It's here! It's here! The TOC for Issue 5 of Die Laughing is HERE!

We could not be more excited to bring you these 6 hilarifying tales, available as a PDF download 10/31/25, with stories posting for free every week after! Join us for stories so funny they'll kill you! #horrorsky
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Great news! Die Laughing is accepting cover art submissions on an ongoing basis. Send us your art! dielaughingmag.com/c...

We won't choose and you can't make us! We're bringing you the best of hilarious horror (and we're also probably losing at cards).

#meme #unomeme #horror #humor #cantchoose #dielaughing

Online Lecture Fri. Oct. 17, 12:00pm EDT @sims-mss.bsky.social J. D. Sargan on Trans Studies as Book Historical Method @jdsargan.bsky.social

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Assistant Professorship in Early Medieval Literatures and Cultures, Fordham University:
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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

A delightful copy of the Seven Penitential Psalms (Les sept pseaumes penitentiaux) written in France in 1681. The binding is embroidered silk, interior decoration includes vignettes and illuminated initials. (UPenn Ms. Codex 1564)

🔗: https://bit.ly/4c0KGg5

I wrote a very in depth look at what a Carolina-style burger is and what it isn't. I created a map to help you find a great example and then I shared strategies and tactics to make your own all-the-way burger at home. Click through to get hungry and learn more.

For #CoffeeWithACodex on October 9, Curator @leoba.bsky.social will bring out Ms. Codex 736, a collection of papal letters and instruments regarding the order of the Eremite Friars of St. Augustine of Rouen. It was written in Italy in 1475. #medievalsky #cwac

Register here: https://bit.ly/3Kvn0H0

Just noticed that my @sims-mss.bsky.social 2024 Plenary is online, in which I explore the #MedievalManuscript #OpenAccess ecosystem, including @iiif.bsky.social, @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, Digital Mappa, and the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDwQ...

YES I'm very excited about this one!!!

Oh boy, on Oct 16, @leoba.bsky.social is showing Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1004/29, a mid-14thC physician's belt w/ calendar, tables of solar & lunar eclipses, anatomical phlebotomy diagram, & urine wheel. A 🦇 book, b/c it unfolds like a pair of 🦇 wings. libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/14872116

News coverage of the Trump administration's proposed "compact" with universities has been, so far, shockingly bad.

I hate to pick on NPR reporter Elissa Nadworny, who's usually a solid reporter, but almost every important thing I heard her say this morning about the proposed "compact" was false.

Stretch

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

Again: Marginalized people are disproportionately harmed by the spread of "AI" because the people who use it are essentially being trained to think the machine is "like us" & can speak "for us," even as it simultaneously pressures you to disbelieve *Actual Us* when we tell you "it's not & it cant."

Newly digitised Gəʽəz manuscript just dropped

You’re own
Personal
Owl friend
Someone to eat your mice
Covered in lice

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

This is mandatory reading on what US universities seem to be facing rn

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

This week's #RainsfordDay book is notes on cabala collected by Charles Rainsford. Sections include how to predict a plentiful or scarce season by observing the type of insect on an oak apple, and writings on the seventy-two divine names of angels. (UPenn Ms. Codex 1702)

🔗: https://bit.ly/3VqKcIV

Heart eyes! A loving bird flaps its wings in the bottom margin of f. 311v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky

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