Medievalist, digital humanist, and wannabe booklicker.
I'm here to post memes and yell about manuscripts.
See also @sims-mss.bsky.social
I speak for myself and not for my employer
Dot Porter
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you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
Not the tattoo event breaking the all-time library attendance record it set last year đź’…đź’…đź’…
A couple of weird little guys are chilling out in the bottom margin of Ms. Codex 724 f. 326v, a 13th century illuminated Bible. #medievalsky
đź”—: https://bit.ly/4deNkzU
The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for June 2026 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 A 4, containing texts on uroscopy copied in the 16th century by Aodh Ó Cendamháin, physician to the O’Flahertys in Co. Mayo:
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free.
www.youtube.com/@misterroger...
randomly thought about and re-read this story about Charles Barkley and a guy from Iowa, an all timer of a heartwarmer
www.wbur.org/onlyagame/20...
🚨Last chance to join us for the DMSI 2026 at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Gain hands-on experience in #digital methods adapted to medieval texts and images.
📆Jul 10 2026
đź“ŤLeeds, UK
▶️ tinyurl.com/5cm6ymn7
And if you have already registered for the IMC, you can still add DMSI to your registration.
I want to compliment Sam Regal, Editor of Printing History (the Journal of the American Printing History Association) for being braver and franker in his introduction to the current issue about American democracy than nearly all mainstream media in this country.
If you’re looking for something to do this Saturday, come on by the Winterthur Library for our second annual Tattoo Inspiration Open House! 💪 It runs 11-2, and dozens of gorgeous special collections items will be on show: www.winterthur.org/calendar/art...
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Welcome to the official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube channel!
For more than 30 years, Mister Rogers created a relationship with millions of children, each of whom felt like they were visiting ...
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
Shirley Wang's father, Lin, was on a business trip when he ran into NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley. It was the beginning of a friendship.
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
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