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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 10h

Could not have asked for better timing on these library holds five days before a 14 hour flight to Australia

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'll give it to 'em, it does make the dropdown easier to fill out

A dropdown menu that says "Which country are you based in?" with the options being Australia or Other

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

phenomenal photo from LIFE magazine in 1958 from an article called "TROUBLE IN HOLLYWOOD" "...methods the movie industry is employing to stabilize profits...may even include new stunts like light nursing service...to bring in more half fares from the half-pint trade"

Two children in a movie theatre lobby being attended to by women. The first boy has a sign across his neck that reads "Take To Toilet 11am" and the girl in the back has one that says "OK for Popcorn"

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

hello, australian mutuals!! I am headed to (part of) your lovely country for most of October - this includes the end of MIGW! - Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane are planned stops - happy to sample any and all coffee - food/sights recommendations welcome - let me know if you want to hang

Emily's coming to (part of Australia) - with Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney highlighted on an vintage map

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Our AC is out in our apartment (which means it's 80° inside), and I opened a short story I was working on and the scene I had left was a detective sweltering in the LA heat wanting to dive into a pool. Art imitates life, babyyyy

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Brief trip back to the ol’ alma mater, with a friend who wanted to revisit the library basement and its rolling shelves as much as I did (thank god) and then swung by the battlefield as you do

A sign in a fabric shop that says “Suitable for Civil War Era”

Gouveneur K Warren monument at Little Round Top looking out on the Gettysburg battlefield

Brestworks remnants on Little Round Top at Gettysburg

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Pretty dang excited about this milestone!!

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 11/08/2026

I was hoping for your help with something. (Please RT for reach.) Is there a particular font that’s instantly recognizable to someone who lives where you do, and appreciated/recognized/hated there, but completely unknown elsewhere? Road signs, street names, transit, infrastructure, stuff like that?

An old dot-matrix display at the platform of Bay Area Rapid Transit near San Francisco

An old street sign in Szczecin, set in a distinctive typeface

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you've ever thought about why two Japanese cities were obliterated or President Truman's role in the decisions, read this thread. It's probably not what you thought!

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Today is the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. For @thebulletin.org, I wrote a short piece on the curious story of the "Hiroshima Maidens," and what it tells us about the complicated politics of memory. thebulletin.org/2026/08/the-...

thebulletin.org

The political implications of Hiroshima’s scarred “maidens”

In May 1955, 25 young Japanese women, all of whom had been schoolchildren who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, were flown to the United States. They became known in the press as the “Hiroshim...

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In grad school, I took a class on memory and the atomic bomb, which included an extended trip to Hiroshima & Nagasaki for the anniversaries of the bombings. We toured sites, attended memorial events, and had the honor of meeting many hibakusha. It is not exaggerating to say it was life-changing.

A broken torii gate in Nagasaki at the Sannō Shrine that was damaged in the atomic blast. It was 800m from the hypocenter

Students that we were paired with from Kyoto University hanging our 1000 paper cranes (the Americans were far too slow to contribute much at all)

Writing on a chalkboard in Fukuro-machi Elementary School in Hiroshima where survivors wrote messages to find loved ones. The school was 450m from the hypocenter, and only three students survived that were in the basement.

Hiroshima hypocenter (about 600m above the ground) - it was exploded above the ground to create maximum damage

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pilot @pilotv.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Gutted to hear about Glen Hansard's passing. The songs from ONCE never fail to get me choked up & I saw him perform a 1.5 hour set in DC that ended with the entire venue singing The Parting Glass. One of the most beautiful moments one could ask for. We deserved so much more time with him.

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Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly (Official Video)

YouTube video by GlenHansardVEVO

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I loved playtesting this, and it’s so, so exciting to see new Myst stories 📖 I hold hope in my heart that they’ll see the light of day someday!

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

cute pop up at SDCC from this adorable island in New England that definitely isn’t haunted, can’t wait to visit for sunset cocktails #widowsbay

Welcome To Widow’s Bay tourism board. Emily is smiling with a guide

Emily’s head on a statue of Richard Warren

Widow’s Bay pamphlet and Sunset Cocktails with Patricia

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fox noises @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

All my life I've wished I could pull off Slutty Loam but only managed Sandy Gay.

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I've been working with the Prideful Sloth team since 2023 (!), was delighted by the game then, and it's truly even better now—so much fun, so weird & great with friends! GO (go) buy it!! (plus you can invite me as an NPC to your town & I just ask you to sell sushi—driving a hard bargain, I know)

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If I could make everyone watch LOCAL HERO, I would, this among many many reasons

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

That physical editions are quick, easy, and simple to achieve and that somehow devs haven’t realized this

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

For DOOMSDAY MACHINES this week I wrote a bit about the production and availability of photographs of Hiroshima's damage from the ground in the 1940s and 1950s. Features some dark photographs and perhaps an even more disturbing cover of LIFE magazine from 1952... doomsdaymachines.net/p/hiroshima-...

