* ha ha ha ha *
The year is 1503, and this jester is laughing at you from his woodcut, reader! #hahahaha
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Daniel Bellingradt
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hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor "Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte (JbKG) | Vertrauensdozent @boeckler_de@mastodon.world | Alumnus FU + HU Berlin + Gerda Henkel Stiftung | born at 338 ppm | Once gave a lecture on a train | I do enjoy my work
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Learn a German word with impetus today: Hitzefrei.
Literally translates as „heat free“, and means you should get time off from work or school or whatever you do because it is simply too hot. #hitzefrei
By the way, if shouted, the word becomes a weapon: HITZEFREI!
One guy in Nebraska, the #earlymodern edition. #nebraska
YouTubers, (most of) your videos start all look the same. Is it the same boring genAI prompt for all your images, or are you just bored to create something that looks different? We are living in an attention economy, and your answer is really uniformity? Consider me laughing.
Flood the zone with all the same images is not part of the future. You make yourself irrelevant
I feel sorry for your creativity.
#Youtube #genAI
Yesterday’s news included the university library of Hamburg lacking funding for new books, and a famous Oxford library starting a partnership with OpenAI. That’s both unpleasant.
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You all know that there is a scientific journal devoted to #algae, right? It is open access, running since 1986, peer-reviewed and published by the Korean Society of Phycology. It’s current issue is from June 2026:
https://www.e-algae.org/m/
#ReflectingPool
What's troubling you, little half Edvard Munch-styled half Super Mario inspired sea monster, screaming in a sixteenth-century map of the Indian Ocean? Tell us, how are you doing, little fella?
#maps #HistoricalMaps #nintendo #monsterdon
Looks like text mining before the age of LLM training, but is in fact: bibliophagy - the habit of voracious reading: like "eating" a book.
The page with the highlighhted woodcut detail of St. John eating a book was published firstly in Dürer’s Apocalypse (1498), as one of 15 full-page images.
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The flag for China is part of a visual guide of all maritime flags used around 1700 AD: "Flaggen aller seefahrenden Potenzen und Nationen in der gantzen Weldt". Some are rather wild.
Eine Kulturstaatsministerbuchmessenichtbesuchsmeldung fliegt durchs bücherlesende Land.
Erleichterung auf beiden Seiten.
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This great image of a learned man being busy in a scholarly setting was printed in Augsburg 1540. The man depicted is Albertus Magnus, who lived in the 13th century, so this 16th century image is a later imagination of a scholarly working setting.
The quill using and multitasking writing man, also called Albert of Cologne, was a German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, bishop, and some more. #bookhistory
You may find a digital copy of "Das Buch der haymlichkeiten Magni Alberti" over here: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/bsb00014407
How to speed up writing before the computer age. This suggestion of writing with 2 quills came from a schoolmaster and was formulated in 1692 Nuremberg, Germany.
Source: https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/4202/1
What a badass! #Jupiter owns his place in this almanac from 1500.
Performative reading before it became cool. This little satyr surely loved his public reading back then
I like big books an´ I can not lie.
#bookstodon #bookhistory
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All this is from a 1789 German broadside advertising an acrobatic horse riding show of Johann Kolter of the circus Malmström-Kolter.
#bookhistory #horses #histodons #circus
They said, why not start the new book with a spectacular detail like a screaming skull or something, then enter a placeholder text, and wait for the inspiration to finally kick in...
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First rule for the weekend: do things differently. Like the acrobat, Johann Kolter, is doing in this woodcut. And wear feathers.
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Entering the weekend like a human cannon ball: be unstoppable (and still wear your feathers).
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Gotta love it. A convert lecturing the Pope…
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And don't forget to do your #yoga.
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You may find a digital copy of this print - to zoom in - over here:
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/bsb00102757
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The text mentions, among other details, the request not to bring any dogs so that the horses are not alarmed!
You may find a digital copy of this print, for example, over here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1937-0927-3
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For more details: they drove around antimatter in Switzerland.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00950-w
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This too is a ball game. You need to catch it (and have two horses, and wear a hat with feathers).
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Enjoy your nonsense. And if you have a gun and a horse, well, you surely get the idea ...
The blue skies are down. #bluesky
“And is this 'blue hole' you refer to with us in the room now?"