Frosty stray under grey blue sky with a hot air balloon flying low

Hot-air-balloon low-sun run-view 🕶️

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Reviving this thread to add this to it:

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Obviously I'm not going to subscribe to Research Professional News and read this - but I see zero evidence that GenAI frees people up for creative things.

(There is evidence to the contrary, though: hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...)

I just donated to this; if you're able to, consider doing so too!

Literally couldn't be prouder of a skill 😄

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This is exactly what happened...

Reason 5 slide. Includes 'Would I be super happy if I got it? Yes. And what matters most?' and a 'family' gif of one pusheen cat stroking another'

"What matters most? Family"

Reason four: love cats, and when I wrote a review for Toca, I said I wanted a cat-focused pack. Since their response was silly and useless, this is the closest I can get… Also its only £3.99, and I would pay for it myself!! And you might say, “You’re spending money on useless things!” [arrow then points towards cat wearing sunglasses gif, with DEAL WITH IT written below

Grace (now 12) has just presented to me a google slide-deck entitled 'Why I should get the pusheen pack in Toca'

I particularly admire the risk she took with the animated sunglasses cat gif here on Reason 4 😄

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I think it's a huge compliment and hugely important. So much useful discourse in librarianship gets lost behind impenetrable article-speak language.

a woman is crying in a classroom with the words it 's so beautiful Alt: a woman is crying with the words 'it's so beautiful'

I think this is my favourite bluesky post now Simon

Why am I only hearing this rejoinder for the first time now, today? It is *chef's kiss*

Like think about it's PERFECT 📚

‘AI is white male mediocrity in digital form.’ A screenshot of a widely liked and reposted Instagram post, which is a screenshot of a widely liked and reposted Threads post, by @thyme_is_honey.

Truest thing I’ve ever seen

This was a manageable embarrassment. Until libraries started building AI chatbots — and pointing them at their LibGuides as the primary knowledge base. Garbage in, garbage out is not a new principle. The LibGuide nobody reviewed since 2021 is now confidently answering student queries! (3)

The result for many libraries is what I call guide rot. Hundreds of guides. Unmaintained. Years out of date. Broken links everywhere. No retirement policy. No review cycle. Created in response to pressure, not information architecture. (2)

Yessss Lauren! This thread is what the ‘save post’ button was made for.

(Interestingly not yet picked up the ‘library systems are failing us’ chat from any students at York, but maybe it’s happening and we’re just not hearing it)

Gigging in Manchester tonight. Drums sound amazing in the room. Venue is on the canal, views are great. Woooop!

I am really excited about this space, which I worked on with the brilliant Raj Mann who lots of my York connections will know. I'd encourage you all to come to the Fairhurst and take a look!

Thanks to the other libraries I spoke to about this project who helped us work out some logistics...

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This is great. I do think Yale are notably good at covers.

The pace of the technology is so rapid, we've collectively given up on the idea that something needs to be tested and studied and its affects understood before being implemented. But there's already plenty of evidence it's objectively and catastrophically harmful.

I'm a Faculty Engagement Manager in Arts & Hums (not an academic) but a key issue I've not seen others mention in this thread is the high body count. There's no other circumstances in which we'd countenance using a tool with students that has successfully acted as a suicide coach, so why these?

Obviously this is not Ned’s wife’s performance, but here‘s another one… the Baroque period is simply the best.

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Alice was so stressed about it but it was completely worth it to create such a unique experience.

The chapter house roof, an intricate web of blues and reds

My wife’s choir just did Purcell’s Hear My Prayer in York Minster chapter house (which has this ceiling) completely in the dark, spread out around the perimeter.

A singer’s nightmare, basically - not together, no stage, no music or even eye contact.

And it was completely magic. Just incredible.

Or maybe a pict from a society magazine article. MegaCat (on the right) looks patient but slightly long-suffering, here.

The caption would be like:

Giles (51), left, says he leaves hosting duties to his wife. "Cressida doesn't want me in the kitchen when she's having one of her dos," he chuckles.

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Hey I don’t know if the Firefly fandom exists in my BlueSky network in the way it did in my Twitter network, but if it DOES, I hope you’re all over Nathan Fillion’s insta right now… 👀

(Theres a whole set of these www.instagram.com/reel/DVeaFkf...)

A black and white cat sits on the windowsill looking into camera. A tabby lies on the window seat below also looking into camera. It looks staged and magazine-like.

Posing like they won a voucher for a couples photo shoot

It’d also been great to be on site on a campus other than my own, doing UX fieldwork with a whole new set of students and staff. Everyone has been thoughtful and informed and empathetic - and generally giving me hope.