Remember, it's only AI if it comes from the Aïe region of France; otherwise, it's just sparkling plagiarism.

Join us this Wednesday for the next instalment in our Salon series—The Northern Art Workers’ Guild: An Untold Story.

Authors Barry Clark and Richard Fletcher will reveal the story of a community of artists, architects, and makers who shaped Manchester.

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GCSE languages sees rise in Wales after new approach After a long decline, the number of pupils taking language GCSEs in Wales rises for two years.

GCSE languages sees rise in Wales after new approach #langsky #xl8

Simple, direct graphic proclaims "Support These Data Centers: Schools, Libraries, Bookstores.

Ich did not make thys, but Ich wisshe Ich did. Repost yf you are a proud member of the Gen AI Backlash.

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Sorry to hear that but I hope something much better comes up for you. Good luck.

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The scenes in London now! I get twitchy if I have fewer than 3 boxes on top of the fridge.

You can read one writer’s account of being targeted by one of these scams at stephaniewilliamswrites.substack.com/p/what-every...

Painting of the upper half a ginger and white cat facing left with head tilted upwards sniffing a red and white flower

Atsuko Suwa (諏訪温子), contemporary Japanese painter specializing in Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) #Womensart

Excellent work!

Well someone likes to come out swinging 👀

1914 poster for a spring exhibition at the Hohenzollern-Kunstgewerbehaus in Berlin. Designed by Julius Klinger.

Great news for lovely Dolly!

Painting of a woodland carpeted with light purple blossoms

Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

A crudely made sign stand of bundled bamboo held together with wire, upon which is mounted a roughly made sign of a single piece of wood, painted black, on which someone has crudely written BOOKS with an arrow pointing to the right, in a street somewhere.

When I know it's definitely a trap, but I'm going anyway.

Gorgeous!

Good luck!

Wooden sculpture: an enquiring face looks down from a tall column of stacked books.

The Spirit of Mount TBR wants to know if you _really_ believe you have enough books yet.

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

BBC archive changes at Caversham Park mean research 'impossible' The changes at Caversham Park, Berkshire, mean the centre is only open on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Here's a local news write up about the WAC Campaign's submission to the Charter Review - twinned with the usual weak quote from the press office. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Librarians are not the enemy. Great piece on this nightmarish conduct @katiedd.bsky.social. I stocked these books in my school library, issuing them with care/ age restrictions too. The librarian was threatened with disciplinary action, labeled a safeguarding risk & resigned. Follow up below.

WHAT AN ABSOLUTE FORCE OF NATURE this woman is. ✊✊

Queen 😂

i did not know they could hatch !

Great tips, and also another example of what AI can't do (for example #5).

I hope the librarian will be supported to take them to a tribunal.

Greater Manchester school library censorship: who is accountable? - Index on Censorship Now that Lowry Academy has been publicly named, Index has written a follow-up to last week's book banning story

Earlier this month, we broke an investigation into a school in Greater Manchester that labelled its librarian a “safeguarding” risk for a book she stocked.

We can now reveal that the local authority upheld the complaint that destroyed her career⬇️
www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/grea...