Beach scene with “visit your village homosexual” written in the style of a tourism poster
Illuminati eye over the text “i believe in the one book theory”
Due to popular demand, we’ve introduced some new merch designs, including the highly requested village homosexual
ifbookspod.dashery.com
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Shop Official Merch by If Books Could Kill
The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds
After many years, we’ve finally given in and launched a merch store. Only one design for now, but we’ve got shirts, hoodies, hats, mugs, stickers - all the classic items you know and love.
25.06.2025 19:20 — 👍 466 🔁 35 💬 57 📌 9
If Books Could Kill: The Podcast: The Table
@ifbookspod.bsky.social
14.07.2025 01:40 — 👍 263 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 2
Two blue urushi pens in different styles on a ceramic leaf dish on top of a marbled paper notebook in shades of turquoise with leather binding
Urushi fountain pen closeups
🩵 Turquoise Tuesday 🩵 two urushi beauties - Nakaya Piccolo Negoro AMA Iro and Tamenuri Studio spiral kawari-nuri. Notebook from Galen Leather, leaf dish made by a friend #fountainpen
24.06.2025 11:24 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Does anyone who draws comics/draws A LOT with a fountain pen have any beginner guides for maintenance/cleaning? I have a fude pen I really like that I’ve refilled a couple times without issue but I want to make sure
18.06.2025 13:56 — 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 7 📌 0
It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.
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The US could use a pro-democracy party and one or two newspapers that share that outlook
12.06.2025 11:27 — 👍 159 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 1
No, Elsevier, I don't want to "chat" with a paper on 19th century textiles. I want to read it. Stop making things worse for no reason.
12.06.2025 13:50 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hand holding a small knit swatch of a brown chicken. In the background is a sketchbook with drawings of stardew valley chickens and three small skeins of yarn in red, yellow, and brown.
Testing a modification to the herding hens socks by Stone Knits to make stardew valley chickens! I essentially made the chickens more round and have picked up sock yarn in the right colors (beige, brown, black, blue, red and purple!)
🧶🧦🐔🐓
#knitsky #colorwork #stardewvalley
12.06.2025 14:25 — 👍 41 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Fountain pens in every color of the rainbow emerging from a multicolored pen case
Thursday Theme - a pen rainbow for Pride month. I appreciate all the lovely LGBTQIA+ folks in the pen community. #pridemonth🌈 #fountainpen
12.06.2025 12:47 — 👍 31 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social & @notalawyer.bsky.social
Could we please get some @ifbookspod.bsky.social merch? It'd be so awesome to have a "One Book Theory" sticker!
12.06.2025 14:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of Charity and Sylvia by Rachel Hope Cleves.
Starting off #AHAReads with the perfect Pride Month history, Charity and Sylvia, which has been on my shelf for too long.
10.06.2025 02:19 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A week late but finally got my first #AHAReads book in the mail!! I’m reading Fierce Desires by Rebecca L. Davis to check off “Read a history of a resistance movement”
10.06.2025 02:22 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Benjamin Park’s book American Zion with a school playground and youth soccer practice in the background.
I am not the only parent hanging out at soccer practice with a book. But I *am* the only one reading a history of Mormonism in America. @benjaminepark.bsky.social #AHAReads
06.06.2025 21:52 — 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
About
The Nap Ministry was founded in 2016 by Tricia Hersey and is an organization that examines the liberating power of naps. Our “REST IS RESISTANCE” framework and practice engages with the…
Amid 🔥🔥🔥 I've recommitted to reading novels and non-fiction this summer, reading for pleasure though can't fully get the nerd out of this nerd. #AHAReads
First up, the brilliant Tricia Hersey (of The Nap Ministry), Rest Is Resistance
thenapministry.wordpress.com/about/
09.06.2025 13:42 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
how your eelmail finds me
10.06.2025 17:40 — 👍 45 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Meme. Medieval painting of Jesus talking to the Samaritan woman at the well. The painting shows a woman coming to well with a jar on her head, carrying a bucket. The well is beyond a set of city gates; there are wild-looking rocks just past the well. There's a man sitting on the well talking to the woman (Jesus showing off his prophetic chops in an effort to score a drink). There are several men coming out of the gates, looking a bit surprised (the disciples, being scandalized).
This scene is made more interesting if you imagine this as a married couple having a rather public fight. The wife is scolding the man for hanging out at the well and hitting on thirsty women, and he is defending himself by telling her that she had a giant tick on her head. Their neighbors are eves-dropping, and silently congratulating themselves on at least not being as terrible as the Andersons.
Meme text reads:
Welcome to the wishing well
Now accepting eels *
*Fresh eels only . Terms and conditions apply
Sometimes the food goes bad before you use it. Then what?
