Daryl Green
@ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social
Librarian working in Edinburgh, living in the hills of the East Neuk; strayed Great Plains drifter; FSAScot; evening miniature painter and tabletop gamer; 📚📷📜🗃️⛰️🌊🖌️.
starting off a week of annual leave by palette cleansing with this lovely miniature..not quite done, but getting there!
November 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
starting off a week of annual leave by palette cleansing with this lovely miniature..not quite done, but getting there!
every year the myriad of teams that make up the University of Edinburgh's Library do amazing things, and every year we get a little bit better at communicating about those things.
Very happy to see ReConnect 2025, our annual report, go public today
library.ed.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
Very happy to see ReConnect 2025, our annual report, go public today
library.ed.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
every year the myriad of teams that make up the University of Edinburgh's Library do amazing things, and every year we get a little bit better at communicating about those things.
Very happy to see ReConnect 2025, our annual report, go public today
library.ed.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
Very happy to see ReConnect 2025, our annual report, go public today
library.ed.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
finished off this big fella this evening, pretty happy with the results 🤖🖌️
October 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
finished off this big fella this evening, pretty happy with the results 🤖🖌️
spent an hour cursing to myself quietly late last night as I glued bits of old speaker wire and garden wire to a plastic robot...
not done yet, but happy with taking a chance to get this effect.
not done yet, but happy with taking a chance to get this effect.
October 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
spent an hour cursing to myself quietly late last night as I glued bits of old speaker wire and garden wire to a plastic robot...
not done yet, but happy with taking a chance to get this effect.
not done yet, but happy with taking a chance to get this effect.
went to see Julie Brook's Tide Line just beyond Cellardyke tidal pool last weekend. The dog was just as excited as we were...
October 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
went to see Julie Brook's Tide Line just beyond Cellardyke tidal pool last weekend. The dog was just as excited as we were...
by the way, all those benign AI bots crawling the internet for for-profit LLMs, yeah it turns out when 9,000 hit your archive catalogue or image database all at once they break the system. This is an emerging sector issue.
The last weeks have literally seen humans labouring to feed the machines...
The last weeks have literally seen humans labouring to feed the machines...
October 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
by the way, all those benign AI bots crawling the internet for for-profit LLMs, yeah it turns out when 9,000 hit your archive catalogue or image database all at once they break the system. This is an emerging sector issue.
The last weeks have literally seen humans labouring to feed the machines...
The last weeks have literally seen humans labouring to feed the machines...
managed a wee work trip down the mound to the RSA to see the Goldsworthy exhibition before it shuts with my co-director and all around copilot Jacky
October 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
managed a wee work trip down the mound to the RSA to see the Goldsworthy exhibition before it shuts with my co-director and all around copilot Jacky
nearing the end of a great holiday, complete with a tidy stack of now-reads ♥️📚
July 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
nearing the end of a great holiday, complete with a tidy stack of now-reads ♥️📚
Your obelisk was perfect for an escalation campaign of 4th I'm playing with a friend, my chorfs won and we're crawling the maps towards the gates next! Love your stuff 🤙
April 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Your obelisk was perfect for an escalation campaign of 4th I'm playing with a friend, my chorfs won and we're crawling the maps towards the gates next! Love your stuff 🤙
happy Saturday in the Neuk!
April 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
happy Saturday in the Neuk!
things that library school doesn't prepare you for no. 573: gracefully unpacking an incredibly well-wrapped gift in front of a NASA astronaut and deep-sea explorer...
April 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
things that library school doesn't prepare you for no. 573: gracefully unpacking an incredibly well-wrapped gift in front of a NASA astronaut and deep-sea explorer...
it's a secret project of mine (but none of my gaming club are on here) but I've finally tumbled down the space-marine rabbit hole...
April 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
it's a secret project of mine (but none of my gaming club are on here) but I've finally tumbled down the space-marine rabbit hole...
4. After a weekend of de-wintering our garden, I got to sit in the sun on my day off with the dog at my feet listening, building models, watching the sheep go by and listening to an audiobook.
It's been busy as hell this week, but a good one.
It's been busy as hell this week, but a good one.
April 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
4. After a weekend of de-wintering our garden, I got to sit in the sun on my day off with the dog at my feet listening, building models, watching the sheep go by and listening to an audiobook.
It's been busy as hell this week, but a good one.
It's been busy as hell this week, but a good one.
3. And today I finally was able to join the judging panel for the David Laing Book Collecting Prize, and got to have 5 really interesting conversations with collectors of everything from mid century apocalyptic literature to found shopping lists!
April 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
3. And today I finally was able to join the judging panel for the David Laing Book Collecting Prize, and got to have 5 really interesting conversations with collectors of everything from mid century apocalyptic literature to found shopping lists!
2. On Wednesday I got to hang out with the first woman to conduct a space walk: astronaut, oceanographer and scientific advisor Kathy Sullivan (who was cool as hell)
April 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
2. On Wednesday I got to hang out with the first woman to conduct a space walk: astronaut, oceanographer and scientific advisor Kathy Sullivan (who was cool as hell)
long days, pleasant nights
April 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
long days, pleasant nights
had a great afternoon with @rhiggitt.bsky.social at the NMS Collections Centre - wet specimens, invertebrates and giant machinery, oh my!
March 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
had a great afternoon with @rhiggitt.bsky.social at the NMS Collections Centre - wet specimens, invertebrates and giant machinery, oh my!
glorious spring weather this weekend in Fife meant lots of fresh air and yard work done ♥️🌞
March 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
glorious spring weather this weekend in Fife meant lots of fresh air and yard work done ♥️🌞
*cue Obi-Wan "Hello there".gif
March 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
*cue Obi-Wan "Hello there".gif
a brief peek into one of the teaching rooms of the CRC to have a pre-class nosey at "Can you digitise it or not?" class...
March 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
a brief peek into one of the teaching rooms of the CRC to have a pre-class nosey at "Can you digitise it or not?" class...
been busy painting some lizardmen this past week for a game tomorrow - pretty happy with the results!
March 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
been busy painting some lizardmen this past week for a game tomorrow - pretty happy with the results!
Saturday and spring is in the air
March 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Saturday and spring is in the air
The road home...
February 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The road home...
here's my first big knight I painted at the end of the year, The Aquemini with his pilot Grand Master Fl⚡sh (all my AdMech units and knights are named after hip-hop albums or artists)
February 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
here's my first big knight I painted at the end of the year, The Aquemini with his pilot Grand Master Fl⚡sh (all my AdMech units and knights are named after hip-hop albums or artists)
I'm working for the next two days on Ardnamurchan... the drive today through a relatively empty Glencoe was pretty epic ... #librarylife
February 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I'm working for the next two days on Ardnamurchan... the drive today through a relatively empty Glencoe was pretty epic ... #librarylife