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Turning the national archives into a propaganda machine is the literal antithesis of what an archives should be.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Maryland friends: Gov Moore has some new resources if you're a fed affected by gestures wildly

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In partnership with @drivethrurpg.com and four other publishers, we are proud to support the Queer Love Bundle. All proceeds benefit @outrightintl.bsky.social to help strengthen the LGBTIQ human rights movement. Five great games for a worthy cause. Get it here: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

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From my archival heart and soul: FUCK!

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In light of RFK's nomination, I asked my doctor to check my MMR titers, since @rahaeli.bsky.social mentioned that immunity can wear off. Turns out that even with the full 2-dose series in childhood, I'm no longer immune to mumps, so MMR booster, here I come!

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

If you want to read a new book coming out but don't want to buy it, a great thing you can do is ask your local library to order it. The more requests they get, the more likely they are to acquire it and then lots of people will get to read it who othewise wouldn't.

submitted 35 days ago • 457 comments

:sigh: the National Archivist has not been ordered to publish and certify it, though. Tell me again how archives are neutral. :headdesk:

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Day 2 sharing teaser #HistoryPix for "Inventing the Renaissance" (out in one month!). Often in Florence one sees buildings like this, where one section is rough stone standing out amid stucco neighbors. It's actually a remnant of the old Guelph-Ghibelline feuds that so long rocked Medieval Italy 1/?

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

Seen a few "at least we'll always have [writer/artist/performer name here]". You might not! When the details of Whedon's behaviour came out, people were saying it about Gaiman! Putting people on a pedestal only sets you up for damaging yourself, and discourages other victims who haven't come forward

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In case any uranium glass collectors are out there in these blue skies, Holly Antiques in Holly, MI has a whole lot of fabulous pieces. Here's the hand-painted uranium glass I picked up there over the holidays. @funranium.bsky.social

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Twas the night before Christmas And all through the air Came the growling and snarling Of three GODDAMN BEARS Please enjoy A Very Honey Heist Xmas. PDFs and author’s notes here: www.patreon.com/posts/very-h...

submitted 64 days ago • 16 comments

If any paleographers out there want a puzzle on this Christmas Eve, I'd love some help deciphering the handwritten portions of this baptismal certificate that's been passed down in my family for generations. The date is easy, but the rest is proving difficult for me.

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It's always a good day when my local library tells me that the book I suggested for purchase got approved. In case you didn't know this was an option, if you want to read a book and your library doesn't have it, you can ask them to buy it! They'll often say yes!

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Babel by R. F. Kuang Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction edited by Sonia Sulaiman

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At the bookstore, I see so many parents telling their kids they can’t have a comic, they need to pick out a “real book.” Comics and graphic novels are real books! They’re rewarding, engaging experiences! LET KIDS READ COMICS

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments

I've read 144 books this year to date. Here's a list of my favorites (in no particular order): 1 and 2. @tkingfisher.com's What Moves the Dead and A Sorceress Comes to Call 3. @angelaslatter.bsky.social's Briar Book of the Dead 4. @wesleychu.bsky.social's The Art of Destiny 1/4

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

I loved this book so much. It was weird in all the best ways.

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I keep thinking about this post. Guess what? Your niche expertise might be exactly what is needed… keep going.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Note to Americans who travel to the UK: after January 8 you will need an Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA). You apply once, it’s about $13 USD, & it is good for 2 years. It opened for applications today & mine was approved in minutes, FWIW. www.gov.uk/guidance/app...

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments

Working in an archive is having these moments on a semi-daily basis and watching other people process their discoveries in real time. I wish we talked more about how so much of this is therapy for people seeking answers or closure too.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Archivists describing these materials also grapple with this. Right now, I'm working on a collection where the dealer description is littered with racial slurs against my ethnic group. I'm proud of the work I'm doing, but sometimes it's emotionally difficult.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

We have a live example of why they're called "pig-butchering" scammers! They're called that because they use the whole pig, ie, they don't just take a little money from their victims, they slaughter them and use them all. I'm gonna be slow on this thread because I'm doing exhaustive alt text, but:

submitted 96 days ago • 93 comments

How to turn off MS Word scraping your writing to train its AI medium.com/illumination...

submitted 100 days ago • 89 comments

National Archives opens portal to the investigative files of Civil Rights Cold Cases. It’s a work in progress but contains some amazing and moving records of Jim Crow injustice… (h/t @clancyny.bsky.social) www.archives.gov/press/press-...

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