Erin O'Neill
@erinvam.bsky.social
Follower of figure skating, dance, cult TV and movies. Navigator (Journal Editor) for The Sydney Passengers Sherlock Holmes Society. Librarian/Archivist by training; broadcast media by profession.
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Picard writing tip: Getting your point across is more important than following archaic rules. It's okay to boldly split infinitives.
December 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Picard writing tip: Getting your point across is more important than following archaic rules. It's okay to boldly split infinitives.
With one month still to go, wondering what else 2025 will manage to throw at us. Can I see a trailer for 2026 please before I decide to purchase?
November 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
With one month still to go, wondering what else 2025 will manage to throw at us. Can I see a trailer for 2026 please before I decide to purchase?
So not just me who would like to see this in a home renovation or real estate show just once.
CLIENT: we’d really love to redo this into like a niiice closed floor plan
DESIGNER: closed?
CLIENT: yeah something that’s just terrible for entertaining, you know?
DESIGNER: but…
CLIENT: think we can put a wall up here? I’d really love this to be the kind of kitchen nobody wants to hang out in
DESIGNER: closed?
CLIENT: yeah something that’s just terrible for entertaining, you know?
DESIGNER: but…
CLIENT: think we can put a wall up here? I’d really love this to be the kind of kitchen nobody wants to hang out in
November 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
So not just me who would like to see this in a home renovation or real estate show just once.
Interesting. I'm not optimistic anything will come of this review, but perhaps it could turn into something longer term. There must be a way to put some structure around the rules to make the calling of elements more consistent.
The ISU says they are “undertaking a review following inquiries received about the ice dance event at ... Finlandia Trophy.”
This action comes after top ice dancers at Finlandia spoke out against the scoring & overall direction of the discipline.
anythinggoe.com/finlandia-tr...
This action comes after top ice dancers at Finlandia spoke out against the scoring & overall direction of the discipline.
anythinggoe.com/finlandia-tr...
Finlandia Trophy is over; the ice dance controversy is not - Anything GOEs
The ISU will be reviewing the ice dance event from Finlandia Trophy after skaters object to tech panel decisions
anythinggoe.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Interesting. I'm not optimistic anything will come of this review, but perhaps it could turn into something longer term. There must be a way to put some structure around the rules to make the calling of elements more consistent.
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The original end-to-end encryption
November 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The original end-to-end encryption
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This time on MY LIFE IN THE PAST: Victorian lady detectives in fiction. Read the story here!
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The first fictional female sleuths!
'Revelations of a Lady Detective' and other good books
lucyworsley.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This time on MY LIFE IN THE PAST: Victorian lady detectives in fiction. Read the story here!
lucyworsley.substack.com/p/the-first-...
lucyworsley.substack.com/p/the-first-...
Such a nice man. He was newsreader at 7 when I started working in the News Library in 1993. Always a gentleman.
September 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Such a nice man. He was newsreader at 7 when I started working in the News Library in 1993. Always a gentleman.
What on earth is happening to my former workplace? This does not sound like a good thing, either for the BBC Written Archives Centre or for access to archives as a general principle.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
What on earth is happening to my former workplace? This does not sound like a good thing, either for the BBC Written Archives Centre or for access to archives as a general principle.
I will always regret being out of office the day she visited BBC Written Archives Centre. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Stella Rimington, first female MI5 chief, dies aged 90
Former director general died on Sunday night ‘surrounded by her beloved family and dogs’
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I will always regret being out of office the day she visited BBC Written Archives Centre. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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"Sorry to see you go! Will you let us know what we did wrong?"
Sure. I wanted to buy a reusable cup. I didn't want to enter a daily, lifelong correspondence
Sure. I wanted to buy a reusable cup. I didn't want to enter a daily, lifelong correspondence
August 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"Sorry to see you go! Will you let us know what we did wrong?"
Sure. I wanted to buy a reusable cup. I didn't want to enter a daily, lifelong correspondence
Sure. I wanted to buy a reusable cup. I didn't want to enter a daily, lifelong correspondence
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The hardest disbelief to suspend about the show.
July 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The hardest disbelief to suspend about the show.
Sydney - I know most of us don’t remember the last time we had trams, but I feel like we should know enough not to try & walk out in front of them, as observed several times today on a rare trip to the city.
July 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Sydney - I know most of us don’t remember the last time we had trams, but I feel like we should know enough not to try & walk out in front of them, as observed several times today on a rare trip to the city.
Also not a fan of the show (though know way too much about it due to work) but this is comedy gold, and whoever made it definitely lived through the 1980s.
This is some brilliant fake history.
An 1980s intro for 'Game of Thrones', made before we could have Al do this in just a few minutes, so made by someone with actual talent and abilities.
Enjoy!
I didn't like GoT, but this I'd watch :)
PS Sean bean.
youtu.be/8oVfIFrpslI?...
