Peter Binkley
@pbinkley.bsky.social
Librarian; philologist; historiaster (New Deal and microfilm); afraid of commitment to yet another social network; real life happens on Mastodon @[email protected]
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November 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Happy Alphabetical Order in the European Middle Ages Day! A day to celebrate the development of the use of alphabetical order in manuscript information systems in the later middle ages. pbinkley.github.io/alphabetical... #DH #medieval #alphabetical
Alphabetical Order in the European Middle Ages Day
Proposal to advance the world's knowledge about the use of alphabetical order in reference books from the later Middle Ages.
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August 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Happy Alphabetical Order in the European Middle Ages Day! A day to celebrate the development of the use of alphabetical order in manuscript information systems in the later middle ages. pbinkley.github.io/alphabetical... #DH #medieval #alphabetical
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If a scholar of petro-masculinity said that men lust for coal, it would be seen as an exaggeration. But here we are...
![u.s. department of energy post on x praising coal:
"She's an icon
She's a legend
And she is the moment
[sparkly picture of coal]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wlamchyb2ae65fgx75sfaqsq/bafkreieysdke6vg2abjjd3jwo3tsepp4smqeliw6no3vdxsnmyhvupthi4@jpeg)
August 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
If a scholar of petro-masculinity said that men lust for coal, it would be seen as an exaggeration. But here we are...
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Encountering these WPA posters (URLs below) for Des Moines's public forums (1936-41) at the Library of Congress has made me want to learn more about the Federal Forum Project [1/3]
March 6, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Encountering these WPA posters (URLs below) for Des Moines's public forums (1936-41) at the Library of Congress has made me want to learn more about the Federal Forum Project [1/3]
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Let's have a conclave! Here's a fantastic grisaille illustration of the apostles dressed as cardinals enthroning St Peter as pope, from a mid 14th-century Franciscan Missal produced in France and now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Douce 313, f. 262v 🎨
May 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Let's have a conclave! Here's a fantastic grisaille illustration of the apostles dressed as cardinals enthroning St Peter as pope, from a mid 14th-century Franciscan Missal produced in France and now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Douce 313, f. 262v 🎨
Do you suppose we might look back on these early years of GenAI as the beginning of a reinvigoration of human prose style, as the writers of even routine texts try to distinguish their work from AI slop?
April 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Do you suppose we might look back on these early years of GenAI as the beginning of a reinvigoration of human prose style, as the writers of even routine texts try to distinguish their work from AI slop?
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Historians are going to have better records from the 19th century than the 21st, is my most medievalist futurist prediction.
We won't just lose the archives they want us to lose but also the ones they couldn't back up properly.
YOU DID WHAT?
April 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Historians are going to have better records from the 19th century than the 21st, is my most medievalist futurist prediction.
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📣The @UofT Centre for Ethics has a call for applications for a post-doctoral fellowship in on the topic of Algorithm Bias.
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➡️ includes teaching opportunity and position is renewable up to 3 years
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ethics.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
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➡️ includes teaching opportunity and position is renewable up to 3 years
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ethics.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
Postdoctoral Fellowship In Algorithm Bias | Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
ethics.utoronto.ca
March 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
📣The @UofT Centre for Ethics has a call for applications for a post-doctoral fellowship in on the topic of Algorithm Bias.
Please share 🙏
➡️ includes teaching opportunity and position is renewable up to 3 years
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
@uoftethics.bsky.social
ethics.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
Please share 🙏
➡️ includes teaching opportunity and position is renewable up to 3 years
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
@uoftethics.bsky.social
ethics.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
Otto Ege's living room, 1942 www.newspapers.com/article/the-... #fragmentology
Make the Most of It - Your [Home]: It Takes Imagination
Rather than Money / Norma Schraidt
Clipping found in The Cleveland Press published in Cleveland, Ohio on 1/28/1942. Make the Most of It - Your [Home]: It Takes Imagination
Rather than Money / Norma Schraidt: The home of Otto F. Ege
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March 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Otto Ege's living room, 1942 www.newspapers.com/article/the-... #fragmentology
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Between 1927 & 1933 four nuns at Eibingen Abbey replicated by hand the renowned manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen’s magnum opus, Scivias. When the original 12C manuscript disappeared after WWII, the replica became a facsimile-original. I tell the story of that facsimile here tinyurl.com/3mcb6vt7
March 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Between 1927 & 1933 four nuns at Eibingen Abbey replicated by hand the renowned manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen’s magnum opus, Scivias. When the original 12C manuscript disappeared after WWII, the replica became a facsimile-original. I tell the story of that facsimile here tinyurl.com/3mcb6vt7
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
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February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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"...graphic art was both the inspiration and the ultimate destiny of Mexican modernism: it was printmakers and illustrators who enduringly blurred the boundary between art and the world of the working poor."
January 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"...graphic art was both the inspiration and the ultimate destiny of Mexican modernism: it was printmakers and illustrators who enduringly blurred the boundary between art and the world of the working poor."
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Here's something I've been working on for over 2 years, and I wanted to have something to show before Public Domain Day tomorrow: a fully accessible ebook, completely in the Public Domain. A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
gutenberg.org
December 31, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Here's something I've been working on for over 2 years, and I wanted to have something to show before Public Domain Day tomorrow: a fully accessible ebook, completely in the Public Domain. A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098
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"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
December 19, 2024 at 9:25 PM
"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
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This week's #thrifting find: a tale of #censorship, #bookhistory, and Christmas past (a short 🧵) 1/n
December 18, 2024 at 2:27 PM
This week's #thrifting find: a tale of #censorship, #bookhistory, and Christmas past (a short 🧵) 1/n
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The time Americans will save not having to change their clocks will be time better spent trying to not bring back polio.
December 14, 2024 at 2:22 AM
The time Americans will save not having to change their clocks will be time better spent trying to not bring back polio.
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You there - what day is it?
Why sir, it's stylish but illegal ikea monkey day
Stylish but illegal ikea monkey day! Then I haven't missed it!!
Why sir, it's stylish but illegal ikea monkey day
Stylish but illegal ikea monkey day! Then I haven't missed it!!
December 10, 2024 at 4:08 AM
You there - what day is it?
Why sir, it's stylish but illegal ikea monkey day
Stylish but illegal ikea monkey day! Then I haven't missed it!!
Why sir, it's stylish but illegal ikea monkey day
Stylish but illegal ikea monkey day! Then I haven't missed it!!
Hey, Internet Archive's #IIIF service is back! uv-v4.netlify.app#?manifest=ht...
Universal Viewer Examples
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December 2, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Hey, Internet Archive's #IIIF service is back! uv-v4.netlify.app#?manifest=ht...
Shout out to Nova Scotia to see if it shows up on canadian-skeets.glitch.me
Territory/Province Mentions on BSky
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November 23, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Shout out to Nova Scotia to see if it shows up on canadian-skeets.glitch.me
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From Audrey Watters’s _Teaching Machines_. This section is about Pressy’s automatic teacher device. Students in 1930 knew what the fuck was up. mitpress.mit.edu/978026254606...
November 22, 2024 at 2:27 PM
From Audrey Watters’s _Teaching Machines_. This section is about Pressy’s automatic teacher device. Students in 1930 knew what the fuck was up. mitpress.mit.edu/978026254606...