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I know it's confusing for a lot of people, but "this digital storage has lasted 70 years so far" is a huge flex actually

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

Since leaving the Coast, many people have wondered what I've been doing. The answer is that I'm launching an actual physical newspaper. To that end, I've launched a subscription drive in hopes of being able to pay freelancers so that the first issue on May 5 has more than just me writing in it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 9 comments

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

submitted 5 days ago • 885 comments

A University of Virginia professor enlisted students to document the messages—profane, hopeful, despairing—left on library carrels by previous generations and you can browse all 3000+ of them. daily.jstor.org/graffiti-lim...

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Cory Booker has just broken Strom Thurmond's record for longest Senate filibuster ever, which stood for 68 years. Thurmond set it objecting to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Booker set it arguing against authoritarianism. May Strom's name be forgotten and his memory erased.

submitted 6 days ago • 171 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 6 days ago • 1027 comments

Love this! A collection of digital preservation jumpers no one asked for… 🧶💾😍

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Minutemen are without peer, the best of what punk was. They composed music that pushed the boundaries of punk and addressed the complexities of our world with a piercing wit and a passionate clarity that “changed our lives.” RIP to D Boon gone too soon A giant

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

It's not knee-jerk. It's an environmentally-destructive technology designed to fetishize idea over effort and excise artists from art in order to make techlords richer by plagiarizing pre-existing material made by actual creative people and not quote-unquote "prompt engineers."

submitted 11 days ago • 51 comments

I’m a huge fan of question-askers. In my experience, too few people ask questions in meetings. I say this with full awareness that question-askers are often framed as troublemakers. That’s just a way to silence inquiry and discussion. I see you and I appreciate you, question-askers.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Has anyone from the administration said thank you to the Atlantic?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

submitted 17 days ago • 120 comments

Fiction really did not prepare me for how stupid the real life villains would be.

submitted 17 days ago • 32 comments

"'Ultimately, while I never expected to be thrown out of America at the age of 67, I find myself somewhat proud of the fact,' the punk rocker concluded. 'It seems my relationship with the country is over for the foreseeable future.'"

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

It's Japanese Breakfast album release day! (It totally snuck up on me; I for some reason thought it wasn't coming out until the end of April). Fabulous record! (which should come as no surprise.)

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As we write, DOGE is reportedly inside the gates of the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), where Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor and “somehow now Acting Director” of IMLS is dismantling the agency that helps libraries be libraries. /1 www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

The Digital Preservation Coalition has shared recordings from its workflow webinar series. You can find them here: www.dpconline.org/events/previ... #digipres #archives #library 📚

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t change your subject headings. There is no library jail. Keep using the real names not these fake ones. Obeying in advance is worse than those doing the change because when you obey with soenthing that is clearly wrong you are putting false information into official “fact” places.

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submitted 26 days ago • 85 comments

Trump threatening to invade our country every goddamn day is fucking insane and I’m really starting to lose it. For the love of god good people of America please end this.

submitted 26 days ago • 21 comments

This is the existing rail right of way in #Halifax, which could be converted into commuter rail. Most of the double track has been removed by CN for 'efficiency' reasons ($$ spent on maintenance 🙄). It is fully grade separated and travels along some of the most congested areas of HRM /1

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Get in loser, we're tanking the economy

submitted 27 days ago • 1383 comments

Rickrolled by my 9 year old. Glorious day.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Some other general tips from a person who has been in libraries since 2009, had an MLIS since 2011, and who fell into this field backwards. 🧵

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

"Embrace diversity. Unite— Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed By those who see you as prey. Embrace diversity Or be destroyed." — Octavia E. Butler, 'Parable of the Sower'

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

Stone Hearth Bakery, Common Roots Urban Farm, and the Ampersand Café in the Halifax Central Library have all abruptly closed. Employment agency MetroWorks files for bankruptcy, closes operations www.halifaxexaminer.ca/labour/emplo... by @suzannerent.bsky.social

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

A huge loss. Maybe ask your MLA if Tim Houston can refocus on helping local suppliers providing local food, not Loblaws, Sobeys and Walmart

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor. The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes! This is the power of representation.

submitted 32 days ago • 263 comments

I am still legitimately annoyed Run With Us, our true national anthem, hasn’t re-entered the Canadian Billboard charts in this time when we need it the most

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

How long does digital preservation take? #digipres #archives #library 📚 saaers.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/t...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

“We must be prepared to defend our sovereignty-not just with military spending, but with a population that is engaged, trained and ready.” Great piece by @petermacleod.bsky.social about how Canada needs a Civil Defence Force where every Canadian has a role to play. 🇨🇦💪 thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

submitted 33 days ago • 76 comments

My local liquor store

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

Home movies capture the moments that define our lives—family celebrations, everyday joys. Yet, these films are vanishing due to time, neglect & decay. Archivist Rick Prelinger @footage.bsky.social explores why no film should be left unscanned. blog.archive.org/2025/03/05/v... 🕳️ #VanishingCulture

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

And I feel strongly that it would be very beneficial for the American Premier to be in a state of "fucking off".

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The perils of relying on "free" storage. #DigiPres is costly. https://gizmodo.com/twitch-announces-new-storage-limits-threatening-tons-of-archives-2000566515

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to be getting the opportunity to process these digital records in the near-future as we continue our work on the LGBT Seniors Archive!

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

submitted 38 days ago • 2236 comments

Doves album release day! "Constellations for the Lonely" is sonically beautiful, feeling the same sense of melancholy, isolation, & nostalgia on earlier records, but rather dystopic. Finality? 'If you could only see what I’ve seen with your eyes / Then you’ll know that everything expires' hits deep.

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Radical, progressive, and not ‘all beer and skittles’: History of Nova Scotia newspapers www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file... Morning File by @suzannerent.bsky.social

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

Today marks the 3rd anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. SUCHO has now made publicly available the 50 TB of cultural heritage data archived from websites ranging from national archives to local museums, 3D tours of churches to children’s art centers. www.sucho.org/press-releas...

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Complying with the Trump regime's executive order, PBS deletes LGBTQ history videos. New York City's Education Department has since decided to host the videos on their own website. 1/2 🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈 🍎 🗺️ #sschat www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

submitted 46 days ago • 6 comments

In today's post, @oncewilting.bsky.social introduces the series, Queering Atlantic Canada, she will edit this year.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Archive data. Anything you have access to and have used, if you are wondering where to start. It could be gone tomorrow. I'm not exaggerating. Community archiving can resist erasure of histories that speak truth to power.

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

One of my favourite moments of the footie year is the release of the FromAways season preview squad analysis. With "Quebecois Slender Man" in goal, a CD anchor with a "genuine love for the uglier, scrappier parts of defending" & a bevy of French talent up top, psyched for an exciting 2025 campaign!

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 53 days ago • 1043 comments