Reposted by Lucretia BaskinSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026"Worth reading" 26412 0
Reposted by Lucretia BaskinSarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Jay’s acquisition threads are always delightful: why is this book interesting AND why did Boston Public Library buy it? Then a catalog link! 10/13 no notes 📜 0215 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Oh my gawd that job posting on that rare books list. Takes some kind of prize, for sure. 🫠 030 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Why is 10:30pm the best time, without fail, to clean out kitchen cabinets? 110 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Sometimes the thing is a real thing, but not in our collections. So a semi-hallucination? I had one recently that took me all of 30 seconds to locate the correct repository via google. 020 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Oh, yes — and broken up into a mess of short paragraphs? Sometimes they leave the prompts or the bot’s response in, too. 010 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Not sure about quantity for us (I only do a little stuff in the Ask queue), but it’s regular, and usually the language is pretty insistent that we have a thing. Sometimes we have to press for a citation when we can’t locate the item, & they send back a link that makes it clear the source is an LLM. 130 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is so important and the book world has been so slow and reluctant to do this work. 051 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Ethical considerations around provenance are an important part of my department’s stewardship & acquisitions process. We’re trying very hard to find peer institutions doing the same, without much luck. It’s disappointing, but we’re hopeful things will shift as more people are open about it. 130 0
Reposted by Lucretia BaskinSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Please enjoy this medieval bag of dicks. 713237 0
Reposted by Lucretia BaskinLucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Newly created digital copy available at Boston Public Library here: www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commo... BPL also welcomes the public to view this (or other editions, including the one pub’d by Henry Highland Garnet) in person at BPL Special Collections: www.bpl.org/special-coll...digitalcommonwealth.orgWalker's appeal : in four articles, together with a preamble to the colored citizens of the world : but in particular and very expressly to those of the United States of AmericaAn online library of photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and other materials of historical interest from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies across Massachusetts. 28132 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Newly created digital copy available at Boston Public Library here: www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commo... BPL also welcomes the public to view this (or other editions, including the one pub’d by Henry Highland Garnet) in person at BPL Special Collections: www.bpl.org/special-coll...digitalcommonwealth.orgWalker's appeal : in four articles, together with a preamble to the colored citizens of the world : but in particular and very expressly to those of the United States of AmericaAn online library of photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and other materials of historical interest from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies across Massachusetts. 28132 0
Reposted by Lucretia BaskinPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026David Walker published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in pamphlet form in 1829. It's one of the most important and influential abolitionist texts in U.S. history. Yet, very few people have actually read it and many people don't know who Walker was especially among young people. 14553209 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026@sarahbc.bsky.social Have you seen this kickstarter? It’s for sea urchin dye kits, as a way to help kelp forests. www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...kickstarter.comUrchin Dye KitThe world's first natural dye kit made from sea urchins delivered to your door. Respond to climate chaos by creating beautiful dye. 141 0
Reposted by Lucretia BaskinElizabeth Blasius @blaservations.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My monthly column in MAS Context returns on the ILZRO House, a 1973 experimental steel home in the woods of Rhode Island that holds within its design a watershed moment in universal design. Thanks, as always for reading!mascontext.comPreserving the Origins of Universal Design at the ILZRO HouseIn 1972 industrial designer and educator Marc Harrison, with the help of his students from the Rhode Island School of Design, created and built the ILZRO… 3289 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My parents paid for weeks for taking me along to see this. Especially because of the creepy tree shadows. “We thought it was a comedy!” they said. 🙄 010 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A tie: Poltergeist or the field turning blood-red in Watership Down. So many things in Poltergeist were absolutely terrifying to small me, & I refused to go upstairs or downstairs alone for weeks after seeing it. (And by “seeing it” I mean “fleeing & peeking back through the theater doors.”) 020 0
Reposted by Lucretia BaskinHoney & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s that time — meet the winners of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize! themillions.com/2026/09/meet...themillions.comMeet the Winners of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize - The MillionsIn 2017, Honey & Wax Booksellers established an annual prize for American women book collectors, aged 30 years and younger. Our goal, at the time, was to expand the popular perception of who book coll... 02415 0
Reposted by Lucretia BaskinMARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026nothing can go wrong if we tell the cataloger to teach a library instruction session for a comparative literature seminar on the Brothers Grimm, they said 011530 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Boston Lying-In Hospital” decorations. A stork and some weird Della Robbia-style bébés. The hospital I was born in also has a stork on it (though it’s not a maternity hospital). Such a weird, pervasive piece of mythology. 011 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Looking for lunch in one of Boston’s hospital-lands and came across this unsettling AI menu at a turkish-mexican döner kebab joint. The food is all very … orderly. 160 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There used to be one at the Holyoke mall! (At least I think it’s gone?)? 000 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Mother nature says “lol.” (Quite a day to be on the Cape!) 000 0
