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rare bookseller, renaissance platonist, kitchen gardener. now based in philly. newsletter: https://twohalfsheets.substack.com

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 30m

My front porch is full of pumpkins. It’s stormy. I’ve been simmering bone broth overnight for soup today. a u t u m n 🎃 i s 🎃 h e r e.

Side view or front porch with 9 assorted pumpkins, hay bale, cornstalks

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1h

From certain cloistered old authors I have gathered that this same sea-unicorn’s horn was in ancient days regarded as the great antidote against poison, and as such, preparations of it brought immense prices.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 14h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 17h

Next weekend I have an activity EVERY DAY, Friday to Sunday. What I am I, 25 again ?? 😭

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

crazy idea but hear me out: we print out information, like the internet but effectively 'digitising' it into physical form, and bind it together with related information relevant to the same topic within some covers. it then has zero energy need or subscription fees and lasts for centuries, wild huh

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funnnnnn

sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 1d

Inconveniently small and impositionally overcomplicated!

sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 1d

Octavos are frankly overhyped and I’m kind of small so folios are too awkward for me.

sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 1d

You basically need a spotter

sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 1d

I had to collate a full set once. Never again. I felt like Jacob wrestling the angel.

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 1d

Folio too big. Octavo too small. Quarto just right.

sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll fight you

sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 1d

Quarto is the best book size.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 2d

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 2d

Fine is a very abused word

sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 2d

A gay friend once came to a costume party at my house dressed as the “chink in the wall through which Pyramus and Thisbe talked”

sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 2d

I love you

Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 2d

I hate gay Halloween, what do you mean you’re Ancient Greek particles used in conjunction to denote correlative clauses.

sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 2d

Philly to NYC without breakfast isn’t a big deal—but this is the train that comes from Harrisburg, so the PA GOP is really just inconveniencing their own constituents. But they keep voting for the people who still haven’t passed a state budget…

sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 2d

I was blessed by Hermes this morning and my SEPTA train to 30th street was the only one on time, then went express to my station due to overcrowding—all due to our horrible state gov. Now boarding the Keystone to NYC—which doesn’t have a cafe car due to, you guessed it, our horrible state gov.

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 3d

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 3d

Now that I think about it, Fredson sounds like something you would make up when put on the spot when asked to give a name.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 5d

#EarlyModern meme! #BookHistory

The bottom of a page of printed text, showing three hands (or printers' fists) pointing at each other.

The spiderman meme: three spidermen pointing at each other.

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 4d

This airport was designed by satan

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 4d

Was pretty good about not shopping too much in Italy but have just succumbed to Heathrow shopping madness and bought a rather absurd rain poncho at Harrods

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