Gordon Anderson
@librarygordon.bsky.social
Let's get this partly started.
Libraries / poetry / music / other. Cardigan enthusiast. Cat fan.
Hotel Familiar EP: https://gordonanderson.bandcamp.com/album/hotel-familiar
Cardiff, Wales.
Libraries / poetry / music / other. Cardigan enthusiast. Cat fan.
Hotel Familiar EP: https://gordonanderson.bandcamp.com/album/hotel-familiar
Cardiff, Wales.
I've just seen Cardiff City win 3-0.
Not something I get to say very often.
Not something I get to say very often.
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I've just seen Cardiff City win 3-0.
Not something I get to say very often.
Not something I get to say very often.
This is what I'm hearing from friends in academia. It runs right across disciplines, from the creative over towards maths & science-focused courses.
Social media and AI, plus the interrupted development of the pandemic era, has made students blank and unable to engage.
The kids aren't alright.
Social media and AI, plus the interrupted development of the pandemic era, has made students blank and unable to engage.
The kids aren't alright.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This is what I'm hearing from friends in academia. It runs right across disciplines, from the creative over towards maths & science-focused courses.
Social media and AI, plus the interrupted development of the pandemic era, has made students blank and unable to engage.
The kids aren't alright.
Social media and AI, plus the interrupted development of the pandemic era, has made students blank and unable to engage.
The kids aren't alright.
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Normal Cafe: Full Sunday dinner and a cup of tea? Here it is. £6.50. Ta.
Hipster Cafe: It's 1pm and we've run out of food. You can have tea and a pastry though. It's nine quid and may be some time, as Lucy's very busy growing out her undercut.
Hipster Cafe: It's 1pm and we've run out of food. You can have tea and a pastry though. It's nine quid and may be some time, as Lucy's very busy growing out her undercut.
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Normal Cafe: Full Sunday dinner and a cup of tea? Here it is. £6.50. Ta.
Hipster Cafe: It's 1pm and we've run out of food. You can have tea and a pastry though. It's nine quid and may be some time, as Lucy's very busy growing out her undercut.
Hipster Cafe: It's 1pm and we've run out of food. You can have tea and a pastry though. It's nine quid and may be some time, as Lucy's very busy growing out her undercut.
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love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”
Normal Cafe: Full Sunday dinner and a cup of tea? Here it is. £6.50. Ta.
Hipster Cafe: It's 1pm and we've run out of food. You can have tea and a pastry though. It's nine quid and may be some time, as Lucy's very busy growing out her undercut.
Hipster Cafe: It's 1pm and we've run out of food. You can have tea and a pastry though. It's nine quid and may be some time, as Lucy's very busy growing out her undercut.
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Normal Cafe: Full Sunday dinner and a cup of tea? Here it is. £6.50. Ta.
Hipster Cafe: It's 1pm and we've run out of food. You can have tea and a pastry though. It's nine quid and may be some time, as Lucy's very busy growing out her undercut.
Hipster Cafe: It's 1pm and we've run out of food. You can have tea and a pastry though. It's nine quid and may be some time, as Lucy's very busy growing out her undercut.
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Being too young for their peak, I never much cared for the Stone Roses, but listening again since the sad loss of Mani, you have to admire how on Fools Gold he knows when *not* to play, which is cool as fuck. Space is the place.
And John Leckie on the desk: genius.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7DL...
And John Leckie on the desk: genius.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7DL...
Fools Gold (Remastered 2009)
YouTube video by The Stone Roses - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Being too young for their peak, I never much cared for the Stone Roses, but listening again since the sad loss of Mani, you have to admire how on Fools Gold he knows when *not* to play, which is cool as fuck. Space is the place.
And John Leckie on the desk: genius.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7DL...
And John Leckie on the desk: genius.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7DL...
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Roland Barthes on why getting up early is never as good as it is meant to be:
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Roland Barthes on why getting up early is never as good as it is meant to be:
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i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
New terrible category of men: unlocked.
Somebody just liked me on a dating app and then asked me to review his book. I am aghast.
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
New terrible category of men: unlocked.
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Just look at the play of light in this painting by John Elwyn. Stunning.
. . . and his ‘The Enclosed Balcony’ (1980), National Museum Wales, Cardiff:
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Just look at the play of light in this painting by John Elwyn. Stunning.
STILL no films being made about people who bought a zoo. Very disappointing.
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
STILL no films being made about people who bought a zoo. Very disappointing.
