To be clear, at least 1/2 of my Smith friends were way more masc than me at 20. At 40 it's like 2/3.
10.10.2025 22:52 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@devinfitz.bsky.social
Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them
To be clear, at least 1/2 of my Smith friends were way more masc than me at 20. At 40 it's like 2/3.
10.10.2025 22:52 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Was just asked by a former Smith professor if my undergrad degree was from Smith (he remembered me). Basically my enby apotheosis here
10.10.2025 22:17 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Pretty pleased that @newwordspress.bsky.social will be the venue of my first published poem. It was important to me to get something out in print, and I'm really thrilled that it's going to be with an excellent and very queer journal.
My first poem is only mildly slutty...
The linguistic and textual diversity of SE Asia is just staggering.
03.10.2025 20:08 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is maybe the first time I've been at a conference where everyone works in languages I don't know. So there goes my next year, since this can never happen again
03.10.2025 19:55 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Some amazing stuff at Princeton as part of the Form and Function show. The symposium kicks off soon here, and I'll be opening with some sort of ramble.
03.10.2025 16:16 β π 16 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0National decline is most evident in watching Americans try to figure out overhead space on planes.
02.10.2025 13:33 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0As it now seems likely I'll be here for my career (since basically the only thing that will get me out is a job with tenure), I'm settling in to building what will be a rather mind bending collection over the next few decades. Assuming universities survive.
01.10.2025 18:17 β π 12 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Just four recent acquisitions I'm moving off my desk. Some Latin Arabic type from Rome; Engraved bio of John of the Cross; Martini's history of China; and another of the only known copies of a unique San Francisco Chinese imprint from the 1880s (probably the most important yet).
01.10.2025 18:13 β π 16 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0In a true first, someone is refusing to accept that I didn't see their email and so ungenerously did not reply within 24 hours with a thank you.
27.09.2025 01:00 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Looking at some mid-Tokugawa movable type, and absolutely chuffed to see something fun. Our printed pre-printed lined paper before printing the text, leading to some funny registration bloopers. Usually the lines and text are all a single form. Not so here
26.09.2025 21:49 β π 16 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo β€οΈ
25.09.2025 13:07 β π 5479 π 1828 π¬ 35 π 167It clearly does not matter at all that he is a complete and utter intellectual fraud. As long as he bullies freaks and geeks, his base is content. But we need our scummy Ivy jocks (Newsome) to really ratchet up the mean.
We nerds need to commit ourselves to the gym and being hot. Take their power
The thing to do is then unpack what jocks would say to make Trump impotent. But if we talk about his body, his weasel eyes, etc. then we alienate our own base as well, since we're sensitive about being unathletic, misshapen goblins.
But make no mistake, physically, Trump is one of us. Total Goblin
See the problem is, when the left points out Trump is a rambling idiotic madman, all the right hears is nerd voice. When the right, however, says Biden is stumbling, they get the satisfaction of making fun of nerds for failing at our own area of alleged proficiency.
24.09.2025 18:05 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0What a wonderful day of meetings, making more tasks that will somehow be completed during times when I am just in meetings.
We should have more meetings to discuss meetings.
Also worth remembering, as we talk about Free Speech, that the first speakers the current administration targeted were those demanding the freedom and safety of the Palestinian people.
18.09.2025 21:38 β π 1676 π 269 π¬ 9 π 1Lol phone corrected Australia to Austria in a false stab at strudel loyalty. Fuck strudel. It's fine but I'll eat a kangaroo first every day.
17.09.2025 03:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0D gets you Swana, East Asia, Austria and NZ (i.e..colonial), there is only one answer here. H is compelling since you get NYC, but vitally short of good South Indian and Indonesian. I am not sure about Latin America. Food in the region, but you get Korea so there will be good tacos.
17.09.2025 03:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It's like one of those tests of people showing faces asking "are they dangerous?"
17.09.2025 03:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It's so we can know to hate anyone who is not D
17.09.2025 03:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0there's no contradiction between "hating trans people" and "wanting to fuck trans people". have you guys heard what men think of women
17.09.2025 02:45 β π 7198 π 1787 π¬ 44 π 50I believe we can get there, if we just apply pressure to our skulls in exactly the right way.
17.09.2025 00:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The life of the mind sounded much more appealing when the mind was not so fucking exhausted.
Can I redo? Life of the potato? The blooming onion? Any other suggestions?
#rarebooks & #bookhistory folks: in case this new Princeton exhibition on global book-making has gone under your radar, you should check it out now!
13.09.2025 16:42 β π 17 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0Just finding some Grolier bindings in the stacks
16.09.2025 19:03 β π 31 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1So so fucked.
16.09.2025 15:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0was talking to my therapist who doesn't know anything about lifting about the gym and it was so funny. she was like "pushing to failure sounds like a very toxic mindset"
13.09.2025 02:06 β π 161 π 15 π¬ 6 π 2They then spend all said money trying to move it to a different ledger π
15.09.2025 23:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I also know I'm not the only one reading this thread that avoids ever trying to do reimbursement paperwork. My sanity can't take it
15.09.2025 23:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0