There is a bat trapped in my bedroom! I cannot function under these circumstances.

Finally watched "Frankenstein" and I am solidly on that train. TOOT TOOT 🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

Make the Goddamn meal and put it in your Free Fridge. Write the $100 check to the food bank. Ask your local school what they need for the kids and then go about trying to get that stuff.... Do these things regularly and you are making meaningful contributions to your communities.

Will you fight

A dragon hides in the initial word-panel at the beginning of Torah portion Chayei Sarah(חַיֵּי שָׂרָה). #ParashahPictures BL Or 2696; 1350-1399 CE; Torah, the Five Scrolls and Hafṭarot with masorah & Rashi's commentary; Germany, S.; f.39r

The rights for Roger Rabbit have reverted back to author Gary K. Wolf 🐰 “I now have back the rights to all my characters, all my books. I can, basically, do my own Roger Rabbit projects"

money could buy my friends with shitty, soul-crushing jobs they're only keeping for the health insurance a year of rest to work on creative projects and take care of their bodies and minds (and cats, and gardens, and families), but it can't buy Elon Musk kids who actually like him

I score zero because I'm Generation X!

#GLAM friends, quite a lot of you went to IU for your undergrad, MLS, and PhD! Those of us still here would appreciate alumni support against the upper administration’s nonsense, especially in regard to academic/intellectual freedom

And specifically to counter the Thurgood Marshall adage "Do what you think is right and let the law catch up"

The whole thread.

If you have a Tesla you should get rid of it immediately.

Tangentially related, but I read this Calvin & Hobbes comic to my 7yo last night. Celebrate inefficiency!

3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark! Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️ tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3

I love the block function because it means if I see someone say something stupid I never have to see them again.

Ivy Leaguers: stop trying to reinvent racism. Challenge level: impossible.

Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)... hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.

Tell me you work with rare materials without telling me you work with rare materials 😂😭

I hope this pattern is becoming clearer: Billionaires target & destroy assets that serve the public interest so that their profits & power go uncontested. From news to tech to finance & space, billionaires are not interested in "innovation" or "job creation" or any of that bullshit. They plunder.

Something crazy about the US and international copyright enforcement regime is that they consistently criminalize digital archiving when it is done for pro-social reasons, but consistently protect the reuse of archived materials by other parties when it is for commercial reasons

Bibliography friends: any source recommendations that discuss the use of “marginalia” as additions specifically related to the text vs. other manuscript additions (ownership inscriptions, unrelated notes, etc.)?

In my head, every time, I say: yes. You got me. I, a rare book professional, am knowingly and brazenly flaunting best practice in this public forum in which I’m a representative of my department and my profession. This era of American politics has eroded respect for expertise, in all fields.

Subscribe to The Onion instead of whatever this shit is. Membership.theonion.com

Every time someone asks me why I'm not wearing gloves in a social media video an angel loses its wings.

Don't talk to the NYT. They've betrayed families' trust before. They will lie to you and use you and then turn around and tell you it was their job. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

#KPop Demon Hunters is going up, up, up and getting a sequel at Netflix, it has been confirmed. Sony Pictures Animation's follow-up to its record-breaking — and chart-topping — hit is currently aiming for a 2029 release. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies...

ICYMI TOMORROW my colleague Nick Herman will show off our new-to-us Flemish book of hours - Noon ET on Zoom, registration link is in the quoted skeet.

What historians see when people claim AI is solving mysteries that have baffled historians for years.

Erica Deuso is the first openly transgender person to be elected mayor in Pennsylvania. The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown. 🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...

Recruit a Democrat. Every seat. Every state. Waves need someone to ride them. Call your state party, sign up to run, or volunteer. Make the GOP fight for every inch. Let’s go! No seat left empty!

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

everybody celebrate by donating money or food or time to your local food banks or food shares!! www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!

The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.

[Exit Clown.]

Extremely niche news for medievalists: Big Bird’s given name is Abelard?!

The lesson is that the GOP should jump in a lake and Democrats should fight back everywhere, every way, right?

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

Dems in ARRAY

begging with my entire heart for election results across the map which force the Dems to finally begin internalizing the lesson that throwing trans people under the bus is going to fuck them repeatedly

I would love one more guest for my Rare Book Cataloging class later in November. Let me know if you've worked in this area and if you would be interested in talking about a particularly challenging item you've tackled. Let me know, thanks!

What I should be doing: My homework ahead of new training tomorrow. What I am doing: Disassembling a set of half-used notebooks with a scalpel and formulating bright ideas about efficiently rebinding the bits I actually used into a single volume, and making new notebooks with the rest.

GO GO VIRGINIA FRIENDS

Unusually lavish for a medical manuscript. Florence, BML, Plut. 73.16, f.181v and f.182r, c. 1250: tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll... #histmed #bookhistory #medievalsky

I regret to inform you all that Kpop demon hunters is exactly as fun and delightful as everyone has been saying