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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 08/09/2026

Happy retirement, Lonnie! So glad we met at ICOM 2019 in Kyoto, and his book "A Fool's Errand" was a huge help to me as the director of the National Deaf Life Museum. I dream of growing up to be as cool as Lonnie Bunch, and I hope when I retire I leave behind as stellar a legacy as he does.

Meredith smiles alongside Lonnie Bunch, who is also smiling. They are both wearing ICOM Kyoto badge lanyards.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 31/08/2026

Grateful to see Inge Heyer of @shoreleavecon.bsky.social on the In Memoriam scroll at the #HugoAwards. We miss you, Inge.

The In Memoriam scroll at the Hugo Awards, with "Inge Heyer - Fan" at the top

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 13/07/2026

Oh, and @jessiegender.bsky.social missed one. We also had this on the schedule. The same four people also presented eight other panels about various SFF properties (Avatar, Agents of Shield, etc). The descriptions are fairly benign but 12 panels with the same foursome does strike me as odd. ...

Panel info. "MEGA! Make Earth Great Again! President Clark, anyone? Let's discuss the shocking parallels between the rise and reign of Babylon 5's Earth President Clark and our current political quagmire. Andrew Kelley, Beverly Stark, Lawrence A. Neals, Mark Richmond"

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 14/03/2026

I'm spending the weekend at @awesomecon.bsky.social wrangling 17 ASL interpreters, as usual - but representing @dublin2029.bsky.social while I do it! Oh, and these are my new glasses - it was hard to switch styles, but I like them. 😊

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 23/12/2025

I thought I might have one more trip before the end of the year, but I think this is it. 36 flights is the most I've ever taken in a year, so I don't suppose I needed another, really. I have eight booked for 2026, with more to come. Up, up, and away... ✈️

A flight stats graphic from ByAir with 36 flights around the world. 6 days 21 hours in the air, top month February, 23 airports, 8 countries.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 23/10/2025

Remember Catz? I don't think I've thought about them in 20 years but I sure remember!

A screenshot of the computer game Catz, with PF Magic wallpaper. A cat character is playing with a ball, and there are supplies on shelves.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 22/08/2025

Some pictures from my travels! I should've shared more while en route, but such is life. At least I can share one selfie per country. 1. On the Cutty Sark in London (7/27) 2. At the Jardin Luxembourg (8/4) 3. Inside Ghent's city hall (8/6) 4. Ready for the Hugos in Seattle (8/16)

Meredith smiles on the top deck of a sailing ship, with the rigging rising overhead.

Meredith beams on an overlook with heavily manicured gardens below, and Luxembourg flags everywhere.

Meredith leans on a wood windowsill, with the windows painted in intricate designs.

Meredith smirks in a black blazer, wearing the teal Worldcon lanyard with pins on it.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 12/06/2025

I got a season pass so I can go again with friends, but if this is my last time at Six Flags America, I enjoyed it solo. I walked right onto every ride I wanted, make the swings my first stop as always, and saw the remains of the oldest ride I remember since I started coming nearly 40 years ago.

Meredith, a white person in sunglasses and a Gallaudet T-shirt, poses in front of the exit to Six Flags America, under a sign with the park's name.

A green and purple steel roller coaster with many tangles.

A low, flat swings ride with rainbow under its roof.

A dilapidated walkway around an overgrown grassy area. An exit sign warns of panthers.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 05/04/2025

The best part of being the interpreter scheduler for an event is I get to assign them to myself sometimes. So I got to see @seananmcguire.bsky.social and @scalzi.com anyway, even though I had to leave early because (as expected) a separate interpreter crisis popped up.

A panel at a convention on a low stage. Left to right are an interpreter signing "research," Seanan McGuire, Fonda Lee, John Scalzi, P. Djèlí Clark, R. R. Virdi, and Timothy Zahn.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 08/03/2025

You and I share points of marginalization so I think you should have some joy, too. I know your job means you see the political stuff, but here, have a cute kitty, as a treat.

