Simon Mole - Library Gnome
@discobeaver.bsky.social
I'm 36, a library assistant in the UK. Married, with 2 teenagers, 1 cocker spaniel. Trans joy, some complaining. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️.
Also in Libraryland, a very nice other Simon gave me this as a gift today 🥰.
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Also in Libraryland, a very nice other Simon gave me this as a gift today 🥰.
Today in Libraryland ...
We had a man bring over a pair of shoes that he'd found and was intending to keep. It took at least 5 mins of conversation about how they needed to go into lost property, even if he "could use them", before a 2nd man came over to retrieve his shoes, then just walked away.
We had a man bring over a pair of shoes that he'd found and was intending to keep. It took at least 5 mins of conversation about how they needed to go into lost property, even if he "could use them", before a 2nd man came over to retrieve his shoes, then just walked away.
December 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Today in Libraryland ...
We had a man bring over a pair of shoes that he'd found and was intending to keep. It took at least 5 mins of conversation about how they needed to go into lost property, even if he "could use them", before a 2nd man came over to retrieve his shoes, then just walked away.
We had a man bring over a pair of shoes that he'd found and was intending to keep. It took at least 5 mins of conversation about how they needed to go into lost property, even if he "could use them", before a 2nd man came over to retrieve his shoes, then just walked away.
Today's rain:
"Oh, so you remembered your big coat and hat and wore both while leaving work? Will that protect your knees from being saturated if I start raining horizontally? Thought not."
🌧️🥺
"Oh, so you remembered your big coat and hat and wore both while leaving work? Will that protect your knees from being saturated if I start raining horizontally? Thought not."
🌧️🥺
December 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Today's rain:
"Oh, so you remembered your big coat and hat and wore both while leaving work? Will that protect your knees from being saturated if I start raining horizontally? Thought not."
🌧️🥺
"Oh, so you remembered your big coat and hat and wore both while leaving work? Will that protect your knees from being saturated if I start raining horizontally? Thought not."
🌧️🥺
Today in Libraryland...
We were horrendously busy and short-staffed all day.
The plus side being that everyone who needed an extraordinary and time-consuming amount of help with pretty much everything while I was on my own was very polite about it?
*faceplants the floor* TFIF 🏳️
We were horrendously busy and short-staffed all day.
The plus side being that everyone who needed an extraordinary and time-consuming amount of help with pretty much everything while I was on my own was very polite about it?
*faceplants the floor* TFIF 🏳️
November 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Today in Libraryland...
We were horrendously busy and short-staffed all day.
The plus side being that everyone who needed an extraordinary and time-consuming amount of help with pretty much everything while I was on my own was very polite about it?
*faceplants the floor* TFIF 🏳️
We were horrendously busy and short-staffed all day.
The plus side being that everyone who needed an extraordinary and time-consuming amount of help with pretty much everything while I was on my own was very polite about it?
*faceplants the floor* TFIF 🏳️
I realllyyy need to get into the habit of opening Bluesky first thing in the morning. FB doubled down on what was supposed to be Trans Day of Remembrance.
It's more like people just remembered how easy it is to punch down without consequence.
😔
It's more like people just remembered how easy it is to punch down without consequence.
😔
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I realllyyy need to get into the habit of opening Bluesky first thing in the morning. FB doubled down on what was supposed to be Trans Day of Remembrance.
It's more like people just remembered how easy it is to punch down without consequence.
😔
It's more like people just remembered how easy it is to punch down without consequence.
😔
I've been feeling low recently, and needed the Friday I had, which involved racing like a large (unfit) child around a soft play with a 3 year old, who earlier had pulled my fingers, and when asked if he was trying to pull them off, grinned and said yes, as well as all my toenails. Kids are feral 😅😏
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I've been feeling low recently, and needed the Friday I had, which involved racing like a large (unfit) child around a soft play with a 3 year old, who earlier had pulled my fingers, and when asked if he was trying to pull them off, grinned and said yes, as well as all my toenails. Kids are feral 😅😏
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Bloody hell, I think we have a new winner ... 🤦🏻🤦🏻
Narrowly edging out that roundabout in Bloxwich with V For Vendetta vibes painted on a black tarmac background ...
