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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Since it went down for awhile last week, I thought it best to go ahead and share the copy of Emi Koyama's personal site, eminism.org, I scraped in mid-June. Koyama was a prolific archivist of both her own writing and online discussions generally, particularity around MichFest and Camp Trans.

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eminism.org Web Scrape · Queer Digital History Project

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Somehow I totally missed this: Canada's National Film Board added Some American Feminists (1977) to their YouTube Channel. It's a great window into the period, including interviews from major figures.

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SOME AMERICAN FEMINISTS | Full Documentary | National Film Board of Canada

YouTube video by NFB

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Now that I have a bite more time away from post-evac catch-up, A) I didn't know who all was contributing to this series, so I'm amazed to be included in such company and B) I'm still surprised they let me reference @vintageobscura.net, one of my favorite bits of Weird Internet.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“If work is published on the net and no one can navigate to it, does it leave a trace?” As AI overtakes the web, we asked five writers to reflect on how far it’s fallen. Featuring @sivav.bsky.social, @adamegriff.bsky.social, Joanna Walsh, @chadwellmon.bsky.social, and @doctorow.pluralistic.net:

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What Was the Internet?

As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

He’s busy

Black and white line drawing of momo on a table holding a mouse of his computer in the living room. He says “not now. I’m computering”

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I'll be at the CHM tomorrow for a chat about my book. Feel free to share, and hopefully I'll see some of y'all in person or online!

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Short notice, but! I'll be giving a talk, "Our “tired old flame queens:” Studying and Archiving Trans Histories of the Digital Age" tonight at 5 pm PDT at the Greater Victoria (BC) Public Library's Central Branch. For non-locals, it’ll be streaming online as well. www.uvic.ca/research/tra...

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Upcoming Events - University of Victoria

Dynamic, hands-on learning; research that makes a vital impact; and discovery and innovation in Canada's most extraordinary academic environment provide an Edge that can't be found anywhere else.

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A really good piece on an increasingly urgent issue (that may just happen to feature quotes from my book)!

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Happening tonight! Free on Zoom, so folks can join from anywhere.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 20/04/2026

"With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, nuclear-armed superintelligence seeking to annihilate the human race—which will later be revealed to be Skynet itself."

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Frequently Asked Questions About Our Innovative New EdTech Collaboration

“With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, ...

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Doing research for an article and just found that UsenetArchives.com now requires Age Verification to access. IMO, this points to a secondary consequence of the current moral panic and associated age verification legislation: Restricting access to born-digital history for those under 18.

Screenshot of the UsenetArchives.com landing page, which requires users to verify their age to access the site.

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Great reporting as always, though I didn't expect it to hit my inbox with this choice bit of environmental storytelling from Gmail.

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Travis Wagner (they/them) @drtlwagner.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Last summer I was the Rose Library’s LGBTQ Collections Fellowship at Emory University. The blog for the archive just posted my write up as part of the fellowship. It is part of a bigger project of mine, but here is a sneak peak of some of what I am exploring: scholarblogs.emory.edu/marbl/2026/0...

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“What do we need to know as gays and lesbians? What should we keep up with?”: Network Q and Building Queer Information Ecosystems Before the Internet – Rose Library News

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I don't have much to add that other folks haven't said, but as a historian of the queer internet, this doesn't surprise me at all. LGBTQ users are convenient corporate props...until they're not worth protecting.

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 09/02/2026

a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification. you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Found this at a Free Book Fair held by great local used bookstore Page 42 (www.page42bookstore.com). It was in a box of random media and I grabbed it because, why not? No cartridge, but it did have the original owner's painstakingly hand-drawn level maps, including coffee (?) stains.

Original Sega Genesis case for RPG Shining in the Darkness

Photo of inside of the case. No cartridge is included, but on the left is a sheaf of folded graph paper. It's yellowed with age, and there's...math?

Photo of all 9 hand-drawn maps included in the case

Close-up for one map for the Cave of Courage.

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

So good to see this price and all the folks and stories in it! Also, a self-plug: the Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com) is always open for donations, if folks have physical ephemera or digital records to be preserved (but not made accessible publicly online)!

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Queer Digital History Project

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

It's late in the day to share, but a Happy Holidays wish from me and Santa's daisy wheel printer. (From Sandra Boynton's book Christmastime (1987))

Illustration of Santa typing up his list on classic daisy wheel printer paper.

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Gayming Magazine @gaymingmag.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

"I code so others can dream." Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer. Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...

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Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine

Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

My metamorphosis into a historian is now complete, because I read this (very good tbc!) @theverge.com package and still thought, "Would it be too much to ask to historicize this moment beyond the mid-2010s? With, y'know, a book (I may have written)?" I have, I fear, become my (academic) parents.

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The future of being trans on the internet

The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

@adamegriff.bsky.social offers a beautiful mediation of LiveJournal as digital archaeology. Rehydration methods, ethical refusals, the remains of usernames and spam. Abandoned platforms. #DigitalArchaeology #4S2025

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

My new official conference watch, found at Value Village. It's very Me.

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Based on this news, are there any significant LGBTQ-related blogs that might be a good candidate for preservation? I'm hoping to connect with blog owners to organize preservation for the Queer Digital History Project prior to the September deadline.

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Typepad is shutting down

We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025. What Does This Mean for You? After September 30, 2025, access to Typepad – including account management, blogs...

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 08/08/2025

"There’s the gagging ouroboros of history... you’re beating your fists against a wall that bears the indents of countless fists, going back forever." Over in Autostraddle, I write about queer generational trauma: how it works, and how to tell stories about it. www.autostraddle.com/what-is-quee...

