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The PBS show about Grace Kelly and how her life and fortune changed when she became Princess Grace of Monaco suggested a cautionary tale for little girls based on several recent princesses: Becoming a Princess: It Kinda Sucks, Actually

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Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -

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In digging through art stuff looking for something else I came upon all of my old carved print blocks that I printed holiday cards from over the years. I was inspired to make meta-art and frame them to hang in my office. Playing around with arrangements for a 16x20 shadow box I'll pick up tomorrow.

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Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

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Making gurkensalat for the library German-themed potluck tomorrow. If you're wondering what academic librarians do when class is not in session, we make each other tasty food.

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I think corn silk is the culinary equivalent of glitter: no matter how carefully you try and keep it contained, it always gets everywhere. But in happy news--fresh corn!

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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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In choosing a pope, cardinals will call on the Holy Spirit. Here's what that might look like.

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I just finished Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social This was the most unexpected novel I've read in a long while. Which is good. I'll think about this one and ponder it.

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ALRIGHT! I just received 4,000 copies of this LOSERS ATTACK OUR LIBRARIES postcard that I designed. The text on the back (shown in the product listing) was generated through many suggestions from librarians on Bluesky. These are 10 for $3.00 (plus shipping). halfletterpress.com/losers-attac...

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Watch the Opening Credits of an Imaginary 70s Cop Show Starring Samuel Beckett

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Go Pods!

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So great to have @scalzi.com and @maryrobinettekowal.com at the @columbuslibrary.bsky.social today! My favorite bit was the answer to this question: how do you write about something you don’t know? Scalzi: as a straight white man, I make shit up. Kowal: As a woman, I also need it to be correct. 😂

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people say The Great Gatsby is “no longer relevant,” but careless people have never been more brazen, or more prominent.

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Gooood morning sinners~! 🙃

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Once again loving this interpretation of Caesar’s last words #IdesofMarch 🗡️

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Happy τ/2 day to those who celebrate.

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This professional indexer approves.

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Monica and I watched the documentary on Norman's Rare Guitars, and I was totally shamed into picking up our underplayed instruments, giving them attention, and making sure they were in tune.

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I missed the 100th anniversary of the rising of R'lyeh. (March 1st, 1925.)

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Best Bond theme on the Oscars: I'm going with Shirley Bassey's Moonraker. Although her Goldfinger (with Led Zeppelin's Page and Jones!) Live and Let Die and View to a Kill are also worthy.

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One of my grad school folklore professors taught us outdated schools of theory by having us apply them to modern pop culture. (My group did Buffy + solar mythology. It was laughably easy.) If I taught English, I'd be seriously tempted to do something akin to this with Shakespeare. (1/6)

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Dear Manager, here's what I've done this week: 1. I locked the target 2. I baited the line 3. I slowly spread the net 4. I caught the man 5. I sold him to other men at ten times his price, at least

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Happy Valentine's Day from Mr. Darcy

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Have this friend who is newish to #astrophotography here in Sydney. He did 40-hour mosaic on the Vela Supernova remnant in h-alpha/[O-III] …. And holy heck it is incomprehensibly magnificent! Those are exploded star gutz. At its heart is the Vela pulsar. 🔭 Shared with permission. 📸 David Elford

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Office decor: a framed manuscript page from Pontificale Romanum,Venice 1543 that my mom found in a thrift store. It's a leaf that's part of the ritual a Catholic bishop performs to consecrate the ground of a new church. It's from a book that is one of the first to ever be printed with moveable type.

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@mrthesaw.bsky.social If you're still playing with VCV Rack, here's an interesting playlist about Suzanne Ciani's music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEEZ...

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Reading A Conventional Boy by Charles Stross, a Laundry Files work centered on a gaming convention in Scarfolk. While it does make references to other stuff in the series, it's pretty stand-alone and probably a decent place to start if you've never read one. Or just like TTRPG and occult weirdness.

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It struck me today that every work of dystopian fiction I've ever read involves a future without books. Maybe that's all it takes.

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