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Karie Ghoulish

@kariebookish.bsky.social

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I do things with wool & words. She/her. Tired. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇰🏳️‍🌈 These are all my personal views and do not represent anyone else. Find my stuff at kariebookish.net

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · Nov 8

Hello! Quite a few new followers. I'm Karie, a Danish woman living in Glasgow, Scotland. I've written a knitting book about Early Modern printing, teach psychogeographical craft workshops, stamp books, make my own jeans, and married someone from Clan Fraser before it was cool.

White middle-aged cos woman with teal hair, fancy eyeliner, a yellow hand-knitted shawl and a green coat is hiding behind a takeaway coffee

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes literary criticism is more fun to read than the literature it’s criticising.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

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

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 12h

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 15h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 4d

📰 What was thought to be a Palaeolithic oil lamp was likely in fact a 13,000-year-old paint pallet, and contains the oldest instance of blue pigment in Europe!

🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @smithsonianmag.bsky.social

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These Archaeologists Set Out in Search of Animal Fat. Instead, They Found the Oldest Blue Pigment Ever Discovered in Europe

Blue residue on a 13,000-year-old stone artifact, long believed to be an oil lamp, may paint a new picture of Paleolithic art and culture

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 12h

This is a great example of ‘type bite,’ where the handpress operator has pulled the bar with such force that the type ‘bites’ the paper, leaving a raised impression on the verso. This example is from an 1824 court writ. I find this more often on job printed broadsheets than in codices 🗃️ #bookhistory

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 12h

I have not! Thank you for the recommendation ♥️

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Sarah @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 13h

What you read is less important than whether you ever spend time thinking about what you've read.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

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

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, I co-sign this.

✨Procyon A✨ @procyona.bsky.social · 15h

The themes, plots, and characters of Beowulf and Gilgamesh are far more compelling, both read and recited, than the Iliad or the Odyssey to a modern audience. They should be the go-to high school texts to illustrate the importance of oral tradition and the format of the epic.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 12h

Many books written by dead white men are good books.

None of those books were written by Ernest Hemingway.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

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

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 15h

This refined lady decided that lying on top of my knitting project was the comfiest place on earth.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 17h

Doing some more work on this A3 textile piece today. Sorting the top right corner with the blue #TransferDye background. Padded #SatinStitch and #FrenchKnots then remembered these lovely clear coloured beads secured with Y stitches also used elsewhere in the piece. #HandEmbroidery

White twill with blue transfer dye pattern, two green/yellow yoyos, appliqué organza and some beads

Close up of samples of padded satin stitch and clear flat beads secured with a selection of smaller green beads

White twill with blue transfer dye pattern, a green/yellow yoyo, appliqué organza and some beads. The blue cross patterns now have padded green satin stitch

White twill with blue transfer dye pattern, green/yellow yoyos, appliqué organza and some beads. The blue cross patterns with padded green satin stitch and flat clear coloured beads each secured with three stitches in a Y shape

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 17h

Darkest Hour?

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 18h

Time for your daily Danish word.

Two flies.

FLUEKNEPPER. Literally l: fly fucker

Meaning: a person who is very fussy and pays excessive attention to small details.

Variation: FLUEKNEPPERI. The act of.

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 19h

We’re too smart and abortion rights are too embedded and socially accepted for the ADF to succeed here, say guys who’ve uncritically promoted anti-trans activists funded by the same people and using the same lawyers for a decade

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So Disappointed @sodisappointed.bsky.social · 1d

Behold! Terrykhamun! Just how *did* he get so funky?

Thanks so much to @xxldwarf.bsky.social for this majestic #PlasticeneHalloween suggestion. Keep ‘em coming, folks. What would YOU like to dress Terry up as for Hallowe’en?

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 1d

I had a chat with Ashley Mackie, head of the Student Union for Open University Scotland, about loneliness when studying remotely. We also talk briefly about University Challenge and how special it felt to represent the UK's largest student body on national TV.

youtu.be/HtGB7CYbXiY?...

On Track with The Open University in Scotland – Study Challenges

YouTube video by The Open University

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my god, Caroline.

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

We seem to have lost the understanding that you study things because you want to know more about them, not because you want them to give you a job.

'Transferable skills' are so-called precisely because they are not career specific, my god.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

oh man the emergency naked bike ride DID NUMBERS look at them go

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 1d

I adore Alan Carr. A national treasure.

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Laura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social · 1d

This cat has definitely tied some ladies to some train tracks in his time 😻

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 1d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 1d

Wait.

pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · Aug 17

based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 1d

SCRRRRREEEEAM

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 1d

"Checking gauge isn't important."

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

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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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 1d

I really, really want a manicule tattoo.

Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 13d

☞☞ Hands-on reading ☜☜

The manicules in #rarebooks are fantastically diverse. Some are tiny & discreet, others take up half the margin; some have flowing sleeves, or even little faces.

They’re glimpses into the personality of readers/scribes highlighting passages worth reading.
#bookhistory 💙📚📜

Detail of a manicure and a little face gesturing towards the handwritten text of a manuscript in gothic script written on parchment. The man depicted seems angry. The manicure has a sleeve

A manicule with a stretched sleeve drawn in red in the margins pointing towards a text in Gothic script written on parchment

A manicule used to highlight a rubricated section title in a medieval manuscript written in gothic script on parchment

A very large vaguely drawn manicule pointing towards text in gothic script written on parchment

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a rough week, Kat.

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