floating in space

April // Willits, CA // Future librarian & recent MLIS grad.Likes colored hair, tea, and 50s dresses.

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Finally, an update.

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This is literally my life

[tommy-siegel]

it’s that easy!

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Roads of the Lake District

www.danielcasson.co

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Peder Severin Krøyer (1851-1909), Roses - 1893

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Arthur Loureiro / Australia 1853–1932

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Paris, France

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The earth in space.  The beauty of the heavens. 1842.

Internet Archive

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[joli--coeur]

repeat after me:

i am deserving.

i am needed.

i am loved.

i am healing.

i am blooming.

— k.e.

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Just a selection of gorgeous publishers cloth bindings from @smithsonianlibraries !✨ Though the majority of these bindings are space-themed, I couldn’t resist including the one about electricity. I just love that typeface!

Publishers cloth bindings emerged in the early to mid-19th century as an alternative to more traditional bindings covered in materials like leather or vellum. As the name suggests, these bindings were supplied by the publisher– a giant leap forward compared to earlier book production, where the buyer of a book would have to take it to have it bound AFTER its purchase! As machines began to play more of a role in book production in the Industrial Revolution, publishers realized they could make their books look more uniform and visually appealing (as well as cheaper!) if they put them in a cloth “case” before they hit the shelves. These “case bindings” were not as structurally sound as binding styles of the past, but with the development of stronger textiles, many were sufficient to survive and enter libraries and collections all over the world!

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Details at Inbal Dror Bridal 2019

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I looked this up because there was no link and I wanted to make sure this wasn’t a case of someone just taking a headline and running with it, and uh:

Here’s an article from the New York Times detailing the allegations of forced labor in these places.

Here’s another NY Times article with statements an official (Shohrat Zakir) from the Xinjiang region of China (northwestern part of the country, where these camps are) about how this is “humane” because in exchange for rejecting Islam I guess these people get air conditioned bedrooms and cafeteria food.

An article from The Guardian with quotes from residents of Hotan, including the haunting words of a former resident, Adil Awut: “We have a saying in Hotan: If you go into a concentration camp in Luopu, you never come out.”

And a Washington Post article detailing the reaction of Saudi officials to the internment of Chinese Muslims because two fascists with conspiracy to commit genocide are better than one I guess.

[vladtheunfollower]

‘Cornrows, Afropuffs and Joy’, 2008 Brooklyn, NY, by Sierra Leonian photographer Adama Delphine Fawundu

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The picture, taken in 1955, shows a book van on the Labadi beach, near Accra, Ghana More

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Good post

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Reblog to piss off a nazi

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Fuck Nazis. and fuck anybody who sympathizes with Nazis.

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