Genny G
@cobralingus.bsky.social
Definitely a librarian but only sometimes evil. All opinions my own and not those of my employer. She/her
This whole thread is GLORIOUS. Long, but glorious.
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This whole thread is GLORIOUS. Long, but glorious.
!!!!!!!
If you love insular manuscripts & have always wanted to visit Hereford Cathedral's chained library, 2026 is the year to come! Shaping Early Medieval Faith: The Hereford Gospels will run 30 March-12 September 2026. More details, including about the manuscript's palimpsest, coming soon.
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
!!!!!!!
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The witch made him hot chocolate.
"They say I'm strong," he said. "And I am."
He took a sip.
"They say I can overcome any hardship."
"Mm," said the witch.
"And I can. I do."
The witch said nothing.
"But I shouldn't have to!"
"No."
The witch held the hero as he wept.
"No, you shouldn't."
"They say I'm strong," he said. "And I am."
He took a sip.
"They say I can overcome any hardship."
"Mm," said the witch.
"And I can. I do."
The witch said nothing.
"But I shouldn't have to!"
"No."
The witch held the hero as he wept.
"No, you shouldn't."
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The witch made him hot chocolate.
"They say I'm strong," he said. "And I am."
He took a sip.
"They say I can overcome any hardship."
"Mm," said the witch.
"And I can. I do."
The witch said nothing.
"But I shouldn't have to!"
"No."
The witch held the hero as he wept.
"No, you shouldn't."
"They say I'm strong," he said. "And I am."
He took a sip.
"They say I can overcome any hardship."
"Mm," said the witch.
"And I can. I do."
The witch said nothing.
"But I shouldn't have to!"
"No."
The witch held the hero as he wept.
"No, you shouldn't."
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‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ is one of those song titles that sounds quite comforting until you imagine it as the title of a story in an M. R. James anthology
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ is one of those song titles that sounds quite comforting until you imagine it as the title of a story in an M. R. James anthology
Bookings just opened for December's Really Popular Book Club @theul.bsky.social . Come listen to me ruin all your fond childhood memories of Narnia.
The Really Popular Book Club: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by
TUESDAY 16 DECEMBER 2025 7PM to 8PM Open to all. Hosted online using Zoom Meetings. TICKETS: Free, booking required. ACCESSIBILITY: Live subtitles are available using Zoom's Live Transcript function.
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Bookings just opened for December's Really Popular Book Club @theul.bsky.social . Come listen to me ruin all your fond childhood memories of Narnia.
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The cover's out! Happy to say that I've got a chapter on how libraries explore the Necrocene and ecological grief in "Libraries, Archives, and Collective Grief", edited by @librarianchef.bsky.social and @kpalex91.bsky.social. Out from Bristol Uni Press next year!
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The cover's out! Happy to say that I've got a chapter on how libraries explore the Necrocene and ecological grief in "Libraries, Archives, and Collective Grief", edited by @librarianchef.bsky.social and @kpalex91.bsky.social. Out from Bristol Uni Press next year!
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
The day I went for a meeting at Corpus and was confronted with this painting on the wall of the meeting room remains one of the most surreal experiences of my life.
‘“Did Marlowe appropriate from the Heptameron a motto that Whetstone had encountered in France or Italy?” asked Diana Shklanka. An excellent question, which has lain unnoticed by Marlowe scholars for nearly forty years.’
M.W. Rowe on (possibly) Marlowe’s portrait.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
M.W. Rowe on (possibly) Marlowe’s portrait.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
M.W. Rowe | But is it Marlowe?
In late 1952, builders working in the Old Court of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, removed two boards from under an...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The day I went for a meeting at Corpus and was confronted with this painting on the wall of the meeting room remains one of the most surreal experiences of my life.
