Lucretia Baskin
@lucretiab.bsky.social
Rare materials cataloger, contains multitudes.🐍🦇
Postin’ memes, days late
November 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Postin’ memes, days late
They go Well you know,if you wanna talk about it, I'll be here, you know
& you'll probably feel a lot better if you talk about it
So why don't you talk about it?
I go No I don't want to, I'm okay, I'll figure it out myself
But they just keep bugging me
They just keep bugging me & it builds up inside
& you'll probably feel a lot better if you talk about it
So why don't you talk about it?
I go No I don't want to, I'm okay, I'll figure it out myself
But they just keep bugging me
They just keep bugging me & it builds up inside
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
They go Well you know,if you wanna talk about it, I'll be here, you know
& you'll probably feel a lot better if you talk about it
So why don't you talk about it?
I go No I don't want to, I'm okay, I'll figure it out myself
But they just keep bugging me
They just keep bugging me & it builds up inside
& you'll probably feel a lot better if you talk about it
So why don't you talk about it?
I go No I don't want to, I'm okay, I'll figure it out myself
But they just keep bugging me
They just keep bugging me & it builds up inside
A zillion bait boxes around but seems pointless if there’s also a regular rat & sparrow buffet like this.
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A zillion bait boxes around but seems pointless if there’s also a regular rat & sparrow buffet like this.
I guess at least a lot of people are learning a new word?
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I guess at least a lot of people are learning a new word?
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Get on your library board, folks. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Get on your library board, folks. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
My colleagues and I had a busy few weeks, and acquired some wonderful things for BPL’s collections… 🧵
With the Boston International Antiquarian book fair fully in the rear view, here are two early books BPL acquired over the course of that week. We of course added a bunch of other amazing stuff to the collections as well, which I'll detail a bit later . . . 1/7
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My colleagues and I had a busy few weeks, and acquired some wonderful things for BPL’s collections… 🧵
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In Nashville & got to take a tour at Hatch Show Print, which has designed & printed letterpress posters for music shows & other events since 1879.
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In Nashville & got to take a tour at Hatch Show Print, which has designed & printed letterpress posters for music shows & other events since 1879.
This is amazing and I kinda wanna see video of it moving.
This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.
November 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This is amazing and I kinda wanna see video of it moving.
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A few years ago, I wrote a piece about Walker's Appeal, it's various editions, and digitizing archives. A good little intro to a text worthy of a much deeper dive:
daily.jstor.org/comparing-ed...
daily.jstor.org/comparing-ed...
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A few years ago, I wrote a piece about Walker's Appeal, it's various editions, and digitizing archives. A good little intro to a text worthy of a much deeper dive:
daily.jstor.org/comparing-ed...
daily.jstor.org/comparing-ed...
Is it four-year-old-surgical-site pain from nerves deciding to do some more regenerating? Or is it nascent shingles? Super fun trying to figure it out! #giftsthatkeepongiving
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Is it four-year-old-surgical-site pain from nerves deciding to do some more regenerating? Or is it nascent shingles? Super fun trying to figure it out! #giftsthatkeepongiving
Takes a certain kind of perversity to put dairy in a hospital cafe hummus & pita cup. Like, take the usually reliably vegan thing and fuck it up. Thanks, Sodexo. Truly special decision.
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Takes a certain kind of perversity to put dairy in a hospital cafe hummus & pita cup. Like, take the usually reliably vegan thing and fuck it up. Thanks, Sodexo. Truly special decision.
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Chromolithograph and wood engravings of bats from the 1882-84 edition of the German natural history series ‘Brehms Thierleben.’
#chromolithograph #bats #naturalhistory #naturalhistoryillustration #scientificillustration #batart #sciart
#chromolithograph #bats #naturalhistory #naturalhistoryillustration #scientificillustration #batart #sciart
October 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Chromolithograph and wood engravings of bats from the 1882-84 edition of the German natural history series ‘Brehms Thierleben.’
#chromolithograph #bats #naturalhistory #naturalhistoryillustration #scientificillustration #batart #sciart
#chromolithograph #bats #naturalhistory #naturalhistoryillustration #scientificillustration #batart #sciart
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This is amazing and immediately brought to mind Charmaine Wilkerson’s Good Dirt. www.mfa.org/press-releas...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Resolves Ownership of Works by Enslaved Artist David Drake
BOSTON (October 29, 2025)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also k
www.mfa.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
This is amazing and immediately brought to mind Charmaine Wilkerson’s Good Dirt. www.mfa.org/press-releas...
This is important, and apparently the first works in a US museum restituted to the descendants of an enslaved creator.
Archived link: archive.today/2025.10.29-2...
Archived link: archive.today/2025.10.29-2...
