Presentation of the day #UKSGForum2025 has to go to @littlebutfierce.bsky.social for her phenomenal film noir tinged take on systematic reviews. I have a new standard to aspire to in my future presentations now - look at these slides 😍😍😍😍

Alan Bennett, in the 1970s, looking like a US news hound.

Alan Bennett, just after he cracked Watergate.

Asked to sculpt the biggest change in our sector, @odreamland.bsky.social and I immediately proceeded to demonstrate exactly why AI is so pervasive by anthropomorphising our robots.

“Look they’re friends!”
“His antennae keeps drooping 😔”

Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”

@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”

NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*

(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

Gift of Albert Dorne

Clara McDonald Williamson, The Day the Bosque Froze Over, 1953

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134672

By the mid-1930s, Mary Dawson Elwell had emerged on the British art scene as a painter of interiors, or more strictly, 'portrait interiors,' she described these works as ones in which the sitters are 'often as subsidiary to the whole effect as some other object in the room.'

By the mid-1930s, Mary Dawson Elwell had emerged on the British art scene as a painter of interiors, or more strictly, 'portrait interiors,' she described these works as ones in which the sitters are 'often as subsidiary to the whole effect as some other object in the room.'

Absolutely brilliant. Cant wait to see the finished episode.

Oh my god.

They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.

"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"

WOW.

@littlebutfierce.bsky.social and I are looking at preparing a presentation for the June 2025 @filill.bsky.social event on implementing the new CLA guidance in systematic reviews. We'd love to hear about your experiences and challenges—let us know what you'd like us to cover in the article comments.

The actor John Laurie on the isle of Foula in Shetland, windswept in a big boat and blue scarf he looks at the camera and says "Oh! Oh by the way, I'm John Laurie"

Michael Powell on the Foula airstrip, in tweeds and a deerstalker

The face of Belle Chrystall superimposed on to the crashing waves beneath the rocks at Foula in The Edge of the World

Niall McGinnis as Andrew Gray, surrounded by the ghosts of the islanders in The Edge of the World

There's a great double bill on iPlayer; Michael Powell's hebridean melodrama The Edge of the World, followed by retrospective documentary Return to the Edge of the World, featuring some lovely footage of John Laurie and Michael Powell returning to the island of Foula to reconnect with the community.

Goth girl with bat wings

Me out in the world trying to be a social butterfly

Council sets out vision for 'fairer' housing market as Right to Buy conversation continues Leeds City Council has added its voice to the national conversation about plans for the reform of England’s Right to Buy housing scheme.

In Leeds, we are calling for a cessation of sales of council owned homes via Right To Buy, and a wholly reformed toolkit for local authorities to rebuild housing stock to levels that can support the many thousands in need of decent and secure socially rented homes.

news.leeds.gov.uk/news/council...

Transphobia is simply the belief that "woman" means "cis white skinny conventionally attractive femme woman who can have kids."

That's really it.

Finished my Mokodo Design face tapestry, just in time to be gifted to her owners as a housewarming gift! First finished #crochet project of the new year ✨️

British photographer John Hinde, an innovator of color photography who produced some of the strongest images of Britain and Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s.

Blackpool Illuminations, 1960s
#Photography

Illustration of a cover to a cook book featuring a still life done in a stylized way, reminiscent to cubism - with a bowl of fruit, grapes, a grinder and a goblet. The title is "The Fireside Cook Book."

Alice and Martin Provensen - cover artwork for The Fireside Cook Book (1949). The work they did for this particular cook book was astounding. Here, in this thread, I'll post original full color pieces - all done in gouache - that were featured in the book. #wardsmorguefile 1/7

it’s a Roman Salute!

Some beautiful stills from iconic Italian film director Federico Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
#FedericoFellini #BOTD

meme image originally posted by "Paul Darling" showing a woman's legs and a hand holding a cigarette behind the "subtitled" words My idols are dead and my enemies are in power

David Lynch holding a megaphone. He says: "Okay, let's try that again, but this time good."

Mood, 2 weeks into 2025

Le Gai Savoir (1969)

Out 1 (1971)

Vladimir and Rosa (1971)

Duelle (1976)

Images from films starring Juliet Berto - BOTD in 1947

Le Gai Savoir (1969)
Out 1 (1971)
Vladimir and Rosa (1971)
Duelle (1976)

Projection Department I understand this is an unusual request yet I do need your help Regarding "MULHOLLAND DRIVE" 1:85 aspect ratio... Dolby SRD - 5.1 (Also Dolby SR) Please raise volume 3db hotter than normal Would you also give the picture a small amount of headroom as shown below: [diagram] Thank you very much Your friend David Lynch [signature]

I think so often of his instructions to projectionists for Mulholland Drive.

Juliet Berto, Jacques Rivette, and Dominique Labourier during the filming of CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (1974)

Berto was BOTD in 1947

Cover of the BBC publication TUTANKHAMUN’S EGYPT (1972) by Cyril Aldred, published to accompany the BBC series of the same name.

Delighted and quite astonished to see that BBCFour begins screening Cyril Aldred’s documentary series, TUTANKHAMUN’S EGYPT, next week. Made to accompany the British Museum’s 1972 TREASURES OF TUTANKHAMUN exhibition, the 13x20min episodes haven’t been seen since their original broadcast. #Egyptomania

1/2. £3 present to myself - a 1960 edition of M. Sasek’s ‘This is London’. I love the audacity with which Sasek introduces the book with the London smog (it dominates the front and end papers, too). It was first published 3 years after the 1956 Clean Air Act.

I'm uncomfortable with the inevitable "his work was always crap" because it seems to say "you can tell who the predators are by how well they write" and ... no no you absolutely cannot, that's the whole point.

Kathleen Byron in BLACK NARCISSUS (1947)

She was BOTD in 1921

Library cat

Leeds Beckett library cat

Headingley library cat

The Headingley library cat is following me all around the building today. She's currently helping me empty the book bins.