Philip Eagle
@philegal.bsky.social
Librarian currently specialising in science and technology at a major London institution.
Important #britishlibrary announcement - you will not be able to order or use any item from storage within the Reading Rooms in the week beginning Monday 1st December. This is to allow us to install a new book ordering system that should be much easier to use than the current one.
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Important #britishlibrary announcement - you will not be able to order or use any item from storage within the Reading Rooms in the week beginning Monday 1st December. This is to allow us to install a new book ordering system that should be much easier to use than the current one.
PCS picket line at the BL today playing Alice Cooper as I arrived. (I'm in Prospect and we're still in negotiations but good luck to PCS colleagues)
October 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
PCS picket line at the BL today playing Alice Cooper as I arrived. (I'm in Prospect and we're still in negotiations but good luck to PCS colleagues)
How can this guy wear a Seventh Doctor jumper when the whole point of the Cartmel-McCoy era was that Tories are evil and must be destroyed?
The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)
October 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
How can this guy wear a Seventh Doctor jumper when the whole point of the Cartmel-McCoy era was that Tories are evil and must be destroyed?
Someone complaining about manspreading in the 1830s! (At the Leyland vehicle museum)
July 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Someone complaining about manspreading in the 1830s! (At the Leyland vehicle museum)
For Trumpists "sex trafficking" is when immigrants kidnap your children at the mall and sell them to DEMONcrats to sacrifice to Satan and make adrenochrome out of.
This is why, in order to get worked up about child abuse, they have to bolt on fantasies about Satanism and cannibalism. For most of them, child abuse of one kind or another is just family life, or a normal sunday at church.
A fan of President Donald Trump told C-SPAN that she wasn't concerned about the release of files on Jeffrey Epstein because it was "human nature" to molest children.
July 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
For Trumpists "sex trafficking" is when immigrants kidnap your children at the mall and sell them to DEMONcrats to sacrifice to Satan and make adrenochrome out of.
I think that's a fair headline. I recently read the doorstopper of the earliest Superman comics that DC put out. I was expecting the lefty outlook, but I was a bit surprised by how often early Superman wins by just beating nonpowered people up, or threatening to do so if they don't stop being evil.
Me: The BBC has become extremely Right Wing.
Friend: I don't think it has...
The BBC:
Friend: I don't think it has...
The BBC:
July 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I think that's a fair headline. I recently read the doorstopper of the earliest Superman comics that DC put out. I was expecting the lefty outlook, but I was a bit surprised by how often early Superman wins by just beating nonpowered people up, or threatening to do so if they don't stop being evil.
#uksg2025 Survival of traditional journal article is not a mystery. People who are not subject experts want journal metrics as an "objective" way to assess researchers.
April 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#uksg2025 Survival of traditional journal article is not a mystery. People who are not subject experts want journal metrics as an "objective" way to assess researchers.
Runner-up - Cliff Richard, "Mistletoe and Wine". Why is a Christian making a song for a time of Christian celebration that is such a DIRGE?
Fuck your favourite song. Tell me your least favourite song. The one that makes you die inside the moment you hear the first 3 seconds.
March 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Runner-up - Cliff Richard, "Mistletoe and Wine". Why is a Christian making a song for a time of Christian celebration that is such a DIRGE?
"Saturday Night" by Whigfield. Truly grating and awful. For a time there was a vogue for early "poptimists" to praise it and attack "indie snobs" and I cannot believe any of them were sincere.
Fuck your favourite song. Tell me your least favourite song. The one that makes you die inside the moment you hear the first 3 seconds.
March 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
"Saturday Night" by Whigfield. Truly grating and awful. For a time there was a vogue for early "poptimists" to praise it and attack "indie snobs" and I cannot believe any of them were sincere.
On an RT at #WoodGreen #VintageBus day. All the 50s and 60s AEC London classics.
March 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
On an RT at #WoodGreen #VintageBus day. All the 50s and 60s AEC London classics.
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret - - Queens of the Stone Age
No One Knows - - Queens of the Stone Age
No One Knows - - Queens of the Stone Age
Fade to Black - - Metallica
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procul Harum
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procul Harum
Walk - Pantera
Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
January 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret - - Queens of the Stone Age
No One Knows - - Queens of the Stone Age
No One Knows - - Queens of the Stone Age
Doing a #PhD in the UK and interested in climate change? The #BritishLibrary has a full-time or part-time placement available. www.bl.uk/more/researc...
www.bl.uk
January 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Doing a #PhD in the UK and interested in climate change? The #BritishLibrary has a full-time or part-time placement available. www.bl.uk/more/researc...
Happy New Year, everyone!
January 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Happy New Year, everyone!
Sounds similar to the mess-up at a crypto event a couple of years back when excessively powerful UV lamps were used in the effects lighting.
Trump rally goers suffer mysterious eye injuries: 'I can't see anything'
www.rawstory.com/trump-rally-...
Simple explanation,trump farted and the fume wafted into their eyes!!
www.rawstory.com/trump-rally-...
Simple explanation,trump farted and the fume wafted into their eyes!!
Trump rally goers suffer mysterious eye injuries: 'I can't see anything'
Six rally goers suffered mysterious eye injuries while seated behind Donald Trump at a campaign event in Arizona.KVOA-TV reported that all six attendees experienced eye irritation and sought medical a...
www.rawstory.com
September 22, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Sounds similar to the mess-up at a crypto event a couple of years back when excessively powerful UV lamps were used in the effects lighting.
You called a bigot a bigot, and when the racists complained you grovelled. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Europe is in thrall to the far right – that’s the result of appeasement by so-called moderates | Gordon Brown
France is the latest country to capitulate to the demands of a poisonous, populist narrative. We need a progressive fightback, says former prime minister Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2024 at 12:53 PM
You called a bigot a bigot, and when the racists complained you grovelled. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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(the Gawker/Hogan judgement was at several multiples of the largest ever libel award in the British courts, and even more multiples of the biggest privacy award. I don't think the UK has ever seen a case where billionaire bankrolled the destruction of a publication)
September 10, 2024 at 2:14 PM
(the Gawker/Hogan judgement was at several multiples of the largest ever libel award in the British courts, and even more multiples of the biggest privacy award. I don't think the UK has ever seen a case where billionaire bankrolled the destruction of a publication)
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can't be bothered firing up the meme template, but never ask a woman her age, a man his salary or an American critic of British libel law what happened to Gawker.
September 10, 2024 at 2:13 PM
can't be bothered firing up the meme template, but never ask a woman her age, a man his salary or an American critic of British libel law what happened to Gawker.
I've seen some weird leftier-than-thou provocations in my time, but my jaw still dropped at "middle class people shouldn't use public transport because they're stealing a service provided for the poor".
August 19, 2024 at 8:42 AM
I've seen some weird leftier-than-thou provocations in my time, but my jaw still dropped at "middle class people shouldn't use public transport because they're stealing a service provided for the poor".
Reposted by Philip Eagle
Scorpius: I’m an evil S&M alien.
John: I thought you just needed that leather getup to regulate your body temperature so you don’t die.
Scorpius: I do, the S&M thing is separate from that.
John: I thought you just needed that leather getup to regulate your body temperature so you don’t die.
Scorpius: I do, the S&M thing is separate from that.
May 8, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Scorpius: I’m an evil S&M alien.
John: I thought you just needed that leather getup to regulate your body temperature so you don’t die.
Scorpius: I do, the S&M thing is separate from that.
John: I thought you just needed that leather getup to regulate your body temperature so you don’t die.
Scorpius: I do, the S&M thing is separate from that.
Now on Bluesky, see how it goes.
February 6, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Now on Bluesky, see how it goes.