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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My son and his #tuxedo_cat Zoo, rescued two years ago in decrepit shape. And now! #cat #cats #tuxedocat #rescue

Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Partial face with eyes set into pillar dedicated to #Asklepios, with niches for other votives. #Acropolis Museum. The ancient Greek forerunner of modern Mexican #milagros to cure los ojos? www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/pillar-vo....

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You could fit 1.4 #Alaskas inside #Algeria! 665,400 sq. m. (Alaska) vs. 919,595 sq. m. (Algeria)

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

After a huge thunderstorm, our #Argiope #spider moved to a more sheltered spot under the porch and spun a new web with a much stronger stabilimentum.

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In a recent article, I concluded that in the 1470-86 period, lines of drilled type were wired together for composition, imposition and printing. Locking chases were not then used, lines of type being held in press by perpendicular force. www.academia.edu/169042456/Th...

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. New Yorker: Go fuck yourself.

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Fragments of medieval Hebrew text on parchment, used to reinforce spine on Botero, Relationi Universali. Venice, Perin, 1595. Any help? (I know they're very small). Thanks! #paleography #medieval #medieval_hebrew #fragmentology #medieval_manuscripts #medieval_paleography

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Beats me. But I've learned the letters in modern Georgian are called, in order: ani bani gani doni eni vini zeni tani ini kani lasi mani nari oni pari zhani rae ? sani lari uni pari kani ghani qari shini chini tsani dzili tsili chari khani jani hae See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia...

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

On further look, the scribes were different. No reason to think texts are same. The cover ms is ruled; the spine ms not. Line spacing differs. Letter forms differ - d (horizontal bar in cover), final s (long s in the spine ms), Tironian et (uncrossed; only on spine), 9 used for con in cover ms, etc.

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This one is beyond me. The ms on the spine actually is from "De excommunicacione et interdicto", a late 13 c. treatise by Bérenger Frédol (c. 1250-1323), w/ variants. I assume the larger fragment used for the covers also is, but I can't confirm that. #medieval_manuscripts #medieval #fragmentology

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The SDMA is a wonderful art museum and has the masterpiece painting of Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560-1627), Still Life of a Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quince,... www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LCX...

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In our back-yard in San Antonio today: a beautiful #Argiope aurantia (an #orb-weaver #spider) with the thick zig-zag pattern in the web below it, called the stabilimentum.

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

JULIAN DATES. I learned about Julian dates from Archbishop Ussher’s Annales where he dated the beginning of the world as 4004 BC. He also gave the Julian date of 710 which is the number of days from Jan. 1, 4713 BC (don’t ask). Today, details of the salmonella egg recall refer to “Julian dates” 1/2

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

In 1974, the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly held hearings on corporate involvement in replacing electric railways with buses. Bradford Snell, an attorney for the Stern Fund, presented a study titled American Ground Transport, accusing GM and allied oil and rubber companies of 1/2)

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Why would you turn down an offer to save -21.5%!

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Sad news I've only just heard: Albert Derolez has left us. He was 91, and one of the foremost palaeographers and codicologists in the world.

Albert Derolez last year, holding his latest publication on the Liber Floridus, a Dutch popular science book.

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Surely, Pickle de Gallo should have been better received in BlueSkyLand. If not, here's Pico de Gallo, the song, by the fabulous duo Trout Fishing in America. Don't get it your eye-o! @miblogestublog.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfFo...

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Pico De Gallo

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Latest advance at the frontier of experimental Tex-Mex cuisine (so I'm told): "Pickle de Gallo" in which sour pickle pieces replace tomatoes. At Whole Foods in San Antonio. Will try it. #picodegallo #texmexfood @miblogestublog.bsky.social

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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Admonitio Generalis fragment went for a whopping £130,500 higher than the estimated high price. I.... wow.

