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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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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Oh yeah Kater Craft has some wild stuff. I didn’t know about Moby’s Dick! I used to say our human skin book test is only sensitive enough to identify great apes but I’d never come across a book bound in another great ape. Then after publication I saw a monkey fur Origin of the Species at Kater Craft

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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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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Thanks that is definitely what I was going for

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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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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

This logo is rendered on this button in the style of popular 80s school supply company Lisa Frank, who also prominently featured dolphins but probably fewer anchors.

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Aldus refers to Aldus Manutius who started The Aldine Press in Venice in 1494, printed of some of the most treasured examples of incunabula (early printed books). The logo for the Aldine Press is a dolphin & an anchor.

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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

Was definitely the first book I’d read that played with the shape of text and it really blew my teenage mind

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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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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I went through a reading slump in high school and Welsh got me out of it. I ripped through all of his books then in quick succession and MARABOU STORK NIGHTMARES was my favorite. I don’t know how I’d feel about that as a grownup but I like remembering how it excited me as a teen.

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

That would be amazing. :: siren noises ::

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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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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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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

Dark but I respect it. I prefer the intelligence test version because you fail by setting yourself up to get hit in the face

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Some people? I thought that was the entire goal.

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

So I pivoted to the LOVE statue. Did I mention literally no one asked for this? Consider this my audition tape for #nailedit.

An exceedingly wonky green cake with an attempted approximation of the LOVE statue in white Airheads

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Then I tried to make the icing, added only half of the confectioners sugar called for & it’s unbearably sweet. I got some white airheads & letter cookie cutters to spell ELGSES on top of the cake. I open them & the letters are like three times the size I wanted, which I’m sure is my fault, but damn.

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Well I messed up every single stage of this cake somehow and I’m usually pretty decent at baking. I used a box mix which I never do & put too much in the pan I guess. It overflowed, so I cut the top off and it looks like 90% cooked but the middle is suspect. I should have quit there, but no.

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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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