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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Saw the oldest surviving Ginkgo tree in North America today 🤓

Info plaque: The oldest surviving Ginkgo (Gingko biloba) in North America, this male (staminate) tree is believed to date from 1785 when William Hamilton planted two trees at his nearby estate, the Woodlands, and presented this specimen to the Bertram collection.

Native to China, the Gingko has been cultivated in Asia for its edible nuts and medicinal properties for thousands of years.

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Bonifacio is also a pampered lord-of-the-house:

A black kitty — he has averted his gaze from the lens (and me)

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Enjoying this book at the public library 🤓

The book Afro-Atlantic Histories — a wonderful painting of a Black woman is on the cover

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Context for the TikTok being shared of the young woman ‘hiding’ Mexico’s national treasures from the English so that they won’t be stolen and taken to the British Museum — a 1938 guide to the Maudslay collection of Maya sculptures housed in the Museum:

Cover of the British Museum Guide to the Maudslay Collection — this is an austere blue cover.

Title page of the GUide, showing the extent of the Collection, with sculptures from Tikal and Quirigua (Guatemala), Copan (Honduras), and Palenque and Yaxchilan (Mexico).

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

ALSO: ‘The Lonely Ones’ (1942); ‘Persistent Faces’ (1945); and ‘The Rejected Lovers’ (1951)

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Several years ago I was collecting William Steig volumes at the exact same moment ppl were inexplicably divesting themselves of their Steigs: these are all first editions:

Steig’s books: ‘All Embarrassed’ (1944); ‘Til Death Us Do Part’ (1947); and ‘Dreams of Glory and Other Drawings’ (1953)

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Here is her reply to my query about why the image of Dorsey was included:

Siri says: I included the image of Jack Dorsey in error. He is not affiliated with the Zizians, and the image was incorrectly associated with the search results for the group. I apologize for the confusion.

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I asked ‘new Siri’ about the Zizians + while she provided basic info about them, she illustrated the response with a pic of Jack Dorsey?!

A screenshot of Siri’s reply to my query about the Zizians — it includes a large publicity pic of Jack Dorsey.

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Nadine Hurley's desire to get her drape-runner to be 'completely silent' was an inspiration for us to achieve our own completist ideal.

A white woman with an eyepatch sits on the floor in a black dress -- she is packing cotton balls into a curtain runner in the quest of having the opening and closing of the curtains be *completely silent*

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

After YEARS of pottering and gathering items of shelving, I am pleased to report that we have achieved full kitchen modularity 🤓 *yelling like Faye Dunaway/Joan Crawford in ‘Mommy Dearest’* NO WALL CABINETS — ANYWHERE

A picture of a kitchen with yellow walls and mismatched shelving — there are no wall cabinets

The rest of the kitchen wall — the door to the balcony is open

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Agree, but exclude one person/example:

Nancy is a crossing guard — she has stopped traffic in both directions — cars are honking but she says to a turtle crossing the road: “Take your time — I’m the boss around here”

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

While Bonifacio is such a creature of habit, I struggled to find him at his usual sleeping spots b/c he is sleeping out in the open, atop the piano 😸

A sleepy black cat curled up amongst sheet music atop a cream colored piano.

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Cat Update: We made MAJOR changes to the parlor -- a space also known as 'Boni's Room' -- and I am pleased to report that the princeling has approved the new arrangement! 🤓

A black cat sleeping on a fabric-covered ottoman beside a golden couch (that is also a favorite sleeping-place).

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Night’s reading: Ernie Pyle’s ‘Brave Men,’ (Grosset and Dunlap, 1945)

Title page listing Ernie Pyle as author and the title Brave Men

Table of contents — reporting covering the liberation of Sicily (June-September 1943) -+ Italy December 1943- April 1944)

Final page of the contents — reporting covering the liberation of France (June-September 1944)

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Evening’s reading: Wycherley’s plays and Dobree’s ‘Restoration Comedy 1660-1720’ (1924)

Fancy Mermaid Series edition of William Wycherley’s plays with gold lettering and mermaid + the cover page of Dobree’s Restoration Comedy 1660-1720 (Oxford, 1924)

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Morning re-reading: Stephanie Syjuco, ‘The Unruly Archive’ 🤓

Cover of Stephanie Syjuco’s The Unruly Archive — it is designed to look like an archival folder

“This book simulates a type of forensics.

