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Long shot, but does anyone in Switzerland have an emergency Theremin to loan tomorrow night ( Friday 12 December )?
#ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!!
We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!!
#theremin #switzerland
#ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!!
We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!!
#theremin #switzerland
December 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Long shot, but does anyone in Switzerland have an emergency Theremin to loan tomorrow night ( Friday 12 December )?
#ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!!
We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!!
#theremin #switzerland
#ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!!
We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!!
#theremin #switzerland
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Tiny reindeer from a map of Norway in vol.1 of Joan Blaeu's 11 volume Atlas Major, 1662 #Christmas #Maps
December 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Tiny reindeer from a map of Norway in vol.1 of Joan Blaeu's 11 volume Atlas Major, 1662 #Christmas #Maps
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🦋 ‘Het Schatryke kabinet der voornaamste seldzaamheden der natuur’ is een van de mooiste topstukken uit de collectie van de KB.
Fotograaf Theo de Nooij neemt je in deze video mee in het digitaliseringsproject en vertelt waarom de digitalisering hiervan zo belangrijk is. 🌿📗
#NationaleBibliotheek
Fotograaf Theo de Nooij neemt je in deze video mee in het digitaliseringsproject en vertelt waarom de digitalisering hiervan zo belangrijk is. 🌿📗
#NationaleBibliotheek
December 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🦋 ‘Het Schatryke kabinet der voornaamste seldzaamheden der natuur’ is een van de mooiste topstukken uit de collectie van de KB.
Fotograaf Theo de Nooij neemt je in deze video mee in het digitaliseringsproject en vertelt waarom de digitalisering hiervan zo belangrijk is. 🌿📗
#NationaleBibliotheek
Fotograaf Theo de Nooij neemt je in deze video mee in het digitaliseringsproject en vertelt waarom de digitalisering hiervan zo belangrijk is. 🌿📗
#NationaleBibliotheek
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📣 Reminder: CFP Deadline Coming Up!
If you’re planning to apply for our #REBPAFConference, the deadline is December 15!
Don’t miss your chance to be part of this exciting conversation on early book studies!
Spread the word! 📚
Follow link for details.
#REBPAF #MSCA #bookhistory #printinghistory
If you’re planning to apply for our #REBPAFConference, the deadline is December 15!
Don’t miss your chance to be part of this exciting conversation on early book studies!
Spread the word! 📚
Follow link for details.
#REBPAF #MSCA #bookhistory #printinghistory
CFP: Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures
Keynotes: Sarah Werner, independent book historian; Renske Hoff, University of Utrecht; Aditi Nafde, Newcastle University Date & Location: 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Re-mediat…
rebpaf.wordpress.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
📣 Reminder: CFP Deadline Coming Up!
If you’re planning to apply for our #REBPAFConference, the deadline is December 15!
Don’t miss your chance to be part of this exciting conversation on early book studies!
Spread the word! 📚
Follow link for details.
#REBPAF #MSCA #bookhistory #printinghistory
If you’re planning to apply for our #REBPAFConference, the deadline is December 15!
Don’t miss your chance to be part of this exciting conversation on early book studies!
Spread the word! 📚
Follow link for details.
#REBPAF #MSCA #bookhistory #printinghistory
frankly stunned by Portugal‘a dominance here
ITALY & SPAIN ON FRAUD WATCH:
Top five for sausages minus non-sausage meat products (e.g. hams, bacons, terrines):
1. Portugal (fully 39 of 41 are sausages)
2. Italy (Only 21 of 44 are sausages)
3. Germany (14 of 20 are sausages)
4. France (8 of 24 are sausages)
5. Spain (7 of 20 are sausages)
Top five for sausages minus non-sausage meat products (e.g. hams, bacons, terrines):
1. Portugal (fully 39 of 41 are sausages)
2. Italy (Only 21 of 44 are sausages)
3. Germany (14 of 20 are sausages)
4. France (8 of 24 are sausages)
5. Spain (7 of 20 are sausages)
Class 1.2 Meat products (cooked, salted, smoked, etc.) protected designation of origin product leaderboards:
Italy- 44 DOP class 1.2 meat products
Portugal- 41 DOP class 1.2 meat products
France- 24 DOP class 1.2 meat products
Germany/Spain- 20 DOP class 1.2 meat products
Italy- 44 DOP class 1.2 meat products
Portugal- 41 DOP class 1.2 meat products
France- 24 DOP class 1.2 meat products
Germany/Spain- 20 DOP class 1.2 meat products
December 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
frankly stunned by Portugal‘a dominance here
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"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
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Can anyone tell me what this visualization means? "Message to the bookbinder. The plates must be placed in the work next to the pages as indicated below, and in such a way that they can be unfolded entirely to the right-hand side" #bookhistory
December 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Can anyone tell me what this visualization means? "Message to the bookbinder. The plates must be placed in the work next to the pages as indicated below, and in such a way that they can be unfolded entirely to the right-hand side" #bookhistory
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This is quite a story. Trying to trademark the word ‘sabzi’ is the equivalent of trying to trademark the word ‘food’.
www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This is quite a story. Trying to trademark the word ‘sabzi’ is the equivalent of trying to trademark the word ‘food’.
www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
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Now that's quite a #dublinghostsign reveal on the side of Cumiskey's pub at Broadstone today. Here's hoping it'll be held on to.
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Now that's quite a #dublinghostsign reveal on the side of Cumiskey's pub at Broadstone today. Here's hoping it'll be held on to.
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
Best possinle use of twenty minutes
In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime." n.pr/4pFYoun
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime."
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Best possinle use of twenty minutes
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You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
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![R. H. Bing (October 20, 1914 – April 28, 1986)[1] was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the areas of geometric topology and continuum theory.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreid62wy3dekb2kzbisjfdlimlb35j4rlgew5iof7vi32byfszmg26a@jpeg)
![Bing's father was named Rupert Henry, but Bing's mother thought that "Rupert Henry" was too British for Texas. Thus she compromised by abbreviating it to R. H.[5] Consequently, R. H. does not stand for a first or middle name.
When Bing was applying for a visa, he was requested not to use initials. He explained that his name was really "R-only H-only Bing", and ended up receiving a visa made out to "Ronly Honly Bing".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreigmfj53q4uy33spga2bxdkllqm3ag5sffovg5g7ddmu3vqzkb6k24@jpeg)
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they restored all the piers and completely replaced the suspension cables with modern ones but they had to specifically adapt the tension in them so that the bridge still shakes. 10/10 conservation work, no notes
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
they restored all the piers and completely replaced the suspension cables with modern ones but they had to specifically adapt the tension in them so that the bridge still shakes. 10/10 conservation work, no notes
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Een ‘zondvloedland,’ zo karakteriseerde ik het beeld van de Lage Landen in 17de- en 18de-eeuwse geleerde natuurgeschiedenissen. Het denken over het verleden van de Aarde bewoog tussen Bijbelse zondvloed en de volgende dijkdoorbraak, tussen schriftgeleerden en turfstekers. 1/
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Een ‘zondvloedland,’ zo karakteriseerde ik het beeld van de Lage Landen in 17de- en 18de-eeuwse geleerde natuurgeschiedenissen. Het denken over het verleden van de Aarde bewoog tussen Bijbelse zondvloed en de volgende dijkdoorbraak, tussen schriftgeleerden en turfstekers. 1/
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Our collection of parrots, watercolour on velum, from Eleazar Albin's 'Natural History of Birds', mid 18th century
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Our collection of parrots, watercolour on velum, from Eleazar Albin's 'Natural History of Birds', mid 18th century
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Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
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There's something very on brand for Dublin about this. Building something as a temporary stopgap, putting 'temporary' ("pro tempore") in the name, doing nothing more for 200 years, and then eventually going "OK lads let's just stick with this one cos we're clearly never going to build the other one"
Pro-Cathedral designated Dublin's Catholic cathedral
Pope Leo XIV has designated St Mary's Pro Cathedral in Dublin as the city's official Catholic Cathedral, becoming the first in the capital for 500 years.
www.rte.ie
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
There's something very on brand for Dublin about this. Building something as a temporary stopgap, putting 'temporary' ("pro tempore") in the name, doing nothing more for 200 years, and then eventually going "OK lads let's just stick with this one cos we're clearly never going to build the other one"
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✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers
gjhilton.github.io
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
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'It's a lost map!'
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
'It's a lost map!'
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.