Steven Van Impe
@svanimpe.bsky.social
Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
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January 3, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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browsing the internet used to feel like you were uncovering hidden new zones and getting rid of fog of war now it’s like a bunch of cannibal maniacs are chasing after you with crossbows trying to roast you alive
January 3, 2026 at 1:26 AM
browsing the internet used to feel like you were uncovering hidden new zones and getting rid of fog of war now it’s like a bunch of cannibal maniacs are chasing after you with crossbows trying to roast you alive
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Anyone know where the manuscripts from the Aggsbach Kartause (Austria) ended up?
January 3, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Anyone know where the manuscripts from the Aggsbach Kartause (Austria) ended up?
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HEY WRITERS! Do any of you write creative nonfiction, particular sort of shorter form humor/memoir sort of stuff? I'm looking for some basic craft resources to share with someone else & this is not my area!
January 2, 2026 at 8:06 PM
HEY WRITERS! Do any of you write creative nonfiction, particular sort of shorter form humor/memoir sort of stuff? I'm looking for some basic craft resources to share with someone else & this is not my area!
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In this Year of Reading, a gentle reminder:
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
January 2, 2026 at 7:23 PM
In this Year of Reading, a gentle reminder:
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
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This and the replies under it are an amazing example of how badly Americans hate both children and educators. You want children to take standardized tests every month and be able to fight off an armed school mate, but also be able to do everything their great grandparents did. Adults are exhausting.
It's 2026.
Things many American school kids probably don't know how to do:
* Dial a rotary telephone
* Tell time from an analog clock
* Read or write cursive
* Decipher Roman numerals
* Navigate with a paper map or use a compass
* Balance a checkbook
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Things many American school kids probably don't know how to do:
* Dial a rotary telephone
* Tell time from an analog clock
* Read or write cursive
* Decipher Roman numerals
* Navigate with a paper map or use a compass
* Balance a checkbook
(Please add more below)
January 2, 2026 at 5:25 PM
This and the replies under it are an amazing example of how badly Americans hate both children and educators. You want children to take standardized tests every month and be able to fight off an armed school mate, but also be able to do everything their great grandparents did. Adults are exhausting.
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Does anyone know the origin of Isaiah Thomas’s Long Primer no. IV? I don’t find it in any Caslon specimens that I have to hand.
January 2, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Does anyone know the origin of Isaiah Thomas’s Long Primer no. IV? I don’t find it in any Caslon specimens that I have to hand.
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(gay truffle hunter with a cold) send a dig pig
January 2, 2026 at 4:18 PM
(gay truffle hunter with a cold) send a dig pig
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January 2, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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At what point will a brave university simply tell its staff to stop applying for grants, and just fund their research or give them time to write instead. I'm sure it would cost less than all that wasted staff time.
'ok I'll read one article on something before starting on my grant proposal'
the article:
the article:
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
January 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
At what point will a brave university simply tell its staff to stop applying for grants, and just fund their research or give them time to write instead. I'm sure it would cost less than all that wasted staff time.
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They gentrified the tinfoil hat
January 1, 2026 at 8:57 PM
They gentrified the tinfoil hat
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I wanted to make a lemon pig
but I didn’t have lemons
or toothpicks
now I’ve gone and summoned the spirit of Dali and will have a surrealist year ☹️
but I didn’t have lemons
or toothpicks
now I’ve gone and summoned the spirit of Dali and will have a surrealist year ☹️
January 2, 2026 at 4:10 AM
I wanted to make a lemon pig
but I didn’t have lemons
or toothpicks
now I’ve gone and summoned the spirit of Dali and will have a surrealist year ☹️
but I didn’t have lemons
or toothpicks
now I’ve gone and summoned the spirit of Dali and will have a surrealist year ☹️
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Reading a not very good article and came across this FASCINATING line: "For a long time, since many people who owned books could not read them, the physical nature of books was more important than their [...] content." Girl WHAT
January 1, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Reading a not very good article and came across this FASCINATING line: "For a long time, since many people who owned books could not read them, the physical nature of books was more important than their [...] content." Girl WHAT
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Far below, an ancient being made of black diamonds and mercury stirs in darkness.
It glances at the stalactite it uses to mark time. The hour has come to get up and burn the cities of the earth.
But evil also procrastinates. It rolls over and goes back to sleep. And we all live for another year.
It glances at the stalactite it uses to mark time. The hour has come to get up and burn the cities of the earth.
But evil also procrastinates. It rolls over and goes back to sleep. And we all live for another year.
January 2, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Far below, an ancient being made of black diamonds and mercury stirs in darkness.
It glances at the stalactite it uses to mark time. The hour has come to get up and burn the cities of the earth.
But evil also procrastinates. It rolls over and goes back to sleep. And we all live for another year.
It glances at the stalactite it uses to mark time. The hour has come to get up and burn the cities of the earth.
But evil also procrastinates. It rolls over and goes back to sleep. And we all live for another year.
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insanely cool outfits, speechless
January 1, 2026 at 7:54 PM
insanely cool outfits, speechless
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My 2026 resolution is to take things more personally. I learned this by reading Moby-Dick.
January 1, 2026 at 4:27 PM
My 2026 resolution is to take things more personally. I learned this by reading Moby-Dick.
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The Old Drift (Namwali Serpell) is a Great African Novel! A genre-bending family epic intertwining the life of women from three multi-racial generations with the history of Zambia.
On par with Mann's Buddenbrooks, for me; clearly mirrors Márquez. And a debut novel!
(Dutch: De Rook die Dondert)
On par with Mann's Buddenbrooks, for me; clearly mirrors Márquez. And a debut novel!
(Dutch: De Rook die Dondert)
January 1, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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László Moholy-Nagy, '7 a.m. (New Year’s Morning)' (circa 1930)
January 1, 2026 at 9:13 AM
László Moholy-Nagy, '7 a.m. (New Year’s Morning)' (circa 1930)
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A few months ago I got the story of a duck who aspires to curling greatness stuck in my brain and simply couldn't get it out until I did this
January 1, 2026 at 5:12 PM
A few months ago I got the story of a duck who aspires to curling greatness stuck in my brain and simply couldn't get it out until I did this
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There are no uninteresting topics. Only uninteresting historians.
January 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
There are no uninteresting topics. Only uninteresting historians.
Happy Feast of the Circumcision of the Lord to those who celebrate! 👶
January 1, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Happy Feast of the Circumcision of the Lord to those who celebrate! 👶
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A gay man conducting a piece called "Rainbow Waltz" composed by a Black woman. In one of the most hallowed halls of highbrow culture.
I wish everyone who deserves it A Very Happy Exploding Head/Heart-Attack!
#Neujahrskonzert
I wish everyone who deserves it A Very Happy Exploding Head/Heart-Attack!
#Neujahrskonzert
January 1, 2026 at 11:51 AM
A gay man conducting a piece called "Rainbow Waltz" composed by a Black woman. In one of the most hallowed halls of highbrow culture.
I wish everyone who deserves it A Very Happy Exploding Head/Heart-Attack!
#Neujahrskonzert
I wish everyone who deserves it A Very Happy Exploding Head/Heart-Attack!
#Neujahrskonzert
First successful New Year's resolution: had second breakfast!
January 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM
First successful New Year's resolution: had second breakfast!
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Don’t worry gang, no one actually starts their New Year’s resolutions on the 1st. And you’d be silly to begin on a Friday, best save it for Monday. But Monday is the 5th so you’ve kind of missed the boat anyway and can safely put it off for next year.
January 1, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Don’t worry gang, no one actually starts their New Year’s resolutions on the 1st. And you’d be silly to begin on a Friday, best save it for Monday. But Monday is the 5th so you’ve kind of missed the boat anyway and can safely put it off for next year.