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Jess Nevins

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Encyclopedist, college librarian, writer, ttrpg writer. I like to talk about Mesopotamia & Vikings. Always outnumbered, never outgunned. My podcast, "The History of Comic Books in 500 Issues," is at http://500issues.com

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 21m

Of course this is too expensive for individuals to buy--it's intended for the library crowd--but I bet the illustrations are splendid and I am curious about the contents:

www.bloomsbury.com/us/craft-of-...

The Craft of Antler, Bone, Horn and Ivory Working in the Early Medieval Emporia c. AD 600-850

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the craft of antler, bone, horn and ivory working as it evolved within the pre-Viking emporia of northern Europe. Ov…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 3h

Don't do it!

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 13h

We have just unearthed a can of beans in the back of our pantry that reads "Best by March 2017."

Does ICE accept donated food?

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 13h

It's band books week, and the best band books are

#1) whatever book @andrewhickey.500songs.com is working on next
#2) Taylor Jenkins Reid's DAISY JONES & THE SIX
#3) Dom DeLillo's GREAT JONES STREET
#4) Jennifer Egan's A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD
#5) Benno von Archimboldi's MUERTE AL ICE

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 13h

I can only deal with what's in front of me.

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 14h

Jesus possibly reading about bacteria & viruses in Marcus Terentius Varro's De Re Rustica and about hot wlw love in Sappho's poetry.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 14h

I always wonder about the mental barriers required to allow oneself to be compassionate and clear-eyed about *one* issue and hideously backwards and horrible about all the others.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 15h

Oh, dear. I'm very sorry.

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 15h

I've said this here before, I'm sure, but--it would either have been the Armenian family were a little too exuberant after the assassination of the Turkish consul general in Boston in '82, or the former Mob accountant who got the fish thrown through the window & the car blown up before testifying.

The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 21h

Fence #26 will be a special on all things print, and in tribute to the storied history of the UK gutter press, our letters page wants your GOSSIP & SCANDAL.

So, we're asking you all: what was the most scandalous (true or false) bit of gossip that dominated your school or neighbourhood growing up?

A photo of assembled paparazzi waiting to snap your shame for the scandal sheets.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 16h

...I suddenly remembered gossip about her marriage to Tom Cruise and gossip (that led to a lawsuit) about their need for an intimacy coordinator on the set of Eyes Wide Shut and gossip about her relationship with Lenny Kravitz....

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 16h

Ahem.

"We come to this place...for magic.
We come to the marital bedroom to laugh, to cry, to care.

Because we need that, all of us,
that indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to dim.
And we go somewhere we've never been before;
not just entertained, but somehow reborn.
Together."

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d

“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man

Tweet from Daily Mail Celebrity @DailyMailCeleb
How Nicole Kidman's 'bottomless need for sexual attention' led to the end of her marriage to country music star Keith Urban: Nashville insiders open up to
ALISON BOSHOFF

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 16h

President Trump's fifth term in office

Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 16h

"Unexpected item in bagging area"

Shar A @sharal.bsky.social · 17h

“Give it some minge!” he exclaimed.

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 16h

That's what it seems like to me, yeah.

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you very much for posting that--I'm spreading the word here, because nobody knew that.

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 16h

The prof, I mean. The ebook reader was not a program I've ever seen before and not one the school uses, so it must be the professor's.

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 16h

Sigh.

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 16h

Oh, this is bad.

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 16h

Reading up on the Antichrist--who knows, it might be me--and saw this bit about the "little horn."

a) We know it's not Stewart. #letterkenny
b) Greta Thunberg can't be the Antichrist, Thiel, you utter turnip, the Antichrist is a guy.
c) Men with little horns were born that way

"Three other images often associated with Antichrist are the "little horn" in Daniel's final fision, the "man of sin" in Paul the Apostle's Second Epistle to the"

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 17h

This looks interesting:

www.proquest.com/openview/031...

www.proquest.com

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 17h

It's not a library ebook. They may have paid for it themselves, I don't know.

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 17h

Yowch!

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 17h

We're required to watch the video.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 18h

There are people who are simply not suited to doing narration. They have the wrong voice, or mannerisms or tics, or phlegmy lungs, or a stop-start delivery, or t h e y s l o w d o w n andthenspeedup.

Or they have all of those, like the guy I have to listen to now.

Oh, for closed captioning!

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 18h

Today, sadly, I am not, for today I have to listen to 33 minutes of Information Security Awareness Training narrated not by a professional, but by one of our IT guys.

Someone thought getting one of our guys to narrate would save money, apparently.

But what we got was an Erich Zann narration.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 18h

I am (as I mentioned yesterday) doing the required annual set of training exercises for things like cybersecurity & bloodborne pathogens & spreading Mycobacterium leprae among deserving students & such.

I thought I had the right to complain, yesterday. But that was yesterday, when I was innocent.

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