Iain Moore
@iainmoore.bsky.social
Interested in libraries, charities and the social sector and how together they can fix everything.
Once & future ultra runner. Macclesfield. Gay adopter. 🏳️🌈
Commercial Director, Libraries Connected
www.librariesconnected.org.uk
He/him
Once & future ultra runner. Macclesfield. Gay adopter. 🏳️🌈
Commercial Director, Libraries Connected
www.librariesconnected.org.uk
He/him
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Iain Moore
@iainmoore.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Another big influx - so again here's a starter pack of people working in & with UK public libraries.
So if you're interested in:
• communities
• digital inclusion
• economic growth
• social infrastructure
• loneliness
• health & wellbeing
• culture
• environment
etc etc etc...
go.bsky.app/FBd1DrV
So if you're interested in:
• communities
• digital inclusion
• economic growth
• social infrastructure
• loneliness
• health & wellbeing
• culture
• environment
etc etc etc...
go.bsky.app/FBd1DrV
This is great - only 2/3 thru but this lost 93 yr old novel has more to say about AI than recent fiction.
A tale of an ape raised as human shows we just can’t translate meaning and motive across such different beings - even (especially) when outward expectations appear to align
@neglectedbooks.com
A tale of an ape raised as human shows we just can’t translate meaning and motive across such different beings - even (especially) when outward expectations appear to align
@neglectedbooks.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is great - only 2/3 thru but this lost 93 yr old novel has more to say about AI than recent fiction.
A tale of an ape raised as human shows we just can’t translate meaning and motive across such different beings - even (especially) when outward expectations appear to align
@neglectedbooks.com
A tale of an ape raised as human shows we just can’t translate meaning and motive across such different beings - even (especially) when outward expectations appear to align
@neglectedbooks.com
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Big run done for the week! I'm running the Athens Marathon this year to raise money to support LGBTQIA+ youth.
If you can help, every pound can make a world of difference: www.justgiving.com/page/jack-sh...
If you can help, every pound can make a world of difference: www.justgiving.com/page/jack-sh...
Jack's fundraiser for Freedom Youth at OTR Bristol
Help Jack Shoulder raise money to support OTR Bristol
www.justgiving.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Big run done for the week! I'm running the Athens Marathon this year to raise money to support LGBTQIA+ youth.
If you can help, every pound can make a world of difference: www.justgiving.com/page/jack-sh...
If you can help, every pound can make a world of difference: www.justgiving.com/page/jack-sh...
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At London libraries conference - hearing from @lewisham.gov.uk libraries about the impact of one of @librariesconnected.bsky.social and @artscouncilengland.bsky.social microgrants.
Great initiative to develop reading for pleasure through screen free audio readers - really child first approach.
Great initiative to develop reading for pleasure through screen free audio readers - really child first approach.
September 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
At London libraries conference - hearing from @lewisham.gov.uk libraries about the impact of one of @librariesconnected.bsky.social and @artscouncilengland.bsky.social microgrants.
Great initiative to develop reading for pleasure through screen free audio readers - really child first approach.
Great initiative to develop reading for pleasure through screen free audio readers - really child first approach.
this is just fab - the power of archives!
September 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
this is just fab - the power of archives!
This from @cwarzel.bsky.social is one of the best articles I’ve read on AI since the bullshit machine one link.springer.com/article/10.1...
August 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM
This from @cwarzel.bsky.social is one of the best articles I’ve read on AI since the bullshit machine one link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Please enjoy how hilariously this is not Lionel Shriver: bsky.app/profile/lion...
I usually just block these things but this one is so Not Lionel Shriver that it’s actively comedy.
I usually just block these things but this one is so Not Lionel Shriver that it’s actively comedy.
bsky.app
August 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Please enjoy how hilariously this is not Lionel Shriver: bsky.app/profile/lion...
I usually just block these things but this one is so Not Lionel Shriver that it’s actively comedy.
I usually just block these things but this one is so Not Lionel Shriver that it’s actively comedy.
This morning’s working music is Xenakis - music generated with the help of an 1960s IBM computer.
But the capacity to intrigue and surprise by generating new forms, patterns and sounds sets it miles apart from anything today’s AIs create.
But the capacity to intrigue and surprise by generating new forms, patterns and sounds sets it miles apart from anything today’s AIs create.
