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🐍 PRE-ORDERS OPEN SEP - OCT 12 👓

"CLOSE CALL" is an #otasune #snotacon fanzine centred around Solid Snake & Otacon from the Metal Gear series. Pre-orders are open from now to October 12th! More in thread.

📦 RT for a chance to win a full bundle!
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September 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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🐍 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT👓

Our next writer is @pyrodragon.bsky.social, here to show us that the true weapon to surpass Metal Gear… is a heart-shaped box!

#contributors
August 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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August 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I’m happy to have played a small part in renaming DC’s Swann St after William Dorsey Swann, a former slave, arguably 1st drag queen, & early fighter for queer liberation.

Check out new plaque @ Swann St & New Hampshire.

Read Channing Joseph’s history of Swann: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
August 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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A shovel is a type of spoon for the ground
August 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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From America, Aug 1952: Tangy Vegetable Cooler with Horse-radish Snow Dressing ad from Birds Eye

(+Chopped Spinach and French Style Green Beans)

«Birds Eye Recipe takes the heat out of August Supper-Fixing»
August 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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From America, Aug 1942: The Talk of the Town; Woman of the Year; Penny Serenade, and Red Skelton Show ads

«Harriet Hilliard Singing Star of RED SKELTON'S SHOW»
August 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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From America, Aug 1937: Noiseless Typewriter ad from Remington

(+Free Booklet "20 Typewriting Short Cuts")

«HE'S THE KIND OF HEADACHE THAT ASPIRIN WON'T HELP!»
August 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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This 1911 book shows that taking photos of cats and furnishing them with an amusing caption was a thing long before the internet... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kittens-and-cats-a-first-reader-1911-cats-and-captions-before-the-internet-age #InternationalCatDay
August 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Worn #onthisday in 1954 by Christine Jorgensen--a former American GI who, two years earlier, had become the first person to openly undergo sex reassignment surgery--at her hotel in London, where she was embarking on a variety-show tour to capitalize on her controversial fame. #OTD 📷 Getty Images
August 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Three women workers shown installing the engines on the starboard wing of a Handley-Page Halifax bomber, October 1943.
Ref 1998/83741, London Transport Museum.
August 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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The Amazing Spider-Man Freezicles (1974-1975): A Spiderman themed kit containing fruit juice concentrates and molds shaped like the upper body of characters from the comic book series, so that you could make freezer pops that looked like Spidey himself, as well as Hulk and Captain America
January 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Pyramid of Capitalist System, issued by Nedeljkovich, Brashich, and Kuharich in 1911. Published by The International Pub. Co. , Cleveland OH.
August 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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this is so cute
August 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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From America, Aug 1943: Air Transport ad from Airlines of the United States

(+Passenger Flights; Air Mail; and Air Express)

«THIS, TOO, IS AIR POWER!»
August 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Advert Lucky Dip: From America, Aug 1944: Ad for The Doctor Fights (more at @OldInPrintAds.bsky.social)

«Thanks to PENICILLIN ... He Will Come Home!»
August 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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From America, Aug 1951: Train Travel ad from Pullman

(+Air-conditioned Pullman room and Bed)

«Go Pullman Anybody here you know?»
August 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Advert Lucky Dip: From America, Aug 1948: Hunt's Tomato Sauce ad from Hunt Foods, Inc. (more at @OldInPrintAds.bsky.social)

(+Hunt's Fruits; Hunt's Vegetables; and Stuffed Peppers)

«Special Recipe for families who “don't like hash”»
August 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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August 6, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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The weather forecast today called for exactly five clouds. I thought that seemed weirdly specific but here they are! Postcard from my collection, mailed 1907.
August 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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From the current issue: “Agricultural Workers, Tenant Farmers, and the Midcentury U.S. Welfare State: A View from the Lower Mississippi Valley"

by Samantha Iyer (@fordham.edu)

doi.org/10.1093/past...
Agricultural Workers, Tenant Farmers, and the Midcentury U.S. Welfare State: A View from the Lower Mississippi Valley*
Abstract. This article reconsiders what is often seen as a defining feature of the mid-twentieth-century welfare state in the United States: its exclusion
doi.org
August 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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From America, #Christmas 1941: Clothing & Accessories from Lord & Taylor

(+Luggage set; Peccary pigskin gloves; Argyles from England; Elastic argyle pattern suspenders; White shirt devoté; Handkerchiefs; and Black-tie shirt)
August 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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My favorite British Pathe video is this old clip of Milanese tailor D'Angelo, who came up with an innovative way to change notch lapels into peak lapels and patch pockets into jetted pockets. Totally absurd, of course, but charming nonetheless.
August 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Mars’s hot minion is return’d again
August 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM