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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 30/09/2026

Talked about the new wave of independent food media with @devrafirst.bsky.social at @bostonglobe.com. I think we're building something good. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/30/l...

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Food media strikes back - The Boston Globe

In an era of upheaval, journalists are launching independent publications. Will this experiment work?

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If the Matrix films were made today Elie for sure would be included on Zions high council!!!

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Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Today, 12-4! We have air conditioning and cool documents! See copies of the Emancipation Proclamation, David Walker’s Appeal, E. C. Stanton’s copy of the Seneca Falls Declaration, The Combahee River Collective statement, letters from Toussaint Louverture & Dessalines, and more!

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Jay Moschella @jaymoschella.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Things you can see in our open house display today only at the Boston Public Library (which is also heavily air conditioned): 1. 1 of 8 surviving "ratification" copies of the constitution 2. The 1st printing of the Virginia Declaration of Rights 3. First public printing of the Bill of Rights

Main entrance and stairwell in the BPL's McKim building, looking pleasantly air conditioned

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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

well then i guess Pace Picante Sauce can SHUT THE FUCK UP

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

#MedievalSky I received a very important announcement today. Feminae, the bibliographical database on medieval women created and run by Margaret Schaus for the past couple of decades, is going offline as of 1 April. Download as much as you can ASAP: inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/Feminae/Adva...

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

simply the dumbest rich people in the history of the world.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Images from the relentlessly anti-Porfirian weekly El Hijo del Ahuizote. Repeatedly ordered closed, it stuck around giving Díaz shit for some 18 years, chronicling the disappearing freedoms and slow death of Mexican democracy.

cover of El Hijo del Ahuizote with an illustration of a skeleton brandishing a law riding a horse labeled despotism.

illustration detail from El Hijo del Ahuizote picturing Benito Juarez sinking on a ship labeled "patriotism"

cover of El Hijo del Ahuizote with a boy with a torn flag and a stern looking psychologist.

illustration satirizing the revolutionary elements of Texas and their claims to Mexico. The Texan looks insane and armed and the Mexican long suffering - based, as the kids say.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

This initial S with the faces is cracking me up. [from Ortus Sanitatis en François, Paris, ca 1500)

close up of an illustration of ironwort with an initial letter S below with two faces both, probably, thinking "fuck ice".

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Supergirl @realsupergirl.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

@universalhub.com Boston and beyond, save the numbers for the organization near you #ICEisUnconstitutional #FightFascism #resist

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

From Bruce's 1882 type specimen book which, remarkably, is built around de Vinne's "The Invention of Printing" - you can basically read it like a really weirdly designed book. Such a cool idea - it apparently runs through all their specimen books and supplements for 25+ years.

title page of Bruce's Specimens of Printing Types, 1882

Type speciments, mostly large, shadow fonts, featuring text based on historic French and Dutch printers.

Type faces on the left with text from French and German printers, all caps serif typefaces. On the right type ornaments and text like "Printing introduced in Constantinople"

A mix of serif type faces, text of famous English, American, Italian printers.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The Epistles of Paul to Timothy printed in Sequoyah's Cherokee syllabary in Park Hill, OK in 1853. Untrimmed on a single sheet 24pp, with a few nibbles. Just slightly too wide for my scanner.

single folded 12mo sheet of The Epistles of Paul to Timothy printed in Cherokee - one corner with a mouse nibble.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/12/2025

This Weeks Onion Magazine:

The Top 100 Most Influential People, Locked In Our Oubliette. Not So Influential Now, Are You?

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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Do it, Trump. Reopen Action Park.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Pair of bookplates and a bookseller ticket from a Kipling endpaper, applied ca. 1909. The left one is really of its time and sports a totally insane typeface choice.

a pair of bookplates and a bookseller ticket on endpapers. The bookplate on the left show two nude figures, a man and a woman, hanging out on a microscope stage (the man, naturally, turned away). The right bookplate with a landscape and labeled "Hazel Mills Prescott Her Husband's book"

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 19/11/2025

"All the newer guides in the United States are pay-to-play. Yet this fact is not loudly publicized...despite indicating that Michelin’s arrival has more to do with a city’s investment in tourism than its perceived prowess in eating out" slate.com/life/2025/11...

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Restaurants in Boston and Philly Have Finally Gotten Some Michelin Stars. The Reason Why Should Give You a Stomach Ache.

This ever-expanding pay-to-play scheme needs to stop.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

So, the thousand island dressing (a derivative of RUSSIAN dressing - it used to have caviar and sour cream in it, as I explain here www.hilobrow.com/2019/03/23/s...) is obviously a signal to Putin. "Don't worry, I've got your back" sort of thing."

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U.S. Beef and Thousand Island Dressing: Trump’s Food Tour of Asia

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What’s your *ICE is the the fucking gestapo* policy? @frankitodevito.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Parents: check your kids’ Halloween candy for NAZI TATTOOS.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The "elite" public universities are worse than the privates - worst of both worlds. What PUBLIC are schools with acceptance rates in the teens that spend millions courting applicants they can reject and massaging their yield serving, anyway?

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

You might think "Why would these people want to destroy a university they support financially?" It's a great question. The answer is, they don't want to destroy the university. They just have very different ideas about what the university should be and do than you.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Bringing hundreds of these José Guadalupe Posada and Manuel Manilla engravings to the @abaararebooks.bsky.social Boston Fair which, regrettably is the weekend after Día de los Muertos this year.

calavera beckoning a ku klux klan member in full robes with a burning cross amidst a pile of skulls.

calaveras en monton: a group of skeletons advertising a posada exhibition

calaveras de coyotes y meseras monkey calavera with a hat amidst skulls above a poem warning of drunk customers getting rolled by waitresses

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The only mark made in this 1888 Grand Rapids, MI cookbook is a big X next to chili sauce.

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Kofta kebab recipe in England c. 1660. Amazing find!

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Among the best 209 seconds ever laid to wax www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZqQ...

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Darondo - "Didn't I" [HQ - REMASTER]

YouTube video by Ubiquity Records

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

A few more large format Posadas and, to mix it up, one by the famously overshadowed (if such a thing is possible) Manuel Manilla who preceded and overlapped with Posada at A. Vanegas and may or may not have been the popularizer of the calavera.

Alfabeto Fisonomico

Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, Sta Teresa No 40, ca. 1899

26 illustrations of hand gestures, one of each letter.

La Caida de Madero….Ibis de Paz
Imprenta de A. Vanegas Arroyo, 2a Santa Teresa 43, Mexico (1913)

Broadside song regarding the Decena Trágica in February 1913 when Madero, the elected president, was overthrown. With a Posada engraved portrait of General Don Felix Diaz, nephew of Porfirio.

Juego de la Oca (Game of the Goose)

Boardgame with 63 squares illustrated with figures, calaveras, animals, etc

Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, Sta Teresa No 1, Mexico ca 1900-1910

15 ¾” x 11 ½”

Two copies, light wear in the blank margins, relief printing and type.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The use of a shadow typeface with a typo (I'm imagining they only had 2 Ns) in this 1905 José Guadalupe Posada broadside is so great.

vignette image of San Antonio de Padua with song about a miracle in San Lyuis Potosi with headlines and text in various serif fonts and a sans serif shadow typeface for "San Antoio de Padua" (sic).

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I was on @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social a couple weeks ago talking about mayo, where it really comes from and what it's really called.

finger pointing to possible names of mayonnaise in Grimod de la Reyniere's Manual de Amphitryons.

attractive middle-aged man reading from old book while interviewer looks on

image of an article on mayonnaise history from hilobrow.com

two seated men conducting interview in a rare book shop.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This one is funny - Posada was a indefatigable, critic of president/dictator Porfirio Diaz, but it often had to be subtle. Posada depicted people from every walk of life, but the only one who didn't look like a person was Diaz, here depicted as a lumpy guy with a dumb moustache and too much hat.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A few calavera - the first a great 18" x 13" (a little too big for my scanner) two sided flyer for an exhibition of Posada's work (no date ca. early 1960s)

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Cataloging a big collection of José Guadalupe Posada broadsides and I'm going to throw some up here. First off: booklets full of embroidery patterns, "children's theater" pamphlets, a calavera on a recruiting mission to a cemetery.

