AlanFricker

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Still growing stuff, running and generally interested. Probably library chat will happen.

AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 06:26 UTC

Failed to take a picture of all the rabbits on a welcome chatty #librarun for #CILIPConf24 with Natasha H

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:54 UTC

That is a very good question. He recalled it had liver in and could be eaten hot or cold. I am awaiting confirmation of the name

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:20 UTC

CW - strange meat product. Met my Dad for a quick hello as he lives local to #CILIPConf24 and he gave me this. Lovely to see him

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 10:27 UTC

Hearing from YouTube Health - huge platform for health information seeking #cilipconf24 "from health sources" appear for these searches to nudge people into more authoritative content

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 10:22 UTC

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 09:39 UTC

Scrape now - don't apologise later

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 09:23 UTC

Liking the PEN charter www.englishpen.org/the-pen-char... #CILIPConf24

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 07:30 UTC

On the way to #CILIPConf24 and reading about what appears to be rather out in the open copyright infringement by Meta

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 06:02 UTC

Belatedly this. Though sad my French interest ended #chEUROty might need to start pondering a charity...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:23 UTC

For a while now I have had this icky feeling that a lot of our use of AI is us just using it to find examples to show each other how bad AI is and TBH I think we should probably all stop doing that cause excessive energy consumption doesn't differentiate between real use and joke use. 😬

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 05:37 UTC

Driving the bus normally = good Driving the bus when you need to get to central London to catch a train = v bad

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Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 10:05 UTC

From the archives: Trolling: correct formal response, 1984

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.0 @tammi.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 09:16 UTC

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 16:16 UTC

I think we will have crumble

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 16:11 UTC

These just got picked up the allotment

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:17 UTC

Duolingo not equipping me for el futbol

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:17 UTC

Missed most of the game at Homies on Donkeys (v good though the bavette blew my head off) but in the pub for the end of extra time. Nosotros ir al calle etc #chEUROty

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:18 UTC

Time for my #chEUROty beloveds Spain to futbol muy bien

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:02 UTC

Pertisau is gorgeous and Innsbruck well worth visiting

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:01 UTC

We had a lovely trip. Train via Brussels and the sleeper from Koln. Hopped off shortly of Innsbruck to catch the cog railway to Pertisau. A few days there and then some in Innsbruck. Then train back home via a stop in Switzerland and Paris

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:41 UTC

We went on a train trip Pertisau and Innsbruck to satisfy my other halfs chalet school needs

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 06:37 UTC

IDS should have lost as well

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 06:02 UTC

Shabby

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 05:30 UTC

Worried count may take longer than her term as pm

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:37 UTC

Moral of the story: your teens are also concerned about what misinformation YOU have encountered on the World Wide Web.

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:41 UTC

Bought cheap cat collars on eBay - currently going through them at a rate of about one every two days so I think it was a false economy

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 08:59 UTC

Cat standing on a strong anti vet and pro small animal murder platform #CatsAtPollingStations

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:05 UTC

Good stuff. I am attending the same event courtesy of FEDIP (seems to be a number of us). Looking forward to something a bit different

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Kate Lomax @katelomax.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 07:41 UTC

Always great to see NHS libraries on EveryLibrary medium.com/everylibrary...

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 09:31 UTC

Good post offering a top ten actions for marketing library services. Something usable for most services here

superlibrarymarketing.com/2024/06/24/t...

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 09:10 UTC

Time well spent pre work

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 09:08 UTC

What a great gift. I like to plant plum trees where I get the chance - delicious!

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:27 UTC

Lovely tree!

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:41 UTC

I don't think the France team are the issue on this one fortunately

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:41 UTC

I say that - haven't actually been watching - have France done something awful?

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:41 UTC

Non

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 13:49 UTC

Looks like it could do with being fortified with some tape

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 07:07 UTC

Wall of purple lavender for #jacobinday

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 06:35 UTC

Back on my pictures of lettuce thing #allotment

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fesshole @fesshole.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:25 UTC

I dumped my boyfriend because he kept giving his cat more treats than my cat, despite his cat always being a little shit and mine always being an angel.

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 12:24 UTC

Went back to my old plot in search of a lovely artichoke I left behind but it was sadly disappeared

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 10:08 UTC

This morning's forest run was sensational

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 09:59 UTC

Firmly at the library / museum niche crossover here

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 16:12 UTC

So were they sown in little groups of seed or planted together using sets? They look great!

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 14:08 UTC

This looks like you are training an AI to tell the difference between a roast chicken, a star fish, a red panda and a dog in glasses. Which feels like a punchline waiting to happen

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 12:33 UTC

Are those roast chickens?

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Terence Eden @edent.tel
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

New blog post: The irony of TicketMaster's breach notification email

shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/06/the-irony-of-ticketmasters-breach-notification-email/

TicketMaster has joined the long list of companies to lose their customers' information. As is common, they sent out an email to warn poor …

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 18:25 UTC

attn scholarly organizations, this is now considered best practice

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 09:40 UTC

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 05:46 UTC

I went a while back but post refurb and had a similar. Nice staff but terrible beer. We needed food (kitchen at the duke was closed) and I made the mistake of having the sausage snack thing which turned out to be the cheapest of cheap cocktail sausages. I got a pint changed. Won't be rushing back

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