Metal as hell

me and @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote about this (also in our THE BRIGHT AGES) for @cnn.com but the alliance of faculty and students is literally what created the university in the 13th century. let's remake it again. www.cnn.com/2024/04/30/o...

Moms should be with their kids on Mother’s Day! Join me in donating to help Black mamas return to their families.

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

Extremely funny that this, from 1627, is indistinguishable in message from modern RETVRN / masculinity podcasters.

3D printing update! A month ago, I posted about Haüy's Essai and how the production process flattened the tactile characters so it was not legible tactilely. I took a scan of the book anyway and decided to try 3D printing it just to see if it would work. For science! Well, folks, I have printed it.

This, ladies, gentlemen, and others, is why information science is a formal discipline with a strict ethical requirement. One of the requirements of library/archive professionals is providing accurate information. If you set up something to auto-index that you cannot demonstrate the accuracy of—

106 years ago today, on May 7th, an undergraduate at Christchurch College, Oxford, drank a glass of port then left through the main gates for a walk. I've been thinking about him, & his walk, for years now. It's taken a long time for me to figure out why - why I've kept returning, near obsessed.

The Rialto Theater decorated for a run of Val Lewton's subtle horror masterpiece CAT PEOPLE (1942) Lewton was BOTD in 1904

““I went to Rome and all I got you was this lousy pen.” But the tongue-in-cheek inscription recently deciphered on a cheap writing implement during excavations in the City of London is in fact about 2,000 years old.”

Printing Types: their History, Forms & Use. A Study in Survivals. Explore 360+ original illustrations and specimens spanning nearly 500 years. www.c82.net/printing-typ...

I’m so glad I got to write this piece for the @folger.edu’s Collation blog about the work I’m doing as part of my short-term Artistic Research Fellowship! www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

Hey, do you publish zines?? 👀 We mail zines to our sustainers each month—and we're always looking for exciting new material! If you've got a recently published zine that you think would appeal to our community, send us an email about it: [email protected] 💌 1/3

Here's another watercolor I made for myself a few years back. Big hearts to everyone it might resonate with. 💜

In the age of AI, I find myself becoming quite fond of and sympathetic to sloppy but honest undergraduate prose.

when ur on a walk and there's a dog

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

Still waiting on some supplies, but for this Print Day I’m very excited about my tiny corner printing set up starting to come together! Plus, a hint for the first project I’m working on. #DHprints

This is a post about a roleplaying game — a solo journaling game — but I’m addressing my fellow book historians & bookish sickos. I hope this post by Asa (including photos players shared of their personally-bound copies) convinces SOMEONE to adopt SPINE in their class engaging textual materiality.

Time for a new edition of Canadian biochemist and medical researcher extraordinaire Maud Menten (1878-1960), 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci coauthor of the Michalis-Menten equation, inventor of the azo-dye coupling which was the first example of enzyme histochemistry for imaging tissues and the first 🧵

I’d add words of wisdom from my stepmother—“A hobby is something you spend money on. If you make money on it, it’s a job and you’ll eventually need a new hobby.”

This weekend Skeuomorph is honored to host a printmaking session in collaboration with the Native American House’s Red Regalia Project—NAH Ambassador Ashlee Shoemaker has been working with our GAs during open hours to design a postcard & poster for the community print nah.illinois.edu/programs/mmir

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

Whiteness 👏 is 👏 the 👏 use 👏 of 👏 race 👏

my article on George Herbert and trans studies is out in Renaissance Quarterly. It's really only about one poem, but it is THE poem you're thinking of, so you should check it out -- www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Well well well, looks like SOMEONE regrets scraping every single post from tumblr

When I teach print history, I have a repository of little facts I share to help both demystify very old objects and ask students to resituate the codex as technology. It's ✨️ cute little fact time ✨️ The space between lines is called "leading" in Adobe because metal pieces physically separated text.

Two public libraries here have started teen lit mags. What a dope thing to do. Coralville Public does a digital one: coralvillepubliclibrary.org/leaky-pen/ Iowa City Public does a print-only zine-like one.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

“Of all art forms that I partake in, I feel like zines are the ones that make the least amount of sense to use AI for. They’re supposed to be handmade and scrappy.”

Coming from a small Yup’ik village on the Kusko, it’s hard not to nerd out over the largest collection of Yup’ik artifacts in the world! If you haven’t been yet, I highly recommend taking the trip to Quinhagak and visiting the Nunalleq Culture and Archaeology Center. You won’t regret it!

Here's a goddamn win and thank you to many people for bringing it to my attention: 988 works. We have more people still with us because of it. I'm glad they're here and I'm glad you're here. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...

Since Summer is coming up? The Pizza 🍕 Hut Book It program still exists, you just download an app now. I mean the Land Before stone puppets don’t exist anymore, but I am definitely gonna get that pan pizza with my kindergartner because I will always, always compete in the sports of books and pizza.

For folks who also dig mobile printing press setups: pink midcentury trolley w/integrated type* drawers & foldout drying rack, designed by John Conway to let folks in palliative care record feelings at the ends of their lives +

Delighted that Sophie Weinberg’s “The Matrilineal Printing House: Recovering the Printing Lineage of Widow Stationers in the Seventeenth-century English Book Trade” won the @womenshistnet.bsky.social 2025 MA Dissertation Prize! Go Sophie! womenshistorynetwork.org/winner-of-th...

Oh, every one is always nostalgic for the geocites era web but when somebody actually makes a platform that crashes every 10 minutes, suddenly everybody wants future technology, I see how it is.

Here's some paper cut-out fun for the whole family: an #Etruscan tomb, complete with 3D sarcophagus, frescoes, *and* grave goods! This print in the #BritishMuseum was probably from Campanari's 1837 exhibition of Etruscan and Greek antiquities at Pall Mall, London. Print it out! 🏺 1/

My Uni told me contingent positions keep eating its early career post-docs so I asked how many EC scholars it has and it said it just goes to the shelter and gets a new EC scholar afterwards so I said it sounds like it’s just feeding EC scholars to con. pos. and then its grad students started crying

They’re not wrong, though.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

I called my rep and cried on the phone to a very nice young man who took down my message. 5 Calls is great. You don't need a script although they have them on the website. Just ask your Congresspeople to do anything they can to stop the president from committing genocide.

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country. Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

Not to mention mall restrictions, closing arcades, and they defunded every bit of teen programming possible at the libraries, closed all the community centers, and refuse to fund after-school and weekend events...

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

Just saying, every time I go to typeset something longer the limits of available type etc force me to edit down. In conclusion, let's fund a thousand booklabs w/some of that AI money + make sure we teach & share the joy of slow ways to think+write

If you're in Rutherford County, TN send an email to their library board to show your support for Director Luanne James! Contact info here: rclstn.org/libraryboard...

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.