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Jeanne

@jkramersmyth.bsky.social
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Author, Archivist, and Artist I love games, crafts, books (especially speculative fiction in audiobook form), poetry, photography, science, and nature. www.jeannekramersmyth.com spellboundblog.com

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Jeanne @jkramersmyth.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
My fantasy short story, "A Mountain Retirement", is now available in issue 3 of Plott Hound Magazine. My story features a dragon! plotthoundmag.com/issues/ #shortstory #fantasy #dragons #writingfiction
Cover of issue 3 of Plott Hound Magazine - featuring an illustration of a fox.
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Jeanne @jkramersmyth.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
‪This article in the Washington Post made me think of course of Pleiti's literature-driven garden efforts. Thought you would enjoy it! @older.bsky.social wapo.st/3IUmxO3
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Opinion | We re-created a 200-year-old garden. This is what we learned.
Emily Dickinson was once better-known as a gardener. The poet’s first book preserved these species.
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👻 SHEET GHOST 👻 @twolemonades.com · 14/07/2025
"If it was 1822, I'd be THE HAPPIEST." www.youtube.com/watch?v=KADJ...
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Andrea Gibson - Living Proof
YouTube video by Button Poetry
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Jeanne @jkramersmyth.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Happy #Caturday! This is Noodle Pie. I'm definitely trapped (for my own forced relaxation).
Sleeping cat on my lap.
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Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Invisible Histories @invisiblehistories.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We've made several changes to our archiving collecting scope. Here is what and where we are collecting as we open our new physical archive. Have something you'd like to talk to us about? Email us at contact@invisiblehistory.org
Invisible Histories. What we collect. 

AL, MS, GA, FL, NC, & SC: Physical & digital materials of LGBTQ people, organizations, and events

AL, MS, GA, FL, NC, SC, LA, TX, AR, TN, VA, KY, WV: Digital files of LGBTQ people, organizations, and events
Physical & digital materials of closed DEIA offices & programs
Relocation of at risk archival collections

