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Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · 11h

The real answer to future-proofing your child's career, of course, it to take all the billionaires' money and use it to fund robust support for infrastructure, scientific research, and the arts and humanities

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 13h

JSTOR and HathiTrust are great but have you read a good, crisp monograph in print lately? It's an experience.

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My Little Pony: Twilight Sparkle Reading

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 21h

If you’re not registered to vote already, what are you doing!? Folks have got 4 days (including today) left to get registered. Visit angienixon.com/vote for more information on how to get registered! Change can’t wait for working families in Florida. #AngieForFlorida

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 20h

How does it feel to have people copy your intellectual property without permission?

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 13h

Conference, convention, D&D game, tailgating, whatever it is, your event needs to be accessible to everyone. It should be the first thing you consider.

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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 20h

Our community needs to do better.

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At the point in writing the conference paper of cutting it down to ten pages, every word carefully chosen and relevant to the thesis. This paper wants to be a book, but I can't let it. Yet.

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me, doing History, 16-18th centuries: I just love reading the handwriting. It is such a joy Then I venture past 1820: I really hate how people wrote in the past It sounds great to cross established lines of space and periodization but you do it and it feels like the laws of physics have changed

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Substack post by Ranke de Vries which not only shows that AI won't be taking over Medieval Irish Studies any time soon (thankfully), but also makes an eloquent case in favour of sitting with the difficulty of manuscript transcription. #MedievalSky rankedevries.substack.com/p/ai-and-med...

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AI and medieval Irish manuscripts

Just no.

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

With the separation being pushed between "education" and "training", a third space... Public libraries could serve this function, already do, on a shoestring budget but need a lot more support.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you missed this sale, and are OK with ebooks? This is ONE DOLLAR on Sweet Shop. Right now. Quite the discount from $15. sweetshop.app/publishers/i...

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Iron Circus Comics

Hi there, everybody! We're Iron Circus Comics! We were born in 2007, and we're the premiere publisher of award-winning, critically-acclaimed graphic novels in...

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy Rabbit Day, everybunny! 🐰 We're bringing you TIM'ROUS BEASTIE for 30% off! As the spookier season approaches us, the struggles and frights of the small and tiny will have you rooting for the little guys! 😱 store.ironcircus.com/products/tim...

Lovers of Redwall or Watership Down, or just thrillers with animal protags in general with LOVE Tim'rous Beastie! This isn't for kids but youngsters that do get their hands on this volume will shape their taste for scares! Tim'rous Beastie is 30% off today for Rabbit Day! https://store.ironcircus.com/products/timrous-beastie

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*clears throat* Apparently even some longtime followers don't know I have a newsletter, so. NEWSLETTER! buttondown.com/ada-hoffmann... Now with a whole bunch of more fiction recommendations that I just sent out today!

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Stories I Read In the Sun

Summer is a weird time, both in publishing and in academia. Structure dissolves. Everyone’s off traveling, either for personal reasons or for urgent work...

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Turquoise Magpie @turquoisemagpie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

A piece I did last year, fanart for a wonderful book by Becky Chambers called A Psalm For the Wild-Built. I highly recommended it, especially nowadays, for a little positive read in these gloomy times.

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's a great book. In a better world, among other things, "tea monk" is an accepted professional calling.

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Friends: looking for recs for a Canadian artist doing detailed-SF style covers (ACE era, full SF, painterly). Not my project. Passing along recs. I'm drawing mental blanks, but if anyone has any good options, please send my way.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This. Everywhere!

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

What I know from being Black my whole life, and poor for the majority of it, is that politely ignoring a root issue to attend to one closer to the surface is like robbing Peter to pay Paul. It’s a band-aid on a gaping wound, and it will not hold your flesh together for long. The US needs stitches.

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have been reading some of those Founders that US politicians like to reference. Their main concerns included: - is it constitutional? - is it what the People want? (They wrote the Constitution, and yeah I know, The People was a particular subset of a subset of the 7M humans living in the US.)

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Best part of being the public services manager for a small research library is having someone walk in with a research question and sitting them down at a computer and together finding some leads with quality sources of information. Some of them open access! 💖

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Rachel Weisz: I Am A Librarian (The Mummy)

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey folks: I don't have all that many west coast speaking engagements, but one is coming up in a few weeks! You can attend in person or online. Details below. chss.wwu.edu/political-sc...

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Munro Seminar for Civic Education: AMERICA 250: LESSONS AND LEGACIES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | | Western Washington University

Thursday, October 15Taking a Stand: The Force of Revolution5:00 p.m., Viking Union Multipurpose Room

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We can only be the academic mentor to grad students that we needed.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 20/09/2026

Even VGA adapters have gone woke now. When will the madness end?

A FB Marketplace listing for a VGA gender change adapter.

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What if we didn't have celebrity? Our species didn't for untold generations. People were known for things they had done or their role in society, sure. Just the importance of being famous for its own sake that is so important in business and politics. Gone.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Been to Rare Book School? Got experience with Alma? Might be worth a gander.

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

THE UNSPOKEN NAME by AK Larkwood. gorgeously written adventure fantasy of an orc sacrifice turned warrior fighting free of the terrible wizard mentor who saved her, takes Tombs of Atuan & blossoms open at Planeswalker scale. doomed by its Feb '20 release 😭 dead planets! fighter/mage f/f! butch mc!!

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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 17/09/2026

Break them. Any penalty that does not utterly shatter these companies, and the billionaires responsible for them, is not justice.

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The New York Times? They ripped off the New York Times? And a few other major news behemoths??

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John Wick: What Did He Say?

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Children of Owl is a contemporary work of Lipan Apache fiction - its structure and themes (particularly the characters) are deeply rooted in my culture and our present-day realities. I hope it finds its readers <3333

Cover of children of owl with the Kirkus quote “A magical story that both haunts and enchants”

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Approved by the Cajun. I am also the Disabled, the college educated, the mentally ill. Not all of them, just one to be clear 😎 Jokes aside, it's not easy being the one who must remind everyone to comply, when speaking for The Organization.

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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 16/09/2026

And those of us with college degrees but making less than $80k are... what? Not working. Not professional. Not middle. The liminal class?

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am going to be different (difficult?) and say the Chorus of Dragons series (that started with Ruin of Kings) by Jenn Lyons. It's that specific kind of speculative fiction story that treats the story as a text and there are footnotes and editorial notes and that kind of thing. LOTR is also this.

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Whatever weird, hurtful stuff you went through, it's yours. It's your stuff. Years later like the contents of a storage locker on I-75, it's still there where you left it and you're paying rent on it. Clean it out, feel what you need to, and see what you can sell. The keep pile is going to be small.

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today's history thought. You never know what documents created in the past actually had an effect on events. They remain good sources of information, from a certain point of view, but may have rotted in some higher up's desk drawer for years. Much like committee/working group reports today. Sigh.

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is a very interesting new resource, The Register of British Slave-Traders. 'The Register focusses on the individuals who sought to profit from the enslavement of over 3 million African men, women, and children, whose identity was – for the most part – erased from the historical record.' 🗃️

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The Register of British Slave-Traders

The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.

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J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Looking for something to read? This is my short story that came out this May. reactormag.com/this-is-not-...

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This Is Not My Timeline - Reactor

A queer couple escapes persecution by buying a home in an almost identical dimension.

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So.... D&D swarm keeper ranger with stray kittens? Anyone willing to play test that one?

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Cat Herding: Too Many Cats Wow

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just trying to enjoy her bucket in peace. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a shorthaired tabby cat sitting in a metal bucket, looking awkwardly at the camera. It seems to be in a bathroom and a towel with a monogram that reads “VHE”.

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Okay. It's time we all watched Old Yeller again. It's on Disney+ and everything. Rabies is bad, y'all, incurable, and can infect any mammal. That includes you. And your little dog, too.

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Best definition of "history" I heard is from a professor who proved right in many things: "History is the interaction between the past and the human mind."

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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Me, a recovering burned out gifted kid turned grad school burnout turned library manager just entertained af at what primary sources are being digitized these days.

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Star Trek TNG: Data Reading

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hahahaha. 💅💅💅

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Joyce Chng's essay - first published in April 2024, now leaping out of the vault - points to ways in which lady knights, while challenging stereotypes, nonetheless get cut down to expected feminine standards by male medieval poets. www.speculativeinsight.com/from-the-vault

Purple background, white text, which says In this essay, I will discuss various strategies by which the literary lady knight -and to some extent, Joan of Arc - was rendered harmless by being turned into a romantic figure ready to be rescued by the male hero... "Rendered Harmless: Strategies to Tame the Lady Knight" -- Joyce Chng

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Craig Lambert @medievalmariner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m recruiting a Research Fellow in Early Modern Spanish Maritime History to join our ERC-funded Uncharted Maritime Worlds project at the University of Southampton. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSW249/r...

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Research Fellow (Early Modern Spanish Maritime History) 3497426AR at University of Southampton

An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Early Modern Spanish Maritime History) 3497426AR is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openi...

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