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Pleioptygma lineolata ? (Heilprin 1886). Pliocene, Lake Okeechobee Florida. #molluscmonday

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Large slab of fossil sea urchins, lower Cretaceous, Ft Worth formation (Albian), north Texas. All are Holasters except for the broken ones which are Hafasters 😜 #fossilfriday

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The Mikasa City Museum in Hokkaido, Japan -- “The Museum of ammonites” displays more than 600 ammonite specimens of over 120 species, found from Cretaceous marine deposits in Hokkaido, including a hall of giant #fossil #ammonites.

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

These strike me as having a similar vibe:

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My article “The Catholicon Press (Mainz 1469-70), Printing with Wired Type” has been published. I conclude that the books were printed from lines of type wired in pairs through holes drilled in their shanks and placed in trays without lateral barriers. (1/2) www.academia.edu/169042456/Th...

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My Father's Day present - a plush #ammonite, anatomically correct with 10 tentacles and aptychi! #fossils #cephalopods

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

If only Christo were still alive ...

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Coincidentally, I have an article to be published in one week about drilled or perforated type and its purpose and use.

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

And it's one, two, three What are we fighting for? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn The next stop is I-RAN! You got it, Country Joe! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft0v... #iran_war

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Country Joe & the Fish - VietNam Song - Live Woodstock 1969 - Full HD Video

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The song #Istanbul (not #Constantinople) was written in 1953 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople and recorded by the Four Lads. It's very similar to I. Berlin's Puttin' on the Ritz (1929) and was covered in 1990 by They Might be Giants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze....

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The Four Lads - Istanbul (not Constantinople)

YouTube video by Ulduz Mammadova

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Huge slab of Trigonia stone in a wall at the #HarryRansomCenter in Austin Texas. Trigonia is a common #Cretaceous #fossil bivalve. #urbangeology #molluscs #fossils en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonia

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Excellent band name -- The Flaming Waymos

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Interesting sammelband juxtaposition of same woodcut after 10 years of heavy use. The phoenix woodcut to the right is on the title page of Pescatoria et ecloghe del San Martino and dates to [1540]. To the left is the final page of Emilio Probo, De Gli Huomini Illustri di Grecia, dated 1550. (1/2)

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

It's the old Jesse-Jason-Jared Law Firm representing Kash-Yap!

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

#Medieval_Paleography. Two different #manuscript_fragments cover this Quintilian (Lyon 1538). One wraps the book. A smaller fragment from Liber Sextus, L. 5, T. 2, C 18, covers the spine. I have given up on the wrapper. Seems to be legal, but not from Sextus - maybe a Corpus Juris commentary?

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Lime #chutney I made with entire limes, skin and all, using a Julie Sahni recipe. Labels by my son.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Steampunk style 'book dress' by French designer Sylvie Facon #womensart

Three images of a long dress with flowing skirt and elegant book spine motifs, including a close-up and an image of the dress on a model and one of the dress on a woman in a library

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Cretaceous ammonites in the early morning sun.

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Mexican language now under direct attack by brain-dead forces. @miblogestublog.bsky.social

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

HOW TO GET YOUR OWN DAY THAT NO ONE ELSE HAS ... In college a friend told me that moving the clock forward one hour was easy to adjust to. So, he planned to move his clock forward one hour each day. In less than a month, he would have his own day that no one else in the world has. #DaylightSavings

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I used to work in this wonderful building every day for five years. Makes me sick to see this.

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Q. How is a Cerethium snail like RFK, Jr.?

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I have responded to the claim that tiny dots in Catholicon Press books (1469-70) were made by the heads of micro-nails used to reattach stereotyped strips to wooden bases. The same dots appear in 17c English books, which no one has ever claimed were stereotyped. www.academia.edu/164452077/On...

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One More Nail in the the Nailheads’ Coffin

Paul Needham's theory that tiny dots and spots (on the order of 1/2 mm) in Catholicon Press books (1469-1470) were made by micro-nail heads used to reattach stereotyped strips to wooden bases is u...

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