AlanFricker

Nothing better than digging what you need out of the big box of random cables

Fullwell Cross Library, Barkingside 1968 Frederick Gibberd & Partners buff.ly/A9PdIWZ

A very happy swiss chard #allotment

West Norwood Library 1969 Edward Hollamby of Lambeth Borough Image from RIBApix

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You enjoyed "let the heavy door swing back into the face of people behind you without a backward glance"? Then you might love "give the person holding the heavy door for you a a look that suggests they just slipped some dog dirt into your bag"

The endless proliferation of noise feels as much a hazard as the endless proliferation of misinformation and error www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@edent.tel you may have seen this already regarding the disclosure on the item you were looking at

Sad times - sudden failure of a well loved mug

This sounds an interesting (free but consider joining BCS) webinar www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-ai-is...

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Anyone in the London area looking for a carer/ PA? My late husband's carer is FANTASTIC. She's based SE London but travelled up to NE and would go further. She's on PA Pool if you need further info (so no agency fees). Contact directly via details on card.

Second time I have read a mention of the Memex in as many days

Love having people over but also love to be hosted. > The dreadful decline of hosting at home: ‘I feel shame any time a friend comes over’ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A lovely read on the changing life of the library within the building that houses it - complete with some great archival items and photos 📚

Having another very Simon Quinlank time writing a tip for multidatabase field searching in EBSCOhost

TIL: There's a great list of free, human-made, royalty-free images at https://humancode.us/2026/08/28/royalty-free-images

kempfolds.blogspot.com

#stats

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

For #BlackHistoryMonth let's highlight Dr Aggrey Burke, the NHS's first Black consultant psychiatrist. His work challenged racial inequalities in mental health care and helped shape understanding of how racism and poverty affect mental health. Learn more: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/equ...

The Mitre is open! Register now for the Mitre on 6 December in Epping NW. We have a full range of courses from White to Black: see chig.org.uk/events/261206-epping-nw. !Special offer! We have 20 free membership units available to anyone new to orienteering: see www.chig.org.uk/membership-d...

#OnThisDay 32 years ago the last train ran on the rural Essex outpost of London Underground that was Epping-Ongar. The shuttle was also the last stand for the 1960 Stock seen here: capture of the last day by ian29d on YouTube (part of a longer video) buff.ly/GZRFUqU

"Yeah - I just wear my Airpods. They work great. I don't bother with this other tech stuff" #RttO #OpenPlan #MurderousThoughts

Just deployed a talkie toaster gif in a work chat about AI and feel like this might now happen a lot

What happened when authors of rejected papers were asked about the content of papers they submitted (brought here via ( @ianmulvany.bsky.social post considering tiered review processes) medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

Trying to find articles about EndNote Fusion - mostly getting jazz supportcenter.clarivate.com/s/global-sea...

The new logo for a soon to rebrand web based bibliographic tool is a real "Will this do?" job isn't it?

Apparently it's migraine awareness week in UK. And a new national online pathway and decision tool for headache has just launched. gettingitrightfirsttime.co.uk/girft-marks-...

Clear description of context vs memory. Makes clear impact of context window and limits on chat size for degradation of both recall and response. Important if users stick a lot of PDFs that then get "read" repeatedly which will add up library.hkust.edu.hk/news-events/...

Clear explanation of why the hugging face hack was both predictable and still bad pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...

A mate running for a heart breaking cause - if you have a couple of quid at the end of the month you could do worse www.justgiving.com/page/maratho...

Saw a man with no face today, sitting on a bench. Turns out it was a bald guy looking down at his phone with his sunglasses propped up on the top of his head, but for a brief moment i was transported to a world of cosmic terror

You can tell no transport commentator who reports on the new DLR trains has young children as it's now MUCH harder for them to see out the front At a rough guess a 5 year old could see out on the old ones. New nearing 8+9 years old This is true investigative journalism This is a 6 year olds view

New blog post: How to get a DOI for your blog posts https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/09/how-to-get-a-doi-for-your-blog-posts/ Each new post on this blog now has a Digital Object Identifier. This post looks at the how and the why of getting one, whether it is useful, and any issues you might …

Miss working in central London. Got off at St Paul's to walk to work is a great start to the day

Counter argument - having a veg box removes part of the "what are we going to eat" tyranny of the blank page www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Litter pick with a local beaver group. Hats off to the leaders

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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"The agents are portable, but the judgment patterns are not! That means, like it or not, you will get locked into a model." > important point for reproducibility mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/agents-are...