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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm so happy to be back at ILiADS at @vassar.bsky.social this year. 11 years of digital scholarship summer camp!

A woman stands at a podium in front of a projector that has a slide titled "Origins of ILiADS" with dates and locations.

Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Trying to find the location of a former plantation in Mississippi and instead found this fallen over plaque indicating the presence of an Indian mound and an African-American burial site on top. Could be a good image for a 250th publication!

A screencap from Google Maps of the entry for the Johnson Cemetery Mound plaque in Mississippi. In the street view, the plaque has fallen on the ground. The plaque reads "The Johnson Cemetery site currently consists of a single mound and associated village, but may originally have had second mound. The existing mound is 12 feet in height and was most likely pyramidal in shape, though its dimensions have suffered from erosion. Archacologists have determined that the mound was built in stages by Native Americans during the Mississippi Period, ca. AD 1200-1600. Johnson Cemetery, a 20th-century African American cemetery, is located on the mound's summit."

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Perhaps a bit less textual, but still a material way to enjoy tonight’s RBS talk. Reference image from a Charlottesville parking garage.

A watercolor of a cityscape sits on a desk in front of a laptop and a window that looks out onto a dying tree of heaven.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I did find it on YouTube from the Simon Family VHS collection thank goodness.

A screenshot of Skylark: the sequel to Sarah, Plain, and Tall on YouTube

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I’ve been getting a lot of early 2000s nostalgia on insta, mostly it’s candlelight and DVDs but what they’re forgetting is this:

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Is this supposed to be a joke? (Ignore me trying to prove my spouse wrong in the kitchen)

A Google AI summary saying something dumb.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I had a three art class weekend! Highly recommend! Saturday was druksels at @virginiabookarts.bsky.social, Sunday was watercolor, and Monday was drypoint etching.

Drypoint etching of a goose showing plate and print on grid background.

A sampling of druksel letterpress prints - random letters and numbers configured to make shapes or patterns.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We're done. This is the only April Fools' joke I will be accepting. (From my local newspaper) www.thenews-gazette.com

A black cat swats at a toy on top of the obituaries page for April Fool's.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Had to go back to the people who know what they’re talking about.

The book The Madwoman in the Attic is featured in a green walled room.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Does Ken Burns include this part?

Google AI search results say King George III is from Harry Potter.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Recently drove by the location of Hayes’ Creek Mound in Rockbridge.

A bottom land field, more or less flat, in front a bluff above a creek.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I’m always going think of that line about watching climate disasters on your phone and then through your phone. My sister had a tree hit her house after a crazy microburst. Everyone is fine but I got the whole story while visiting her and there was much neighborly help but also neighborly creep.

The front of a house tarped and boarded after a tree hit it. There are indentations in the ground where the branches landed.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

This was on the back of the 8x10 sized drawer that was on the wall growing up.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

For the #dhmakes crowd. Did a personal stationary workshop last night at Appalachia Press in Roanoke. Magical studio, expert printer, divine fancy paper.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Yours truly gracing the back of the campus magazine (literary themed!) pulling a print off our BookBeetle. Block from the old print shop featuring the trident, our athletics symbol.

Print being pulled from a tabletop printing press.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I don’t really have ambitions to be a library director, but if it happens I hope my photo comes close to this.

Older white woman sits in an armchair with one cat in her arms and one on the floor nearby.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Oh no what am I teaching them. Found in my classroom.

A hand drawn image of a train leaving a building with the caption “Thomas the meth engine”

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

When your printing buddy goes to Nashville…

A selection of letterpress goods from Hatch Show Print.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I spent a lot of time at church as a kid and somehow the only thing that stuck is my mom putting on Jesus Christ Superstar every Easter. Every year that seems weirder and weirder.

A tv screen showing a still of Judas singing in the 1970s Jesus Christ Superstar movie.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Celebrated the 75th anniversary of Shenandoah, a literary magazine, with some hands-on printing tonight! #DHmakes

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Came out well enough! Wheat flour drowns out the taste a bit but still tasty.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I was pretty late to the sourdough trend last time so for this world altering crisis I am going all in on the bread of my childhood: potato flake sourdough.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Here is a nice thing to see.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Was just curious about how much of my congressional district was also national forest!!!

Terrain/topo map showing Virginia congressional districts with overlap of national forest land.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Three faculty have asked me about saving things this week so this stack is now outside my office. zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...

A stack of zin on web archiving sits outside a librarian’s office.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

From James Bridle’s *New Dark Age*.

A page of a book in the sunlight discussing the hazards of computational thinking.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

An unexpected find when wandering remote Italian villages on street view.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Haven't been able to find much work on this part of the building, except that they were probably inspired by Roman and Byzantine motifs that came before.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Sharing this year’s lino cut holiday card with y’all. Been working on recreating designs from the frescos in the Baptistery in Florence.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

@hotdogsladies.bsky.social sorry I can’t not citation chase. If you still need it.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

In case you don't use Gr*mmarly I just wanted you to see this. 🤯

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Make it stop. These generated descriptions are bananas.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Finally, Mad Love (1995). Drew Barrymore is a doll, though it's hard to see those eyebrows and not think of the damage wrought on a generation of eyebrows. Good for grungy Seattle music and style.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Next was Forces of Nature. I worked as a page at my public library in the early 2000s and I am sure I shelved this dvd many times but never took it home. As someone who teaches a lot of very polite and smart bros, Ben Affleck nails it.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

First, Green Card (1990). Andie MacDowell goes through with a scam marriage for what is 100% reasonable in my book: an NY apartment with a beautiful greenhouse. The love interest, Gérard Depardieu, doesn't do much for me, but the plant mom vibes totally do.

French man sits at a table of food in a beautiful New York apartment greenhouse.

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Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Huxley. He was the kind of cat that would pet you back.

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