Heccyben
@heccyben.bsky.social
Queer 🌈#doctorwho fan 🌌, Archivist 📜🖥️. Runner,🏃♂️ writer 👨💻. Did PhD on early modern English travel writing once ⚓️ Likes trains 🚂, he/him
"Actually it would be really really difficult and expensive to digitise everything we have"
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Where are your citations?"
"Where are your citations?"
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"No, you can't leave that here."
"No, you can't leave that here."
February 7, 2026 at 11:11 PM
"Actually it would be really really difficult and expensive to digitise everything we have"
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I do love the Vagina Museum.
Here with all the burning questions we didn't know we needed. Until they pose them!
PS, if you're in a position to help, they're independently funded, so could do with the odd £ thrown their way & we can continue to get delights like this. And they support trans women!
Here with all the burning questions we didn't know we needed. Until they pose them!
PS, if you're in a position to help, they're independently funded, so could do with the odd £ thrown their way & we can continue to get delights like this. And they support trans women!
With #Bridgerton back on our screens, let's revisit a classic thread. Queen Charlotte included a scene of King George III eating pussy. So it falls upon us, dear readers, to answer the crucial question: is it historically accurate? Did King George III eat pussy?
February 6, 2026 at 11:21 AM
I do love the Vagina Museum.
Here with all the burning questions we didn't know we needed. Until they pose them!
PS, if you're in a position to help, they're independently funded, so could do with the odd £ thrown their way & we can continue to get delights like this. And they support trans women!
Here with all the burning questions we didn't know we needed. Until they pose them!
PS, if you're in a position to help, they're independently funded, so could do with the odd £ thrown their way & we can continue to get delights like this. And they support trans women!
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Archivists! A plea! Please think through your reference numbers. I’m been giggling like a nine year old all afternoon as I photographed the B/UM collection.
February 5, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Archivists! A plea! Please think through your reference numbers. I’m been giggling like a nine year old all afternoon as I photographed the B/UM collection.
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*drum roll*
Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026!
I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...
Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026!
I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...
February 2, 2026 at 4:26 PM
*drum roll*
Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026!
I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...
Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026!
I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...
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I took a closer look at the UK government's new 'AI Skills Hub', and it is insane.
It includes 'courses' that are simply links to info pages about PhD programs; 'courses' that are literally just software developer documentation; and 'courses' that don't exist at all.
Short 🧵
It includes 'courses' that are simply links to info pages about PhD programs; 'courses' that are literally just software developer documentation; and 'courses' that don't exist at all.
Short 🧵
January 29, 2026 at 2:58 PM
I took a closer look at the UK government's new 'AI Skills Hub', and it is insane.
It includes 'courses' that are simply links to info pages about PhD programs; 'courses' that are literally just software developer documentation; and 'courses' that don't exist at all.
Short 🧵
It includes 'courses' that are simply links to info pages about PhD programs; 'courses' that are literally just software developer documentation; and 'courses' that don't exist at all.
Short 🧵
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Happy 3 year anniversary to this post
January 27, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Happy 3 year anniversary to this post
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The best reason to ensuring Doctor Who is on for 13 weeks a year is that crime in the UK has fallen significantly every year since the Paul McGann movie and has only spiked since 2005 when we've had just 'Specials' or reduced episode counts.
The data speaks for itself!
#DoctorWho #DataMatters
The data speaks for itself!
#DoctorWho #DataMatters
January 25, 2026 at 1:08 PM
The best reason to ensuring Doctor Who is on for 13 weeks a year is that crime in the UK has fallen significantly every year since the Paul McGann movie and has only spiked since 2005 when we've had just 'Specials' or reduced episode counts.
The data speaks for itself!
#DoctorWho #DataMatters
The data speaks for itself!
#DoctorWho #DataMatters
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Super excited to share the cover of my children’s book Jacob’s Transition Goals!
Jacob’s Transition Goals is about an 8 year old transgender boy who starts playing football for his local boys team. It’s a joyful story that I wish I’d been able to read when I was a trans kid.
Out April 21st!
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Jacob’s Transition Goals is about an 8 year old transgender boy who starts playing football for his local boys team. It’s a joyful story that I wish I’d been able to read when I was a trans kid.
Out April 21st!
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
January 23, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Super excited to share the cover of my children’s book Jacob’s Transition Goals!
Jacob’s Transition Goals is about an 8 year old transgender boy who starts playing football for his local boys team. It’s a joyful story that I wish I’d been able to read when I was a trans kid.
Out April 21st!
