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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 12h

Will you (or someone else) be writing this up for The Indexer? And the bias of the title, is that the indexer's sense of humour as bias? While a rigid hairdo may be something to laugh at, it could be another person's injury preventing protective headgear which is no laughing matter!

📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 12h

It's not you, it's me reading distractedly. You know, a break from index reading! I'd love one. Our postal is currently on strike though!

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 2d

Ha! I read this as "I"m only a witch without my yarn stickers" and I spent a good minute trying to figure out what yarn stickers were and would they help me.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 7d

My city has some lovely maintenance hole covers. Sewage systems are sexy

vancouver.ca/parks-recrea...

Ironclad Art Challenge: Expressing our spirit, values, and vision for a sustainable future

On June 1, 2013, 2 new Vancouver maintenance hole cover designs were revealed. Winners' art will cover sewer holes citywide.

vancouver.ca

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 7d

I'm an artist and indexer. Sewage systems are sexy, and sorted under S.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 12d

Are you detailed oriented or a big picture/somone else will fix my mistakes person? If you are the former you are suited to it. If you are the latter, hire someone.

Book Indexing: A Step by Step Guide by @stephenullstrom.bsky.social

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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · Sep 5

The former Maybelline headquarters entrance had a stairway that was REALLY good...like, made with lipstick good.

A terrazzo staircase in red and pink at the former Maybelline headquarters in Chicago.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 20d

Ooof! For some reason the camera sounds from the beginning always morph into the start of Wake Me Up Before You Go Go!

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 20d

I just sent off an index that had an entry pointing to the distinction between the two!

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 20d

Currently indexing a book about 16mm and have Paul Simon's Kodachrome on endless repeat in my mind. Any other film songs you can send my way? 🎥📽️ #BookIndexer

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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 20d

The Type High Prize mails out to all Print Club members that’ve been in the Club for a whole year (starting in September) to celebrate Type High Day (9/18). These ornaments were designed by me and cast by @bowerbox.com. Super grateful to all the PC members that keep the studio going!

Type High Prize package sitting on top of box of envelope metal type ornaments.

Type High Prize package sitting on top of box of envelope metal type ornaments. Explains type high day (9/18).

Inside of Type High Prize package showing matching set of envelope ornaments.

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Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination @dissentum.bsky.social · 21d

If you can, publish with a university press! They're non-profit, they often struggle because their goal is not to make money but produce knowledge, and they're run by the kindest, most hard-working people. UP editors are artisans--your book will 100% be in good hands.

Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 21d

Who can be published by a university press? https://bit.ly/3ljDLFX

University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site.

Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 21d

If you are reviewing a book and you have thoughts on the index (good or bad or lack thereof) please include them in your review. Indexing is invisible so reminders of their existence helps to keep them from the chopping block of budget cuts. #BookSky #NonFiction #AcademicSky

Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 21d

Some food for thought: if you're reviewing a book & it has good, useful maps, say so in the review! And name the mapmaker if you can.

Often, folks writing books don't know where to go for good maps. Making mention of them in your review helps everyone.
#skystorians #midievalsky #historians

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 25d

“The Experience of Being Online,” 1884, Kobayashi Kiyochika. (Actual title: “One Person, Six Expressions.”)

A nineteenth-century Japanese print showing a man in closeup in six circular portraits. In each he’s making a different expression.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 26d

I'd love to index this!

📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · Sep 8

Typo of the day:

European-Count of Human Rights

#BookIndexing

a purple puppet is wearing a green cape and has a purple nose and mustache .

Alt: The Muppet's Count character doing a face palm

media.tenor.com

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · Aug 29

All four the same. The last one is someone else.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · Aug 25

#philsky

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · Aug 24

Currently indexing this idea in a book about community engaged research

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · Aug 19

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

Resonance | University of California Press

online.ucpress.edu

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Aug 18

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’

You don’t ‘run the gambit.’

gamut = entire range or series

gauntlet = severe trial

Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · Aug 15

One of the audiences I think of when I'm indexing a book is people looking for sources for something tangential in the book because the search is part of the fun.

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WBUR @wbur.org · Aug 15

In 1974, Constantine Manos spent nine months taking thousands of photos of people and neighborhoods across Boston. The photographs will be the focus of a forthcoming exhibition at the Boston Athenaeum, and the curator are asking for help IDing the images.

Boston Athenaeum's quest to ID vintage photos

In 1974, Constantine Manos spent nine months taking thousands of photos of people and neighborhoods across Boston. The photographs will be the focus of a forthcoming exhibition at the Boston Athenaeum...

www.wbur.org

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · Aug 15

Frustrated by being referred to as a mere "caricature" artist, William Hogarth produced this 1743 print to explain the difference between characters and caricatures — which he saw as radically different — and aligning his style firmly with the former: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...

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