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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜

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Rare Book #Librarian, bereaved parent of Caitlin, #geek. 12x Hugo Award winner. bi/queer. Head @illinoisrbml.bsky.social; Verity podcast; ex-ed/pub Uncanny Magazine. Baby #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. No auto-follow. #DoctorWho #bookhistory #SFF

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · Nov 14

Hello new folks! I see a lot of "Hey, is there a starter pack to help me find [interest/group/my people]?!" Here's a big #directory of #StarterPacks so you don't have to reinvent the wheel! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

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A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

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Guildhall Library @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social · 1h

Excellent talk last week focusing on our collection of Penny Dreadfuls or Bloods by Melanie Strong, Senior Librarian.

Penny Dreadfuls were sensational historical fiction written principally for the working classes from 1830 to 1910. Issued weekly in penny parts, making reading & leisure affordable.

Cover of The Mystery of Marlborough House, stories aimed at girls. Yellow page with black print showing the title and an oval central portrait of a finely dressed young woman.

Cover of Jack Sheppard - King of Rogues (no.1) A multi colour image of Jack heroically saving a man falling from a burning building.

The Boy Detective (no.1) a dramatic black and white rooftop scene of a young man saving a boy from falling.

The Chronicles of the Sea - or, Faithful narratives of shipwrecks, fires, famines, and disasters incidental to a life of maritime enterprise together with celebrated voyages, interesting anecdotes, etc. etc. to which is prefixed a memoir of Lord Viscount Nelson.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 4h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9h

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 3h

:nods sagely in solidarity:

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 5h

Happy Indigenous People's Day

BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 6h

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 3h

Based on several true stories, alas.

Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 3h

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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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3h

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 4h

Out of the office again today, to try to finish off another pre-market house project.

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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 4h

American model and actress Beverly Johnson was born #OnThisDay in 1952. She was photographed by Kourken Pakchanian for the December 1973 edition of Vogue, wearing this Mollie Parnis one-shouldered, draped coral jersey dress. Sold by Shrimpton Couture. #Fashionhistory #model

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 4h

Happy birthday!

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 19h

Congratulations!

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 23h

Home from a lovely weekend catching up with a dear friend. ❤️

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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 2d

We just digitized the copy of Sidney's letter to Queen Elizabeth, identified as the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

The coppye off a letter wrytten by Sr. Phillipp Sidnye to Queene Elizabeth, touchinge hir marryage, w[i]th Mounsieur : manuscript copy

Letter written approximately November-December 1579 advising the Queen against marriage to the Duc d'Anjou and Alençon for political, religious, and personal reasons. Copy, entirely in the secretary ...

digital.library.illinois.edu

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Karen Ruckman @ruckmanphoto.bsky.social · 3d

“Promoting democratic rights” in Venezuela wins Nobel Peace Prize
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 3d

It's important to focus on who won, not who did not.

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 3d

Attempting to deal with the 'digital dark age' 📜 - interesting project linked to the Hawking collection at Cambridge #histSTM

joshuatj @joshuatj.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 3d

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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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3d

any product that depends on the long term stability of its maker is inherently defective

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

They brick you because they can.

Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15

Logitech’s interest in the smart home has appeared to wane in recent years.

arstechnica.com

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 3d

I think the cubic shape is the *unintentional consequence* of their very long digestive process (14+ days), required to process tough roots & grasses, extracting all moisture.

The cubes are just a fortunate happenstance of super-efficient distal colons.

Article here:

How do wombats poop cubes? Scientists get to the bottom of the mystery

Distinctive intestines mold feces into sharp-cornered poop

www.science.org

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 3d

It really does.

Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 3d

Gotta get on the road! But I slept pretty well, so it is fine. ❤️

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 3d

Me, at 6am, asleep...
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My brain:
🎶CAN I GET THE MIC A LITTLE HIGHER🎵

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 3d

NGL, anytime there are “splits” in the title of the trick in #lyra 2 class, I lower my expectations of myself. I am REALLY happy how this went! #aerials www.instagram.com/reel/DPm7fZ4...

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 3d

:headdesk:

I'm so sorry, colleagues.

Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 3d

My day is shot bc a colleague just shared this UNC press release about a still to-be-named, to-be-designed, to-be-planned AI school where the only known fact seems to be that it will replace the library school.

www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

University leadership announces development of new school at Carolina | UNC-Chapel Hill

The School of Information and Library Science and the School of Data Science and Society will be founding leaders of a new school to amplify and lead Carolina’s response to the information and data ne...

www.unc.edu

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 3d

Ok, people, here's my @utoronto.ca Medieval Studies #Voynich lecture! I've got BIG NEWS to report about the potential original structure of the manuscript. Check it out! (new material starts around minute 14) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH28...

Lisa Fagin Davis: "The Materiality of the Voynich Manuscript"

YouTube video by U of T CMS

www.youtube.com

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