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Me on every holiday:

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Me on every holiday:

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rclatterbuck
124 days ago
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Sen does a great job of evoking a deflating balloon here
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gettingnutsfromsquirrels:

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rclatterbuck
266 days ago
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The llama has a point
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geekybibliophile: vinceaddams:alibrariangoestoikea:alibrariangoestoikea:I was working with an item...

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vinceaddams:

alibrariangoestoikea:

alibrariangoestoikea:

I was working with an item today that just utterly flabbergasted a part of me (the other was deeply frustrated with the catalogue record AS SOMEONE APPARENTLY THOUGHT IT WAS PRINTED ON SILK, coming back to that in a minute) … but ANYWAYS … said item is a replica of a medieval manuscript prayer book THAT IS ENTIRELY WOVEN out of grey and black silk … WOVEN … text, images, intricate grey scale, WOVEN … NOT PRINTED …

And it’s flabbergasting because it’s from 1888, Jacquard machine, IT USED PUNCH CARDS to weave these intricate pages … something like 400 weft per near square inch … IT looks like a page of textured paper, but it’s not, it’s entirely SILK … F*CK …

Anyways …

OKS I’ve since calmed down and found out that the reason they used “printed” is because it is essentially printed by a computer … in a weird way; when I import the record, I’m just gonna take that note out …

BUT this is the item btw

WOVEN! WOVEN ON A LOOM using f*ckin’ punch cards!

This portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard was also woven with punch cards in 1839!

@zombeesknees

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rclatterbuck
314 days ago
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ridingsloth
314 days ago
CNC silks!
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Ten Years of Existential Comics

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rclatterbuck
359 days ago
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jepler
359 days ago
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welp
Earth, Sol system, Western spiral arm
sfrazer
359 days ago
worth it
details0
359 days ago
@sfrazer - totally!

It’s Official: The DOJ Stalled the Investigation Into Donald Trump

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Elie Mystal

Merrick Garland has long claimed he’s been methodically building his investigation into January 6 from the bottom up—but a Washington Post exposé shows otherwise.

The post It’s Official: The DOJ Stalled the Investigation Into Donald Trump appeared first on The Nation.

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Tennessee Republicans Are Showing Exactly How Deep American Racism Goes

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Elie Mystal

The Republicans’ attempt to push two Black legislators out of the Tennessee statehouse was an object lesson in bigotry.

The post Tennessee Republicans Are Showing Exactly How Deep American Racism Goes appeared first on The Nation.

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