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Dr Francis Osis
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Tweets about heritage, textile crafts, F1, dogs & nice walks. Makes motorsports art stuff at RaceCraft. Glasgow based. #ActuallyAutistic 🖖🌈🏳️‍⚧️ he/him

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Dr Francis Osis @fosis.bsky.social · Nov 10
Intro post time!

Hi, I'm Francis 👋 I work in the museums & archive service in West Lothian Council, and I'm just about to start my archives masters at Dundee. I have a PhD in history of medicine too!

I also create textile & fibre based art. I make clothes, quilts, and embroideries.
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floaker.bsky.social
Get this occult action thriller ttRPG for 1-7 people. Perfect if you enjoy playing powerful undead revenants embroiled in breakneck action, interpersonal drama, and occult investigation. Soundtrack by @mollynoise.bsky.social and human-made art by @stregawolf.art. Jump in now for early bird deals!
Coming soon: The Thunder Perfect Mind
An Occult Action Thriller Tabletop RPG
www.kickstarter.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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rachelholliday.bsky.social
so Heated Rivalry-pilled, I had to find the local angle about it 🏒🌈

New York’s queer hockey club is seeing a LOT more interest these days! (and so are leagues like it around the country.) new story from me:
Join the Club: ‘Heated Rivalry’ is Making Queer Hockey New York’s Hottest Sport
The Pride Hockey Alliance has been bringing “hot queer friends” together for years before the buzziest show on ice.
www.thecity.nyc
February 4, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
New project+page started: "Home for Broken Wood Type". Celebrating: collecting, mending+understanding, preserving, printing w/broken wood letterpress type. Part of my printing+research during my Jan. artist residency+fellowship. Better+more photos+info to come. enthusiastictype.com/brokenwoodty...
Screenshot of the top of the "Home for Broken Wood Type" project webpage. The title says "Broken Wood Type" with lightning emoji interrupting or breaking the word "Broken" between the K and E, and E and N. A backdrop image shows some broken wood type pieces assembled into a letterpress lockup to spell "'Broken'", under the digital text "using, mending, saving 'broken'letterpress wood type". There are buttons to jump to parts of the page: view gallery, about collection, broken type prints. The top of the photo gallery is visible, where there are buttons to see all or filter to just broken type photos from the Penland or my personal (Visconti) collections. Photos of broken pieces of wood type, in an organic masonry grid formation, follow; there are purple tags above each indicating what collection a piece is from. Screenshot of part of the broken wood type webpage, showing "Penland's Home for Beloved Broken Wood Type" and three photos of a double-height typecase where one case has a neon-yellow label for "Penland's Home for Beloved Broken Wood Type: mend, or use gently—don't trash!"; and a closeup photo of the broken wood type pieces in that case. Captions: "I created a new case, lining, and labels (with some of my non-traditional letterpress color palette...) for Penland's broken wood type, in January 2026 during a monthlong fellowship & artist residency in the Letterpress Studio. Shelving alongside whole wood type encourages use & discourages throwing broken type away (or filing it into a missable "what do we do with this" pile). Sections for recognizable sorts, large pieces, and unrecognizable (when printed on their own) pieces." Screenshot of the text-heavy "about" section of the broken type webpage. It reads: " About the Home for Broken Wood Type I love how wood type carries the story of its human use; broken type is part of that visible story of our printing communities. If you have pieces of broken wood type you aren't using: please email me! I'll pay for shipping to get these to a good next home in my broken-type collection (and send you a print made from broken wood type if you're interested & I have any left). I'm interested in all kinds of broken wood letterpress type: they *really don't* need to have all the pieces of a whole sort, be an identifiable typeface or character, nor be mendable. Send me your unfathomable type-high wood shards, as well as things broken but closer to original form :) I'll take better photos of them, too—most of the current gallery is from type I didn't have a chance to photo up close before a winter storm closed the studio. In early 2026, I started a broadside print project using Penland School of Craft Letterpress Studio's broken wood type. I then cleaned a case to make a new safe storage home for them that suggests mending, gently printing, and preserving rather than tossing into the dreaded Hell Bucket (Penland's is a whole bucket, not a jar/box; love it). I’ll be printing with more broken wood type, including to encourage folks not to discard it. I'll also document the different ways different kinds of wood type has broken (e.g. material, character, typeface, size, ???), and get practice mending and protecting such type when it's in mendable condition. In case anyone is worried—no type is being deliberately broken! 😱 I have a background in book history, librarianship, and preservation. Any type that looks at risk of further breakage is *not* being printed with. Printable broken type is treated with extra care—e.g. not overtightening the quoins, attending to what the broken edges are against, etc. My goal is type preservation over print use <3. Whe… Screenshot of the "Printing (carefully) with broken type" section of the broken wood type project page. It shows a printing press bed where broken type has been assembled and blocked to roughly spell "'Broken' is a relative term", inked in redurple gradient ink. Next to that is a photo of the resulting letterpress print, on white paper, captioned "This broadside will eventually include further text, but a harsh winter storm ended the Winter 2026 Penland artist residencies early, so the rest of the print is delayed. It currently contains only text made using broken wood type from Penland, arranged to say "'Broken' is a relative term"." There are pastel rainbow buttons underneath pointing to back to the main site, contact, about, and gallery; as well as greyed-out "coming soon: conservation research" and "soon: mending"
February 4, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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katjathieme.bsky.social
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
January 31, 2026 at 9:02 PM
fosis.bsky.social
Obviously depends on details but yes very much interested!
February 3, 2026 at 8:50 PM
fosis.bsky.social
Ah reasonable! I'm on surgery recovery so equally slow getting round to things, no rush 😁
February 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM
fosis.bsky.social
Was busy last week so catching up but don't think I got a message! Let me know if there's still something you wanted to chat about 🙂
February 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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aljamiadonnie.bsky.social
Announcing the Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminars for 2026

Regular registration is open until 26 April 2026. Numbers are limited so please register early to guarantee a place.
EXCUSE CROSS-POSTINGS – PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY
January 31, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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disneyprimevideo.bsky.social
Neat (1994)
A potato, All Officer Marges Are Bastards, Fat Tony, and a counterfeit jeans ring operating out of my car-hole.
October 2, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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gem.org.uk
New #job Community Engagement Officer at the National Centre for Music #Scotland

Apply by 18 February 2026

Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/communi...

#GEMJobs #ScotlandJobs #LearningJobs #CommunityEngagement
Community Engagement Officer - GEM
The National Centre for Music (NCM) are seeking to appoint a Community Engagement Officer to play a fundamental role in the delivery of our Activity Plan supported by the National […]
gem.org.uk
January 30, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year!

Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him.

He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary.

His health is declining.

Public outrage might save his life.

Say his name:
Sign the Petition
Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention
www.change.org
January 29, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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whohurtyouap.bsky.social
"Havering won't forget tonight. Or forgive it."

Episode 1 of our Gallows Corner actual play is out now and it is incredible, if we do say so ourselves.

Watch it back now!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVHD...
Gallows Corner - A Farmer's Sin (Episode 1)
YouTube video by Who Hurt You? Actual Play
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January 28, 2026 at 10:31 AM
fosis.bsky.social
Finally got top surgery yesterday and trying to describe how I feel about it is less excited/joyful etc and more satisfaction at an irritating problem being solved, like how you feel when the council finally come and empty the bins after Christmas
January 29, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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girlinthe.bsky.social
THIS THIS THIS. And all of the thread (which will be achingly familiar to anyone who's ever done work-mandated bite-sized online training supplied by an external provider).
kolektiv.xyncro.com Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 7d
How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.
January 29, 2026 at 9:52 AM
fosis.bsky.social
Seconding Philip Pullman - it's YA but doesn't feel patronising or too simple
January 27, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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balhnews.bsky.social
Join us tonight to learn about how an Atlas of London in 1666 has been researched!

This webinar is in collaboration with the Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-r...

