Ron Evans
@grandrevans.bsky.social
Archivist/special collections librarian. Former production editor. Occasional bookbinder. Just a guy who loves books. He/him. 🏳️🌈
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Ron Evans
@grandrevans.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Good morning, new followers! I should probably introduce myself at some point. I post about books (both the content and the objects themselves), libraries, humanities, art, music, science, cooking, gardening, nature & pop culture. My interests are varied & passionate.
Also I’m very gay.
Also I’m very gay.
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1/ Announcing GovScape – a public search system for 10 million U.S. government PDFs (70 million pages)! GovScape offers visual search, semantic text search, and keyword search. Explore below:
Website: www.govscape.net
ArXiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.11010
Website: www.govscape.net
ArXiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.11010
www.govscape.net
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
1/ Announcing GovScape – a public search system for 10 million U.S. government PDFs (70 million pages)! GovScape offers visual search, semantic text search, and keyword search. Explore below:
Website: www.govscape.net
ArXiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.11010
Website: www.govscape.net
ArXiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.11010
Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
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Shakespeare was a weeb, but for Italy.
November 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Shakespeare was a weeb, but for Italy.
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Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators
It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators
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‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.
Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...
www.csmonitor.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
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Tetris
Name an S-Tier Videogame.
November 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Tetris
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Truly the future of blasphemy
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Truly the future of blasphemy
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The reason the headline is "doom!" is because when you see what's already been done, you see that we can do more,
which means things can get better,
which means rich people's "it's over, no stopping this, might as well let us do what we want" manipulation might stop working. Can't have that.
which means things can get better,
which means rich people's "it's over, no stopping this, might as well let us do what we want" manipulation might stop working. Can't have that.
This chart shows that progress has actually been made on climate change www.axios.com/2025/11/13/c...
This chart shows that progress has actually been made on climate change
The possible trajectories are better than a decade ago, but still indicate significant global warming.
www.axios.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The reason the headline is "doom!" is because when you see what's already been done, you see that we can do more,
which means things can get better,
which means rich people's "it's over, no stopping this, might as well let us do what we want" manipulation might stop working. Can't have that.
which means things can get better,
which means rich people's "it's over, no stopping this, might as well let us do what we want" manipulation might stop working. Can't have that.
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If I’m talking about dinner or TV or the dog, I probably don’t want a bleak joke about the state of the world. I promise: I know about it.
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
If I’m talking about dinner or TV or the dog, I probably don’t want a bleak joke about the state of the world. I promise: I know about it.
La linotype en action
YouTube video by Musée de l'imprimerie et de la communication graphique
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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This is rad!
We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation.
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This is rad!
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Me when all my friends can see the aurora borealis from their houses
November 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Me when all my friends can see the aurora borealis from their houses
Naurora for me. Either I'm too far south or there's clouds to the north. Nothing showed up on the time-elapse photo, either.
November 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Naurora for me. Either I'm too far south or there's clouds to the north. Nothing showed up on the time-elapse photo, either.
There are so many books I could choose for this prompt, but I'm gonna go with MOMO by Michael Ende. I read it in college not long after I'd turned 21. It completely upended the way I think about time, work/labor, relationships, and what makes life worth living.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
There are so many books I could choose for this prompt, but I'm gonna go with MOMO by Michael Ende. I read it in college not long after I'd turned 21. It completely upended the way I think about time, work/labor, relationships, and what makes life worth living.
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I don't know who needs to hear this right now.
You are bigger than your current circumstances.
Just..... keep...... going!
You are bigger than your current circumstances.
Just..... keep...... going!
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I don't know who needs to hear this right now.
You are bigger than your current circumstances.
Just..... keep...... going!
You are bigger than your current circumstances.
Just..... keep...... going!
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Sorry, I’m not learning the names of any of the Pokémon who were introduced after I hit puberty.
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Sorry, I’m not learning the names of any of the Pokémon who were introduced after I hit puberty.
Beetlejuice The Musical (The Musical) (The Musical) is good, actually.
A fun thing I never posted to Bisky before. This is a couple years old at this point, but a good while back I made these (unfinished) boards for the song Delia's Ted Talk from the demo album for Beetlejuice the Musical. I love this song & wanted to make something for it the second I heard it. (1/2)
November 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Beetlejuice The Musical (The Musical) (The Musical) is good, actually.
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if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
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Looking at what's entering the public domain in January, and it looks like 2026 belongs to the girls.
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Looking at what's entering the public domain in January, and it looks like 2026 belongs to the girls.
Don't mind me, I'm just over here feeling the urge to preemptively defend my omission of appositive commas with "his partner Howard Ashman" because one may have numerous partners over the course of one's life.
Copyediting, y'all. It does things to your brain.
www.grammarbook.com/blog/commas/...
Copyediting, y'all. It does things to your brain.
www.grammarbook.com/blog/commas/...
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Don't mind me, I'm just over here feeling the urge to preemptively defend my omission of appositive commas with "his partner Howard Ashman" because one may have numerous partners over the course of one's life.
Copyediting, y'all. It does things to your brain.
www.grammarbook.com/blog/commas/...
Copyediting, y'all. It does things to your brain.
www.grammarbook.com/blog/commas/...
Don't mind me, I'm just over here spending my Friday night watching videos of Ellen Greene singing "Somewhere That's Green" and "Suddenly, Seymour"...again.
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Don't mind me, I'm just over here spending my Friday night watching videos of Ellen Greene singing "Somewhere That's Green" and "Suddenly, Seymour"...again.
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PROJECT TRANSCEND NEEDS YOUR HELP
In addition to covering additional materials costs and artist and staff payments, we're stretching our budget to help support artists who have lost access to SNAP.
If you're in a position to throw a few bucks our way, please, please do.
In addition to covering additional materials costs and artist and staff payments, we're stretching our budget to help support artists who have lost access to SNAP.
If you're in a position to throw a few bucks our way, please, please do.
SUPPORT
Help us make Project Transcend happen! CLICK HERE TO DONATE! Any money we raise will help cover: Fair compensation for artists and support staff Work space Materials Photographic documentation To d…
projecttranscendnyc.wordpress.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
PROJECT TRANSCEND NEEDS YOUR HELP
In addition to covering additional materials costs and artist and staff payments, we're stretching our budget to help support artists who have lost access to SNAP.
If you're in a position to throw a few bucks our way, please, please do.
In addition to covering additional materials costs and artist and staff payments, we're stretching our budget to help support artists who have lost access to SNAP.
If you're in a position to throw a few bucks our way, please, please do.
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What I love is when people talk about Lynch being abstruse or weird for its own sake or impenetrable when the fact of it, particularly in talks like this, he's really clear. He might use ambiguous symbols in his films, but this isn't.
Something to remember.
Something to remember.
David Lynch on artists suffering for art youtube.com/shorts/UljZm...
David Lynch On Suffering #davidlynch #art #cinema #motivation
YouTube video by Screenwriting In LA
youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
What I love is when people talk about Lynch being abstruse or weird for its own sake or impenetrable when the fact of it, particularly in talks like this, he's really clear. He might use ambiguous symbols in his films, but this isn't.
Something to remember.
Something to remember.
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry