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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 1d

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 1d

New French watercolor ink and innovative "linen" embossed cardstock transformed the postcard industry in the 1930s into a hyperreal fantasy world.

Less use of black ink meant darker colors had to enhance tonality.
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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 1d

I still know numbers I haven't called in 20+ years!

Growing up with the push-button phone (yes, rotary was a thing too), I remember memorizing the pattern of numbers, like "I make a triangle here with 2-4-5-2."

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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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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 8d

Really I should have been born in the seventeenth century, when random speling was normal.

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 1d

Nice collection of religious artifacts on NY Tenement Museum's colloborative "Your Story Our Story" digital exhibit.

"We work with museums, colleges, schools, libraries, and community groups who all contribute stories from their part of the United States."
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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 1d

Monk Lhundrub, "Panoramic Map of Mount Wutai," 1846, woodblock print on linen, hand colored; 47 1/8 × 68 in.

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Panoramic Map of Mount Wutai | Project Himalayan Art

Mount Wutai is a sacred mountain range in northern China, revered by Chinese, Tibetans, Mongols, and Manchus as the realm of the bodhisattva Manjushri on earth. Descriptions and paintings of Wutai and...

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 3d

Unknown Japanese studio, "Yashamon," albumen print, c. 1880s/90s [modified w/music 😎]

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3d

AI in education is an investors' dream as education is a huge sector to get locked in for big returns while little is being returned on their investments elsewhere

AI in education is speculative capitalism at full throttle

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3d

AI in education centres entrepreneurs as experts in teaching and learning

AI in education is based mostly on technical potential not educational needs

AI in education locks learning into models that afford summarization instead of archives of knowledge

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3d

I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 3d

Unknown Japanese studio, "Yashamon," albumen print, c. 1880s/90s [modified w/music 😎]

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 5d

#newpost! @madpoli.bsky.social introduces the Dunhuang Culture Database, an online repository of books, scans, images, and videos that can complement the well-known International Dunhuang Project.

A handy resource to access to this wealth of material.

Link in bio
#敦煌文化 #敦煌文獻 #DHtools

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 5d

I am so sorry, may his memories bring you joy. May you find strength and support & may your love for Fergus flow into the world around you. ❤️‍🩹

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 5d

@secondhandsacred.bsky.social 😀

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 6d

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

A few paragraphs in, we find that even when browsing in a shop, archaeologists only stumble upon artefacts 🙄

Someone Donated These Mysterious Artifacts to a Thrift Shop. Experts Think They Might Date to Medieval Times

A shopper who said he was an archaeologist spotted the 11 rings and two medallions and alerted a volunteer

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 6d

We are always looking for submissions, all year around!

Are you working on #DH in the fields of Asian, N. African and Middle Eastern studies? Send us your notes, intro pieces and more. All info on our website, digitalorientalist.com.

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 6d

Aloha Wanderwell, the first woman to drive around the globe, stops at the Hyōgo Daibutsu in Kobe, Japan, in 1924. Her Ford 1918 Model T is parked in front of the statue. 🌏

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 7d

Similarly, the William Hurd book from 1790 (from where the original engraving was excised) notes that earlier Jesuits believed the Buddha was actually the apostle Saint Thomas who died in India.

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 8d

Mistaken for the Buddha? Illustrated European books from the 18th century mistakenly treated this image as the Buddha; it started as an image of a Sri Lankan king...

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 8d

"The wound that Saketopoulou painfully probes is that while abuse and deprivation can generate individual afflictive 'translations,' the most challenging convulsive collective wound is that multigenerational structural translations are not 'in the past,' they are now."
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The challenge “Interdependence” is often evoked as a Buddhist term, but it is also frequently misappropriated in terms of “relational realism” or interconnected webs of beings. Buddhist theories of in...

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James Bielo @secondhandsacred.bsky.social · 8d

What happens when you follow the traces and trails of a bible comic? Read the latest 'Collecting Religion' essay by Christina Pasqua and find out. It's a *really* good one!! collectingreligion.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/o...

Old Forgotten Children’s Books?

by Christina Pasqua Archival Collections When visiting the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at the Ohio State University in spring 2025, I pulled an item from the collection called “The S…

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Afec @etudeschinoises.bsky.social · 10d

Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon) afec.hypotheses.org/11317

Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon)

OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :Laurent Chircop-Reyes (5 octobre 2025). Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS ...

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 13d

Replica of Vietnam's Tien Mu Temple pagoda for the 1906 Colonial Exposition in Marseille.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 14d

Socialist, theosophist + women's rights activist Annie Besant was born #onthisday 1847. Read @ResObscura on her book Thought-Forms (1901), an intriguing work grounded in the theory that ideas, emotions, and even events, can manifest as visible auras publicdomainreview.org/essay/v... #OTD

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