Jaf
@jaffne.bsky.social
Just a Jaf. Sometimes a librarian. Mostly tired. Crafty, in the good way. Trans women are women, trans men are men, trans rights are human rights. Kindness is free. Scotlandshire. She/her.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Gave tablet to someone.
Them: That tablet was really good
Me: Thanks
Them: Did you make it?!?
Me: Yeah
Them: it was REALLY good!!
Them: That tablet was really good
Me: Thanks
Them: Did you make it?!?
Me: Yeah
Them: it was REALLY good!!
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Gave tablet to someone.
Them: That tablet was really good
Me: Thanks
Them: Did you make it?!?
Me: Yeah
Them: it was REALLY good!!
Them: That tablet was really good
Me: Thanks
Them: Did you make it?!?
Me: Yeah
Them: it was REALLY good!!
I'm going to dismantle this book (and others in the set) to remove dozens of images for repair and proper storage, as the book is in bad condition, a triplicate of what we have in good condition, and the images are being damaged from folding.
But I'll still feel bad for doing it.
But I'll still feel bad for doing it.
November 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I'm going to dismantle this book (and others in the set) to remove dozens of images for repair and proper storage, as the book is in bad condition, a triplicate of what we have in good condition, and the images are being damaged from folding.
But I'll still feel bad for doing it.
But I'll still feel bad for doing it.
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"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
Oh look, the racist TERF is off on another one because her union didn't support her unsupportable behaviour.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Date set for Sandie Peggie to face trade union in tribunal
A seven-day hearing in Dundee will begin on 23 September 2026.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Oh look, the racist TERF is off on another one because her union didn't support her unsupportable behaviour.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Awww c'mon CILIP. Using an AI generated cat in an article is absolutely ridiculous. As if the profession isn't already dealing with enough AI-caused nonsense, we don't need it from our professional body too!
pixabay.com/illustration...
pixabay.com/illustration...
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Awww c'mon CILIP. Using an AI generated cat in an article is absolutely ridiculous. As if the profession isn't already dealing with enough AI-caused nonsense, we don't need it from our professional body too!
pixabay.com/illustration...
pixabay.com/illustration...
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When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, you may be entitled to compensation. Have YOU been involved in a food-related lunar gravitational mishap that wasn’t your fault? You could be in line for a big payout from the estate of Sir Isaac Newton. Call the hotline now.
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, you may be entitled to compensation. Have YOU been involved in a food-related lunar gravitational mishap that wasn’t your fault? You could be in line for a big payout from the estate of Sir Isaac Newton. Call the hotline now.
Huh? What does that mean? Was that meant to be a free text box so I could list my sector, but it's missing? Or is 'not working in the above sectors' enough info for them?
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Huh? What does that mean? Was that meant to be a free text box so I could list my sector, but it's missing? Or is 'not working in the above sectors' enough info for them?
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They feck you up your rhyming prompts
They mean to and they do
They fill you full of all their
Caesurae
Then add enjambement
Just for you
But they were fecked up in their turn
By weird tech bros in polo necks
Who half the time are raving mad
And half Nazi Hitlermechs
They mean to and they do
They fill you full of all their
Caesurae
Then add enjambement
Just for you
But they were fecked up in their turn
By weird tech bros in polo necks
Who half the time are raving mad
And half Nazi Hitlermechs
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
They feck you up your rhyming prompts
They mean to and they do
They fill you full of all their
Caesurae
Then add enjambement
Just for you
But they were fecked up in their turn
By weird tech bros in polo necks
Who half the time are raving mad
And half Nazi Hitlermechs
They mean to and they do
They fill you full of all their
Caesurae
Then add enjambement
Just for you
But they were fecked up in their turn
By weird tech bros in polo necks
Who half the time are raving mad
And half Nazi Hitlermechs
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Lloyds Bank adverts are more like adverts for horses than banking. And very good they are too I've bought 7.
November 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Lloyds Bank adverts are more like adverts for horses than banking. And very good they are too I've bought 7.
