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Abbie W.
@librarianmouse.bsky.social
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Librarian by training. Early Modernist by experience. KCL DSD PhD candidate (nuclear info knowledge networks). Techie by osmosis. Historian, foodie & baseball fan always. Team #HistSci Purveyor of my own opinions. She/her/hey you.
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Abbie W. @librarianmouse.bsky.social · Nov 27
Woah, hey, more new people. *waves* Bio pretty much tells you what you need to know. Posts go in fits and starts. Expect an eclectic mix of book history/archives/spec coll librarianship, politics, fandom, baseball, and food. I know where the block button is and I'm not afraid to use it.
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dankaszeta.bsky.social
This is proper LMFAO territory
December 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
Because I just looked it up for someone else and realized some of y'all might not have ever seen this absolute genius: A Complete History Of The Soviet Union Through The Eyes Of A Humble Worker As Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris:

youtu.be/hWTFG3J1CP8?...
Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
YouTube video by pigwiththefaceofaboy
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December 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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dryad.technology
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability

lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...

"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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tkingfisher.com
This is so accurate it causes me mild physical pain.
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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leyawa.bsky.social
New Yule Goat design! 🎄🐐
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social
Friends, do not argue about politics today. But if you must, argue with the in-laws about test yield thresholds and the relative merits of a "zero yield" criterion. Not college football or Congress.
Lessons From Los Alamos
America has the most to lose from restarting nuclear testing.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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garius.bsky.social
One thing i appreciate as a glasses wearer is you can go in to most opticians and say "i lost a bridge pad"

INSTANTLY a tiny old guy will Tom Bombadil himself out of a door you didn't even know was there.

He will have a box. And a tiny screwdriver.

And ten minutes later your glasses are fixed.
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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davekeating.substack.com
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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katrafiy.bsky.social
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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microsff.com
"What are you working on?"

I put the soldering iron on its stand and inspected my work.

"A time travel receiver. I figured out the machine can't travel in time itself."

"Do you have a transmitter too?"

I plugged the power in. "Not yet."

A newspaper appeared in the machine.

"I will, next year."
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
librarianmouse.bsky.social
This this this! OMG for the love of everything, THIS. This is also why it's so important to get practitioners into archives, special collections, and museums as well. The embodied experience of -doing- informs your understanding of historical texts in a way that is irreplaceable.
literaturegeek.bsky.social Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 17d
Seth Rockman: 'Experiential research as a method for IDing questions you didn’t know to ask, rather than providing answers you wouldn’t have had...an experiential research method lets us envision more things we want to know about the past' (experiential=do something the way it was done in the past)
November 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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dankaszeta.bsky.social
“History is all written down. It’s just a transcript. Don’t even talk about it” is a fundamental misunderstanding of history and historians
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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iannlou.bsky.social
40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.
Calvin & Hobbes walking along a tree trunk laid across a river as a bridge.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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catelli.bsky.social
"Researchers have captured video footage of wild wolves in British Columbia pulling crab traps out of the sea by their lines to eat the bait inside"