July 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
This morning’s working music is Xenakis - music generated with the help of an 1960s IBM computer.
But the capacity to intrigue and surprise by generating new forms, patterns and sounds sets it miles apart from anything today’s AIs create.
But the capacity to intrigue and surprise by generating new forms, patterns and sounds sets it miles apart from anything today’s AIs create.
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A Podyssey-themed politics discussion! Do join us. It's online, Thursday 17th July at 6:00 PM, and it's free. But you do need to register. So, do it. x
@radixuk.bsky.social + @sturdyalex.bsky.social to discuss the tragedy of our politics @alexpodyssey.bsky.social stylie.
I literally cannot wait.
Do join us:
www.radixbigtent.org.uk/events/greek...
I literally cannot wait.
Do join us:
www.radixbigtent.org.uk/events/greek...
Greek Tragedy, Or Farce - What Next From Our Political Leaders? Meet the Leaders with with Alex Andreou and Vicky Pryce
www.radixbigtent.org.uk
July 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A Podyssey-themed politics discussion! Do join us. It's online, Thursday 17th July at 6:00 PM, and it's free. But you do need to register. So, do it. x
👀
(very excited)
(very excited)
I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
July 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
👀
(very excited)
(very excited)
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We are seeking support in developing our skills around tendering and bid writing.
This is part of our mission to create sustainable funding for public #Library services so they can provide for communities long into the future.
Apply before 9 July.
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/opportunitie...
This is part of our mission to create sustainable funding for public #Library services so they can provide for communities long into the future.
Apply before 9 July.
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/opportunitie...
July 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We are seeking support in developing our skills around tendering and bid writing.
This is part of our mission to create sustainable funding for public #Library services so they can provide for communities long into the future.
Apply before 9 July.
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/opportunitie...
This is part of our mission to create sustainable funding for public #Library services so they can provide for communities long into the future.
Apply before 9 July.
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/opportunitie...
This whole thread on misinformation from @eliothiggins.bsky.social is brilliant - we all need the skills, structures and situations in which we can evaluate claims together.
This has to start *offline* and to me public libraries are the prime places with the breadth of reach to do this effectively.
This has to start *offline* and to me public libraries are the prime places with the breadth of reach to do this effectively.
We need systems that make debate constructive, that help people evaluate competing claims, and that prevent the most manipulative actors from hijacking public discourse. Not to impose a single truth, but to defend the process by which free societies function.
July 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This whole thread on misinformation from @eliothiggins.bsky.social is brilliant - we all need the skills, structures and situations in which we can evaluate claims together.
This has to start *offline* and to me public libraries are the prime places with the breadth of reach to do this effectively.
This has to start *offline* and to me public libraries are the prime places with the breadth of reach to do this effectively.
Brilliant night at the @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social launch last night.
While I haven’t been able to join any events today I did run over to Howarth
I like to think the Brontes would approve of me running up to Top Withins belting out Femininomenon into the wind.
While I haven’t been able to join any events today I did run over to Howarth
I like to think the Brontes would approve of me running up to Top Withins belting out Femininomenon into the wind.
June 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Brilliant night at the @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social launch last night.
While I haven’t been able to join any events today I did run over to Howarth
I like to think the Brontes would approve of me running up to Top Withins belting out Femininomenon into the wind.
While I haven’t been able to join any events today I did run over to Howarth
I like to think the Brontes would approve of me running up to Top Withins belting out Femininomenon into the wind.
Keynote speaker for @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social is only Ben bloomin’ Okri
And he’s incredibly and beautifully inspiring - talking about the current nature of the world:
The wolves have only got worse because the cures have been curses and not acts of love or wisdom
And he’s incredibly and beautifully inspiring - talking about the current nature of the world:
The wolves have only got worse because the cures have been curses and not acts of love or wisdom
June 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Keynote speaker for @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social is only Ben bloomin’ Okri
And he’s incredibly and beautifully inspiring - talking about the current nature of the world:
The wolves have only got worse because the cures have been curses and not acts of love or wisdom
And he’s incredibly and beautifully inspiring - talking about the current nature of the world:
The wolves have only got worse because the cures have been curses and not acts of love or wisdom
Fantastic to be here at @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social opening - it’s in the stunning Bradford Live.
