nicola c. 🌙

librarian. tell me about yr health zines + perzines! 💌 pronouns: she/they

[nicola c. 🌙 @nic_o_la]

Say it louder for the people in the back: if you’re inconvenienced by a strike, blame the boss not the workers ✊ increds artwork by @wallmansam #OurMembersBeUnlimited

[nicola c. 🌙 @nic_o_la]

@TfL do you do contactless refunds or compensation for having to use twice the amount of tubes/trains/buses due to consistently broken/disrupted northern line travel?

[nicola c. 🌙 @nic_o_la]

@wandbc What's your definition of "affordable"? Given it's the main objective, I can't see a definition anywhere in the documents. Affordable schemes focus on income affrodability but what cost does that make the actual housing?

[pagan @transcestry]

please consider participating in this community project to collect trans perspectives on the portraits within @BradfordMuseums museums collection. form (and selection of portraits) here: https://t.co/bYx5HRLZpM

[London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @LSHTM]

📢Gaza: 64,000 deaths due to violence between October 2023 & June 2024, new study estimates

LSHTM research in @TheLancet suggests Palestinian Ministry of Health underreported death toll due to traumatic injury by approximately 41%.

https://t.co/cp081eyhMr

[Renters' Reform Coalition @RentersReformCo]

Out today: the govt's latest landlord survey finds half of landlords put rent up for existing tenants when renewing contracts - one in five hiking it by 15% or more.

Everyone needs a secure home. The government must take action to make renting affordable.
https://t.co/Ngyr0DLVit

[nicola c. 🌙 @nic_o_la]

Does anyone know how to find out what libraries have institutional access to the British Newspaper Archive?

[Palestine Solidarity Campaign @PSCupdates]

🚨 BREAKING: Turner Prize 2024 WINNER Jasleen Kaur uses her powerful acceptance speech to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, demanding an end to institutional complicity in Israel’s genocide and an immediate arms embargo #FreePalestine

[iniva @Iniva_arts]

Explore our latest showcase, Global Resiliencies: Activist zines from 2010 to 2022! These are but a few of the highlights — come to the Stuart Hall Library to browse the rest of the rotating selection!

📍 Stuart Hall Library
📅 until 28 February 2025

https://t.co/8Zss6StcEa

[nicola c. 🌙 @nic_o_la]

Are people migrating to mastodon or bluesky?

[UCL News @uclnews]

Discovery of books owned by world-famous writer Oscar Wilde in @ucl's collections is hailed a 'miracle' by @UCLSpecColl librarian Sarah Pipkin @ladydothpaints who made the find that sheds light on LGBTQ+ life in late 1800s UK when homosexuality was illegal https://t.co/kqSBxShRlV

[Alana Farrell @AlanaFarrell_]

Solidarity to library colleagues protecting access to information in the face of right-wing threats and intimidation

[Glasgow Zine Library @GlasgowZineLib]

🌿 How to create your own zine library: lessons from the Madzines project
Sat 23rd Nov, 6-8pm at GZL
Book here: https://t.co/DvwmAXAxe9

Join the @ZinesMad team from 6-8pm to hear about their main collection, their personal collections and the lessons they have learned.

[nicola c. 🌙 @nic_o_la]

So important 🖤

[MoneySavingExpert @MoneySavingExp]

Two-thirds of MoneySavers don't have life insurance.

If you pass, would there be enough to pay the bills, or might financial misery be heaped on top of the grief?

Martin Lewis' beginner guide runs you through how it all works ⬇️

https://t.co/b2tmXptXht

[Wellcome Collection @ExploreWellcome]

Our Gen Z colleague making tea station conversation:

Did you see @noelfielding11's jumper on Bake Off last night? It's the cover of an issue of Oz magazine in our collection (Oz 16, November 1968).

#GBBO

https://t.co/oUyP82CNOu

[56a Infoshop @56aInfoshop]

Palestine postcards back in stock. £1. All money goes to Medical Aid for Palestine 🇵🇸🍉✊🏽

[MadZines @ZinesMad]

Make a zine with the wonderfully Mad artist Dolly Sen! 😊
@Hospital_Rooms

https://t.co/AnRC9dt5Ww

[Generation Rent @genrentuk]

"We can't afford to become a homeowner if we want to, we can't wait then 10+ years to access social housing if we need to."

Our Chief Executive @BenTwomeyUK has just given evidence at the committee stage of the Renters' Rights Bill!! Watch our full clip below👇

[ACORN the union @ACORNunion]

Housing IS health.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Forget your ceasefire. Forget your arms embargo. Dismantle the settler colonial state and its apartheid structures. Enough is enough.