Reposted by Lucretia BaskinSB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"The Initiative to Beautify the AI-capable Surveillance Benevolently Installed by our Administrator Overseers and the MIT Corporation In Collaboration with Big Brother Tech Companies. For a handy acronym, you can refer to our project as the IBAISBIAOMITCORPICBBTC initiative." 131 0
Reposted by Lucretia Baskinthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQyoutu.bePressure DropYouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic 211061361 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ooooh, I was going to ask if this is the coast train, but you’re going *to* California, not within it. That coast train is gorgeous, btw - I did SF to Santa Barbara years ago, and it was memorable. 100 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026French toast alert system is on green, but the itty bitty trader joe’s near the Hynes has a staffer at the door limiting entry and the line snakes alllllll the way around the store.universalhub.comFrench Toast Alert System 051 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Another candidate for the “cursed library elevators” list… 011 0
Reposted by Lucretia BaskinPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It would be so good if people organizing these events would talk with attendees about the need for them to attend school and library board meetings AND IMPORTANTLY for people to seek appointment or election to both these boards. Power-building and governance matter. 14816 0
Reposted by Lucretia BaskinNelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 16/09/2026It's that time of year! Starting October 1, if you are a rare bookseller, collector, or scholar age 35 years or under, and not yet a member of the Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social, let me know and I’ll comp your 1st year membership dues!!! 044 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Absolutely! For a business built on reputation, they sure do try to hide theirs. 011 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Batshit job listing, in the grand tradition of NYFA’s job board. I love the repeated use of “family office” as an attempt at an insider signal, or something. Also, I’ve basically done this job. The differences here are a matter of degree, not kind. 😒🙄 030 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I love how all these supposed high-powered art advisory firms/private dealers won’t even share their company name. I remember seeing anonymous NYFA job board postings 20+ years ago that were maybe slightly less bonkers than this, but not by much. 110 0
Reposted by Lucretia BaskinCarolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"It’s all ironic and absurd: A museum with Star Wars stuff looks like the worst ship out of the Star Trek canon." My architecture review of the Lucas — with gift link! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.comHow the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Lost the PlotWith little in the way of organization or themes, George Lucas’s new museum of graphic illustration in Los Angeles leaves it to the public to decide what it all means. 6357 0
Reposted by Lucretia BaskinPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026My comrade Isaac Silver, the archivist and educator behind @buttonsoftheleft is in town on 9/15 to discuss how to save, study, and learn from historic labor material in the current political moment. This event is in-person and free and open to all! RSVP: slucuny.swoogo.com/15september2026slucuny.swoogo.comProgram 0257 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“Anxious spreadsheets × Chaos gremlin” is one of the best romance trope names I’ve ever heard. 001 0
Reposted by Lucretia BaskinTechdirt @techdirt.com · 03/09/2026Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year. From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online... www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers…techdirt.comHackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a... 5196124 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Punctured, and slightly wayward (it’s been sitting somewhere in Boston for a couple of days), but it finally got here! 010 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Package has a puncture wound, but thanks to @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social careful packing, the contents are unharmed. 170 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026MA continues to have ridiculous numbers of uncontested incumbents. I still can’t get over the uniformed cops working the poll checkouts in this city. And these stickers are a missed opportunity for fun. 020 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Perhaps a rock tumbler? It all jostles around and eventually pops out kinda shiny and a little bit smoothed out? 😅 120 0
Reposted by Lucretia BaskinStarshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Registration for WORD, a new Chicago-style wayzgoose for printers, opens Tuesday Sept 1st at noon. Wayzgooseord.com is the site if you want to check out details. 2348 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Writing’s a brain process as much as a physical process for me, so doing the latter definitely still counts as writing. :) 110 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I don’t want to be a creep and like your entire thread, so sending this instead. My dad went to the New School on the GI bill after WWII, and then ended up teaching at Hampshire (much later). One of my niblings is a hamster; so is their mom and their partner. Thank you for these posts. 020 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The terrible metadata with online shopping was beyond frustrating. So I went to *3* hardware stores before finally giving up and buying what they had there. Mmm, mercury. 010 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Also, I deserve a prize for managing to get all the 50+ year old plastic light fixture covers back in place without breaking them. 030 0
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Maybe I should have just asked my landlord and made it his problem, I dunno 010 0
![A metal allow badge showing a textile purse with three penises inside it, the shafts peeking up above the bag's opening. The caption reads, "urse with three phalli, lead-tin, 30 ×
30 mm, c. 1375–1425. Found in Middelburg,
Netherlands. Collection Van Beuningen, Cothen
[HP2, no. 1768]. The Middelburg find is
comparable with the erotic badge recovered from
the Thames foreshore at Custom House Quay."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ofzkhjyyh4kl4a35wxgmobmm/bafkreifcqocntjbv43twkpsk2wqbfgkqsuoirxww2grilfciedicgxoz7a)