Man of many talents - some of them useful. Multiple monomaniac. Author, 'Pink Floyd: The Music & The Mystery' https://xitter.cf/t.co/Cc61M5OmoT
Birmingham, England
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Sadly reducing my involvement here, for the usual reasons.
BlueSky seems the best alternative, but I'm also on Mastodon and Threads, as well as Facebook and LinkedIn.
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So let me know if I follow you here (or should!) and am not yet following you on BlueSky, Mastodon or Threads.
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"A collage full of nature 🌱🌷" from Gemma Matthews, contemporary embroidery artist who creates free hand pieces #WomensArt
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There’s a word in modern Hungarian slang, egérmozi, which describes watching films (or shows) on your phone. It means “mouse cinema”
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The team at @findmypast have made everything on their site (census records, military records, newspapers and more) free until Sunday 11 November.
So we found Isambard Kingdom Brunel living with his family at 17 Duke Street, Westminster, in the 1851 Census!
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'My £750 vouchers are useless after restaurant closure' bbc.in/48K4djj
If I can have a bed in the corner and you feed me, I'll do this for nothing.
Come join our team! 📢 #JobVacancy
Digital Special Collections Librarian
Location: @NHM_London (South Kensington)
Permanent role.
Hours per week: 18
Closing date: 14/11/2024
jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job/…
#MuseumJobs #LibraryJobs
ALT A bound manuscript volume, open showing hand drawn butterflies on the left and handwritten notes on the right. Behind it, standing upright is a modern Museum publication titled 'Nature's Explorers'.
ALT A screen grab of a page from the website titled 'Digitised collections from the Library and Archives.
ALT Original hand drawn artwork depicting the head, front legs and unfurled long tongue of a pangolin.
ALT A staff member operating a piece of digitisation equipment which is cradling an open bound volume of botanical artwork , with a camera above.
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🚨SCAM WARNING🚨
⚠️We've received over 1,100 reports about FAKE emails claiming to be from the #DVLA. The emails claim that your "vehicle tax payment has failed" to steal your information.
📨 You can report it by forwarding it to [email protected].
#PhyshyFriday
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🤔 What is the European Convention on Human Rights?
💡 Our section-by-section guide explains what the ECHR actually says and what that means for all our human rights: buff.ly/3VI9iUp
ALT Photo of hand holding up sign saying "European Convention on Human Rights"
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Badenoch:
"Integrity matters... I was never sacked for anything, I didn't have to resign in disgrace because there was a whiff of impropriety"
Puts in her cabinet:
Patel: Sacked for secret meetings, alleged bully
Jenrick: Cash for favours & £25m town funds scandal
DREGS
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The Victorian Society is delighted to have secured the listing at Grade II for the Church of St Mary and its lychgate, in Crossway Green, Hartlebury, Worcestershire. Read more bit.ly/3YR0o8J
Photo: the late Helen Pearce by kind permission of David Simons. #heritage
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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
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Inevitably there’s considerable interest in what impacts a Valencia type of rainfall event would have on the UK.
A 🧵
metro.co.uk/2024/11/01/happe…
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Trump says there’s no empty seats and the cameraman goes rogue
Live fact checks at trump rallies now
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I really hope all your loved ones question why Rupert wants a convicted felon and sexual predator in power…
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Why is Google Books removing access to out-of-copyright books that it once hosted as open access? There is a good chance that the mass-deaccession policy of libraries, on the ground that "it's available for free online", will be one of the most stupid acts of modern curatorship.