Christian
@ceebarnacles.bsky.social
By the sea or by the books.
I have discovered ‘Didgeridoo Drone’ 🎧🪃👌
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I have discovered ‘Didgeridoo Drone’ 🎧🪃👌
Tonight: talking about historical redress around cultural riches, property, ownership and use in connection to enslaved people and descendants.
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Tonight: talking about historical redress around cultural riches, property, ownership and use in connection to enslaved people and descendants.
God. I was *obsessed* with the ‘Caveman’ game - stealing eggs from the dinosaur and chucking axes at the pterodactyl 😀
The ‘Demon Driver’ crash sound was alarming - can still hear it. ‘Missile Invader’ sounds must have inspired Aphex Twin?!
The ‘Demon Driver’ crash sound was alarming - can still hear it. ‘Missile Invader’ sounds must have inspired Aphex Twin?!
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
God. I was *obsessed* with the ‘Caveman’ game - stealing eggs from the dinosaur and chucking axes at the pterodactyl 😀
The ‘Demon Driver’ crash sound was alarming - can still hear it. ‘Missile Invader’ sounds must have inspired Aphex Twin?!
The ‘Demon Driver’ crash sound was alarming - can still hear it. ‘Missile Invader’ sounds must have inspired Aphex Twin?!
Age yourself with gaming
November 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Age yourself with gaming
“I did a word-cloud!” (*said in my best toddler’s voice*)
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“I did a word-cloud!” (*said in my best toddler’s voice*)
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
“The resource over which they hold custody is of great worth to the country …Would Karl Marx and Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi and George Orwell, all erstwhile users of the British Library, have produced their masterpieces without this resource?”
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
“The resource over which they hold custody is of great worth to the country …Would Karl Marx and Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi and George Orwell, all erstwhile users of the British Library, have produced their masterpieces without this resource?”
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.
There has been wonderful support and solidarity for Library workers on the picket line these past two weeks. Today, the writer, Zadie Smith, read out her thoughts about the dispute, the Library, the country, its culture and heritage. Her values, ‘arguments’ and solidarity mean the world to me. 🙏👊🖤♥️
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
There has been wonderful support and solidarity for Library workers on the picket line these past two weeks. Today, the writer, Zadie Smith, read out her thoughts about the dispute, the Library, the country, its culture and heritage. Her values, ‘arguments’ and solidarity mean the world to me. 🙏👊🖤♥️
I like to think if this had been an event about Prog Rock it would have gone ahead and thus proving my ‘argument’ about Prog Rock, i.e. thank fuck for Punk!
November 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I like to think if this had been an event about Prog Rock it would have gone ahead and thus proving my ‘argument’ about Prog Rock, i.e. thank fuck for Punk!
As part of the Fredson Bowers award from @bibsoc.bsky.social (🙏) I’ll be giving a short talk on ‘The reassembly, analysis and appraisal of John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870): #rarebooks collector; savant; scholar; slave owner’
November 18th, 5-7pm.
In person / online bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-...
November 18th, 5-7pm.
In person / online bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-...
November 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
As part of the Fredson Bowers award from @bibsoc.bsky.social (🙏) I’ll be giving a short talk on ‘The reassembly, analysis and appraisal of John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870): #rarebooks collector; savant; scholar; slave owner’
November 18th, 5-7pm.
In person / online bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-...
November 18th, 5-7pm.
In person / online bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-...
How funding compares in last 20 years or so for:
i) The British Royal Family 📈
ii) The British Library 📉
Oh to live and participate in a just, progressive society …
i) The British Royal Family 📈
ii) The British Library 📉
Oh to live and participate in a just, progressive society …
November 1, 2025 at 4:40 AM
How funding compares in last 20 years or so for:
i) The British Royal Family 📈
ii) The British Library 📉
Oh to live and participate in a just, progressive society …
i) The British Royal Family 📈
ii) The British Library 📉
Oh to live and participate in a just, progressive society …
This is what class war looks like.
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is what class war looks like.
‘Knowledge is Power’ - and it should come with more £££’s per hour!
Support the striking Library workers in whatever way you can.
Miserly, below inflation wage ‘rises’, year on year are de facto CUTS.
Spread the wealth of this country and pay its workers fairly!!
Support the striking Library workers in whatever way you can.
Miserly, below inflation wage ‘rises’, year on year are de facto CUTS.
Spread the wealth of this country and pay its workers fairly!!
October 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
‘Knowledge is Power’ - and it should come with more £££’s per hour!
Support the striking Library workers in whatever way you can.
Miserly, below inflation wage ‘rises’, year on year are de facto CUTS.
Spread the wealth of this country and pay its workers fairly!!
Support the striking Library workers in whatever way you can.
Miserly, below inflation wage ‘rises’, year on year are de facto CUTS.
Spread the wealth of this country and pay its workers fairly!!
The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better.
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
October 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better.
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
I very love this typographical innovation in a Valencian printed edition of Ars inventiva veritatis from 1515 by the amazingly named printer Didacuz de Gumiel!
October 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I very love this typographical innovation in a Valencian printed edition of Ars inventiva veritatis from 1515 by the amazingly named printer Didacuz de Gumiel!
“Wild? I was absolutely livid!”
One of my favourite comedy sketches and maybe an opportunity to where my gorilla costume for the first time since I did a charity run for the Gorilla Organisation!!
🖤🦍📚🗣️🪧⚡️💷 ✊
One of my favourite comedy sketches and maybe an opportunity to where my gorilla costume for the first time since I did a charity run for the Gorilla Organisation!!
🖤🦍📚🗣️🪧⚡️💷 ✊
October 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“Wild? I was absolutely livid!”
One of my favourite comedy sketches and maybe an opportunity to where my gorilla costume for the first time since I did a charity run for the Gorilla Organisation!!
🖤🦍📚🗣️🪧⚡️💷 ✊
One of my favourite comedy sketches and maybe an opportunity to where my gorilla costume for the first time since I did a charity run for the Gorilla Organisation!!
🖤🦍📚🗣️🪧⚡️💷 ✊
“Soot marks and ink spots throughout”
#bookhistory
#bookhistory
October 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
“Soot marks and ink spots throughout”
#bookhistory
#bookhistory
World Mental Health Day 2025 and Mr Bill Board says, please don’t ever feel so apart from everyone else that you can’t talk with someone - there are lots of people in the world, many of them are good people and can make the difference. Don’t hesitate to message or speak to someone for some good ears
October 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
World Mental Health Day 2025 and Mr Bill Board says, please don’t ever feel so apart from everyone else that you can’t talk with someone - there are lots of people in the world, many of them are good people and can make the difference. Don’t hesitate to message or speak to someone for some good ears
And I have to wade through crazy crap like this
October 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
And I have to wade through crazy crap like this
Some people put up sheds, some people put up a fucking flag pole. Such an obnoxious, provocative, aggressive thing to do. It blights our street and has diminished good feeling in our community. I feel dreadful for the people who this ‘erection’ (not our shed) is intended to intimidate and exclude.
September 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Some people put up sheds, some people put up a fucking flag pole. Such an obnoxious, provocative, aggressive thing to do. It blights our street and has diminished good feeling in our community. I feel dreadful for the people who this ‘erection’ (not our shed) is intended to intimidate and exclude.
September 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Festival! With jerk pork, corn and rice and peas. This was last weekend but I just want to do it and eat it again! 🇯🇲😋
#yumdamental
#yumdamental
September 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Festival! With jerk pork, corn and rice and peas. This was last weekend but I just want to do it and eat it again! 🇯🇲😋
#yumdamental
#yumdamental