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
A map is shown, with the logo of the Historic Towns Trust in the top left corner. The words "Mapping our Past, Shaping our Future" are written in the centre.
January 27, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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darcylindbergh.bsky.social
Suddenly advocating for and embracing gun ownership because you think you might need to pull some John McClane vigilante bullshit in the next 30 days is exactly the kind of fear-based reaction that makes guns so outrageously dangerous to you and your family. Don't buy a gun.
darcylindbergh.bsky.social darcylindbergh @darcylindbergh.bsky.social · 10d
hot reminder in these troubling times in the us: the answer is not to buy a gun. stay safe out there ❤️
i have seen a couple people contemplating it right now so i am just showing up to say that the answer to the unrest in the united states is not to buy a fucking gun. do not go buying a gun right now while you are frightened and tense and stressed out. i know the other side has got guns so it might seem like a good idea for you also to have one. but guns do not defend; guns escalate. in twelve years in the criminal justice system, i have only ever had one case where self-defense use of a gun was even remotely a legitimate claim, and they've been arguing about it for two years now. in that same time i have had six cases where a child shot and killed themselves or others because the gun was unsecured and they didn't know it was dangerous. i have had numerous reckless use cases where the fact that someone wasn't killed was a miracle. guns in the household are more likely to be used to commit suicide than to defend yourself. don't bring that home. "but i'll take a gun safety course" "but of course i'd never leave a gun around unsecured" even if you actually did follow through on these promises - and trust i have heard these promises on nearly every single weapons case i have ever handled but they just "didn't get around to it" - YOU are the danger. you are SCARED. you are TENSE. you are probably at best unfamiliar with guns and at worst uncomfortable even handling one and it takes only one mistake, only one misjudgment, only one second for a gun to destroy everything. the gun is dangerous enough; the gun in the hands of someone who is scared is a fatality. i get it. the danger out there is real. things are terrifying right now. but don't bring the danger inside with you. don't escalate the peril of this moment. especially if you have kids at home. especially if you have vulnerable people at home. especially if you are scared. do not go buy a fucking gun.
January 26, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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histoftech.bsky.social
How to help Minnesota (and yourself): a clear, straightforward guide of steps you can take

naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…
naomikritzer.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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lilithttrpg.bsky.social
For those not versed in activism, I cannot impress upon you the impact of the fact that ICE has killed two legal observers.

I am trained as a legal observer and have been present as one at many actions. The role of an LO is to be a non-participant at the action, to observe, and to document. 🧵
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11d
I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
January 24, 2026 at 5:28 PM
fosis.bsky.social
Absolutely yes!
January 22, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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heatherfro.bsky.social
University of Arizona Libraries is hiring for a RARE BOOK LIBRARIAN! 1st review of applications February 9, 2026.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
We have great collections and great people here. Not on the committee, happy to chat.
Librarian, Rare Books (Assistant or Associate)
CHARACTERISTIC DUTIESAcquire, appraise, and preserve collections of primary and significant research value, especially rare books.In partnership with ...
arizona.csod.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:14 PM
fosis.bsky.social
Sometimes you've just got to lean in to the sick period 😌
January 21, 2026 at 8:22 PM
fosis.bsky.social
I'm getting surgery next week that'll need 3 weeks off and I decided to get myself a FANCY dressing gown to ✨convalesce✨ in and I am weirdly very excited about getting it, it feels like such an excess luxury somehow?
January 21, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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meau.bsky.social
UConn Archives & Special Collections fellowship applications close January 30.

We offer $4,000 research fellowships & $1,500 travel grants supporting work with collections in social movements, literature, the arts, education, industry, and more.

Open to all researchers. Please boost! #nutmegsky
meau.bsky.social Maureen @meau.bsky.social · Dec 2
🚨 Applications are open!
UConn Archives & Special Collections is offering $4,000 research fellowships + $1,500 travel grants for onsite archival work.

The application is quick and requires NO letters of reference. library.uconn.edu/location/asc...
Research Grants and Fellowships | UConn Library
Archives & Special Collections offers several competitive research grants to researchers and scholars who plan to use our collections for their scholars ...
library.uconn.edu
January 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM
fosis.bsky.social
I love this book! Definitely worth reading the whole thing.
January 15, 2026 at 11:13 PM