All US States & territories: Digital materials of closed DEIA offices & programs 
Any at risk federal or state data, files, or information
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 22/04/2025
We hope you all have a wonderful 🌍Earth Day🌎 What is your favorite environmental data source out there?
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LizzaAiken @lizzaaiken.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
You might like this little film of Joan Aiken in the 1970's, talking about the early 'Wolves' books including The Whispering Mountain, with a lovely Welsh reading of the prophecy about the stolen harp of Teirtu... www.joanaiken.com/puffin-club-...
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Welcome to the Wonderful World of Joan Aiken - Puffin Club Movie
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StopTB USA @stoptbusa.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Please forward: CDC On Demand Publications Warehouse is Closing The last day to place orders for printed materials is September 2, 2025. Currently, the Publications Warehouse has more than 1,000 publications in multiple languages. Questions? please contact tbinfo@cdc.gov. @altcdc.altgov.info
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Tuberculosis (TB)
Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by a bacterium called <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em>.
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Keyboardio @keyboard.io · 09/04/2025
You know what? Today feels like an excellent day for a sale. Just because. 10% off EVERYTHING on shop.keyboard.io. And $50 off the Model 100, our gorgeous ergonomic keyboard with a milled hardwood enclosure. Keyboards ship free to the US (at least until tariffs kick in on May 2.)
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Keyboardio: keyboards for people who love typing
Keyboardio makes the best looking, most comfortable ergonomic keyboards. We also sell switches and keycaps.
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Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
When I wrote this back in January, I hoped it would make a few people smile. Now it's come full circle and made *me* smile, because @meganseling.bsky.social at @thestranger.com over in Seattle decided it would make a good cartoon, and got Greg Stump to draw one. 😁 www.thestranger.com/climate-issu...
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How Some Scared Little Gophers Brought Mount St. Helens Back to Life
If you ever feel like you&#8217;re trapped in a hostile environment, scrabbling around in a mountain of unforgiving rock and wondering how you can ever possibly make a difference, remember the poor, f...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 13/03/2025
🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾 📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
Logo for the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, with Wayback in red and Machine in black.
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 31/03/2025
🚨Over 1,300 former DOJ officials—spanning both parties—have signed a statement condemning the Trump Administration’s attacks on the legal profession and the rule of law. Read their urgent warning and call to action: protdem.org/doj-alumni-s...
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DOJ Alumni Statement Opposing Executive Branch Attacks on Lawyers and Law Firms
We, the undersigned, are alumni of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) who have collectively served both Republican and…
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Jeanne @jkramersmyth.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Crossing every finger that @eff.org and @ajlunited.bsky.social have responded to this request for comments: "Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan" with comment period that ends today (03/15/2025). www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan
On behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the NITRD NCO requests input from all interested parties on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan ("Plan"). Th...
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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Back issues sale at @onspecmag.bsky.social! A whole pile of On Spec issues from Sept 2021 and before now just 99 cents! weightlessbooks.com/category/for...
Cover art for On Spec #100, featuring an anthropomorphic tentacle alien on a seedy side street with spaceships flying overhead and a bigtoothed worm alien lying dead on the sidewalk at its feet
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 12/02/2025
Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...
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The Data Rescue Tracker
We are excited to introduce the Data Rescue Tracker, a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you c...
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Jeanne @jkramersmyth.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab has published their archive of Data.gov, collected intermittently between 2024-11-19 and 2025-02-06 and intended to be updated daily. source.coop/repositories...
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Source Cooperative - Source Cooperative
Source Cooperative is a data publishing utility that allows trusted organizations and individuals to share data using standard HTTP methods.
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Research software engineers change lives! Share your evidence of their impact in the GLAM / digital cultural heritage sector and academic arts and humanities to help ensure their recognition and funding forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Closes Feb 14 #MuseTech #DigitalHumanities #RSEs #GLAMtech
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Microsoft Forms
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Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
A group of us made something heartfelt. Survive the Tyrant! is an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive state. Stay safe! survivethetyrant.infy.uk www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... www.deviantart.com/survivethety... drive.google.com/file/d/1n0XG...
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
GET INVOLVED! The ever-brilliant National Archives have made some of the #Railway company accident records available for transcription. Could YOU help with a page or two? A brilliant way to get involved with #Railway200! Find out more here - & thanks!
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Railway Accident Project | FromThePage
Railway Accident Project - collection overview. Part of a joint initiative between the University of Portsmouth, the National Railway Museum (NRM) and the Modern Records Centre at the University of…
