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Elspeth

@lunabrd.bsky.social

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Librarian. Archivist. Obsessive crafter. History nerd seeking community. Overdeveloped sense of whimsy.

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Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hey friends new and old, I make things! And sell them on Etsy! If you find yourself in need of hand-beaded ornaments or cross-stitch bookmarks, come check me out: www.etsy.com/shop/TinyShi...

Hand holding a dark green ornament encased in a net of gold and red seed beads.

Large white ornament hanging on a metal “tree.” It has a combination of gold and purple seed and bugle beads, and hanging fringe with purple glass and amethyst beads.

Large red ornament with white and red seed bead netting and swags, a red bugle bead “belt,” and dangles of red and white millefiori glass beads that look a bit like peppermint candy.

Hands cradling a rough stone molcajete. Inside there is a sprig of cedar and a circle of six small ornaments decorated in rainbow-striped netting made of tiny seed beads.

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Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 2h

Now the important question. WILL THERE BE HATS.

Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 3h

Yesssss

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Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 3h

Cue Matt LeBlanc explaining that reacting doesn’t mean “acting again.”

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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 1d

Based on many years of evidence (I am told!), I wouldn't recognize flirting if it fell on me from a great height.

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 1d

I'm oblivious to flirting; I just assume you're being nice.

MonsterKing @cerromerussell.blacksky.app · 1d

I'm country... I'm definitely flirting.

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Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 21h

You are wise.

Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 1d

I wish. It’s literally as soon as I step through the door some days, and headphones don’t stop her!

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Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 1d

I reeeeally want my coworker's home construction project to be finished so I can STOP HEARING ABOUT IT EVERY DAY AS SOON AS I ARRIVE. Or if you must share the play-by-play, could I at least take off my coat and put my purse down first? And have a chance to pause the podcast I’m listening to?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 2d

Metaphor alert 🚨 apnews.com/video/replic...

Replica of Columbus’ Santa Maria sinks off Mexico coast

A replica of Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria sank off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, the company that owns the vessel said Friday.

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Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 2d

Observe the day by getting lost in the grocery store while looking for the spices.

Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 2d

I can smell vinegar.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

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.

Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 2d

Dangit!!

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Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · 3d

Something that's so hard with reading history second-hand is to remember that no one knew what was going to come next. Which is archives magic.

Nobody at *this exact moment* knows that Nurse Cavell will become a tragedy and a cause celebre. They just know what she has done, and her family.

Norfolk Record Office @norfolkro.bsky.social · 3d

On this day nurse #EdithCavell and #PhilipeBaucq were shot at dawn for helping allied soldiers to escape Belgium during the First World War. This is a letter from one of those soldiers.

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Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 3d

Are undergraduates the new ensigns?

Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 4d

WOULD WHOEVER IS BANGING ON THE PIPES PLEASE CUT IT OUT THANK YOU

Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 5d

Best paper i wrote was 10-15 pages on the history of the Beowulf manuscript. Covered 1200 years in about six hours with a daylong marathon of Storage Wars in the background. By the end I wasn’t even sure what time zone I was physically in.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 6d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
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wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 5d

Good things on all points!!

Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 5d

I just had a slice of homemade challah with butter. Simple pleasures.

Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 6d

Finished the complete rewrite of my book chapter and submitted it to the editor. I keep yawning! Always forget the energy expenditure of writing. #AcademicSky

Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 7d

The first two may lead to the third.

Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 8d

a man in a suit and tie is smiling and waving while sitting at a table

Alt: Seth Meyers laughs and puts his head in his hands.

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Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 8d

Half a dozen exhibits later, I've finally figured out how the Photoshop "straighten" tool is supposed to work. 🤦‍♀️

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 8d

I’m actually pretty good with money as long as I don’t need to eat or live

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Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 8d

You’re not?? Why on earth not?? 😁

Elspeth @lunabrd.bsky.social · 8d

Ta-da! Handmaid’s cupcakes!

A rimmed baking tray with red velvet cupcakes, iced in bright red swirls, with round chocolates on top. The chocolates have white fondant shaped like Handmaid’s Tale bonnets around them.