with all three versions. Talk about good customer service. 🧶

with minimal impact on those in socially deprived communities." Or could it be that socially deprived communities aren't aware they can request books from other libraries? And once they find out, will they be charged too?

people living in the most socially deprived areas of Essex as most reservations currently placed are made by those living in more affluent areas. The financial impact of introducing a
reservation charge would mostly affect users with greater financial means, (2/3)...

I can almost understand the budget cut, it's actual money. What I don't understand is why they think charging for reservations will help their budget at all, to the point where they're estimating £150K per year income. I quote "Introducing a reservation charge would have minimal impact on (1/3)...

So in the National Year of Reading, Essex Libraries proposes to start charging for reservations. As my closest library is tiny, and only open 3 days a week (and two of those are half days) it feels like Great Wakering users are seen as either well-off or not worthy of full access to the book stock.

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