Siobhán
@sluginkpress.bsky.social
artist, art librarian, sentient binbag. Commute whinges, nice artists’ books, photos of bins.
Brighton Scum City//LDN.
Brighton Scum City//LDN.
This week: absolute train hell for 2/4 of my commute days and reaching my absolute limit due to various things at work. Last night was DELIGHTED when I remembered this prebatched martini was in the fridge.
November 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This week: absolute train hell for 2/4 of my commute days and reaching my absolute limit due to various things at work. Last night was DELIGHTED when I remembered this prebatched martini was in the fridge.
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AI is really ruining the art of badly photoshopping something
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
AI is really ruining the art of badly photoshopping something
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Letraset inspired blanket. www.thedesignersfoundry.com/goods/goodma...
Very good.
Via @its-nice-that.bsky.social
Very good.
Via @its-nice-that.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Letraset inspired blanket. www.thedesignersfoundry.com/goods/goodma...
Very good.
Via @its-nice-that.bsky.social
Very good.
Via @its-nice-that.bsky.social
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Full credit to @simonxix.com for spotting that the French translation of 'radical librarianship' is 'bibliothéconomie militante'... watch out for our forthcoming article with the ever wonderful @sluginkpress.bsky.social.
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Full credit to @simonxix.com for spotting that the French translation of 'radical librarianship' is 'bibliothéconomie militante'... watch out for our forthcoming article with the ever wonderful @sluginkpress.bsky.social.
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When Bruce Springsteen sang "at night, we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines", he was talking about people who log on to LinkedIn after 6pm to write fanfiction about how good they are at their job.
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
When Bruce Springsteen sang "at night, we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines", he was talking about people who log on to LinkedIn after 6pm to write fanfiction about how good they are at their job.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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NOVEMBER 2025's punk listings zine is out now! A few plans, a few videos in the 'newsletter for the newsletter' below: buttondown.com/anothersubcu...
The London punk newsletter — November 2025 listings out now
Hello, paper punks. Another Subculture’s issue for November is out now and making its away around town this Halloween weekend. Yes, I am getting back in the...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
NOVEMBER 2025's punk listings zine is out now! A few plans, a few videos in the 'newsletter for the newsletter' below: buttondown.com/anothersubcu...
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Are you a cataloguer or interested in cataloguing and have a view on whether LCSH is fit for purpose in a UK context? CILIP MDG @cilipmdg.bsky.social are hosting a Worldcafe event (a big meeting basically!) to discuss ideas at Wellcome Library in London Wed 26th Nov www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
CILIP: the library and information association
www.cilip.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Are you a cataloguer or interested in cataloguing and have a view on whether LCSH is fit for purpose in a UK context? CILIP MDG @cilipmdg.bsky.social are hosting a Worldcafe event (a big meeting basically!) to discuss ideas at Wellcome Library in London Wed 26th Nov www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
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This post has been in draft a while but it feels particularly timely given the strike over pay that starts tomorrow (27th Oct) at the British Library. If you've ever despaired at the low salaries at the BL now is the time to act in solidarity www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/... #BritishLibraryOnStrike
Support the British Library strikers
More than 300 PCS members at the British Library in London are striking over their poverty wages for two weeks from Monday (27) to Sunday, 9 November and need your support in person and online.
www.pcs.org.uk
October 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This post has been in draft a while but it feels particularly timely given the strike over pay that starts tomorrow (27th Oct) at the British Library. If you've ever despaired at the low salaries at the BL now is the time to act in solidarity www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/... #BritishLibraryOnStrike
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We could be in for a classic year
I think a Remembrance thong would look a treat on our local Poppy Man. Would help everyone Remember that little bit more.
October 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
We could be in for a classic year
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The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better.
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
October 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better.
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
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No scabbing, please. Support your striking library workers.
Some of our Reading Rooms will be closed between 27 October and 9 November due to planned strike action at our St Pancras site, and there may be other short notice disruption.
