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Ryan Randall @www.ryanpatrickrandall.com · 30/05/2026

They always have money for wars, policing, & telling us our neighbors are our "real" enemies. We always have each other. A better world is possible.

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The London Stage Database @londonstagedb.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

DOGE's use of ChatGPT to terminate 97% of NEH grants (including ours) continues to make headlines this week. Project director Mattie Burkert sat down with investigative reporter Evan Watson from KGW-8 (NBC news Portland) for an interview. Read more and watch the video on our blog:

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LSDB in the News: KGW-Portland Investigates – Extending the London Stage Database

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Valscarie Howlla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 25/02/2026

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

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Franny Gaede @librarifran.com · 26/02/2026

t̶o̶d̶a̶y̶’s̶ energy

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Franny Gaede @librarifran.com · 25/02/2026

Public Domain Review has excellent curation! Also like www.cosmos.so/public-work (“visual search engine for public domain content”)

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Cosmos

A home for curating your universe

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Franny Gaede @librarifran.com · 25/02/2026

Public Domain Review has excellent curation! Also like www.cosmos.so/public-work (“visual search engine for public domain content”)

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Cosmos

A home for curating your universe

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Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Excellent piece from Kelly Boudreau, @miac.bsky.social & Andrew Phelps made me feel better about my own inability to provide a concise/precise def of 'cozy games,' going straight into the syllabus as a way to talk about both embodied gaming & genre. scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/a39f35...

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Whose Vibe is it Anyway? Negotiating Definitions of Cozy Games

While many games that are now widely considered ‘cozy’ games, such as Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley have been on the market for close to a decade (or more), cozy games as a genre have gained in p...

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Franny Gaede @librarifran.com · 17/02/2026

One of my favorite albums of all time has a follow up and it is 🔥 music.apple.com/us/album/in-... Instrumental soul / funk with all the best session players from Daptone Records. Need I say more? Also, listen to the 2016 album because it’s perfect.

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In Search of a Revival by The Olympians on Apple Music

Album · 2026 · 12 Songs

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Deciding it’s too dangerous to reveal just how unpopular the current president is seems like the worst poll result ever.

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Everyone should be following the digitization and posting of the Adam Jacobs Collection. A 10,000 live concert chronicle of rocknroll-live-in-Chicago between the mid-1980s and today. archive.org/details/aada...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/02/2026

NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle. But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.

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Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump

Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 02/02/2026

It makes me furious that there is no way to force them to listen. AI crawlers have forced a future in which much of the information about the present is gated & the near past will disappear. All they need do is respect the rights and requests of people and orgs who produce news. They won't do that.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 02/02/2026

AI will not just rob the past and the present, without some way to limit access and be sure these systems will listen to instructions our first draft of history will disappear from the internet as archive-blocking media link-rots & sometimes dies totally. All that important context will be lost.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 02/02/2026

This sucks, and it gets even worse. I've noticed at least one site has employed a paywall process that even prevents paying subscribers from employing IA-style WARC creation from saving the site, with a script that reapplies the paywall in the WARC context. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...

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News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

This is where I once again feel sad for having lost Old Twitter and all my South Asian friends on there. I was sure there was a project mapping all the medieval and Mughal sarais (caravanserais) across India — anyone know what I'm talking about?

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Kathryn Yu #OpenToWork @kathrynyu.com · 03/01/2026

Narrascope 2026 open call: The Experience Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds through Narrative Seeking projects in the realms of augmented/mixed reality, interactive installations, haunts, escape rooms, live performances that leverage tech, and more. narrascope.org/experience/

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NarraScope 2026 | The Experience

NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.

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Franny Gaede @librarifran.com · 04/01/2026

WHYYYYYYYY Where’s Open Access Hulk on BlueSky?? I need to rage with a friend, please.

Purchase options: $56 for 48 hour access to download / print article PDF

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Here it is! All of my sleep/insomnia visualized for 2025. One Z for each night. The thread colors represent the amount of sleep while the beads signify types of wakefulness. All tracked and coded manually in my sleep journal and stitched over the course of the year. #DHmakes

Embroidered Zs in various shades of blue and teal in a spiral pattern on starry night fabric. A mix of orange, pink, copper, and clear beads are stitched into many of the Zs

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

And you can listen here: bsky.app/profile/jenn...

