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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 7m

Good morning from this small lion-like animal running alongside a bicycle, strapped to a flag of the US ...

a small lion-like animal running alongside a bicycle, strapped to an American flag. This is a detail to a bigger image (see the thread)

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Renatus Deckert @renatusdeckert.bsky.social · 21m

Duschen oder Baden verboten! 🚫 Lesen Sie lieber Bücher.

Piktogramm, das ich nicht verstehe. Sorry!

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

When I am writing, this is how my own ideas are circling around my head...

A detail from a Schreibmeister book from 1696 ("Kunstrichtiger Wegweiser Zu der edlen Schreib-Kunst..."). A human head is drawn and his hairs and surrounding is made of one long inky line.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 14h

This whale had had enough! See this (angry) whale breaking through the 1610 map and coming for you ...

a map from 1610, showing the sea in front of South America, and a whale is breaking through...

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit

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Jeroen van Dorp @jeroenvandorp.bsky.social · 18h

1582 BASE-jump.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 18h

Medieval Hunting Deaths: A Thread Hunting could be very dangerous (not just for animals) in the Middle Ages. Accidents happened and everyone from kings and earls to lowly peasants could be killed by a stray arrow, a hanging branch or a wild animal defending itself. 🧵7

A man in blue awkwardly holds a bow in front of him. He appears to have misfired the arrow, which is up near his face and facing the wrong way.

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Christoph Becker @chwb.bsky.social · 21h

"Angst, Lügen und Hass waren die Zutaten der nationalsozialistischen Ideologie und sie sind es heute für die Marschrichtung dieser rechtsextremen Partei": Kerkelings Rede im Erfurter Landtag. www.n-tv.de/mediathek/vi...

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"Drei Sätze müssen feststehen" - Hape Kerkelings ganze AfD-Rede

Der Landtag von Thüringen berät öffentlich über die Frage eines möglichen Antrags für ein Verbot der AfD - "ausgerechnet in Thüringen", sagt ein prominenter Redner an diesem Abend. Der Komiker und Sch...

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 23h

October is the time to make wine - and work on your scorpion drawings. 📖 A man treads grapes. Scorpio. Calendar from a Psalter. 13th century digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/5…

Medieval manuscript page showing two illustrations. A man treading grapes in brass-bound tub; drinking from bowl; an assistant tips grapes into tub. Vine on right. A scorpion representing Scorpio is below. The page has handwritten Latin text in red and black ink.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Free fallin' into this day like this fetus did in 1582.

a detail of a fetus in a womb from a 1582 German book titled: Hebãmenbuechlin (VD16 R 2846).

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can only recommend this book. Read it in German with my class last semester in a course about the cultural histories of AI.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How I read the news in the morning: with a magnifying glass, and a refilled cup of coffee. I ❤️ this detail of a hand-coloured lithograph of the 1820s.

a man seated in a coffee shop of the 1820s, reading something, and a waiter is filling his cup of coffee

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It's Wednesday, my dudes. Also A.T.D.S.S.T.S. in your face

a detail from a 16c pamphlet titlepage showing a putto in a raised arms pose. Under the woodcut is a text passage that starts with A.T.D.S.S.T.S.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me talking about someone I've posted with on the same social media site for a long time but never actually met

Still from the television show What We Do in the Shadows showing Laszlo speaking. Text reads "he's my best friend, he's my pal. He's my homeboy, my rotten soldier. He's my sweet cheese, my good-time boy."

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some do know that live-tweeting at events became a thing in mid-eighteenth century when a certain someone found his trumpet and lost his manners ... #LiveTweetingAtEvents

You see a print of 1748 titled "The Royal Assembly A Representation of the several Potentates Signing the Peace", and a messenger with a posthorn or trumpet is standing next to the Kings and Queens singing the Treaty. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3857

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Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In the 1860s, chess player Howard Staunton produced a photo-facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio. It was one of the earliest attempts to use new technology to reproduce an old book. @folger.edu has Staunton’s proof sheets. I looked at them last week. If you like media/books/history, they're fun.

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“How on earth came the t turned into s?!!!!”

On Howard Staunton’s photozincographic facsimile of Shakespeare’s First Folio

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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how your email finds me today.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This too would have worked on a bestselling broadside of #earlymodern Europe. An absurd pictorial detail of a greater current problem including big machines and sand.

A screenshot from the reposted film of trucks driving through Syria

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A man riding a horse, holding a flaming sword, swearing and yelling, and all this on a hand-coloured etching, which was in fact larger as you see here, was a published comment about the abnormally bad weather of 1799 in Europe. Did I mention yet that the riding scene is happening on a beer tankard?

a man on a horse with a flaming sword etc. etc. follow the thread

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Arthur der Weduwen, co-director of the USTC, has published 'The Last Invasion of England' investigating the Dutch Republics motives behind the daring invasion of England that led to revolution. Read about how the Dutch utilized print during the campaign at the link! www.ustc.ac.uk/news/the-pri...