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Support library workers! 📚📜
ICYMI: Workers at the British Library in London have voted to take strike action in a dispute over pay 👇 #BookSky
British Library workers to strike in pay dispute
ebx.sh
October 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Support library workers! 📚📜
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Pembroke is flying the College flag today to mark the admission of Professor Polly Blakesley as its new Master.
Professor Blakesley will be Pembroke’s 55th Master, and the first woman to hold the role.
A short admission ceremony will take place this evening.
Professor Blakesley will be Pembroke’s 55th Master, and the first woman to hold the role.
A short admission ceremony will take place this evening.
October 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Pembroke is flying the College flag today to mark the admission of Professor Polly Blakesley as its new Master.
Professor Blakesley will be Pembroke’s 55th Master, and the first woman to hold the role.
A short admission ceremony will take place this evening.
Professor Blakesley will be Pembroke’s 55th Master, and the first woman to hold the role.
A short admission ceremony will take place this evening.
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I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...
this is why we don't read the Golden Age anymore.
There are so many histories of the future.
Spinning through timespace, studying this apocalypse, a key part of my undercover mission is studying stories about the future. When and where and how were ...
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io
September 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...
Strong work, gang.
Just saw all your comments from last night’s post and someone shared a pic, Orlando showed up and used chalk to bring the rainbow crosswalk back! We love this so much!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
August 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Strong work, gang.
Who do I know who might be able to decipher some German shorthand[?]? Front and back of a postcard found in the Spanbroekmolen Crater in 1918, a colleague of a colleague is trying to find out more.
July 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Who do I know who might be able to decipher some German shorthand[?]? Front and back of a postcard found in the Spanbroekmolen Crater in 1918, a colleague of a colleague is trying to find out more.
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For Pride Month, I wrote about queer history, intergenerational kinship, and what I'm calling "archival grief" (with a side tangent about '90s evangelical alt-rock acts).
Thanks are due to Alice Langley for encouraging me to write about this, & to Sam Tegtmeyer for the Sara Ahmed quotation.
Thanks are due to Alice Langley for encouraging me to write about this, & to Sam Tegtmeyer for the Sara Ahmed quotation.
Archive Grief, Archive Time
‘The body emerges from this history of doing, which is also a history of not doing, of paths not taken, which also involves the loss, impossible to know or...
buttondown.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
For Pride Month, I wrote about queer history, intergenerational kinship, and what I'm calling "archival grief" (with a side tangent about '90s evangelical alt-rock acts).
Thanks are due to Alice Langley for encouraging me to write about this, & to Sam Tegtmeyer for the Sara Ahmed quotation.
Thanks are due to Alice Langley for encouraging me to write about this, & to Sam Tegtmeyer for the Sara Ahmed quotation.
This is the BEST news. Oh my goodness.
The English Short Title Catalogue is back online #ESTC datb.cerl.org/estc
May 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
This is the BEST news. Oh my goodness.
Just casually getting out a book with a curse inscription to go on display with the silver cup with a curse inscription. As you do. #CambridgeLife #LibrarianLife
April 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Just casually getting out a book with a curse inscription to go on display with the silver cup with a curse inscription. As you do. #CambridgeLife #LibrarianLife
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CILIP always has and always will support the whole library, knowledge and information workforce, and all service users – including trans people. Read our statement: www.cilip.org.uk/news/699534/...
Statement on Supreme Court ruling
CILIP always has and always will support the whole library, knowledge and information workforce, and all service users – including trans people.
www.cilip.org.uk
April 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
CILIP always has and always will support the whole library, knowledge and information workforce, and all service users – including trans people. Read our statement: www.cilip.org.uk/news/699534/...
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List piece on dualshockers about linguistic games - and great, HV is in it, but also - PataNoir! The Gostak! Suveh Nux! This is a good list.
The Gostak is an all-timer.
The Gostak is an all-timer.
8 Best Games For Linguistic Experts
The best video games for players than consider themselves linguistic aficionados.
www.dualshockers.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
List piece on dualshockers about linguistic games - and great, HV is in it, but also - PataNoir! The Gostak! Suveh Nux! This is a good list.
