Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜

I believe it's for this sweatshirt specifically via Bikini Kill's Bandcamp

Sony Orders 24 Episodes of ‘Reading Rainbow’ Reboot as Classic Kids Show Finds New Life Mychal Threets will return as the host, with 'Sesame Street' and Ms. Rachel veteran Kristen McGregor joining as showrunner.

Some good news for once.

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My friend Piper really needs help with her medical costs. She has advanced cancer and is trying to get some quality of life as her time runs out (yep we're there)

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:crumbles and turns to dust:

Vacancies — The Portico Library

📍 Manchester city centre
⏰ 17.5–21 hours per week (0.5–0.6 FTE)
💷 £32,000 pro rata
📄 10-month fixed-term contract
🗓 Application deadline: 5pm, Monday 13 April

Full details and candidate pack available here: www.theportico.org.uk/vacancies

This hands-on role will lead on research access, cataloguing, book display, and collections care at an exciting moment for the Library as we progress Portico Reunited, our £11m restoration project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund...

The Portico hiring poster

📚 We’re hiring

Passionate about connecting historic books and archives with communities, readers and researchers?...

How awesome is this!

For more reminders that this planet is a pretty nifty place, despite [waves hand] everything, keep an eye on @adapalmer.bsky.social’s #ShareGoodNewsToo hashtag.

Hello I would like to state for the record that I LOVE THE NACBS AND I LOVE THEIR BROADSIDES BLOG!!!!!

paging @klages.bsky.social

HAM CLOCK

A paperback front cover for Gwendolyn Brooks’s book, 𝘙𝘪𝘰𝘵. The background is black with the title in bold red capitals inside a rough-edged white circle. Below this circle is the author’s name, and at the bottom of the cover is white text reading “Broadside Press $1.00.” Image from Gwendolyn Brooks. 𝘙𝘪𝘰𝘵. 2nd printing. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970. RBS 9061. “Gwendolyn Brooks’s first book with Broadside Press was the chapbook 𝘙𝘪𝘰𝘵, which she wrote in response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Detroit’s Broadside Press [was] founded and managed by the poet Dudley Randall. According to him, Brooks donated the book to Broadside, and all proceeds went directly to the press. Priced at $1.00, the softbound format of the chapbook was much more affordable than a hard-cover book, and it was visually aligned with the Black Arts Movement and Chicago’s Southside community. The cover design was created by the Black artist Cledie Taylor, and the book includes a frontispiece reproduction of Jeff Donaldson’s painting, Allah Shango. A commanding photographic portrait of Brooks by Black photographer Roy Lewis graces the back of the chapbook.” Description above from Barbara Heritage and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘋𝘢𝘺 (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Legacy Press, 2022).

The back cover of Gwendolyn Brooks’s book, 𝘙𝘪𝘰𝘵. There is a large photo of the author, a Black woman with a short afro in a button-up shirt. Below this is a short book summary and publisher information. Image from Gwendolyn Brooks. 𝘙𝘪𝘰𝘵. 2nd printing. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970. RBS 9061. “Gwendolyn Brooks’s first book with Broadside Press was the chapbook 𝘙𝘪𝘰𝘵, which she wrote in response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Detroit’s Broadside Press [was] founded and managed by the poet Dudley Randall. According to him, Brooks donated the book to Broadside, and all proceeds went directly to the press. Priced at $1.00, the softbound format of the chapbook was much more affordable than a hard-cover book, and it was visually aligned with the Black Arts Movement and Chicago’s Southside community. The cover design was created by the Black artist Cledie Taylor, and the book includes a frontispiece reproduction of Jeff Donaldson’s painting, Allah Shango. A commanding photographic portrait of Brooks by Black photographer Roy Lewis graces the back of the chapbook.” Description above from Barbara Heritage and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘋𝘢𝘺 (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Legacy Press, 2022).

Frontispiece illustration from Gwendolyn Brooks’s book, 𝘙𝘪𝘰𝘵, showing the painting “Allah Shango” by Jeff Donaldson, in which two Black boys stand reaching out toward the viewer, with the words “GLASS” and “SHEET” scattered at points in the painting. Image from Gwendolyn Brooks. 𝘙𝘪𝘰𝘵. 2nd printing. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970. RBS 9061. “Gwendolyn Brooks’s first book with Broadside Press was the chapbook 𝘙𝘪𝘰𝘵, which she wrote in response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Detroit’s Broadside Press [was] founded and managed by the poet Dudley Randall. According to him, Brooks donated the book to Broadside, and all proceeds went directly to the press. Priced at $1.00, the softbound format of the chapbook was much more affordable than a hard-cover book, and it was visually aligned with the Black Arts Movement and Chicago’s Southside community. The cover design was created by the Black artist Cledie Taylor, and the book includes a frontispiece reproduction of Jeff Donaldson’s painting, Allah Shango. A commanding photographic portrait of Brooks by Black photographer Roy Lewis graces the back of the chapbook.” Description above from Barbara Heritage and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘋𝘢𝘺 (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Legacy Press, 2022).

