Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜
@lynnemthomas.com
Rare Book #Librarian, bereaved parent of Caitlin, #geek. 12x Hugo Award winner. bi/queer. Head @illinoisrbml.bsky.social; Verity podcast; ex-ed/pub Uncanny Magazine. Baby #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. No auto-follow. #DoctorWho #bookhistory #SFF
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Hello new folks! I see a lot of "Hey, is there a starter pack to help me find [interest/group/my people]?!" Here's a big #directory of #StarterPacks so you don't have to reinvent the wheel! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
Ah, straddles week in flexibility class. We meet again.
I survived, and that is enough.
I survived, and that is enough.
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Ah, straddles week in flexibility class. We meet again.
I survived, and that is enough.
I survived, and that is enough.
Come work here at Illinois! We have two Diversity Residency Visiting positions open. I'm chairing one of the two searches:
www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi... #libraryjobs
www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi... #libraryjobs
Library Diversity Residency Program – General Information – U of I Library
www.library.illinois.edu
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Come work here at Illinois! We have two Diversity Residency Visiting positions open. I'm chairing one of the two searches:
www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi... #libraryjobs
www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi... #libraryjobs
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'It's a lost map!'
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
'It's a lost map!'
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
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So pleased that Paul Needham's recent talk @illinoisrbml.bsky.social is up! Interested to learn more about the progression of his work on the Catholicon... 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYa5...
Paul Needham talk, 10/23/25 - "Gutenberg's Second Invention: The 1460 Mainz Catholicon"
YouTube video by IllinoisRBML
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November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
So pleased that Paul Needham's recent talk @illinoisrbml.bsky.social is up! Interested to learn more about the progression of his work on the Catholicon... 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYa5...
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Breaking news: The Supreme Court has declined to consider a challenge to its landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
The challenge came from a county clerk who stopped issuing marriage licenses shortly after the ruling.
The challenge came from a county clerk who stopped issuing marriage licenses shortly after the ruling.
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to landmark gay marriage ruling
The announcement indicates there is not an appetite among the high court’s conservative majority to revisit one of the court’s most significant decisions in recent years.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Breaking news: The Supreme Court has declined to consider a challenge to its landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
The challenge came from a county clerk who stopped issuing marriage licenses shortly after the ruling.
The challenge came from a county clerk who stopped issuing marriage licenses shortly after the ruling.
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
The Nutella on this morning’s sourdough toast is definitely medicinal.
I only have two flavors of jam open in the fridge (blueberry-lime and sour cherry), which is weird for me, but I have both a move to a new house and an entire #jamvent calendar coming my way soon, so…
I only have two flavors of jam open in the fridge (blueberry-lime and sour cherry), which is weird for me, but I have both a move to a new house and an entire #jamvent calendar coming my way soon, so…
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The Nutella on this morning’s sourdough toast is definitely medicinal.
I only have two flavors of jam open in the fridge (blueberry-lime and sour cherry), which is weird for me, but I have both a move to a new house and an entire #jamvent calendar coming my way soon, so…
I only have two flavors of jam open in the fridge (blueberry-lime and sour cherry), which is weird for me, but I have both a move to a new house and an entire #jamvent calendar coming my way soon, so…
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Remaining on the theme of appropriate autumnal coats, this is a #1930s velvet number bringing all the aesthetics of a luxury pumpkin to the party. A coat padded collar and bottom covering hem for cosiness #FIDMMuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Remaining on the theme of appropriate autumnal coats, this is a #1930s velvet number bringing all the aesthetics of a luxury pumpkin to the party. A coat padded collar and bottom covering hem for cosiness #FIDMMuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
@durbin.senate.gov No one is answering the phones in your office.
Any deal that doesn’t have some sort of guarantees for ACA subsidies, or guarantees period beyond “we swear, this time we’ll play ball” isn’t a deal.
It’s Lucy, holding the football, and you’re Charlie Brown.
No quarter, Senator.
Any deal that doesn’t have some sort of guarantees for ACA subsidies, or guarantees period beyond “we swear, this time we’ll play ball” isn’t a deal.
It’s Lucy, holding the football, and you’re Charlie Brown.
No quarter, Senator.
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
@durbin.senate.gov No one is answering the phones in your office.
Any deal that doesn’t have some sort of guarantees for ACA subsidies, or guarantees period beyond “we swear, this time we’ll play ball” isn’t a deal.
It’s Lucy, holding the football, and you’re Charlie Brown.
No quarter, Senator.
Any deal that doesn’t have some sort of guarantees for ACA subsidies, or guarantees period beyond “we swear, this time we’ll play ball” isn’t a deal.
It’s Lucy, holding the football, and you’re Charlie Brown.
No quarter, Senator.
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Fancy Meeting You Here!
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Fancy Meeting You Here!
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Washington State Library and the Talking Book and Braille Library are closing to the public, 12 jobs getting axed 📚https://washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/washington-state-library-closing-to-the-public-12-jobs-getting-axed/
Washington State Library closing to the public, 12 jobs getting axed • Washington State Standard
Two state-run libraries in Washington will close July 1 due to a lack of funding. Twelve jobs will be eliminated too.
washingtonstatestandard.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Washington State Library and the Talking Book and Braille Library are closing to the public, 12 jobs getting axed 📚https://washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/washington-state-library-closing-to-the-public-12-jobs-getting-axed/
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Does your Special Collections or archives have an email newsletter? I would love to subscribe! Point the way?
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November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Does your Special Collections or archives have an email newsletter? I would love to subscribe! Point the way?
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Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.
