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Megan Rosenbloom

@libraryatnight.bsky.social
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Librarian & Author of DARK ARCHIVES: A LIBRARIAN’S INVESTIGATION INTO THE SCIENCE & HISTORY OF BOOKS BOUND IN HUMAN SKIN Picador / FSG, literary rep Neon

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/12/2025
Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ archive.org/details/sier...
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Sweaty Cyborg @sweatycyborg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
About that time of year where I hang out with my boys.
The Riverbottom Nightmare Gang. A gang of puppet toughs. There’s a lizard, a snake, a weasel, and their leader, Chuck the bear, the coolest Muppet of all time. He wears a denim vest over a red shirt, mirror shades, and a white hat. They probably all carry blades.
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Day four of my bookish December gift guide… Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by @libraryatnight.bsky.social Essential for death-positive weirdos, and readers possessing morbid curiosities!
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Kristen On The LAMs @vitalibrorum.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Finally got around to reading Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom! @libraryatnight.bsky.social As a fellow death-positive LAMs professional, I thoroughly enjoyed her thoughtful & occasionally witty work on the otherwise macabre subject of anthropodermic bibliopegy.
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thanks for reading!
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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🧵Some #librarylove for the present moment 📖🖤📚
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I saw a writer I like refer to April 1 as DAY OF LIES and I’m about as fond of that name as I hate the day itself. So Happy Eve of Lies, I will be staying off the Internet as much as possible tomorrow.
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 25/03/2025
Hey union families and teachers—you are going to want to mark your calendars for May 10th, when @kimkelly.bsky.social is here to talk about their brand new book on labor history for young readers! withfriends.co/event/230691...
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 23/03/2025
is there such a crying need for reams and reams and reams of additional writing in the world that we need to ask computers to pitch in
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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
lmao getting fact checked irl
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
At today’s reopening of the Altadena library, Levar Burton read us a story & every adult cried & healed a little bit. Blair Imani (!) painted 8yo’s face, helping her live her feline dreams! What a morning for library love, especially with so many of us librarians under attack these days. 🥰🌈📚
Levar Burton reading a book with trees in the background Blair Imani paints the face of a girl wearing cat ears A young smiling girl who is wearing cat ears and has her face painted as a cat
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Season finale of Severance was so good I’m doubling down on the corporate isolation by listening to early 2000s Radiohead.
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
For my book people: the sliver of the nerd population who would appreciate the joke of this button made at my library is so narrow and I’m right in the middle of it. Drop an emoji if you knew both references without me explaining, which I’ll do in the comments. 📖 🐬
Picture of a button with a brightly colored dolphin wrapped around an anchor and the word “Aldus” all in a Lisa Frank style
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Wow LONGLEGS is the scariest movie I’ve seen in a long time, maybe ever? Nicholas Cage is unforgettable. ::shudders::
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
In honor of Gorey’s 100th birthday, here is my giant orange cat I named after him.
A massive orange cat lounging on a fur blanket
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Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"The law is king." Thomas Paine #CommonSense #UpholdAndDefendTheConstitution
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Anyone ever read Irvine Welsh’s MARABOU STORK NIGHTMARES? I’d be like put me back in
Screenshot of a tweet by @JoeHolder_ that reads “OH BOY is she in for some surprises” reacting to an image from ABC News that reads “Woman wakes up after nearly 5 years in a coma”
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I have been hearing so many bone chilling stories from librarians across the country at conferences last year and I know it’s going to get so much worse.
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
So excited for this one, go go @malloryomeara.bsky.social !
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Sign at Tesla dealership in #SanFrancisco reads, "We Hate Him Too."
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
If you’re a writer who wants to publish in traditional outlets I cannot recommend @annasplat.bsky.social’s newsletter enough. Yes, she’s my agent, AND her industry knowledge was a huge driving force behind why Dark Archives got published & did so well. I learn new things with every post. #booksky
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Julia O’Connell @juliajoyce.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
New blog post! Check out my review of DARK ARCHIVES, a study of the practice of binding books in human skin by one of the world’s foremost experts, @libraryatnight.bsky.social #BookSky www.thegothiclibrary.com/review-of-da...
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Review of Dark Archives—Macabre Nonfiction - The Gothic Library
Books bound in human skin—it’s a gruesome image and one most often tied to legends of occult treatises or murderous keepsakes. But are all of the macabre legends out there really true? How can you tel...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
It’s terrifying, honestly, when I realize how dependent we are on Amazon and how hard it is going to be to disconnect from it. But this is one piece of the effort — another better approach to E-books. Because admit it. You think Jeff Bezos won’t disappear disfavored e-books if Trump demands it?