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Someone is wrong on the internet again!

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Biete unbenutzte Bluesky invite codes (mint condition, Sammlerwert) für 2 Oasis-Tickets, München 2027, Sitzplätze.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And on the fourth day of Bluesky’s infancy, the elders invented Alf wine …

Alf Wine from Germany. Gordon Shumway and Melmac

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🎃 Ryan S. Pumpkins 🎃 (Any Questions?) @ryanwritesgood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Concept art for the Street Fighter movie's Guile popcorn bucket

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve been writing and speaking on this topic for years, and I’m glad that news media are finally drawing attention to it. www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...

It may be tempting to see value in projects such as the Schmidt Foundation — that’s Eric Schmidt of Google — funding a fellowship in AI at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or the Musk Foundation’s support of the Scroll Prize to use AI in reconstructing ancient texts in the burnt scrolls of Herculaneum. But these projects are simply two among countless others that have been seeding AI into museums and historical research for well over a decade. Even more egregious is the case of AI companies buying and destroying rare books en masse in the process of scanning them for data. In the context of the dire austerity we are witnessing, the juggernaut of tech money seems impossible to resist.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I commented on this “partnership” already, and this is not good news. Keep commercially acting AI firms out of our cultural heritage.

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Susanne Wosnitzka @donauschwalbe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ihr wisst, womit man solche Perücken (alle Perücken) gepudert hat, damit sie schön weiß erscheinen? Mit Mehl. Das war mit ein Grund, warum die armen Leute 1789 & darüber hinaus auf die Barrikaden gingen. Nach der Frz. Rev. klagten Pariser Frisöre über Auftragslosigkeit & baten den britischen König

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The year was 1778 in Europe, and strong Marge Simpson vibes were in the air.

a woman with a haircut like Marge Simpson

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Christian Algar @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Sir Archy Mac Sarcasm is a pseudonym.” Cataloguers, huh?! 😀

Screenshot of a catalogue record for an 18th-century English printed book.

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Christian Algar @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#bookhistory question: is anyone working on the incidence / history of early 19th-century facsimiles / reprints of early printed works (especially in English)? Does anyone know of any past studies into this category? 🙏

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This Large Leo Model (LLM) is not hallucinating:

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How I plan enter the weekend: happily riding side-saddle on a bicycle towards a bit of leasure time, wearing a feathered hat. #weekendsky

a detail from a print of 1818 showing a lady in a large bonnet, riding side-saddle on a bicycle. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1862-1217-128

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Are you aware that the AI-generated online encyclopedia #Grokipedia is creating and publishing entries on academics and their work? I recently found my entry, and some is correct, some is wrong, and all of this is collected from various websites only. #academicchatter grokipedia.com/page/Daniel_...

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Daniel Bellingradt — Grokipedia

Daniel Bellingradt is a German historian and communication scholar known for his research on early modern media history, book history, paper markets, and the materiality of communication flows. He spe

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Leseempfehlung für den blauen Himmel! Für solche Texte bin ich online: bsky.app/profile/elle...

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👻🎃 Philippa Amthorror 🎃👻 @ellebil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Die Luftbrücke nach Dahlem ist angelaufen. Aus Kleinflugzeugen werden die aktuelle Ausgabe der FAZ, Parmesan und Visitenkarten von Fachanwälten für Immobilienrecht abgeworfen. Am Boden bilden sich würdelose Szenen.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"This vision of the future, in which as much work as possible is outsourced to AI, promises the ability to move faster, iterate more quickly & require less human staff. But nothing in life comes free." As with prior rounds of automation, the price is homogenization: www.noemamag.com/now-entering...

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Now Entering: The Era Of Bleh | NOEMA

Airbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Das Jahrbuch für #Kommunikationsgeschichte, Band 28 (2026), randvoll mit guten Geschichten, ist unterwegs. #JbKG www.steiner-verlag.de/Jahrbuch-fue...

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will always remember fondly the student who finished an essay with the line "In conclusion, the early modern period marked a massive shit in European history."

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my favourite typo is, & will always be, ‘the literary cannon’

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What's Looming? This spectacular color printed #NewAcq from my 17th c. German buddy Georg Philipp Harsdörffer! The gorgeous rug border, which alternates colors in different printings, alludes to his proposed campaign against the Turks. And FYI, Impressive Textiles is just around the corner!

Orange red border in the shape of a striped Turkish rug with a black inset plate showing a loom.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Academics on their website photo and in real life. #academicchatter

Teresa May running for city council in British Columbia holding an image of herself.

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