Sally Osborn
@salosborn.bsky.social
Copyeditor, proofreader and indexer. PhD on 18c medical recipe MSS. Renovating an 18c chartreuse in SW France. www.EditExpert.net
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“I hate the rain,” — Sophie the Pug
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
“I hate the rain,” — Sophie the Pug
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B as in Bravo 👏
Psalter of Oswald, aka the Ramsey Psalter Harley MS 2904 from my copy of John O. Westwood’s Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts (1868). Close to the largest book in my personal library, thus the pencil for scale rather than the usual coin. #medievalsky
Psalter of Oswald, aka the Ramsey Psalter Harley MS 2904 from my copy of John O. Westwood’s Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts (1868). Close to the largest book in my personal library, thus the pencil for scale rather than the usual coin. #medievalsky
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
B as in Bravo 👏
Psalter of Oswald, aka the Ramsey Psalter Harley MS 2904 from my copy of John O. Westwood’s Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts (1868). Close to the largest book in my personal library, thus the pencil for scale rather than the usual coin. #medievalsky
Psalter of Oswald, aka the Ramsey Psalter Harley MS 2904 from my copy of John O. Westwood’s Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts (1868). Close to the largest book in my personal library, thus the pencil for scale rather than the usual coin. #medievalsky
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The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
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Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now
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Contemporary artist Tokuhiro Kawai depicts cats as furry saints!
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Contemporary artist Tokuhiro Kawai depicts cats as furry saints!
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
So proud of my little girl. Runner-up for salesperson of the year in her first year with the agency 🏆🔥👏
November 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
So proud of my little girl. Runner-up for salesperson of the year in her first year with the agency 🏆🔥👏
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Karoline Leavitt standing in front of her sole job description
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Karoline Leavitt standing in front of her sole job description
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#Lazyweb Does anyone have a good introductory reading on perspectives on disability in Victorian Britain? #HistMed #DisabilityHistory
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
#Lazyweb Does anyone have a good introductory reading on perspectives on disability in Victorian Britain? #HistMed #DisabilityHistory
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Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
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ok this is genuinely funny
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
ok this is genuinely funny
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Can anyone make out the wording in the eighth column of this census? It’s from Paris, 1931. The column title is ‘Profession’. I can see make out ‘estudiant’, ‘stagiase’ but I can’t figure out the other two!
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Can anyone make out the wording in the eighth column of this census? It’s from Paris, 1931. The column title is ‘Profession’. I can see make out ‘estudiant’, ‘stagiase’ but I can’t figure out the other two!
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blessed are the font geeks, for they shall always notice
The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM
blessed are the font geeks, for they shall always notice
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perhaps you're in need of some vibrant colour? perhaps this Erythrina speciosa will serve? from the Botanic Garden in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, 2017. From the before times.
it looks like a starburst of vermilion, of satisfyingly substantial texture.
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it looks like a starburst of vermilion, of satisfyingly substantial texture.
🌱
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
perhaps you're in need of some vibrant colour? perhaps this Erythrina speciosa will serve? from the Botanic Garden in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, 2017. From the before times.
it looks like a starburst of vermilion, of satisfyingly substantial texture.
🌱
it looks like a starburst of vermilion, of satisfyingly substantial texture.
🌱
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Does anyone in the #bookhistory or #history space know of a good article about the “publishing war” between the Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Farmer’s Almanac?
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Does anyone in the #bookhistory or #history space know of a good article about the “publishing war” between the Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Farmer’s Almanac?
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
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This will come in handy... ;)
November 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
This will come in handy... ;)
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A witch and her spider familiar, ready for last night’s trick or treating 🎃
November 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A witch and her spider familiar, ready for last night’s trick or treating 🎃
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
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A friend told me he had been clearing out his gran’s house. The most amazing thing he found there was this knitted effigy of the man who had run off and abandoned my friend’s pregnant aunt. Into the effigy had been stuck twenty knitting needles: one for every year since the man had vanished.
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A friend told me he had been clearing out his gran’s house. The most amazing thing he found there was this knitted effigy of the man who had run off and abandoned my friend’s pregnant aunt. Into the effigy had been stuck twenty knitting needles: one for every year since the man had vanished.
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“They were careless people …they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness.”
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
“They were careless people …they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness.”