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Jeffrey Makala

@jeffmakala.bsky.social
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Rare books and special collections at Furman Univ. in Greenville, SC, USA. U.S. and world book history. Am. Lit. Ph.D. Publishing Plates (PSU Press, 2023), In Dogs We Trust (USC Press, 2019). Book arts. Dogs, lots of dog pics (and cats). He/him

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Have just reached Peak Rare Book Librarian when I noticed I now have 3 blue blazers hanging on my office coat rack….
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gutenberg didn’t invent printing
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That’s queer, too.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm going to hell. 🤣
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini punches a young fascist who tried to confront him outside the premiere for his film, Mamma Roma. (22 September 1962) Also my mum's birthday. We like Pasolini.
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cat art at Bonham’s!
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Invisible winged creatures that frolic all round us! Sweet childhood of air and sky! how oblivious were ye of old Ahab’s close-coiled woe!
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Had a great time at the Another Anarchist Carolina Bookfair (ACAB) yesterday in Asheville and picked up some amazing zines 🌹#breadandroses #thebeautifuldream
ACAB program cover titled “The Dream Lives On”Group of six zines including Cherokee Plants,AI Must Die, and a children’s zine called All Rich People Are Scary. Group of anarchist, punk, and queer zines. Group of queer zines.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day!
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Schnoodle came to work with me yesterday for International Dog Day.
Gray schnoodle posing in a Special Collections reading room. Schnoodle doing a big stretch on the carpet in front of a printing press. Schnoodle looking through a glads door in a library workroom.
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auntietiffa.bsky.social @auntietiffa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you want a timeline cleanse I lost it at the Rabbit 🤷‍♂️
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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
With the news that bike-maker Raleigh is going into administration I am once again reminded of the coolest photograph ever to be taken in the history of mankind.
Actor Sid James astride a Raleigh Chopper, wearing white loafers with no socks, slim-fitting trousers and a pink shirt, while smoking a pipe.
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Happy #caturday and International Cat Day from Simone.
Black cat with big yellow eyes looking sweetly at the camera.
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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
John Waters says he's still working on his long-gestating holiday film, FRUITCAKE, now as an animated children's movie. "Who knows, that’s fallen through a couple of times too." www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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John Waters Is Aging Disgracefully, Thank Goodness
Between sets at Oakland's Mosswood Meltdown, the Pope of Trash talks to THR about turning 80, workshopping dirty jokes, and why he'd rather spend the night in a punk bar than at the Folsom Street Fair...
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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Great wee creature in the National Museum of Scotland
Some sort of badge from a ship with a picture of a shrew with an unimpressed look on its face. Above it is the word TERMAGANT, which has historically been used to describe moany nagging women
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Holly Casio @hollycasio.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Just found this great gilt-stamped cover image of a rotary newspaper press on an 1855 biography of Horace Greeley in the stacks. #bookhistory #printinghistory
Gilt stamped book cover image of a large rotary newspaper press with four men feeding paper into it.
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Simone getting some sun. #caturday
Black cat lounging in the sun on a screen porch.
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twist @pvdork.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the capybaras, for today is their special day! For Capybara Day, here's an engraving from the book ' The Illustrated Natural History' (1863) by J. G. Wood. 📷 Reserve 590.2/WOO #CapybaraAppreciationDay #NationalCapybaraDay #CapybaraDay #RareBooks
Engraving of a capybara, standing in side profile next to a body of water, as if poised to dive in. Its coat is glossy and it wears an expression of supreme calm, as only a capybara is capable of. A second capybara is in the water and swimming straight towards the first capybara. The caption underneath reads: 'Capybara - Hydrocharus Capybara'.
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Furman has one of the largest microtonal music archives in the world. Glad to see the interest in this fascinating area of music!
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Retroist @retroist.com · 04/07/2026
Great moments in U.S. History.
Comic panel showing the Kool Aid Man walking past children with Benjamin Franklin. A child asks, “Excuse me sir, aren’t you Benjamin Franklin?” Franklin answers, “Yes I am. I’m also hot and thirsty.”
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
#bookhistory #transbookhistory
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Andrew Coleman Francis @andrewcfrancis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Happy #PrideMonth! Enjoy a Tesla getting smashed by a light rail train with a pride flag.
Blue Tesla with a smashed front end next to a Baltimore City light rail car painted with the pride flag.
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
#bookhistory from Walt
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
#bookhistory
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Simone choosing paint samples. #caturday
Black cat staring out a storm door with paint chips in foreground.
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Simone wishes everyone a perfectly miserable #worldgothday today.
Black cat staring out at the void.
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Going into Monday with my trusty….
Hand-turned vibrator ad from 1908 issue of The Nautilus. The product is called the Vibro-life.
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Simone. #caturday
Shiny black cat lounging on a tartan fleece blanket.
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Happy dog with azaleas. 🌺
Carolina dog laying in the grass with blooming azaleas behind her.
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Black demon #caturday
Long black cat stretching up to look out a doirway’s sidelight window.
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Damn, still relevant…
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
REALLY looking forward to what the dining hall will roll out on the 15th. #curiousandunusualproduce
Calender with “curious and unusual produce” noted on April 15.
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Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
World’s Largest Punk Record Collection Finds New Home at MTSU 📜 www.wgnsradio.com/article/9858...
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World’s Largest Punk Record Collection Finds New Home at MTSU
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — The world’s largest collection of punk records has officially arrived at Middle Tennessee State University, marking the beginning of a major archival project at the u...
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Remy says pollen season has arrived. #caturday
Muted calico cat staring contentedly at you.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.
An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that."  

Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.
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Elizabeth Biggs @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas
The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…
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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Spring stone circle with daffodils in the front yard.
Small sized stone circle with blooming daffodils in the front yard.
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 04/03/2026
Don't hold back, Miriam. Tell us what you really think. (From Honeycomb, chapter-volume 3 of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage)
"How utterly detestable mannishness is ; so mighty and strong and comforting when you have been mewed up with women all your life, and then suddenly, in a second, far away, utterly imbecile and aggravating with a superior self-satisfied smile because a woman says one thing one minute and another the next. Men ought to be horsewhipped, all the grown men, all who have ever had that self-satisfied smile, all, all, horsewhipped until they apologise on their knees."
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