Like the process of physically excavating an archive … a search through a body that was embalmed and catalogued years ago. In this case it simulates what it is like to piece together a vision of an entire country of people — the Philippines, Filipinos, and by extension Filipino Americans — through the lens of the American colonial archive.”

A historical photo of a woman — her face is obscured by a person’s fingers

Definitions of unruly (disorderly and disruptive) and archive (a place where … historical documents are kept)

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Saw this sublime note on Reddit — ‘Powers Park Squirrel Gurl Bids Farewell’:

The Squirrel girl of Powers Park in Philly is moving away and leaves descriptions of the squirrels and their temperaments for those ppl she hopes/expects to keep feeding the squirrels

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A rare photo of Bonifacio in his tower with one of his hind legs dangling over the edge (usually his head and one foreleg are off-ledge):

A black kitty resting on a ledge on a cat castle -- he looks directly at the camera -- his tail and one leg hang over the edge of the ledge

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

❄️❄️❄️Sunday snow❄️❄️❄️

The view from my window on Pine Street — the cars and trees near a house are covered in snow

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Bonifacio is my watchful house-panther 😻 #caturday

A black kitty hunched over in a very watchful pose -- he looks directly at the camera.

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

From the BBC's Tom Bateman: "It is awful what they are doing to us," Marissa tells me through tears, adding that she finds the situation "devastating". She says "everyone is coming together to keep each other safe". Everyone she knows is terrified, "no matter if you are here legally or not".

A woman wearing a puffer coat and wool hat, mittens, and sunglasses -- she holds her hand to her face and tho we can't see her eyes behind the glasses she looks sad.

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Bonifacio rarely sleeps in the ‘house’ section of his cat-tree, but when he does, he’s sure to do so as cutely as possible:

A black kitty curled up in the box section of a tree — his tail sticks out of one opening and his head comes out of the other — he is looking into the camera

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Altho’ Bonifacio is not allowed on the golden couch, he nonetheless finds it a wonderful place to rest:

A black cat asleep on a golden couch — his chin is resting on his hind leg

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

On Nov 18, Dr. Sofi Chávez, César Chávez Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Latin American, Latina/o and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth, will be speaking at Bryn Mawr College -- her talk is titled "So Nasty: Sucia Realness and Visceral Encounters in the Writing of Julián Delgado Lopera"

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Bonifacio is sleeping in the first item we got for him when we rescued him -- we call it his 'wavy thing' -- back then, he could fold himself into it quite comfortably:

A stretched-out black kitty -- he is resting with the lower half of his body in a wavy cat-rest.

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Bug scientists, pls tell me what type of spider this is — it was clicking its pincers at me when I sat down at my computer this morning 😮😳 — apologies for the dusty screen!

A spider is on the far right edge of a computer screen — it has a camouflage pattern and large pincers

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Sometimes — esp. when he has enjoyed his evening kibble AND has received a specially-plated serving of what we are eating — Bonifacio will allow me to sit close to him and take a pic:

A black cat looking directly at the camera — one of his paws is jauntily hanging off the side of the couch he is on.

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Some days, Bonifacio likes to pretend he is is snake. 🐍

A black cat resting on one of the turrets of his kitty-castle — his head hangs over the edge — his paws are not visible

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A new notebook, you say? Don’t mind if I do!

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Bonifacio has returned to his cat tree -- he has avoided it entirely for the last six months -- and: he is sleeping on the parapet that he has never slept on before. 🤓

A black cat draped over a platform in his tower -- his head hangs over the edge

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

My mysterious boy, keeping an eye on the building’s courtyard.

A black cat sitting between a curtain and a window — he looks warily at the camera

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

This is a favorite diagram of mine (p. 87) 🤓

‘Trumpet Lineage’ recognizes both the ‘founding-musicians and Louis Armstrong’s influence

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Saw this in the bottle shop and HAD TO HAVE IT 😸🤓

A bottle of Hercule Belgian stout -- the label has a portrait of POIROT on it

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Saw many lil turtles sunning themselves at the Jenkins Arboretum this afternoon -- when I first saw them I thought they were porcelain figurines! 🐢🐢🐢

A group of five turtles on a sunken tree resting in a pond

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