Delighted that Sophie Weinberg’s “The Matrilineal Printing House: Recovering the Printing Lineage of Widow Stationers in the Seventeenth-century English Book Trade” won the @womenshistnet.bsky.social 2025 MA Dissertation Prize! Go Sophie!
womenshistorynetwork.org/winner-of-th...
Oh, every one is always nostalgic for the geocites era web but when somebody actually makes a platform that crashes every 10 minutes, suddenly everybody wants future technology, I see how it is.
1837 color drawing, a plan of the interior of the Tomba delle Bighe (Tomb of the Chariots) showing the frescos, the sarcophagus (now in the British Museum 1838,0608.8) and its contents. It can easily be printed and cut out, everything folding into place to form a 3D version of the tomb. Other cut-outs include all four sides and top of the sarcophagus and the grave goods - mostly armor. Pen and ink and bodycolour inlaid into a second sheet of paper. Verso: faint graphite sketch of the interior of the tomb. British Museum, London (2016,5002.1)
Here's some paper cut-out fun for the whole family: an #Etruscan tomb, complete with 3D sarcophagus, frescoes, *and* grave goods!
This print in the #BritishMuseum was probably from Campanari's 1837 exhibition of Etruscan and Greek antiquities at Pall Mall, London. Print it out! 🏺 1/
My Uni told me contingent positions keep eating its early career post-docs so I asked how many EC scholars it has and it said it just goes to the shelter and gets a new EC scholar afterwards so I said it sounds like it’s just feeding EC scholars to con. pos. and then its grad students started crying
They’re not wrong, though.
Okay CTA. This is a good sign.
This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC.
"All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources."
blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
I called my rep and cried on the phone to a very nice young man who took down my message. 5 Calls is great. You don't need a script although they have them on the website. Just ask your Congresspeople to do anything they can to stop the president from committing genocide.
Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country.
Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.
Not to mention mall restrictions, closing arcades, and they defunded every bit of teen programming possible at the libraries, closed all the community centers, and refuse to fund after-school and weekend events...
if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships
Just saying, every time I go to typeset something longer the limits of available type etc force me to edit down. In conclusion, let's fund a thousand booklabs w/some of that AI money + make sure we teach & share the joy of slow ways to think+write
If you're in Rutherford County, TN send an email to their library board to show your support for Director Luanne James! Contact info here: rclstn.org/libraryboard...
David Lynch "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE!"
Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️⚧️❤️
It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.
If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.
Everyone give this a share after.
Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility and I'll take the opportunity to once again say that trans people matter, their lives have meaning, and what's being done to them by so many politicians and people in this country is wrong.
I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.
I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.
If you want a new-found appreciation of early modern visual culture, teach yourself linocut and try and replicate famous woodcuts from the period. Here’s The Spanish Tragedy.
We have to be more casually vocal about hating Harry Potter. I don't know if most people know what's going on
Casually going "Ugh, you know jk Rowling is like, a crazy far right bigot now right? Yeah, she went off the deep end" has gotten a lot of people to look into this in my experience
"and away we go!"
My favorite photo of the Creature
"Most people don't fall into homelessness. They are pushed... There is not a single state, city or county in the US where a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour or the prevailing local minimum wage can afford a two-bedroom home at fair market rent.”
a man lying on a hospital bed hugging another man in the bed
an older woman, holding tha hand of an emaciated man lying on a hospital bed
nurse leaning in and kissing a person on a hospital bed
man holding the hand of an man in a hospital bed, they are gazing at each other lovingly
Memories from the heart of the Aids crisis
Gideon Mendel’s The Ward began in 1993 when he spent a number of weeks on the Charles Bell wards in London’s Middlesex Hospital. All the patients on the ward were dying with the knowledge that there was no cure for the disease.
gideonmendel.com/the-ward/
Re Chavez:
Thread for sexual assault survivors/victims (however you see yourself is ok!) and people supporting them today.
Here are some things that I think are useful. I am not an expert, just someone who has been navigating being public about my experiences, including in media interviews. 🧵
literally have witnessed a male professor be credibly accused of rape and other sexual improprieties not only be “punished” with merely removal from the classroom so he can focus on publishing… but he got tenure and is now associate chair of the department he works in.
A group of rats in beautiful garments, posing for the camera at The Museum of English Rural Life. Each rat is wearing a different costume, inspired by experiences of childhood in historic rural England.
The results have exceeded even our most whimsical expectations.
Meet our rats!
Archives are
neither dusty
nor old stuff
neither dead
nor boring.
Archives are what we make of them.
Each generation, each of us sees diferent things in an item.
Each of us adds something new every time we engage.
Each item in the archives is the sum of all these interactions.
So many students just really want tiny classes where people know their names & they can make friends. They want to have real conversations w real people. They want to have the time & space to build relationships.
It is not an extreme position to want to be able to think for yourself, to write by just typing words in, to learn things from other people or to make art with your hands.
We are not seeing mass protests because universities and colleges criminalized dissent — not just disciplining students on specious grounds but sending police (sometimes more in # than protestors) and supporting prosecutions. Ppl are terrified.
