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YouTube video by Defunctland The Handwich: Disney's Failed Sandwich of the Future

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Accessible Comics??? Comics are a unique and visually rich way to communicate. Can they be made accessible?

A good resource on alttext for accessible comics (for those who don’t know, I’ve been part of a project on making comics accessible the past 5 years, and my collaborator @emilybeitiks.bsky.social just shared w/me to add to our resource page) lastcallmedia.com/blog/accessi...

Flowers on campus.

Did you miss @chrisvvarren.bsky.social's Malkin Lecture on computational bibliography last week, or just want to watch it again? You can now view it, along with other recordings of our 2025 Summer Lecture Series, on the RBS YouTube channel.

Ditto. I'm not saying hundreds of dollars, but a few books that won't be outdated in 5 years (like all my Econ text books).

Looks like parchment binding r maybe alum tawed calf?

“He deals the cards to find the answer.”

Every time I leave New England I wonder if it’ll be for the last time.

Quick jaunt to the hometown means I get real Jewish deli. Cheers, Rein’s.

Cream colored golden retriever lying on a blue bed spread with her head on her paws.

Can’t wait to see the pup tomorrow.

"Take a flight back to the city I was born in."

Attending a wedding alone is a strange experience.

yes!!!

Fore edge painting!

Twilight Talks: John Keats Encounters the Shakespeare Folio Keats meets Shakespeare: discover how the young poet inscribed his own verse into a facsimile of the 1623 folio between two great plays.

The hottest ticket in Durham this September? Probably not this, but I'm still excited to be giving a talk on Keats's copy of Shakespeare at the Palace Green Library, inspired by the current exhibit of Durham's First Folio📖 @ksaacomm.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/twilight-t...

I can't wait to read this!

Lovely bindings at Rare Book School.

Thank you, Virginia humidity, for bringing out the ethnic side of my hair.

The Kilmarnock Burns and Book History - The Bottle Imp Allan Young and I have just published the first-ever attempt to track down all surviving copies of Burns’s first book, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Kilmarnock: Wilson, 1786), the Kilmarnock...

Robert Burns’s POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT was published #OTD, 31 July 1786.

Copies are 3 times rarer than the Shakespeare First Folio: Patrick Scott & Allan Young are tracking the histories of surviving Kilmarnock Editions
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#BookHistory #C18th
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/kilm...

Dude, the history behind the word dude is wild The word "dude" is often associated with the '80s and '90s. But its origin is rooted much, much farther back in American history and it took a long and winding road to reach the coast of California.

The Dude abides.

Strangely, this episode of the Disney family has not been memorialized at any of the parks.

Live updates: Jury finds James Craig guilty of murder and other charges in trial for his wife’s murder | CNN The jury has found James Craig guilty of murder and other charges in the killing his wife in 2023 by poisoning her protein shakes. Follow for live updates.

I don’t know why, but I suspect this might interest the “Mcteague” Bluesky community.

You should! It’s a blast.
Wonderful people. Great programs.

Somewhat obsessed with English “sombre bindings”.

RBS bookbinding shenanigans.

@rarebookschool.bsky.social

That's a great line. (sigh)

It’s 5am on a Saturday in July, so we must be in the airport in our way to @rarebookschool.bsky.social