Viridian Archer
@viridianarcher.bsky.social
Librarian, musician and crocheter.
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Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co
Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co
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What's behind Nigel Farage's deregulation plans for corporations?
Follow the money 👀
He isn't a party leader. He's a CEO. And his investors have spoken.
Follow the money 👀
He isn't a party leader. He's a CEO. And his investors have spoken.
November 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
What's behind Nigel Farage's deregulation plans for corporations?
Follow the money 👀
He isn't a party leader. He's a CEO. And his investors have spoken.
Follow the money 👀
He isn't a party leader. He's a CEO. And his investors have spoken.
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It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...
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Do you compose or publish music in the UK? 'Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores' with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries? www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Please share with any musicians you know!
Please share with any musicians you know!
Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores
Help us to collect digital scores from composers and independent publishers.
www.bl.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Do you compose or publish music in the UK? 'Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores' with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries? www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Please share with any musicians you know!
Please share with any musicians you know!
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My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.
October 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.
I've written to my MP to urge her to prevent the UK from leaving the ECHR (but she's LibDem so hopefully wouldn't want to anyway). If you want to do the same click here: actionstorm.org/petitions/pr...
actionstorm.org
October 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I've written to my MP to urge her to prevent the UK from leaving the ECHR (but she's LibDem so hopefully wouldn't want to anyway). If you want to do the same click here: actionstorm.org/petitions/pr...
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Roses are red 🌹
Violets are blue 💙
Words may twist and turn 📝
But I’ll find my way through.
Happy #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek all!
#Dyslexia
#Dyslexic
bsky.app/profile/nlis...
Violets are blue 💙
Words may twist and turn 📝
But I’ll find my way through.
Happy #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek all!
#Dyslexia
#Dyslexic
bsky.app/profile/nlis...
"One of the three in four people keep their dyslexia a secret from their employer" from the The Dyslexic Dynamic Report⬇️
www.madebydyslexia.org/wp-content/u...
#Dyslexia
#Workplace
#Employment
#Neurodivergent
www.madebydyslexia.org/wp-content/u...
#Dyslexia
#Workplace
#Employment
#Neurodivergent
www.madebydyslexia.org
October 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Roses are red 🌹
Violets are blue 💙
Words may twist and turn 📝
But I’ll find my way through.
Happy #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek all!
#Dyslexia
#Dyslexic
bsky.app/profile/nlis...
Violets are blue 💙
Words may twist and turn 📝
But I’ll find my way through.
Happy #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek all!
#Dyslexia
#Dyslexic
bsky.app/profile/nlis...
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Hey... You, yeah you.
Psst, over here.
*Opens grimy trench coat*
Gay aliens, want some gay aliens?!
Some trans pirates for ya missus?
Lesbian witches? Yeah, check out these beauties!
✨Preorder Queer As Folklore from @manchesterup.bsky.social!✨
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781807070397/
Psst, over here.
*Opens grimy trench coat*
Gay aliens, want some gay aliens?!
Some trans pirates for ya missus?
Lesbian witches? Yeah, check out these beauties!
✨Preorder Queer As Folklore from @manchesterup.bsky.social!✨
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781807070397/
Manchester University Press - Queer as folklore
Queer as folklore - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Queer as folklore by Sacha Coward
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Hey... You, yeah you.
Psst, over here.
*Opens grimy trench coat*
Gay aliens, want some gay aliens?!
Some trans pirates for ya missus?
Lesbian witches? Yeah, check out these beauties!
✨Preorder Queer As Folklore from @manchesterup.bsky.social!✨
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781807070397/
Psst, over here.
*Opens grimy trench coat*
Gay aliens, want some gay aliens?!
Some trans pirates for ya missus?
Lesbian witches? Yeah, check out these beauties!
✨Preorder Queer As Folklore from @manchesterup.bsky.social!✨
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781807070397/
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Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today.
A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):
A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):
September 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today.
A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):
A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):
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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
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Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09...
LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert.
Pls share
LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert.
Pls share
September 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09...
LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert.
Pls share
LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert.
Pls share
Random number generator made me do it - here's Spearow! 🧶
August 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Random number generator made me do it - here's Spearow! 🧶
Number 59 in my quest to crochet all gen 1 pokemon: Seadra! 🧶
August 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Number 59 in my quest to crochet all gen 1 pokemon: Seadra! 🧶
Fearow took 15 months on and off to complete. I'm now counting up hope many birds I have left to make and weeping 🤣 but maybe there'll be some patterns for the others?! 🧶
July 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Fearow took 15 months on and off to complete. I'm now counting up hope many birds I have left to make and weeping 🤣 but maybe there'll be some patterns for the others?! 🧶
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Ways to keep cool in the record-breaking heat:
1. Put ice in front of your fan
2. Put a damp towel around your neck
3. Close your curtains
4. Dismantle the rapacious, extractive fossil-fuel dependent capitalist system via any means necessary
5. Sip, don't gulp water
1. Put ice in front of your fan
2. Put a damp towel around your neck
3. Close your curtains
4. Dismantle the rapacious, extractive fossil-fuel dependent capitalist system via any means necessary
5. Sip, don't gulp water
June 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Ways to keep cool in the record-breaking heat:
1. Put ice in front of your fan
2. Put a damp towel around your neck
3. Close your curtains
4. Dismantle the rapacious, extractive fossil-fuel dependent capitalist system via any means necessary
5. Sip, don't gulp water
1. Put ice in front of your fan
2. Put a damp towel around your neck
3. Close your curtains
4. Dismantle the rapacious, extractive fossil-fuel dependent capitalist system via any means necessary
5. Sip, don't gulp water
Tomorrow (Saturday) - if you're in Cambridge and like the idea of a free concert: Scheherezade at St Clements church at 1pm! fb.me/e/3s4v4wXdc
June 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Tomorrow (Saturday) - if you're in Cambridge and like the idea of a free concert: Scheherezade at St Clements church at 1pm! fb.me/e/3s4v4wXdc
I think enough Cambridge people follow me to make it worth publicising my free 1-hr concert at St Clements church on Saturday afternoon at 1pm - so come! Scheherezade is gert lush! fb.me/e/3s4v4wXdc
June 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
I think enough Cambridge people follow me to make it worth publicising my free 1-hr concert at St Clements church on Saturday afternoon at 1pm - so come! Scheherezade is gert lush! fb.me/e/3s4v4wXdc
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Farage is being allowed to respond to events like he’s the PM in waiting. We have 4 years of a parl. We have 6 parties that are ALL minorities. They don’t speak with one voice. On Iran/Israel, LibDemsGreensSNPPlaid have a different take. We demand to hear them petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
June 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Farage is being allowed to respond to events like he’s the PM in waiting. We have 4 years of a parl. We have 6 parties that are ALL minorities. They don’t speak with one voice. On Iran/Israel, LibDemsGreensSNPPlaid have a different take. We demand to hear them petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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Reposting my call for participants for my PhD project!
