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Kathleen E. Kennedy

@themedievaldrk.bsky.social

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manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology

Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1h

jealous!

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1h

reading my number again are we? heh : )

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 2h

Ok temp check for the tech-aware (if this isn't you, then this isn't you, no worries eh?): qobuz? proton? best of what we have, despite imperfections technical or political or etc?

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy

Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 3h

Did you know, Hong Kong homes one of the biggest cohesive populations of the Yellow-crested cockatoo, a Critically Endangered animal from East Timor. They are introduced species. Despite their non-native status, the Hong Kong population is essential in keeping the wild cockatoo species alive.

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 4h

look, idc how YOU make pulled pork. My Caribbean friends have convinced me that their way is better and so why would I make it any other way since then?

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 4h

Ok it's simmering in its OJ bath. Switch to oven in ~ 3hrs.

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 4h

slay that snow! take no names, no prisoners!

Reposted by Thomas Masterson, Kathleen Kennedy, Ben Kaden

Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 4h

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don't Exist

The rising tide of AI slop has brought with it fake research and other sources that librarians are asked to track down.

futurism.com

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 5h

Dealing with severe cold front and feelings in the manner of my people and making pulled pork.

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy

Erin Goatkeeper @handtotheneedle.bsky.social · 5h

everything sucks but @lollardfish.bsky.social's eel episode of American Medieval with @greenleejw.bsky.social is helping me a LOT #somanyeels #somanyeelmysteries #somanyeelmysteriesonmaps #coolmaps

Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 5h

From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...

“During the course of the debate, it was disclosed that it is now policy of the university to suspend any faculty member with pay against whom a student has lodged a complaint. The faculty member is suspended under the Title IX program,” Schmeltzer wrote. “This was new information to everyone in attendance.”

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 6h

I was today years old when I learned that James Edward Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen's nephew & memoirist, was a practitioner of cut-paper silhouettes! (Attn: @catrionamac.bsky.social !)
Here's one Austen-Leigh created as an illustration for his aunt's Sense and Sensibility. This is Barton Cottage:

Black paper cut silhouette of a small cottage with 2 windows, a prominent, trees on either side, a gate in the middle.

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 16h

Welp that was a failure to people alright enough. Sigh.

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy

Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 23h

This is a fantastic article about the representation of #Jesus as a child in biblical #apocrypha & medieval traditions! It's perfectly in time for the #holidays. #Christmas #MedievalSky

U of T Centre for Medieval Studies @uoftcms.bsky.social · 1d

"The Bible says little about Jesus’ childhood – but that didn’t stop medieval Christians from enjoying tales of him as holy ‘rascal’" - CMS Alum Mary Dzon writes for @ca.theconversation.com.
theconversation.com/the-bible-sa...

The Bible says little about Jesus’ childhood – but that didn’t stop medieval Christians from enjoying tales of him as holy ‘rascal’

Legends about Jesus’ early years that circulated in medieval Europe often drew on apocryphal texts.

theconversation.com

Holiday Ryan @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 1d

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

A little blog post as a treat? One manuscript at the origin of English collecting for all you Ottley and Celotti fans out there with bonus Forster 😉

Teaching the English to Collect Italian Art

Francis Ottley, Luigi Celotti, and TM1339

www.textmanuscripts.com

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy

The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 1d

Colorado water regulators approve historic stream, wetlands protections

Colorado water regulators late Wednesday approved an extensive set of rules designed to protect thousands of miles of streams and vast wetlands, stepping up as one of the first states in the nation to...

coloradosun.com

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy

Wouter Haverals @wouterhaverals.bsky.social · 1d

the original masking objective, or: filling in the black d•t in EEBO-TCP transcriptions, presented at #CHR2025 by Kiara M.H. Liu, Martin Mueller and @mattwilkens.bsky.social

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

(It's also a really good article on the BL situation. utter travesty/shambles)

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

No Presents Christmas US and UK style

Once upon a time I looked at a lot of newspaper Christmas gift suggestion lists from the 1920s and 1930s and you know I cannot recall them saying??

No presents.

Know abuser language when you see it. Call it out.

Anna Aslanyan @anna-aslanyan.bsky.social · 3d

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line

On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...

www.lrb.co.uk

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy

Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 1d

Coming up Tues 16 Dec -
An Introduction to Women in Print

Curators Rowan Bain and Róisín Inglesby at William Morris Gallery discuss the evolving role of women in textiles over the past 150 years through the lens of Liberty Fabrics.

www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/an-int...

An Introduction to Women in Print

Visit William Morris Gallery for a special introduction to Women in Print with the exhibition curators. A free, drop-in tour.

www.wmgallery.org.uk

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

I mean it's up there w/Jane Smith in terms of common names but you get one Kennedy in the news and I catch it eventually--the SWfans came for me regularly on Twitter and now I'm suspect to medical folk until I disavow. wild times.

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

So it's reached the point where every single medical personnel I engage comments on my last name and I've actually real-life said "not those Kennedys" multiple times this week.

If you want weird political metrics for 500, Alex.

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a whole chapter with this type of reader in mind!

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy

Nat Cutter @natcutter.bsky.social · 1d

So delighted to see my first book up online with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy

Brendan Pierpont @brendan.bsky.social · 1d

You would think that 100k people under evacuation orders from flooding would feature more prominently in national news? www.kuow.org/stories/go-n...

Live updates: 100,000 evacuated in historic Skagit Valley flood in Washington state

"Catastrophic" conditions continue to threaten Western Washington as an atmospheric river sweeps through the Pacific Northwest. 100,000 people have been placed under evacuation orders from their homes...

www.kuow.org

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy

Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 1d

She looked out. The profile of a demon lord decorated the city's skyline.

She sighed; did the pose. The goddess lifted her, transformed her into a magical girl.

She beat the demon into a pulp, then faced the harder battle: to return to her seventy-year old body, with aching knees and knuckles.

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about how buck wild it must have been to be the first European colonizer to see a hummingbird?

“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 2d

hah true enough!

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 2d

The Potat Resistance ✊🥔

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 2d

I kind of love this. And potatoes 🥔

THEY TRIED TO BURY ME BUT THEY DIDNT KNOW I WASA POTATO
The Velvet Bandit

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