Four pamphlets "Muestras para Borado" embroidery samples each with a seated woman on the cover embroidering.

Two fold out plates of embroidery samples incorprating plant elements.

Six covers of children's pamphlets from the Galeria del Teatro Infantil series. Five with people depicted on the covers along with city scenes, a demon, musicians, etc.

A calavera - an animated skeleton - in a graveyard apparently trying to convince other skeletons - many just skulls - to come along with him.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Shocked this didn't catch on. (from the ads at rear of an 1875 copy of Wrinkles and Recipes from Scientific American)

Sheldon's Auxiliary Car Seat: engraving of men on a train, one sitting on an auxiliary seat that projects just in front of the other man's normal seat. Both have expressions suggesting they don't find this arrangement to be at all strange.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

"We had found a perfect and immediate remedy to ballroom dancing — one that was better than Fudgie the Whale, better than Fantasy Island, and almost as good, we supposed, as cocaine" I wrote about middle school & Miami Vice today @ hilobrow www.hilobrow.com/2025/03/08/m...

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MacGYVER YOUR ENTHUSIASM (20) – HILOBROW

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Circulating library rules, Channel Islands, ca. early 1800s (from a 1605 edition of Rabelais)

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The first Elzevier ediiton of Rabelais in a nice early (but later) binding with decorative endpapers. With the bottle page, la dive bouteille, the divine bottle.

Green morocco book bindings, ca. late 18th century

Title page in red and black to Rabelais' oeuvres dated 1663

two pages of text from les oeuvres, the right hand page with the text, a poem, inside the divine bottle

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 07/03/2025

I’m gonna disagree. Dems should say: “You know damn well Republicans don’t care about women’s sports. And you know they get arrested every single day for preying on kids. No wonder they make laws where they get to look in your kid’s pants. They wanted to make a child predator Attorney General.” …

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Where's the Count de Monet when you need him?

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Andrew Janjigian @wordloaf.org · 04/03/2025

In other news, thanks to @jalalajackson.bsky.social & Kitchen Arts and Letters, I now have a complete set of John Thorne's food zines from the 80s

A photograph of nine old zines from the 80s by John Thorne on a tabletop:

- A Treatise on Onion Soup
- The English Muffin
- Rice & Beans
- Pizza: The Art of the Pizzaiolo
- Aglio, Oglio, Basilico
- Down East Chowder
- A Pie & A Pint
- The Dill Crock
- Just Another Bowl of Texas Red

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Mock up a Rip Van WInkle interactive book by illustator, puzzle designer and natural born weirdo cartoonist George Carlson.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

We've reinvented mercantilism 400 years later. Can't wait for what's next.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

A chunk of this failure is how hopeless dems have been at articulating how it's the opposite that is true; the current patent/public sector system is incredibly inefficient compared to the NIH.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Botanical sample in an 1828 Viennese cookbook.

Old, dried, plant, green and light yellow leaves, on page of old cookbook.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It's almost as if the dems thought the whole democracy is on the ballot thing was just a clever marketing scheme and now are shocked to find out that maybe it was true.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

this is really fucking smart stuff

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

reupping for the morning crowd, here's my working paper on why AI is fundamentally corrosive yo democracy that CHI rejected, please enjoy!

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The frontispieces for Grimod de La Reynière's Almanach des Gourmands, 1-8.

Bibliotheque d'un Gourmand (table laden with food in foreground, booksehelves filled with food in background)

Les audiences d'un Gourmand (a line of women bring a seated man dishes - room is filled with shelves of food)

Séance d'un Jury de Gourmands dégustateurs; group of tasters sit around a table

Les méditations d'un gourmand. Figure sits at a table thinking with a pyramid shelf of food behind him.

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