#Nonbinary, aged 15+ and live, or have lived, in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)?
Does what you wear help create your identity? How do clothes matter to non-binary people? How do *you* dress 'authentically'?
I want to hear from you!
#Nonbinary, aged 15+ and live, or have lived, in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)?
Does what you wear help create your identity? How do clothes matter to non-binary people? How do *you* dress 'authentically'?
I want to hear from you!
My PhD research questionnaire is now live!
forms.gle/HEPBswqzswGi...
Looking for those who:
1. identify as #nonbinary in the broadest sense
2. live or have lived in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)
3. aged 15+ (adult consent required to participate)
Open until 23/09/2025.
More info below! 👇
forms.gle/HEPBswqzswGi...
Looking for those who:
1. identify as #nonbinary in the broadest sense
2. live or have lived in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)
3. aged 15+ (adult consent required to participate)
Open until 23/09/2025.
More info below! 👇
Research Questionnaire: Non-binary Finery
You are being asked to take part in a questionnaire as part of the following doctoral research project at University for the Creative Arts (UCA): Non-binary Finery: Dress, adornment, and the embodimen...
forms.gle
June 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Reposting my call for participants for my PhD project!
#Nonbinary, aged 15+ and live, or have lived, in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)?
Does what you wear help create your identity? How do clothes matter to non-binary people? How do *you* dress 'authentically'?
I want to hear from you!
#Nonbinary, aged 15+ and live, or have lived, in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)?
Does what you wear help create your identity? How do clothes matter to non-binary people? How do *you* dress 'authentically'?
I want to hear from you!
Because everyone needs to see this, even if you're not from Buckinghamshire
June 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Because everyone needs to see this, even if you're not from Buckinghamshire
One of my favourite aspects is seeing where my blood ends up. I've saved lives in Luton, Bedford and London! And during the pandemic, my blood travelled further than I did...
For every person who wants to give blood but can't there are multiple people who can give blood but don't. If you can, go give blood: it's an incredibly easy way to save people's lives. It only takes half an hour every four months and you can make it a regular habit.
Heard item on the news this morning about a current shortage of blood donors, also got an email from NHS Blood & Transplant encouraging me to donate. Makes me sad because due to a health condition I am in the process of being diagnosed for, I can't currently donate and may never be able to again 💔
June 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
One of my favourite aspects is seeing where my blood ends up. I've saved lives in Luton, Bedford and London! And during the pandemic, my blood travelled further than I did...
Maaaaaybe we shouldn't have preceded no-mow May with no-mow October to April, but dang, hope the wildlife are having fun in there!
May 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Maaaaaybe we shouldn't have preceded no-mow May with no-mow October to April, but dang, hope the wildlife are having fun in there!
A long read, but an interesting one
New article! NEW ARTICLE!!!
Let's talk about the ways that plagiarists and AI are trying to automate sociopathy and why copyright might actually be a powerful tool to fuck with 'em.
And, how do we make a world where even copyright is no longer necessary?
docseuss.medium.com/copyright-ru...
Let's talk about the ways that plagiarists and AI are trying to automate sociopathy and why copyright might actually be a powerful tool to fuck with 'em.
And, how do we make a world where even copyright is no longer necessary?
docseuss.medium.com/copyright-ru...
copyright rules, ai drools, and plagiarism is for suckers who have no soul
Have you ever had a conversation with someone over a topic you know a great deal about, but the person you’re talking to definitely…
docseuss.medium.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A long read, but an interesting one
Oh hai, I have not been bothered to say much, nor do much, because <gestures vaguely at the state of everything>
But while at a conference I did finish crocheting a balloon sausage dog. Here it is, with its buddy 🐕 🧶
But while at a conference I did finish crocheting a balloon sausage dog. Here it is, with its buddy 🐕 🧶
May 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Oh hai, I have not been bothered to say much, nor do much, because <gestures vaguely at the state of everything>
But while at a conference I did finish crocheting a balloon sausage dog. Here it is, with its buddy 🐕 🧶
But while at a conference I did finish crocheting a balloon sausage dog. Here it is, with its buddy 🐕 🧶