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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 58m

Two years ago I was selling a copy of the Plannck II Columbus letter. I wish everyone could be aware that Columbus was a crank who incredibly lucked his way into infamy and history, and not particular well thought of in his own time. Here is sometime I made:
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...

www.christies.com

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 1h

😭😭😭😭 if this were a party at my own home, I would 100% steal this genius idea

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 1h

We’re doing ETA Hoffman this year; maybe I should just embrace the theme and be a robot ballerina

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 1h

Trying to come up with a Halloween costume for Grolier ghost story night. Is there a way I could dress as a collation formula?

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 19h

I am a bookseller, not a scholar. I wouldn’t call myself a humanist but I think I feel so much kinship with these weirdos because I want also to be, as the review quotes, “someone with the ability to activate antiquity.”

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 19h

Florence feels like Renaissance Disney world but it was very special to me to visit for the first time the place where The Stuff Happened. This article gets at some of what I love about this period (and its books).

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19h

‘Giovanni Pico wanted to love God, but he couldn’t stop asking questions. “688. How does God intelligise?” “720. When will the end of time come?” “732. Which natures are suited to be made happy?”’

@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the Renaissance philosopher: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Erin Maglaque · Thishereness: Pico in Purgatory

Pico’s Oration contravenes the very idea of human possibility that we think the Renaissance is about – yet we think...

www.lrb.co.uk

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 22h

Remnick comes across as out of touch and hostile, while Mamdani charms as always. Thanks for the reminder why I stopped paying for your magazine. An editor who sneers at public school is not someone I’m interesting in funding.

sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 23h

The fact that Remnick thinks sneering over the idea of sending your kids to public school will inspire subscribers to his magazine tells me all I need to know about their described demo, if I hadn’t known it already.

sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 23h

Listening to David Remnick interview Mamdani and reveal his own truly execrable soul. Just in case I was ever tempted to resubscribe to the New Yorker.

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 1d

My front porch is full of pumpkins. It’s stormy. I’ve been simmering bone broth overnight for soup today. a u t u m n 🎃 i s 🎃 h e r e.

Side view or front porch with 9 assorted pumpkins, hay bale, cornstalks

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

From certain cloistered old authors I have gathered that this same sea-unicorn’s horn was in ancient days regarded as the great antidote against poison, and as such, preparations of it brought immense prices.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 2d

crazy idea but hear me out: we print out information, like the internet but effectively 'digitising' it into physical form, and bind it together with related information relevant to the same topic within some covers. it then has zero energy need or subscription fees and lasts for centuries, wild huh

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 2d

It’s funnnnnn

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 2d

Inconveniently small and impositionally overcomplicated!

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 2d

Octavos are frankly overhyped and I’m kind of small so folios are too awkward for me.

sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 2d

You basically need a spotter

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 2d

I had to collate a full set once. Never again. I felt like Jacob wrestling the angel.

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 2d

Folio too big. Octavo too small. Quarto just right.

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll fight you

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 2d

Quarto is the best book size.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 3d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 3d

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 3d

Fine is a very abused word

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 3d

A gay friend once came to a costume party at my house dressed as the “chink in the wall through which Pyramus and Thisbe talked”

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