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Matthew Symonds
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(I know he caveats it a sentence later, but it's such a basic point to grasp.)
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
can testify that working with nature generally means getting up quite a bit before 7am
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
we're all going to be reading a lot of very tedious triple-decker novels fairly soon
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
all those brave thought leaders saying that monopoly was actually a good and natural market condition, rewarding all the Good Boy Tech Bros for their entrepreneurial spirits, rather than something we figured out was bad in the seventeenth cenury
November 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Reposted by Matthew Symonds
Here is a very cool object: a volume with stacked paper boards that have come apart, revealing a manuscript fragment between the print waste! (Rare Books PA2317 .E7 1546). The manuscript leaf is from a psalter 🌟

#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The suggestion that full-text search of every book was a solved problem in 2001 is the sort of hyper-hyperbole I can only admire through clenched teeth and endless weeping
November 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM