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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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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It was sandpaper and then that design place for a long time, i think. Probably was 20 years, yikes.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Little trafficked in the middle of covid lol - but it's true that Birch St. was a lot more of a retail destination 20 yrs ago than now, sadly. Retail in the sq. is rough.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I have seen this one attributed to Posada, but it might just be because it's so similar to this one by him. No help on the owner, though.

José Guadalupe Posado engraving of the Mexican coat of arms with an eagle eating a snake perched on a cactus.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Hereditary or The Witch - is The Lighthouse horror?

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Amazing. Almost sounds like All the Birds in the Sky.

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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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Feminae- Advanced Search

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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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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Confused because neither of those people appear to be Robyn.

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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 · 03/02/2026

surprised people are saying BEC and not chop cheese. Hot pastrami/corned beef, slaw and russian, maybe? As a kid it was definitely a meatball sub and then as a teen an Italian combo. Though we called them wedges - idiosyncratic Westchester thing.

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

Democracy dies in darkness, as the WaPo used to say, even if it was just a marketing gimmick. El Hijo poked holes in the famously France glazing and despotic 35-year reign of Porfirio Díaz until they were arrested for flying a banner reading "La Constitución ha muerto" in 1903.

cover of El Hijo del Ahuizote with an illustration of a burro politician humping a Pueblan worker while a rich businessman stands by ready to hit him with a large branch? Can't lie, this one is hard to parse, but I think we get the general idea.

illustration with a complex allegorical image of European politics - Bulgaria getting ready to blow-up, Russian bear, ridiculous French rooster, German vulture etc

illustration of a "Frenchified" gentleman bent double under an umbrella labeled religious fanaticism.

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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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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Ugh. Mine got a whole mess of 1s because the ebook didn’t work; pretty much trashed the rating.

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

Do it, Trump. Reopen Action Park.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

If we're throwing anyone in the volcano it's the dipshits without scruples or empathy.

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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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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The design is a little terrible, but the subsections are good and it's a great zine collection: www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/resources...

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University Libraries | The University of Iowa

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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 · 17/11/2025

Meanwhile we bail out Milei's idiotic experiment in failed austerity economics to the tune of 40B and counting and call it what? Capitalism? I know no one cares about hypocrisy anymore, but c'mon.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

once you've given them weapons grade plutonium, debt guarantees probably start to seem pretty anodyne.

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Tom Nealon @condimentking.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

tacos and calzones all around!

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

N. Korea is sending troops and arms to Russia in the Ukraine, so Putin would be naturally concerned about the S. Korea visit - this is the thousand islands of reassurance not to sweat it. The NYT really needs a condiment interpreter. Jeez.

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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

and here are some ICE resources from www.lucemass.org

vió a ICE? llame a la línea de luce 617-370-5023

see ICE? call the luce hotline 617-370-5023

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

I have a tiny booth off to the side, look for the skulls

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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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