Large format poster with a detail of a patchwork quilt and the title “American Communities 1776-2026”

You know the exhibit is almost done when the poster arrives 😅

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

The AO article doesn’t mention it but Dickens did write a letter suggesting Grip was murdered! He also admitted in a different letter that it was probably all the lead paint Grip drank, so we’ll hold out for the ghost verdict.

This is what social media is for

I searched "data center coloring book" because I was trying to decide if I should make one and found this, from a power management company, and I don't think I can top this www.eaton.com/explore/_pfc...

If you come at lunchtime I’ll be insulting Frenchmen and making butt jokes in chapter 91: The Pequod Meets the Rose-Bud

There is a disturbing amount of computer-based work in elementary school now and it’s just … not good for kids brains, bodies, or eyes

Are you a student in archives, museum studies, or information studies? Do you know one?

@saa-snap.bsky.social, the Students section of the Society of American Archivists, has two calls open—poster proposals and committee nominations. 🧵

Typecasting / typesetting station with a mix of books, type, and hand moulds

Substrate station, hastily assembled with unbound sheets once our light sheet RIP’d

Imposition!!!! It doesn’t look like much so I’ll have to clown extra hard.

Illustration technologies. No litho stone, yet…

It’s the greatest day of the year: ENGLISH MAJORS COLLOQUIUM DAY!!!!

The first half is material text stations: typecasting/setting, substrates, imposition 😍😍😍, illustration technologies, and signs of use. Then we make books but I’ll be too busy bansheeing to document that…

“I have the memory of a goldfish,” I say apologetically to my coworkers, who cannot see me remember-singing every word to “Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks”

“You used to be able to do something nice online, and now you can’t” is definitely a starting point for analysis that resonates well with the young people

“Polyethylene strapping price hike” really gonna bring the war to the home front

I saw him as the midline on a Moldy Peaches / They Might Be Giants bill and every attendee was flummoxed by whatever 2/3 they had not come to see.

Remember Google Search? Damn. That was actually pretty useful.

white supremacist academic don’t look like dr. bunsen honeydew challenge

Photo of an archives box with the following label: “HEAVY Record Group 5 / 117 EDITH VERLANDEN PASCHALL PAPERS Series 8: Bricks Box 4 HEAVY”

Garfield hates Mondays joke

…like, what is the mandate here?

Here is my best Habermas story.

I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

I’m sorry, Habermas was ALIVE???

False spring trojan horsed me into washing and storing all our flannel sheets. goddamn Odysseus-ass 80 degree Wednesday.

I, for one, thank Netflix for bringing back the weekly episode release so my instructional parallels still work. It was rough out there in the age of the full season drop.

The worst thing about no longer working for the government is I can’t yell “GOOD ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK” anymore

When I give talks about the exploitation of GLAM by the AI industry I’m always asked “how can we defend ourselves from bots scraping our metadata?” I have no idea. That’s a question for an engineer. What I can and do say is that we shouldn’t be supporting this industry in the first place.

“It's like the domino theory, but in reverse.” “Yeah, yeah. Exactly.”

My favorite part of the group chat is where we team read the latest Chotiner murder

Meme in the "I bring a sort of '___' vibe" template, with the following text: I bring a sort of "[Why does digitization have to involve creating more metadata?]" vibe to [the digitization breakout group] that [some library workers] don't really like

🫣

Jury’s still out on whether undergrads find me cool (…) but let me say that today they were definitely impressed by my 4yo’s elite taste in Charli XCX tracks

The English Dept is hosting one next month! I wanted to do the chapter about whales-as-paper-sizes but I was cautioned it would occur at like 11pm

Screenshot of a submitted “Moby-Dick Reader signup” Google form

Oh heck yes

Between politically motivated take-downs, the things going behind log-ins due to AI scraping, and the things being taken offline because they're PDFs, 2026 is going to be a record year for collections loss online.