Mazel tov!!!!

What the actual F?!

Erin at the British library

Living it up in London!

Erin at the Winnipeg airport

Next stop: London!! ✈️

A man of property Just outside the City of London, in the secluded streets once occupied by the monastic precinct of the Black Friars, is an unassuming warehouse building

Found a Shakespeare thing; wrote about it in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat....

Huge news!

Property plan of the parish of St Ann Blackfriars, The London Archives, City of London Corporation (CLC/522/MS14570/001) As the dark-blue City of London plaque on the unassuming nineteenth-century building at 5 St Andrew’s Hill states: “ON 10TH MARCH 1613 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PURCHASED LODGINGS IN THE BLACKFRIARS GATEHOUSE LOCATED NEAR THIS SITE”. As the phrase “near this site” suggests, so far it has been impossible to locate the exact whereabouts of Shakespeare’s “lodgings”, and other parts of the property’s history have also been uncertain.

"This discovery throws into question the narrative that Shakespeare simply retired to Stratford and spent no more time in the city. It has sometimes been thought that he bought his Blackfriars property merely as an investment ..."
--- Professor Lucy Munro, King’s College London
#drama #theatre

Shakespeare's 'missing' London house mapped with new discovery | King's College London The exact location of William Shakespeare’s only London property can now be pinpointed to a quiet Blackfriars street, thanks to the discovery of a previously unknown floorplan.

"location of William Shakespeare’s only London property can now be pinpointed to a quiet Blackfriars street, thanks to the discovery of a previously unknown floorplan."
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/shakesp...

In Canada, we have garlic scape season, but that‘s a couple of months yet!!

I am inordinately thrilled to be visiting England during wild garlic season! 🙌

Fingers crossed!!!

What Menopause Is Like in Prison Limited information, health care challenges, hot flashes and mood swings make this an especially difficult life transition.

Last summer, an incarcerated woman in Missouri had a hot flash while we were on the phone. Since then, I've been talking to people around the country about what it's like to go through perimenopause and menopause in prison. Here's the result, co-published by @themarshallproject.org and @19thnews.org

Also the alma mater of Ken Burns, John Krakauer, and Lupita Nyong’o.

This is a massive loss to higher ed, a sector that once championed creative intellectualism and now caters primarily to its opposite.

This is awful. What a loss.

But also, Stars, Your ex-lover is dead.

"3. International Transfer of Offenders Act
4. Criminal Code of Canada
5. Canadian Human Rights Act
6. Access to Information Act and appropriate access request forms
7. Privacy Act and appropriate access request forms
8. Official Languages Act" 6/

"- ensure that the institution's library has available historical and current copies of legal, regulatory and official reference materials including, but not limited to:
1. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
2. Corrections and Conditional Release Act and Regulations" 5/

"- organize materials and information to reflect library standards for optimum use and access
- determine the needs of library users and match library services and resources to meet those needs and interests when possible and appropriate" 4/

"The Librarian will:
- deliver library management services which support and promote institutional programming, employment, social, ethnic and cultural development, legal research and personal enrichment" 3/

What exactly does a prison librarian do? Well, Correctional Service Canada has Commissioner's Directives that tell us. 2/

I'm seeing people defending this decision by saying things like "this is eliminating prison LIBRARIANS, not LIBRARIES" so let's take a closer look at that. 1/

Add: Barenaked Ladies, The Old Apartment.

This sounds absolutely dystopian. Solidarity forever.

Absolutely. I agree with you entirely. My comment was more to bolster my own spirits by reminding myself that there was no better possible option based on how things were going. Fingers crossed for compelling moves by the new NDP leadership!

F-ing heartless.

The Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg has cut 7 positions, as a part of the most recent budget cuts. It will see its budget reduced over $3.2 million over the next three years.

The federal Department of Canadian Heritage has been cut by $361,794,939 or 16.3%. This department has a total national budget of $2.1 billion. At the end of four years, it will sustain a permanent annual cut of $93.1 million.

Library and Archives Canada will eliminate 152 employee positions and 9 executive positions. 70 indeterminate positions were eliminated in 2025 prior to the announcement of the most recent budget cuts.

Currently, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) receives $208 million from the federal government. It will see a permanent annual cut of $22.1 million, which means spending cuts of nearly $50 million over the next three years.

A reminder that we all knew Carney was awful, but that voting for him was the only alternative to a country run by a PM who is cuckoobananapants.