ca.news.yahoo.com/b-c-wolves-l...
B.C. wolves use line to pull up crab traps in first possible tool use by species
Researchers have captured video footage of wild wolves in British Columbia pulling crab traps out of the sea by their lines to eat the bait inside, in the first evidence of possible tool use by the an...
ca.news.yahoo.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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amandalitman.bsky.social
With just one race left to call (ballots are still being cured), of 222 races up on 11/4, @runforsomething.net had 142 winners, 10 candidates moving to run offs, and 42 (!!!) red to blue flips.
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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seamus.bsky.social
I’ll put it more simply: my first (and best) aerobatic flight instructor looked me in the eye before our first lesson and said: “remember, airplanes really like the ground. They really really like the ground.”
seamus.bsky.social Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · Nov 5
Aviation is inherently dangerous: a million pounds of metal and fuel magically flying at 500mph. The engineering and systems we have developed are just amazing and have given everyone the idea that it’s all cheap and safe. It ain’t. It’s expensive and it requires constant vigilance and organization.
realtuckfrumper.bsky.social #TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · Nov 5
'That just gave me chills': CNN anchor spooked by Kentucky governor's report on UPS crash
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
librarianmouse.bsky.social
So the morals of this story are 1) save your historical documents locally and 2) give thanks to the @nsarchive.bsky.social ! *grumbles and wanders off to download those docs*
atomicanalyst.bsky.social Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 26d
Nothing to see here (literally!). Just the US State Department secretly deleting 15 pages of declassified official documents published in 2021 in the Foreign Relations of the United States series about a 1983 NATO nuclear weapons exercise that unexpectedly increased the risk of a nuclear war.
Analysis | State Department deleted records about risk of inadvertent nuclear war
Key historical records about the incident during the Reagan administration, known as the Able Archer 83 War Scare, were removed without explanation.
wapo.st
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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atomicanalyst.bsky.social
Nothing to see here (literally!). Just the US State Department secretly deleting 15 pages of declassified official documents published in 2021 in the Foreign Relations of the United States series about a 1983 NATO nuclear weapons exercise that unexpectedly increased the risk of a nuclear war.
Analysis | State Department deleted records about risk of inadvertent nuclear war
Key historical records about the incident during the Reagan administration, known as the Able Archer 83 War Scare, were removed without explanation.
wapo.st
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Pair of charmingly grumpy owls out on skates for winter fun. Have even brought along a snack! By Adriaen van de Venne, who died (alas!) on this day 1662.
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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picturedragon.bsky.social
The forging of galaxies is very serious business.
Watercolor painting of an epic size tree, twisting around a glowing opening. It's floating against a background of stars and it's branches support a galaxy of stars.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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jsthrill.modphi.com
For anyone who is like “the creature is also named Frankenstein”; Mary Shelley went to see a play version of Frankenstein and was tickled that they listed the creature as “———“ in the dramatis personae:

“this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good”

www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
But lo and behold! I found myself famous. Frankenstein had prodigious success as a drama, and was about to be repeated, for the twenty-third night, at the English Opera House. The play-bill amused me extremely, for, in the list of dramatis personce, came "———, by Mr. T. Cooke." This nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good. On Friday, 29th August, Jane, my Father, William, and I went to the theatre to see it. Wallack looked very well as Frankenstein. He is at the beginning full of hope and expectation. At the end of the first act the stage represents a room with a staircase leading to Frankenstein's workshop; he goes to it, and you see his light at a small window, through which a frightened servant peeps, who runs off in terror when Frankenstein exclaims "It lives!" Presently Frankenstein himself rushes in horror and trepidation from the room, and, while still expressing his agony and terror, "———" throws down the door of the laboratory, leaps the staircase, and presents his unearthly and monstrous person on the stage. The story is not well managed, but Cooke played ———'s part extremely well; his seeking, as it were, for support; his trying to grasp at the sounds he heard; all, indeed, he does was well imagined and executed. I was much amused, and it appeared to excite a breathless eagerness in the audience. It was a third piece, a scanty pit filled at half-price, and all stayed till it was over. They continue to play it even now.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
Excuse me, @theguardian.com, I'd like to report an error in your headline; this should read "James D Watson, who co-discovered Rosalind Franklin's notebook showing her discovery of DNA's twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
James D Watson, who co-discovered DNA’s twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97
Nobel prize winner shaped medicine, crimefighting and genealogy, but later years marred by racist remarks
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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thegozfather.bsky.social
Over 20,000 item descriptions have been added to REQ 2 (Court of Requests proceedings) since March 2024. An absolute treasure trove for Tudor historians. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...
Browse records of other archives | The National Archives
The official archive of the UK government. Our vision is to lead and transform information management, guarantee the survival of today's information for tomorrow and bring history to life for everyone...
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3

📷 D. v. Recklinghausen
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Interior view of the building showing massive stone columns with detailed carvings and colorful hieroglyphs as well as the ceiling. The columns are shaped like lotus or papyrus plants and are closely spaced, supporting a decorated ceiling. 📷 Daniel von Recklinghausen
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM