Package has a puncture wound, but thanks to @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social careful packing, the contents are unharmed.
Lucretia Baskin
@lucretiab.bsky.social
Rare materials cataloger, contains multitudes.🐍🦇
MA continues to have ridiculous numbers of uncontested incumbents. I still can’t get over the uniformed cops working the poll checkouts in this city. And these stickers are a missed opportunity for fun.
Registration for WORD, a new Chicago-style wayzgoose for printers, opens Tuesday Sept 1st at noon. Wayzgooseord.com is the site if you want to check out details.
Also, I deserve a prize for managing to get all the 50+ year old plastic light fixture covers back in place without breaking them.
Maybe I should have just asked my landlord and made it his problem, I dunno
Absolutely defeated trying to get LED plug and play tubes for my 18 and 24 inche kitchen light fixtures. Fluorescent it is, I guess. The 48” one, no problem, found one fairly easily. WTF. Why is this still so difficult?
More vacay photo dump: Things from LACMA’s new building. Verrrrrry hard to photograph things in there, especially if it was in a case.
More vacay pics: Some things from the Huntington, mostly the gardens.
More moose, this time scratching its leg with its rack.
Little bit of a photo dump from my vacation. First up: MOOSE!
Totally overwhelmed by the new galleries at LACMA. They’re just kind of relentless? No pauses, somewhat disorienting layout. The art keeps coming.
LOVE THIS. I’ve had the global setting on since it was available, but it’s nice to be able to refine it.
Bluesky@bsky.app · 3w agov1.130 is live! Want to follow someone for their posts but not their reposts? Now you can — turn on "Hide reposts in feeds" for any account you follow.
Ended with some time under the broiler. Seems to have done the trick!
Having spent some time there, not one iota of the info in the article is surprising.
ian says DC statehood now@wareian.com · 4w agovery funny logic here. it's "disrespectful" to cover the huge windows the architect built for a museum full of light-sensitive objects? have we not learned from harvard and rothko, from lacma and govan, from every light-based fuck up in the past 100 years of art. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/a...
Cannot get these muffins to brown on top unless I overbake them. Tried top rack, don’t want to try sugar on top. The muffins are dairy free, so no milk sugars to brown, and not much other sugar either (old school Fannie Farmer recipe). *grumble* At least they taste good?
Outstanding dark pattern here. Not pleased by how long it took me to realize there are in fact 2 buttons. (My phone settings probably didn’t help - I keep night shift on 24/7, and the screen brightness fairly low, too.)
Jimothy is…perfectly proportioned for the high Middle Ages, I’m not quite sure how else to put it
Josh Luke Davis 🏳️🌈@joshlukedavis.com · last mo.this summer's cultural cross over we've all been waiting for jimothy x bayeux
wrote about the Creature of the Moment™️ defector.com/is-jimothy-o...
Is Jimothy OK? A Creature Investigation | Defector
Jimothy crept into our lives like any good cryptid—as a blurry, scuttling thing. Kiana Hall, the Seattle local whose firsthand footage resulted in Jimothy’s newfound fame, first thought she had spotte...
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A spectacular bibliophilic souvenir: book box opening to reveal opera glasses and a pillbox. Published in Vienna in the 1880s, the books themselves are by Enlightenment philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, author of the Laocoön. More in today’s short list: www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/Jul2026...
![[DESIGN]. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Werke (book box). Vienna: Verlag von Sigmund Bensinger, 1880s. Box carved out of two hollowed octavo volumes, exterior dimensions 10.5 x 7.5 x 2.5 inches. Full chestnut morocco elaborately stamped in black and gilt with central gilt portrait of Lessing on upper board serving as box lid, secured by a pair of green silk ribbons. Interior finished with gilt title “Milano,” marbled paper trim, and color-printed pictorial onlay. Two purpose-built compartments housing a pair of mother-of-pearl opera glasses and a circular blue and white monogrammed floral pillbox. Lightest shelfwear to edges and spine panels.
