"Well, we cut costs in half by having an AI do this transcription work, but then we had to spend the same amount of time as usual going through and fixing the errors..." then DID you cut costs in half? 🤔

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

Don’t talk to me or my son ever again

LIBRARIAN ACHIEVEMENT: got a paper cut on my ear from one of these bad boys

Don’t talk to me or my son ever again

a reminder, again, that AltNPS is a grifter account run by people who have no affiliation with the National Park Service and indeed who never did have any affiliation with the National Park Service. They have no sources, they have no information, they are purely there to scam you.

>> joins the Grolier Club after the traditional hullaballoo >> waits excitedly for the first member list with my name in it >> receives list >> they've misspelled my name

I have so much imposter syndrome when writing about video games... my biggest Gamer Achievement was getting all of the stars in Mario 64. Since then, it's been Katamari and casual games all the way down for me (with the exception of Pentiment)

Pack it in boys, somebody else achieved our greatest triumph in stucco construction

Watching the recording of @jesawyer.bsky.social 's "Painting on Silicon" lecture about the making of Pentiment and feeling nostalgic for when the game came out... that was such an exciting time to be a book historian/medievalist! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeVO...

Currently kicking my own ass over the fact I didn’t read Eco’s “Travels in Hyperreality” as I read Eco’s “Travels in Hyperreality” and blow through sticky flags at a terrifying pace

Great Exhibition day in British Design History class means getting out collection items that are a) certified bangers and b) fucking HUGE

Pack it in boys, somebody else achieved our greatest triumph in stucco construction

The idea that digitization is a preservation strategy is not at all popular among archivists (including us digital specialists) and as organizational policy basically always originates from administrators (even with disciplinary training) who don’t understand the issue.

I love how happily this little 1710 painter is looking at his work :’)

"Not only is “personal collections” more accurate, in my experience it also draws students’ attention to a number of questions that they don’t ask about the term “archive.” ... Collected by whom? Collected why? For what purpose? These are the questions we are trying to teach as historians."

New year, new me [putting all of my sticky note pads in a reasonable pile rather than strewn across my desk]

Guess who's teaching #PopBibliography at @calrbs.bsky.social again!✨ Applications are open NOW! www.calrbs.org/english-pale...

Guess who's teaching #PopBibliography at @calrbs.bsky.social again!✨ Applications are open NOW! www.calrbs.org/english-pale...

Some book trade ephemera for the cold weather: a piece of frost fair ephemera printed on the frozen River Thames by (or for) Mrs Sarah Baker on 18 January 1715/16 and probably later pasted into a book. Part of a collection assembled by A. N. L. Munby and now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Munby.b.131.

Look I KNOW Circle Back Day is not the ideal day to still be down with a stomach bug but is it too much to ask for the world to be a little gentle to me today 🥹

Are any NAVSA people interested in putting together a panel about London and/or art history for the 2026 "Traffic" theme? I have some work on livestock, bridges, and train depots and would welcome some companionship. traffic2026.ucr.edu/call-for-pap...

The first episode of the spring season of our #HagleyHistoryHangout podcast premiered today! Check out the rest of the terrific line up. Please like, subscribe, and share!

Hey guys, I’ve been writhing on the floor with a stomach bug all day, what’d I miss

Oh my god we need to tax the rich

My favorite guys!!

browsing the internet used to feel like you were uncovering hidden new zones and getting rid of fog of war now it’s like a bunch of cannibal maniacs are chasing after you with crossbows trying to roast you alive

I don’t really believe in ghosts, but if I did, I would say that one just caused an entire stack of foam wedges to be ejected from their shelf, because I’m the only person in today 🙃

Dragging my limp body through making the first accessions of the year, I'm god's bravest curator

This is starting to attract commenters who are conflating illiterate book ownership with "books as decor" and "well EYE think books as objects are important" so I'm restricting comments for the first time on this platform

I am, for some reason, in the office today,

why does the materiality not simply eat the text

Unforeseen challenge of writing about Pop Bibliography: having to try to remember how to spell Thievius Raccoonus repeatedly

Reading a not very good article and came across this FASCINATING line: "For a long time, since many people who owned books could not read them, the physical nature of books was more important than their [...] content." Girl WHAT

1600 words on NYE ain’t too shabby! Here’s to a bunch more words in 2026 🍾

Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC's first Muslim mayor on a Qur'an from the personal collection of the great Afro-Boricua intellectual Arturo Schomburg—as well as Qur'ans owned by Mamdani's grandparents. www.nypl.org/press/schomb...

Come on man!!

Nooooo my NYE read of Michael Thompson's "Rubbish Theory" 😭

If we lived in a just media landscape, this would now be a trilogy.

"I never see you at the club" ok well I never see you reading Bill Brown's "Thing Theory" and saying "bruh" to yourself every few pages ewa.home.amu.edu.pl/Brown,%20Thi...

Bumper sticker that says “My other car is an illuminated manuscript”

I call this my “what the fuck is a thing” research pile

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

DAMN this goes hard

Go Birds 🦅

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

TL;DR be a decent human, do the work, and make some friends. The rest is just dumb fucking luck, but even if you don’t have the dumb fucking luck, *you will have been a decent human, done some work, and made some friends.*