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Dr Francis Osis
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Tweets about heritage, textile crafts, F1, dogs & nice walks. Makes motorsports art stuff at RaceCraft. Glasgow based. #ActuallyAutistic 🖖🌈🏳️‍⚧️ he/him

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Dr Francis Osis @fosis.bsky.social · Nov 10
Intro post time!

Hi, I'm Francis 👋 I work in the museums & archive service in West Lothian Council, and I'm just about to start my archives masters at Dundee. I have a PhD in history of medicine too!

I also create textile & fibre based art. I make clothes, quilts, and embroideries.
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wunc.org
A new vending machine at Durham Food Hall sells zines about different aspects of Durham's history and culture — from urban foraging to the best spots in the city to cry in public.

www.wunc.org/arts-culture...
This vending machine will feed you zines about Durham's history and culture
Artist Kelsey Graywill recently installed the Hyperlocal Durham vending machine at Durham Food Hall, which sells zines about different aspects of Durham's history and culture — from urban foraging to ...
www.wunc.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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olliemastersbskys.bsky.social
Of all the historical figures you've researched for your books, who would you invite to a dinner party? It's a very strange question when you think about it. I mean, obviously I would choose Shakespeare, and probably Isaac Newton. But the thing is, you wouldn't be learning anything - you'd be spending the whole dinner explaining to them why they're not dead any more! I mean, they would just be saying, "What the fuck, what's going on?" and it wouldn't be like a congenial dinner party with everybody drinking and relaxed. And then, you know, who's going to tell them that when the dinner is over, they have to be dead again - that they have to go back to their graves? I don't want to be associated with this exercise.
November 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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joannabagniewska.com
Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. Australia’s only shrew, Crocidura trichura, has been declared extinct.

Touching obituary by @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social
🧪🌏🦊

www.butlernature.com/2025/10/24/r...
Requiem for the Christmas Island Shrew
The Cry That Faded It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, moving through the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean...
www.butlernature.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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elea.fyi
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Thanks also to @elikaortega.bsky.social for helping us display the cover of her book "Binding Media: Hybrid print-digital literature from across the Americas"! Élika gave a fantastic talk for @scholarslab.bsky.social in '22 on literary & material experimentations via hybrid print-digital books.
A large poster version of the cover of Élika Ortega's book "Binding Media: Hybrid print-digital literature from across the Americas", on a white background with a large, pixelated, gradient yellow to red to purple mouse cursor series on top Photo of a wall hung with multiple posters and a banner. A large black cotton banner created by Francis Osid has appliqued felt letters, each in a different color creating an overall gradient effect. The letters spell "Make your pride part of history". The posters are the cover of Élika Ortega's book "Binding Media: Hybrid print-digital literature from across the Americas", on a white background with a large, pixelated, gradient yellow to red to purple mouse cursor series on top; the cover of the "Digital Futures of Graduate Studies in the Humanities" volume; and last year's Praxis Fellows research poster on analyzing archival university satire magazines.
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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ryancordell.org
I’m pretty pleased by this riff on a @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social / @umdbooklab.bsky.social print I worked up for my “Writing with Robots” class’ visit to @skeuomorphpress.org today
A letterpress print with red ink on brown paper. The text is wood type and reads small LANGUAGE MODELS MADE HERE! In the center is a woodcut of an antique typewriter. The paper has text reading “Printed by hand at…” with the Skeuomorph Logo below wood type on a press reading small LANGUAGE MODELS MADE HERE! In the center is a woodcut of an antique typewriter. The paper has text reading “Printed by hand at…” with the Skeuomorph Logo below
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
fosis.bsky.social
Such a privilege to have something I made hanging in the @scholarslab.bsky.social, who represent all the good parts of academia to me 😊
literaturegeek.bsky.social Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 4d
New art in @scholarslab.bsky.social's Text Aisle! Huge thanks to #DHmakes colleague @fosis.bsky.social for letting us exhibit his bright & strong "Pride" banner in our public space ("Make your pride part of history"🌈):
Photo of a wall hung with multiple posters and a banner. A large black cotton banner created by Francis Osid has appliqued felt letters, each in a different color creating an overall gradient effect. The letters spell "Make your pride part of history". The posters are the cover of Élika Ortega's book "Binding Media: Hybrid print-digital literature from across the Americas", on a white background with a large, pixelated, gradient yellow to red to purple mouse cursor series on top; the cover of the "Digital Futures of Graduate Studies in the Humanities" volume; and last year's Praxis Fellows research poster on analyzing archival university satire magazines. Closeup photo on a large black cotton banner created by Francis Osid has appliqued felt letters, each in a different color creating an overall gradient effect. The letters spell "Make your pride part of history". Photo of a museum exhibit label that says: "Pride 2025 Francis Osis, queer archivist & artist living in Glasgow, Scotland Materials: felt & cotton Methods: hand appliqué & machine sewing This banner was made in a feverish last minute scramble for West Lothian's 10th anniversary Pride, which the West Lothian Council Museums & Archives Services attended to engage with the local community & to encourage donations to the service so their history could be told. In addition to his archival expertise, Francis Osis holds a Ph.D. in history of medicine, and creates textile and fibre based art including clothes, quilts, and embroideries."
November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
fosis.bsky.social
You'd think with big corporates obsession with AI they could do something useful with it like, oh I don't know, autogenerate captions for films on streaming services if they don't already have any... *sighs in misunderstood dialogue*
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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petermandler.bsky.social
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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maxtani.bsky.social
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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ehkopin.bsky.social
looking forward to the fights that break out over this
bucksarchives.bsky.social Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 12d
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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helenlsunderland.bsky.social
Can anyone help me identify these schoolgirls who visited Parliament in July 1909? I'm writing about them in my book and would LOVE to be able to say who they are! www.npg.org.uk/collections/... #histed #histchild
'School Girls at the House of Commons' (including Michael Joseph Flavin) - National Portrait Gallery
by Benjamin Stone platinum print 22 July 1909 © National Portrait Gallery, London
www.npg.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
🔴How the Not-So Independent Media Censors Criticism of Its Billionaire Owners

