Due to popular demand, we’ve introduced some new merch designs, including the highly requested village homosexual ifbookspod.dashery.com

After many years, we’ve finally given in and launched a merch store. Only one design for now, but we’ve got shirts, hoodies, hats, mugs, stickers - all the classic items you know and love.

If Books Could Kill: The Podcast: The Table @ifbookspod.bsky.social

🩵 Turquoise Tuesday 🩵 two urushi beauties - Nakaya Piccolo Negoro AMA Iro and Tamenuri Studio spiral kawari-nuri. Notebook from Galen Leather, leaf dish made by a friend #fountainpen

Does anyone who draws comics/draws A LOT with a fountain pen have any beginner guides for maintenance/cleaning? I have a fude pen I really like that I’ve refilled a couple times without issue but I want to make sure

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

The US could use a pro-democracy party and one or two newspapers that share that outlook

No, Elsevier, I don't want to "chat" with a paper on 19th century textiles. I want to read it. Stop making things worse for no reason.

Testing a modification to the herding hens socks by Stone Knits to make stardew valley chickens! I essentially made the chickens more round and have picked up sock yarn in the right colors (beige, brown, black, blue, red and purple!) 🧶🧦🐔🐓 #knitsky #colorwork #stardewvalley

Thursday Theme - a pen rainbow for Pride month. I appreciate all the lovely LGBTQIA+ folks in the pen community. #pridemonth🌈 #fountainpen

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social & @notalawyer.bsky.social Could we please get some @ifbookspod.bsky.social merch? It'd be so awesome to have a "One Book Theory" sticker!

Starting off #AHAReads with the perfect Pride Month history, Charity and Sylvia, which has been on my shelf for too long.

A week late but finally got my first #AHAReads book in the mail!! I’m reading Fierce Desires by Rebecca L. Davis to check off “Read a history of a resistance movement”

I am not the only parent hanging out at soccer practice with a book. But I *am* the only one reading a history of Mormonism in America. @benjaminepark.bsky.social #AHAReads

Amid 🔥🔥🔥 I've recommitted to reading novels and non-fiction this summer, reading for pleasure though can't fully get the nerd out of this nerd. #AHAReads First up, the brilliant Tricia Hersey (of The Nap Ministry), Rest Is Resistance thenapministry.wordpress.com/about/

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Sometimes the food goes bad before you use it. Then what? Just don't be like Salamon Salamon! In 1390, the London fishmonger was charged w/ hiding his bad eels in someone else's cellar. This was his second offense: earlier he was caught slipping rotting eels into a local well! 🗃️🧪

Meanwhile there are still children stitching trainers in sweatshops around the globe. Priorities?

I am currently knitting this amazing pattern designed by Lanja Khon-Engheim and recommended by @isasaxonists.bsky.social and it has me wondering if someone more skilled at patterns with me wants to draw up an abolish ice pattern...

It’s a good day for knitting. #knitsky

Happy #WIPWednesday Everyone! What #creative things have you been up to this week? I've been #knitting away on a wrap that'll be a present for a friend of mine.

Today is #InternationalYarnbombingDay Here are a selection of examples from our archives. If you have yarnbombing images to submit, please email them to us at [email protected] or tag us, preferably with location details, photographer, date and artist where known. Thank you

At a customer's request, we applied 'Aka-tame' finish to a Pelikan M800. It turned out elegant! #fountainpen

Black women in textile arts reimagine the artform as a means of storytelling and identity.

also want to add that the fountain pen peeps avoid noodler's and goulet for a bunch of reasons (actual antisemitism on noodler's end, homophobia on goulet's)

Like many of you, I'm starting out #AHAReads with the book that's been sitting on my shelf too long. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae Ngai (2004). press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

It's time for #AHAReads, brainchild of @lmansley.bsky.social and launched by AHA staff a few years ago b/c we like to read and wanted a fun thing to do together over the summer. I'm reading an essay from @zelizer.bsky.social's edited volume The Presidency of Donald J. Trump for my first task.

Trump losing money on an investment is so perfectly on brand that it hurts

It's a corruption-off! It's a corruption-off!

Catnip Pickle by MindysPerson etsy.me/3PPDmKP

There's a tendency to think that if something that's happening is ridiculous, it must not be important--which you'd think we'd all understand is not true in the Trump era, but no.

Happy #AHAReads season!! My first pick this summer is Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell for the "read a history that uses material culture" task 👗

Already saw at least one Dem Congressman making the same point about denaturalization and just begging, begging people not to descend to the level of calling for stripping the citizenship of people you don't like.

Yes. Any who think they could/ should bring him into the fold needs to own this.

(Watching two dudes bitchslap each their own *social* media platform through screenshots on a third social media platform. We may just need a restoration of sanity at some point in the near future.)

I get why people think everything is a distraction. But this appears to be a genuine falling out between the two most powerful people in the country. Fascists are just messy and their power struggles always get weird. There are a lot of awful things still happening, but this isn't a distraction.

Yup. My first thought was… they need to get some lawyers. My second thought was, the amount of damage they could do by holding some of those systems hostage is insane.

The national security and cybersecurity impacts of this Trump-Musk fallout are out of this world. Musk and the DOGE boys have their tentacles all up in just about every system that supports US government function…

Musk’s legacy is of extraconstitutional destruction, an irreversible government brain drain, and a spree of massive corruption the scale of which is still unknown. https://trib.al/xnoMlaD

you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to elon musk”

The Conflict now reached Wikipedia War page territory

Naturalized citizenship can be taken away through a full federal court trial, at which the government has to meet a fairly high bar to prove that the person procured their citizenship through material fraud. It’s a good thing this bar is high: taking away citizenship should be extremely rare.

I'm just looking forward to the day when RFK Jr's ego finally collides with Donald Trump. Because you know it's coming.

IMAGINE HAVING TO EXPLAIN THIS SKEET ABOUT A TWEET TO AN ACADEMIC CONFERENCE.

And these people claim gender studies isn't a thing!

Thank you for the stern scolding but it’s actually possible to both enjoy two malignant rich fucks viciously falling out and understand it doesn’t fix every problem immediately.

guys don't let the massive scandal about a billionaire buying influence in the current administration distract from our core message, which is that billionaires are bad.

once again I must tap my own sign