Nicola Stratton
@nicolastratton.bsky.social
Librarian, runner, gamer, and fan of westerns and country music (amongst other genres). Goats are my favourite animal, and I love the outdoors and peaceful walks.
Also at @nicolastratton@mastodon.scot
Also at @nicolastratton@mastodon.scot
#nowstreaming ##nowplaying
El Dorado by Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway. 🪕 @mollytuttlemusic.bsky.social
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El Dorado by Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway. 🪕 @mollytuttlemusic.bsky.social
music.apple.com/gb/album/el-...
El Dorado by Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway on Apple Music
Song · 2023 · Duration 4:23
music.apple.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
#nowstreaming ##nowplaying
El Dorado by Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway. 🪕 @mollytuttlemusic.bsky.social
music.apple.com/gb/album/el-...
El Dorado by Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway. 🪕 @mollytuttlemusic.bsky.social
music.apple.com/gb/album/el-...
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Hey! I thought you might need a little bit of this….#babygoats
April 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Hey! I thought you might need a little bit of this….#babygoats
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🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
March 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
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Happy 25th Birthday to the Sony Playstation 2! 🎉
And yea, you read that correctly.
25 years. 🥲
And yea, you read that correctly.
25 years. 🥲
March 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Happy 25th Birthday to the Sony Playstation 2! 🎉
And yea, you read that correctly.
25 years. 🥲
And yea, you read that correctly.
25 years. 🥲
Apple Music recently mangled my music library, mixing up albums, artwork and tracks. It would no longer let me play some tracks from CDs I'd already purchased, despite previous upload and sync via iTunes Match. I've now ripped some CDs to a standalone music player and finally I can enjoy them again!
February 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Apple Music recently mangled my music library, mixing up albums, artwork and tracks. It would no longer let me play some tracks from CDs I'd already purchased, despite previous upload and sync via iTunes Match. I've now ripped some CDs to a standalone music player and finally I can enjoy them again!
For #Caturday this cheeky guy was a neighbour's cat who used to look at us through our patio door. #CatsOfBlueSky #cats
February 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
For #Caturday this cheeky guy was a neighbour's cat who used to look at us through our patio door. #CatsOfBlueSky #cats
#nowplaying Look to the East, Look to the West by Camera Obscura.
#vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinyl @camera-obscura.bsky.social
#vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinyl @camera-obscura.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
#nowplaying Look to the East, Look to the West by Camera Obscura.
#vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinyl @camera-obscura.bsky.social
#vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinyl @camera-obscura.bsky.social
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'People like us don't become writers.'
Tell me about it!
I am *still* so often the only working-class person in one of these rooms. And it is *not* getting easier.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Tell me about it!
I am *still* so often the only working-class person in one of these rooms. And it is *not* getting easier.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn
Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
'People like us don't become writers.'
Tell me about it!
I am *still* so often the only working-class person in one of these rooms. And it is *not* getting easier.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Tell me about it!
I am *still* so often the only working-class person in one of these rooms. And it is *not* getting easier.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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A must read on the Clarivate announcement to end perpetual access to print, e-books, & digital collections by end of year. Siobhan Haimé suggests this disaster for libraries could be “an opportunity to radically explore alternative models to protect equitable access.”
www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...
www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...
OPINION: A librarian's summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement - UKSG
Siobhan Haimé takes a look at detail the Clarivate announcement and its practical (and possibly unintentional transformational) effects.
www.uksg.org
February 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A must read on the Clarivate announcement to end perpetual access to print, e-books, & digital collections by end of year. Siobhan Haimé suggests this disaster for libraries could be “an opportunity to radically explore alternative models to protect equitable access.”
www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...
www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...
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🔥 AMAZING.
Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia.
It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.
Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia.
It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.
February 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🔥 AMAZING.
Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia.
It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.
Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia.
It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.
