Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026what's funny about this is that monks were perfectly delighted with the printing press, the myth that the late medieval church resisted printing is false, you can actually embellish printed books and people did, illuminators and scribes are not the same people, and simon should read more. 673117569
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersLaura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off 5268558013
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026It is wild how every single corporation is openly attacking its consumers & every platform is treating its users like livestock. That is our current relationship with the corporate entities we engage on every level. 10435122
Reposted by Marguerite Carrithersv buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/11/2025that AO3 study which indicated that the stuff people looked for was like the stuff they'd seen before, but the stuff they liked the most was stuff that was at least a bit different 215736
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersJen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 12/08/2026There’s an abundance of research indicating that once you get students past fear of falling grades, and fear of not getting a letter grade, too, they settle in, focus more on the learning, and actually demonstrate better acquisition of skills and concepts. Well done Michigan and keep going! 513727
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersElpis 💙 FE8 plushies soon @elpisofhope.bsky.social · 14/03/2025This quote from Defunctland lives in my head rent free. Literally how I feel about making art. 2261231794
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersGwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I really want to highlight that both the childcare worker shortage and this nonprofit work debt trap share the same root, which is that preschool teaching and "charity" work are feminized and therefore devalued labor. 6533150
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersJolie Braun @joliebraun.bsky.social · 07/08/2026ZineMap (which can help you find zine fests, libraries, stores that stock them, etc.) is a year old today: zinemap.com.zinemap.comZineMap - A Collaborative Map of the Global Zine SceneExplore a global map of the zine universe, map your local zine scene, and connect with other zine makers worldwide. 11710
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I would LOVE to know the racial breakdown of that. Because I damn sure have some theories. 0843200
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout 159115352685
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026One of most heartbreaking things about Hank Green turning to LLMs is that he gets to do science communication full-time to a massive audience and is well-resourced. He doesn't need to cut corners or outsource his thinking. Meanwhile, there are so many people doing amazing work with zero resources. 201899348
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersGetty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Our medieval art curator rates every "European castle" emoji. 🏰 27630
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersJacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"trans rage" found by chance in a Hamilton wood type specimen book from 1895 34111
Reposted by Marguerite Carrithersian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 04/08/2026very funny logic here. it's "disrespectful" to cover the huge windows the architect built for a museum full of light-sensitive objects? have we not learned from harvard and rothko, from lacma and govan, from every light-based fuck up in the past 100 years of art. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/a... 2165
Reposted by Marguerite Carrithersgregorg @greg.org · 04/08/2026So the museum director swaps out artworks and historical objects for reproductions and color photocopies at the same time the show's longtime organizers and curators disavow the decision and quit the newly reopened museum? Meanwhile the same donors are also giving a wing at the Met. 4238
Reposted by Marguerite Carrithersrico. @whoisrico.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Love this piece on comic printing origins by Guy Lawley over at @truegrittexture.bsky.social www.truegrittexturesupply.com/blogs/news/o...truegrittexturesupply.comThe Origins of Vintage Comics Part 1Comics historian Guy Lawley takes you on a deep dive into the warm, nostalgic aesthetic of vintage comics and the technologies used to print them. 084
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersNeoTiamat @neotiamat99.bsky.social · 02/08/2026What made so many cultural centers of the past - interwar Paris, 70s NYC East Side, 90s Seattle - was that young artists could live and feed themselves on a pittance, leaving them time and energy to work on their art. 0336
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersRolf Oldejans @rolfoldejans.bsky.social · 01/08/2026A fun day out for all the family 61144256
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersBOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Are you familiar with the University of Washington special collections Decorative and Decorated Papers digital collection? If not, you SHOULD be... what a cool resource! digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/coll... 311844
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b 7778512571
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersTrevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026"Worst aquarium ever" t-shirts go viral (I saw one in the wild in Canada) apnews.com/article/new-...apnews.comWhaling Museum goes viral for ‘worst aquarium ever’ T-shirts, totesNew Bedford is considered the home of whaling’s history in America — and now, home to the worst aquarium ever. 37713
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Oh did a female academic with an extensive history of study and practice in a particular area of literature make a reasoned critique of a male filmmaker’s movie? I’m sure this will be handled with maximum normality. 191311206
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I keep thinking about how often the mass layoffs in media, government and big companies, especially women and people of color, will lead to poorer outcomes for years because the people who would point out potential problems or blind spots were deemed non-essential, a "bad fit", and/or too expensive. 171786396
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersLisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026An interview with Guerrilla Girl Joyce Kozloff artjournal.collegeart.org?p=19775 1165
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026For @aftermath.site : When Valve announced the Steam Machine, they showed off an eInk faceplate called the Inkterface used for internal testing. Many clamored for it. Instead of selling it, they made the entire thing open source. I built one, and so have many others. aftermath.site/steam-machin...aftermath.siteThe Steam Machine's ePaper Faceplate Is Open Source And Full Of PossibilityValve made the eInk Steam Machine faceplate open source to see what the community could do. We're already seeing results. 12644113
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersNew Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The death of third spaces is really giving people brain rot. Children should have access to public spaces because this is how they learn to behave. Community cohesion depends on one’s willingness to help out with childcare. It is weird to me not to see children existing in public like public transit 5546171
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 21/07/2026just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards 1591560510
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersColin Alexander @colincalexander.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Eat your heart out, Hemingway 191325267
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersMedieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Medieval scribes employed a number of different methods to correct mistakes and omissions. This one used the figure of a man pulling the omitted portion of the text towards the place where it belonged - 15th century, British Library, Arundel 38, f. 65r 419555
Reposted by Marguerite Carritherseshpur @eshpur.bsky.social · 18/07/2026✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣ 58115072966
Reposted by Marguerite Carrithersnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 18/07/2026guy who thinks 'TTRPG' is short for 'tenure track role playing game' 411819
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersNational Homelessness Law Center @homelesslaw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026More than 60% of Americans can't afford the basic costs of living. It's simple: more people are being forced to sleep outside because housing is unaffordable & the rent is too damn high. We won't solve homelessness until politicians accept reality & invest in housing, not handcuffs. buff.ly/1Q0Ogvpcbsnews.comMost Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis findsThe bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," according to a new analysis. 0136
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/07/2026💀 Pygmalion displacement 💀 doi.org/10.31235/osf... 39449
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersRoss Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad. 2949971656
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersThe PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026everyone seems to be responding positively to this and i hate to burst anyone's bubble, but i recently went to a Luddite festival in NYC and this is something organizers specifically warned about: don't let capitalists sell your hatred of capitalism back to you 972312490
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersMatt Lincoln @mdlincoln.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I knew this data format was old, but this is ridiculous 38127
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersDr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 14/07/2026An impression from a piece of fallen type - an error in the printing process captured forever. In a copy of Constantius Applanus’s ‘Soliloquiorum’, printed at Cremona in 1496 and given to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social by Stephen Gaselee in 1934. CUL Inc.5.B.20.5[4036]. #fallentype #incunabula 24912
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersLeon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Ephemera from the Boston Board of Aldermen Docket Documents at City of Boston Archives. Itinerant entertainers applying for licenses to exhibit submitted their broadsides for the city government to inspect. All eight of these are from the 1820s 1/2 🗃️ 65514
Reposted by Marguerite Carrithersmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026stop. if you think the existence of a warrant is part of the conversation in any way, you cannot, by definition, argue that it makes any difference whether the guy they killed had a warrant or not. because right guy or wrong guy, an arrest warrant isn't a death sentence. 5355071277
Reposted by Marguerite Carrithersc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 15/10/2025University administration: "We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible." Also university administration: 281143263
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/07/2026“When that discretion is abandoned, kids enter into a juvenile justice system that leaves them less likely to finish school and more likely to enter the adult carceral system, research shows. The affected kids are disproportionately Black.” 7200109
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersRyan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13/07/2026If you’re in Philly, check out SHEAR & our Sunday panel “Printers Exchange: A Roundtable of Scholar-Printers Reprinting / Remixing Revolutionary Texts”—including fellow Bsky scholar-printers @markalanmattes.bsky.social @jmadelman.bsky.social @sophie-rose-reads.bsky.social @brown-ramsey.bsky.socialshear.org 386
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersDr Sam Bailey @18thcenturysam.bsky.social · 13/07/2026A love poem for printers, in a Regency era guide to courtship. 1113
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersLaura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Lindsey Graham was ashamed of what he should have been proud of and proud of what he should have been ashamed of. 283681537
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersDean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read: 11034690613672
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersLinda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026“But I want to tell you what he was like to hang out with in private when there were no stakes” is a very common response to the death of a person who had immense power in situations with high stakes. 433922697
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersErin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 11/07/2026A few days before Christmas 2016, a grey Land Rover paused in front of a bank of mirrored windows at this checkpoint on the border between France and Switzerland. What happened next revealed just how looted art worms its way into museums. A 🧵 about my article: hyperallergic.com/why-do-so-ma... 4490233
Reposted by Marguerite CarrithersCasey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10/07/2026"Are superhero movies dying?" Superhero movies died the day they wouldn't let Guillermo del Toro make a 3rd Hellboy. 421003159
Reposted by Marguerite Carritherskscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Check out this $400 commercial braile printer at the @oshwassociation.bsky.social open healthware summit. Commercial printers cost almost $4000 making them unaffordable in the global south. If you're interested in this kind of stuff we're currently running a conference in SF. 12110