Dedication for Gwendolyn Brooks’s book, 𝘙𝘪𝘰𝘵, reading, “For Dudley Randall, a giant in our time.” “Gwendolyn Brooks’s first book with Broadside Press was the chapbook 𝘙𝘪𝘰𝘵, which she wrote in response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Detroit’s Broadside Press [was] founded and managed by the poet Dudley Randall. According to him, Brooks donated the book to Broadside, and all proceeds went directly to the press. Priced at $1.00, the softbound format of the chapbook was much more affordable than a hard-cover book, and it was visually aligned with the Black Arts Movement and Chicago’s Southside community. The cover design was created by the Black artist Cledie Taylor, and the book includes a frontispiece reproduction of Jeff Donaldson’s painting, Allah Shango. A commanding photographic portrait of Brooks by Black photographer Roy Lewis graces the back of the chapbook.” Description above from Barbara Heritage and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘋𝘢𝘺 (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Legacy Press, 2022).

Gwendolyn Brooks. 𝘙𝘪𝘰𝘵. 2nd printing. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970. RBS 9061. Written in response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The chapbook will be on display at RBS later this year as part of Rare Book School’s upcoming exhibition, “Objects of Poetry.”

"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"

counterpoint!

the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

YOU GUYS!!! Hidden in this image is an intermediate technology--this is a STATIONARY SEMI-MECHANICAL haybind!! Its job was to compress the hay into a long, rectangular column. Note the women on either side hand-tying off bales, and one loading the hopper. These women were trail-blazers!

Worn #onthisday in 1968 in Bergdorf Goodman's "import show" in New York, NY. Nina Ricci's "heavily beaded white linen evening gown with red and green sequin flowers" was "the most expensive fashion" per the @nytimes.com; it "clinked and clanked as a model pranced through the salon in it." #OTD 📷MCNY

Black fluffy cat with big round eyes peeking from the bottom of a soft pink background, with the text: “Just wanted to wish you a gentle day.”

Another day, another experience of having to convince myself to grumpily drag my ass to a (today, conditioning) class at the aerials studio, only to feel better physically and mentally after having done it.

Stupid exercise working as we are told it will. :stomps foot:

(and probably a profanity-laden rant about how many people will be fucked over because thinking for oneself seems too haaaard to a soulless group of people who just want the fun parts of creativity but none of the work. Also, IT'S NOT MAGIC.)

The same overall NO, but with much more profanity. 😅

...pseudonymous and anonymous okay! My focus with this piece is people who are not cis men. Happy to answer any questions you may have and you can reach me at sesmith at realsesmith dot com.

Hello internet friends! I am working on a feature about the people making whistles and popup leftist supply depots and looking for people to talk to; sometimes casting a wide net yields people I haven't found yet! I am in touch with Bree and Courtney, but if YOU are a whistle logistician...

May it be the most decadent of all cakes that pleases you most <3 Happy happy !

This is true for any skill that is new to someone, really, but especially in the arts.

I have registered to attend my 30th college reunion.

:turns to dust:

(And those narrow use cases don’t involve theft to develop datasets)

It was very much “thanks so much for thinking of me, really, but, uh, I may not be the person you actually want for this project.”

Yesterday I ended up talking my way out of a grant consulting offer when I explained my stance on AI (which is, politely, NO for the vast majority of applications). I’m aware of some exceedingly narrow use cases where I could be convinced, but they generally predate the “AI is magic!” Marketing.

Also worth noting for the ‘everything is online’ crowd that the numbers of archives being destroyed means that an increasing proportion cannot ever be online.

Important terms for World Book Day

Abibliophobia: fear of running out of reading matter

Tsundoku 🇯🇵: letting books pile up without reading them

Librocubicularist: a person who reads in bed

Déjá-lu: you’re reading something you have already read

Bibliobibuli: someone who reads alot/drunk on books

Judging Books by Their Covers: Bookbinding! | Bite Sized Book History YouTube video by Book Historia

Did you know books have been bound in leather not just from cows, but from reindeer, seal, and even shark?🦈 Learn more about historic bookbindings in my new episode of Bite Sized Book History! youtu.be/3aUdEy0Edf4?...