Rebecca

very afraid that my latest favorite food of all time is not made for the American import market

the easy to find spicy chili crisp stuff is nice! definitely enjoy it! however.

have just discovered that my introduction to the glory that is chili crisp was actually chili crisp with pork slivers, which is MUCH MORE DIFFICULT to find in stores

I spent some time today browsing through the hundreds & hundreds of new (to us) image cuts at Skeuomorph & pulling out my favorites. There are so many options, but the winner may be this little frog riding his velocipede

Not feeling well today, but I did recently do a quick print per @plach.bsky.social & @quinnanya.me's suggestion (see Pam's 🧵 on uni-corporate-admin "ethically" ramming corp brand use into our work)... w/a bit extra against anti-human tech, courtesy of my infinitely reusable beckoning Luddite block:

I also screenshotted this part to send to all my friends to make them read this and tbh (no pressure) I want like fifteen sequels

MY HEART

Free Online Talk · The Key is in the Images—Using Rare Books to Create Tarot Cards with Elisabeth Brander & Angela He — Morbid Anatomy Join Elisabeth Brander and Angela He, the rare book librarians at Becker Medical Library, who are introducing a new Major Arcana tarot deck they created, along with its historical sources that inspire...

My colleague and I are chatting about our library Tarot project on May 18!

The Submarine of Czechia: Or, The Life of a Spy at Mar-a-Lago A version of this short story was originally published in Flaming Hydra, an art collective I'm proud to be a part of. This is most definitely a work of...

so what happened was, i read nine john le carré books, then i saw the pictures of the preposterous drapery SCIF at mar a lago where the iran war was being conducted, and then i thought about how many spies there must be at that place

and then i wrote a short story

buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Frontispiece and title page of Vox Piscis, or The Book-Fish, contayning three treatises which were found in the belly of a cod-fish in Cambridge market, on Midsummer Eve last

In 1626, a Cambridge fishwife sliced open a cod, only to find a gelatinous, half-dissolved manuscript inside. It was published the next year under the name "Vox Piscis or, the Bookfish." At this point, why not get your news from inside a dead fish? #earlymodern #bookfish archive.org/details/bim_...

Hey as of April we’ll be back to London and Frankfurt!

Let me tell you something. Y’all are asking too many damn questions at every point of sale. I have to leave a comment, make a suggestion, donate to a charity, choose a method of payment three times and then multiple choice of ways to get a receipt.

Take the damn money and leave me alone.

This is fascinating. Now I want to know if there are special categories for highlighter vs pen, or “clearly this was a hate-read” or “gave up at a really funny point”

Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

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...

For International Woman’s Day, a thread.

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

lmao I was in fact assigned to a seat right beside someone in this 25% dull airplane

but the flight attendant let me scoot across the aisle

bless

my parents would call this divine grace

oh hot damn there are only 36 of us on this flight

ugh I’m too lazy to log in to our herbarium to see if we have specimens and we had to lock the thing down because of the damnable ai scraper bots

Related to this: make yourself a guide alphabet of particularly weird letters characteristic to your particular scribe

tangle of fuzzy silver leaves with a chartreuse three petaled flower (slightly out of focus)

but like. Spanish moss flowers!!! I knew it was an angiosperm but I had never actually seen the flower before

needs more hair, also needs to go much greyer, but

quite possibly

r midday: WHAT IS THIS BINDER WHAT IS THIS BOOK SPANISH MOSS HAS FLOWERS?????
r late afternoon: what do you mean my 10pm flight is an hour delayed
r now: airport cocktails

r one week ago: oh I didn’t know this library was there, I’ll be there for a funeral next week
r last Friday: airline wants me to delay my flight, I could use the day to visit a library!!!
r this morning: wakes up at 5 to help family pack and clear the airbnb

blood orange something or other, with a similar but darker gradient

(I have also earned this second airport cocktail)

the whole flag folding thing was beautiful! taps was lovely and tear-jerking!! groundskeeper was perfection and I would trade all the rest for him

family: (blinks for a moment)
family: you don’t -?
whgtpd: yeah we used to give them to families but they kept turning up in the trash around town so now we smash them
family:
rebecca: (quietly having minor hysterics)

wild-haired-groundskeeper-in-t-shirt-with-power-drill: we smash them with hammers

very professional man: we are so sorry for your loss, the headstone with the new dates will arrive in 4-6 weeks, we will send you a photo
aunt: what happens to the old one?
vpm: (suddenly has a call or something and disappears, leaving a sense of competence and condolence)