please pause your doomscrolling for this breaking news re: dogs and fries 👇

Once again urging schools to not de-radicalize #MLK for children/families/communities by reducing him to only championing racial equity, or marking the holiday as a “day of service” where free labor is extracted. Planning an event? Better to have a speaker/engage in dialogue about the real King.

Every year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I encourage folks to read widely from his speeches and writings. I usually post a link to his April 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail. This year it feels even more important. This thread will have both King's text & a series of reflections letterfromjail.com

This MLK Day, we reflect on protest rooted in love—and on the power of history to guide how movements for justice show up for one another, then and now.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2016, a moment of protest became a moment of invitation.

Every year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I encourage folks to read widely from his speeches and writings. I usually post a link to his April 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail. This year it feels even more important. This thread will have both King's text & a series of reflections letterfromjail.com

Things continue. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

I've spent entirely too much of my free time over the past week editing the @binarybreak.bsky.social wiki instead of doing things like, oh, I don't know. Dusting. Reading. Working on the art project I started last month. I feel like Butlermon, Witchmon, and Sophie might not approve. #NoRegrets

Successfully recreated the walnut, Gorgonzola & red onion on white sauce pizza from the good pizza place by my high school.

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

Also: The Minnesota Historical Society has this flag but *doesn’t keep it on display,* because it’s, you know, a confederate flag and that’s gross. So deeply Minnesotan. “We humiliated our opponent but the real prize is that we refuse to display the trophy. They know we have it.”

This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it

Bookplate!? Who needs a stinking bookplate when you can mark your books with a red-hot branding iron? Here are two 17th c. “Marcas de Fuego” showing that the book was owned by the Great Convent of St. Francisco in Mexico City - S. FRAN.CO d MEX. CO. The second mark AP refers to the apostolica sedes.

Seventeenth-century squirrel, looks like it’s eating a little nut. On an embroidered binding from a 1641 psalter, SSS.34.27 @theul.bsky.social. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography

Addamses #TheAddamsFamily

Without getting too deep into any specifics, let's just say that as someone with close ties to the Twin Cities, the past couple weeks have really fucking sucked.

Had a phone call with my mom today. #iceoutmpls #iceoutminneapolis #iceoutcomics

Ovenly pear and sour cherry pie filling with Ruth Reichl's (peach sans peach) cobbler topping from My Kitchen Year. Swapped in half a cup of whole-wheat flour so I can pretend this is a "healthy" breakfast.

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

Modern bookbinding in LotR.

The last time I saw a movie—a Netflix original, by the way—I drove 3+ hours to Kansas City and spent the night in a hotel. Some of us actually enjoy going to the movies, Ted.

Maiden voyage for the Grim Steeper with Hazelnut Orange tea (both gifts from my daughter).

Don’t talk to me or my son ever again

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]

My incredible colleague @willow-branch.bsky.social & her powerful team of processing assistants have completed processing the Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) records and you can now read the finding aid here: archivesspace.library.northeastern.edu/repositories...

The Clearwater. The Missouri. The Clark Fork of the Columbia. The Mighty Genesee. I have lived many places and loved many rivers.

I curate the history series at public media's trade journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR, PBS and its affiliates, with some space to imagine public media's future. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate!

Just applied for a fellowship for this year's Focus on Book Arts. Crossing my fingers...

Voice of an angel, I tells ya.

This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help: Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org. Please donate what you can. www.2harvest.org

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

‪Time to rest & recharge. Reposted with alt text. Tea: Strawberry black tea from Seattle's Perennial Tea Room Cup: Limited edition thank-you gift from Copper Canyon Press Book (not pictured): Take Me With You by Andrea Gibson

"shitting on ai makes you sound like a Luddite" oh okay, thank you! Luddites were cool as hell

Hey.👋 Release your tongue from the roof of your mouth. Relax your jaw. Relax your shoulders and neck. Breathe awhile.

Com on wanre niht scriðan sceadugenga. Grendel gongan, godes yrre bær.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVgu... This is an informative video if you need this information

Seconding this thread & adding that a will alone isn't enough. 1. An advance medical directive/living will/healthcare proxy can help guide your loved ones through impossible decisions. 2. Funeral/burial plans should be documented apart from your will—and make sure your loved ones know about them.

What a year this week has been.

Remember that you do not have to SHARE what you are doing in public. Some of these things should be done quietly.

Anyone in my orbit specifically on Bluesky studying medieval Jewish illuminated mss?

Honestly, it's not even a contest for me.

A potentially engaging distraction: watch me close out a conference on AI in LAM by talking about how all the vagaries of archival description and discovery that LLMs can't address www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hm_...

I grew up mostly without TV, but even so, I knew the value of Public Broadcasting. On this dreary, stupid day when the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, I shout out some of its heroes — people who made us a little more conscious.

I love all of them dearly. They've each spoken to me at different points of my life. It's too hard to pick a FAVORITE, but I've probably watched Kiki's Delivery Service the most. It's been my comfort watch throughout various vocational crises. At this point it is almost guaranteed to make me cry.

This Langston Hughes poem is relevant af.

More people ought to listen to @binarybreak.bsky.social. I am desperate for someone to make fanart of Cate talking to Baloney!Kat the homeatculus so I can add a page to the wiki. It's important. For archival/anthropological/media studies reasons. (I can say this now. I'm an academic. Technically.)