Yes CILIP, I know you've got a new course on skills for library leaders, cos I've come back to my work inbox filled with sixty identical email notifications about it.
SIXTY.
SIXTY.
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Yes CILIP, I know you've got a new course on skills for library leaders, cos I've come back to my work inbox filled with sixty identical email notifications about it.
SIXTY.
SIXTY.
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Mapa Gàidhlig na Seachdaine
NHS Gàidhealtachd ~ NHS Highland
buff.ly/PWmFhaE
#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps #NHSHighland
NHS Gàidhealtachd ~ NHS Highland
buff.ly/PWmFhaE
#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps #NHSHighland
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Mapa Gàidhlig na Seachdaine
NHS Gàidhealtachd ~ NHS Highland
buff.ly/PWmFhaE
#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps #NHSHighland
NHS Gàidhealtachd ~ NHS Highland
buff.ly/PWmFhaE
#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps #NHSHighland
Well, that was some unexpected...stuff...for us to receive at work. I'm not including the 4th page which shows who sent it cos it may just be some weirdo acting as if they're the org sending it to stir up nonsense.
But "let's not forget Nikola Tesla's Free Energy and Anti-Gravity Transportation"!!
But "let's not forget Nikola Tesla's Free Energy and Anti-Gravity Transportation"!!
November 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Well, that was some unexpected...stuff...for us to receive at work. I'm not including the 4th page which shows who sent it cos it may just be some weirdo acting as if they're the org sending it to stir up nonsense.
But "let's not forget Nikola Tesla's Free Energy and Anti-Gravity Transportation"!!
But "let's not forget Nikola Tesla's Free Energy and Anti-Gravity Transportation"!!
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hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay
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Oh good, they're asking the public to name something again! (replica sutton hoo ship). They have explicitly asked for nothing like Boaty mcBoatface, so this is time for old english scholars to represent. What is the OE for "Boaty McBoatface"? Can we do something with "whale road"...? #Medievalsky
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Oh good, they're asking the public to name something again! (replica sutton hoo ship). They have explicitly asked for nothing like Boaty mcBoatface, so this is time for old english scholars to represent. What is the OE for "Boaty McBoatface"? Can we do something with "whale road"...? #Medievalsky
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
An invite in my work emails to join The Trouble Club. You mean an invite to spend £60 a year for a networking group? No ta.
November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
An invite in my work emails to join The Trouble Club. You mean an invite to spend £60 a year for a networking group? No ta.
Or in Scotland, Irn Bru.
this is because we don’t need food to survive. we’re like vampires, except instead of blood, we subsist entirely on tea
I have a theory that *nobody* has ever actually seen what British people actually eat. All the British food you know of is a potemkin front, they keep their real food hidden from the world.
Chicken tikka, chip butty, bubble and squeak, spotted dick, etc: all the elaborate prank of a dead empire.
Chicken tikka, chip butty, bubble and squeak, spotted dick, etc: all the elaborate prank of a dead empire.
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Or in Scotland, Irn Bru.
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Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
I feel for anyone learning English as a second language who has to understand the subtle difference in pronunciation between whetstone and wet stone.
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I feel for anyone learning English as a second language who has to understand the subtle difference in pronunciation between whetstone and wet stone.
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Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa *breathes* hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
'Talk to me with respect, I'm the Chancellor,' says Rachel Reeves
www.thenational.scot/news/2563827...
'Talk to me with respect, I'm the Chancellor,' says Rachel Reeves
www.thenational.scot/news/2563827...
'Talk to me with respect, I'm the Chancellor,' Reeves tells Scots businessperson
RACHEL Reeves reportedly told a Scottish business to “talk to me with respect, I’m the Chancellor”.
www.thenational.scot
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa *breathes* hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
'Talk to me with respect, I'm the Chancellor,' says Rachel Reeves
www.thenational.scot/news/2563827...
'Talk to me with respect, I'm the Chancellor,' says Rachel Reeves
www.thenational.scot/news/2563827...
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In many cases they are in fact the very same thing
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In many cases they are in fact the very same thing
