Blue jays sure have loud feelings.
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Blue jays sure have loud feelings.
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Here’s the Yale Center for British Art’s statement on use of the term “artist now unknown”:
“We use this phrase to signal that the artist's identity was known at one time and may be discovered through future research.”
When I leave a ramshackle used bookshop without having acquired any books, I feel like Galadriel. I have passed the test and may now diminish into the west.
It was “at the tone”! “At the tone, the time will be…”
Not only did the US, per its own ‘intelligence,’ bomb this girls primary school, THEY BOMBED IT TWICE.
www.reutersconnect.com/item/the-pri...
I was thinking about how it might not feel like it’s repeating if I wandered around in different places, encountering such different people and things.
I’m always grateful for your ponderings and that they can lead to such wonderful stories.
I’m trying to decide if I’d rather be a ghost tethered to a small space or to a small time (one hour? One minute?) and I’m not sure I could choose.
The United States switches to daylight savings time on Sunday. 🕰️
I remember calling time, a phone number that would give you the time at the sound of the beep, to make sure I set my watch and clocks as precisely as I could.
“One of the great weaknesses of our era is we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort, more like caregiving than it is like war.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
Two exhibition notes:
•A Chinese artist working in the Malacca Strait created it
•The paper used has a watermark of the British papermaker Whatman & Balston and a countermark of the East India Company. (They made it for the company’s export and use.)
collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:...
Matted watercolor and gouache on paper of a leafy, fruiting bread nut plant. Lush green in the detailed veins and juicy fruit cut in half on left side
I could get lost in these lush leaves.
A bread nut, created by “artist now unknown” (a phrase I like) (1825), from the Yale Center for British Art’s East India Company exhibition
pen and black & brown ink, gray wash, gouache, and graphite of a rhinoceros with head down and text on left and right above the rhino
This rhinoceros is marvelous and reminds me of early mod rhino illustrations.
Gangaram Chintaman Navgire Tambat, A Rhinoceros in the Peshwa's Menagerie at Poona (1790), held by the Yale Center for British Art
During a class session at the library yesterday, the professor and their students gathered around early modern music partbooks and sang! It was such a joy.
If you care about free and fair election this November, this is the most important story of the day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Beautiful!
A sunny morning after a day of sleet and rain lets the wet, bare tree branches glisten like stars.
Bsky mayor hired by Bsky! They’re lucky to have you.
I’m so sorry that you and your family are suffering, Layan. I contributed and hope you can soon have safety, health, and gentle days.
So good. I still have my 1989 stereo and my discman and so many CDs, though I removed all the jewel cases for more compact storage. I still can’t believe cassettes are back but I loved making mixtapes. What times!
Oh I love this! The translation between media may fail in this instance but I think they’re asking the right questions.
This image from 1588 shows a tree with big bound books grewing instead of fruits. This tree starts in a house organ that is played from a well-dressed woman and a man. The image of part of. abook praising the art of making books, you may find it here if you fancy: http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/uh-20/start.htm
Back in 1588, everyone still knew that book trees grow better when there's music around, and when you speak to them. Attention and house organ music were the key.
They’re gorgeous! So glad you shared them.
One of the most cherished institutions in special collections. I hope they find someone worthy to take the post (wish I could apply!).
OCASIO-CORTEZ STATEMENT ON TRUMP'S COMBAT OPERATIONS IN IRAN "The American people are once again dragged into a war they did not want by a president who does not care about the long-term consequences of his actions. This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic. "Just this week, Iran and the United States were negotiating key measures that could have staved off war. The President walked away from these discussions and chose war instead.President Trump flippantly acknowledged the possibility of American casualties, stating "that often happens in war.' "Mr. President: this was not an inevitability. This is a deliberate choice of aggression when diplomacy and security were within reach. Stop lying to the American people. "Violence begets violence. We learned this lesson in Iraq. We learned this lesson in Afghanistan. And we are about to learn it again in Iran. Bombs have yet to create enduring democracies in the region and this will be no different. "In moments of war, our Constitution is unambiguous: Congress authorizes war. The President does not. I will do my part to uphold our Constitution by voting YES on Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's War Powers Resolution. Every member of Congress must join us in rejecting this aimless war.
My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️
JOB ALERT 📜📚
Librarian & executive director of Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library (Farmington, CT)
•Research center for 18th-century Britain
•You’d report to the fabulous Michelle Light
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
This sounds wonderful, Elaine!
The judges in WV have seen enough.
They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
These are gorgeous! (They’re printed, rather than hand-drawn.) Thanks for sharing them!