#nowplaying
Saint Etienne - 'Interlude'
@bobpetesarah.bsky.social @stetiennedisco.bsky.social
##nowspinning #vinyl
Saint Etienne - 'Interlude'
@bobpetesarah.bsky.social @stetiennedisco.bsky.social
##nowspinning #vinyl
February 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
#nowplaying
Saint Etienne - 'Interlude'
@bobpetesarah.bsky.social @stetiennedisco.bsky.social
##nowspinning #vinyl
Saint Etienne - 'Interlude'
@bobpetesarah.bsky.social @stetiennedisco.bsky.social
##nowspinning #vinyl
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
February 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Libraries and *librarians* didn’t just change my life - they saved it. Today I was honoured to be made a Centenary Champion for @natlibscot.bsky.social along with the great @valmcdermid.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Val McDermid and Damian Barr urge Scottish councils to halt library closures
Authors say plan to shut more than 20 public libraries could have devastating effect on Scotland’s cultural future
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Libraries and *librarians* didn’t just change my life - they saved it. Today I was honoured to be made a Centenary Champion for @natlibscot.bsky.social along with the great @valmcdermid.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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National Library of Scotland to celebrate centenary this year
The National Library of Scotland will celebrate its 100th birthday with a full year long birthday programme of events. There will be a Nationwide Love Libraries campaign focusing on showing love to a local library from Valentine's Day…
The National Library of Scotland will celebrate its 100th birthday with a full year long birthday programme of events. There will be a Nationwide Love Libraries campaign focusing on showing love to a local library from Valentine's Day…
National Library of Scotland to celebrate centenary this year
The National Library of Scotland will celebrate its 100th birthday with a full year long birthday programme of events. There will be a Nationwide Love Libraries campaign focusing on showing love to a local library from Valentine's Day onwards. Authors Val McDermid and Damian Barr are now Centenary Champions The major exhibition opening in June 2025 this year is "Dear Library" which will show what people love about books and reading…
theedinburghreporter.co.uk
January 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
National Library of Scotland to celebrate centenary this year
The National Library of Scotland will celebrate its 100th birthday with a full year long birthday programme of events. There will be a Nationwide Love Libraries campaign focusing on showing love to a local library from Valentine's Day…
The National Library of Scotland will celebrate its 100th birthday with a full year long birthday programme of events. There will be a Nationwide Love Libraries campaign focusing on showing love to a local library from Valentine's Day…
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There are some albums that represented a darker side of 'Britpop' - which was never just about British guitar bands and some dance music indie fans were 'allowed' to like anyway - that get conveniently forgotten about now. Life by The Cardigans was one.
timworthington.org/2019/02/12/c...
timworthington.org/2019/02/12/c...
Come On And Love Me Now
Life by The Cardigans is one of my favourite albums, even though it isn’t strictly a ‘real’ Cardigans album at all…
timworthington.org
January 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
There are some albums that represented a darker side of 'Britpop' - which was never just about British guitar bands and some dance music indie fans were 'allowed' to like anyway - that get conveniently forgotten about now. Life by The Cardigans was one.
timworthington.org/2019/02/12/c...
timworthington.org/2019/02/12/c...
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"It is the moon, I ken her horn,
That's blinkin' in the lift sae hie;
She shines sae bright to wyle us hame,
But, by my sooth, she'll wait a wee!"
🏴Happy Burns Night🏴
📷: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social
#RobertBurns #BurnsNight #astrophotography 🔭
That's blinkin' in the lift sae hie;
She shines sae bright to wyle us hame,
But, by my sooth, she'll wait a wee!"
🏴Happy Burns Night🏴
📷: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social
#RobertBurns #BurnsNight #astrophotography 🔭
January 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
"It is the moon, I ken her horn,
That's blinkin' in the lift sae hie;
She shines sae bright to wyle us hame,
But, by my sooth, she'll wait a wee!"
🏴Happy Burns Night🏴
📷: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social
#RobertBurns #BurnsNight #astrophotography 🔭
That's blinkin' in the lift sae hie;
She shines sae bright to wyle us hame,
But, by my sooth, she'll wait a wee!"
🏴Happy Burns Night🏴
📷: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social
#RobertBurns #BurnsNight #astrophotography 🔭
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Safety AND happiness. Only bollards can deliver this every single day.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
November 12, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Safety AND happiness. Only bollards can deliver this every single day.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
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Looking for some ideas for your Burns Night supper?
