Stuart Kells

Trump and Musk: Bigger, better, dumber From space colonies to imperial dreams, Donald Trump and Elon Musk offer a masterclass in misguided policy ambition.

Trump and Musk: Bigger, better, dumber #TACO #G7 www.themandarin.com.au/293916-trump...

A pair of happy birds sitting in the margin of Josephus’ Antiquitates Judaicæ (Lübeck, 1475-76). In the library of the Earls of Sunderland at Blenheim Palace, sold in 1882 to @quaritch1847.bsky.social, from whom likely bought by William Morris. Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.1.A.14.1[1013.1-2].

Medieval marginalia depicting an elephant with a trunk nearly the size of its entire body and a tower bearing three soldiers on its back facing off with a man who carries a shield and a giant sword.

lāð, adj: hostile, malign, bearing hate toward another. (LAWTH / ˈlaːθ)
Image: Rothschild Canticles; Flanders or the Rhineland, c. 1300; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS 404, f. 168v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD

A speeding Bell telephone van with heavy motion blur. Very 1970s.

Drawings of three different types of lineman trucks, one with a flat bed, one with a ladder, and one with a cherry picker. They're painted white and olive green with blue and yellow details.

Bell Systems Vehicle Graphics Manual, 1970

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YouTube video by Enhanced Music Videos AC/DC - It's A Long Way To The Top [Official Music Video], Full HD (Remaster, Resync and Upscale)

#Breaking this classic #ACDC performance to be recreated in MEL 💙 #musicsky #skytv youtu.be/g-qkY2yj4_A?...

Grifts, shifts and splits: Get ready for politics on the wild side, LNP style The election is over. The Libs are tearing themselves and each other apart.

This from 2022 ‘The election is over. The Libs are tearing themselves and each other apart. There is serious talk of a Liberal split.’ w/ @stuartkells.bsky.social #auspol #AusVotes25 #DuttonDumped #ModeratesGone
FastFwd. There is serious talk of a Coalition break.
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The Worlds Financial System Is Vulnerable to Trumpism!!

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Always was and always will be Aboriginal water Australia needs to have a serious discussion about Indigenous water rights and Indigenous Voice in water management, say University of Melbourne experts.

#Sorryday ‘Be Brave. Make Change’
Always was, always will be Aboriginal water. @unimelb @stuartkells.bsky.social
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/alw...

First Look 🌱🌸⚜️

This beautifully bound edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice Through the Looking Glass features an elaborate gilt foliate design in an arts and crafts style.

You can see this item displayed by Lucius Books at Firsts this year.

Find out more: www.firstslondon.com

First Look at another highlight you can see at Firsts 💐

A lovely example of a miniature ‘language of flowers book’ from Camden Lock Books.

The world’s financial system is highly vulnerable to Trumpism The economic and financial impacts of Trump’s program are starting to become clear with potentially dangerous consequences well beyond the US

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the...

NKF: Piet Zwart’s Avant-Garde Catalog for Standard Cables, 1927–1928

Zwart’s innovative use of bold typography, dynamic layouts, and photomontage transformed otherwise dull topics into avant-garde masterpieces.⁠

Grab the facsimile: letterformarchive.org/shop/nkf-pie...

#PietZwart #ModernistDesign

Before and After

The Day After Judgement by James Blish. 1974, cover art by David Pelham. #booksky

Spotted down the shore, in Belmar, NJ (didn't realize there were many more!)

Antiquariat Walter Markov, Bonn - Antifaschistische Tarnschriften & illegale Kleinschriften, Dünndruckschriften 1933–1945 antiquariat-markov.de #Antiquariat

The world’s financial system is highly vulnerable to Trumpism The economic and financial impacts of Trump’s program are starting to become clear with potentially dangerous consequences well beyond the US

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the...

All aboard! Another BlueSky book review "par excellence!"

Title page of VD16 B 803 showing a stamp in the middle between a man and a woman. The stamp of the library connects humans and the stars.

Here is another golden example from the #LibraryStampMadness series: featuring a thoughtful stamped horse connecting humans and the stars.

Experts do know that this library stamp is from the HAB Wolfenbüttel. #bookhistory

Rosemary Sandberg – From the Puffin Club to Picture Lions Last week saw the 50th anniversary of the hugely influential Puffin Club, the children’s book group that brought a generation of readers together with each other and their favourite authors. By coi…

Sad to hear about the passing of Rosemary Sandberg, co-founder of the Puffin Club with Kaye Webb and later editor of Collins' rival to Puffin, Lions and Picture Lions.

I interviewed Rosemary about her fascinating career in 2017, you can read the piece here:

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NEW ESSAY: Ribbons, Bands and Cords – Observations by 18th Century Naturalists and Artists. www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/ri...

Engraving of a man having a bookcase pushed over onto him by a skeletal figure creeping into the left-hand side of the picture.

I'm sure one day this will happen to me.

#BookChatWeekly #booksky #books #bibliophile #library #antiquebooks #ghost #skeleton #supernatural #paranormal

#AmReorganizing #TheLibrary #labyrinth

Book Binding ... OR Torture Device?!

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Some bindings and clasps are truly impressive. This is certainly the case with this 19th-century copy printed in Louvain (R5A12995). #rarebooks #tomorrowsresearch

A poetic BlueSky book review, perfectly executed, profoundly evocative - where's our rocket? #booksky

Definitely not Dewey 🙂

What does successful public policy look like, and how has it been achieved in Australia?

John Brumby and Stuart Kells, co-authors of "In A Better Australia" joined Per Capita for their March John Cain Lunch.

Listen to their speech on the JCL podcast. Now available here: apple.co/3Avhego

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A kookaburra in a gum tree with a rainbow behind it.

Quintessential Australia! A kookaburra in a gum tree with a rainbow behind it. #Birds #Rainbows #Australia