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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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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Surprised @ozzy-mo.bsky.social didn't mention Rita Baga's valiant but failed attempt to make Celine's Eurovision dress work as a runway tearaway on Canada's Drag Race.

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Canada's Drag Race S01 E5 Runway - Night Of A Thousand Celines

YouTube video by Jethro Eustaquio

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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 · 05/05/2026

Since I got tagged, I'll add @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy's The Modem World. May be a bit too in the weeds depending on this class level and student body, but it's a great history most of them are unlikely to know.

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The Modem World

The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future “A great book for anyone who wants to understand the early day...

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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 · 10/04/2026

It's about a GB in total unzipped, so I'm not surprised! Also, I did actually do some archiving of YGs, but that would be one I didn't scrape due to the ethical issues. I wrote about it here.

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Did You Yahoo?

Exploring the Ethical Challenges of Preserving Dormant Platforms. Peer reviewed by Sharon Webb (Sept. 2023)

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Hearing Siobahn mention gjetost had me wondering if she'd ever had cajeta, which I love but my spouse finds far too goat-y.

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Fun: Your sparkling personality, clearly! Real answer: BSky's AI tool Attie uses Starter Packs to make suggestions for who to follow, so if you're in a few then you get recommended.

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Sure! Email me at avery DOT dame at gmail, and I can share a link to it so you can download it.

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Do you want the fun answer or what I think is the real answer?

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

No problem at all! I just saw someone quote reply the original, started reading responses, and realized I could assist.

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Popping in - If you want the raw data for the TUA, let me know and I can share a copy! One thing about the Google archive is that its search is very inconsistent in what it shows, I've found.

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

Yeah, it's the same kind of honor code verification a lot of adult-adjacent sites use. So not likely legally binding, but it says something about the overall climate that it's on a collection that's probably at least 30% shitposts from the early 1990s.

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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 · 06/04/2026

I'll throw my hat in for Internet/digital.

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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

Yeah, I have similar concerns, as several regional queer support groups rely on Discord to keep youth connected when they can't be physically present. Unfortunately, history also tells us migrating services is hard when there's no newbie-friendly alternative.

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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 · 28/01/2026

Sure! I've followed you, but since it doesn't appear open to message on my end, I've opened mine up.

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Oh, great! Thanks for considering it. Would you prefer to chat though Bluesky or Substack? Also, you can feel free to email me at admin AT queerdigital.com too.

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

*piece, not price - oh, for an edit button.

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

Sorry to pop in, but having a community historian moment: if you do find them and ever had the interest, I would be thrilled to preserve them as part of the Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com), including holding them as a request-only collection.

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Queer Digital History Project

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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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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

There is a certain carefully crafted historical amnesia these fantasies require to sustain an reproduce themselves, imo. Easier than admitting that every time, the core problems of the Internet really are just white dudes all the way down.

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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

What is this rabbit hole? I must know.

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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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