Steven Van Impe

Thijs Porck showing fragments on a slide in an old library.

Sunday in the library: lecture by prof. Thijs Porck on fragments of an 11th century Bible glossed in Old English.

An oak that looks very angry

NEVER EVER ANNOY AN ENGLISH OAK 😬🫣

OUT: Thinking outside the box
IN: Calling a carrot a carrot

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

It’s over, y’all. We have a winner.

Seen; listened; respectfully raising Heksen-Sabbath (deel 1 & 2) by Boudewijn de Groot. It will be the best 25:14 of your life (even better if you have Dutch).

Detail of a print of 18th-century ball; a woman in the foreground wears a red dress and absolutely necks a large glass of wine

We've all been there

Oxford Handbook to the End of Academia

"Plots herkende ik het handschrift": professor Koenraad Van Cleempoel (UHasselt) ontdekt bij toeval verloren gewaand manuscript van Mercator in klooster in Spanje | VRT NWS: nieuws In Spanje is een verloren gewaand manuscript uit de 16e eeuw gevonden van Gerardus Mercator, de Vlaamse cartograaf en humanist die de moderne wereldkaartprojectie ontwierp. Het was professor Koenraad ...

vrtnws.be/p.mRayweMO7

Major autograph manuscript by great cartographer Gerard Mercator rediscovered by Belgian professor in the Escorial (near Madrid)

Screenshot of a report on the BBC News website (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0y07959djo) original headline reads: Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance I have scrubbed out the word Trans The headline is above an image of a sign for toilets from Getty images The BBC staff are: Alison Holt Social affairs editor @AlisonHoltBBC Ewan Somerville Kate Whannel Political reporter

Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.

4 photos of Kate Bush in a lacy bat costume in various poses.

You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.

"Are you a librarian?" the lady at the thrift store asked. When I said yes, she gave me a fist bump saying, "Keep up the hard work protecting books."

In Tesco’s this afternoon: an elderly Polish man at the self-checkout, trying to buy a pint of milk and a white radish. There is no picture for the radish on the machine. The assistant doesn’t know what it is. She asks a colleague: “It’s a white radish.” There is no entry for it on the machine.

PLEASE, retail workers

from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round

(factcheck: true)

the public space stuff this time of year is a lot

(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)

PLEASE DO THIS

it is a kindness

the multi-year lack of a truly functional manuscripts catalog at the BL is finally over!!!!

Why isn't the Versailles Hall of Mirrors called a Reflectory?

Having been in two tram crashes (as a passenger on the tram) I can tell you every tram is like an armoured tank. The cars looked horrible.

Despite being about a Polish gentleman, this remains somehow a Very British Story.

Adders en hazelwormen?

A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

Photo of my book Fan Fiction and Early Christian Writings

Very much looking forward to the book review panel of my book at 4pm today! It’s S22-336 if anyone’s interested. With superstars @drmjcwarren.bsky.social @brownsmith.bsky.social and Acacia Chan. #aarsbl25 #sblaar25

If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.

www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

Of course it's a bass 🤪

beelzeclub

Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title.

Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.

An Italian politician is so angry about 'carbonara sauce' being sold in a Brussels supermarket that his remarks sparked a small diplomatic incident. As an Italian Belgian I'd like to reclaim wafels, chocolate, beer and fries. All of which are shite abroad yet sold all over the globe as 🇧🇪

Doesn't work from Belgium ...

Wauw 😍

Wizened Millennials sneering at Gen Alpha: I told you the old ways are best

(Gen X, petting its moldering set of the 1983 World Book Encyclopedia: Soon. Soon.)