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Digital Humanities Research Hub @dh-researchhub.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Registration is now open for the Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference. Come discuss how the born-digital transforms what and how we research in the humanities. 📆 2-4 April 2025 Register before 3 Feb to take advantage of the early-bird discount. www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/ins...
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Conference Registration
Registration information for Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory taking place 2-4 April 2025.
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The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
PLEASE read this really important message about The Folklore Library and Archive and if you can help follow this link www.gofundme.com/f/keep-the-f... Even if you can't help directly, please forward this message on to everyone you can. These archives are valuable. Thank you.
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Illinois State University's Special Collections - Circus Wardrobe Collection open for research 📜 Announcement: news.illinoisstate.edu/2025/01/miln... And, since I love this kind of thing - How they define Special Collections is on their page here: library.illinoisstate.edu/services/spe...
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Milner Library’s Circus Wardrobe Collection open for research
The Ueckert Circus Wardrobe Collection was part of a two-year, multi-phase project to organize and describe the collection. It is now available to researchers by way of a full, item level finding a…
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
In anticipation of a second assault on federal environmental information by Trump, we’re ramping up our website monitoring work, coordinating a multi-organizational data preservation effort, and expanding our civic data science tools. envirodatagov.org/press-releas...
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PRESS RELEASE: EDGI Works to Safeguard Federal Environmental Data and Information – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
January 13th, 2025 - In anticipation of a second and likely more significant assault on federal environmental information by the Trump administration, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative ...
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Jeanne @jkramersmyth.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Happy #portfolioDay! My #photography examines the micro-landscape of the ground beneath our feet. I magnify the interplay of nature and human influence and #photograph the edges: seeking to magnify the beauty of details hiding in plain site. site: www.jeannekramersmyth.com/photography
Photo of a pink flower blossom on the ground, starting to wither and dry. The petals are ethereal and nearly translucent in places. The background shows pebbles and seed pods in a range of greys and browns.Photo of silver cracked paint peeling to reveal warm orange and brown rust.Photo of a crack in the asphalt. A stripe of bright greenish turquoise paint covers most of the pavement. A tiny tan seed is trapped in the crack.
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Jeanne @jkramersmyth.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Calling #quilters looking for a way to help prople suffering loss due to the #lafires : consider joining this coordinated quilt #donation drive sandiegosewn.com/blogs/san-di...
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Wrap LA in Love
Wrap LA in Love: Quilts for Wildfire Victims The devastating wildfires in Los Angeles have left countless families displaced, heartbroken, and struggling to rebuild. As quilters, we know the power of ...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 10/01/2025
Who captured these historic 1960s San Francisco snapshots? 📷 Abandoned for years in a storage unit, these unseen photos are finally seeing the light of day, but the photographer's identity remains a mystery. Can you help solve it? 🕵️‍♀️ Join the search: blog.archive.org/2025/01/10/e...
Photos of Muhammad Ali, 1968 / The unknown photographer / The Grateful Dead, 1967
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Jennifer Waits @spinningindie.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I'm on the hunt for college radio goodies! Take a look at these highlights of what we've collected for the college radio collection within the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications on @archive.org. blog.archive.org/2024/12/19/c...
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College Radio’s Rich Legacy: Latest Updates from DLARC | Internet Archive Blogs
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adafruit @adafruit.com · 18/12/2024
There are currently 2,934 certified open source hardware projects, Adafruit is almost up to 800! We're just 4 away! certification.oshwa.org/list.html?q=... which is 27.13% of all certified open source hardware projects! @oshwassociation.bsky.social #electronics
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DH Awards @dhawards.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Nominations are now open for DH Awards 2024 dhawards.org/dhawards2024... Open until 2025-01-26
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DH Awards 2024 – Call For Nominations | Digital Humanities Awards
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 12/12/2024
Folks, I've got trouble! My workhorse writing/bookcreating Macbook has developed keyboard & (just now) power issues that mean it's got to go into the shop pronto. Can I point you (tho not UK folks, sorry) at some ebook bundles to help defray the cost? Thanks! (& repost plz?) dduane.link/EBDBundles
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Bundles
All our ebook bundles contain books significantly discounted from their standalone prices. And naturally they're all DRM-free, and come with our lifetime free replacement guarantee.
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Flickr Foundation @flickrfdn.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
One of our goals for 2024 was to get a little shop up and running. We've got one now. It's small, it's mighty. Check out the Flickr Foundation's Best Little Museum Shop. shop.flickr.org #Shopping #Holidays
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Best Little Museum Shop by Flickr Foundation
Limited batch merch design and curated by flickr.org and friends.
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Ab Ee Gee @agrotke.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Happy to announce a newly packaged up #webarchiving U.S. Election web archive dataset has been released! Learn more blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...
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New U.S. Elections Web Archive Data Resources Available | The Signal
This blog post was guest-authored by Rachel Trent, Senior Digital Collections Data Librarian. For nearly twenty-five years, the Library of Congress has been archiving campaign websites for Presidentia...
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alex @dremenec.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!
An infographic. There are six panels.