In landmark agreement, the MFA restores enslaved potter’s work to descendants - The Boston Globe
The agreement conferring ownership of two ceramic vessels by David Drake sets “a new standard for ethical restitution.”
www.bostonglobe.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This is important, and apparently the first works in a US museum restituted to the descendants of an enslaved creator.
Archived link: archive.today/2025.10.29-2...
Archived link: archive.today/2025.10.29-2...
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Bookpeople!
Does anyone know where I can buy uncut printed sheets to teach basic imposition and format (rather than the DIY sheets I typically print off on 8.5x11)? The Rare Book School's bibliographic format kits appear to be out of stock.
Does anyone know where I can buy uncut printed sheets to teach basic imposition and format (rather than the DIY sheets I typically print off on 8.5x11)? The Rare Book School's bibliographic format kits appear to be out of stock.
October 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Bookpeople!
Does anyone know where I can buy uncut printed sheets to teach basic imposition and format (rather than the DIY sheets I typically print off on 8.5x11)? The Rare Book School's bibliographic format kits appear to be out of stock.
Does anyone know where I can buy uncut printed sheets to teach basic imposition and format (rather than the DIY sheets I typically print off on 8.5x11)? The Rare Book School's bibliographic format kits appear to be out of stock.
Update: didn’t get it right. Underdone middle. :(
It is very difficult to tell if apple cake is done, it turns out. Hope I got it right!
October 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Update: didn’t get it right. Underdone middle. :(
Operation “use up all the apples in the house before they rot” underway.
October 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Operation “use up all the apples in the house before they rot” underway.
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What just fell out of this court record? Pounce! Before blotting paper became available, & for long after too, people used pulverized cuttlefish bone to dry ink. You can it clearly on this inky mess of a signature, together with a piece of contemporary blotting paper for comparison 🗃️ #bookhistory
October 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
What just fell out of this court record? Pounce! Before blotting paper became available, & for long after too, people used pulverized cuttlefish bone to dry ink. You can it clearly on this inky mess of a signature, together with a piece of contemporary blotting paper for comparison 🗃️ #bookhistory
Note to self: add “catalog the pike” to next week’s to-do list...
Boston Public Library holds the “pattern pike” used by John Brown to order arms for the raid. According to BPL records, it passed from Brown to John Hopper (son of Isaac), to William Lloyd Garrison, and thence to the library. Yes, it is SHARP.
October 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Note to self: add “catalog the pike” to next week’s to-do list...
Boston Public Library holds the “pattern pike” used by John Brown to order arms for the raid. According to BPL records, it passed from Brown to John Hopper (son of Isaac), to William Lloyd Garrison, and thence to the library. Yes, it is SHARP.
October 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Boston Public Library holds the “pattern pike” used by John Brown to order arms for the raid. According to BPL records, it passed from Brown to John Hopper (son of Isaac), to William Lloyd Garrison, and thence to the library. Yes, it is SHARP.
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OUT NOW ❤️🔥The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by Dorothy Berry is now available: www.weherespace.org. The first 50 copies sold will be signed.
October 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
OUT NOW ❤️🔥The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by Dorothy Berry is now available: www.weherespace.org. The first 50 copies sold will be signed.
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Oh no no no, this is so awful. He was such an incredible artist and we should have had so much more music from him, even if it was always sporadic. A true goddamn genius gone way way too soon. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
D'Angelo, Soul's Modern Visionary, Dead at 51
D'Angelo, the soul and R&B great whose three albums — 'Brown Sugar,' 'Voodoo,' and 'Black Messiah' — are all revered as modern classics, has died.
www.rollingstone.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Oh no no no, this is so awful. He was such an incredible artist and we should have had so much more music from him, even if it was always sporadic. A true goddamn genius gone way way too soon. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Matthew Wasserbach, brokerage manager of Express Customs Clearance, said of the UPS backlog. “It’s totally unprecedented.”
@cnbc.com $UPS
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
@cnbc.com $UPS
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems
Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.
www.nbcnews.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Matthew Wasserbach, brokerage manager of Express Customs Clearance, said of the UPS backlog. “It’s totally unprecedented.”
@cnbc.com $UPS
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
@cnbc.com $UPS
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
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Here’s a typical bundle of file papers from the Boston Municipal Court archives. It probably hasn’t been unwrapped since it was docketed in 1822. The organization of the sub-layers is significant, & I always photograph bundles so that I can put them back together as I found them. I love this work! 🗃️
October 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Here’s a typical bundle of file papers from the Boston Municipal Court archives. It probably hasn’t been unwrapped since it was docketed in 1822. The organization of the sub-layers is significant, & I always photograph bundles so that I can put them back together as I found them. I love this work! 🗃️