The Gostak is an all-timer.
The Gostak is an all-timer.
LET'S GO CAMBRIDGE! CLEAN SWEEP IN THE #BoatRaces!
(Also props to the spares race that London won, of course.)
(Also props to the spares race that London won, of course.)
April 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
LET'S GO CAMBRIDGE! CLEAN SWEEP IN THE #BoatRaces!
(Also props to the spares race that London won, of course.)
(Also props to the spares race that London won, of course.)
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What remains?
What remains
after the smoke alarms
are all dismantled,
and those who would cry out
have all been silenced?
What remains?
What remains is the fire.
What remains
after the smoke alarms
are all dismantled,
and those who would cry out
have all been silenced?
What remains?
What remains is the fire.
April 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
What remains?
What remains
after the smoke alarms
are all dismantled,
and those who would cry out
have all been silenced?
What remains?
What remains is the fire.
What remains
after the smoke alarms
are all dismantled,
and those who would cry out
have all been silenced?
What remains?
What remains is the fire.
"We keep receipts."
This is, of course, why they are going after heritage institutions, and why it's imperative to protect them.
This is, of course, why they are going after heritage institutions, and why it's imperative to protect them.
Don't mess with archivists. We keep receipts.
"The Danish National Archives holds a ground-breaking document (...) With a single stroke of a pen, the USA accepted that the whole of Greenland was Danish territory".
jyllands-posten.dk/indland/ECE1...
"The Danish National Archives holds a ground-breaking document (...) With a single stroke of a pen, the USA accepted that the whole of Greenland was Danish territory".
jyllands-posten.dk/indland/ECE1...
The Danish National Archives holds a ground-breaking document proving that President Donald Trump is wrong about Greenland
In a high-security storage facility at the Danish National Archives (Rigsarkivet) is a 100 year old sheet of paper with an American promise about Greenland. This is the fascinating story which Preside...
jyllands-posten.dk
March 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
"We keep receipts."
This is, of course, why they are going after heritage institutions, and why it's imperative to protect them.
This is, of course, why they are going after heritage institutions, and why it's imperative to protect them.
It's fine, I don't mind having teardrop stains on my good blouse.
I finally had a chance to read "10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days" by @samtasticbooks.com. What a perfect story for our current times, and that last line! Just like "Rabbit Test," I found myself unexpectedly crying. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/10-v...
10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days - Uncanny Magazine
1. There is a future in which a hellgate opens off the coast of California. It happens at midnight on the first day of the new year, which is sooner than anyone expected. The waters rise and we are fo...
www.uncannymagazine.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It's fine, I don't mind having teardrop stains on my good blouse.
Being shushed is for *your* benefit, not the librarian's.
Please do not speak loudly in the library. You might wake "it" up.
March 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Being shushed is for *your* benefit, not the librarian's.
Hot damn. A piece of GOOD news floats to the top of the cesspool we are living in.
LOL wow a dude just argued in the EU courts that misgendering is a GDPR violation and he *won*.
www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refu...
www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refu...
A trans refugee's court case against Hungary just improved Trans+ rights across all of Europe
A landmark case at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday set a significant precedence for Trans+ rights across Europe.
www.wearequeeraf.com
March 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Hot damn. A piece of GOOD news floats to the top of the cesspool we are living in.
GNU PTerry.
The first thing I noticed was that the pain was gone. The tall, thin, hooded figure let me bask in that for a moment.
IT IS TIME
"Oh," I said, looking down at the frail vessel I had inhabited all my life. "Right."
COME
"Do you remember," I asked as we walked, "everyone you come for?"
YES
1/2
IT IS TIME
"Oh," I said, looking down at the frail vessel I had inhabited all my life. "Right."
COME
"Do you remember," I asked as we walked, "everyone you come for?"
YES
1/2
March 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
GNU PTerry.