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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜

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Rare Book #Librarian, bereaved parent of Caitlin, #geek. 12x Hugo Award winner. bi/queer. Head @illinoisrbml.bsky.social; Verity podcast; ex-ed/pub Uncanny Magazine. Baby #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. No auto-follow. #DoctorWho #bookhistory #SFF

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · Nov 14

Hello new folks! I see a lot of "Hey, is there a starter pack to help me find [interest/group/my people]?!" Here's a big #directory of #StarterPacks so you don't have to reinvent the wheel! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

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A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 9h

Capping off my birthday with Portillo’s for dinner, followed by Portillo’s CAKE.

Just like the Pope.

No regrets.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 13h

"Cantina" :scoffs: what are you, some FANCY PANTS person??

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 20h

I'm giving several talks about the books in the next couple of months, if you want to hear more (before you buy?). The first, linked below, is online via. UPenn @sims-mss.bsky.social on October 17th at 12 midday EDT.

Trans Studies as Book Historical Method

J. D. Sargan considers generative modes of reading through the premodern archive to seek out trans lives beyond the ephemeral glimpses that have gone unnoticed in the historical record.

www.library.upenn.edu

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 16h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16h

How to ymprove higher ed
And win all the pryzes:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 22h

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 16h

And this doesn't even begin to cover the amazing things that Caitlin was able to do because people on social media cared about her.

Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 16h

More than half of both of my careers (SFF editing and librarianship) and the awards that followed are because of social media. The ability to keep in touch with the incredible group of people that are in my life is priceless.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 16h

Or more gristle/connective tissue; it is the cuts designed for slow-and-low cooking.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 16h

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 17h

@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...

Bridging archives: The role of IIIF in global manuscript preservation

India’s manuscript tradition is among the richest in the world, spanning centuries, languages, and disciplines. Yet, much of this vast repository remains fragmented, fragile, and inaccessible. The tec...

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 17h

Depends: was the fondue beef more expensive? Does it come from a different part of the cow than the stew meat?

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 17h

Up next: the new Fran Wilde book, A Philosophy of Thieves. www.kensingtonbooks.com/978164566196...

A Philosophy of Thieves

Leverage meets Parasite meets Six of Crows in multi-award winning author Fran Wilde’s thrilling, high-tech adventure heist wrapped in a gaslamp fantas...

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 17h

Just finished The Nameless Land by Kate Elliott, and that was deeply satisfying, even though I hadn't read book one. Longer review to come, but I definitely recommend this one. Preorder link: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The Nameless Land

Surprising betrayals, surprising alliances, and surprising discoveries of heritage abound in this energetic sequel to The Witch Roads.When the royal party fi...

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 18h

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 20h

Typographic apparitions 👻

Spotted in a 1498 Cologne missal: a case of off-set printing, where ink from the forme (or from another printed page?) accidentally transferred onto these printed page.

#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Detail of a page with musical staf printed, added music by hand, and off-set printing of other type in the margins

Detail of a page with liturgical text printed, and off-set printing of other type in the margins

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19h

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 19h

The first Silmarillion map. Drawn by Tolkien on an unused page from a University of Leeds examination booklet.

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 21h

#histmed #MedievalSky Minji Lee's book, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body, has just been released #OpenAccess: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Cover image of Minji Lee, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body. On the complex imagery reproduced on the cover, read the book!

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University of Illinois RBML @illinoisrbml.bsky.social · 20h

Shelfmarks:
Collins 1478 - Tribute to the Arts by Robert Massman (1984)
MINI01729 - Perspective peepshow Depicting a Scene in a Library by Martin Engelbrecht (1730-50)
Collins 1318 - Moby Dick Meets the Pequod by Robert Massman (1968)

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University of Illinois RBML @illinoisrbml.bsky.social · 20h

The leaves can be spaced out with accordion-like folded paper or by using a gukkasten, a peepshow viewing box that individual sheets can slide into.

The books pictured are classified as mini books, meaning they are less than three inches in height!

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University of Illinois RBML @illinoisrbml.bsky.social · 20h

What do you get when you cross a peepshow with a petite book? A peti-pshow!

A peepshow, or tunnel book, is a book format that spaces multiple illustrated leaves apart from one another to create an illusion of depth when viewed through a front opening.

A peepshow book depicting a conductor and an orchestra.

A peepshow book depicting people in a library.

A peepshow book depicting a whale in front of a ship.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 22h

This is 51.

A middle aged woman with chin length curly hair wearing a Burgundy boatneck sweater and glasses with Burgundy frames.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 23h

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A view of the back of an1890s dress showing the bodice with clusters of oranges woven into the fabric. It has black lace on the sleeves and a high collar

A detail of the front of the bodice of the orange patterned 1890s dress showing black lace at the neckline and the detailed fruit

Sleeve detail of the 1890s orange patterned dress which has a yellow silk trellis work trim with black lace

Full length view of the front of the 1890s dress patterned with oranges and trimmed with black lace

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 22h

IT IS FINALLY BOOTS AND TIGHTS WEATHER

:clackity clack:

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

Terrifying!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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