Former Independent columnist @donnachadhmc.bsky.social on how the UK’s billionaire-owned media silences those journalists trying to speak out against them

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/h...
How the Not-So Independent Media Censors Criticism of Its Billionaire Owners
Former Independent columnist Donnachadh McCarthy on how the UK's billionaire-owned media silences those journalists trying to speak out against them
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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aturls.bsky.social
Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start

If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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jjinandtonic.bsky.social
I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local authorities deny catholic prisoners the Eucharist, bishop arrives, Papal sanction may follow”
richraho.bsky.social Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16d
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
fosis.bsky.social
Attempted to do some crafting today while still sick. Immediately ruined the fabric because my brain is too slow and I cut it too short. This is very much me right now.
a group of people standing around a table with the words started making it had a breakdown bon appetit on the bottom
Alt: James Acaster saying "started making it had a breakdown bon appetit" in GBBO
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
the other new print in my shop is actually a smaller, giclée version of an original linoprint that loads of people have asked me to reprint: "crow steals the sun". Limited to 15 signed copies & hand-finished with gold paint 👀

shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/crow... #art #witchsky #crow
a print of a naughty crow stepping through a wheat field with a golden sun in its beak. There are skulls below the ground it walks on.
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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bucksarchives.bsky.social
It's Halloween! Here's the scariest thing in our archive.
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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comicprintinguk.bsky.social
Done and done. Dead simple. You just go to the Restore Trust website, look at their recommended candidates, and vote for literally anyone else.
stephencollins.bsky.social Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 17d
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS] 1 NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]: Hello there 2 [A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk]. DAD: Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids? 3 NT EMPLOYEE: Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail! 4 MUM: That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids? 5 NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]: Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot! 6 NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]: Listen - that's their call [Calls emanating from the landscape]: tut-tut woke-woke 7 NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]: They are extremely sensitive and fragile... But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery. 8 KIDS [pointing]: There they are! [Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure]. [Little people noises]: woke-woke tut-tut woke-woke 9 [Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]: Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house. [Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]: tut-tut woke-woke 10 MUM [pointing]: What's that one doing there? NT EMPLOYEE: Oh, that's so sweet… 11 [We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away]. NT EMPLOYEE: I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph… 12 [We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]: Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE? [ends]
October 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS] 1 NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]: Hello there 2 [A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk]. DAD: Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids? 3 NT EMPLOYEE: Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail! 4 MUM: That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids? 5 NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]: Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot! 6 NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]: Listen - that's their call [Calls emanating from the landscape]: tut-tut woke-woke 7 NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]: They are extremely sensitive and fragile... But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery. 8 KIDS [pointing]: There they are! [Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure]. [Little people noises]: woke-woke tut-tut woke-woke 9 [Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]: Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house. [Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]: tut-tut woke-woke 10 MUM [pointing]: What's that one doing there? NT EMPLOYEE: Oh, that's so sweet… 11 [We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away]. NT EMPLOYEE: I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph… 12 [We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]: Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE? [ends]
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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richterscale.bsky.social
the german word for when you very clearly recognize someone in a movie but when you look them up on IMDB you haven't seen anything they've been in
October 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
fosis.bsky.social
That's the binding done! Still a lot of quilting to go but now it's useable and I don't have to worry about the edges fraying while I'm working on it.
Photo of a large quilt spread out on a bed. The quilt is made of lots of triangles and rectangles in earthy tone pinks, greens and orange. Photo of a hand holding the corner of the same quilt, showing the edge bound in a patterned material in similar colours.
October 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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chainbear.bsky.social
In September some guy finds a doohickey behind a cabinet and asks "hey is this important?"
justjoshingf1.bsky.social Josh Wilcock @justjoshingf1.bsky.social · 23d
Would be funny if Ferrari had the same end to the season as they did last year. They just work out the car at round 20 each year.
October 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
fosis.bsky.social
Still working on quilting this by hand, by I've got far enough that it's stable and I've decided to add the binding. That way I can use it even if it's not finished 😂 have machine sewn the front half on and now just need to hand stitch the back down.
Photo of a quilt in dark greens and pinks with a hand showing the patterned binding along part of the edge.
October 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM