Extremely pleased to announce 🎉that the new-new @saa-official.bsky.social Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts is out now, with two crucial chapters by @meau.bsky.social and me
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“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.”
-Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥
frankly romantasy is currently footing the bill for the rest of us by keeping a crumbling publishing industry afloat a while longer and you don't have to read the stuff to appreciate that it's bringing in readers who will eventually want to read more things, perhaps even in different points of view
Mental health experts say identifying when someone is in need of help is the first step — and approaching them with careful compassion is the hardest, most essential part that follows.
This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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.
Spending “international women’s day” in a tin can flying over the Atlantic (it’s me, I’m the international woman), but I did force my cinephile husband to watch The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement with me, so I got to celebrate 👍🏼
Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.
A large shop window has “girl dinner” painted in white. Through the window, a dozen or two novels in English are displayed, all of which involve cannibalism and unhinged women, a favorite subgenre of OP
I’ve seen a lot of good book displays and “recommended“ shelves but this is one of my favorites (The American Book Center, Amsterdam)
This whole thread about the BBC archive not putting their catalogue online is the absolute opposite of what an archive should be. Apparently one of the objections was that it would increase archive use! Which is the point for why it exists!
Sticky Bronze Ring of Sweating
Not even really sure what year it is tbh
Daylight savings life hack: I’m traveling across six time zones today and have no idea what time it is anyway
Just saw a store advertising with the slogan “wellness is the new luxury,” which really says the quiet part out loud huh
Draw me like one of your Dutch girls (asleep, high-contrast, accompanied by my dog)
in the cars universe the matrix was directed by the kachowski sisters
girlboss, gatekeep, gaslight
#mozzmemes
The same dwarf mongoose from the first image but further in profile
when you say mean things to me, this is who you’re saying them to
A dwarf mongoose, a rodent creature like a mongoose but shorter and like it came out of a cartoon, sits atop a tree trunk
Hey have you guys ever seen a dwarf mongoose? Because I hadn’t and it changed my life
It doesn’t escape me that these are named after a woman and a teenage girl. It does not escape me that medical misogyny continues to kill.
Can’t speak for the bibliographic materials but I have heard several people mention your books both in and out of presentations, FWIW
me: I’m enjoying this even though I don’t necessarily have the disciplinary training of the rest of the crowd
presenter: so now let’s look at Dav Pilkey
me: oh no actually my own literacy is more than adequate here
Here at the Ludification of Vision conference at UvA, marginally (husband presenting) but two exciting things so far (for me); 1) Captain Underpants and 2) in this Q&A there have been a few citations of @eikeexner.com‘s work on manga that I for sure am going to read
I have caught up on the drama surrounding the Neopets TTRPG (which I did help kickstart lol). I have so many thoughts and absolutely no audience for any of them
Book cover of Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking Our Digital Futures by Neil Selwyn
in a new city I like to wander from bookstore to bookstore, often rummaging for hours across different locations until I find books that tell me they want to come home with me
but sometimes the first book I see in the first bookstore I visit has a big fat “this is for you” sticker on it
this made me laugh way too loud at this coffee shop in Amsterdam and now me and the grandpas next to me are watching your video together. Prof Alvis you’re healing our cultural divides
sorry my reply guy instinct is faster than my “that‘s not even that funny” Wise brain
reindeer aren’t real, they’re made up for Santa like Minotaurs and narwhal. also, gloves???!!
A weathered leather bound book with a design devised in gold reading “Are we a stupid people?” With a large gold question mark and a lion holding a flag and a heraldic shield underneath. The bottom reads “By One of Them”
Today’s research deep dive brought me this leather bound book cover
