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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Ziggurat. The most ridiculous government building ever. I love it sm. 🏺

The Ziggurat building in Sacramento, California. It’s a large stepped tan office building with horizontal bands of windows. It glows in low evening sunlight beneath a blue sky, with trees, landscaping, and a circular drive in the foreground.

Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ll try anything to become California’s resident Bakersfieldologist. But I’m so pleased to appear in NiCHE with my musings on the lower Kern River! So glad I found NiCHE— some fantastic and wide-ranging articles about environmental heritage (for free! what a steal!)

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today in wannabe-archaeologist-who-works-in-a-huge-special-library news: I found a cache of archaeological quartos (big books, folded that way since forever). Mid-1800s through the 1950s, lots of regions, Mediterranean well represented, and a deeply distracting thing to have near my office. 🏺

Two shelves of old archaeology books in a library stack. Above: leather volumes of Herculaneum et Pompei with gilt spines, then cloth-bound twentieth-century titles including Blake’s Roman Construction in Italy, a blue Gell’s Pompeii, and Glimpses of Roman Culture, most hand-lettered Q913.37. A shelf label reads FIVE SHELVING OPENINGS MAXIMUM THIS SECTION. Below: three tall gilt-tooled Denkmäler des Klassischen Altertums with fraying covers, Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos, and Dinsmoor’s The Archons of Athens.

Close-up of a shelf of Egypt Exploration Fund volumes. Three tan cloth-bound spines dominate, reading EGYPT EXPLORATION FUND, ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS, dated 1896–1901, 1901–1906, and 1906 onward. The third has an orange leather label with worn gilt lettering and a frayed head. All are stamped q913.32 E3r near the base. Flanking them are a grey Graeco-Roman Memoirs volume, a blue-grey Egypt Exploration Fund special report, and two red cloth bindings.

Looking down into an open portfolio case on a library cart. Inside is a large facsimile plate of the Códice en Cruz, a Nahua annals manuscript laid out as a cross: ruled year bands running horizontally and vertically, each cell marked with dot-numerals and small glyphs of people, plants, temples, and bundles. Printed below in spaced capitals: CODICE EN CRUZ, with LAMINA I at left and 1402–1453 at right. An orange cord tie hangs from the case. The photographer’s shoes are visible at the bottom.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I will also say this. There is a real, authentic cohort of poor and working class people in higher education. They can speak to the complexities of being in and not of a class position without making broad, provocative generalizations. One day, someone should publish those people.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 21/04/2026

Library workers are a special kind of civil servant. Our mandate is to give you and everyone else free access to some of the best things you can have: learning, self-enrichment, community, contemplation, fun, and simple peace and quiet. the best way to appreciate us is to come use us. 🙂 📚

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Ice cream cake is bad. It combines sub optimal ice cream with mediocre cake that’s been chilled. Just eat good cake with a side of good ice cream.

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

At night we dance 🥺

A podcaster is saying "There's this beautiful quote from Dan Savage that I think about all the time. He said "During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it as the dance that kept us in the fight, because it was the dance we were fighting for."

The podcaster continues "I think a lot of us are missing the dance right now. A lot of us are stuck in the grief, both because we don't have a society that really makes space for grief, and because the dance really can't exist online. Be we need the dance."

The podcaster continues- "It's not wrong to give yourself a break. It's not wrong to reset your brain. It's not wrong to find joy. It's imperative." It is part of the work to heal the world."

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

My team worked incredibly hard on this, and it’s one of the most unique collections I’ve ever come across. We’ve been approached by so many publishers who wanted to digitize and then paywall this collection. But that’s not the way we do business at the State Library.

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I was doing a joke “hot for teacher/sexy librarian” gag by taking down my bun and shaking loose my hair and I pulled a muscle in my neck.

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Greggo 🏳️‍🌈 @greggo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

My response to anything over the next two weeks

A grey and red transit bus on the road in a city. The bus’ destination sign reads “NO? ?? ???????”

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? *mine is lower on a lot of “best of”lists but it was in heavy rotation in my discman

Album cover pictured featuring three Caucasian males in business casual type attire in the center of the shot, appearing to be in a doorway. Their details are stylistically blurred to being almost outlines without distinguishable features. The background is a pinky off white with a warm heavenly glow. The text on the front reads: “everclear so much for the afterglow”. The year is 1997.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

"we are all, how you say, trying to find l'homme who did this"

the very dapper man from today's photo from the Louvre heist

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

New tablet main character just dropped à la Ea Nassir: Lamassi’s Useless Husband. #archaeology 🏺

A cuneiform tablet, from around 4000 years ago, inscribed by an Assyrian woman named Lamassi, responding to her useless husband after her criticized her weaving by saying that he didn’t love the fabric she used. She responded in this tablet by saying “who is this man who lives in your house and who is criticizing the textiles when they get to him”. I feel like he got off easy.

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Zac Lindsey @arkeogato.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Have you heard of the magician who supposedly built this pyramid at Uxmal? 🏺 #yucatan #archaeology #mythsandlegends

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Aww, when I was cleaning my office I found a gift from @alexvassar.bsky.social - a copy of the CA Public Records Act autographed by Assemblyman Bill Bagley. A gloriously niche present for a Gov Publications librarian.

Text of the 1968 California Public Records Act, autographed by one of its authors, Assemblyman Bill Bagley of Marin.

