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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜

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Rare Book #Librarian, bereaved parent of Caitlin, #geek. 12x Hugo Award winner. bi/queer. Head @illinoisrbml.bsky.social; Verity podcast; ex-ed/pub Uncanny Magazine. Baby #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. No auto-follow. #DoctorWho #bookhistory #SFF

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · Nov 14

Hello new folks! I see a lot of "Hey, is there a starter pack to help me find [interest/group/my people]?!" Here's a big #directory of #StarterPacks so you don't have to reinvent the wheel! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

All - Bluesky Directory

A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 3h

We just digitized the copy of Sidney's letter to Queen Elizabeth, identified as the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

The coppye off a letter wrytten by Sr. Phillipp Sidnye to Queene Elizabeth, touchinge hir marryage, w[i]th Mounsieur : manuscript copy

Letter written approximately November-December 1579 advising the Queen against marriage to the Duc d'Anjou and Alençon for political, religious, and personal reasons. Copy, entirely in the secretary ...

digital.library.illinois.edu

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Karen Ruckman @ruckmanphoto.bsky.social · 8h

“Promoting democratic rights” in Venezuela wins Nobel Peace Prize
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 10h

It's important to focus on who won, not who did not.

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 8h

Attempting to deal with the 'digital dark age' 📜 - interesting project linked to the Hawking collection at Cambridge #histSTM

joshuatj @joshuatj.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Woohoo! Great #digipres story @makethecatwise
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

www.bbc.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 12h

any product that depends on the long term stability of its maker is inherently defective

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12h

They brick you because they can.

Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15

Logitech’s interest in the smart home has appeared to wane in recent years.

arstechnica.com

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 8h

I think the cubic shape is the *unintentional consequence* of their very long digestive process (14+ days), required to process tough roots & grasses, extracting all moisture.

The cubes are just a fortunate happenstance of super-efficient distal colons.

Article here:

How do wombats poop cubes? Scientists get to the bottom of the mystery

Distinctive intestines mold feces into sharp-cornered poop

www.science.org

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 8h

It really does.

Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 8h

Gotta get on the road! But I slept pretty well, so it is fine. ❤️

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 9h

Me, at 6am, asleep...
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My brain:
🎶CAN I GET THE MIC A LITTLE HIGHER🎵

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 20h

NGL, anytime there are “splits” in the title of the trick in #lyra 2 class, I lower my expectations of myself. I am REALLY happy how this went! #aerials www.instagram.com/reel/DPm7fZ4...

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 1d

:headdesk:

I'm so sorry, colleagues.

Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 1d

My day is shot bc a colleague just shared this UNC press release about a still to-be-named, to-be-designed, to-be-planned AI school where the only known fact seems to be that it will replace the library school.

www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

University leadership announces development of new school at Carolina | UNC-Chapel Hill

The School of Information and Library Science and the School of Data Science and Society will be founding leaders of a new school to amplify and lead Carolina’s response to the information and data ne...

www.unc.edu

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, people, here's my @utoronto.ca Medieval Studies #Voynich lecture! I've got BIG NEWS to report about the potential original structure of the manuscript. Check it out! (new material starts around minute 14) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH28...

Lisa Fagin Davis: "The Materiality of the Voynich Manuscript"

YouTube video by U of T CMS

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 1d

NOT WRONG

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 1d

Slightly more formal: Mary Shelley’s Progeny: Frankenstein and its Descendants

Current case titles are NOT formal yet. One of them is "Loving the Monster (or F***ing it, I’m not picky)" 😆

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 1d

I've taken tomorrow and Monday as a long weekend to celebrate my birthday by traveling to hang out with a friend; battling Vacation Brain is real.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 1d

WFH on my research day, working on next year's Frankenstein exhibit (Fall 2026). A previous possible title for this one was "Hot Messes in a Cold Climate" which is why I was contemplating putting together a timeline/flowchart of relationships at Villa Diodati and I'm unsure I can do it justice.

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 1d

Audiobook for 50% off? Yes please!

The perfect autumn read, if I may say so myself.

Sapphic ✅
Regency ✅
Witches ✅

www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

50% OFF Netherford Hall

Pride and Prejudice and Witches After a mysterious fire at their home in Regency London displaces Gentlewitch Edith Rookwood and her now much-reduced family to their ancestral seat of Netherford Ha...

www.audiobooks.com

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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 1d

Worth repeating: "University presses are essential infrastructure for the humanities & should be financially supported in the same way that other higher education inter-institutional infrastructure is." Some powerful examples here:

Institutions and funders must recognize the contributions of university presses to the humanities infrastructure (opinion)

Recognizing the university press community’s essential contributions to that infrastructure will be crucial as institutions and funders plan for the future, write Charles Watkinson and Melissa Pitts.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Sep 17

You all probably know that the halos of saints viewed from behind do look like slices of lemon, right? This is how "Paradise" looks according to the book of hours from Duke of Berry, by the way. #bookhistory

Detail of "Paradise" taken from "Très Riches heures du Duc de Berry", c. 1412-1416, Folio 126r ( https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Très_Riches_Heures_du_Duc_de_Berry#/media/File%3AFolio_126r_-_Paradise.jpg ). You see a group of saints from behind: their halos look like slices of lemon.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 1d

Yesterday: Portillo’s.

This morning: high fiber, high protein Kashi cereal.

Yup, 51. 😂

Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 1d

Thanks, everyone, for the birthday wishes. Much appreciated.❤️

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 1d

Capping off my birthday with Portillo’s for dinner, followed by Portillo’s CAKE.

Just like the Pope.

No regrets.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 1d

"Cantina" :scoffs: what are you, some FANCY PANTS person??

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 2d

I'm giving several talks about the books in the next couple of months, if you want to hear more (before you buy?). The first, linked below, is online via. UPenn @sims-mss.bsky.social on October 17th at 12 midday EDT.

Trans Studies as Book Historical Method

J. D. Sargan considers generative modes of reading through the premodern archive to seek out trans lives beyond the ephemeral glimpses that have gone unnoticed in the historical record.

www.library.upenn.edu

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 2d

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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