1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded.

2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text.

3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky.

4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german.

5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say.

6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.
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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Thinking With Moss is a project I've been working on for the past few years w/ @eayers0.bsky.social‬ & @aansari86.bsky.social. In collab w/ NYBG, we explore the digitization of botanic collections, and the invisible or under attended histories of the natural sciences. www.thinkingwithmoss.net
Screen shot of thinking with moss front page.Why moss? We embrace moss' ambiguous, downtrodden place in botanic history as a starting point for developing questions of colonial worldviews, systems of classification, and representational challenges and opportunities.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/11/2024
📚 Don’t miss our final book talk of 2024! ⁠ Join VANISHING CULTURE authors & editors Luca Messarra, Chris Freeland & Juliya Ziskina for a roundtable discussion on the growing threats to preserving our cultural heritage.⁠ 🕳️ 📆 Tues, Dec 3 ⏰ 10am PT / 1pm ET 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
Vanishing Culture
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Jeanne @jkramersmyth.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Are there new #DataRescue events aiming to archive US Government #environmentaldata? I attended #datarescueDC back in 2017 & found a blog post about the 2017 event on the #waybackmachine : web.archive.org/web/20170224... Does anyone know if www.datarefugestories.org/our-story-1 is still active?
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University Hosts Federal Climate Data Rescue Event
Students, faculty, librarians and scientists gathered at Lauinger Library and the Reiss Science Building Feb. 18 and Feb. 19 to partake in datarescueDC, an attempt to preserve federal environmental da...
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Ian Milligan @ianmilligan1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My next book, Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory comes out in just a few weeks (December 10th!) with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. It'll be open access. Can't wait to share it all with you. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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Jeanne @jkramersmyth.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I invented the #LooneyPyramids game, Freeze Tag. It won an Icehouse Community Excellence Award in 2011, as voted on by fans -- and still had enough fans in 2016 to be included in the Pyramid Arcade list of "22 More Great Games". Find info and rules here: www.looneylabs.com/content/free...
Pyramid Game logo for the game Freeze Tag
At the center is a turquoise small pyramid on top of a large black pyramid. Behind them is a set of concentric circles. The outside circle is black - then working toward the center there is a dark salmon ring, a peachy rose ring.. and then a beige circle.

This logo was created as part of the Pyramid Arcade Kickstarter.
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Mary Fan @astralcolt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Check out this starter pack for authors of the BRAVE NEW GIRLS anthologies! All of these authors have contributed stories about girls in STEM to benefit the Society of Women Engineers scholarship fund 👩‍🔬 go.bsky.app/HYM6hMH
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RCSEd Library & Archive @rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“Can’t you just digitise it all!” we’re asked. Sadly not my friend, because resources. #Decisions are made based on likely user-interest & fragility of material. Here's our digital collections site with c.15,000 images: archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/special-coll... #EYADecisions #ExploreYourArchive
A collage of 9 images depicting various collections including photographs, bound volumes and manuscripts.
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Jeanne @jkramersmyth.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I enjoy writing #SpeculativeFiction short stories. A few years ago, the Society of American Archivists held a short fiction contest. I won and you can read my winning story here: www2.archivists.org/kramer-smyth... (and yes, I wrote a pandemic story in 2018) #shortfiction #scifi #author #writing
A black key with the word QUARANTINE in white writing across it. The key has a surface pattern of a circuit board.
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Jeanne @jkramersmyth.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Introduce yourself with four movies [done under duress... because 4 isn't enough, but doing my best!]
Movie Poster for The Court JesterMovie Poster for Die HardMovie Poster for The Princess BrideMovie Poster for Alien
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Dave Chalker @davethegame.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp...
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In Memoriam: Kory Heath | BoardGameGeek News
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Xerea 💙☕ VTuber @xerea.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Remember those who have been killed, injured, abused, tortured for being who they are. Remember those who have taken their own lives because they could not live in a world where they could not be themselves. Remember them. And make the world remember them.
Light blue, pink, and white candles on a black background, arranged in the order of the Transgender Pride flag. Beneath, the text "TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE NOVEMBER 20" is displayed.
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Jeanne @jkramersmyth.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A first #LookDown photo for BlueSky! I am fascinated by the intersection of the human-made and natural world. My #photography examines the micro-landscape of the ground beneath our feet.
Abstract photo of textured metal surface showing yellow paint and repeated metal shapes.
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Jeanne @jkramersmyth.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Overdue first post: I am an author, artist, & creative geek w/a passion for the intersection of archives & technology. I'll likely post about #GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, & museums), #DigitalPreservation, #Art, #TableTopGames, #Nature, and #Photography.
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