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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Sep 21

Auch das ist eine Jahresangabe in einem Impressum: "Gedruckt in diesem Jahr, da alles verkehrt war."

A slightly unusual printer's imprint: "Printed in the year when everything was wrong".

#bookhistory #skystorians

Titelblatt der Flugschrift"Der Kluge Meyer, Wie er sein Gsind aufweckt, und zu der Arbeit antreibt : Ich bin genannt der kluge Mever, In die Stadt trag ich Haasen, Hüner und Ever. Samt Kurtzweiligen Klagsprüchen eines armen ausgehauseten Beltzstössels" (VD18 90882237).

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 14h

any year between A.D. 1900 and A.D. 2099.

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 23h

Always nice when the bus driver slows down as a teenager is running towards the bus stop, but doesn't actually come to a complete halt and wait for them, because they haven't quite reached it. 😠

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 1d

Rub it in, why don't you?

Duolingo screen shot with the German for "I only want to read but I have to work"

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 1d

In the reading room today: super 1903 book if activities for girls in which Chapter 1 is building things with a hammer and a saw. There's also making fireworks using the metal from your stays. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 1903.7. 554

What a girl can make and do, by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard.

Instructions for making a frankly fabulous reading nook chair from packing boxes, upon which to stretch oneself luxuriantly.

Instructions for home-made pyrotechnics, including a Snap-fire made from " a side-steel taken from a dress-stay" to fling your firework gaily into the air. Also a Rushing Comet made from a 3" rubber ball: "How heartily you will laugh when it strikes against some object which drives it flying backward". I think these girls are really quite subversive.

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 2d

Phew.

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 2d

In the queue for the recycling centre. Last entry at 3.50. Will we get in or will it be a trip back home with a boot full of garden clippings...?

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 2d

The NHS covered her treatment with Soliris, one of the priciest drugs in existence. The lesson of this thread is if you or someone you know is tired and ghostly pale (and esp if dark red wee), ask your GP for an FBC and mention PNH and AA. Please share - it's rare but potentially devastating. 3/3

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 2d

We were very fortunate that then-9yo was diagnosed at the first set of tests in which she was found to have blood that was essentially water. That explained the tiredness, bruising, nosebleeds, and paleness that had come on so gradually so that we hadn't spotted it. 2/3

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 2d

PNH is a super-rare condition where the immune system goes haywire and munches up your red blood cells. Telltale symptom is dark red wee (although not all patients have this). It's often found alongside aplastic anaemia in which the bone marrow forgets how to produce blood cells of all types. 1/3

PNH Global Alliance @pnhglobalalliance.bsky.social · 2d

🌟 𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰? Today is Global PNH Awareness Day!
Let’s raise awareness for paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), support patients, and action treatment access for all! 💙🩸

#PNHAwareness2025 #PNH #RareDisease #PatientSupport"

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Florie @floriemarie.fr · 3d

Allez, on répète après moi :

ChatGPT 👏👏
n’est pas 👏👏
un moteur 👏👏
de recherche 👏👏

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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · 4d

Great (paid) PhD opportunity. Excellent environment, conditions, and supervisors. And a topic close to my heart. (Selfish reason for promoting this: I fear there won't be enough concerts for retired me to go to. Geen dag zonder Bach.) vacatures.knaw.nl/job/The-Hagu...

PhD position "Is the audience for classical music concerts fading out?"

vacatures.knaw.nl

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 3d

Want your own piece of beautiful hand carving *and* to support a good cause? Here's your chance!

Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 3d

DUTCH AUCTION in support of salivaryglandcancer.uk

In my shop, this piece is priced at £165. At noon every day (BST) the price drops by £10, until it sells.

First DM gets it. UK shipping only.

Half of what you pay will go to SGC UK.

Please repost for widest coverage. Thank you :)

Hand carved #lettering on Hopton Wood limestone. I AM WHAT I AM.

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De Profundis @dpchoir.bsky.social · 4d

Rather nice to be featured in The Times cryptic. (2,9)

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joshuatj @joshuatj.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Woohoo! Great #digipres story @makethecatwise
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

www.bbc.com

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 4d

"people-cushion" 💕

Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 4d

I was really delighted to speak about #NecessaryWomen to an attentive and enthusiastic audience at @gladlib.bsky.social yesterday! Today it was full tilt research looking at as many files as I could during my last day of archives consultation. Phew!

Chapel, a bright modern room with white walls and wooden chairs, images of bookshelves at front and a presentation screen, with audience gathering for talk

Library laminated sign ‘These cushions are for the books! Please do not sit on them. Please ask at the enquiry deal if you would like a people-cushion for your chair’

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 4d

Things getting extreme on the local Next door email roundup.

Screen shot of an email. The text has been truncated such that it appears to read "Does anybody know of a charity that could accept an immediate frozen cat"

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 5d

Here's my side hustle as hand model.

Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 5d

It's #BannedBooksWeek. Over the centuries, our duty to preserve the nation’s literary output has led us to collect works of all kinds, regardless of their content.

Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Ulysses both entered our collections years before they were widely available.

A 1920s copy of James Joyce's Ulysses in a bright blue paper binding. It is held in a person's hands. We see a library setting in the background.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 6d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 6d

If anyone is looking for a Christmas present idea @markdourish.bsky.social cough> this looks splendid.

Emma Thane of Cawdor @redwellyfeats.bsky.social · 6d

It's in this lovely pop up book about frogs. I hadn't heard of it either until I read this.

A beautiful pop up book about frogs, tied in a pretty pink ribbon.

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 7d

It is truly amazing how quickly transfusions sort the symptoms of anaemia. When 9yo had her first units of blood way back <waves hand> the colour in her cheeks showed just how used we had got over time to her ghostly appearance. Hope you have a similarly miraculous improvement.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 7d

“Both discoveries show the crucial role of county council archives and their staff in preserving this musical heritage.”

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 7d

GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 8d

Shimmering clouds above @theul.bsky.social at home time today.

A tall square tower above a large red brick building. The sky is blue and there are rippled white clouds.

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 8d

If there was a word I would absolutely *not* use for the @theul.bsky.social catalogues, it would be SMOL.

Green hardback volumes of a library catalogue. One volume contains authors from SMOL to SNH, although the last author in the volume is actually Snezhnitsky.

A beautiful long 1930s room with ornamented windows through which the autumn light is shining onto some of the hundreds of green volumes that make up the old catalogue of Cambridge University Library.

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