Top 5 movie genres are: An important cultural artifact is, has been, or will be stolen! Movie is fine but the soundtrack absolutely slaps The Mummy French farce where everyone speaks very quickly High-production value, award-seeking period piece

I had a job interview in the late 1990s in hotel room in which one man was the sole interviewer; he sat on the bed and I got a chair. It was a nightmare. Oh, and another one where two men interviewed me in a suite around a table while their wives sat on the sofa waiting for a museum to open!!

If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.

Saved by folding. These printed side notes extend beyond the point to which the binder was trimming the margins.

important reminder that, while we appreciate her sticking a knife in Trump at this present moment, Marjorie Taylor Greene is a committed antisemite and is not and will never be your friend

today in shul we had a guest speaker who cited "Rabbi William Wordsworth" as someone we should learn from about mindfulness and my brain just stuttered and never recovered

That conversation with satan is exclusive to those with more money than sense should have been expected.

@jordandavis.bsky.social we are edging up close to Shabbat here but I’ve been meaning to ask, so: recommendations for good translations of the psalms? Not entirely sure what “good” means for me but def poetically good is at the top of the list

Ok, but how are the robots going to feel when they find out ‘robot’ comes from the Czech word ‘robota’ which means “forced labor”??

Cover Reveal for The Infinite Loop! Cover for The Infinite Loop: Archives and Time Travel in the Popular Imagination by Lynne M. Thomas and Katy Rawdon. The title and author text are black text on a white background. Above and below the title block is a pattern of bright pink concentric circles.…

Excuse to shout again about @marselykehoe.bsky.social's and colleagues' amazing work on the Dutch Textile trade: dutchtextiletrade.org/textiles/

Read about the life of Sharon Camp, the woman who turned hard-to-obtain emergency contraception into over-the-counter Plan B, and forever bless the women who get things done! 🎁 link

This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????

Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.

These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.

I want people to understand that in my youth, a youth that happened somewhere between the youth of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, ex-Prince Andrew, et al & that of their victims, the term "jail bait" was framed as a compliment.

Mail art is also part of my Spring class and I was thinking would anyone be interested in making an inter institutional mail art network? Lat Am focus and Spanish language would be the best fit, but certainly not required.

The lesser known sequel to 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'.

Has anyone come across sellers’ marks like this before?

A boomer recently asked me why more “young people” aren’t protesting. I told him that they in fact are, but also that the consequences of even mild protest have changed a LOT since he was in college.

“Blogs are one of the great literary inventions of our time. Coming somewhere between an essay and a diary entry, they are a form of personal journalism that is intimate and immediate... but they also have… a rough-edged informality that breaks down barriers. They are engaging.”

Siri, what's one way that I could prove the lack of basic logic inherent in transphobia with one stupid, ironic choice?

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i have been to the gym and then i went straight to the grocery store and wow that was a lot of taking care of sarah's body for one day and also i am scared to discover what i bought in that state of mind

teaching philosophy, artist's statement, and guiding line all in one

this is def a first-world problem, but trying to get solar panels and heat pumps installed at this particular moment of batshit tariffs and the looming end to tax credits is REALLY tricky

Had occasion, as one does, to think on Shakespeare's sonnets this morning, which called to mind this bit of absolute gorgeousness from Judi Dench. In case you need some beauty: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XKS...

if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

Well, wilt thou? Huh? Are you game? A MONTH OF DICK is returning this January. If you want to be part of our merry crew on this doomed voyage, message me and I'll add you to the list! (if you participated the first time, you're already signed up!) More details as we get closer! 🐋 📖

Have you heard about our new Archie L. Dick Research Grants? If not, take a look and see if you qualify! Even if you don't, maybe someone you know does? Deadline to apply is December 1, 2025. sharpweb.org/grants-prize...

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

“We will not support spending legislation advanced by Senate Republicans that fails to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits,” says @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: jeffries.house.gov/2025/11/09/h...

I think we should bring back vibe spelling. Just add extra letters wherever, as you feel ‘em. Things can be frantick or hectick if you need that superfluous ’k’ edge. Resist the tyranny of received orthography!

The No. 1 thing people say they want Dems to do is fight. Over and over: We want them to fight for us. And yet............

I cannot overstate how much I hate phone calls but it’s so much easier when you can leave a voice mail

today is a teaching day so it's only about bibliographical excitement and not news anger but both are well fueled by a nice bowl of steel cut oats with eggs

It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!

Great look into the comprehensiveness of EEBO and EEBO-TCP and what that means for using those tools. Highly recommend for all computational bibliographers and early modernists doing large-scale work with EEBO

42) There has never been a time in the entirety of Jewish history without a diaspora. From the two and a half tribes until now. And that’s a good thing. We are part of the world, not beyond it.

Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

the PR powers that be who are now in charge of the institutional blog that is my legacy have ruined things by not understanding how blogs work and not providing any way to navigate by topic/category or date :(

Ok now that I’ve posted about some of my very favorite things—special collections libraries, the history of bibliography, and NOT STARVING PEOPLE—it’s time to log off. Shabbat shalom, go feed your soul and all the people and never ask anyone what their gender is!

Dictionnaire de bibliographie Haitienne (1951) by Max Bissainthe is the first modern and still most comprehensive bibliography of Haiti printing. His typescript drafts at NYPL reveal his process, with note cards, paperclips, and typewriter errors corrected with scissors and now very yellowed tape

Does your Special Collections or archives have an email newsletter? I would love to subscribe! Point the way? 📜

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

“The only trait less discriminating than gender for identification purposes is perhaps, ‘Are you human?’”