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
Planned strike action in St Pancras
We have been notified of planned strike action taking place between Monday 27 October and Sunday 9 November 2025.
bit.ly
October 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
No scabbing, please. Support your striking library workers.
Nothing but respect for these legends.
October 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nothing but respect for these legends.
Monday: no direct trains from Brighton to Victoria.
Tuesday: no direct trains from Brighton to Victoria.
Today: had to try to go into work at short notice. Standing on the platform waiting for a train: they’re cancelled due to points failure.
Price of season ticket: £5.5k
Tuesday: no direct trains from Brighton to Victoria.
Today: had to try to go into work at short notice. Standing on the platform waiting for a train: they’re cancelled due to points failure.
Price of season ticket: £5.5k
October 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Monday: no direct trains from Brighton to Victoria.
Tuesday: no direct trains from Brighton to Victoria.
Today: had to try to go into work at short notice. Standing on the platform waiting for a train: they’re cancelled due to points failure.
Price of season ticket: £5.5k
Tuesday: no direct trains from Brighton to Victoria.
Today: had to try to go into work at short notice. Standing on the platform waiting for a train: they’re cancelled due to points failure.
Price of season ticket: £5.5k
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I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
Naoise Dolan | ‘You’re here now’
The steel handcuffs the Israeli guard locked on me were ‘Tri-Max Made in England’. Clanking mine to the beat, I sang...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
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'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'
October 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'
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What the shit, Clarivate! Anyone using Ebook Central MARC records, be warned. They're jamming those records with AI generated metadata. Auto-enabled but you can disable it.
October 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
What the shit, Clarivate! Anyone using Ebook Central MARC records, be warned. They're jamming those records with AI generated metadata. Auto-enabled but you can disable it.
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Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
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Today's the day for my anti-AI zine volume 2: "Human Perspectives on the Latest AI Hype Cycle" 🎉
Enjoy the fruits of my focus these past few months and learn from many great people!
Scanned zine to print your own and the full text and references are available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
Enjoy the fruits of my focus these past few months and learn from many great people!
Scanned zine to print your own and the full text and references are available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
October 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Today's the day for my anti-AI zine volume 2: "Human Perspectives on the Latest AI Hype Cycle" 🎉
Enjoy the fruits of my focus these past few months and learn from many great people!
Scanned zine to print your own and the full text and references are available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
Enjoy the fruits of my focus these past few months and learn from many great people!
Scanned zine to print your own and the full text and references are available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
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At Lambeth Archives we are recruiting a Borough Archivist, details: effe.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please share!
Borough Archivist
Borough Archivist- REF 2499 PO1: £43,308 pa rising in annual increments to £45,852 pa inc Part-Time (27.5 Hours) Permanent Contract
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October 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
At Lambeth Archives we are recruiting a Borough Archivist, details: effe.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please share!
Spent the last 3 days sick in bed and just looked out out of the window to see…a pheasant sitting on the fence in our garden. In central Brighton. Thought I was hallucinating.
October 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Spent the last 3 days sick in bed and just looked out out of the window to see…a pheasant sitting on the fence in our garden. In central Brighton. Thought I was hallucinating.
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This whole thread, God help us.
September 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This whole thread, God help us.
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MAKE ZINES CHEAP AGAIN
September 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
MAKE ZINES CHEAP AGAIN
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The irony of this policy being announced on the same day as Reform getting 33% in a poll is overwhelming. Just imagine what a Farage-led Doge will do to our personal data? And that’s before the really sinister shit kicks in.
How long before these ID cards have to say 'trans' or 'queer' or 'ADHD' or any one of a dozen other things, effectively legitimising judgement, exclusion and worse?
Don't answer that
Don't answer that
September 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The irony of this policy being announced on the same day as Reform getting 33% in a poll is overwhelming. Just imagine what a Farage-led Doge will do to our personal data? And that’s before the really sinister shit kicks in.