Jess Nevins
@jessnevins.bsky.social
Encyclopedist, college librarian, writer, ttrpg writer. I like to talk about Mesopotamia & Vikings. Always outnumbered, never outgunned.
My podcast, "The History of Comic Books in 500 Issues," is at http://500issues.com
My podcast, "The History of Comic Books in 500 Issues," is at http://500issues.com
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
In the interest of oversharing, my lucid dream last night was a reprise of Crazy Rich Asians, except that I was the boyfriend of the incredibly rich Asian, who was played by circa-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Michelle Yeoh.
I woke up in the middle of overcoming the family's disapproval of me.
I woke up in the middle of overcoming the family's disapproval of me.
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In the interest of oversharing, my lucid dream last night was a reprise of Crazy Rich Asians, except that I was the boyfriend of the incredibly rich Asian, who was played by circa-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Michelle Yeoh.
I woke up in the middle of overcoming the family's disapproval of me.
I woke up in the middle of overcoming the family's disapproval of me.
I hate that this is true of England. I really, really hate that this is true of white America. (I don't believe the below applies to the Black & Latino & Asian & Indigenous cultures in America)
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I hate that this is true of England. I really, really hate that this is true of white America. (I don't believe the below applies to the Black & Latino & Asian & Indigenous cultures in America)
XTC's "Dear Madam Barnum" is pretty good as a wake-up song, btw.
(I miss XTC a lot)
(I miss XTC a lot)
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
XTC's "Dear Madam Barnum" is pretty good as a wake-up song, btw.
(I miss XTC a lot)
(I miss XTC a lot)
You know you've gotten up too early because of insomnia when the guy at the corner store where you buy your Red Bull from looks at you with concern and says, "You really want to buy these? You should be in bed, dude."
November 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
You know you've gotten up too early because of insomnia when the guy at the corner store where you buy your Red Bull from looks at you with concern and says, "You really want to buy these? You should be in bed, dude."
Didn't expect him to be such a James Whale guy, but FRANKENSTEIN, THE INVISIBLE MAN, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, and GODS AND MONSTERS is a pretty good quartet.
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Didn't expect him to be such a James Whale guy, but FRANKENSTEIN, THE INVISIBLE MAN, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, and GODS AND MONSTERS is a pretty good quartet.
My wife got the quilt she made back from the...seamstress, maybe? Not sure what her job title is. She sewed the front, middle, and back together.
The quilt looks fantastic. So happy for my wife, she worked hard on it.
Photo to come.
The quilt looks fantastic. So happy for my wife, she worked hard on it.
Photo to come.
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
My wife got the quilt she made back from the...seamstress, maybe? Not sure what her job title is. She sewed the front, middle, and back together.
The quilt looks fantastic. So happy for my wife, she worked hard on it.
Photo to come.
The quilt looks fantastic. So happy for my wife, she worked hard on it.
Photo to come.
You know you want it.
I know I want it!
The 88,000+ followers of the Pierce Brosnan Fanpage on Insta certainly want it.
I know I want it!
The 88,000+ followers of the Pierce Brosnan Fanpage on Insta certainly want it.
[phone rings]
[hand reaches down, lifts receiver up out of frame]
voice on phone: "James Bond is dead. We need...James Bond."
[hand replaces receiver]
[camera pans up]
[reveals an older, bearded James Bond, played by Pierce Brosnan]
[Bond theme plays]
[hand reaches down, lifts receiver up out of frame]
voice on phone: "James Bond is dead. We need...James Bond."
[hand replaces receiver]
[camera pans up]
[reveals an older, bearded James Bond, played by Pierce Brosnan]
[Bond theme plays]
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
You know you want it.
I know I want it!
The 88,000+ followers of the Pierce Brosnan Fanpage on Insta certainly want it.
I know I want it!
The 88,000+ followers of the Pierce Brosnan Fanpage on Insta certainly want it.
Ordinarily I don't approve of beating up someone once they're dead. It's needlessly messy, the person can't feel it anymore, and it just makes you look silly.
However! I do make room for one exception: when the person's soul feels it and when that person deserves an *extra*-thorough beating.
However! I do make room for one exception: when the person's soul feels it and when that person deserves an *extra*-thorough beating.
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Ordinarily I don't approve of beating up someone once they're dead. It's needlessly messy, the person can't feel it anymore, and it just makes you look silly.
However! I do make room for one exception: when the person's soul feels it and when that person deserves an *extra*-thorough beating.
However! I do make room for one exception: when the person's soul feels it and when that person deserves an *extra*-thorough beating.
Having one of those days where I made a mistake yesterday (bad) & rectified it this morning (good) but in doing so will exasperate 2 of the public library librarians (bad). But! I will be gone for several hours because of doctor appointments, so I won't be around to read their angry e-mails (good).
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Having one of those days where I made a mistake yesterday (bad) & rectified it this morning (good) but in doing so will exasperate 2 of the public library librarians (bad). But! I will be gone for several hours because of doctor appointments, so I won't be around to read their angry e-mails (good).