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

So the National Guard doesn’t get the little $1776 bonus, just Regular forces Not a great look, since that part of the military is currently bearing the brunt of the administration’s domestic deployments and has 3 dead in the last 3 weeks (DC and Syria)

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I understand anthropic sees this as a win but I laughed at “ It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear. Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared”

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Vivaldi Browser @vivaldi.com · 16/12/2025

PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public is looking to bring on new postdoctoral scholars to join our research community starting in 2026-2027. Come collaborate w/ our amazing, interdisciplinary team working to understand & help people navigate our complex information ecosystem!

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

You’re still trying to find the millennial Tom Hanks. I told you we can’t do it, and we can’t do it. Now, what we might be able to do it is recreate him. Recreate him but make him British.

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UC-AFT Local 1474 @ucaft.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

UC Santa Cruz has quietly but abruptly terminated Dr. Rebecca Hernandez, the University’s first Community Archivist and shuttered its Community Archiving Program. Sign the petition demanding that UCSC continue to fully fund the Program and Dr. Hernandez’s position. actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

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Save the Community Archiving Program and Rebecca Hernandez

The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) last week quietly but abruptly terminated Dr. Rebecca Hernandez, the University’s first Community Archivist and shuttered its Community Archiving Program...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al

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The making of critical data center studies - Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, Mél Hogan, 2025

In this article, the authors demonstrate how the data center has become a key site, object, and metaphor for interdisciplinary scholarship of the internet. Whil...

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possible, & thanks, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

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#ScholarSunday Thread 244 (10/5/25) – Black and White and Read All Over

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Franny Gaede @librarifran.com · 04/10/2025

Our union continues to fight the layoffs announced at the libraries in September 2025. Please sign our petition on Action Network and help us gather public support to protect our colleagues and oppose these harmful position eliminations. ✊🏻 actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

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Fight Cuts, Defend Higher Education at the University of Oregon

The University of Oregon is planning to lay off an undisclosed number of faculty—including many tenured faculty—and to close units based on a projected budget deficit that was discovered late spring t...

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

i love sunny autumn days 🍂☀️

A fluffy tuxedo cat is sitting in a fall tree - the leaves are in vivid yellow, red and hot pink tones and frame the cat against blue sky

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Franny Gaede @librarifran.com · 30/09/2025

Inconvenience is one word for it 😳

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

So I used to like to joke I taught from Plato to NATO But really I taught from, say, Gilgamesh to Luther. But they don't rhyme. I want them to rhyme.

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Yesterday, we filed a lawsuit challenging Trump’s illegal federalization of the National Guard. This morning, we filed a motion for a temporary restraining order to block the federalization from going into effect. We’ll keep sharing updates as things progress.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 30/09/2025

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Lil Boo-kens 👻 @paleosol.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

On my GenEd climate change exams, I include an open-ended question allowing students to tell me something they learned but didn't appear elsewhere on the exam. It's worth 5x any other question. Nearly every student expounds on how cool they thought some concept was. #AcademicSky

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

One of my Gen Z nephews texts me videos, and I text him articles back. It's like we speak different languages.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I keep losing the ‘Go 4 Minutes Without Being Totally Enraged By A Headline Challenge’

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 01/06/2025

Like a podcast? Share their episodes. Enjoyed a book? Pass it along to a friend. Love a YouTuber? Drop a link in group chat. Admire an author? Let them know with a message. Creating can be isolating, but sharing helps these works grow and stay alive well past when they’re knocked from the nest.

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 27/06/2025

As a queer author, thank you for buying our gay books in response to the challenges and bans and court decisions, but I implore you to go stand up for your public libraries and schools—they’re our greatest advocates, and they’re kind of the main target of this whole effort.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

A few folks have DM’d me abt the Frederick Douglass passage I excerpted at the rally. Here it is: “Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; 1/

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

"This should be obvious, but let’s be clear: Neither the White House nor the U.S. Department of Justice has the authority to hire or fire university presidents. But if you claim a power and everyone acts like you really have power, you totally have that power."

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