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Jacob’s Transition Goals is about an 8 year old transgender boy who starts playing football for his local boys team. It’s a joyful story that I wish I’d been able to read when I was a trans kid.
Out April 21st!
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
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Great couple of boards from Pointless where the answer to nearly all the missing sections of the words should be ‘WANK’
January 19, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Great couple of boards from Pointless where the answer to nearly all the missing sections of the words should be ‘WANK’
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I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I just thought everyone should see this
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How do you talk about difficult/distressing/upsetting topics with the pubic?
A question that just came up in my workshop
1. Partnership working
Work with people/charities with lived/living experience to check content, tone & adverts.
A question that just came up in my workshop
1. Partnership working
Work with people/charities with lived/living experience to check content, tone & adverts.
January 22, 2026 at 1:25 PM
How do you talk about difficult/distressing/upsetting topics with the pubic?
A question that just came up in my workshop
1. Partnership working
Work with people/charities with lived/living experience to check content, tone & adverts.
A question that just came up in my workshop
1. Partnership working
Work with people/charities with lived/living experience to check content, tone & adverts.
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Good Morning
In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.
I have translated some of the highlights
I have translated some of the highlights
January 22, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Good Morning
Me, trying to make any sort of coherent point whatsoever in any work meeting ever
going to use "at my most enigmatic and expansive" to describe the next time I have a few too many wines
January 20, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Me, trying to make any sort of coherent point whatsoever in any work meeting ever
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Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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January 17, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
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FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"
January 17, 2026 at 3:53 AM
FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"
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The British Newspaper Archive is such a brilliant resource for finding queer histories, even if the word recognition software sometimes leads you down the wrong path...
January 16, 2026 at 10:27 AM
The British Newspaper Archive is such a brilliant resource for finding queer histories, even if the word recognition software sometimes leads you down the wrong path...
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117 years ago today, US President-elect William Howard Taft ate an opossum. You may know his name because he was famed for looking like a man who... enjoyed his food, and is perhaps best known these days for appearing in a Popular Internet Photo sitting on a water buffalo 🧵
January 15, 2026 at 9:19 AM
117 years ago today, US President-elect William Howard Taft ate an opossum. You may know his name because he was famed for looking like a man who... enjoyed his food, and is perhaps best known these days for appearing in a Popular Internet Photo sitting on a water buffalo 🧵
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How many Warringtons have you seen today?
January 14, 2026 at 12:32 PM
How many Warringtons have you seen today?
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So, one of my friends carried a surrogate pregnancy- egg donor and the dads’ sperm- and when the baby was born, despite having no biological relation to my friend, let alone her husband, her husband was put as the father on birth certificate. So uh. This doesn’t track
A transgender man cannot be registered as “father” on the birth certificates of children delivered by his female partner, a senior judge has ruled. He could not be registered as such because he was neither the biological nor gestational parent of either child. [Times]
January 10, 2026 at 10:03 AM
So, one of my friends carried a surrogate pregnancy- egg donor and the dads’ sperm- and when the baby was born, despite having no biological relation to my friend, let alone her husband, her husband was put as the father on birth certificate. So uh. This doesn’t track
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Today a friend and I had lunch and discovered the true form of liquid categorisation.
Join me on a journey of stupidity.
Join me on a journey of stupidity.
January 6, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Today a friend and I had lunch and discovered the true form of liquid categorisation.
Join me on a journey of stupidity.
Join me on a journey of stupidity.
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Sure. Or, you know, this could happen instead.: wapo.st/4qxaGGe
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Sure. Or, you know, this could happen instead.: wapo.st/4qxaGGe
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On the first day of Christmas (in about 2014), @duckswabber.bsky.social gave to me - a partridge in a pear tree.
Happy Christmas everyone!
Happy Christmas everyone!
December 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
On the first day of Christmas (in about 2014), @duckswabber.bsky.social gave to me - a partridge in a pear tree.
Happy Christmas everyone!
Happy Christmas everyone!
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Got an appointment from the hospital. At the top of the first page is my name, address, NHS number and patient number. The first two pages of the letter tell me where and when and remind me that I should bring my hearing aids/walking stick/whatever other helps I might need. The usual stuff. (1/4)
December 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Got an appointment from the hospital. At the top of the first page is my name, address, NHS number and patient number. The first two pages of the letter tell me where and when and remind me that I should bring my hearing aids/walking stick/whatever other helps I might need. The usual stuff. (1/4)
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As is often the case, Pratchett said it well: bsky.app/profile/ohlo...
This by Pratchett in 1999 isn't about AI bros but might as well be
December 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
As is often the case, Pratchett said it well: bsky.app/profile/ohlo...