Dr Francis Osis
@fosis.bsky.social
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.
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.
You'd think with big corporates obsession with AI they could do something useful with it like, oh I don't know, autogenerate captions for films on streaming services if they don't already have any... *sighs in misunderstood dialogue*
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
You'd think with big corporates obsession with AI they could do something useful with it like, oh I don't know, autogenerate captions for films on streaming services if they don't already have any... *sighs in misunderstood dialogue*
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Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
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New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
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looking forward to the fights that break out over this
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
looking forward to the fights that break out over this
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Can anyone help me identify these schoolgirls who visited Parliament in July 1909? I'm writing about them in my book and would LOVE to be able to say who they are! www.npg.org.uk/collections/... #histed #histchild
'School Girls at the House of Commons' (including Michael Joseph Flavin) - National Portrait Gallery
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print
22 July 1909
© National Portrait Gallery, London
www.npg.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Can anyone help me identify these schoolgirls who visited Parliament in July 1909? I'm writing about them in my book and would LOVE to be able to say who they are! www.npg.org.uk/collections/... #histed #histchild
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🔴How the Not-So Independent Media Censors Criticism of Its Billionaire Owners
Former Independent columnist @donnachadhmc.bsky.social on how the UK’s billionaire-owned media silences those journalists trying to speak out against them
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/h...
Former Independent columnist @donnachadhmc.bsky.social on how the UK’s billionaire-owned media silences those journalists trying to speak out against them
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/h...
How the Not-So Independent Media Censors Criticism of Its Billionaire Owners
Former Independent columnist Donnachadh McCarthy on how the UK's billionaire-owned media silences those journalists trying to speak out against them
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
🔴How the Not-So Independent Media Censors Criticism of Its Billionaire Owners
Former Independent columnist @donnachadhmc.bsky.social on how the UK’s billionaire-owned media silences those journalists trying to speak out against them
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/h...
Former Independent columnist @donnachadhmc.bsky.social on how the UK’s billionaire-owned media silences those journalists trying to speak out against them
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/h...
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Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
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I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local authorities deny catholic prisoners the Eucharist, bishop arrives, Papal sanction may follow”
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local authorities deny catholic prisoners the Eucharist, bishop arrives, Papal sanction may follow”
Attempted to do some crafting today while still sick. Immediately ruined the fabric because my brain is too slow and I cut it too short. This is very much me right now.
a group of people standing around a table with the words started making it had a breakdown bon appetit on the bottom
Alt: James Acaster saying "started making it had a breakdown bon appetit" in GBBO
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Attempted to do some crafting today while still sick. Immediately ruined the fabric because my brain is too slow and I cut it too short. This is very much me right now.
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the other new print in my shop is actually a smaller, giclée version of an original linoprint that loads of people have asked me to reprint: "crow steals the sun". Limited to 15 signed copies & hand-finished with gold paint 👀
shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/crow... #art #witchsky #crow
shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/crow... #art #witchsky #crow
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
the other new print in my shop is actually a smaller, giclée version of an original linoprint that loads of people have asked me to reprint: "crow steals the sun". Limited to 15 signed copies & hand-finished with gold paint 👀
shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/crow... #art #witchsky #crow
shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/crow... #art #witchsky #crow
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It's Halloween! Here's the scariest thing in our archive.
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It's Halloween! Here's the scariest thing in our archive.
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Done and done. Dead simple. You just go to the Restore Trust website, look at their recommended candidates, and vote for literally anyone else.
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
3
NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
7
NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
8
KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
9
[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
11
[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
12
[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Done and done. Dead simple. You just go to the Restore Trust website, look at their recommended candidates, and vote for literally anyone else.
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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the german word for when you very clearly recognize someone in a movie but when you look them up on IMDB you haven't seen anything they've been in
October 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
the german word for when you very clearly recognize someone in a movie but when you look them up on IMDB you haven't seen anything they've been in
That's the binding done! Still a lot of quilting to go but now it's useable and I don't have to worry about the edges fraying while I'm working on it.
October 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
That's the binding done! Still a lot of quilting to go but now it's useable and I don't have to worry about the edges fraying while I'm working on it.
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In September some guy finds a doohickey behind a cabinet and asks "hey is this important?"
Would be funny if Ferrari had the same end to the season as they did last year. They just work out the car at round 20 each year.
October 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
In September some guy finds a doohickey behind a cabinet and asks "hey is this important?"
Still working on quilting this by hand, by I've got far enough that it's stable and I've decided to add the binding. That way I can use it even if it's not finished 😂 have machine sewn the front half on and now just need to hand stitch the back down.
October 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Still working on quilting this by hand, by I've got far enough that it's stable and I've decided to add the binding. That way I can use it even if it's not finished 😂 have machine sewn the front half on and now just need to hand stitch the back down.
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We’re launching our #handoftheweek series!
This week is Dr Hippolyte Baraduc, who tried to photograph the human soul via 'the most perfect organ after the brain', the hand.
Baraduc’s photos blend science and occult, showing how hands were seen as windows onto the inner self in the 19th century.
This week is Dr Hippolyte Baraduc, who tried to photograph the human soul via 'the most perfect organ after the brain', the hand.
Baraduc’s photos blend science and occult, showing how hands were seen as windows onto the inner self in the 19th century.
October 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We’re launching our #handoftheweek series!
This week is Dr Hippolyte Baraduc, who tried to photograph the human soul via 'the most perfect organ after the brain', the hand.
Baraduc’s photos blend science and occult, showing how hands were seen as windows onto the inner self in the 19th century.
This week is Dr Hippolyte Baraduc, who tried to photograph the human soul via 'the most perfect organ after the brain', the hand.
Baraduc’s photos blend science and occult, showing how hands were seen as windows onto the inner self in the 19th century.
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Happy World Menopause Day to all who celebrate - our GOLDEN RAGE comic is 1000% here for it, made with love by @laurenknight.bsky.social @sofiedodgson.bsky.social @beccasee.bsky.social @imagecomics.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Happy World Menopause Day to all who celebrate - our GOLDEN RAGE comic is 1000% here for it, made with love by @laurenknight.bsky.social @sofiedodgson.bsky.social @beccasee.bsky.social @imagecomics.com
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Last year I reimagined the work of 30+ artists to feature Moe Syzslak. Recreating famous painting was a fun challenge! I’m gonna share some of my favourites the rest of this month.
Here’s Claude Moe-net.
Here’s Claude Moe-net.
October 20, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Last year I reimagined the work of 30+ artists to feature Moe Syzslak. Recreating famous painting was a fun challenge! I’m gonna share some of my favourites the rest of this month.
Here’s Claude Moe-net.
Here’s Claude Moe-net.
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Cville folks, the @scholarslab.bsky.social makerspace (3rd flr UVA Shannon Library) is open to the public & can consult/teach you how to make what you envision. Everything's free (including 3D prints!) except buttonmaker's too popular=need to buy blank buttons yourself to make more than 2.
October 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Cville folks, the @scholarslab.bsky.social makerspace (3rd flr UVA Shannon Library) is open to the public & can consult/teach you how to make what you envision. Everything's free (including 3D prints!) except buttonmaker's too popular=need to buy blank buttons yourself to make more than 2.
How are my hips and back doing you ask? Well enough that I was enormously relieved I was able to get a seat at a punk gig 😂
October 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
How are my hips and back doing you ask? Well enough that I was enormously relieved I was able to get a seat at a punk gig 😂
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2nd free zine=edited by @claudiaeberger.bsky.social: collects a variety of DHy critical making tutorials by the authors from @dhandlib.bsky.social's special issue (dhandlib.org/making-resea...) that they wrote as companion "here's research-making practice you can try" related to their journal essays
Play With Your Data
A zine associated with dh+lib's special issue on data physicalization. Contains patterns and tips for making data physicalizations. (8.5 x 5.5 - print as a booklet with binding/flip on the left or sho...
works.hcommons.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
2nd free zine=edited by @claudiaeberger.bsky.social: collects a variety of DHy critical making tutorials by the authors from @dhandlib.bsky.social's special issue (dhandlib.org/making-resea...) that they wrote as companion "here's research-making practice you can try" related to their journal essays