Narrowly edging out that roundabout in Bloxwich with V For Vendetta vibes painted on a black tarmac background ...
October 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Bloody hell, I think we have a new winner ... 🤦🏻🤦🏻
Narrowly edging out that roundabout in Bloxwich with V For Vendetta vibes painted on a black tarmac background ...
Narrowly edging out that roundabout in Bloxwich with V For Vendetta vibes painted on a black tarmac background ...
Went for a walk with the dog to clear my headache, found a ... fossil?
The rest of the park was incongruously autumnal.
The rest of the park was incongruously autumnal.
October 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Went for a walk with the dog to clear my headache, found a ... fossil?
The rest of the park was incongruously autumnal.
The rest of the park was incongruously autumnal.
Today was a bejewelled spider web kind of day, with not a drop of colour to the sky.
October 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Today was a bejewelled spider web kind of day, with not a drop of colour to the sky.
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I love this image.
October 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I love this image.
I wish there weren't news stories containing incredible irony every single day lately...
“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit
October 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I wish there weren't news stories containing incredible irony every single day lately...
Today, this was work.
The Halloween decorating is going to be exceptional this year. 🦇 We're working on a garland of various vampires as bats.
We're also expanding on last year's "work", which was the hand-drawn Batt Berry 😉
#libraryland #halloween #wwdits #whatwedointheshadows
The Halloween decorating is going to be exceptional this year. 🦇 We're working on a garland of various vampires as bats.
We're also expanding on last year's "work", which was the hand-drawn Batt Berry 😉
#libraryland #halloween #wwdits #whatwedointheshadows
October 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Today, this was work.
The Halloween decorating is going to be exceptional this year. 🦇 We're working on a garland of various vampires as bats.
We're also expanding on last year's "work", which was the hand-drawn Batt Berry 😉
#libraryland #halloween #wwdits #whatwedointheshadows
The Halloween decorating is going to be exceptional this year. 🦇 We're working on a garland of various vampires as bats.
We're also expanding on last year's "work", which was the hand-drawn Batt Berry 😉
#libraryland #halloween #wwdits #whatwedointheshadows
And today in Libraryland, I am quite glad to have a day off tomorrow because it has been turbulent AF for the entire week so far. Just non-stop incidents and drama with a chaotic art exhibition thrown in.
My bed beckons.
#libraryland #library
My bed beckons.
#libraryland #library
October 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
And today in Libraryland, I am quite glad to have a day off tomorrow because it has been turbulent AF for the entire week so far. Just non-stop incidents and drama with a chaotic art exhibition thrown in.
My bed beckons.
#libraryland #library
My bed beckons.
#libraryland #library
Yesterday I finished reading this lovely book. A really peaceful way of considering death, but also life, with dogs and lesbian romance. Book 43 of 2025.
#thelighthouseattheedgeoftheworld #jrdawson
#thelighthouseattheedgeoftheworld #jrdawson
October 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Yesterday I finished reading this lovely book. A really peaceful way of considering death, but also life, with dogs and lesbian romance. Book 43 of 2025.
#thelighthouseattheedgeoftheworld #jrdawson
#thelighthouseattheedgeoftheworld #jrdawson
Last night, the egg box was mysteriously on the floor. The jury's still out on how it got there, but we do know that Molly deviously waited for us not to notice the one that had rolled and then silently chewed it up in her bed ...
Suspect #1:
Suspect #1:
September 29, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Last night, the egg box was mysteriously on the floor. The jury's still out on how it got there, but we do know that Molly deviously waited for us not to notice the one that had rolled and then silently chewed it up in her bed ...
Suspect #1:
Suspect #1:
I'm still here! We had an anniversary, the 15th one that we've had, and went to a spa, which feels like several years ago now.
My current mental health would be a slowly declining wiggly line.
I'm avoiding the other online places like the plague.
My current mental health would be a slowly declining wiggly line.
I'm avoiding the other online places like the plague.
September 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I'm still here! We had an anniversary, the 15th one that we've had, and went to a spa, which feels like several years ago now.
