Nelson Rare Books

Congrats!

I’m hoping for Hardest Times.

I demand superrrrrr gritty remakes of Dickens. And strong accents without subtitles.

MAGA can’t stop me from wearing Tricker’s.

I loved Twitter, despite its many imperfections.

Then Elon Musk fucked up Twitter beyond all recognition.

I will never, ever forgive him for that.

I now love Bluesky, despite its many imperfections.

With all due respect please don’t fuck up Bluesky, or I will never, ever forgive you.

Thank you.

VC guy joined as CEO…

I will gladly pay for Bluesky in its current form.

I will leave the second it turns towards Twitter.

Please don’t turn this into a crypto/right wing/techbro hellscape.

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

One thought I often have is that the gig economy emerging alongside the rapid escalation of economic inequality is actually the slow reemergence of the servant class in public life.

Eh I just saw the clip. I’m not sure it was intentional. Nothing like the Musk salute.

Ok so if the wives stay home, that means the husbands will be union employees and can afford two kids, a car, a house, and retire on a nice pension?

Thanks for the support.

I’ve always thought they were useless, like the appendix of the brow.

Screw it, I’m getting rid of me eyebrows

And 1/3 of us are just trolls.

I’ve gotten in many a fight for saying those exact words.

If you’re a Republican president.

Come to America, it started today!

The ayatollah is dead. Long live the ayatollah!!!!

Woo getting medical tourism advertising on IG.

So Bentley’s and cheap veneers in Cancun…

My spouse hates my rule that if I fly solo, I have to be in business class.

This forces her to tag along on my adventures. ❤️

Lucky! This winter has been awful here.

You doing Firsts or PBFA London in May?

Part of a page of a medieval manuscript that had a hole cut into it. Underneath it is a restoration of a large decorated B, which would have been in this place, and which was restored by Eliza. The letter emulates the medieval style of script, but the image inside it is in a late 18th century style, showing a verdant tree standing against a green bucolic landscape.

In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e

68° in Jersey, time to tan my toned abs.

I’ve benefited from the mentorship of many incredible women, and I think often about how so many of them built their careers in a time when there were very few other women at all in their fields. They paved the way for people like me. Raise a toast to our foremothers today.

Exactly how many people is the sushi “boat” supposed to serve?

One is an acceptable answer.

I only eat via tasting menus. After 4 months, it has becoming very taxing on my spouse.

You’re not allowed in the band!

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

They just pass strict laws to get rid of their competition…