Steven Van Impe
@svanimpe.bsky.social
Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
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Sometimes if you cut it down correctly, you can still see the last meal a tree had in its stomach when it died
February 4, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Sometimes if you cut it down correctly, you can still see the last meal a tree had in its stomach when it died
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Cats teach us to be present in the moment.
Also they teach us to complain incessantly if we are not being fed.
What spectacular creatures.
Also they teach us to complain incessantly if we are not being fed.
What spectacular creatures.
February 5, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Cats teach us to be present in the moment.
Also they teach us to complain incessantly if we are not being fed.
What spectacular creatures.
Also they teach us to complain incessantly if we are not being fed.
What spectacular creatures.
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anyone in need of a visual metaphor?
Cambriolage du Louvre : le musée dévoile des images de la couronne de l’impératrice Eugénie endommagée après le vol et affirme qu’elle sera complètement restaurée
Cambriolage du Louvre : le musée dévoile des images de la couronne de l’impératrice Eugénie endommagée après le vol et affirme qu’elle sera complètement restaurée
La couronne, que les cambrioleurs ont laissée tomber dans leur fuite, a subi « un écrasement et s’en est trouvée très sensiblement déformée », a fait savoir, mercredi, le musée dans un communiqué.
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February 4, 2026 at 8:18 PM
anyone in need of a visual metaphor?
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I have a friend who illustrates children's books and if hes given a book and it doesn't explicitly mention both a Mum and a Dad... They're gay. The book mentions a Dad? He's drawing two. The book mentions a Mum? Let's double up. Everything is gay until proven otherwise and he will illustrate as such
live from the chaos house, we have determined that the Gruffalo is gay because the Gruffalo's child does not mention a mummy gruffalo idk
February 4, 2026 at 6:56 PM
I have a friend who illustrates children's books and if hes given a book and it doesn't explicitly mention both a Mum and a Dad... They're gay. The book mentions a Dad? He's drawing two. The book mentions a Mum? Let's double up. Everything is gay until proven otherwise and he will illustrate as such
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Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight
February 2, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight
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INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
February 4, 2026 at 5:11 PM
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
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I was also able to find the wild theology I was looking for: they believe the antichrist will be conceived by a Satanic Jewish woman (the Anti-Mary) having sex with a former Palmaryian bishop on an altar, while he is wearing his vestments. As part of this woman will strangle the bishop to death.
April 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I was also able to find the wild theology I was looking for: they believe the antichrist will be conceived by a Satanic Jewish woman (the Anti-Mary) having sex with a former Palmaryian bishop on an altar, while he is wearing his vestments. As part of this woman will strangle the bishop to death.
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Pretty amazing that most of us said if we we ever got to retire we’d like to make music or art or write and the tech guys said oh I can make a program to do that and it will cost trillions in debt so now you’ll get to work in a bad job til the day you die to help pay it off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Pretty amazing that most of us said if we we ever got to retire we’d like to make music or art or write and the tech guys said oh I can make a program to do that and it will cost trillions in debt so now you’ll get to work in a bad job til the day you die to help pay it off.
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you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds
Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time
www.independent.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM
you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
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So that bit about democracy dying in darkness was a mission statement
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
So that bit about democracy dying in darkness was a mission statement
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Om woest van te worden.
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Hilde is mantelzorger van man met dementie, maar verliest werkloosheidsuitkering door strengere regels: "Je komt met je rug tegen de muur te staan" | VRT NWS: nieuws
Hilde Tips, mantelzorger voor haar echtgenoot die aan vroegdementie lijdt, dreigt haar werkloosheidsuitkering binnenkort te verliezen. Dit is maar één voorbeeld van een neveneffect van de strengere we...
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February 4, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Om woest van te worden.
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Mickey looks so handsome in his winter plaid!
February 4, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Mickey looks so handsome in his winter plaid!
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Sparrows in Winter, Shozo Ozaki.
February 4, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Sparrows in Winter, Shozo Ozaki.
*sigh* another day of meeting humans face to face...
February 4, 2026 at 8:10 AM
*sigh* another day of meeting humans face to face...
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punxsutawney phil (just had visions of pestilence, blood rain, malignant false idols, stillborn livestock): uuuh 6 more weeks of winter
February 2, 2026 at 7:25 PM
punxsutawney phil (just had visions of pestilence, blood rain, malignant false idols, stillborn livestock): uuuh 6 more weeks of winter
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fraggle rock implies the existence of fraggle jazz and fraggle rap
February 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
fraggle rock implies the existence of fraggle jazz and fraggle rap
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At Museum Plantin-Moretus we still hold the family’s own books.
This 1566 Antwerp edition of Cicero, once owned by Franciscus Raphelengius II, is filled with his pen trials, monograms and even a red‑chalk sketch of the Plantin press device.
Such objects bring us closer to the people who lived here.
This 1566 Antwerp edition of Cicero, once owned by Franciscus Raphelengius II, is filled with his pen trials, monograms and even a red‑chalk sketch of the Plantin press device.
Such objects bring us closer to the people who lived here.
February 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
At Museum Plantin-Moretus we still hold the family’s own books.
This 1566 Antwerp edition of Cicero, once owned by Franciscus Raphelengius II, is filled with his pen trials, monograms and even a red‑chalk sketch of the Plantin press device.
Such objects bring us closer to the people who lived here.
This 1566 Antwerp edition of Cicero, once owned by Franciscus Raphelengius II, is filled with his pen trials, monograms and even a red‑chalk sketch of the Plantin press device.
Such objects bring us closer to the people who lived here.
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La vache qui rit
or, as I like to call it,
A moo's bouche.
(Thank you, 6.35am brain.)
or, as I like to call it,
A moo's bouche.
(Thank you, 6.35am brain.)
February 4, 2026 at 7:15 AM
La vache qui rit
or, as I like to call it,
A moo's bouche.
(Thank you, 6.35am brain.)
or, as I like to call it,
A moo's bouche.
(Thank you, 6.35am brain.)
Imagining a computer game where instead of points you get indulgences. During the game, you also commit sins bringing you to purgatory. How wil they even out when you die?
February 3, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Imagining a computer game where instead of points you get indulgences. During the game, you also commit sins bringing you to purgatory. How wil they even out when you die?
You can remove them, but only one by one unless you disable the entire Facebook login feature. And you have to click to scroll down to find them. It's tedious. Your life flashes before your eyes.
But who knows what What Kind Of Chocolate Bar Are You will do with your data?
But who knows what What Kind Of Chocolate Bar Are You will do with your data?
February 3, 2026 at 8:52 PM
You can remove them, but only one by one unless you disable the entire Facebook login feature. And you have to click to scroll down to find them. It's tedious. Your life flashes before your eyes.
But who knows what What Kind Of Chocolate Bar Are You will do with your data?
But who knows what What Kind Of Chocolate Bar Are You will do with your data?
Remember when Facebook was young and we played silly games like throwing snowballs? Turns out, almost 2 decades later these apps still have access to your data, photosw events...
February 3, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Remember when Facebook was young and we played silly games like throwing snowballs? Turns out, almost 2 decades later these apps still have access to your data, photosw events...
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Really fascinating…
The 1921 census required every household to identify a 'head' - assumed to be a husband - but it offered no way to record same-sex relationships. So how did women and gender non- conforming people record their lives? Often subversively, as some examples show 🧵 (1/6)
#LGBTplusHM
#lgbthm26
#LGBTplusHM
#lgbthm26
February 3, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Really fascinating…
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January 28, 2026 at 10:28 AM