My current mental health would be a slowly declining wiggly line.
I'm avoiding the other online places like the plague.
My current mental health would be a slowly declining wiggly line.
I'm avoiding the other online places like the plague.
Agh, mad week. I almost forgot to post about Libraryland. I'm back!
Yesterday, someone produced the black and white page they had accidentally printed and asked me if I would photocopy it in colour because it's "quicker than logging back in".
🤦🏻
#libraryland #workstories
Yesterday, someone produced the black and white page they had accidentally printed and asked me if I would photocopy it in colour because it's "quicker than logging back in".
🤦🏻
#libraryland #workstories
September 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Agh, mad week. I almost forgot to post about Libraryland. I'm back!
Yesterday, someone produced the black and white page they had accidentally printed and asked me if I would photocopy it in colour because it's "quicker than logging back in".
🤦🏻
#libraryland #workstories
Yesterday, someone produced the black and white page they had accidentally printed and asked me if I would photocopy it in colour because it's "quicker than logging back in".
🤦🏻
#libraryland #workstories
First day back in Libraryland ...
Questioning whether having a week off means that I'm now a library ghost.
I got asked 3 separate times whether I work there. I was wearing a uniform and a lanyard all day. Once I was carrying a giant stack of books. Once I was sitting at the desk, using the PC.
Questioning whether having a week off means that I'm now a library ghost.
I got asked 3 separate times whether I work there. I was wearing a uniform and a lanyard all day. Once I was carrying a giant stack of books. Once I was sitting at the desk, using the PC.
August 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
First day back in Libraryland ...
Questioning whether having a week off means that I'm now a library ghost.
I got asked 3 separate times whether I work there. I was wearing a uniform and a lanyard all day. Once I was carrying a giant stack of books. Once I was sitting at the desk, using the PC.
Questioning whether having a week off means that I'm now a library ghost.
I got asked 3 separate times whether I work there. I was wearing a uniform and a lanyard all day. Once I was carrying a giant stack of books. Once I was sitting at the desk, using the PC.
Yesterday in Libraryland I won employee of the month, which I think is mostly co-worker nominations intended to embarrass the recipient 😅. May have to counter-nominate.
Now for 10 days away from Libraryland ...
Now for 10 days away from Libraryland ...
August 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Yesterday in Libraryland I won employee of the month, which I think is mostly co-worker nominations intended to embarrass the recipient 😅. May have to counter-nominate.
Now for 10 days away from Libraryland ...
Now for 10 days away from Libraryland ...
Our eldest attended his first concert yesterday - a 12 hour tribute band festival that he came home from just before midnight sunburned and avidly telling us how they all "barked at the moon" for Ozzy and his friend broke his glasses in a mosh pit. This teenage growing up bit isn't always so bad 🥰.
August 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Our eldest attended his first concert yesterday - a 12 hour tribute band festival that he came home from just before midnight sunburned and avidly telling us how they all "barked at the moon" for Ozzy and his friend broke his glasses in a mosh pit. This teenage growing up bit isn't always so bad 🥰.
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“You didn’t have to shoot anyone.” Heat crept into Thiago’s voice. “If you needed supplies, we would have given them to you.” Don’t worry, the “anyone” who got shot was me.
August 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
“You didn’t have to shoot anyone.” Heat crept into Thiago’s voice. “If you needed supplies, we would have given them to you.” Don’t worry, the “anyone” who got shot was me.
Yesterday, my dog launched herself, two front paws first at my kneecap in greeting when I came home from work.
That was pretty much the day 😅.
That was pretty much the day 😅.
August 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Yesterday, my dog launched herself, two front paws first at my kneecap in greeting when I came home from work.
That was pretty much the day 😅.
That was pretty much the day 😅.
Feeling a bit grey today. The sky was too, but the park was still pretty.
August 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Feeling a bit grey today. The sky was too, but the park was still pretty.
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I really want this to be my email signature but I've been told it would be "unprofessional" or some bullshit
July 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I really want this to be my email signature but I've been told it would be "unprofessional" or some bullshit