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Travis comma bitch @prof-hinkley.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

my superpower is using every tool in the kitchen to make a recipe with "one-pot" in the title

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Etruscan vie cave near Pitigliano: carved procession roads cut deep into volcanic rock. Sacred, mysterious, dramatic as hell. I love them. Back in the day I’d 100% be that girl doing parkour down the path and some dude named Larth would be like, “come on, knock it off already” #archaeology 🏺

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Gustaffo Vargas @gustaffovargas.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Ayayayayyayyyyyyy!!!! 😱😱🤖 ALTIPLANO, the complete Peruvian Cyberpunk Graphic Novel is coming to Kickstarter soon!!! Please follow this link to be notified when it launches!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gus... 🔥 Please share away!!! Wiiiiiiii 🐯😁🤖🤖 #PeruvianCyberpunk #graphicnovel

Cover of ALTIPLANO, a Peruvian Cyberpunk Graphic Novel, coming soon to Kickstarter. Jaguar cyborg and two characters in the middle. Cyborg Warriors, tanks, and robots, cyborg monkeys and secondary characters in the background.

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Etruscan #TombTuesday (Necropolis of San Germano) on the grounds of a winery (Rocca di Frassinello). My favorite kind of two-for-one special! #archaeology #toscana 🏺

Rows of grapevines stretch across golden-brown hills at Rocca di Frassinello in Maremma, Tuscany. The vineyard lies under a wide blue sky, with scattered olive trees and wooded hills rising in the distance.

Bronze vessel with tall, curved handles ending in stylized human hands, displayed in a glass case at the Rocca di Frassinello Etruscan Museum. The bowl rests on a pedestal base, surrounded by smaller blackware cups.

A dramatic, amphitheater-style wine barrel room at Rocca di Frassinello, with rows of oak barrels stacked in symmetrical tiers under soft lighting.

Instructional panel showing both an aerial photograph and detailed plan of Tomb 9 at the Etruscan Necropolis of San Germano, including a numbered list describing funerary artifacts like bronze razors, alabaster urns, bucchero oil flasks, and decorative appliqués such as crouching lions.

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Nearly all people in public service are smart, ethical & hardworking, & nearly all bureaucratic rules at least originated for good reasons.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

god sends the scaldiest pizza cheese to his tenderest mouth rooves

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

how do you say “diva down” in Latin

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I cannot believe my life lasted long enough for computers to stop being fun.

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

My youngest is auditioning for Willy Wonka and practicing “The Candy Man.” Him: Do you think I should leave the finger guns in? Me: Absolutely not, please don’t. My husband: Oh. I was gonna say yes… I liked them. Maybe just one?

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Welcome, teens coming here from tiktok. I think you’ll find that through the magic of the written word I am able to craft sentences that are as vivid and compelling as any short-form video!

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Jenna 🐻🍫 @jennegatron.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

They never should have added the Vanilla Frosty at Wendy's. It was a sign of the beginning of the end.

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

0% of the time, it works every time

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micchiato 🎋 @micchiato.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Now this, this is looting. Ain’t nobody gonna be arrested for it either.

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I feel like *I’m good at State Library merch. *Which includes hiring talented artists and having no shame being like: “I feel like this golden trout illustration needs a cowboy hat, right?”

A picture of “merch” from the California State Library. Picture is a side view of a teal holographic pencil with the text: California State Library Getting Shh! Done Since 1850

More merch from the state library. In the front of the picture are three state symbol stickers, illustrations by Megan Porch. To the left is a golden trout wearing a cowboy hat. To the right is a grizzly bear rearing a book to three quails (including one on top of their head). Above that is a sticker featuring a pallid bat in an opened book with golden poppies behind them.

Poster of an original block print by Patricia Wakida. Featuring the text “California State Library”. In the left center of the print is the front facade of the Historic Library and Courts building in Sacramento that houses some sections of the State Library. The building is set in a field of oak trees and has an artistic frame with poppies. There is also a California grizzly bear, eating grapes in the bottom right corner of the print, which represents a very unique depiction of the state animal available for viewing only in the historic library building.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 07/01/2025

it’s a scurrilous lie that i read books all day! the truth is that i make spreadsheets all day

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

If you see this post, post a pic from your device without explanation.

Picture of a rock that’s also a relic located in Galatina, Italy (Puglia). The rock is located in a circular niche with protective grates in Chirch of Saints Peter and Paul The Apostles. Why is it a relic you ask? Because apparently St. Peter once laid his blessed dump truck upon it on his way to someplace else officially making it: Saint Peter’s Butt Rock.

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I bet my calculator app wrapped would be pretty shameful.

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025?

Meme image featuring the former Governor of California shirtless portraying the actor Arnold Schwarzenegger portraying Conan the Barbarian gripping a sword. The humorous ish text reads: Live (to crush your enemies), Laugh (as they are driven before you), Love (the lamentations of their women). Interestingly enough this was also his Republican political platform as the Governor of California.

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 24/12/2024

Ever try to cut a straight line and wonder how you've made it this far

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The Great American Music Hall is already so pretty but all gussied up for Hipmas it’s gorgeous. Anyway, enjoy this song about late stage capitalism.

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

No cheating. Your last saved pic of a celebrity is your therapist. If we’re not cheating my new therapist is this haunted Vanilla Ice Doll. Honestly it might be an upgrade as my last therapist ended up using our sessions to ask me for help with their grant applications.

Picture of vintage doll of American rapper Vanilla Ice, in box. Box is displayed as part of an exhibit entitled “Is this Vanilla Ice Doll Haunted by an Evil Entity?” at The Freaky But True Peculiarium and Museum in Portland, Oregon.

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Love this thread! Not Catholic but I also love ye olde "Saint Nick" lore- a trust fund kid who gave away his fortune to help people escape dire situations caused by poverty. The "magic gift appears" angle was a way to save face and preserve dignity.

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Tag yourself I’m: “downhill from there”, “ADHD” and “Earnestness”

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