Keith Manuel
@keithamanuel
Neurodivergent librarian & writer ♐️📚🏳️🌈 they/them 💛🤍💜🖤 All opinions my own, not my employer's
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (2000) So many good quotes and pretty decent play. Those hand-drawn portraits were good too. A broken future, carried to the stars.
The Ghosts of the Slain is one of the HathiTrust highlighted items. Published in Manchester in 1915, apparently by a Labour MP with some evocative woodcuts babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu...
All that remains of a boule of fresh bread that I lovingly made for my small household. Just flour, water, yeast, salt that brought happiness.
Okay, YouTube, I skip all your ads then you create me a playlist and put "Happy Shiny People" and follow it with "Runaway Train".... Uh, maybe we should break up. For real this time. I can't take the emotional rollercoaster.
Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender with one image.
Enjoy some open access art from NASA & JPL www.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/vi...
Listening to this album today. It was a whole buck at a vintage store. One scratch but I can live with that. Ad-free, analog music is what I needed today. And check out that poncho on the back cover 😍
Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈 Happy Caribbean Heritage Month! Do you know about the Gay Freedom Movement (Jamaica 🇯🇲) digital archive? The papers of Larry Chang, editor of the Jamaica Gaily News in the 1980s. All open access! 🔓 dloc.com/collections/...
The geography named by humans for Pluto is good. It's fine. But Charon has the geekiest place names and we must protect it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Napoleon famously said, "don't interrupt your enemy if he is making a mistake", then K said, "let's sit here while he makes a mistake, oh here it comes." Unnecessary war of attrition but at what cost? And it had some weird repercussions. And here it is on the graph (source: Wikipedia)
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. Spoilers if you haven't read it but check this out. It's a complicated moment for Breq, but I felt a little like maybe this is what home could look like? A little?
What follows are a lot of early 19th century British plant lore, including the famous language of flowers that also includes other parts of the plant... Charity is represented by the humble turnip because love, the sort of caring trying to keep you alive love, well is humble and solid I suppose?
Now this is a fine dedication page. "To the poets and painters of Great Britain"
Looky this lovely cover page. Some gorgeous work done by a human, isn't it? 💜
Though far from perfect, George Washington was right in warning the country against political parties, among other things. From his farewell address.
Your #history bit for today: In 1820, a Mr. Carlisle was on trial for publishing Thomas Paine's Age of Reason in the UK. He read the entirety of the book at his trial, and his wife published the court transcript! From the Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC), Chronicling America
Spain is digitizing a lot of historical archival and print resources. Lots. In 1817, Felipe Fatio, the Spanish consul in Philadelphia, made drawings of early flags of Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia...To identify pirates operating out of Texas. pares.mcu.es/ParesBusqued... Guess which one this is!
Read the print and now I am doing the audio. COUNTESS by the one and only @sillysyntax.bsky.social and read expertly by Chanté McCormick. My work week is improving 💜
Niche academic research. Catherine the Great had a project for a universal dictionary of human languages. Her death and the French Revolution put an end to this grand Enlightenment endeavor.
In The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c.1510), Gerard David shows Joseph trying to provide for his family while Mary rests with Jesus. The painting is now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
I am trying to read more in print so picked up Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa. Our library has all 27 volumes! I watched the anime a few years ago but never read the manga. Let's go!