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Alex Wingate

@bibliowingate.bsky.social

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PhD candidate in Information Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton & SHARP News. W&M '18, ULondon '19, MLS @IU '21

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hello all you new followers! I'm a book historian/PhD candidate in Information Science. I work on bookselling/ownership in EM Navarre, Spain; the intersection of ILS+Book History; & applying quant and digital methods to Book History. I mostly post #DH, #DHmakes, #BookHistory, & quilting things!

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 1h

Water from the ceiling.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 23h

Medieval Islamic scribes, such stuffy serious people! 😜

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic practical joke for medieval scribes.
(from §22 of this book payhip.com/b/BoYj4 by @majnouna.com)

"To render the scribe unable to write from the inkwell: Squeeze the juice of a tamarind and transfer it to the inkwell. No scribe will manage to write from it."

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 1d

'There was a day when people who practise Islam went to the church & got to know the prayer space & then they did the reverse; the Catholics went to the mosque & experienced it,” said the mayor “& around 2 months later, the five religions we have in Villamalea came together to pray in the church.”'

‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance

Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines

www.theguardian.com

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

absolutely and I think that’s really important! they’re denied communion in there, which is actually incredibly unusual, so this is the next best way to bring the Eucharist to them. maybe it gave some small degree of reassurance to some very scared people that they aren’t forgotten

Ser T-error, Guarding the Veil and Rogue-ing Traders @imasithduh.bsky.social · 1d

Would it also be a comfort to the Catholic folks who are trapped in the ICE facility? Sort of a "We brought Jesus with us and even though He was turned away, He is here for you"?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA Catholics are so gross to me. first off, a LOT of these immigrants are Catholic, and the catechism is EXTREMELY CLEAR on the church being one united global body. those people are your family. your loyalty should be to them and not the president!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 1d

That is true, but we do at least have pennies for splitting, and it itself is not generally being split into other things! Plus we like counting by fives. A ducado is the biggest unit, and they made the next biggest unit go into it 11 times! It'd be like having our biggest bill be $89!

Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 1d

*1 real = 36 or 34 maravedis
(But you get the picture, it's nuts)

Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 1d

Early modern Navarre (and sometimes Spain) has the weirdest money system
1 ducado = 11 reales (who chooses a prime number for money?)
1 real = 36 or 34 reales (depends on Navarrese or Castilian)
1 quartillo = 1/4 real (only normal one)
1 tarja = 2/9 real (wtf??)
#histsky #BookHistory

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 1d

A bookseller died in 1684, his executors had to sell of all his stuff to pay his debts, and for this particular book, clearly no one was gonna buy 225 copies so they sold it to a couple dudes for old paper. Which is generally sold by weight versus the actual value of the book as a thing to be read!

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 2d

'Knit Hello is a typeface for hand knitting, the outcome of a series of Typographic Knitting—or Typeknitting—workshops...based on slipstitches & a simple letterform grid, offers a simple, frustration-free process for beginners, w/o floats or getting entangled'. By Rüdiger Schlömer. #DHmakes

Knit Hello – Typeknitting

Knit Hello is a typeface for typographic knitting.

www.knithello.com

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 2d

Viva Virginia!!!!!
Sic semper tyrannis in action!

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

I did hear about this and I don’t know that I have TEA but I have THOUGHTS

first of all let us not skip past the symbolic significance of “Leo signed the document on Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi”

Julia L @calenmir.bsky.social · 2d

@clairewillett.bsky.social wanted to make sure you hear this (and hear any tea you might have regarding this): www.ncronline.org/pope-leo-bla...

Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the church and for society," the pope wrote in Dilexi Te.

www.ncronline.org

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 2d

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 2d

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 3d

Adjusted for inflation, NEA funding was highest--$1.8 billion--over the four years of the first Reagan administration & has remained stagnate--about $750 million per presidential term--for the last 25 years.

Line graph visualizing the NEA budget by presidential administration from 1966 to 2024 adjusted for inflation

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 4d

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

www.arc-humanities.org

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 4d

Oh I know there are weirder ones than me lol. I know they’ve got an onsite conservation lab, so I figure there’s a scale running around there somewhere. I figure to the nearest oz will be okay because I have to account for the binding anyway bc the copies in the book list are unbound

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 4d

I think I’ve sent my weirdest reference request ever to a library: I’m asking if they’ll weigh two copies of a particular book because I’m trying to verify my guesstimate of how many of 225 copies two different people bought. They bought by weight for old paper, not copies, hence math! #BookHistory

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Óscar Perea Rodríguez @opr71.bsky.social · 5d

Hasta un reloj estropeado acierta dos veces al día.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5d

“I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district." trib.al/MZsOwGU

MTG Turns Against Republicans in Shocking Flip on Government Shutdown

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks Democrats have a point on the Obamacare fight at the center of the government shutdown.

trib.al

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 5d

Archives!
Ah!-chives
Argh!-chives
Blah!-chives!

What was your last research day like?

Mine has been a lot of argh!, alas.

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 6d

Sent this q to VICTORIA, but also figure I should ask here — does anyone know of scholarship on strategies that advertisers (e.g. of fraudulent or illegal goods or services) used to evade surveillence, esp in Victorian Britain? Or strategies that advertisers used to track responses to ads in +

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Programming Historian @proghist.bsky.social · 5d

Did you know all our lessons are free to transform, reuse and share under the CC-BY licence?

Join our free webinar on 23 October at 15:00 BST to learn how you could lead independent adaptations of our content for your needs and community:

tinyurl.com/ph-remix-reuse

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 6d

Like a good thread about airports? (obvs yes)

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 6d

A life update: this wound up paying off. I'm still applying to several jobs that are hopefully careers, but I've got my survival needs covered by a job at the airport that I'm apparently pretty good at.

And instead of being in an office alone, which was driving me mad, I see 20k people a day.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · Aug 12

There is a line around this building to get to the line entrance to wait to get into this job fair.

At the airport. For airport jobs.

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