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/02/2025
Or as my Bajan mom likes to say “wrong and strong about it”’
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Storytime: I plan to go to a low key Super Bowl party, because even though I don’t care about football, I’m still from Delco / Philly so #gobirds. Anyway I got this vision in my head that I’d do a more modest riff off of an ELGSES cake I saw, referencing the Philly mayor’s recent spelling gaff meme.
An attractive dark green cake with “ELGSES” on it in white lettering, a reference to the Philly mayor’s recent misspelling of EAGLES during the team’s chant
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
We do the coolest stuff at UCLA Library and the Modern Endangered Archives Program is chief among them
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Having a typical morning here. 8yo: “Mom did you know if your hand is bigger than your face it’s a sign of intelligence?” Me: “Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch, I was there when it was written.”
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
If you wish to dissociate, and who doesn’t, I highly recommend this world to visit. What a fantastic book Susanna Clarke’s PIRANESI is.
The book cover of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Reading Colin Meloy’s UNDER WILDWOOD at bedtime, 8yo: “iPod? You mean iPad?” Me, heaving a sigh: “iPod came before, it was like a phone holding music. Here I’ll image search it.” 8yo takes one look & cracks up: “Oh my god what even is that, it looks so babyish! It looks like an alien remote.”
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane…”
Jaden Smith at the 2025 Grammys wearing a black house as a hat
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Observation watching Grammys red carpet: you can tell America is in trouble because a lot of these celebrities have done horrible things to their bangs. Ladies no
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Baby’s First Grammys 🥹 (That’s my husband, he’s baby. And has a job that is sending him.)
A man in a suit at a front door of a house. He’s holding one of those chalkboards kids hold on the first day of school that reads: “First Day of: The Grammys, My name is: Etan, My School is: Rock, I am in: a suit, I am 42, I’m excited to learn about: best metal performance of the year”
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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This is the way forward, all around the globe. A resounding, vociferous resistance to hate, bigotry, and depravity, in the ongoing fight of good vs. evil, democracy vs. autocracy. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️
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Nate Patrin 🎧 @natepatrin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
funny how the most popular takeaway from this is "oh no, I'm old" and not "yeah, this music's timeless"
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
people are losing their right to exist but at least groceries are more expensive
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
AI investors are probably really mad they didn’t put their money in eggs
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Today’s convalescence bed reading rabbithole: remember those vibey orange and yellow flower paper cups that you used to see everywhere from the 70s to the 90s? Inspired by: seeing Scully drinking from one in a meme. www.retroist.com/p/orange-and...
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Orange and Yellow Flowers Paper Cups
In 1975, a paper cup design, “Orange and Yellow Flowers,” was unleashed upon the world. While not as well-remembered as the trendy “Jazz” design, it would be a staple in homes and restaurants.
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
www.ala.org/news/2025/01... 📚
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ALA to U. S. Department of Education: Book bans are real
The American Library Association responds to the Department of Education's dismissal of complaints about censorship and discrimination: the "effort to terminate protections... advances the demonstrabl...
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
1/ Angelenos right now: oh thank goodness it’s going to rain. I can’t wait for it to rain. But not too much, or there’ll be landslides.
A screenshot of the iPhone Weather app showing rain in the forecast for Altadena this weekend and also next
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I stand at the ready
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 25/01/2025
when you say red states deserve this what you mean is liberation is conditional based on where their house is
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Jennifer L. Pozner @jennpozner.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
For more actionable tips than I could fit in this 101 post below, here's a more robust conversation I had about how to stop disinformation. Jumping off a lengthy 🧵 I wrote after the shooting at Trump's July rally, @samhita.bsky.social interviewed me for @themeteor.bsky.social (out Q&A's @ the end):
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Three Questions About Disinformation
In moments of political violence rumor, propaganda, bots, and bad actors always pop up right away, flooding the zone with disinformation.
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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Good we libraries shouldn’t embrace it, it sucks, is detrimental to the environment and information literacy.
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Paul Scheer @paulscheer.com · 25/01/2025
LA is losing film & TV production to other markets, and now, after the fires, our city is hurting even more. People can’t afford to live here without work. We need lawmakers & studios to act now—bring production back to LA. Sign & share: STAYinLA.org #STAYinLA
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#StayinLA
Help Rebuild LA’s Production Industry The Palisades and Eaton Fires have deepened the crisis for LA’s film/TV workers, small businesses, and families. We need emergency incentives to bring production ...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
a nazi speaking at a nazi rally. it’s really not deeper than that.
Elon Musk tells an AfD rally in Germany: "I think there is too much focus on past guilt (in Germany), and we need to move beyond that.
Children should not feel guilty for the sins of their parents - their great grandparents even"
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
What if we made my radical labor history book for young readers age 10-14 a bestseller, and got the stories of Black socialists and trailblazing trans autoworkers and Indigenous labor organizers in front of the kids who need them? #booksky www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fight-...
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Fight to Win!
The revelatory history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly, now adapted for young ...
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