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What Is Queer Generational Trauma, and How Do We Tell Stories About It?

Lately, I've been obsessing over the concept of queer generational trauma: the pain passed down to us from our ancestors, which we bequeath in turn to those who come after us.

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

So, I've begun doing something I thought I'd never do: actively mirror trans websites (instead of just relying on the Internet Archive). First up is a mirror of Monica Roberts' TransGriot. Because Roberts used Blogger, I've always worried about its longevity.

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TransGriot Web Scrape · Queer Digital History Project

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t. And the blocking of content…

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“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog

Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

In light of today's 1A news, a repost reminder:

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NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The internet has long been a place for discovery. In “The Two Revolutions,” @adamegriff.bsky.social envisions it as a means of exploring and enriching trans identity. Continuum calls it “an excellent primer for understanding trans life online”. More:

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The Two Revolutions

Winner of the 2023 Ángel David Nieves Book Award, given by the American Studies AssociationThe internet origins of the American transgender movementThe Two ...

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I'm currently adding some videos to the Archival Internet Video Index (apdame.github.io), and this 1987 commercial for a Minitel horoscope is probably my favorite I've run across so far.

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Pub Minitel 3615 pl horo

YouTube video by Yanga Mbiwa Mapou

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

A chuckle for today: I found this practically mint-in-box copy of the Perfect Dot-Com Bubble artifact. It's got it all, from literal surfing imagery to You've Got Mail jokes. My favorite part? The fact all the money is in millions, since "$200 million...today's starting dot-com salary!"

Cover of Monopoly: The .com edition. Cover is designed in the style of a web browser, with classic dot-com bubble companies (Excite, Lycos, eBay, monster.com, cNet, iVillage) listed to the left and photos of the themed player tokens on the right.

It is as kitschy as it sounds.

Browse! Surf! Buy! Sell! Own It All- on the net!

MONOPOLY - The.com Edition launches the world's most popular game into the world of e-commerce!

As you travel the board, you'll buy and sell todayʼs hottest Web sites to build your personal empire of virtual real estate. You're after the top Net companies - those portals, search engines, news, information, entertainment, shopping, business, ISP, and connectivity providers that are now household names.

In this edition, newbie MR. MONOPOLY™ has a computer: Land on the space he's on, and you'll see cyber rent control in action! Land on "Download" or "E-mail Just In!" and draw a card: Will you collect
$100 million day-trading? Get in on a start-up and pocket $200 million? Or lose your Internet connection and land in Jail? Worse yet, you might receive e-mail of useless jokes and go back three spaces!

Even in the risk-intense world of the Web, every time you pass GO, you'll collect $200 million ... today's starting dot-com salary! So pick a pewter token, log on and hyperlink your way to overnight fame and fortune with MONOPOLY - The .com Edition.

Photo of Monopoly board, with standard properties replaced by bubble companies. Highlights include GeoCities, MCI Worldcom, Nokia, AltaVista, Lycos, and Ask Jeeves.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/06/2025

"We really do want to stay in touch. We’d love for us to find a way to be part of each other’s lives. We don’t want you to think we’re just abandoning you at the exact moment when allyship would actually count for something tangible in this world."

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We Regret to Inform You We Will No Longer Sponsor Your Pride Parade

“San Francisco Pride loses $300,000 after sponsors drop out: ‘The tone has changed in this country.’” — Them, 3/17/25 - - -Dear Queer Organization,...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/05/2025

"Your monograph on Lord Byron’s juvenilia has a new reader. Bad news: It’s a graduate student, and they are going to eviscerate it in chapter 2 of their dissertation."

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Brutally Honest Emails from Academia.edu

Welcome to Academia.edu. Now you can stay up-to-date with the latest research from academics around the world. Your monograph on Lord Byron’s juven...

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Parg' "Survivor" is this year's "car commercial" song, imo. #eurovision

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

do you remember before social media when the web was an infinite mysterious forest of things people had created, for free, for other people like you'd just stumble on this guy's Geocities page where he'd posted the sketches he'd done of every vegetable in his garden the web made me love humanity

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Since it's back, time to repost this interview I did with @neverpo.st about KOSA, moral panics, and LGBTQ youth last November. Like I said then, KOSA is little more than a moral panic bill that, like all panic legislation, will do far more long term harm than good.

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🆕 Never Post! Don't Panic

Friends! Here is a new Never Post for you, slightly delayed. Mike talks about how and why some authentic media looks like it was generated by AI; Hans talks about KOSA – the Kids Online Safety Act – a...

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I had the pleasure of serving on this year's jury and reading all of these wonderful pieces (and so much more that we just couldn't fit in!).

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Thought: AI-generated art assets (especially logos) are just the clip art CDs of the 2020s.

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

See Sara Ahmed's "An Affinity of Hammers:" "A dialogue is not possible when some people exercise arguments as weapons by treating others as evidence to be rebutted. When you are asked to provide evidence for your existence, or when you are treated as evidence, your existence is negated."

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

New Buying Power: I wrote about how America built the postwar world order and its own society on “consumer choice” and cheap goods, and what happens if Trump strips that out while also gutting the social safety net. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Cheap Consumer Goods Are the American Dream, Actually

Trump’s tariffs upend a nearly century-old bargain between politicians and US consumers.

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I feel like I've come back around to Internet Radio/Radio Streaming in a big way. Lately a mix of C89.5 and DanceGroove (dancegrooveradio.com), depending on my mood. C89.5 is also just a really awesome project: run by Seattle Public Schools, member-funded and staffed in part by SPS students.

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C89.5 – Seattle's home for dance

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