Phillip Barlow ⚒️ 🇬🇱

@hammerslibrary.bsky.social

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West Ham fan who happens to be a medical librarian. Views are mine alone.

I asked the librarian for a book on paranoia. She said "they're right behind you"
This is what happens when everyone around you is too afraid to say "Sir, that's fucking stupid" Trump displaying a poster comparing the length of the Reflecting Pool with the heights of various American skyscrapers for reasons best known to himself. Largely because none of the rest of us can figure out why the hell he is doing it.
After Trump claimed that he had spoken to a former US president who told him that he approved of his attack on Iran, all four living former presidents denied having spoken with Trump about Iran
Membership of the WHO as of 23 Jan 2026
Reform: “Britain is broken. And what we need in our party are people who have frontline experience of breaking it”.
Freaky Friday 2003 film Wikipedia header with warning that text may have been generated using a large language model, and thus might incorporate hallucinated information and fictional references
Southend: Not quite the Maldives, but warmer than Grimsby
Corrupted Data, Lost Data, Sensitive Data, Historical Data, Questionable Data, Suspicious Data, Biological Data, Hard Data
I asked a librarian if she had a book about Pavlov’s dog and Schrödinger’s cat… She said it rang a bell, but she wasn’t sure if it was there or not.
A great library has something in it to offend everyone
Eric Morecambe as Charles II and Diana Rigg as Nell Gwyn
Front cover of City of Woe by AJ Mackenzie
Front cover of City of Woe by AJ Mackenzie, the second book in the Simon Merrivale series
Wellington, a Womble wearing a blue and black cap and black rimmed glasses
A sig indicating the office of Doctor B. Gee, with a caption saying "presumably good at helping people stay alive"
Cover of A Flight of Arrows by AJ MacKenzie
Donald Trump with an orange face and bad comb over trying to look tough, but really looking like he is attempting to pass a really big turd
West Ham are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League home games against sides starting the day in the relegation zone (won 14 drawn 3) since a 3-2 loss to Newcastle in December 2017
The Simpsons West Ham Fan Club scarf
The preliminary investigation into the grounding and subsequent sinking of HMNZS Manawanui concludes human error was main cause. Crew failed to disengage autopilot and neglected proper manual control checks.
Ceiling sign indicating outpatient department and phlebotomy department to the right. Behind is a set of grey double doors leading to Therapy Outpatients