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The second Dorothy Gentleman novella is out in March, but you can pre-order now! NOBODY’S BABY is a sapphic sci-fi mystery kicked off with one bone-chilling sentence: A wild baby appears!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Nobody's Baby
Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in the second entry of this cozy sci-fi mystery series, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective.Welcome to ...
us.macmillan.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The second Dorothy Gentleman novella is out in March, but you can pre-order now! NOBODY’S BABY is a sapphic sci-fi mystery kicked off with one bone-chilling sentence: A wild baby appears!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Fun fact: colloquial title for final exhibition case is currently "Loving the Monster (or F***ing it, I'm not picky)" 😅
Jacob Elordi welcoming all the monster fuckers to Netflix today like
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Fun fact: colloquial title for final exhibition case is currently "Loving the Monster (or F***ing it, I'm not picky)" 😅
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Jacob Elordi welcoming all the monster fuckers to Netflix today like
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Jacob Elordi welcoming all the monster fuckers to Netflix today like
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The ADA National Network helps family members of people with disabilities understand the Americans with Disabilities Act. Check out this infographic to learn more! #NationalCaregiversMonth #DisabledCaregivers #PlugIntoCare
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The ADA National Network helps family members of people with disabilities understand the Americans with Disabilities Act. Check out this infographic to learn more! #NationalCaregiversMonth #DisabledCaregivers #PlugIntoCare
Taking no small pleasure in the fact that watching the GDT Frankenstein that just dropped is technically research for the exhibition I'm working on. 😎
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Taking no small pleasure in the fact that watching the GDT Frankenstein that just dropped is technically research for the exhibition I'm working on. 😎
ZOMG I NEED THIS TO BE AVAILABLE IN THE US PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GURINDER CHADHA CHRISTMAS MOVIE GIMME GIMME GIMME
Priyanka Chopra Jonas sings a Desi version of "Last Christmas" for CHRISTMAS KARMA, Gurinder Chadha's musical adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL that is *still* awaiting any kind of confirmed US release info. It opens in UK theaters next weekend (November 14).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zktU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zktU...
Last Christmas (Desi Version) | Christmas Karma (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (from...
YouTube video by SonySoundtracksVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
ZOMG I NEED THIS TO BE AVAILABLE IN THE US PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GURINDER CHADHA CHRISTMAS MOVIE GIMME GIMME GIMME
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Reposting this for #Frankenstein.
This semester I taught Frankenstein which references Paracelsus, actually Pseudo-Paracelsus, and here's how to create a basilisk:
"Then the Basilisk grows and is born out of and from the great impurity/ of women/namely on the menstruum and on the blood of the sperm, 1/x
#earlymodern #16thC
"Then the Basilisk grows and is born out of and from the great impurity/ of women/namely on the menstruum and on the blood of the sperm, 1/x
#earlymodern #16thC
!["[...] von den vnreinen Weibern hat/wie obt ist gemeldet worden. Dann der Basiliseus wächst vnd wurt geboren auß vnnd von der groſſen vnreinigkeit/ der Weiber/nemlich auf dem menstruo vnnd auf dem blut ſpermatis, so dasselbig inn ein glaß vnnd cucurbith gethon/vnd in ventre equino putreficiert, in solcher putrefaction der Bafilise geboren würt. Wer ist aber nun so keck vnnd freudig/denselbigen zumachen/oder auß zunemmen/oder widerumb zu tödten / der sich nit mit ſpiegeln bekleidet vnnd bewahret? ich rhats niemandts/sonder es foll hiemit meniglich gewarnet sein.“
Pseudo-Paracelsus. De Natura Rerum, IX Bücher. Ph. Theophrasti von Hohenheim, genant Paracelsi, bey Bernhart Jobin, 1584, fol. Bv verso.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a4i47lsdoa7usytqshvbiyoc/bafkreiezbs77gkptgub2r5yovoiyjpblgkzbfbkkj6xg2e62ac6sdpwyvm@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Reposting this for #Frankenstein.
Our jobs at @illinoisrbml.bsky.social are so dang cool.
New acquisition: a manuscript copy of a printed biography of a transwoman. France, 1859. (And after this, showing off cool items to Economics faculty…)
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Our jobs at @illinoisrbml.bsky.social are so dang cool.
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Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
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Join us at the Spurlock Museum (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana) on Monday, November 17 from 6-8 pm for a lecture by Dr. Emily Hauser, titled "Finding the Female Voice in the Ancient World." This event is free and all are welcome to attend.
November 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Join us at the Spurlock Museum (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana) on Monday, November 17 from 6-8 pm for a lecture by Dr. Emily Hauser, titled "Finding the Female Voice in the Ancient World." This event is free and all are welcome to attend.
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Welp, time to fess up: I've been lying to you for years. Years!
I've been saying the Milky Way has a flat disk. And it kinda is, but it also very much isn't. It's warped. And corrugated!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
#DoTheArmWave
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I've been saying the Milky Way has a flat disk. And it kinda is, but it also very much isn't. It's warped. And corrugated!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
#DoTheArmWave
🧪🔭
Astronomers Catch the Milky Way Doing the ‘Wave’
Observations show the disk of our galaxy is not flat but warped and waving. Astronomers are still working out the reasons why
www.scientificamerican.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Welp, time to fess up: I've been lying to you for years. Years!
I've been saying the Milky Way has a flat disk. And it kinda is, but it also very much isn't. It's warped. And corrugated!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
#DoTheArmWave
🧪🔭
I've been saying the Milky Way has a flat disk. And it kinda is, but it also very much isn't. It's warped. And corrugated!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
#DoTheArmWave
🧪🔭