Just don't be like Salamon Salamon! In 1390, the London fishmonger was charged w/ hiding his bad eels in someone else's cellar. This was his second offense: earlier he was caught slipping rotting eels into a local well!
🗃️🧪
11.06.2025 14:38 — 👍 91 🔁 9 💬 8 📌 0
Meanwhile there are still children stitching trainers in sweatshops around the globe. Priorities?
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Eat the Rich pattern by Lanja Khon-Engheim
Welcome to the world of oligarchy. Oligarchy is not just a Russian phenomenon. It exists right here in the USA. --Bernie Sanders
I am currently knitting this amazing pattern designed by Lanja Khon-Engheim and recommended by @isasaxonists.bsky.social and it has me wondering if someone more skilled at patterns with me wants to draw up an abolish ice pattern...
11.06.2025 14:26 — 👍 96 🔁 16 💬 5 📌 2
Lamb in red sweater.
It’s a good day for knitting. #knitsky
11.06.2025 14:34 — 👍 639 🔁 46 💬 16 📌 5
I've been chipping away at a sweater. Every other time I've knitted a sweater, it's been ready to wear as summer's ending, so this time I'm knitting it over summer.
11.06.2025 15:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A pink-to-white gradient knitted panel with a basketweave stitch pattern.
Happy #WIPWednesday Everyone! What #creative things have you been up to this week? I've been #knitting away on a wrap that'll be a present for a friend of mine.
11.06.2025 14:46 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Today is #InternationalYarnbombingDay
Here are a selection of examples from our archives.
If you have yarnbombing images to submit, please email them to us at folklorelibrary@gmail.com or tag us, preferably with location details, photographer, date and artist where known. Thank you
11.06.2025 13:45 — 👍 35 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1
I've not had anything drastic like that happen, but I have never had good luck with Monteverde inks (or pens for that matter)
11.06.2025 13:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At a customer's request, I applied 'Aka-tame' finish to a Pelikan M800.
At a customer's request, I applied 'Aka-tame' finish to a Pelikan M800.
At a customer's request, we applied 'Aka-tame' finish to a Pelikan M800. It turned out elegant! #fountainpen
11.06.2025 11:45 — 👍 55 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 0
I've grown to LOVE the sound of my Sailor MF nib on paper and often turn to it when I need grounding
11.06.2025 13:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dream Weavers
Black women in textile arts reimagine the artform as a means of storytelling, identity, and entrepreneurship.
Black women in textile arts reimagine the artform as a means of storytelling and identity.
11.06.2025 13:41 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
also want to add that the fountain pen peeps avoid noodler's and goulet for a bunch of reasons (actual antisemitism on noodler's end, homophobia on goulet's)
10.06.2025 03:13 — 👍 18 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0
Oh my god that is amazing
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Impossible Subjects
Like many of you, I'm starting out #AHAReads with the book that's been sitting on my shelf too long.
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae Ngai (2004).
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
04.06.2025 11:46 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
A podcast for all with a common interest in history. Run and hosted by Mark Martin, the pod is his hobby. He’s an Arsenal fan, Army Officer and Wargamer.
Listen on any podcast app: https://bit.ly/4huFXEJ
Writer, feminist, intersectional historian of women and gender, University of Oxford and Kinsey Institute. Bi-national. Author of MOTHER IS A VERB. Now writing MIDDLE CARE, ‘4 Genealogies of Care’… all things CARE, really
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Researching (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
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Historian @york.ac.uk | What ‘culture’ is & does 18thc+ | Now: hows whys & effects of re-imagining historical homicides | Associate Editor @englishassociation.bsky.social journal #YWES | Treasurer @historylabplus.bsky.social | sarahwride.co.uk
Writing a history of (un)civil disobedience and the autobiography of my mother | Assistant Professor of Law and Society at UC Irvine | Bread Loaf, Yaddo, and Best Small Fictions '25 | https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
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Roman historian at W. Michigan U. specializing in gender, sexuality, & their reception in tv, music videos, games, and film. she/hers/ista Mom of 3. Avid baker & traveler. Always looking to learn from unusual niche subject experts. Opinions are my own.
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Tudor historian. Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Special Collections Photographer at St John's College, Oxford. Book History MA graduate. Pre-order ELIZABETH BOLEYN: https://thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/elizabeth-boleyn/
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Historian, writer, artist, genealogist, popular culture - Co-Chair SFF PCA - Executive Director of the Association of Canadian Archivists - Views are my own :) (Identities, 19C QC & ON, immigration history, Science Fiction - Doctor Who, etc)
We were an AHRC-funded project (Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025), based at the University of Edinburgh. Our main output was a digital edition of the books of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
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