Leah Price
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October 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
How I feel whenever I set type. #letterpress
![Street sign: [in large letters] No dumping "littering or distribution of handbills violation of location [in small letters] ordinance"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uy6v7rr25nz67zlay2uspbke/bafkreif2qls54nl77z2k2ybebye5nmscstscsoy5cd2oz3jratrmc5mpoq@jpeg)
September 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
How I feel whenever I set type. #letterpress
The morning is inspiring, the breakfast is hot, the look at the strategic plan is inside: how much oatmeal would it take to bribe a professor to attend a talk by upper management? #foundinanity
September 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The morning is inspiring, the breakfast is hot, the look at the strategic plan is inside: how much oatmeal would it take to bribe a professor to attend a talk by upper management? #foundinanity
Safety training egging the custard: choose between a grammatical statement containing an acronym and an answer containing the advice "if it smells real bad wear gloves". #makerspace #letterpress
![How do you find out about the hazards associated with a chemical or material you are using? [ ] Don't worry about it because all art related chemicals are safe to use
[ ] Find someone else that is working with the same material and ask them
[e] Check the Safety Data Sheet (SDS)
[ ] Smell the material and if it smells real bad use gloves](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uy6v7rr25nz67zlay2uspbke/bafkreiadlupfueahtqnw7ekfbf5sei7ms5lcglrvtmu5si7qathrhk3hiy@jpeg)
September 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Safety training egging the custard: choose between a grammatical statement containing an acronym and an answer containing the advice "if it smells real bad wear gloves". #makerspace #letterpress
Grateful to safety training for making the quiz so painless. #makerspace #letterpress
September 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Grateful to safety training for making the quiz so painless. #makerspace #letterpress
#ice now charging veteran with resisting "orders to disburse" #freudianslip
September 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
#ice now charging veteran with resisting "orders to disburse" #freudianslip
![Screenshot of email with sender redacted: [redacted] would like to recall the message, 'Welcome back.'"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uy6v7rr25nz67zlay2uspbke/bafkreif4zl7flgvlacposxoafyrptmpd5qdcaghlceesguk4pjvmjhzlyu@jpeg)
Does this violate child labor laws?
August 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Does this violate child labor laws?
My town's rec department has outsourced kids' cooking classes to a for-profit that uses "online sponsored classes" as a "marketing platform to build brand loyalty" among 5-year-olds. Their classes, they boast, are "sold out"; so are their souls. #privatization
August 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
My town's rec department has outsourced kids' cooking classes to a for-profit that uses "online sponsored classes" as a "marketing platform to build brand loyalty" among 5-year-olds. Their classes, they boast, are "sold out"; so are their souls. #privatization
Nothing new under the sun: English bees work harder than "sluggard alien bees," according to the Daily Mail on 6 June 1908. #xenophobia #beekeeping
July 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Nothing new under the sun: English bees work harder than "sluggard alien bees," according to the Daily Mail on 6 June 1908. #xenophobia #beekeeping
Wanted: search and replace to change "favorite HR apps" to "apps to which HR most frequently subjects you."
July 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Wanted: search and replace to change "favorite HR apps" to "apps to which HR most frequently subjects you."
WeWork before WeWork: 20thc ad for "modern business centre with work-stations including, if required, secretarial service, metered telephone and dictating and reprographic services." John Johnson Collection. Bodleian library.
July 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
WeWork before WeWork: 20thc ad for "modern business centre with work-stations including, if required, secretarial service, metered telephone and dictating and reprographic services." John Johnson Collection. Bodleian library.
"It is a comfortable circumstance, to consider that the profession of the instructor and of the educator offers few opportunities for dissipation." (John Lalor, "Prize essay on the expediency and means of elevating the profession of the educator in society," 1839.) #academicchatter #teaching
July 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"It is a comfortable circumstance, to consider that the profession of the instructor and of the educator offers few opportunities for dissipation." (John Lalor, "Prize essay on the expediency and means of elevating the profession of the educator in society," 1839.) #academicchatter #teaching
[CW: ICE]
JFC.
JFC.
July 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
[CW: ICE]
JFC.
JFC.
![This is a chicken coup | made a few years ago. As a guide, my son Alex who is in some of the photos is now 13. The chicken coup is still going strong with a few repairs and changes. Step 1: Plan and Quick Guide > L] A Progect e ey @ o —](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uy6v7rr25nz67zlay2uspbke/bafkreiefj5e7tlqgifhorpzkjd2gye3pousipkcfetx2dv2shfzwfie3hu@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
More in corporatespeak: my university employer seems to have outsourced its financial admin to an ERP named....Agresso. @agoldst is this truth in advertising?
June 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
More in corporatespeak: my university employer seems to have outsourced its financial admin to an ERP named....Agresso. @agoldst is this truth in advertising?
My university's expense management portal has a knack for terms of art that could be mistaken for psychobbable.
June 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My university's expense management portal has a knack for terms of art that could be mistaken for psychobbable.
How the British chattering classes describe intellectuals born into non-chattering classes: Exhibit Z.
![Moore (1874-1929). His father was a cultured man who ran a shop in Cambridge that sold pianos and other musical instruments 4] and his son was to retain a respect for him throughout his life. Leavis was educated at The Perse School in Cambridge (in English](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uy6v7rr25nz67zlay2uspbke/bafkreihcuifbleiuqpfb6tl7sgbaxtxxrlfa76ikg5tfz6d2mbb3i6cmoq@jpeg)
June 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
How the British chattering classes describe intellectuals born into non-chattering classes: Exhibit Z.
May 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Has anyone laid hands on the US far-right's bid to bring back fine press books for gentlemen-subscribers? Which is better: the promise of a “sublimely produced object with centerpiece quality” or the mixed metaphor that vouches “what binds this work is its […]
[Original post on historians.social]
[Original post on historians.social]
May 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Has anyone laid hands on the US far-right's bid to bring back fine press books for gentlemen-subscribers? Which is better: the promise of a “sublimely produced object with centerpiece quality” or the mixed metaphor that vouches “what binds this work is its […]
[Original post on historians.social]
[Original post on historians.social]
You've heard of Dr Phil, but have you ever received spam addressed to "Dr DPhil"? Or does only America's #1 faith-based university add that personal touch?
May 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
You've heard of Dr Phil, but have you ever received spam addressed to "Dr DPhil"? Or does only America's #1 faith-based university add that personal touch?