I'm trying to practice my Hebrew cursive reading skills by deciphering marginalia in books. This turns out to basically be Nightmare Difficulty Level cursive-readings practice, but it's weirdly fun in a cryptographic kind of way.
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Sarah/Lou (they/them) Library cataloger, Jewish, queer, full of anxiety. Passions: voting rights, knitting, spinning, birds, odd pets, Yiddish. Spider pics.
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Actually, my coworker who fixed it *is* married. And quite possibly over 40. I don't think that rule had lesbians in mind, though ;-)
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There's something kind of hilarious about a book on Kabballah that's missing almost all its fixed fields. "We're sorry, you must be over 40 and married to know anything about this book". :-b
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kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/soft-c This cinnamon roll recipe, only fill with brown sugar, kumquats, and cranberries, coarsely chopped. Perfection. Both fruits have enough bitterness to be perfectly balanced by all the sugar.
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As far as I can tell, it should be possible to get them from "be very careful if you use one at all" to "just please don't hug the stove when it's on, 'k?", but there's no particular reason for stove makers to put in the work since it's genuinely harmless for most people.
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My one contribution to the current Discourse on gas stoves is that I really hope some of this commotion will inspire makers of induction cooktops to make them safer for people with pacemakers.
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Rather than assuming that all anxiety is inherently irrational and due to malfunctioning brain chemistry and thought patterns, and that nothing going on could possibly be *that* bad.
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It was so refreshing to finally find a therapist who I could be scared to about the state of the world and have her go "yes, that anxiety is very reasonable, this event is frightening, let's find ways for you to cope with that".
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My dr’s office has added an anxiety score as part of intake screening and I will not be that wiseass who writes “Yes I am aware of the general state of things.”
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This book stamp thanks someone for his true comradeship in the Poached Egg Action of Channukah 5698. I...assume there's either an idiom happening here or there's been some semantic drift since 1938, but in my heart this means he was in charge of the snacks.
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(And yes, it had a library! A weird, upsetting combination of Potemkin-village-set-dressing and warehouse for stolen books, but still a library.)
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I now know what two different bookstamps from the Terezin ghetto library look like and I'm not entirely sure how to cope with having that information in my head.
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I just pulled this because it had a cataloging error and it turns out to be a Reconstructionist siddur signed by three of the founders of Reconstructionism!
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I seem to have hit a critical mass of N-zi bookstamps where, while it's still giving me nightmares, I am now at the point of making jokes about collecting the whole set like terrible cursed Pokemon.
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Just checked and yes, that is still the title of record. Drs Barclay and Brigham, I realize you are either kicking yourselves or very angry at Elsevier for their typo, but thank you for the glorious mental image of echolocating insectivorous hats.
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(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video.
Well, I have good news.
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Shopping for a WiFi router:
We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
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(Seriously, go do an image search for globular springtails, especially if you need cheering up. Yes, they really look like that.)
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In all seriousness, a major way and I express love is by going "look I found/learned a cool thing and I want to show you!!". If I start babbling to you about globular springtails, this is me trying to make friends or possibly flirt.
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Thread is a delightful conversation between mech pilots
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Absolutely they do. Honestly there’s probably a fair few who finish up the launch sequence and get into action to then realize they have no recollection of anything between the half-remembered briefing and this moment
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Ordered quesadillas from the new campus dining services, and while the dish itself was perfectly serviceable, the salsa was the saddest, blandest salsa I have ever eaten. I was almost impressed. It didn't even taste like tomatoes.
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Eurrrrgh, never bind your books in suede! When it gets all dried and red-rot-ish the texture is just uniquely terrible and kicks up clouds of red dust as if from some sort of horrible book fungus.
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This project involves looking at a lot of very old books. On the one hand, it is genuinely awe-inspiring to hold this much history. On the other, history is apparently dusty, falling apart, and sometimes weirdly sticky.
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the first checkmark, blue, indicates you’ve paid for it while the second, official, is verification. the third checkmark, kibeth, is a difficult and contrary one that can make others go where you wish while the fourth, dyrim, is a musical checkmark that allows or prevents speech
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this is one of those things that I feel should go without saying but please do not butter your books because we cannot buy books which are covered in butter, if you are worried about wormholes that is reasonable but there is no way that buttering it will help
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Ok this WASN’T me but when I was a junior in college I made the catastrophic mistake of underestimating the athleticism of crabs and about 300 crabs got loose in the basement of the biology building and it was 100% my bad twitter.com/reesewaters/st
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According to the deeply weird dream I had last night, the only people who can stop Elon Musk from taking over the world are black children's book authors. This...seems not implausible, but an unfair weight to put on them.
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, this seems relevant to your interests
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This one is quite possibly my favorite of the lot, because it's clearly marketed as a treatment for hysteria in men:
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These are all from Ciba Symposia, a medical history journal of dubious scientific value produced by a pharmaceuticals company, from issues in late 1939 through 1944:
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