Megan
@megsier.bsky.social
I'm an information professional, now a governance manager, who loves to dance, play board games & computer games and hang out with friends
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Over twenty community organisations are calling on the community in Oxford to march against racism, and in 'celebration of Oxford's diverse City of Sanctuary' on Sunday in response to 'attempts to sow racist division in local communities.'
The march will start at Templars Square at 12.30.
The march will start at Templars Square at 12.30.
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Over twenty community organisations are calling on the community in Oxford to march against racism, and in 'celebration of Oxford's diverse City of Sanctuary' on Sunday in response to 'attempts to sow racist division in local communities.'
The march will start at Templars Square at 12.30.
The march will start at Templars Square at 12.30.
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FYI for Google Drive users.
October 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
FYI for Google Drive users.
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Over 50,000 cis women have signed the @nionwomen.bsky.social open letter rejecting the narrative that trans women are a danger to women.
The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence.
Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence.
Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
October 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Over 50,000 cis women have signed the @nionwomen.bsky.social open letter rejecting the narrative that trans women are a danger to women.
The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence.
Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence.
Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
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As it's World Menopause Day tomorrow, check out these resources for LGBTQIA+ people. So much of the menopause information out there is cisgendered-focused so it's great to find a place that acknowledges this and offers support to all people www.queermenopause.com/resources-1
Menopause resources for LGBTQIA+ people — Queer / LGBTQIA+ Menopause
Inclusive menopause resources for LGBTQIA+ people and those not served by mainstream information
www.queermenopause.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
As it's World Menopause Day tomorrow, check out these resources for LGBTQIA+ people. So much of the menopause information out there is cisgendered-focused so it's great to find a place that acknowledges this and offers support to all people www.queermenopause.com/resources-1
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The internet's definitive fact-checking resource now has an app — and it's trending! Download the Snopes app on iOS or Android to have the facts at your fingertips: www.snopes.com/2025/10/14/s...
October 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The internet's definitive fact-checking resource now has an app — and it's trending! Download the Snopes app on iOS or Android to have the facts at your fingertips: www.snopes.com/2025/10/14/s...
I laughed too much at this vm.tiktok.com/ZNdWcvtXv/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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October 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I laughed too much at this vm.tiktok.com/ZNdWcvtXv/
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🚨This is an emergency🚨
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
October 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🚨This is an emergency🚨
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
The @cilip.bsky.social AGM has started badly - I can't attend because accessing meetings from a browser is disabled. I can't install the Zoom app on my work computer, so I'm locked out of attending
October 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The @cilip.bsky.social AGM has started badly - I can't attend because accessing meetings from a browser is disabled. I can't install the Zoom app on my work computer, so I'm locked out of attending
An interesting piece that shows the role libraries and archives can have in combating misinformation. I hope the optimism about our ability to combat the additional difficulties provided by AI proves justified! bigthink.com/high-culture...
The world’s largest library of lies has good news about fake news
In 2011, Johns Hopkins acquired the world’s largest collection of literary forgeries to study how fabricated texts have shaped history.
bigthink.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
An interesting piece that shows the role libraries and archives can have in combating misinformation. I hope the optimism about our ability to combat the additional difficulties provided by AI proves justified! bigthink.com/high-culture...
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I made an infographic map. Oxford's Congestion Charge scheme (from 29th Oct) is not like most congestion charge schemes, because you can get to most streets in the city without being charged. My impression is a lot of people haven't realised this.
October 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I made an infographic map. Oxford's Congestion Charge scheme (from 29th Oct) is not like most congestion charge schemes, because you can get to most streets in the city without being charged. My impression is a lot of people haven't realised this.
Can any fellow CILIP members provide information on Resolution 2 for the AGM vote? There is no information about why this is proposed or what it means, and I don't want to vote without knowing what I'm voting for. (Proposal to increase no. of non-members allowed to be co-opted to Board from 3 to 5)
October 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Can any fellow CILIP members provide information on Resolution 2 for the AGM vote? There is no information about why this is proposed or what it means, and I don't want to vote without knowing what I'm voting for. (Proposal to increase no. of non-members allowed to be co-opted to Board from 3 to 5)
Without a librarian it's just a book storage area, not a library
We agree but add this: the #GreatSchoolLibraries campaign highlights that all children need a school library because adequately funded, staffed school libraries deliver enhanced & independent learning as well as reading & curriculum support & contribute to building lifelong readers. #Staffed
Rachel Reeves pledges a library in every primary school in England
October 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Without a librarian it's just a book storage area, not a library
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Did you know #Oxford has
*free online cycle map
*cycle parking
*free bikeability training for children
*free cycle training for staff and students at University of Oxford
Find out more
www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/better-trave...
www.cyclox.org
*free online cycle map
*cycle parking
*free bikeability training for children
*free cycle training for staff and students at University of Oxford
Find out more
www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/better-trave...
www.cyclox.org
September 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Did you know #Oxford has
*free online cycle map
*cycle parking
*free bikeability training for children
*free cycle training for staff and students at University of Oxford
Find out more
www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/better-trave...
www.cyclox.org
*free online cycle map
*cycle parking
*free bikeability training for children
*free cycle training for staff and students at University of Oxford
Find out more
www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/better-trave...
www.cyclox.org
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
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Today is #HobbitDay because both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway come and boromir #Tolkien books.