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Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
Just a heads up (for UK folk) that on normal telly at 7pm on Sky Mix.... iiiiiit's Darmok!
WATCH as Picard takes absolutely fucking ages to work out the obvious!
CONSIDER the tremendously impractical limitations of a language bound solely by metaphor and idiom!
BIG WEIRD MONSTER GUY, also!
WATCH as Picard takes absolutely fucking ages to work out the obvious!
CONSIDER the tremendously impractical limitations of a language bound solely by metaphor and idiom!
BIG WEIRD MONSTER GUY, also!
a man with a mask on his face is standing in a forest .
Alt: Alien in Star Trek TNG exclaiming 'HIS EYES UNCOVERED!'
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Just a heads up (for UK folk) that on normal telly at 7pm on Sky Mix.... iiiiiit's Darmok!
WATCH as Picard takes absolutely fucking ages to work out the obvious!
CONSIDER the tremendously impractical limitations of a language bound solely by metaphor and idiom!
BIG WEIRD MONSTER GUY, also!
WATCH as Picard takes absolutely fucking ages to work out the obvious!
CONSIDER the tremendously impractical limitations of a language bound solely by metaphor and idiom!
BIG WEIRD MONSTER GUY, also!
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Felicity is turning herself upside down to fit me in.
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Felicity is turning herself upside down to fit me in.
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It's that time of year
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's that time of year
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Happy 75th birthday to Tina Weymouth. Love this photo of her and Grandmaster Flash, taken by Laura Levine in 1981. Spotted at MAC's fab Golden Age of Hip Hop exhibition in Marseille several years ago
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Happy 75th birthday to Tina Weymouth. Love this photo of her and Grandmaster Flash, taken by Laura Levine in 1981. Spotted at MAC's fab Golden Age of Hip Hop exhibition in Marseille several years ago
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I'm sure if we just give Hitler the Sudetenland, he'll stop invading other countries, and we'll have peace for our time.
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I'm sure if we just give Hitler the Sudetenland, he'll stop invading other countries, and we'll have peace for our time.
I was amazed by how little 'front-page' press the Nathan Gill story had got up to this point. Not today, though.
10.5 years of which he will likely serve half in prison.
Let's just keep saying it: Farage /Reform = Russia / Corruption
Liars and fools, heads turned by any flapping of paper money.
10.5 years of which he will likely serve half in prison.
Let's just keep saying it: Farage /Reform = Russia / Corruption
Liars and fools, heads turned by any flapping of paper money.
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I was amazed by how little 'front-page' press the Nathan Gill story had got up to this point. Not today, though.
10.5 years of which he will likely serve half in prison.
Let's just keep saying it: Farage /Reform = Russia / Corruption
Liars and fools, heads turned by any flapping of paper money.
10.5 years of which he will likely serve half in prison.
Let's just keep saying it: Farage /Reform = Russia / Corruption
Liars and fools, heads turned by any flapping of paper money.
Just look at the play of light in this painting by John Elwyn. Stunning.
. . . and his ‘The Enclosed Balcony’ (1980), National Museum Wales, Cardiff:
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Just look at the play of light in this painting by John Elwyn. Stunning.
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John Elwyn, Painter, Illustrator, #BornOnThisDay in 1916, in Adpar, Newcastle Emlyn, Wales
‘Miners Returning on a Wet Evening’ (1953), National Museum Wales, Cardiff
‘Miners Returning on a Wet Evening’ (1953), National Museum Wales, Cardiff
November 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
John Elwyn, Painter, Illustrator, #BornOnThisDay in 1916, in Adpar, Newcastle Emlyn, Wales
‘Miners Returning on a Wet Evening’ (1953), National Museum Wales, Cardiff
‘Miners Returning on a Wet Evening’ (1953), National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Tales of snow and ice around the country made me think of this painting, and an essay that I'm still really happy about....
Seems like a good day to mention Welsh artist Charles Byrd (1916-2018), who I wrote about last year for the good folks at
@artukdotorg.bsky.social.
artuk.org/discover/sto...
Painting shown is Canton, A Snow Scene (c. 1960), on view at Canton Library, @cdflibraries.bsky.social
#OnlineArtExchange
@artukdotorg.bsky.social.
artuk.org/discover/sto...
Painting shown is Canton, A Snow Scene (c. 1960), on view at Canton Library, @cdflibraries.bsky.social
#OnlineArtExchange
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Tales of snow and ice around the country made me think of this painting, and an essay that I'm still really happy about....
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Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Well from the looks of things.... yes.
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Well from the looks of things.... yes.
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days