All this fuss about "The Wreck of the Edmund Pevensie." I don't get it. He gets high on Turkish delight and then splits the Dawn Treader in two during a November gale. Bfd.
Now, if he'd managed to snuff that annoying talking mouse, that'd be something to be proud of.
Now, if he'd managed to snuff that annoying talking mouse, that'd be something to be proud of.
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
All this fuss about "The Wreck of the Edmund Pevensie." I don't get it. He gets high on Turkish delight and then splits the Dawn Treader in two during a November gale. Bfd.
Now, if he'd managed to snuff that annoying talking mouse, that'd be something to be proud of.
Now, if he'd managed to snuff that annoying talking mouse, that'd be something to be proud of.
Sportsball talk:
I hope the NY football Giants have learned their lesson and that next time they hire a coach he won't look like a scruffy H. Jon Benjamin.
Archer has many virtues, but a football coach he is not.
I hope the NY football Giants have learned their lesson and that next time they hire a coach he won't look like a scruffy H. Jon Benjamin.
Archer has many virtues, but a football coach he is not.
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Sportsball talk:
I hope the NY football Giants have learned their lesson and that next time they hire a coach he won't look like a scruffy H. Jon Benjamin.
Archer has many virtues, but a football coach he is not.
I hope the NY football Giants have learned their lesson and that next time they hire a coach he won't look like a scruffy H. Jon Benjamin.
Archer has many virtues, but a football coach he is not.
ICYMI:
I uploaded a new episode of the podcast yesterday:
www.patreon.com/posts/500-is...
It's long (1 hr 40 min), but I think it's my best episode so far. It's about Tijuana Bibles, but about a lot more than just those:
I uploaded a new episode of the podcast yesterday:
www.patreon.com/posts/500-is...
It's long (1 hr 40 min), but I think it's my best episode so far. It's about Tijuana Bibles, but about a lot more than just those:
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
ICYMI:
I uploaded a new episode of the podcast yesterday:
www.patreon.com/posts/500-is...
It's long (1 hr 40 min), but I think it's my best episode so far. It's about Tijuana Bibles, but about a lot more than just those:
I uploaded a new episode of the podcast yesterday:
www.patreon.com/posts/500-is...
It's long (1 hr 40 min), but I think it's my best episode so far. It's about Tijuana Bibles, but about a lot more than just those:
One thing I don't hear or read academics discussing enough is the sheer weirdness that results from the entire world having access to your work via the Internet. I can't be the only one who ends up being cited in works about subjects that I barely recognize, much less am citable in.
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
One thing I don't hear or read academics discussing enough is the sheer weirdness that results from the entire world having access to your work via the Internet. I can't be the only one who ends up being cited in works about subjects that I barely recognize, much less am citable in.
Huh. Well, good for Wolf! (And good that Disney was professional about this).
www.imnotbad.com/2025/11/roge...
www.imnotbad.com/2025/11/roge...
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Huh. Well, good for Wolf! (And good that Disney was professional about this).
www.imnotbad.com/2025/11/roge...
www.imnotbad.com/2025/11/roge...
I cannot, of course, call for anyone's death here, because I'd get in a lot trouble.
But I will say that I hope God's punishment for the creators & propagators of the 50-year-mortgage is both swift and agonizing.
But I will say that I hope God's punishment for the creators & propagators of the 50-year-mortgage is both swift and agonizing.
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I cannot, of course, call for anyone's death here, because I'd get in a lot trouble.
But I will say that I hope God's punishment for the creators & propagators of the 50-year-mortgage is both swift and agonizing.
But I will say that I hope God's punishment for the creators & propagators of the 50-year-mortgage is both swift and agonizing.
New episode of the podcast just went up!
www.patreon.com/posts/143190...
This one on the Tijuana Bibles. 1 hour 40 minutes, and my best work so far, I think. An everything-and-the-kitchen-sink episode, since once you get going on the Bibles there's a lot that is relevant to it.
www.patreon.com/posts/143190...
This one on the Tijuana Bibles. 1 hour 40 minutes, and my best work so far, I think. An everything-and-the-kitchen-sink episode, since once you get going on the Bibles there's a lot that is relevant to it.
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New episode of the podcast just went up!
www.patreon.com/posts/143190...
This one on the Tijuana Bibles. 1 hour 40 minutes, and my best work so far, I think. An everything-and-the-kitchen-sink episode, since once you get going on the Bibles there's a lot that is relevant to it.
www.patreon.com/posts/143190...
This one on the Tijuana Bibles. 1 hour 40 minutes, and my best work so far, I think. An everything-and-the-kitchen-sink episode, since once you get going on the Bibles there's a lot that is relevant to it.
God set a flower on the Internet's head. Sometimes it is good to us:
Such as abclegaldocs.com/blog-Colorad..., a website for notaries in Colorado with a lot of information & links.
On that site is this:
abclegaldocs.com/blog-Colorad...
about, yep, notaries in Sumeria.
Such as abclegaldocs.com/blog-Colorad..., a website for notaries in Colorado with a lot of information & links.
