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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2025

The morning is inspiring, the breakfast is hot, the look at the strategic plan is inside: how much oatmeal would it take to bribe a professor to attend a talk by upper management? #FoundInanity

Join us in person for an inspiring morning featuring a hot breakfast, an inside look at our strategic plan,

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

Safety training egging the custard: choose between a grammatical statement containing an acronym and an answer containing the advice "if it smells real bad wear gloves". #makerspace #letterpress

How do you find out about the hazards associated with a chemical or material you are using? [ ] Don't worry about it because all art related chemicals are safe to use

[ ] Find someone else that is working with the same material and ask them

[e] Check the Safety Data Sheet (SDS)

[ ] Smell the material and if it smells real bad use gloves

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

Grateful to safety training for making the quiz so painless. #makerspace #letterpress

To determine which type of glove to wear when working with chemicals, LR nGH @ Usea color that matches the chemical or paint you are PE @ Use the most expensive @ Usetheleast expensive O ChecktheSDS

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025

#ICE now charging veteran with resisting "orders to disburse" #FreudianSlip

According to the indictment, Mavalwalla and his co-defendants “physically blocked the drive-way of the federal facility and/or physically pushed against officers despite orders to disburse and efforts to remove them from the property”.

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025

Welcome -- or not -- to the new semester: administration sends, then retracts, "Welcome Back" email. #Academic Chatter @altbot

Screenshot of email with sender redacted: [redacted] would like to recall the message, 'Welcome back.'"

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2025

My town's rec department has outsourced kids' cooking classes to a for-profit that uses "online sponsored classes" as a "marketing platform to build brand loyalty" among 5-year-olds. Their classes, they boast, are "sold out"; so are their souls. #privatization

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

Nothing new under the sun: English bees work harder than "sluggard alien bees," according to the Daily Mail on 6 June 1908. #xenophobia #beekeeping

ENGLISH BEES. First Worker Leaves “Daily Mirror’ Hive Soon After Four. SLUGGARD ALIENS.

The Daily Mirror bees are early risers.

Yesterday morning, with a view to ascertaining at what time the two colonies on the 7oof of the Daily Mirror Offces began work, observation. was kept upon both hives from sunrise, and some extremely interesting facts were noticed.

At_dawn yesterday the weather was far from propitious, being overcast and distinctly cool,

The sun rose at 3.47, and at that hour neither hive showed any sign of life.

But thirteen minutes later, as the clocks struck four, the first bee made its appearance. At the entrance to the straw skep which hives the colony of pure English bees several insects gould be seen iy ot o5 FTgL el o e

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

Wanted: search and replace to change "favorite HR apps" to "apps to which HR most frequently subjects you."

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

WeWork before WeWork: 20thc ad for "modern business centre with work-stations including, if required, secretarial service, metered telephone and dictating and reprographic services." John Johnson Collection. Bodleian library.

116 Pall Mall London SW1Y SED Telephone 01-839 1233

The Institute of Directors has now improved its facilities :in

Pall Mall considerably. Whether or not you are London-based

these facilities could be of significant interest to you.

1. Business Centre We have a modern centre with work-stations including, if required, secretarial service, metered telephone and dictating and reprographic services. The library is supplied with a particularly wide range of reference books as well as current journals and other publications.

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2025

"It is a comfortable circumstance, to consider that the profession of the instructor and of the educator offers few opportunities for dissipation." (John Lalor, "Prize essay on the expediency and means of elevating the profession of the educator in society," 1839.) #AcademicChatter #Teaching

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025

More in corporatespeak: my university employer seems to have outsourced its financial admin to an ERP named....Agresso. @agoldst is this truth in advertising?

Business World On! formerly known as Agresso Business World is a fully integrated role-focused ERP

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2025

My university's expense management portal has a knack for terms of art that could be mistaken for psychobbable.

Due Employee: $169.28 Pending External Validation

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

How the British chattering classes describe intellectuals born into non-chattering classes: Exhibit Z.

Moore (1874-1929). His father was a cultured man who ran a shop in Cambridge that sold pianos and other musical instruments 4] and his son was to retain a respect for him throughout his life. Leavis was educated at The Perse School in Cambridge (in English

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025

Has anyone laid hands on the US far-right's bid to bring back fine press books for gentlemen-subscribers? Which is better: the promise of a “sublimely produced object with centerpiece quality” or the mixed metaphor that vouches “what binds this work is its […] [Original post on historians.social]

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025

Was #NYT style in 1997 to refer to married female professionals as "Miss"?

Miss Panter-Downes, whose letters were discontinued as a regular New Yorker feature in 1984, continued writing for the magazine until 1986.

She is survived by her husband of 70 years, Clare Robinson, 93;

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2025

You've heard of Dr Phil, but have you ever received spam addressed to "Dr DPhil"? Or does only America's #1 faith-based university add that personal touch?

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2025

"Volunteer to be a Responsible Adult": If only. #UKSignage

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2025

NYT on Rice advising Harvard to "set aside politics and emotions": have they ever met Linda McMahon?

Condoleezza Rice for advice. She urged the school to set aside politics and emotions and to think of the money the school could

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2025

From the Comfort of your Smartphone: title of a poetry collection, or ad for an audio guide?

Unlock stories from our collection from the comfort of our smartphone.

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2025

Most English reply-all subject headed "URGENT" ever. #FoundInanity

Specifically = On Wednesday 26th February, if you have booked the meat option of Gammon, the meal served will be Roast Chicken Breast: = On Thursday 27th February, if you have booked the meat option of Oriental Chicken Noodles, the meal will actually be Mac '’ Cheese. If you have booked the non-meat option of Rustic Tomato Pasta Bake, the meal served wil be Pizza Pinwheel; « On Friday 28th February, if you have booked the meat option of Fish Fingers, the meal served will be Flipper Dippers. If you have booked the non-meat option of Crispy

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

Does this #Bodleian library sign strike anyone else as sexy, as in Paolo and Francesca? #BookHistory #CoReading

A graphic displaying a joint consultation notice. It features two icon-like figures in a red circle and text stating, "No two readers may look at the same item together without permission."

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2024

#BetterLateThanNever: Who persuaded #NYT to change original headline ("Lebanon's Archeological Treasures Are Threatened by Israeli Airstrikes") to active voice?

Israeli Strikes Threaten Lebanon’s Archaeological Treasures

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