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St John Karp
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Librarian, archivist, Egyptologist, ornamental hermit. Talk archives and mummies to me.

Opinions are my own and not those of the Divine Zorb, whose numinous wrath sometimes speaks through me.
Vladimir Putin in a red dress.
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The last LGBTQ+ community space in Vermont shut down so my friend opened a queer library and hangout space! With his own money! Check out Little Queery, it's amazing and adorable.

www.littlequeery.com

#Libraries #LGBTQ #Queer
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Exciting news for #archivists and #DoctorWho fans: the University of York has acquired Terrance Dicks' papers.

www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Good morning Neshuu! Creeping round the corner. We call him Neshuu because, even though it's a reproduction of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus, the bogus hieroglyphs in the cartouche are three cups. Hence his name must be "nšw.w" (cups).

#Egyptology
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
When I open the door of my sarcophagus cabinet, it looks like it's creeping on me from around the corner.
November 18, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I love a good bitchy book review.

"excellent deck-chair reading"

"The short-comings of the work may be summed up in the statement that Mr. Baikie is not an Egyptologist."

"Is it too much to ask that he postpone the writing of his next Egyptological book?"

#Books #Egyptology
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
From the #archives of the #TimeLibrary: a watchmaker from about 1887. You can't tell me John Krasinski is not a time traveller.

#Libraries
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Currently reading this volume of pure joy: "Life Among the Savages" by Shirley Jackson. America's queen of psychological horror and alienation writes a humorous memoir about raising her feral kids.

#Books
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#WristCheck today for the time librarian: a mid-70s Hamilton QED II.

#Watches #WristWatches
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
¿Por qué no los dos?
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I'm a day late but I don't care. She went down for the count!
November 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Today from the #archives of the #TimeLibrary! WTF is going on here?

#Libraries #Librarians #Archivists
October 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Amazing! But never forget...
October 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I love that he's a style icon now! I'll always remember him like this.
October 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Ah yep. The collaboration he did with Lillian Wayne is a classic. She's such a class act.
October 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Also the person who warns them away at the start. Like this queen from Puppet Master II:

“You know what’s good for you, you’ll stay away from that hotel. They say Satan’s got a suite o’ rooms in there, and brimstone comes out of the chimneys at night and it smells like roasting entrails.”
October 5, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Went to the gym this morning. Now this gonna be me for the rest of the day.
September 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Yesterday from the archives of the #TimeLibrary.
September 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
She also released a couple of albums of dirty songs. What a legend.
September 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Captain Fantastic?
September 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Unpopular opinion, I know, but this is why I've always thought the Ice Warriors are quite sexy. Gimme that icy bootus.

#DoctorWho
August 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
What turkey is secretly really good?

My vote is "Hudson Hawk" (1991). Look at Sandra Bernhard! I will watch that magic woman in anything.
August 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Ox Boffice.
August 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
August 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM