The most famous warm-up in football history.
On this day in 1989, Napoli faced Bayern Munich at Olimpiastadion in Munich and Diego (inadvertently) created a piece of art for the ages 🥹
Good piece. “If your problem with open access is that commercial publishers are hoovering up all the money, design open access interventions that specifically prevent commercial publishers from receiving your money.”
Got lots of @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social tours coming up this month including a new Migrants Made Glasgow tour and some Revolutionary Glasgow tours as part of the Glasgow Trades Council's May Day programme
radicalglasgowtours.com
It is great to see these principles on open monograph acquisition from RLUK.
My only criticism is of "there should be evidence that the initiative is financially viable (or established for at least two years)".
So how are new models supposed to start?
www.rluk.ac.uk/shared-princ...
New: France said it plans to move its government computers currently running Windows to the open-source software Linux to further reduce its reliance on U.S. tech. Comes at a time of growing instability and unpredictability on the part of the Trump administration and weaponization of sanctions, etc.
Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day!
Celebrate with a treat from a Black-owned indie bookstore.
Brittany Allen
lithub.com/today-is-the...
#books #literature #blacklivesmatter #NationalBlackBookstoreDay
Miranda's short thread makes excellent points, particularly about how Substack's whole game is locking in you & your audience.
If you're looking for more alternatives & how to move to something better (maybe Buttondown or Ghost?), here's a website with options & ways to migrate.
The front cover of E.E.G. by Dasa Drndic. The cover is illustrated by 'Two Halves' by Unica Zürn,, which shows a series of overlapping drawings of a face or faces
Decided to start logging and perhaps reviewing my reading here. This'll cheer you up no end when it's raining outside. Best read with a glass of water they couldn't keep the dust off.
It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇
www.ft.com/content/5032...
This 💯
All finished! The full text of my presentation is available at opensauce.simonxix.com/eor2025/ #UKSG2026
Job opportunity:
Curator (European Art) at Glasgow Life in Glasgow, UK
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Miss Page, the bunny librarian from Richard scary books, hides behind three enormous stacks of books, only her ears can be seen.
The fox librarian screams and throws her books.
The two types of librarian conflict management as illustrated by Richard Scarry. Which are you?
For all the @warburginstitute.bsky.social fans out there…
Thanks to the efforts of the international ai haters union, specifically @valluanino.it, I Am An AI Hater has now been translated into Italian. Pretty sure my Sicilian grandfather would have been pleased.
Solo noi esseri umani siamo in grado di odiare. Rivendico la mia umanità.
![[ bagpipes intensify ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lulry7rxxsvspg2nhhm7pndf/bafkreidsb6sisnmabs2eqsbw2ip6hepcwrhqcwv74xkyt3gselxyeohfum)
So I discovered that the bagpipe song I really like times perfectly with the Napoleon Dynamite dance. Then a bunch of other stuff happened and I am so sorry but this exists now and I'm far less sorry than previously implied.
2 people consulting a printed volume on a book cushion
📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team.
See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives...
🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026
With Gaza's Libraries in Ruins, Palestinians Fight to Preserve Historical Memory
#archives #library 📚
truthout.org/articles/wit...
Very excited to be involved in organising an upcoming PGR-led Symposium hosted at @glasgow.ac.uk on 11th June 2026 with some really talented peope, titled 'A Kingdom in Perplexity: Voices from Seventeenth Century Scotland'. Do give us a follow @scot17thcentury.bsky.social
A Poem for a Morning Margaret Tait I’m out here now on the roof. Look! I had to get nearer the sky, For the city was too full of rooms And I can’t be content with a window. It’s too small a thing to accept the ready-made frame. We builders must keep making our own cities. Oh, please Don’t fell the trees For your city, because I need them for mine.
I’m out here now
on the roof. Look!
I had to get nearer the sky,
For the city was too full of rooms
And I can’t be content with a window…
—Margaret Tait, “A Poem for a Morning”
from Margaret Tait: poems, stories & writings, @carcanet.bsky.social 2012
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017379...
I'm so delighted to be involved in setting up a symposium on 17th C Scotland. It now has a @bsky.app presence. Early-modern researchers, please give us a wee follow, and consider joining us on 11 June @scot17thcentury.bsky.social
Don't use Zoom.
Join Thoth & @copim.bsky.social at #UKSG2026. Take a look at the programme for sessions we'll be speaking at, and come and find us at stand no. 66 👉 buff.ly/faReDap
Plus we're hosting the legendary #CopimCorner on Monday 30 March - all welcome! 📚 🤝 🍻
![4-panel comic. (1) [Glowing black dot surrounded by clouds.] DOT: I think I did a good job with this universe. Pressure waves dance through gas clouds. They clump together and then pressure pushes them apart. (2) [Some of the clouds are clumping together.] DOT: Oh weird, that big clump of clouds is staying together. Their gravity is overcoming the pressure and more gas is falling in. (3) [More clouds are sucked in.] DOT: It’s not stopping! The heat is rising but the collapse is only accelerating! I messed up. I messed up *bad*. (4) [The clump has become a shining star.] DOT: NOOOOOOOO!!! My beautiful clouds! Ruined! It’s all ruined!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiae4qcq3k4rea6dmb4vcttgnajgfurbpa34isuyr6sclzdq3gijci)
4-panel comic. (1) [Glowing black dot surrounded by clouds.] DOT: I think I did a good job with this universe. Pressure waves dance through gas clouds. They clump together and then pressure pushes them apart. (2) [Some of the clouds are clumping together.] DOT: Oh weird, that big clump of clouds is staying together. Their gravity is overcoming the pressure and more gas is falling in. (3) [More clouds are sucked in.] DOT: It’s not stopping! The heat is rising but the collapse is only accelerating! I messed up. I messed up *bad*. (4) [The clump has become a shining star.] DOT: NOOOOOOOO!!! My beautiful clouds! Ruined! It’s all ruined!
Star Formation
xkcd.com/3222/
RLUK's new principles call for collective funding, not-for-profit governance protected from commercial acquisition, bibliodiversity, and transparency. For us here at the OBC, these principles are at the core of our operating model. 📚 #OpenAccess #DiamondOA
Ah yes so I did
The Ghost of White Hart Lane, a play about John White, is coming to Musselburgh (near Edinburgh) this summer. www.tickettailor.com/events/musse...
Currently reading one of Jane Jacobs' lesser known books, written decades after Death and Life.
Her loathing for cars (and Robert Moses) did not diminish with age.
"Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities."
When a Community Comes Together: People Power and the Lessons of Kenmure Street by Gerry Hassan bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/19/w...
Hey everyone, a collective I'm part of is starting a radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle, a city where the last radical bookshop closed around 40 years ago. We've just launched our crowdfunder. Please take a look a share widely!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...
