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Kathleen E. Kennedy

@themedievaldrk.bsky.social

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manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology

Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 2h

so fancy!

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 3h

totally agree, one-box search makes sense for a fully open-ended search like browsers, but not much else, but those big firms drove it into every possible use-case, and usability (incl discoverability) paid a horrible price : (

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 3h

ok but just for a week this time, and then back over freezing a bit *crosses fingers*

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 3h

State Street During the Holidays.

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 3h

the brutality of the revenge of librarianship

(quips aside Foust's thread is absolutely accurate)

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 3h

Like, young people don’t know what file trees are because their tech has trained them to rely on searching instead of organizing. Now that same search function, having attacked organization, is now attacking comprehension while degrading sharply in quality and accuracy. Everything is decaying.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 3h

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 16h

Night nativity by Geertgen tot Sint Jans, ca. 1490. Nobody does humble simplicity (and infant radiance) quite like Geertgen.

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 17h

(look, my Christmas food theme this year was "things I couldn't make well in England" and so this was on the list. and it IS a damn tasty casserole, if I do say so myself)

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 17h

I get that it's a humble-brag, but my photo of my Christmas enchilada casserole has my entire group chat demanding I make it again at the earliest, etc and so it turns out I have achieved a midwesterner's final form:

my casserole brings EVERYONE to the yard 😂

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17h

This explains like 90% of American politics right now

If this analysis is correct, then the situation is actually much more bleak than Savage’s argument would suggest. If diversification efforts generated a huge change, then the backlash to it might be acceptable, something worth risking and weathering if it comes. Instead, what appears to have happened is a lot of empty talk, no real significant change, and backlash that is causing real harm. This is the worst of all possible worlds.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 19h

A few excerpts from Darmok's Christmas Story:

Ralphie and Flick, at the flagpole.

Randy, his arms down.

The Old Man, when the lamp broke.

Santa and Ralphie, on the mountain.

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 19h

Thank god whatever this is didn't crop up before my book copyedits were filed. I don't even want to THINK about how badly it would handle THAT.

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 20h

Thought I'd poke at a wee bit of fun editing before cooking ramps back up and wtflyingf has happened to Track Changes?? This is the second time a file has utterly fallen over lately. Only a few pages long, this should have been cake for TC, and instead I'm retyping it out longhand AGAIN.

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 21h

it's just so fun--v much in the mode of classic 80s action-comedy, but updated for the new millennium. it understood the assignment--so rare!

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 21h

tell me about it--just back from years in the UK where they're rare in rentals! Made cooking a real challenge!

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 21h

(See, he does TWO Christmas action flicks and they BOTH have stacked casts!)

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 21h

I generally don't relate to Christmas movies, but the opening of RED, where Willis, living alone in isolation, notices all his suburban neighbors have decorations up but he doesn't, and immediately goes to get a Griswold-coded lawn set up is so real.

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Tidings of Comfort and Joe @joeblivion.bsky.social · 1d

December 25th. The day the Fellowship departs Rivendell to destroy the One Ring.

Whatever you celebrate, may you have the courage to take the first steps to defy and endure against the dark, and rekindle light into the world.

December 25 The Company of the Ring leaves Rivendell at dusk.

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

fuuun 🙃

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

Good job ComEd, sending a bill on Christmas. Top marks, *ssholes.

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

same and same. I know this isn't everything we want but at least it's enough to keep us going.

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

oooh

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

leading your best life! felicitations!

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

US coal generation has collapsed from about 50% of electricity in 2005 to just 14% today. It’s one of the fastest energy transitions in modern history. Operating a coal plant now costs more than building new wind and solar in every state. buff.ly/lhSKS7D
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