this is HILARIOUS therepublicjournal.com/essays/ai-an...

CREATION Happy April Fool's Day! xkcd.com/3227/

Ha ha April Fool. You've actually been having a bizarre dream and it is in fact 1996 right now. We are all going to go watch the new Coen Brothers movie 'Fargo' later. I will call you on your phone that is attached to a wall and can't make you insane later.

Blank pages invite use. In this 1578 print album by Philip Galle, published in collaboration with the Officina Plantiniana, a later reader used the flyleaves and leftover white space to sketch contemporary faces and figures. #bookhistory #rarebooks #earlymodern 💙📚📜

#earlymodern 🗃️

Wat goed nieuws voor historici en andere liefhebbers van oude kaarten: de UvA digitaliseert dit jaar de Muller-collectie, ruim 3000 oude kaarten, in hoge resolutie. Er staan er al 1000 online, de rest komt in de loop van het jaar. uba.uva.nl/content/nieu...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

It's no joke! 📣Audio edition of @blairesquiscoll.bsky.social's The Frankfurt Kabuff is now available for your listening pleasure Head over here to find out more: ullapoolism.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/t... @bethdriscoll.bsky.social

We are looking for a full-time fully funded 48 month PhD researcher to work on bold holders in the Belle Époque (1890-1920), funded by a FWO Senior Fundamental Research Project ⬇️

Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society

The two types of librarian conflict management as illustrated by Richard Scarry. Which are you?

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

Hey, look. It's a decent scan of this legendary image!

Principled librarians is what a just and progressive society needs. Doing the right thing has never been more imperative. To defend the provision of and facilitate access to knowledge and information. Contest and oppose authoritarianism and anti-knowledge. Strength and solidarity to Luanne James!

This is Molly. She was finally found a week after her human fell down a 180-foot waterfall while hiking together in New Zealand. Her human was badly injured and rescued by helicopter, but Molly was missing. A week later, Molly was found at the base of the waterfall and reunited with her human. 14/10

Oh dear... #BookHistory 📚💙

I hope that people on here can conjure as much energy for the fact that Israel has 'legalized' arbitrary military 'court' death sentences for stone-throwing Palestinian children as they can for indignation at hearing the words "Free Palestine." I truly do.

Voor mijn scriptie interviewde ik Alexis Blake. Zij had net de Prix de Rome (2021) gewonnen voor haar werk ‘rock to jolt [ ] stagger to ash.’ We spraken over een heel andere invalshoek: wat als het archief van een werk ook ín de performers en ín het publiek zit? www.stedelijk.nl/nl/evenement...

This didn't disappoint

Happy International day of Transgender Visibility! All my homies say Trans Rights are Human Rights / anyone who's cool knows it too. We see you out there. Choose to be yourself and know that we have your back. Much love and respect today (and every day)! 🏳️‍⚧️ #transrights #transdayofvisibility

Anyone out there who wore a family member's passed-down wedding dress when they got married? 17yo interested in this for an art project she's working on.

What has Lady Whistledown written?

De maatschappij in de nieuwe tijd was diep patriarchaal. Maar vrouwen hebben altijd manieren gevonden om de samenleving mee vorm te geven. Laat ons dus stoppen met vrouwen die macht of invloed hadden uitzonderlijk te noemen. Want dan impliceer je dat de norm was dat vrouwen zwak en passief waren.

I side-eye any writer who says their work isn’t political: hard to believe anyone is so ignorant they don’t know all writing, all art, is political. And if he’s not ignorant, he’s dishonest, saying an ignorant thing to please an audience of bigots in his head.

Your daughter is much more likely to inherit your grandpa's shoebox full of old photos than your collection of her (digital) baby photos. Cloud storage providers rise and fall, hard drives die, and file formats become inaccessible. Printed photos mostly endure.

This is largely by design. If we stop thinking about AI as simply technology and instead as part of a political and economic program, its chief function become easier to see: namely to erode interpersonal trust so that ultimately we give up on forms of agreement & negotiation arbitrated by people.

The Rutherford County Library Board voted to fire Library Director Luanne James for defending the first amendment rights of her young patrons and refusing to move LGBTQ+ children’s books to the adult section of the library📚📜 fox17.com/news/local/r...

Cette histoire est énervante genre vraiment énervante. Toute cette situation n'existe que parce qu'il n'y a pas de sécurité sociale. Le type de 70 ans devrait-il être en train de conduire le bus ? Non probablement non, en fait, il devrait avoir une retraite suffisante pour ne plus travailler.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Ocean's 11 heist to steal this thing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

Of course it's 40 ft high, how else will he fit after his transition to God-Emperor? #Dune

I can’t and won’t elaborate if asked but this lobster is like if an medieval illuminated manuscript went to a Phish concert

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

I’ve said it before and I’ll no doubt say it again. Universities are roughly 1000 years old. They predate most operating models including capitalism and have lasted for a reason. Installing insecure, helpless managers who ape business methods results in bad businesses, not good universities.

imagine being a RETVRN guy but for 'cursive in schools' instead of cool ass translucent electronics

HOLD. THE. FUCK. UP. OH MY GOOOOODDDDDDDDD

A powerful US spy-tech company linked to genocide in Gaza, ICE deportations, and Trump’s war with Iran is now expanding across Europe into our hospitals, police and data systems. We must expose it and stop its expansion action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03...

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

The “wine moms” in my neighborhood have tens of thousands of hours of PTO, meal drives, bake sales and you name it under their hands. These are professional organizers who can rally up entire communities in like 3 text messages. I cant understand why people underestimate them.

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

Reuters: Pope Leo said on ‌Sunday that God rejects the prayers of leaders who start wars and have "hands full of blood", in unusually forceful remarks as the Iran war entered its second month. www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

Timeline cleanser.

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

From: Alan Tarica

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Yesterday's workshop (1): a selection of books for the letterpress/typesetting class of MIAT. An incunable, a proof print, blind impression of bearing type, type specilens and manuals for linotype and intertype machines. (Photos by Thomas Gravemaker.)

File under 'scientists yet again confirm what historians have known for centuries'.