Dylan Lewis
@iamdylanlewis.bsky.social
¶Rare Book Librarian ¶PhD in C17-18 print history, bibliography, and (blackletter) typography ¶video game, cinema, and public transit enjoyer ¶he/him 🏳️🌈
📍Dallas -> Munich -> DC -> Atlanta
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📍Dallas -> Munich -> DC -> Atlanta
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Dylan Lewis
@iamdylanlewis.bsky.social
· Oct 31
I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re an uncataloged book someone tried to rebind with duct tape
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Please don't let the fear of not doing something well stop you from trying it for the first time. Write a messy story. Paint a crappy flower. Whittle the worst wooden bear of all time.
The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
December 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Please don't let the fear of not doing something well stop you from trying it for the first time. Write a messy story. Paint a crappy flower. Whittle the worst wooden bear of all time.
The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
Misconception: rare books = incunabula, 1st editions, fancy provenance, etc. Special collections also build tomorrow’s archival record today!
Here are some examples of recent acquisitions from The Gallery Press---our stewardship today ensures tomorrow’s researchers have access to small press works!
Here are some examples of recent acquisitions from The Gallery Press---our stewardship today ensures tomorrow’s researchers have access to small press works!
December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Misconception: rare books = incunabula, 1st editions, fancy provenance, etc. Special collections also build tomorrow’s archival record today!
Here are some examples of recent acquisitions from The Gallery Press---our stewardship today ensures tomorrow’s researchers have access to small press works!
Here are some examples of recent acquisitions from The Gallery Press---our stewardship today ensures tomorrow’s researchers have access to small press works!
working with rare books means I can't dress for winter because my floor is always 71 degrees --- we might be the only academic building that isn't freezing when it's below 40 outside. layers w/ a sweater is suffocating me today despite it being 39 outside
December 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
working with rare books means I can't dress for winter because my floor is always 71 degrees --- we might be the only academic building that isn't freezing when it's below 40 outside. layers w/ a sweater is suffocating me today despite it being 39 outside
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There’s just nothing left of a university’s mission if instructors can be disciplined and fired for teaching the current state of knowledge in their fields, the degrees they issue are worth precisely the value of the paper they’re printed on and not a jot more
December 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
There’s just nothing left of a university’s mission if instructors can be disciplined and fired for teaching the current state of knowledge in their fields, the degrees they issue are worth precisely the value of the paper they’re printed on and not a jot more
Boxes of cereal are $8
/insert guillotine
/insert guillotine
November 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Boxes of cereal are $8
/insert guillotine
/insert guillotine
Showing my bf all of the great food in ATL
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Showing my bf all of the great food in ATL
I think we’re all healthily skeptical about 1) how serious Trump is about wanting to help Mamdani and 2) how much Mamdani wants help from a fascist would-be dictator, but today was truly remarkable.
Mamdani is one of the only real leaders we have in the country atm. Feckless Dems should take notes.
Mamdani is one of the only real leaders we have in the country atm. Feckless Dems should take notes.
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I think we’re all healthily skeptical about 1) how serious Trump is about wanting to help Mamdani and 2) how much Mamdani wants help from a fascist would-be dictator, but today was truly remarkable.
Mamdani is one of the only real leaders we have in the country atm. Feckless Dems should take notes.
Mamdani is one of the only real leaders we have in the country atm. Feckless Dems should take notes.
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Every clip I've watched has been more insane than the last - this one's particularly remarkable because when asked "why do you think there's been more excitement around this meeting" Trump responds with a long monologue about how great and remarkable ZOHRAN is - not one single word about himself.
I think this clip is the key to understanding why Trump acted the way he did with Mamdani. His world revolves around TV ratings.
"I tell you, the press has eaten this thing up."
"I tell you, the press has eaten this thing up."
November 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Every clip I've watched has been more insane than the last - this one's particularly remarkable because when asked "why do you think there's been more excitement around this meeting" Trump responds with a long monologue about how great and remarkable ZOHRAN is - not one single word about himself.
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Zohran walking into the Oval Office, focusing on his key policy platforms, and coming away with an unqualified win over Trump really puts into relief how bad the Democratic leadership is that it has been repeatedly rendered totally impotent and made to look like bumbling cowards by the Donald.
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Zohran walking into the Oval Office, focusing on his key policy platforms, and coming away with an unqualified win over Trump really puts into relief how bad the Democratic leadership is that it has been repeatedly rendered totally impotent and made to look like bumbling cowards by the Donald.
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Zohran Mamdani standing beside the President of the United States just said that the US is funding Israel's genocide and yet can't take care of its own unhoused children on live television.
I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
November 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Zohran Mamdani standing beside the President of the United States just said that the US is funding Israel's genocide and yet can't take care of its own unhoused children on live television.
I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
do I have any (rare book) librarian colleagues who frequently use MARCEdit when doing some cataloging, esp. the Merge Record function? I'm having a technical issue I'd love to solve regarding MARCEdit adding additional \ marks to OCN/OCM/ON numbers that it thinks are too short when merging records!
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
do I have any (rare book) librarian colleagues who frequently use MARCEdit when doing some cataloging, esp. the Merge Record function? I'm having a technical issue I'd love to solve regarding MARCEdit adding additional \ marks to OCN/OCM/ON numbers that it thinks are too short when merging records!
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We have normalized horrifying, shocking, and unacceptable behavior from this president.
It has to stop.
Now.
It has to stop.
Now.
🚨 Trump calls for the death of Democratic senators and representatives who produced a video advising members of the military and intelligence communities not to follow illegal orders:
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We have normalized horrifying, shocking, and unacceptable behavior from this president.
It has to stop.
Now.
It has to stop.
Now.
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Institutions that will not fire someone like Larry Summers are not institutions worth fighting for!
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Institutions that will not fire someone like Larry Summers are not institutions worth fighting for!
Two bibles— you and the guy she tells you not to worry about
November 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Two bibles— you and the guy she tells you not to worry about
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My bf is visiting this weekend & next week for thanksgiving so I had to get a haircut 💇🏼♂️
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
My bf is visiting this weekend & next week for thanksgiving so I had to get a haircut 💇🏼♂️
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
Hillary Duff’s new single came out ten days ago and it only has 4 million streams on Spotify — gays what are you DOING, lock in
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Hillary Duff’s new single came out ten days ago and it only has 4 million streams on Spotify — gays what are you DOING, lock in
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Lovely manicules in Wellcome Ms 373, recipe book of Jane Jackson
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Lovely manicules in Wellcome Ms 373, recipe book of Jane Jackson
Something I took for granted growing up was my parents' generosity to others. Every year we'd go shopping at the grocery store/dollar store one weekend to buy things for holiday food and toy drives. My parents didn't go to college & we were pretty financially precarious, but we did this every year
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Something I took for granted growing up was my parents' generosity to others. Every year we'd go shopping at the grocery store/dollar store one weekend to buy things for holiday food and toy drives. My parents didn't go to college & we were pretty financially precarious, but we did this every year
My bf has requested quail for thanksgiving—anyone have a good roasting recipe? Bonus if it involves white wine & butter and I can roast potatoes in the same dish!
November 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My bf has requested quail for thanksgiving—anyone have a good roasting recipe? Bonus if it involves white wine & butter and I can roast potatoes in the same dish!
My bf is spending his Friday night getting to meet adorable kittens… and I’m at IKEA 😫😭
November 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
My bf is spending his Friday night getting to meet adorable kittens… and I’m at IKEA 😫😭