Decorative box fashioned out of two converted books, opening to reveal a pair of opera glasses and a small porcelain pillbox. Originally published in Vienna, the hollowed books themselves are two handsomely bound volumes of the works of German Enlightenment philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, author of the Laocoön. The interior of the books is lined with a portrait of two herald angels, heightened in gilt, under the heading “Moderne Kunst.” Fitted compartments house a pair of opera glasses in iridescent brown mother-of-pearl and a floral box for pills or pastilles, monogrammed with a Gothic letter “G.” A spectacular bibliophilic souvenir.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ougq5fx4l5byg3iu6mqnadkk/bafkreied4t2pxn55u7fgzgiaj673cw6stuledqz2xa53zmctxtwnlfisw4)
![[DESIGN]. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Werke (book box). Vienna: Verlag von Sigmund Bensinger, 1880s.
Box carved out of two hollowed octavo volumes, exterior dimensions 10.5 x 7.5 x 2.5 inches. Full chestnut morocco elaborately stamped in black and gilt with central gilt portrait of Lessing on upper board serving as box lid, secured by a pair of green silk ribbons. Interior finished with gilt title “Milano,” marbled paper trim, and color-printed pictorial onlay. Two purpose-built compartments housing a pair of mother-of-pearl opera glasses and a circular blue and white monogrammed floral pillbox. Lightest shelfwear to edges and spine panels.
Decorative box fashioned out of two converted books, opening to reveal a pair of opera glasses and a small porcelain pillbox. Originally published in Vienna, the hollowed books themselves are two handsomely bound volumes of the works of German Enlightenment philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, author of the Laocoön. The interior of the books is lined with a portrait of two herald angels, heightened in gilt, under the heading “Moderne Kunst.” Fitted compartments house a pair of opera glasses in iridescent brown mother-of-pearl and a floral box for pills or pastilles, monogrammed with a Gothic letter “G.” A spectacular bibliophilic souvenir.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ougq5fx4l5byg3iu6mqnadkk/bafkreiagufirmrusg3c65zx5tfgsvp2ohn2kw6ym6m65oto56yorye6r3u)
![[DESIGN]. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Werke (book box). Vienna: Verlag von Sigmund Bensinger, 1880s.
Box carved out of two hollowed octavo volumes, exterior dimensions 10.5 x 7.5 x 2.5 inches. Full chestnut morocco elaborately stamped in black and gilt with central gilt portrait of Lessing on upper board serving as box lid, secured by a pair of green silk ribbons. Interior finished with gilt title “Milano,” marbled paper trim, and color-printed pictorial onlay. Two purpose-built compartments housing a pair of mother-of-pearl opera glasses and a circular blue and white monogrammed floral pillbox. Lightest shelfwear to edges and spine panels.
Decorative box fashioned out of two converted books, opening to reveal a pair of opera glasses and a small porcelain pillbox. Originally published in Vienna, the hollowed books themselves are two handsomely bound volumes of the works of German Enlightenment philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, author of the Laocoön. The interior of the books is lined with a portrait of two herald angels, heightened in gilt, under the heading “Moderne Kunst.” Fitted compartments house a pair of opera glasses in iridescent brown mother-of-pearl and a floral box for pills or pastilles, monogrammed with a Gothic letter “G.” A spectacular bibliophilic souvenir.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ougq5fx4l5byg3iu6mqnadkk/bafkreia3rpousaish2v7lluxd4z72bud64dyw6rsdqkzi6uhmb3b6qngnm)
Solidarity with Yuko Kikuch who has resigned from the V&A. Heritage and Cultural institutions make much about ‘celebrating’ diversity and ‘championing’ inclusivity, but the reality is in this testimony. Constant ‘push back’ from leadership and white staff. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/20/h...
Head of V&A’s academic programmes resigned citing ‘racist’ and ‘culturally insensitive’ behaviours, letter reveals
Yuko Kikuchi wrote a letter to the museum’s leadership that was supported by 12 academics and included student testimonials
theartnewspaper.com
This is the correct answer. When an institution has a bunch of "expired" N95s, the protocol is to distribute 2, to account for the increased likelihood the elastic breaks when putting one on. The filter material will remain effective for many years
I assumed the exp dates were more about the elastic bands than the mask/filter itself, so I would say as long as it still fits you tightly, it’s probably okay? (and unlike with wearing it to prevent disease transmission, it might not be essential that it fit exactly as tightly as before it expired)
Of course I have a typo in a post that @universalhub.com reposted 🙈 KF94, not KF95…