Update! 📣🎙️📚 We’ve recorded a few episodes that still need to go to production. We are continuing our book ban series with a discussion about @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social, followed by an episode about H.B. 7661 - for handy postcards to send your reps check out @authorsabb.bsky.social! See ya soon!

Happy Friday! This weekend make sure the Little Free Libraries in your town are well stocked AND it'd probably be a good idea to put some of our HR7661 postcards while you're at it!

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

wonderful a 1937 book on printing type turned into a website www.c82.net/printing-typ...

Come work with me! We’ve just opened 2 narrative positions: a Senior Narrative Designer and a Senior Writer! I can’t speak highly enough of this team and this project. We’re cooking up some REALLY cool stuff! 👀 www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/2206... www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/2205...

Um...so I accidentally stumbled onto the UVA law library's collection of 6,000 drawings by courtroom sketch reporter Ida Libby Dengrove, who worked in NYC mostly in the '70s & '80s, & they're kind of...amazing..?? This one is tagged "Clown Attack" (thread) archives.law.virginia.edu/resources/18...

In 2020 @yaelrice.bsky.social and I authored this article to dispute this kind of pseudo-scientific research, which regularly gets press attention, precisely so that others don't have to cope with the tedium of refuting it. Here's the refutation you need! hyperallergic.com/how-scientis...

It's amazing that nobody will understand this: They don't think. They don't remember. They have no cognition. They're pattern matching systems that produce answer-shaped responses. This is no different that giving a script admin privileges, except this script is rewritten on the fly.

As @chucktingle.bsky.social says, art is a scream of love right now ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

for #magazineMonday, happy birthday to The Slave's Friend, first published this week in 1835 by the American Anti-Slavery Society. #childrensmagazine #bookhistory

Printing & Book History folks: I could use some help identifying this press. It seems to be some sort of cylinder press. Under the feed boards on both sides are round ink discs. It looks a little like a grasshopper press. What's odd about it is that it is only about a foot to foot & a half wide...

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

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We have finally completed the digitization of this unique work, so as of now it is available online for all #earlymodern #rarebooks #bookhistory people to enjoy! ☞ dams1.antwerpen.be/asset/KIataT...

My hometown of Nashville -- a blue city which went about two-thirds for Harris-Walz in 2024 -- was gerrymandered by the TN GOP into three different districts all represented by Republicans now, so please get in line to complain about how unfair this all is, Virginia Republicans

Is this a cry for help?

we've noticed and i'm glad he's getting help

Dracula 1933 Irish translation cover

DNA is not the same as kinship. Our perspective paper argues that treating genetics as the ultimate proof of identity or family can: • erase community-defined relationships • reinforce Western biases • and even cause real harm in policy + research Special Issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden. From the NPR archives.

Want to learn more about what our project is investigating! Keep scrolling! Voices of Motherhood is currently made up of five different research strands, the first of which explores the history of maternal and infant welfare in the UK after 1918. 🧵(1/7)

Tom Waits x Massive Attack just released a brand new single

This beef with the Pope is ramping up to Henry II/Thomas Becket levels

virgin mary punching the devil, england, 13th century

Not being mean but to any historian this is blatantly obvious and it has been a blind spot of economics since before the dismal science even carried that name (it used to be called political arithmetic, then political economy). The massive holes in every EcHR review I ever did...

Honestly, I’m not even sure a demon would be willing to possess him at this point.

Who doesn’t love a little book history mystery? Especially involving one of Wynkyn de Worde’s fancy printed woodcuts. 😍

Finder’s fee: seasonal fruit. Early modern provenance mark on the flyleaf in a 16th-century illuminated manuscript: ‘This book belongs to Catrina Leoners. Whoever finds it should return it to her for an apple or a pear…’ #rarebooks #earlymodern #bookhistory 💙📚📜

This is a great question; how would the historians on my feed answer this? And what good, readable, synthetic accounts of US history, or US social movements, would you suggest? (To inform with the right amount of detail without being overwhelming/boring?)

Artemis II was overshadowed by other bad things in the news but what it accomplished was frankly amazing. We are capable of incredible and unprecedented things. I’m in awe at how far we safely sent humans into space.

Hey! 🎙️ We never promoted our episode with the eloquent and amazing @altibel.bsky.social! We take a deep dive into her dissertation topic and discuss reading in New Spain during the Inquisition. Our favorite episode! 💜 Also on YouTube and wherever you listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

You know what doesn't get its support unceremoniously pulled by a tech company? Fuckin' books, brother

I dunno, I’d say just use an A5 notebook and a Japanese pen.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

It's not just fine but great if you don't know what a poem means. All that matters is how it made you feel. Osip Mandelstam described poetry as that which is unamenable to paraphrase. If you can summarise it, 'there, so to speak, the sheets are unruffled, there, poetry has not spent the night.'

we’ve got human beings on the dark side of the moon but microsoft word will still not let me add a comment to a footnote

Supreme Court today handed a loss to Native American tribes in Oklahoma by leaving in place a state court ruling that said tribal members on tribal land are subject to state taxes, notwithstanding the SCOTUS ruling from 2020 that expanded tribal authority in the state.

Depictions of the resurrection of Christ in 4 centuries of Plantin Press Missals! 1574,1658,1722,1837 #easter #bookhistory #plantin

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

SOMEONE GET MY AGENT ON THE HORN

What the Easter Bunny really looks like.

Folx in the U.S.! I could go (especially since we are currently reading it to do a Codex Machina episode on it) but midnight thirty is too dear for my old brain.

Elizabeth Blackadder, Tulips, 1998 #WomensArt #April.

Thieving paratextual #bookhistory as it happens. The nerve of the VP and his publishers.

Looks like a place we shouldn’t be taking for granted. 🌍✌️💜