Darren Flynn (he/him/his)
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Darren Flynn (he/him/his)
@patchedelbows.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Library and Information Studies at UCL.
PhD student researching social class in the academic library workforce.
Co-organiser of Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference (CALC) and member of Fair Library Jobs.
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Age yourself with gaming
Game cover of Baldur's Gate (1998)
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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No! bad journal, look at what you did!
Snip showing a pie chart showing (a pointless) gender split of 13% male and 87% female. Second snip showing a pie chart (the is unintelligible) showing ethnicity of participants. This includes no labels, a number rather than a percentage of the largest category. The rest are unlabelled.
October 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Umm....ok thanks The Graun 😳
Screenshot from the Guardian showing a recipe for "Rachel Roddy's mini babas al rum". The photograph shows mini rum babas that look rather rude, 🍆
June 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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I effing LOVE university catering.
Oohhh sausage roll with "traditional dips". I wonder what the traditional dips will be??? 🤔
Photo of a card on a buffet reading "Vegan sausage roll with traditional dips" Photo of a catering buffet, showing the "Traditional Dips" are red and brown sauce.
June 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Almost twin-sies 😍👀
Photo of Darren in front of a Kylie Tension tour poster.
May 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Umm...insufficient power for both people and AI...?
Seems a pretty obvious solution presents itself to me...🤷
Screenshot from The Matrix (1999) showing Neo waking from the weird human battery pod thing, and looking at more weird human battery pod things.
May 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Thank you recent trip to St. Ives 😍
Photograph of shop sign in St. Ives reading "Gullz R Loud".
April 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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First morning home after a brilliant #LILAC25.

Had a great time learning, talking and reflecting. Thanks to @lilacconf.bsky.social for a cracking job organizing the conference, @cardiffunilib.bsky.social for hosting and all the facilities and catering staff for looking after all of us 💛
Photo of Darren's garden and cat in the morning light. Photo shows a jungle style city garden.
April 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Excellent session 👏
Also an additional learning moment for me when I find out why folks look the way they look when I sing (photo 2).
Photo of slide from Richard's findings. Titles "Types of information about the body" and lists a range of information types. Zoom in of previous photo, highlighting point which says "what you're hearing in your head is not what the audience is hearing"
April 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Feeling slightly micro-managed today 🙂‍↕️
April 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Sighs in seasonal gratitude to #SpringEquinox
Photograph of Darren's garden, morning of March 20th. Closeup photograph of a euphorbia against a red brick wall. Close up photograph of a Philadelphus (mock orange) just beginning to bud. Closeup photograph of a window box of winter pansies.
March 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Browning on the edges is usually lack of humidity (probably from having central heating on lately).
Helps if you stand it in a dish of expanded clay pellets with water. Can't fix the already browning leaves but helps prevent new ones.
Photo of a monstera standing in a dish of clay pellets and water.
January 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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😱 look at these handsome fellas!
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Screenshot of wrapping paper with walruses on it.
December 17, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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Glad I left my grey cardigan on the spare bed so that my mostly white cat knew where he should lie down 🙄😚🥰
Photograph of a bed with a grey cardigan and Terrance, a grey and white cat, specifically laying down on the cardigan and not the rest of the bed.
December 6, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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We've a light dusting as far south as Warwickshire 🥶
Photograph of Darren's garden with a light dusting of snow, November 2024.
November 19, 2024 at 7:47 AM
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I refuse to join BlueSky. I don't want to become part of an Ecco chamber.
Cover art of Sega Genesis 'Ecco the Dolphin' showing the titular dolphin jumping out of the ocean.
November 18, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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Can anyone think of a good reason why tables in journal articles are almost always formatted like this 👇

Surely I shouldn't have to use a ruler just to read across the data? Just gimme some gosh darn lines to work with!
Snip showing a demographics table from a journal article. The key point is that the table is formatted without lines which (to me) make it difficult to read the label and corresponding figures.
November 15, 2024 at 10:54 AM
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It's been a long time, but driving through Cheshire this sign never failed to put my mum in hysterics.
UK tourist attraction road sign. Reads "Secret Bunker Turn right 180 yds ahead".
November 7, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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That's gorgeous 🥰
I keep making diversions through town to look at my favourite autumn tree 🍂🍁
Photograph of an acer in the church yard of St Andrew's Church, Rugby Warwickshire. It's showing glorious deep red autumn foliage. In the background is the church, a neo gothic church.
November 1, 2024 at 10:01 AM
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Yep, v into this 👌
Photograph of the book Rivals by Jilly Cooper on a side table next to a half drunk glass of red wine.
October 18, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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and yet I love my little Potteries dialect being represented, albeit shown about x10 larger than it ought to be 🤗🫖
Zoomed in image of UK dialect map showing Potteries dialect amongst many other Midlands and North West dialects.
October 18, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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Not sure if they're on here but #LILAC2025 is going hard on next year's logo!
🤘🔥🐲🔥🤘
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#LibrarySky
Logo for LILAC2025 at Cardiff/Caerdydd showing a purple dragon over a castle backdrop.
October 8, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Loving the to-do list I got in my goodie bag from @thekindbraveleader.bsky.social's book launch last night 😍
Photo of a to-do list produced by The Kind Brave Leader
October 3, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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T-Cups says "commit to comfort" 😽
Photograph of Terrance, a grey and white cat, reclining on 4 cushions on a bench.
September 14, 2024 at 10:12 AM
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Haven't gymmed all week, got the day off today and it's lovely out.
So I decided to run around this b*stard lake 🏃
Photograph of Draycote Water, a reservoir in Warwickshire. It's a nice September day with blue skies and clouds. Photograph of a sign at Draycote Water, describing the 5 mile trail around the reservoir.
September 13, 2024 at 10:59 AM