@sibyllacumae.bsky.social
Basic Bibliographic Bitch. Antiquarian Bookseller. Now based in Philly.
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Shrinking is not my usual taste in TV but I do watch it and I literally cry every single episode
February 12, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Shrinking is not my usual taste in TV but I do watch it and I literally cry every single episode
Reading about a period of Ravenna history when the city was ruled by the tyrannical Polenta family and two guys named Guido are fighting each other. Honestly this seems like anti-Italian racism.
February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Reading about a period of Ravenna history when the city was ruled by the tyrannical Polenta family and two guys named Guido are fighting each other. Honestly this seems like anti-Italian racism.
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Hayes has this same ingenuous epiphany every couple of months. The gee-golly-this-might-be-powerful exclamation is part of his schtick, and the irritation is that he is a television personality who doesn't keep up w scholars, activists, & organizers; all he hears is hype & hype-adjacent chatter.
February 11, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Hayes has this same ingenuous epiphany every couple of months. The gee-golly-this-might-be-powerful exclamation is part of his schtick, and the irritation is that he is a television personality who doesn't keep up w scholars, activists, & organizers; all he hears is hype & hype-adjacent chatter.
I was bad at timed arithmetic tests as a child and had a math teacher who would return failed tests with a Macdonalds application stapled to them. I was 10.
Those who weren’t resigned to the Math Idiot Garbage Bin as kids may not grasp how much “if you’re bad at math, you’ll die in a ditch and all will be better off for it” sentiment was floating around in the 90s and 2000s, but it sure felt real to me.
(my parents are great! It didn’t come from them!)
(my parents are great! It didn’t come from them!)
February 11, 2026 at 4:36 PM
I was bad at timed arithmetic tests as a child and had a math teacher who would return failed tests with a Macdonalds application stapled to them. I was 10.
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A fascinating story here about a very early instance of sign language being used in worship.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Leicester Cathedral reveals sign language wedding held in 1576
Cathedral bosses believe the signed service could have been one of the first in England.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 11:37 AM
A fascinating story here about a very early instance of sign language being used in worship.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It's St Gobnait's feast day, so who was Cork's medieval beekeeper @liber-ray.bsky.social @ria.ie looks at the life and times of Ireland's lesser-known patron saint of bees and beekeeping www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
It's St Gobnait's feast day so who was Cork's medieval beekeeper?
St Gobnait was an Irish female saint associated with bees in the Middle Ages and is still celebrated by local communities today
www.rte.ie
February 11, 2026 at 8:40 AM
It's St Gobnait's feast day, so who was Cork's medieval beekeeper @liber-ray.bsky.social @ria.ie looks at the life and times of Ireland's lesser-known patron saint of bees and beekeeping www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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A rather wonderful Irispapier ('rainbow paper') from c.1840, from the bindery belonging to Johann Michael Zötl, a bookseller in Freistadt, Upper Austria.
February 11, 2026 at 11:42 AM
A rather wonderful Irispapier ('rainbow paper') from c.1840, from the bindery belonging to Johann Michael Zötl, a bookseller in Freistadt, Upper Austria.
Spent kind of a while trying to figure out how to de-Latinize the name “Gartia” only to embarrassingly realize it is simply… GARCIA
February 11, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Spent kind of a while trying to figure out how to de-Latinize the name “Gartia” only to embarrassingly realize it is simply… GARCIA
Cataloging some poems by a French guy who called his GF “Amalthea”, an ancient mythological figure who may be a nymph or may be a goat.
February 10, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Cataloging some poems by a French guy who called his GF “Amalthea”, an ancient mythological figure who may be a nymph or may be a goat.
Wish I were there!
Join us on Thursday, February 26 from 3-5 pm for a talk by Dr. Elias Petrou (Literatures and Languages Library), titled "The Evolution of the Greek Book: From Byzantine Manuscripts to Renaissance Incunabula."
This event is free and all are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
This event is free and all are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
February 10, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Wish I were there!
I’m not trying to pick on the French. But also they had too many royal women intellectuals named Margaret. It’s out of control.
February 10, 2026 at 2:22 PM
I’m not trying to pick on the French. But also they had too many royal women intellectuals named Margaret. It’s out of control.
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I arrived too late to an abduction yesterday. Ice vehicles boxed in a food delivery driver on the highway. They took him, and when I came on the scene (with a few other neighbors in cars), his keys were still in it. We found his phone, a debit card, his car title and registration.
February 9, 2026 at 5:55 PM
I arrived too late to an abduction yesterday. Ice vehicles boxed in a food delivery driver on the highway. They took him, and when I came on the scene (with a few other neighbors in cars), his keys were still in it. We found his phone, a debit card, his car title and registration.
Why does France have the absolute worst online national bibliographic presence of any major European nation? I’m not trying to stereotype but it’s incredible how much better the Italian one is. But they are all better! In every way!
February 10, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Why does France have the absolute worst online national bibliographic presence of any major European nation? I’m not trying to stereotype but it’s incredible how much better the Italian one is. But they are all better! In every way!
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February 9, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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This 1450-1470 German Ms has very adroitly doubled up the tooth of St Apollonia whose feast it is #otd 9 Feb by turning it into a bloodied crown reflecting her martyrdom. #PatronOfDentistry
February 9, 2026 at 12:37 PM
This 1450-1470 German Ms has very adroitly doubled up the tooth of St Apollonia whose feast it is #otd 9 Feb by turning it into a bloodied crown reflecting her martyrdom. #PatronOfDentistry
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Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night
So uh. Why does nobody mention the weird second-to-last chapter of Cider with Rosie in which the village boys plot to rape a local woman ????? What the fuck ????
February 8, 2026 at 9:44 PM
So uh. Why does nobody mention the weird second-to-last chapter of Cider with Rosie in which the village boys plot to rape a local woman ????? What the fuck ????
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That's a one-finger salute from a reading lady of the 1770s with a fancy headdress. 🖕 #skystorians
January 22, 2026 at 9:44 AM
That's a one-finger salute from a reading lady of the 1770s with a fancy headdress. 🖕 #skystorians
Due to the freezing weather, we have to leave all the taps dripping in the apartment, which is creating a Poe-like creepy soundscape which is driving me a little crazy…
February 8, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Due to the freezing weather, we have to leave all the taps dripping in the apartment, which is creating a Poe-like creepy soundscape which is driving me a little crazy…
BTW it snowed again last night and feels like -11 degrees right now and the wind is so strong it sounds like I’m inside a dragon. I have to go to a wedding in two hours.
February 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
BTW it snowed again last night and feels like -11 degrees right now and the wind is so strong it sounds like I’m inside a dragon. I have to go to a wedding in two hours.
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saffron risotto! bees! architecture! old bells! waiters! that's italy baby!!
February 7, 2026 at 4:18 AM
saffron risotto! bees! architecture! old bells! waiters! that's italy baby!!
Inject it into my veins
Proofs Day for “Sisters but not Women?” in the Eighteenth-Century Studies special issue on Women’s Agency!
Featuring: The prelapsarian androgynous Adam, Sister Marcella who “proved by example that a man’s spirit could dwell in a woman’s body,” and the salvific Gott-mann-weiblichen licht-leib
Featuring: The prelapsarian androgynous Adam, Sister Marcella who “proved by example that a man’s spirit could dwell in a woman’s body,” and the salvific Gott-mann-weiblichen licht-leib
February 7, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Inject it into my veins
I can read Don Quixote in two months, right?
February 7, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I can read Don Quixote in two months, right?