Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

So, because the Wales v Australia match was not on TV, I decided to tidy up my messy book shelves.
(They look worse now!😳)

I couldn't resist reading bits of a lot of them. 😁

I am sharing just one! I rarely read novels but this is an absolute favourite, which went on to become a play.

The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Nightime
by Mark Haddon

#Books
#Reading

@ypc_bunsen just to add: in the end I am staying on QOTO for the tech features I value. Works for me. And thanks to @freemo for the supporting admin and devel work.

Call to action: Write to your Cardiff Councillor NOW to Save St David’s Hall!
https://www.cardiffcivicsociety.org/blog/call-to-action-write-to-your-cardiff-councillor-now-to-save-st-davids-hall

@deborahmeaden

More frustrating than anything else because it means no one with power, prospective or actual, is proposing a solution other than "make Brexit work".

Why has Starmer painted himself into a corner, rejecting rejoin, single market, and customs union? How is he going to get out of that?

For growth, the customs union is an easy win isn't it?

This Government clapped for our nurses & called them heroes. Now, after all the sacrifices they made to keep us safe, they are treated like this. It’s utterly shameless. Our nurses have always been there for us, now we must be there for them. I’ll be standing shoulder to shoulder with them & I hope you will too

https://nursingnotes.co.uk/news/nurse-strike-dates-announced-after-government-refuses-to-negotiate-over-pay/

Just updated my #profile in case anyone wants to search for any visual media I've posted in the past.

Deactivate my account on the bird app today.
Appreciate the community on here @freemo and the @QOTO instance.

QOTTO has been ttaken off the malware list we were mistakenly added to... yay!

https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.qoto.org

#PhotoMonday

Ruins of gas chamber and crematorium II at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Fragments of the chimney.

We need to remember that those buildings did not fall from the sky. They were designed by educated people who accepted the Nazi ideology and used their knowledge and experience to design efficient infrastructure of murder.

#Auschwitz #Memorial #history #ruins #Birkenau

A word of warning to anyone considering rending a high rise apartment with a balcony... I hope you like bird poop, mountains and mountains of bird poop

In July QOTO will officially be 5 years old! Oh how time flys.

For anyone curious here is the very first toot I ever made on QOTO:

https://qoto.org/@freemo/100335839534486799

So I’m a science nerd. But now I’m not part of a university I've been completely cut off from the scientific community. Journals are behind paywalls and conferences are way too expensive for me to attend! Why is it so difficult to do independent science?

70 years ago the European Parliament first met.

It took a long time to make the EU a real parliamentary democracy… and on rule of law, budget, convention we still need to remind people and reinforce Parliament’s role.

A strong Europe = A democratic EU !

🇪🇺✊🏻

We lost a year through Putin’s war, now we lose a year through lack of political will… We can’t afford to lose more !

EU needs to lead on cutting fossil fuels: Energy Union is the way forward

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/20/cop27-agrees-to-historic-loss-and-damage-fund-to-compensate-developing-countries-for-climate-impacts

So this wonderful trade deal with Japan, the one which will kick start our recovery and form the basis of our global relationships, has resulted in a drop of 9% in volume of trade. Well done #Brexiters.

A new #introduction.
I’m a UK freelance book #indexer and editor – Society of #Indexers Fellow, #CIEP Advanced Professional Member, and Society of Authors Associate.
I work on arts/humanities books for authors and publishers – #biography #FilmStudies #history #LitStudies #music etc.
Beyond work, I like #comedy #CrypticCrosswords #dance #ducks #horror #pubs #Wales and learning #Welsh #DysguCymraeg.
See me also at #AmEditing #edibuddies #indexing #indexodon and https://baindex.org
Hello/helô!

If you're interested in your local history, one of my go-to websites is the National Library of Scotland maps archives.

They've got lots of old Ordnance Survey maps dating back to late 1800s available to view - and a really handy side-by-side tool so you can see current maps next to the old OS maps.

For an area like this (Merthyr) it's absolutely fascinating to see the changes - in the late 1800s it's just a mass of railway lines servicing the iron works

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16.0&lat=51.73727&lon=-3.37173&layers=6&right=osm

Every now and again, I will throw a question into the void without expectation of an answer-back. It evens out my #introverted nature (not a flaw by any means). I also have a tendency to fade into lurker mode on social media. This may change that (or not).

What are others currently #reading?

What am I currently reading? Paul Neman: An Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man, The Maid, and The Justice of Kings (finishing up the first, just started the second, and the third is waiting for me)

Chemist Rachel Fuller Brown was born #OTD in 1898. She discovered the antifungal antibiotic nystatin while doing research for the NY State Department of Health, hence the name.

Rather than keep the profits from the drug, Brown (standing in the photo) and co-discoverer Elizabeth Hazen assigned nystatin’s patent royalties to the nonprofit Research Corporation of New York, to help support other researchers.

Image: Smithsonian Institution