On that site is this:
abclegaldocs.com/blog-Colorad...
about, yep, notaries in Sumeria.
November 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
God set a flower on the Internet's head. Sometimes it is good to us:
Such as abclegaldocs.com/blog-Colorad..., a website for notaries in Colorado with a lot of information & links.
On that site is this:
abclegaldocs.com/blog-Colorad...
about, yep, notaries in Sumeria.
Such as abclegaldocs.com/blog-Colorad..., a website for notaries in Colorado with a lot of information & links.
On that site is this:
abclegaldocs.com/blog-Colorad...
about, yep, notaries in Sumeria.
*Man*, were the Assyrians judgmental!
"Šumma sin-ništu kinsaša ba-‘-la"
"if a woman's calves are abnormally large"
"Šumma ka bun-su ba-‘-la"
"if his nostrils are abnormally large"
"Šumma sin-ništu kinsaša ba-‘-la"
"if a woman's calves are abnormally large"
"Šumma ka bun-su ba-‘-la"
"if his nostrils are abnormally large"
November 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
*Man*, were the Assyrians judgmental!
"Šumma sin-ništu kinsaša ba-‘-la"
"if a woman's calves are abnormally large"
"Šumma ka bun-su ba-‘-la"
"if his nostrils are abnormally large"
"Šumma sin-ništu kinsaša ba-‘-la"
"if a woman's calves are abnormally large"
"Šumma ka bun-su ba-‘-la"
"if his nostrils are abnormally large"
Sometimes you find wisdom where you least expect it.
Was just scrolling through Facebook (don't judge) and saw a picture of a woman checking her makeup. The caption, however, was "If you can't picture her throwing a lit Molotov, she's not the one," and, yes, that is correct, sir/ma'am/other.
Was just scrolling through Facebook (don't judge) and saw a picture of a woman checking her makeup. The caption, however, was "If you can't picture her throwing a lit Molotov, she's not the one," and, yes, that is correct, sir/ma'am/other.
November 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Sometimes you find wisdom where you least expect it.
Was just scrolling through Facebook (don't judge) and saw a picture of a woman checking her makeup. The caption, however, was "If you can't picture her throwing a lit Molotov, she's not the one," and, yes, that is correct, sir/ma'am/other.
Was just scrolling through Facebook (don't judge) and saw a picture of a woman checking her makeup. The caption, however, was "If you can't picture her throwing a lit Molotov, she's not the one," and, yes, that is correct, sir/ma'am/other.
I know we've all got a lot on our minds and the gusher of news doesn't stop for anybody, but....
Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I know we've all got a lot on our minds and the gusher of news doesn't stop for anybody, but....
Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
"The baguette faces an uncertain future."
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/t...
I don't know how, but I'm sure this is Trump's fault. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I WILL NOT ALLOW THAT ORANGE-FACED SUPPURATING BOIL TO DESTROY EVERY LAST THING THAT IS GOOD AND PROPER IN THIS WORLD.
THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN *HERE.*
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/t...
I don't know how, but I'm sure this is Trump's fault. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I WILL NOT ALLOW THAT ORANGE-FACED SUPPURATING BOIL TO DESTROY EVERY LAST THING THAT IS GOOD AND PROPER IN THIS WORLD.
THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN *HERE.*
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"The baguette faces an uncertain future."
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/t...
I don't know how, but I'm sure this is Trump's fault. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I WILL NOT ALLOW THAT ORANGE-FACED SUPPURATING BOIL TO DESTROY EVERY LAST THING THAT IS GOOD AND PROPER IN THIS WORLD.
THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN *HERE.*
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/t...
I don't know how, but I'm sure this is Trump's fault. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I WILL NOT ALLOW THAT ORANGE-FACED SUPPURATING BOIL TO DESTROY EVERY LAST THING THAT IS GOOD AND PROPER IN THIS WORLD.
THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN *HERE.*
Sometimes people ask me how my wife feels about me launching into historical lectures about popular culture at random moments, essentially triggered by a single word.
I asked my wife about how linen used to be dyed and got a concise, well-phrased historical lecture with several good examples.
I asked my wife about how linen used to be dyed and got a concise, well-phrased historical lecture with several good examples.
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Sometimes people ask me how my wife feels about me launching into historical lectures about popular culture at random moments, essentially triggered by a single word.
I asked my wife about how linen used to be dyed and got a concise, well-phrased historical lecture with several good examples.
I asked my wife about how linen used to be dyed and got a concise, well-phrased historical lecture with several good examples.
I'll be honest, I lost interest in GDT's FRANKENSTEIN when I learned it would be ignoring an integral part of the original novel.
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I'll be honest, I lost interest in GDT's FRANKENSTEIN when I learned it would be ignoring an integral part of the original novel.
Sometimes I fantasize about traveling into the world of The Crown during its first season, kidnapping Tommy Lascelles, bringing him back to our world, and setting him loose on the Trump White House.
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Sometimes I fantasize about traveling into the world of The Crown during its first season, kidnapping Tommy Lascelles, bringing him back to our world, and setting him loose on the Trump White House.