September 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Today is #HobbitDay because both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway come and boromir #Tolkien books.
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We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
notinourname.org.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
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NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
September 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
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Fuck Linehan and fuck any news outlets framing his hate as "activism" or "just saying" or "debating". Trans women are women, trans men are men, trans rights are human rights.
a cartoon drawing of a transgender flag against a yellow background
Alt: A trans pride flag.
media.tenor.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Fuck Linehan and fuck any news outlets framing his hate as "activism" or "just saying" or "debating". Trans women are women, trans men are men, trans rights are human rights.
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I wrote to M&S about the stupid lingerie department story - confirms nobody offered a bra fitting to a teenage girl. The Telegraph and JK can (always) do one.
August 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I wrote to M&S about the stupid lingerie department story - confirms nobody offered a bra fitting to a teenage girl. The Telegraph and JK can (always) do one.
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DV is so normalised that some of the few men who've done time for it get to cheerily get on with careers in entertainment, the press & as MPs but we're putting all this effort into pushing a minority who have nothing to do with that out of existence & pretending it'll fix things? Grow up, Britain.
August 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
DV is so normalised that some of the few men who've done time for it get to cheerily get on with careers in entertainment, the press & as MPs but we're putting all this effort into pushing a minority who have nothing to do with that out of existence & pretending it'll fix things? Grow up, Britain.
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New post on how we use #ImposterSyndrome when perhaps we mean #TrespasserSyndrome. 📚
My colleague Raj Mann introduced me to this new term and I can't get it out of my head. I think 'Imposter Syndrome' is a potentially harmful term we should stop misusing in Higher Ed, libraries & elsewhere...
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My colleague Raj Mann introduced me to this new term and I can't get it out of my head. I think 'Imposter Syndrome' is a potentially harmful term we should stop misusing in Higher Ed, libraries & elsewhere...
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It might not be Imposter Syndrome... We need to talk about Trespasser Syndrome — Ned Potter
Back in 2014 I wrote on this blog that Imposter Syndrome ran through librarianship like a vein. Writing now in 2025, I consider that a misdiagnosis. Imposter Syndrome is defined as a psychological co...
www.ned-potter.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
New post on how we use #ImposterSyndrome when perhaps we mean #TrespasserSyndrome. 📚
My colleague Raj Mann introduced me to this new term and I can't get it out of my head. I think 'Imposter Syndrome' is a potentially harmful term we should stop misusing in Higher Ed, libraries & elsewhere...
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My colleague Raj Mann introduced me to this new term and I can't get it out of my head. I think 'Imposter Syndrome' is a potentially harmful term we should stop misusing in Higher Ed, libraries & elsewhere...
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Based on the figures quoted by this Murdoch shitrag to drum-up anti-immigrant sentiment, foreign-born residents (and citizens!) are 15.5% less likely to be criminals, and 28% less likely to be sex offenders.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
Others have noted that this means foreign-born people are LESS likely than UK-born people to be in prison. What I want to note is that The Times is now referring to foreign-born UK citizens as ‘foreigners’. This includes Boris Johnson, Sir Mo Farah, Emma Watson, Rory Stewart and little old me.
August 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Based on the figures quoted by this Murdoch shitrag to drum-up anti-immigrant sentiment, foreign-born residents (and citizens!) are 15.5% less likely to be criminals, and 28% less likely to be sex offenders.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
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Holy shit, just saw Alan Cumming’s monologue standing in for Jim’ll Kimmel “why on earth would a rapist go to the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that actually treats rapists better than trans people?” It’s a point we’ve made a lot but to put that out on network TV is a new level.
July 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Holy shit, just saw Alan Cumming’s monologue standing in for Jim’ll Kimmel “why on earth would a rapist go to the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that actually treats rapists better than trans people?” It’s a point we’ve made a lot but to put that out on network TV is a new level.
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I can't have this as it's a live vaccine, but you should if you're eligible. Shout out to my fellow oldies 🙌
If you were born between 1970-1990 you may not have full MMR protection, even if you had parents who took you for all your jabs. The NHS will give you a free booster. With cases surging, this is a great way to protect yourself & your community. I’m getting mine tomorrow www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
July 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I can't have this as it's a live vaccine, but you should if you're eligible. Shout out to my fellow oldies 🙌