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Hiroshima from below

Experiences of atomic bombing victims through the medium of photography

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Kicking off a little re-introduction to Go-Go Town! now that we are less than a month (!) out from 1.0 🫨 (and in related news, I will forever be grateful that we have the incredible @mootrix.bsky.social making videos for us, she has made a masterpiece here)

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Spent this weekend as a true child of my father: going to an octogenarian geologist's rock and fossil open house, impulse purchasing a Thomas Guide from 1999 on eBay, then taking Dad out to lunch and talking about film formats

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Varric not being romanceable is truly unforgiveable

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

What a guy

4 panel comic

Panel 1: a wizard in blue robe and white beard sitting with small forg at a desk behind the computer. “Click, click” is the sound of the mouse to be heard
Panel 2: close up on the computer screen. There’s a green check mark and a full loading bar on it. From off screen someone, probably the wizard, says “boom, there it is”.
Panel 3: forg is left behind alone at his desk. There’s an open door in the background. Forg says “thanks installation wizard” and a little pink heart appears, showing his affection.
Panel 4: we see now that the wizard has already left the house after a job well done. He replies to forg watching him go from his window: “it’s what I do”

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

what is a legacy / it's planting seeds in a garden you have yet to see

a discord screenshot of me asking "I have a very stupid request - are you familiar with AO3? (if not I can explain)"

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

One of the busier weeks of my life BUT culminated with 3️⃣ announcements in Wholesome Direct this past weekend! 🧸 @playmomento.com surprise launch!! 🏗️ @gogotowngame.com coming to 1.0 & Switch July 16!! (+ new key art!) 📦 @unpackinggame.com X @paralives.com collab, which I got a lil emotional about 🥹

Paralives rebuilt the final house from Unpacking, this is the office

Go-Go Town! new key art, a townscape of chaos with blue colors and blueprints

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I’m glad CATS won several Tonys, all very deserved but man it *deserved* best revival. I’ve been thinking about it ever since we saw it - how truly transformative it is. An all-timer!

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

me seeing I Love Boosters at the Laemmle instead of using my AMC A-List

Achewood panel: Why did you send a check for $10,000 to Boots Riley?
I like their product! I wanted 'em to have a little walkin' around money!

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Freeman Tilden, Interpreting our Heritage—published in 1957 but an incredible synthesis of how to present history and information to the public David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class—blew my hair back when I first read it, still incredible

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Z @azimedes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It begins

A photo of a person pointing a gun at the sun. The caption reads: I’ve had enough.

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

If you're running a Steam event & you want participating games to promote it, with your graphics I'm begging you: - space for key art that is 1920x1080 OR a Steam header size - no gradient / color overlays - no excessive objects poking into frame

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

woke up early on Saturday to camp out at a vintage store that doesn’t take orders over the phone OR online, but I am now the proud owner of this print of a Gemini spacecraft from an engineer at Gulton Industries in 1962

Slightly faded print of a Gemini capsule in a frame

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Another doozy from @arielsabar.bsky.social - on the secret history of the Met’s smuggled golden sarcophagus and the family that’s supplies looted Egyptian antiquities to half the world: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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The Secrets of the Sarcophagus Dealer

A family’s 50-year rise through the international antiquities trade is a tale of entrepreneurial genius—and of theft, deception, and betrayal.

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

For future japes, let's diſcuſs proper use of the Long S (aka ſ) - uſed at the ſtart & middle of words - not at the end - not uppercaſe - not after an abbreviating apoſtrophe (ie "clos'd") - not adjacent to f - double s ("ſſ") is always long unleſs at the end - this liſt is not exhauſtive

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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I think we as a culture need to go back and appreciate the 2022 album The Loneliest Time by Carly Rae Jepsen some more. I think it would fix some things

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

teaching my phone that the eponymous grocer’s last name was Ralphs

iPhone text replacement that means Ralphs the grocery store will be spelled correctly and without a possessive apostrophe

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A poster for Nixon’s Senate campaign and a record featuring a Jesuit priest answering teen questions about sex. They both hang in the bathroom

A poster that says “elect congressman Richard Nixon US Senator” and a vinyl with a priest that’s titled “Teenagers’ questions about life, love, and sex”

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

the selling of nuclear civil defense as a concept to housewives in the Eisenhower administration, and how it became an unexpected source of agency for those women

an official Federal Civil Defense Administration car card (ie made for ad space inside the subway car) from 1959 called "Your one defense against fallout" showing a man and woman building a fallout shelter

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

ORINOCO FLOW playing in the coffeeshop the 90s are BACK baby

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Robert Falla-Louvét 🔭🪐🚀 @lanerobertlane.space · 06/04/2026

A tub of Nutella floating around the capsule. Thanks to Artemis II that's the furthest a tub of Nutella has been from Earth. #Artemisii #Artemis

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emily hummel ✨🔜 MIGW @hummeline.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I am thrilled with the successful launch today, but I do see people nervous thinking about Challenger & it bears pointing out that throughout our very long manned spaceflight program, that was the only accident at launch and one of 3 fatal incidents. There were 110 shuttle launches post-Challenger!

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Look at this incredible 1883 color-coded map of Washington showing the varieties of street pavement. From the People's Archive of the DC Public Library. digdc.dclibrary.org/do/523a37ae-...

A map showing streets and rail lines of Washington City with street pavement types. Includes legend of street pavement types and mileage table.
Map is in the Annual Report of the D.C. Commissioners for the year ending June 30, 1882. From the People's Archive of the DC Public Library.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/03/2026

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

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