How about some Mixtie Maxies and Trimlin Tams?
In 2023 we worked with the Alloa Burns Club to digitise their amazing archive - find out more at:
archives.stir.ac.uk/2023/03/23/m...
#StirScanStudio #CultureOnStirCampus
How about some Mixtie Maxies and Trimlin Tams?
In 2023 we worked with the Alloa Burns Club to digitise their amazing archive - find out more at:
archives.stir.ac.uk/2023/03/23/m...
#StirScanStudio #CultureOnStirCampus
January 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Looking for some ideas for your Burns Night supper?
How about some Mixtie Maxies and Trimlin Tams?
In 2023 we worked with the Alloa Burns Club to digitise their amazing archive - find out more at:
archives.stir.ac.uk/2023/03/23/m...
#StirScanStudio #CultureOnStirCampus
How about some Mixtie Maxies and Trimlin Tams?
In 2023 we worked with the Alloa Burns Club to digitise their amazing archive - find out more at:
archives.stir.ac.uk/2023/03/23/m...
#StirScanStudio #CultureOnStirCampus
"In a world of hawks, let us be the goat"
Today there are endless stories of power playing out in the world,
leaving their imprint.
If we were lucky enough to awake with wings,
Let’s use them to protect
rather than consume.
In a world of hawks,
let us be the goat—
protectors of the herd,
fiercely gentle,
alert and sweet.
leaving their imprint.
If we were lucky enough to awake with wings,
Let’s use them to protect
rather than consume.
In a world of hawks,
let us be the goat—
protectors of the herd,
fiercely gentle,
alert and sweet.
January 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
"In a world of hawks, let us be the goat"
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Storm Éowyn predicted wind speeds.
January 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Storm Éowyn predicted wind speeds.
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The first lesson of Roxy’s dog training is repeating the word “yes” to the dog. What if we started there with ourselves too? YES to showing up in the confusing magical now. “If we say yes to a single moment, then we have not only said yes to ourselves, but to the whole of existence.” -Nietzsche
January 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The first lesson of Roxy’s dog training is repeating the word “yes” to the dog. What if we started there with ourselves too? YES to showing up in the confusing magical now. “If we say yes to a single moment, then we have not only said yes to ourselves, but to the whole of existence.” -Nietzsche
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You get the sense that Keir Starmer just wants everyone to be patient + doesn’t really understand that the level of urgency that a lot of people feel. We need change now, and he needs to deliver that change. If he doesn’t, I suspect the person who’ll benefit is Farage.
news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...
news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...
Sir Keir Starmer to outline his 'plan for change' focusing on schools, NHS and efficiency
The announcement comes as a new poll indicates that more than half of the public disapprove of the prime minister's performance.
news.sky.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:20 AM
You get the sense that Keir Starmer just wants everyone to be patient + doesn’t really understand that the level of urgency that a lot of people feel. We need change now, and he needs to deliver that change. If he doesn’t, I suspect the person who’ll benefit is Farage.
news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...
news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...
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I talk about this endlessly in my book....how our current electoral system is NOT fit for purpose
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social explains more re donations
Jeez Labour...tighten up these horrors....
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social explains more re donations
Jeez Labour...tighten up these horrors....
NEW 🚨 Britain's electoral laws are broken - but successive governments have done nothing
Musk's proposed $100million donation to Nigel Farage shows we are on the cusp of a real crisis for British democracy
But it can be fixed. Here's how, by me
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...
Musk's proposed $100million donation to Nigel Farage shows we are on the cusp of a real crisis for British democracy
But it can be fixed. Here's how, by me
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...
Musk’s $100m to Farage will break our democracy
Keir Starmer needs to fix Britain’s broken electoral laws now - if he doesn’t, we will all suffer the consequences
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:45 PM
I talk about this endlessly in my book....how our current electoral system is NOT fit for purpose
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social explains more re donations
Jeez Labour...tighten up these horrors....
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social explains more re donations
Jeez Labour...tighten up these horrors....