"What took you so long? Do more!" This is just one of many comments about our 8-part series, Metacom's Resistance: Retelling King Philip's War and Its Legacy. If you'd like to catch up, you can always find our recorded events on our website here: historicbostons.org/events

Disheartening. Too many art historians and curators really don’t know/understand how to display & engage with sculpture/3D objects. Please let me walk around things! If the piece is made for a niche, sure, stuff it against a wall. But otherwise please pull it forward and let it have some space!

NASA says any meteor remnants likely landed in Cape Cod Bay, making it a "fishy squisher," and possibly retrievable using a big enough magnet tied to a 100-ft rope. Can somebody get a boat, a magnet and a rope and hire Jay and Baby Wheel Guy to trawl for it? www.universalhub.com/2026/nasa-sa...

Cool, would love to see her support the local library workers the same way.

Road closures in Boston tonight almost broke me, especially at the tail end of a 2 hr drive after a 2 hr train trip. “That’s closed, can’t go that way, nope, can’t go that way either, here, enjoy your eastbound journey along the westbound side of Memorial Drive, nope, can’t get to that bridge…”

[kicks down door] “Did you know that Sister Corita Kent made a lithograph from Del Monte canned tomato labels which included the phrase ‘Mother Mary is the juiciest tomato of them all’ and got in enormous trouble with the bishop?”

Gonna throttle the 4:30am horned-up robins

Bear signs.

Hey, Boston-area peeps! Upcoming lecture at Boston Public Library (Central branch): David Walker's Declaration of Independence (with Dr. Leon Jackson). (I do not know if it will be live-streamed or recorded.)

@book-historia.bsky.social I *think* I might have spotted a new pop-bib example for you? Most recent episode of Widow’s Bay is called “Beach reads” and is about an evil/sinister self-help book exerting its influence on a used bookshop/bookmobile(?) operator.

I never know if it’s good or bad form to tag a speaker in a lecture announcement 😅

Hey, Boston-area peeps! Upcoming lecture at Boston Public Library (Central branch): David Walker's Declaration of Independence (with Dr. Leon Jackson). (I do not know if it will be live-streamed or recorded.)

This thread is phenomenal. Just outstanding.

5 years ago this week, I was diagnosed w/breast cancer & first met w/my oncologists. People count from different marks, but I use that mtg as my “start” date. My life is very different now, but I currently have no evidence of disease (what used to be called “remission”) & hope to stay that way! 🐞🐞🐞

My talented colleagues @bpl.boston.gov have been offering printmaking workshops and getting some of BPL’s presses up and running!

Tinkling piano never helps anything, in my experience.

Currently being rickrolled by muzak at the dentist’s office. It is Not. Helping.

Yes, come to the talk! And, before the talk, come see 2 of BPL Special Collections’ copies of David Walker’s Appeal, including one published by Henry Highland Garnet, currently in an exhibition at BPL’s Leventhal Map & Education Center!

Fled marathon chaos at home for points further north. Moody weather today. Very cold and windy, and the sky keeps dropping frozen … stuff (“graupel” maybe?). Grateful to have access to a nice borrowed landing spot.

This feels like a good way to celebrate National Library Week 😆📚

Collection Deep Dive: The Weld-Grimké Quilt Clement Library (Michigan) 📜 clements.umich.edu/weld-grimke-...

Another fun Maine vanity license plate to add to my collection. It was on a souped-up and blacked out Audi wagon. I HOPE they’re in on the joke?

Love me a solid desire path.

A feather in the opening of an incunable. Would be very interested to know what bird this came from.

They Goldfingered (and multiplied) Patience and Fortitude?

@blackbirdletterpress.com and I have partnered again on a notebook. 50% of proceeds will go to the Chicago Freedom School. I think that the notebook turned out beautifully. Limited number of copies available. www.blackbirdletterpress.com/limited-edit...

The NYPL is hiring two metadata specialists! Not only do you have the opportunity to work for one of the world’s great libraries, you also get to collaborate with the ✨ @infopetal.bsky.social!

Just a sea of interestingly-dressed people…

The sun came out, the red sox home opener just ended, and anime boston is starting. The people watching in back bay is *spectacular* right now.

The fight we’ve been waiting for, the Battle of Brattle: Waymo vs. Cambridge turkey. @universalhub.com

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The lesson here is 1) don't cut up manuscripts because you will lose, among other things, important provenance info like colophons, and 2) don't just blindly trust inherited metadata.

An excellent thread …

alright its time for another one page rpg, so here is Gay Hockey Dragon Sex Coffee Shop Romantic Sportsball Cozy Dark Fantasy which I feel covers all my bases pretty neatly

Just started a rewatch of The Americans because apparently I’m not getting enough bleak in my life already, or something.

I almost went and then didn’t and now I’m mad at myself. This looks incredible!

It's that time of year. This is basically the only way I acknowledge St. Patrick's Day at this point: youtu.be/4XWP_CKnJIg?...

search your camera roll for hell (three options)

If you see this, post a rabbit. From a few days ago: a pair of small urban rabbits, which I didn’t realize until just now were hanging out next to a rat bait box tucked against a stoop. 🐀🐇

Love to see a monster Back Bay rat out in the daytime, not 40 feet from an incredibly busy (with pedestrians) intersection. (Arlington & Berkeley, from the station entrance to the building wall underneath the Caffe Nero. 🐀🐀🐀

Still out there yell-singing whatever it is. Can hear it through noise-cancelling earbuds.

@universalhub.com Any idea wtf the loud group singing/yelling somewhere near Comm & Mass Ave is? It went on yesterday evening for over an hour, and just started again.

LMEC job! In the BPL and working with BPL collections, but not technically the BPL… and because of that, there’s no city of Boston residency requirement.

Glamourous special collections life: crawling around on concrete floors to label stacks.

“Don’t squish your cookie with the potholder and burn yourself trying to shift it” challenge. (Failed.)

Love a little visible repair/frankenbook!

It’s halftime, peeps. In case you’re waiting for that part. 🐰

This looks like a CMYK color separation, right? Has me looking for dots…

Little bit of a flex in the reading room today. First Paris and first London eds, former acquired in 1939, latter in 1922. The patron was thrilled and took a selfie with one of them.