When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

Texas Christmas when half of your family does competition BBQ

It’s hard to feel like it’s Christmas when it’s nearly 80 degrees outside 🥵

Merry Christmas from your holiday dads

I’m with these Christmas angels, Bentley, Oliver, Archie, and Zoey

My aunt asked me if I want any Tabasco for my quiche and my mom said “no he likes using the butt” meaning the Fuzzy’s Butt Burning Sauce but also 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals! I’ve been a mix of nice and naughty, and I hope you all have been too

We do, in fact, live in a nation full of hated and deceit. And Trump is a sociopathic rapist who thrives off of discord, no matter how much you want to “pretend” he doesn’t. I am honestly so sick of these disgustingly privileged and delusional takes

Roadtrip

i'm sure i'll hear from people who will say OU faculty are working under intense pressure & don't have power and stuff, and let me just say in advance that you don't have much of anything if you can't back your grad workers giving an undergrad a 0 for not reading the article or doing the assignment!

i know academia is bad everywhere and faculty are generally feckless cowards with no moral integrity, but i'm stunned by the faculty here; almost as stunned as i am by the media misrepresenting the student's essay as "citing" the bible when she didn't cite the bible, or read the article, or anything

Some holiday Zuzu to cleanse your feed

I love working with rare books and printing press history, but if I didn’t do that I would like to work with cheese 🧀

Reprising my annual holiday role of curator of charcuterie (like any good gay) 🧀 🥒 🥖 🍖 🍒

Malcolm @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social and I have been seriously discussing a roundtable on bibliography and the Trump admin (the textuality of fascism) & this just really cements that we need to pursue this at some point.

This was entirely about purging a trans instructor from the school and they succeeded. It was aided by a lot of dumb liberals taking it at face value arguing the minutia of grading rubrics while ignoring the obvious bad faith efforts behind this.

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

My millennial heart is so happy watching everyone pirate and share the 60 Minutes piece like we’re all on 2002 Napster.

At the airport and there are two children barking at each other

This, for goodness sake! The amazing Boston Public Library does a great job locally, but it still takes staff hours that have to come from somewhere!!

Are there any new holiday/Christmas movies this year that are genuinely good? I cannot keep watching Elf, Christmas Story, Home Alone, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Santa Clause, etc etc every single year or I will die

Trying to mentally prepare myself today for the chaos of the airport tomorrow

But George Soros and the liberal Illuminati are manipulating the world, right?

You're mad because you expect a "software update" to make things work better. You will only be free when you understand this to be an illusion and accept the fact that software is suffering

I said this 10 months ago, and I just want to reiterate it. You absolutely must boycott everything at the Kennedy center. There are so many universities in the DMV that have amazing performing arts programs. Go support their programming instead!

Definitely spoken by someone who has never worked in a library!

December 2025 PBSA is out! We've got Ahmed El Shamsy on Ibn al-Nadīm's 10th century bibliography of all books in Arabic, a descriptive bibliography of The Water-Babies, printing history of Poissons, & an exploration of bib notes from diverse perspectives! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pbsa/202...

The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)

New hydroflask sticker just dropped

I’m ready for my library work party tomorrow (though Rare Book Librarians are always a little naughty 😈)

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

Trump does illegal and sociopathic things every week, sometimes multiple times a week. And everyone with power, Democrats and Republicans, just collectively move on after the media makes money off of it and they use it for their fundraising.

Would you be surprised if I told you people are emailing special collections libraries/archives asking about or to see books & collections that do not exist because AI hallucinated them?

I’m in a mood where I’ve been obsessively listening to Swan Lake in its entirety multiple days in a row, a mood I haven’t been in since I was a music major in undergrad Send help

Seeing Hamnet— what do the Shakespeareans think?

My boyfriend might be the only person on earth under the age of 40 who can pull off this style of hat

welcome to bluesky it’s kinda like this

I really need the straights to go back to vaccinating their kids because I can't keep seeing pictures of people with measles on my feed! 🥴

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

A little nineteenth-century garden inside our 1749 Albinus tables (Newsprint from 1891– presumably the plants, too. We love some acidic stuff stuck in our eighteenth-century anatomical book 💀)

It finally happened. One of our fabulous @umdbooklab.bsky.social interns, @isabelleberube.bsky.social, printed (with movable type!) the entire first page of Benjamin’s WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION. That’s all handset type. They have ambitions to do more. 🤯

I'm reviewing the 2025 approved Library of Congress Subject Headings and we now have "Robots in the performing arts," "Ramen/noodle industry," and "Harp in motion pictures" (among many, many others). When will we get "Ragebait" as a subject heading?

Adding this example to the guest lecture I routinely give on the politics of typography www.huffpost.com/entry/rubio-...

Got to make this fun one for a reading group for @sinsleyh.bsky.social , and they even made a cake when they finished.

"and here's the money shot!" *shows Caxton's printer's mark*

Name a better duo, I’ll wait

Please don't let the fear of not doing something well stop you from trying it for the first time. Write a messy story. Paint a crappy flower. Whittle the worst wooden bear of all time. The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.

Misconception: rare books = incunabula, 1st editions, fancy provenance, etc. Special collections also build tomorrow’s archival record today! Here are some examples of recent acquisitions from The Gallery Press---our stewardship today ensures tomorrow’s researchers have access to small press works!

working with rare books means I can't dress for winter because my floor is always 71 degrees --- we might be the only academic building that isn't freezing when it's below 40 outside. layers w/ a sweater is suffocating me today despite it being 39 outside