An orange and white cat bats at a toy being moved under a cloth.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 20/02/2025

You know, when I think about the Mega Goddess's Romancing Slot, pachinko is not what's on my mind.(Funabashi, Chiba)

A large pachinko parlor called Mega Goddess in a Japanese town. The signs also say Romancing Slot.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 23/01/2025

Today has been challenging, and I am finding joy tonight in the fact that less than a month from now, I will have a delicious bowl of vegan sesame tantanmen at T's Tantan in Ueno for ¥1200 ($7.65). I will take my joy where I can get it. 😋

A restaurant ad with a picture of a bowl of noodle soup, in light tan broth with vegetables, spices, and lots of sesame seeds.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 09/01/2025

Here's all the parameters of ASL signs in a single image! (3/3)

Parameters of ASL Signs: When two signs seem the same, compare parameters to find the difference! Handshape, Location, Movement, Palm Orientation, and Facial Expression.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 09/01/2025

If you're studying ASL, I hope these are helpful for you, too. Remember - learn from deaf instructors whenever possible. (2/3)

Movement: The direction the hand moves when signing (or a lack of movement). For cat, it's away from the face.

Palm Orientation: May be to the front, to the back, up or down, left or right, etc. For cat, it's toward the person watching you.

Facial Expression: Also called "non-manual" markers or signals. Can include mouth shapes, eyebrows, and more. (Not all signs use them.) For cat, there isn't one.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 09/01/2025

Understanding how American Sign Language signs can be differentiated is a huge help when you're just starting out learning the language! I created these graphics for a friend who's taking their first ASL class - each image references the sign for "cat." (1/3)

Parameters of ASL Signs: When two signs seem to be the same, compare parameters to find the difference!

Handshape: There are about 40 common handshapes in ASL. For cat, it's the thumb and pointer making a circle, and the other three fingers extended.

Location: Where on the body the hand is positioned. For cat, it's on the cheek.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 07/12/2024

I've gotten this comparison.

Anne Hathaway, a white woman with long brown hair. She is wearing a cream sweater and minimal, natural looking makeup.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 02/12/2024

Going through some old memes on my phone and found this gem from @bullenross.bsky.social. Pretty sure this was shortly after my alma mater unveiled its new mascot design, too...

Tweet from Ross Daniel Bullen. "Universities: We can't afford to hire any tenure-track professors for the next three years. Also universities: We paid a marketing firm $400,000 to redesign the school mascot." Tweet from May 6, 2019.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 21/11/2024

For this, my 800th post, I would like to point out that they are called posts.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 10/11/2024

Just sitting at Red Bear drinking a Lightweight Flannel, wearing a lightweight flannel...

Meredith sits behind a full pint of beer. She's wearing a brown and white plaid flannel over a T-shirt with a rainbow.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 04/11/2024

Here comes a big change...I'm leaving the traditional workforce to begin a freelance career! After 11 years as the director of the National Deaf Life Museum, I'm ready for a new challenge. I know my late mentor, who founded NDLM, would be jumping for joy at my new venture. My last day is Dec 31.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 27/10/2024

And, of course, the Asahi offices in Sumida-ku, Tokyo.

A squat black building shaped like a cauldron, with skyscrapers behind it. On top of the black building is a long golden shape that looks a bit like a turd.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 19/09/2024

My latest ink, drawn by Lennox Zher, inked by Liaa Walter. Tardigrades aka "water bears" are microscopic animals 1st discovered in the 18th c. They survive extreme heat and freezing cold, pressure higher than the Mariana Trench, and the vacuum of outer space. They are indestructible - and so am I.

A blue and green tardigrade with little round mouth parts, tattooed on a white person.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 26/06/2024

Downloaded an app called Happy Color and these are the first two things I colored. Much better.

A colored picture saying love is love, with lots of rainbows and pink.

A Black woman in an elfin costume, with a large afro and flowers in her hair.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 20/06/2024

Watch for this face coming soon to a National Air and Space Museum exhibit near you! Well, if you live in Washington DC, anyway. Just completed an interview about my vision for the future of human space travel. 😊

A middle-aged white woman with pink hair and pink glasses. She tilts her head at the camera with a slight smile. She is wearing makeup and a black shirt.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 23/05/2024

Actually Zoom all my work meetings are in sign language, so I'm good, thanks!

