Antonija Primorac

It's wild that there appears to be more current concern for the Lost Library of Alexandria than for the British Library. The BL's crisis exemplifies the accelerating destruction--through apathy as much as by design--of human knowledge & learning. I'm not even being dramatic.

This late #Victorian dress by Jacques Doucet looks magnificent - and ready for a #neo-Victorian hommage in contemporary fabrics: botfrens.com/collections/...

AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.

...and it is finished!#showmeyourknits #knitsky #knit #sustainablefashion #handmade

a handful of sailing ships silhouetted againsit the light

Boats leaving the port of Le Havre, France, ca. 1855
Gustave Le Gray

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

What happens when @bavs-uk.bsky.social and @qaqv.bsky.social join forces?
This: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/
You've got almost 3 months to submit your idea and then 2 more to complete your paper! Details in the CFP ⤴️

Screenshot of the New York Times article cover image for “Opinion: How to Prepare Your Kids for the AI Revolution”

My general feeling is that if something is called a “Revolution”, but there is no mention of the people and/or cultures destroyed in the process, it’s either not a revolution or it’s violences are being intentionally obscured

A morning surprise, or, new developments in the port of Rijeka.

This is the yarn:

A sample of orange-red mohair-silk yarn, knitted into a lace stole using double leaf pattern.

#showmeyourknits #knitsky #knit Knitting a lace stole, the texture of warm gossamer

I still stand by these, even as universities around the world, including my own, brainlessly capitulate to AI.

Beach bodies online: a quick lesson

Died (alas!) on this day in 1494, Melozzo da Forlì. Painted beautiful works, many of them since lost or damaged. Alas again! Here, angel of the Annunciation, 1466, with some extreme drapery.

Peterson Fellowship Guidelines – RSVP Each year, the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) intends to grant one Linda H. Peterson Fellowship (henceforth, “the Peterson Fellowship”) in the amount of $20,000 to a single research...

The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

Neighbourhood watch

Quiet afternoon.

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Gulp

RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…

✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.

Naoise Dolan: I've protested Israel's actions every way I can. Now, I'm joining the flotilla sailing for Gaza Author Naoise Dolan explains why she’s joining a flotilla mission to Gaza – and why it’s long past time for Western leaders to take action.

Naoise Dolan: I've protested Israel's actions every way I can. Now, I'm joining the flotilla sailing for Gaza

Author Naoise Dolan explains why she’s joining a flotilla mission to Gaza – and why it’s long past time for Western leaders to take action.

www.thejournal.ie/readme/gaza-...

Small brass butterfly.

The underside of the butterfly, which has little pockets to store sewing needle packets. The underside of the wings are decorated with two plates. One carries an inscription of the drapers company: "Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co. - London." The other has a gilded head of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, art, trade, and war.

The butterfly can be folded up, like how a butterfly flaps its wings.

A close-up of the butterfly's wings.

Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum.

IG tatterbluelibrary

Fuck yeah

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Will spend the rest of my life considering how we were rushed into "going paperless" for the good of the environment only for the next generation of digital tools to become far worse for the environment.

The Curran Fellowships – RSVP The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...

📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
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I did it the other way

The Curran Fellowships – RSVP The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...

The Curran Fellowship covering research and travel expenses for research on British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century may be of interest to #DH and #VictorianStudies folks on here ☺️
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The current pressure to impose surveillance on everyone and everything brilliantly explained by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy : pluralistic.net/2025/08/20/b...