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Steven Van Impe

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Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.

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Disney’s ‘Robin Hood’ Live-Action Remake Not Moving Forward, Says Director "It's dead, sadly," Carlos López Estrada revealed about the project that was first announced in 2020.

thank fuck for some small bits of good news

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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You're more absolutely buckwild than a USB going in correctly on the first attempt

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Submit yourself to The Evil One!

I mean, submit your abstracts to @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social !

07.03.2026 20:17 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Book of My Enemy has been Remaindered Home >> Poetry >> Poetry Collections >> Other Passports >>Recent Verse>>The Book of My Enemy has been Remaindered

everyone who longs to write and be read needs to read Clive James' The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered:

www.clivejames.com/the-book-of-...

07.03.2026 16:07 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

“One of the great weaknesses of our era is we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort, more like caregiving than it is like war.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

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Modemuseum?

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I also have a few boxes of original 1930’s 1950’ deadstock milliners flowers - for hats, fascinators, corsages. If anyone is interested in these let me know! #fashionhistory #vintagedeadstock #vintagefashion

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We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

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Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online Het Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis publiceert Nederlands- en Engelstalige artikelen op het gebied van de boekgeschiedenis van de Lage Landen in alle perioden. Het Jaarboek richt zich ...

#CfP The Yearbook for Dutch #BookHistory invites proposals on Patronage and Institutions in the Low Countries’ book history and readership culture (all periods).
Submit your proposal before April 1st 2026 or submit your full article (English or Dutch) Nov 1st 2026 www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

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Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

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The Simon And Garfunkel 'Sounds Of Silence ' album cover except they're being chased by a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica.

The Simon And Garfunkel 'Sounds Of Silence ' album cover except they're being chased by a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica.

Simon And Garfunkel next. #totp

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A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

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Locutus safety tip: To prevent identity theft, avoid having your own identity.

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Remind me to show you our books bound in eelskin.

Quarter bindings, obviously.

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Hawkeye (and the writers room) knew.

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That's funny, I would think TikTok is more something for Steve Reich.

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Is there a lace or fabric historian in my network? I have a box of antique Belgian lace plus original patterns and fabric material to create ribbon lace. I want to sell it to someone who will care for it, maybe use it, study it. Let me know if you are or know someone!

06.03.2026 13:49 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 1
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a cat is driving a car with the word saf below it ALT: a cat is driving a car with the word saf below it

NL: Vervoer gezocht voor maandag 9 maart! Van Oirschot naar Utrecht en terug, voor een toeslagenouder die naar een hoorzitting gaat. Wij hebben helaas nog niemand kunnen vinden. Misschien kan iemand helpen? Hoe lang het duurt is nog niet geweten. 🙏

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	Words of five Syllables.
A-bo-mi-na-ble	ad-mi-ra-ti-on
Be-ne-dic-ti-on	be-ne-fi-ci-al
Ce-le-bra-ti-on	con-fo-la-ti-on
De-cla-ra-ti-on	de-di-ca-ti-on
E-du-ca-ti-on	ex-hor-ta-ti-on
For-ni-ca-ti-on	fer-men-ta-ti-on
Ge-ne-ra-ti-on	ge-ne-ro-fi-ty
	Words of fix Syllables.
A-bo-mi-na-ti-on	Gra-ti-fi-ca-ti-on
Be-ne-fi-ci-al-ly	Hu-mi-li-a-ti-on
Con-ti-nu-a-ti-on	I-ma-gi-na-ti-on
De-ter-mi-na-ti-on	Mor-ti-fi-ca-ti-on
E-di-fi-ca-ti-on	Pu-ri-fi-ca-ti-on
Fa-mi-li-a-ri-ty	Qua-li-fi-ca-ti-on

Words of five Syllables. A-bo-mi-na-ble ad-mi-ra-ti-on Be-ne-dic-ti-on be-ne-fi-ci-al Ce-le-bra-ti-on con-fo-la-ti-on De-cla-ra-ti-on de-di-ca-ti-on E-du-ca-ti-on ex-hor-ta-ti-on For-ni-ca-ti-on fer-men-ta-ti-on Ge-ne-ra-ti-on ge-ne-ro-fi-ty Words of fix Syllables. A-bo-mi-na-ti-on Gra-ti-fi-ca-ti-on Be-ne-fi-ci-al-ly Hu-mi-li-a-ti-on Con-ti-nu-a-ti-on I-ma-gi-na-ti-on De-ter-mi-na-ti-on Mor-ti-fi-ca-ti-on E-di-fi-ca-ti-on Pu-ri-fi-ca-ti-on Fa-mi-li-a-ri-ty Qua-li-fi-ca-ti-on

Parents! How many of these words do your little Puritans know? (from the New England Primer, 1777 ed.)

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Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in.
That’s Horatio of 3:1.

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Excuse me, the proper term is 'unalived'.

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Top notch replies on here, I feel proud to be a Blueskyer today 🫡

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I am always amazed by how many people around me are reading (and teaching!) Caliban and the Witch and can now confirm this is a useful piece to share with those whose enthusiasm for marxist-feminist analysis (good!) outstrips their resources for critiquing Federici's historiography (which is bad)

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move slow and repair things

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A large raven in an enclosure. Instead of the usual black, it is white with blue eyes

A large raven in an enclosure. Instead of the usual black, it is white with blue eyes

Today I got to meet a white raven at a wildlife rescue center! This is Opal 💗

06.03.2026 06:46 — 👍 1410    🔁 249    💬 29    📌 34

Autocorrect twisting your words.

Messaging apps (incl BSky) not being able to manage multi-language users without manually switching the language.

06.03.2026 08:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"We value your privacy" in the cookie pop-ups.

Pop-ups.

Cookies.

06.03.2026 08:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Too many steps to turn on your out-of-office when going on holiday (but then, it's American software and they don't have holidays).

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If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

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