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Rebecca

@jeybecques.bsky.social

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Current librarian, former classicist, perpetual nerd. Expect special collections, book history, yarn. “Is there anything you aren’t interested in??”

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · Jan 15

New year, new spines! This is a new favorite for me

The Avant-gardener. (Journal run starting with blue paper spines with blocky italic titles, transitioning to red buckram spines with stamped sans serif titles, from 1968-1974)

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

This is some excellent aviation (check thread for recording playback)

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

www.flightaware.com

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 11h

memo to self

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

Periodic reminder: if you get a generic that is less effective for you, of any medicine, filing a Form 3500 with the FDA's MedWatch if you're able contributes to getting non-bioequivalent generics pulled from the market: www.fda.gov/safety/medic...

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 19h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 1d

also how impossible it is to replicate this across different systems. getting three entirely different results depending on browser.

Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 1d

I hate how so many search systems are getting shittier and also think they’re smarter

searched for Halley brooch like I have any number of times and got exclusively Harley Davidson merch

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 1d

I scrolled for like two minutes and I think I’m out for the day. There is Too Much.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

One of the posts that got me flamed back in the old place was when I said I didn’t fetishise books as objects and wasn’t bothered if their owners wanted to rip them in half to make their baggage lighter or chuck them in the recycling once they’ve read them or whatever. Some people went ballistic

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 2d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 5d

no love for the duodecimo???

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 5d

Look at this incredibly funky Z (for 'Zelentides', birds that eat plagues of locusts) from the Hortus Sanitatis of 1499. #rarebooks #GLAM 📚

A captial letter Z made of four elongated tear-drop shapes. If you didn't know it was from 1499 you might think it was from the 1970s.

Woodcut illustration of two birds on a rock above some text in Latin starting with the funky Z.

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 6d

airplane game discord did not appreciate this enough

I am disappointed in them

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 6d

so thanks to the airplane game that ate my brain, I learned about the aviat eagle, an aerobatic biplane

and now i desperately need an aviat Igel

because puns

badass looking little biplane with heavily stylized eagle paint job

model of same airplane, only with very similar paint job that looks like a hedgehog instead

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 8d

(one day many many years ago I was sad about something so my partner sent me this emoji: 💩)
(I said no that was far too happy, and he went and spent actual real money on a BBM sticker set with the sad poop in rain sticker)
(that set will be my favorite forever)
(just maybe not at work)

Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 8d

my most favorite stickers feel just a tiny bit too far beyond the line of professionally appropriate and I was so looking forward to using the sad shark

a happy poop emoji with a party hat and confetti

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 8d

today at work I discovered that we don’t have the legal sharks in our teams stickers options and I am genuinely heartbroken about it

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 10d

otoh I am now cursing one specific model of propeller plane and also regretting my choice of decline and fall over the life of Marlborough

an exciting weekend

Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 10d

the world might be a disaster but i just spent 20 minutes online with a group of people staring at an airplane on our screens waiting for it to land in antarctica

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 13d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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reni 🦌🫜 @reniadeb.com · 15d

truth coming out of her well to shame mankind

a frog holds itself upright while poking its upper body out of a manhole cover set in a pavement or road

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 15d

tfw you realize that the institution most like yours has like three times as many staff people

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 16d

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Cube Enthusiast @killhamster.bsky.social · 18d

Nature is healing

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 19d

I am the gar
I long and thin
I have a jaw
things fit within

Yet sometimes shapes
are wrong for head
so do my best
& lik the bread

Eel-AIEEEE @elindur.at.app.wafrn.net · 19d

Oh my god, it's him! The gar that licked the bread!

A text post from cattycattitude on tumblr. It reads "You're telling me a gar* licked this bread?
*a North American freshwater fish of the family Lepisostieidae"
The poster replies to their own post with a picture that's labelled "A helpful visual" and contains a gar (A long thin fish) licking a loaf of bread. An arrow then points to a small pile of garlic bread.

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 19d

After rescuing the hobbits from Old Man Willow, Tom dances away upstream ahead of them. Hurrying along behind, they reach his house and hear Goldberry welcoming them with song.

‘Now let the song begin! Let us sing together
Of sun, stars, moon and mist, rain and cloudy weather.’

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 20d

🍍 Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum, id est, Elisabethae Blackwell collectio stirpium.
Norimbergae: Typis Io. Iosephi Fleischmanni, 1750-1773..

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Illustration from an 18th-century herbarium book depicting a pineapple plant with a large crown of long, pointed, green leaves and a small, round, golden-yellow pineapple fruit. To the right, a detailed cross-section of the fruit shows its fibrous interior with multiple dark seeds. The image includes handwritten scientific labels in Latin and German beneath the plant and fruit, displayed on an aged book page with page number 361 visible at the top right.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 20d

It's #FatBearWeek! To celebrate, here's a nice #FatBear from BHL's image collection. For more historic #SciArt of bears (of all sizes) see our BHL Flickr collection: www.flickr.com/photos/biodi.... For this year's fattest bears, see www.explore.org/fat-bear-week 🐻

A fat brown bear standing in front of a river with its front paws on a rock. There are snow covered mountains in the distance.

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