Megan Rosenbloom

Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive.

✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
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The Riverbottom Nightmare Gang. A gang of puppet toughs. There’s a lizard, a snake, a weasel, and their leader, Chuck the bear, the coolest Muppet of all time. He wears a denim vest over a red shirt, mirror shades, and a white hat. They probably all carry blades.

About that time of year where I hang out with my boys.

Oh yeah Kater Craft has some wild stuff. I didn’t know about Moby’s Dick! I used to say our human skin book test is only sensitive enough to identify great apes but I’d never come across a book bound in another great ape. Then after publication I saw a monkey fur Origin of the Species at Kater Craft

Day four of my bookish December gift guide…

Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by @libraryatnight.bsky.social

Essential for death-positive weirdos, and readers possessing morbid curiosities!

Thanks that is definitely what I was going for

Finally got around to reading Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom! @libraryatnight.bsky.social
As a fellow death-positive LAMs professional, I thoroughly enjoyed her thoughtful & occasionally witty work on the otherwise macabre subject of anthropodermic bibliopegy.

Thanks for reading!

Thanks for reading!

🧵Some #librarylove for the present moment 📖🖤📚

I saw a writer I like refer to April 1 as DAY OF LIES and I’m about as fond of that name as I hate the day itself. So Happy Eve of Lies, I will be staying off the Internet as much as possible tomorrow.

Hey union families and teachers—you are going to want to mark your calendars for May 10th, when @kimkelly.bsky.social is here to talk about their brand new book on labor history for young readers!

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is there such a crying need for reams and reams and reams of additional writing in the world that we need to ask computers to pitch in

lmao getting fact checked irl

Levar Burton reading a book with trees in the background

Blair Imani paints the face of a girl wearing cat ears

A young smiling girl who is wearing cat ears and has her face painted as a cat

At today’s reopening of the Altadena library, Levar Burton read us a story & every adult cried & healed a little bit. Blair Imani (!) painted 8yo’s face, helping her live her feline dreams! What a morning for library love, especially with so many of us librarians under attack these days. 🥰🌈📚

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

Season finale of Severance was so good I’m doubling down on the corporate isolation by listening to early 2000s Radiohead.

This logo is rendered on this button in the style of popular 80s school supply company Lisa Frank, who also prominently featured dolphins but probably fewer anchors.

Aldus refers to Aldus Manutius who started The Aldine Press in Venice in 1494, printed of some of the most treasured examples of incunabula (early printed books). The logo for the Aldine Press is a dolphin & an anchor.

Picture of a button with a brightly colored dolphin wrapped around an anchor and the word “Aldus” all in a Lisa Frank style

For my book people: the sliver of the nerd population who would appreciate the joke of this button made at my library is so narrow and I’m right in the middle of it. Drop an emoji if you knew both references without me explaining, which I’ll do in the comments. 📖 🐬

Wow LONGLEGS is the scariest movie I’ve seen in a long time, maybe ever? Nicholas Cage is unforgettable. ::shudders::

Was definitely the first book I’d read that played with the shape of text and it really blew my teenage mind

In honor of Gorey’s 100th birthday, here is my giant orange cat I named after him.

I went through a reading slump in high school and Welsh got me out of it. I ripped through all of his books then in quick succession and MARABOU STORK NIGHTMARES was my favorite. I don’t know how I’d feel about that as a grownup but I like remembering how it excited me as a teen.

That would be amazing. :: siren noises ::

"The law is king."
Thomas Paine
#CommonSense
#UpholdAndDefendTheConstitution

Screenshot of a tweet by @JoeHolder_ that reads “OH BOY is she in for some surprises” reacting to an image from ABC News that reads “Woman wakes up after nearly 5 years in a coma”

Anyone ever read Irvine Welsh’s MARABOU STORK NIGHTMARES? I’d be like put me back in

I have been hearing so many bone chilling stories from librarians across the country at conferences last year and I know it’s going to get so much worse.

So excited for this one, go go @malloryomeara.bsky.social !