If you’re looking for something to do this Saturday, come on by the Winterthur Library for our second annual Tattoo Inspiration Open House! 💪 It runs 11-2, and dozens of gorgeous special collections items will be on show: www.winterthur.org/calendar/art...

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

If you’re looking for something to do this Saturday, come on by the Winterthur Library for our second annual Tattoo Inspiration Open House! 💪 It runs 11-2, and dozens of gorgeous special collections items will be on show: www.winterthur.org/calendar/art...

Went to make a cup of tea and found one of my colleagues had evidently enjoyed themselves at the kid's Lego session yesterday. Not sure we've got enough lego to make a full size one though...

us, lightly touching a document: I just need to move you so I can make sure you're properly supported on this table the document, the pages enormous: you SHOVE document? you throw the vellum like a paper aeroplane? oh! oh! jail for archivist! jail for archivist for One Thousand Years!!!!

One thing about me is I’ll dress to match my books 💚 Come see these arsenical bindings from my collection and more cool stuff at the Grolier Club New Members Collect exhibition, up through July 25!

One thing about me is I’ll dress to match my books 💚 Come see these arsenical bindings from my collection and more cool stuff at the Grolier Club New Members Collect exhibition, up through July 25!

Celebrating Pride Month with a gay little haircut and a gay little manicure and a gay little day trip to NYC

Korean #PopBibliography! I hope someone can id the source… though the second two look more fresco-ish to me in style (but they deffo seem situated on a margin)

It's Pride Month, so once again here's Sappho's Reply, one of the most powerful queer poems ever. Written by Rita Mae Brown at the height of the post-Stonewall struggles, it's the origin of "an army of lovers shall not fail/cannot lose." Y'all, we are going to win.

happy pride!!!!!!

Fellow collectors of old books! What do you use to catalog your collection? My almost photographic memory is only getting me so far with mine anymore 🙃

Happy Pride Month! Pauline Trigère’s c1970 evening dress is a welcoming rainbow, expansive and generous in construction for every shade and combination #museumatFIT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡 #Pride2026

I’m pretty sure I’m more nervous about this vet appointment than Jeremy is (mostly because he’s not going to be aware of what’s going on until I have to jam him in a carrier)

Happy Pride! Gayville, SD

June 1st

You know it’s a handiwork day when the Y’all Might tank top comes out

Don’t even think about proposing to me unless you’re going to get on one knee and produce one of these bad boys

(Like, this is actually me! @yazagames.com asked me to be in the game as a manuscript commissioner, and I was like uuuuh YES?!)

It me

Did you know: I’m a character in a video game??

Did you know: I’m a character in a video game??

Today’s archival #tinyjoy is the sparkle of pounce on an early nineteenth century document. The brief iridescence, it’s a reminder that many more technologies were involved in writing than simply pen, paper, and ink 🗃️ #bookhistory

Got cute about Seddon’s 1695 “Pen-mans Paradis,” which I got to hang out with at the San Francisco Public Library last month

Got cute about Seddon’s 1695 “Pen-mans Paradis,” which I got to hang out with at the San Francisco Public Library last month

Faculty: libraries and librarians need your advocacy BEFORE our collections are shuttered and our workers are fired. Whether you think your library is in trouble, and it almost definitely is, write to your provost and tell them how essential the library and library staff are to your work. Right now.

I am so fucking psyched for this

I’ve made quite a bit of progress since the last update! The acanthus leaves have been easy and fun, the fiddly little branches have been less so 💀

In a scrapbook 99% concerned with ads for boots and shoes, we also have an ad for… chameleons

The only data center I support is the microfilm closet✨

There is so much venting about work that I want to do, I’m fucking gnawing on the tables

Sweltering in the UK heatwave?? Why not visit your Local Archival Repository! Low temperatures and humidity GUARANTEED* And we throw in the history for free😍 *by regulatory standard BS4971:2017 Archives - Where the records are cool and so are you.

Frisket Fragment Find Friday 🎉 
Fragment of a frisket reused in a 17th-c. religious binding. Red printed text meant to be excluded remains visible, pointing to a liturgical context. The frisket itself is recycled from a liturgical manuscript. Also present: other fragments of printed binder’s waste.

remember when Google offered unlimited digital storage to colleges and universities and then when adoption reached the right levels rescinded that promise, capped everything, and started pricing those services without the subsidies? idk man just something I think about a lot

Irresistible

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

She is, apparently, irresistible

another beautiful day of looking at screens ahead of us

When all is said and done, I will have hosted 14 library events in May; there are 21 working days in May, so this averages out to damn near an event a day for a month 💀

I love my country Philadelphia

In a time without an academic job market in many fields, publishing is not really a push-factor anymore to get a permanent position within the humanities. This is not a hot take, we are simply too many publishing (great) stuff, and there are no jobs. There are no jobs. That’s about it.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

You’ve heard of Between Two Ferns, now get ready for: also that

You’ve heard of Between Two Ferns, now get ready for: also that

We support women in STEM Studying Those Exciting Manuscripts

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

I think it should be illegal for both work and the world at large to be [redacted] at the same time