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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This feels somehow related to the amount of time I spend explaining that something not being in a certain archival collection is not the same as there being an absence in said collection

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I haven't read the full article yet, but this quote kinda feels like when people say a library should be doing X, Y, and Z and librarians are like yeah, we would love to but we aren't the ones with the purse strings who keep firing people and cutting our budget.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026

You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now.

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Kate M @k8madison.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@kawulf.bsky.social Looking forward to seeing you at LOC today!

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Kate M @k8madison.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For no apparent reason whatsoever (ahem), I feel compelled to point out that historians of medicine have identified the pathology of something that was likely POTS back in the mid-nineteenth century. So no, this isn't a fad illness or something made up by hysterical women.

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026

them: we need you to get with the program, be expert tech-embracers me: i have a literal PhD in something literally called Science & Technology Studies and i actually think this tech is bad them: not like that (it's almost funny to me. *almost*)

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Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

MAHA's project is inherently eugenicist, from food purity to body purity to moralizing about health/ability. They transform illness/disability into moral deficiency: the sick and disabled are less and worse than the rest of "us". We must 'purify' our nation and bodies. It's fascism of the body.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It must be wonderful believing that if you eat this "clean" diet, drink that "detox" tea, and exercise a little that you'll be immune to chronic illness. Sorry folks, you can hang garlic and holy water and crosses all over your windows but it's very likely the vampires are already in your house.

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Kate M @k8madison.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

To anyone who just followed me from an infosec starter pack: I am not an information security person!!! I am an ARCHIVIST!!!! I touched letters from 1871 today!! I don't know why I was added to that starter pack, but I shouldn't have been.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/09/2026

This article succeeds where most on the same topic fail (most notably Heller's infamous New Yorker piece on the 'end of the English major') bc it shows the relationship between 'declining majors' and 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤, 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 defunding and disinvestment in programs administrators want to diminish or end.

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Kate M @k8madison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So those giant Freedom 250 banners decorating executive branch buildings in DC? I'm now driving past a trio on my way to work every day of Lady Columbia, Washington Crossing the Delaware... and Manifest Destiny. Yep. "American Progress" by John Gast. Wtf.

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Mark Poloncarz @markpoloncarz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lake Ontario has been named Lake Ontario for longer than our nation has existed. Heck, it's been called Lake Ontario for hundreds of years before first European contact, as it was named by the indigenous people of our region. It will always be Lake Ontario regardless of what the president does.

Just a reminder, Lake Ontario has been named Lake Ontario for longer than our nation has existed. Heck, it's been called Lake Ontario for hundreds of years before first European contact, as it was named by the indigenous people of our region.

It will always be called Lake Ontario regardless of whatever the president does.

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A notice to scientists doing paleosciences: please #TalkToALibrarian about the bibliographic traditions in History. Science databases are virtually worthless for finding scholarship in history. You cannot cite a book review you found in a science journal in lieu of actually reading the history BOOK.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Not only do digital things not last forever, digital objects are even more fragile than physical ones! You can put a piece of paper on a shelf for a century, but you probably can't read a Unity project from 10 years ago

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19/08/2026

Love this "what kind of books count" discourse because none of them count. It's made up! You're an adult and can set your recreational goals however you want to

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yes, I have seen the "smut doesn't count as reading" post and yes, it is bullshit. Take it from your friendly, neighborhood, smut-loving librarian. All reading counts as reading. Stop worrying about tallies and totals and what other people think about your reading. Enjoy yourself.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

it has never, not for one day, felt "normal" in any sense other than it happens a lot and has for awhile

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

i don't like this take of people basically ignoring the guard or going on with their lives equals people have accepted them. What exactly is it you want me to do when i see them every ten seconds and i still have to finish walking to work?

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Claude isn’t capable of visiting a distant archive to look at the blueprints for Victorian toilets to confirm a maker’s presence in the city to corroborate other until recently apocryphal information, which is a real thing I saw working in an archive this year. Claude can make a bunch of shit up!

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 07/08/2026

It feels like 90% of the "Men Left Behind" arguments boil down to "We used to have all the things and now we only have most of the things and that is discrimination against us because other people are allowed a few things."

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Hope my fellow chronically ill pals had a very pleasant bed rot today.

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Kate M @k8madison.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm with John Oliver on this: one of the best uses of our interconnected devices is to browse digitized Civil War maps at the Library of Congress.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

it's beautiful bsky.app/profile/edin...

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 28/07/2026

this summer's cultural cross over we've all been waiting for jimothy x bayeux

A picture of a piece is hand embroidery of jimothy the raccoon in the style of the bayeux tapestry.

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society

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spookily scarily pitt girl 👻🎃👻 @opg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

¡CABO VERDE, EL CAMPEÓN DE LA GENTE!

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Kate M @k8madison.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

¡España! ¡Los campeones del mundo!

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Kate M @k8madison.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Not me literally crying at the end of that halftime show

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Heather Hill @rollin-academic.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

why does boundary setting and (mild) confrontation make me feel like I am being hunted for sport?

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Kate M @k8madison.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My favorite fic just got a SURPRISE epilogue update and this feeling right here is what I love about fandom and what I love about story and storytelling.

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I’ve also been thinking that the World Cup is where people are finding collective joy rather than in America 250, and the creation of international and cross cultural community has been incredible to behold.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

World Cup tourists' awestruck posts about the USA are a way more accurate and inspiring version of the country than the mythical small town of collective nostalgia and modern political ads

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I also recommend the live on-the-ground updates from notable bus passenger and local resident @musicologyduck.bsky.social.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 13/06/2026

the crowd doing a contempt of court countdown like the ball is about to drop in Time's Square is actively hilarious, I can't go to sleep. LOL

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HJ @hjarmstrong.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This is great.

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Passing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

WHAT'S BEEN DIGITIZED IS __ONLY__ A TINY FRAGMENT OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE & HISTORY PRIMARILY WHAT'S __EASY__ TO RUN THROUGH MACHINES Internet = a sip of water Museums & archives = OCEANS, GALAXIES, UNIVERSES Signed, a former digitization professional

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Gotta love that Star Trek writers were wasaay ahead of their time in “Billionaire tech CEO is a piece of shit” analysis.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 30/05/2026

capital weather gang going independent from the washington post... new york times puzzle team take note

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Kate M @k8madison.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

In this day and age in fandom, it is all to easy to mistake actors' willingness to participate in conventions and engage with fans with a willingness, desire, or even obligation to engage with headcanons and shipping discourse and fic - generally the /fan/ side of fandom. That is not the case. 1/

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Kate M @k8madison.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Pro fandom tip: whatever actors say about their characters is their interpretation. The actor is NOT the character. Your headcanon doesn't need their validation. Ship and let ship. And reign in the parasociality; you'll be happier for it. Brought to you by fandom drama. Signed, a destiel shipper.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This is the first day in a world without CBS News Radio, which had been broadcasting since 1927. Through eighteen presidential administrations, nine popes, five British monarchs, and numerous wars. Nearly 100 years of journalism, gone like that. Bari Weiss killed it.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The real solution to helping historians do research is actually pretty simple: give archives more money. Money for conservation, preservation, storage (physical an digital), climate controlled facilities, and staff (paid at a living wage). You don't need LLMs, you need money.

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