Sophie Lay
@sophielibrary.bsky.social
Writer, librarian (in training), reliable try-hard. Lover of books and TTRPGs. 28 🏳️🌈
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Quote from our lore master in tonight's One Ring game: "I'm trying to decide if a barrow-wight can be parleyed..."
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Quote from our lore master in tonight's One Ring game: "I'm trying to decide if a barrow-wight can be parleyed..."
I have a friend who pulls me up on this every time I accidentally do it and it's SO GOOD I aim to be that person for others too
Inspired by someone elsewhere, I hereby vow to try to avoid the terms "content" and "content creator," unless I *must* talk about work across so many fields that a generic term is the only one that will suffice. Let's not reduce art, criticism, journalism, etc. to an undifferentiated smear of Stuff.
November 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I have a friend who pulls me up on this every time I accidentally do it and it's SO GOOD I aim to be that person for others too
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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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The end logic of this if you’re in the UK btw is DEFEND THE BBC.
Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.
Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.
We've reluctantly removed access to YouTube kids. It's now no longer just the odd thing
October 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The end logic of this if you’re in the UK btw is DEFEND THE BBC.
Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.
Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.
I submitted my dissertation proposal let's fucking goooooooooooo
October 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I submitted my dissertation proposal let's fucking goooooooooooo
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‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay - Research Professional News
Two-week walkout planned on second anniversary of major cyberattack
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
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It's nonsense that I had a headache last night so I finished d&d early and went to sleep early and I wake up this morning and... still have a headache
October 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
It's nonsense that I had a headache last night so I finished d&d early and went to sleep early and I wake up this morning and... still have a headache
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austin “eating out of the trash” swift and andrea “used to say she wished that you were dead” swift
The Swift family don’t play 😭😭
The Swift family don’t play 😭😭
October 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
austin “eating out of the trash” swift and andrea “used to say she wished that you were dead” swift
The Swift family don’t play 😭😭
The Swift family don’t play 😭😭
Yeah... when I said this I forgot we had to open a library in those two weeks so they have NOT been spent snoozing...
Completed my final assignment for library school... only the dissertation to go now
Unrelated anyway here's my plans for the next two weeks
Unrelated anyway here's my plans for the next two weeks
September 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Yeah... when I said this I forgot we had to open a library in those two weeks so they have NOT been spent snoozing...
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"Autumn" is the first part of "Six Quatrains," which appears in So Far So Good (Copper Canyon Press, 2018).
September 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"Autumn" is the first part of "Six Quatrains," which appears in So Far So Good (Copper Canyon Press, 2018).
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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement
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Middle East crisis – live updates
A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts.
It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
Completed my final assignment for library school... only the dissertation to go now
Unrelated anyway here's my plans for the next two weeks
Unrelated anyway here's my plans for the next two weeks
September 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Completed my final assignment for library school... only the dissertation to go now
Unrelated anyway here's my plans for the next two weeks
Unrelated anyway here's my plans for the next two weeks
No YOU thought the cute probably-queer person at the bus stop was giving you the eye until they said "there's a wasp in your hair"
August 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
No YOU thought the cute probably-queer person at the bus stop was giving you the eye until they said "there's a wasp in your hair"
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I think about this a lot but when it comes down to it I love this horrible, benighted, miserable rock, I don't want to go anywhere else, and to paraphrase pam from archer I guess they're just going to have to fucking kill me aren't they
*Just casually, at the bar*: Soooo, anyone else working on an exit plan from the UK in case Reform get elected?
August 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I think about this a lot but when it comes down to it I love this horrible, benighted, miserable rock, I don't want to go anywhere else, and to paraphrase pam from archer I guess they're just going to have to fucking kill me aren't they
Actually Romantic is mine I can feel it
🎶| Which track are you claiming? #TSTheLifeofaShowGirl
August 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Actually Romantic is mine I can feel it
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The EHRC is not changing course on their bathroom ban.
They don’t care what the consultation said.
So what happens now? 🧵
archive.ph/inGpF
They don’t care what the consultation said.
So what happens now? 🧵
archive.ph/inGpF
August 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The EHRC is not changing course on their bathroom ban.
They don’t care what the consultation said.
So what happens now? 🧵
archive.ph/inGpF
They don’t care what the consultation said.
So what happens now? 🧵
archive.ph/inGpF
Omg she dyed a streak in her hair
August 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Omg she dyed a streak in her hair
Wow, turns out that moving house at the same time as working in a library undergoing a merger & physical move is actually... very stressful! Who could have guessed 🤷♀️
August 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Wow, turns out that moving house at the same time as working in a library undergoing a merger & physical move is actually... very stressful! Who could have guessed 🤷♀️
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Finally got around to doing a first draft of an infographic/drawing on the basics of handling rare books :)
July 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Finally got around to doing a first draft of an infographic/drawing on the basics of handling rare books :)
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I am no expert on this but something like this is Cal Newport’s thought too. He suggests: every device is age-locked when you buy it based on stated purpose, ID you show and card you use to buy it. A child device is managed by a named adult (or several). They can decide to make that an adult device
It's ass-backwards, because everything else that's age restricted is policed at the point of supply. Your age is checked by the supermarket or pub when they sell you the booze, not when you drink it.
July 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I am no expert on this but something like this is Cal Newport’s thought too. He suggests: every device is age-locked when you buy it based on stated purpose, ID you show and card you use to buy it. A child device is managed by a named adult (or several). They can decide to make that an adult device
I had to wear my favourite skirt today, just in case I meet the love of my life in [checks notes] the local screening of a twenty-year-old movie
July 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I had to wear my favourite skirt today, just in case I meet the love of my life in [checks notes] the local screening of a twenty-year-old movie
I have been working in libraries for four years now and I still parse the abbreviation 'facsims' (facsimiles) as 'fascism'
July 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I have been working in libraries for four years now and I still parse the abbreviation 'facsims' (facsimiles) as 'fascism'
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The new RHSE guidance hasn't been published yet. The draft people are linking to was from the last government. I'm not saying it's impossible Labour have done a transphobia again, that's like one of their favourite things to do, but prob worth waiting for more details before reacting.
July 15, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The new RHSE guidance hasn't been published yet. The draft people are linking to was from the last government. I'm not saying it's impossible Labour have done a transphobia again, that's like one of their favourite things to do, but prob worth waiting for more details before reacting.
You guys, medieval festivals are FUN
July 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
You guys, medieval festivals are FUN