An 1980s intro for 'Game of Thrones', made before we could have Al do this in just a few minutes, so made by someone with actual talent and abilities.
Enjoy!
I didn't like GoT, but this I'd watch :)
PS Sean bean.
youtu.be/8oVfIFrpslI?...
Game of Thrones - VHS Intro (UPDATED music)
YouTube video by Mikolaj Birek
youtu.be
June 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Also not a fan of the show (though know way too much about it due to work) but this is comedy gold, and whoever made it definitely lived through the 1980s.
Minutes of the June meeting of The Sydney Passengers now on the society website. Includes the winner of the 2024 Montpellier Award for the best article in The Passengers' Log, as voted by members. www.sherlock-holmes.au/Events_Meeti...
Passengers Events and Meetings
www.sherlock-holmes.au
June 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Minutes of the June meeting of The Sydney Passengers now on the society website. Includes the winner of the 2024 Montpellier Award for the best article in The Passengers' Log, as voted by members. www.sherlock-holmes.au/Events_Meeti...
Great to meet @221bcooee.bsky.social in person this week.
Visiting Sydney - a Sherlockian meetup with Sydney Passengers Bill Barnes & @erinvam.bsky.social ; and looking at some books I've picked up . #sherlock
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June 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Great to meet @221bcooee.bsky.social in person this week.
Looking forward to building my Lego Sherlock Holmes book nook (when I have the time to give it the attention it deserves).
June 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Looking forward to building my Lego Sherlock Holmes book nook (when I have the time to give it the attention it deserves).
Was wondering how long it would take for this to happen given current US policies.
May 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Was wondering how long it would take for this to happen given current US policies.
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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
Minutes from the most recent Sydney Passengers meeting now on the website, including link to view the whole meeting with mini magic show by Micah Cover.
Passengers Events and Meetings
www.sherlock-holmes.au
March 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Minutes from the most recent Sydney Passengers meeting now on the website, including link to view the whole meeting with mini magic show by Micah Cover.
Potentially the truest post I will see today.
Sometimes having 2 cats is like having 2 cats and sometimes having 2 cats is like having 12 cats and that’s all I care to say about cats today
March 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Potentially the truest post I will see today.
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It’s a new double issue of the Passengers Log from the Sydney Passengers (editor @erinvam.bsky.social ) so I have two articles:
1. The photographer of the dancing men
2. Article on the Dr Watson that ACD met in Australia - 4th article in the series
Thanks Erin for your amazing work!!
1. The photographer of the dancing men
2. Article on the Dr Watson that ACD met in Australia - 4th article in the series
Thanks Erin for your amazing work!!
March 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It’s a new double issue of the Passengers Log from the Sydney Passengers (editor @erinvam.bsky.social ) so I have two articles:
1. The photographer of the dancing men
2. Article on the Dr Watson that ACD met in Australia - 4th article in the series
Thanks Erin for your amazing work!!
1. The photographer of the dancing men
2. Article on the Dr Watson that ACD met in Australia - 4th article in the series
Thanks Erin for your amazing work!!
Latest issue of The Passengers' Log is now in the mail to members and contributors. It's a double issue full of good Sherlockian stuff! www.sherlock-holmes.au/PassengersLo...
Passengers Log Information
www.sherlock-holmes.au
February 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Latest issue of The Passengers' Log is now in the mail to members and contributors. It's a double issue full of good Sherlockian stuff! www.sherlock-holmes.au/PassengersLo...
Some great points here.
A Saturday morning musing upon my hobby of choice.
sherlockpeoria.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
sherlockpeoria.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
The things we criticize . . . and the things we don't
The advent of a widely broadcast TV show that's Sherlock Holmes related has brought on a wave of opinions in every venue where opinions are...
sherlockpeoria.blogspot.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Some great points here.
The whole article is thoughtful and insightful. Agree it is a must read for skaters, skating fans and those in authority in the sport.
Gabriella Papadakis, who will soon publicly debut
her new partnership with Madison Hubbell, publishes an essay that not only discusses their new artistic project, but is effectively a manifesto for change in this sport. A must-read, in our opinion: gabriellapapadakis.substack.com?r=btww&utm_c...
her new partnership with Madison Hubbell, publishes an essay that not only discusses their new artistic project, but is effectively a manifesto for change in this sport. A must-read, in our opinion: gabriellapapadakis.substack.com?r=btww&utm_c...
January 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The whole article is thoughtful and insightful. Agree it is a must read for skaters, skating fans and those in authority in the sport.
Glad to see #duvetknowitschristmas has travelled to BlueSky. Viewing these posts has become a Christmas afternoon tradition.
So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/
December 25, 2024 at 2:55 AM
Glad to see #duvetknowitschristmas has travelled to BlueSky. Viewing these posts has become a Christmas afternoon tradition.