June 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Fantastic to be here at @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social opening - it’s in the stunning Bradford Live.
I'd never thought of indexes like this (tbh hadn't thought much about them!)
But interesting point that indexes are human created directions to what indexer feels is most important & relevant.
Then an AI generated index directs people's reading with a lot of unaccountable & unexplained choices.
But interesting point that indexes are human created directions to what indexer feels is most important & relevant.
Then an AI generated index directs people's reading with a lot of unaccountable & unexplained choices.
An index is a result of complex human labour. So when you turn to an index, you are engaging with HUMAN work, expert human work, that helps you skip to the bits you find most interesting. More than this, though, what I object to in Wasik's description is that it implicitly reduces the ethics of AI -
June 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I'd never thought of indexes like this (tbh hadn't thought much about them!)
But interesting point that indexes are human created directions to what indexer feels is most important & relevant.
Then an AI generated index directs people's reading with a lot of unaccountable & unexplained choices.
But interesting point that indexes are human created directions to what indexer feels is most important & relevant.
Then an AI generated index directs people's reading with a lot of unaccountable & unexplained choices.
Finding this in the way home from #LCSeminar2025 is perfect.
We’ve had 2 days exploring the ways libraries and those working there make a huge impact on creating resilient communities.
So really good to see libraries don’t see their jobs as bullshit, because we know they’re not!
We’ve had 2 days exploring the ways libraries and those working there make a huge impact on creating resilient communities.
So really good to see libraries don’t see their jobs as bullshit, because we know they’re not!
In a world where more people obsess about their work being inherently meaningful, I hope that you see your job relatively close to the left side of the chart...
June 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Finding this in the way home from #LCSeminar2025 is perfect.
We’ve had 2 days exploring the ways libraries and those working there make a huge impact on creating resilient communities.
So really good to see libraries don’t see their jobs as bullshit, because we know they’re not!
We’ve had 2 days exploring the ways libraries and those working there make a huge impact on creating resilient communities.
So really good to see libraries don’t see their jobs as bullshit, because we know they’re not!
Cllr Liz Green talking to Isobel Hunter about how libraries can influence change with current obstacles
She advocates direct engagement with councillors - invite them to events and so working across the structures and silos of local gov.
#LCSeminar2025
She advocates direct engagement with councillors - invite them to events and so working across the structures and silos of local gov.
#LCSeminar2025
June 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Cllr Liz Green talking to Isobel Hunter about how libraries can influence change with current obstacles
She advocates direct engagement with councillors - invite them to events and so working across the structures and silos of local gov.
#LCSeminar2025
She advocates direct engagement with councillors - invite them to events and so working across the structures and silos of local gov.
#LCSeminar2025
Hearing from
@lucybanks.bsky.social
of @ascelnetwork.bsky.social
About their youth engagement network, how it works and what they tell us about libraries
Great fundamentals here on what it’s based on
#LCSeminar2025
@lucybanks.bsky.social
of @ascelnetwork.bsky.social
About their youth engagement network, how it works and what they tell us about libraries
Great fundamentals here on what it’s based on
#LCSeminar2025
June 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Hearing from
@lucybanks.bsky.social
of @ascelnetwork.bsky.social
About their youth engagement network, how it works and what they tell us about libraries
Great fundamentals here on what it’s based on
#LCSeminar2025
@lucybanks.bsky.social
of @ascelnetwork.bsky.social
About their youth engagement network, how it works and what they tell us about libraries
Great fundamentals here on what it’s based on
#LCSeminar2025
Awesome idea in the states:
Library allotments with raised beds that you can ‘borrow’ with your library card
(No cannabis policy!)
This would be brilliant in the UK where allotments are difficult to get and too big for most to manage.
@rebekkahsa.bsky.social
At #LCSeminar2025
Library allotments with raised beds that you can ‘borrow’ with your library card
(No cannabis policy!)
This would be brilliant in the UK where allotments are difficult to get and too big for most to manage.
@rebekkahsa.bsky.social
At #LCSeminar2025
June 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Awesome idea in the states:
Library allotments with raised beds that you can ‘borrow’ with your library card
(No cannabis policy!)
This would be brilliant in the UK where allotments are difficult to get and too big for most to manage.
@rebekkahsa.bsky.social
At #LCSeminar2025
Library allotments with raised beds that you can ‘borrow’ with your library card
(No cannabis policy!)
