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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 8d

This is REAL CLASSICS done by REAL CLASSICISTS. Look what they have been demanding your respect for all this time. "Hello I would like 'et plus Cd K Mi Ob Pd Pe Q Vcul] at plus Cdul: hac plus Pdul: ha' poetry, please?"

They have played us for absolute fools.

A page from prof. J B Hall's (amazing) readings an conjectures on Ovid's Heroides. Two volumes, each about 400 pages. All like this.

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Jim @crazyjim.bsky.social · 12d

Lead moveable type for printing used to be stored in large wooden drawers in cases.

Capital letters (or majuscules) were stored in the UPPER CASE.

Miniscules were stored in the LOWER CASE.

Example of a California Case for storage of moveable lead type

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Joris J. van Zundert @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social · 14d

This is from a publisher's review backend, but this should be just.. you know.. generally available, for life. Just wondering where the feedback would go in that case. Somewhere between dev/null and higher deities, I suppose?

A widget titled "How was your experience today?" to pick a mood from awful, bad, OK, good, to great. Below that a button with "Send feedback".

Joris J. van Zundert @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social · Sep 3

Fair's fair: it was up again in fifteen minutes.

Joris J. van Zundert @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social · Sep 3

Well, not to put a finer point on it…

Screenshot of a 500 internal server error as a result of trying to retrieve the link "https://pro.europeana.eu/post/keeping-digitised-heritage-accessible-the-case-of-broken-links".

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Joris J. van Zundert @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social · Jul 15

Okay, I'm not going to whine a lot, but still a little. I'm in Lisbon for #DH2025. But currently I'm in bed with the cold that I apparently attracted at #IMC2025 last week. Bummer. Scrap today. Retry from start tomorrow.

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Joris J. van Zundert @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social · Apr 16

Such a shame to find "//TODO: to be implemented" about a very nice feature in my own code.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · Apr 7

Century+ duration electronic data preservation is in fact an unsolved problem, but magnetic tapes set read-only are as close as we have right now. This is a massive, active research problem at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, others. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... Some tape can be replaced, not all.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Apr 7

Journalists should be insistently pointing out that tariffs are controlled by Congress, and they can revoke the President’s authority over them—and lots of other things!—the moment they grow a spine.

The abject gutlessness of Republican legislators is the real story here.

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · Apr 7

More quilted protest signs! #DHmakes

Karin R @thequiltymagpie.bsky.social · Apr 7

Got into some good trouble yesterday at the #handsoff protest here in St. Paul! And of course I had to make a quilt sign! I’m calling this one “2025 Required Reading”
@indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social
#quiltsky

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Joris J. van Zundert @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social · Apr 3

I think the Orange Monster is planning to go short on the world economy.

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · Apr 3

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨

Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...

The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections

Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others

academic.oup.com

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God @skeetofgod.bsky.social · Apr 3

What a cosmic dipshit.

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Joris J. van Zundert @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social · Mar 23

For a next with far less pain: as soon as you feel any sign of attack, take 400mg of Ibuprofen and double up 6 hrs later. Repeat until cured. (Usually just a day, or two, if you're in time with treatment.) But talk to your GP first! There may be reasons why you should take Colchicine instead of Ibu.

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Joris J. van Zundert @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social · Mar 23

Nope, those novelists weren't lying. I feel your pain, having gout as a returning 'friend' myself. A load of NSAIDs will get you through, or barring that for any reason, a load of Colchicine. They didn't prescribe you anything like that?

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Joris J. van Zundert @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social · Mar 22

There is hope: anti-vaxxers only need 5 years to finally catch up with 140 years of science and research. How hopeful for the world is that?!

Image of an anti-vaxxer Instagram post reasoning that maybe exposing people to a weakened form of a virus might build antibodies. (I.e. what science suggested about 140 years ago :->)

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Joris J. van Zundert @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social · Mar 13

Some chains should take an example from Bike House Coffee in Valladolid, Mexico 😁

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Joris J. van Zundert @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social · Mar 13

I merely wanted a strawberry donut..

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Joris J. van Zundert @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social · Feb 28

It seems Putin's lapdogs were not very well received by President Zelenskyy..

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · Feb 28

This just pisses me off. I know that kind of posturing, that tone. It's deeply reminiscent of some ass-clown adults from my childhood, and other ass-clown employers I've had. Trump and Vance are gonna burn bridges. They're gonna ruin our international alliances. They are repugnant people.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 28

ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?

VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media

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Joris J. van Zundert @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social · Feb 28

Of natuurlijk de helft als je zo'n *nutsvoorziening* nationaliseert.

Joris J. van Zundert @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social · Feb 24

I hope it will be a wonderful workshop. Maybe I'll be joining at some point still. Currently I'm in bed with a inflamed knee-joint 😟 Seems my workshops are cursed for my attendance this academic year 😕

Joris J. van Zundert @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social · Feb 19

More or less equivalent to my current sentiment regarding world events…

A small cat hiding away and looking out from under a thick colorfull blanket.

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · Feb 19

Trump is now an aide in Russia’s regime change plan for Ukraine.

Europeans need to act NOW, not after the German elections, to make sure Ukrainians have an alternative. All the worst came true and there is no other way to put it than that the US is in Russia’s team now.

Trump snaps back at Zelenskyy, blaming Ukraine for the war

The Ukrainian president has been excluded from the administration’s negotiations with Russia seeking an end to the war.

www.politico.com

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Sander Schimmelpenninck @schimmelpenninck.bsky.social · Feb 15

Fascist dekt niet langer de lading. Als Europees extreemrechts denkt dat MAGA Amerika wél een bondgenoot zal zijn als wij ook veranderen in fascistische, zwakke en verdeelde autocratieën, is men volstrekt naïef. Maar vooral een stel landverraders.

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