@lynnemthomas.com
Rare Book #Librarian, bereaved parent of Caitlin, #geek. 12x Hugo Award winner. bi/queer. Head @illinoisrbml.bsky.social; Verity podcast; ex-ed/pub Uncanny Mag. #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. #DoctorWho New book: https://alastore.ala.org/infiniteloop
Just in case you haven't heard about it yet: I loved the Oscar-nominated short film "Jane Austen's Period Drama," which literally made me LOL several times and brought me a great deal of joy!
Romancelandia, this is very much Our Shit™.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxpj...
Reminds me of this brilliant image: bsky.app/profile/dbel...
A detail from the Mélusine (GW12659, fol. 1r), printed in 1478, showing a human face as part of a Initial looking towards the beginning of the text part.
close reading in 1478
Me, foam-rolling my quads and calves after multiple classes in the studio and walking back to work, and making some noise about it.
Hugo the cat: ARE YOU OKAY PLAY WITH ME I BITE HEY HEY HEY I FIX IT *head boop* *head boop* *head boop* *flop*
No, payment for the vast majority of writers has always been low and even the most celebrated authors of the past century spent a good deal of time being broke as fuck. We have a unique set of circumstances these days driving down wages, but there was never a time when most writers did well.
readers often ask 'whats the best way to support an author?' and while there are MANY ways to do this, the most powerful is clear: PREORDER THE AUTHORS BOOK. i will go into why, but first please consider taking the briefest moment to preorder FABULOUS BODIES: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The back view of a long sleeved long skirted dress in a vibrant pattern of purple waves and yellow flashes. Ruffles and pleats add to the effect of the textile
A partial view of the bodice of the 1830s purple patterned dress showing gathering centre front and a shawl style collar
Only in surviving garments can we appreciate the full technicolour of c19th dye experiments. This late #1830s mohair dress used a pioneering pigment innovation called cudbear developed in Leith, Scotland, resulting in this wildly colourful pattern @NtlMuseumsScot #kelvingrove #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A miniature of the construction of the Tower of Babel, from Boccaccio's Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes (Add MS 35321).
The British Library’s Medieval MSS team now have a presence on Bluesky @blmedieval.bsky.social
Follow for updates as we restore more of our digitised content online!
The important thing is, dinner last night involved a whole bulb of roasted garlic, which I ate BEFORE a night of Buffy the Vampire Slayer-themed dreams.
Two pages of the title pages of a printed book. On the left hand side is an engraved image of William Cavendish, a man in late 17th century dress.
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was a prolific writer, thinker and scientist in the late 17th century. Despite the fact she herself couldn't speak Latin, her dual biography of her and her husband, William Cavendish, was published in Latin in 1668.
#WomensHistoryMonth #BritishScienceWeek
A long sleeveless cream satin ballgown decorated with gold trelliswork and floral embroidery
A black and white photograph of women embroiderers from the 1940s working for Norman Hartnell. Two women are working at a frame in front of them beading a piece of silk
An embroidery sample showing a spray of flowers created by Hartnell’s embroiderers for the coronation gown of Queen Elizabeth II
Happy International Women’s Day! Acknowledging the hands of countless women in the needle trades through the lens of the women in Norman Hartnell’s embroidery workroom. Their legacy survives in the glittering gowns they embellished. Dress 1950s #RCT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Front view of an emerald green silk halter neck pantsuit with wide draped sleeves, a scarf at the neck and a tie sash belt
Back view of the dermal green pantsuit that shows a cocoon style coat drape at the back that scoops and narrows towards the ankles and is wider and looser at the top
A black and white photograph of the designer Halston in a roll neck sweater and a pale suit standing with Liza Minnelli who is wearing the green pantsuit
For a seventies queen, Liza Minnelli wore this brilliant green pantsuit by Halston to Studio 54 for a charity event. Here she is with the man himself looking absolutely glorious. Mark Payne collection, photo by Al Rendon, on display #ellennoelartmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
I can’t recommend eating modern books. Those inks are full of petrochemicals. Chewing on rag paper or parchment or a piece of papyrus, maybe? Oak gall ink won’t kill you. Some inks and traditional conservation treatments might have unintended effects…
Two exercise classes this morning, followed by lunch with a friend and groceries was apparently a bit much and I needed a little lie-down after my shower.
Now to make dinner. Tonight's plan is couch.
Happy birthday @keffy.bsky.social !
Same. I’m not a fan of random jet lag without the benefit of travel.
Oh, right. The time change means getting up in the dark again for a while. Yay.
This is a key point. In the end they cancelled pretty much ALL the grants, whether the bot deemed them DEI-related or not The ChatGPT assessment was for show, not determinative, but it enshrined “efficiency” as the top priority and steamrolled over any scruples about process.
A burger with crispy edges and a lot of fries.
Dinner at The Space before hanging out with friends. This is the Oklahoma smashburger, with duck fat fries.
If there were an elevated version of White Castle, this is it. And I absolutely mean that as a compliment.
A good overview of the incompetent and nonsensical (but not unexpected) way DOGE ripped apart the NEH last spring, leading to hundreds of cancelled grants for petty reasons. I'm grateful to @historians.org and co-plantiffs for challenging these actions in federal court.
WITNESS ME, for I have completed tax prep other than one form I'm waiting for and have followed up on. Once I receive it, they are ready to go to the accountant.
I put off buying the “cloud hoodie” from Popflex foreverrr because they are really fucking cute and spendy (as is the way of Popflex) but I hit a really good sale and they just came and I’m going to MARRY THEM. SO COMFY.
#2: Jones gets an apology in a Louisiana defamation case
americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2026/03/02/5...
Dropped off my primary ballot. Here's a reminder to get to yours if your state is also in its early voting period.
a four-panel stick-figure cartoon panel one: three standing figures. from left to right, a guy wearing a necktie looking at his phone, an angry MAGA guy yelling FUCK YOUR FUCKIN POST FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU, and a rando just standing there like an NPC. panel two: the guy looking at his phone shows MAGA guy his hand, causing MAGA to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where fuckface once was. a green-bordered in-game message appears, reading "+2 Mental Health." now the rando is suddenly interested. panel three: as our man continues doom-scrolling, a sly grin on his face, the rando on the right puts on a punch-me face and snarls: "Typical lefty, blocking everyone who disagrees with-" panel four phone guy shows the hand to punch-me face, causing the rando to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where that dickhead was. a green-bordered in-game message appears again, reading "+2 Mental Health."
In retrospect, my choice to attend @smithcollege.bsky.social was important for similar reasons. Four years of not having to make myself smaller feels even more revolutionary now.
Paula Doress-Worters, who died Feb. 21, had given birth in late 1966, at a time when postpartum depression — experienced by an estimated 1 in 8 women after childbirth — hardly had a name.
“They said, ‘It’s just baby blues, you’ll get over it.’”
Watched this so often back in the day.
I believe it's for this sweatshirt specifically via Bikini Kill's Bandcamp