This would be brilliant in the UK where allotments are difficult to get and too big for most to manage.
@rebekkahsa.bsky.social
At #LCSeminar2025
There’s a simple approach to climate action:
• creating safe places to live
• recognise and value everyone for their differences
• help people to see and work towards a future for themselves
that really fits with what libraries can influence and control
@rebekkahsa.bsky.social at #LCSeminar2025
• creating safe places to live
• recognise and value everyone for their differences
• help people to see and work towards a future for themselves
that really fits with what libraries can influence and control
@rebekkahsa.bsky.social at #LCSeminar2025
June 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
There’s a simple approach to climate action:
• creating safe places to live
• recognise and value everyone for their differences
• help people to see and work towards a future for themselves
that really fits with what libraries can influence and control
@rebekkahsa.bsky.social at #LCSeminar2025
• creating safe places to live
• recognise and value everyone for their differences
• help people to see and work towards a future for themselves
that really fits with what libraries can influence and control
@rebekkahsa.bsky.social at #LCSeminar2025
Brilliant definition outline of the ALA defn of sustainability from @rebekkahsa.bsky.social
Sustainability comes from meeting the triple bottom lines:
• environmentally sound
• socially equitable
• economically feasible
And a good reminder that every job is a climate job.
#LCSeminar2025
Sustainability comes from meeting the triple bottom lines:
• environmentally sound
• socially equitable
• economically feasible
And a good reminder that every job is a climate job.
#LCSeminar2025
June 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Brilliant definition outline of the ALA defn of sustainability from @rebekkahsa.bsky.social
Sustainability comes from meeting the triple bottom lines:
• environmentally sound
• socially equitable
• economically feasible
And a good reminder that every job is a climate job.
#LCSeminar2025
Sustainability comes from meeting the triple bottom lines:
• environmentally sound
• socially equitable
• economically feasible
And a good reminder that every job is a climate job.
#LCSeminar2025
Final session of the @thefabians.bsky.social summit - leader of the education select committee: @helenhayes.bsky.social
Some really strong commitments to making things better but obvs no new news before tomorrow’s spending review.
Big - and sooo much needed - focus on children’s social care.
Some really strong commitments to making things better but obvs no new news before tomorrow’s spending review.
Big - and sooo much needed - focus on children’s social care.
June 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Final session of the @thefabians.bsky.social summit - leader of the education select committee: @helenhayes.bsky.social
Some really strong commitments to making things better but obvs no new news before tomorrow’s spending review.
Big - and sooo much needed - focus on children’s social care.
Some really strong commitments to making things better but obvs no new news before tomorrow’s spending review.
Big - and sooo much needed - focus on children’s social care.
Penultimate session of this great @thefabians.bsky.social event
We’ve got
Jacqui smith
Sarah Yong
Lizzie Crowley and
@joedromey.bsky.social
“We can’t achieve the economy growth or build the communities we want to grow without getting skills right - and right at the heart of it”
Jacqui Smith
We’ve got
Jacqui smith
Sarah Yong
Lizzie Crowley and
@joedromey.bsky.social
“We can’t achieve the economy growth or build the communities we want to grow without getting skills right - and right at the heart of it”
Jacqui Smith
June 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Penultimate session of this great @thefabians.bsky.social event
We’ve got
Jacqui smith
Sarah Yong
Lizzie Crowley and
@joedromey.bsky.social
“We can’t achieve the economy growth or build the communities we want to grow without getting skills right - and right at the heart of it”
Jacqui Smith
We’ve got
Jacqui smith
Sarah Yong
Lizzie Crowley and
@joedromey.bsky.social
“We can’t achieve the economy growth or build the communities we want to grow without getting skills right - and right at the heart of it”
Jacqui Smith
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This afternoon at #LCSeminar2025 we heard from Amanda Naylor, CEO of @volunteeringuk.bsky.social. Amanda emphasised the need to create opportunities for those with lived experience to volunteer in their communities.
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June 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This afternoon at #LCSeminar2025 we heard from Amanda Naylor, CEO of @volunteeringuk.bsky.social. Amanda emphasised the need to create opportunities for those with lived experience to volunteer in their communities.
volunteeringmatters.org.uk
volunteeringmatters.org.uk