A Zoom pop-up window that says "Not hearing anything?" with a button to "Turn up volume"

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 05/05/2024

Adapting a challenge I saw from @jendaby.bsky.social into a one-shot, because I will forget if I make it ongoing. So here's 5 books that have influenced me, no explanations, only covers.

The original blue cover of the Star Trek TNG Companion by Larry Nemecek, with a cast photo on the cover.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 30/04/2024

Hearing people shenanigans: buckle in, it's a long one. A hearing woman, Jessica Wohlstetter, who is not a certified interpreter, developed a curriculum to teach ASL at the NYPD Academy. She claims that after 11 class sessions, you can take the RID certification exam. (Again, she has not passed it.)

Schedule for NYPD ASL Interpreter Certification Pathway says you can "become an ASL certified member of service."

Next to the heading is a graphic of the ASL alphabet, but T is completely wrong and several other letters are a bit odd.

Schedule is February 29, Overview of RID Certification Process. March 4 and 6, theory and practice of interpreting. March 11 and 13, Interpreting 1, ASL to English. March 25 and 27, ASL for emergency situations. April 1 and 3, Interpreting 2, English to ASL. April 8 and 10, RID test preparation.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 29/04/2024

Celebrating DC's first summer-like day of 2024 with a dopamine boost. Peanut Butter Blossom is my new favorite flavor.

A white woman's hand holds a sugar cone with a pink and white paper wrapper. The large scoop of ice cream is a bit melty.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 08/04/2024

Are you tired of eclipse pictures? Here, have one more. From Washington DC.

A crescent sun seen through eclipse glasses that make it seem in the middle of a mushroom cloud.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 15/02/2024

Me trying to explain "The Artist is Present" to my students in class today.

A paranoid looking guy stands in front of a web of conspiracy theories plastered on the wall. He appears to be holding up a picture of artist Marina Abramovic sitting in a chair, wearing a white dress, facing a woman sitting opposite her in another chair.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 15/02/2024

Oh hey, there goes my timeline again. Time to go read @file770.bsky.social.

The detonation of 16 tons of explosives, with the Nevada desert bursting into flame and smoke and mess.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 29/01/2024

Headed home from a very smoffy weekend, feeling so much more prepared for this summer.

A can of sugar free Irn Bru next to a glass with ice. An orange slice lies on top of the ice.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 23/01/2024

Actual photo of me reading about the 2023 Hugo Awards.

A fluffy Pallas's cat crouches in the sand with a confused and/or grumpy facial expression.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 29/12/2023

Greetings from my overnight layover in Madrid, where my suitcase is having an all night party with its fellow luggage brethren at the airport while I sleep in a real bed nearby. Tomorrow: on to Buenos Aires!

A map of an Apple Airtag located at the Madrid airport. The blue dot representing the user is a mile away in the Barajas district.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 27/12/2023

I have now been to the Acropolis Museum and the British Museum. 100% confirmed my pre-existing opinion that the Parthenon Marbles should go back to Greece. Not least because they barely acknowledge the controversy, as seen here. At least they're calling them Parthenon instead of Elgin now.

A sign reading "Please take a leaflet to find out more about the controversy surrounding the Parthenon sculptures." There are no leaflets in the box.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 27/12/2023

@jaivirdi.com I'm at the Science Museum in London and thought of you with this case of hearing instruments. Does it seem to you like the top ones in the close-up are displayed upside down?!

The label for the case of hearing aids, in a spiral bound book. It refers to the entire case, not individual items, and gives only a brief description of the history of hearing aids in two sentences.

A museum case with a few hundred years of hearing aids, from large ear trumpets to modern in the ear aids.

Close-up of three pairs of hearing aids stacked vertically. On top is a gold metal loop with a tip that fits in the ear. The sound intake opening would point at the floor if worn in this orientation. If the display were turned over, the intake would point forward from the wearer.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 17/12/2023

Paging @museumbums.bsky.social to the James Simon Galerie gift shop at Museuminsel Berlin, your magnets are ready!

A pile of small magnets, about 1 inch long, that represent the bum of a sculpture in a museum.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 15/12/2023

Meanwhile, this version says "Sign Language" NINE TIMES. (Missing Auslan though, should squish up right under BSL family.)

A chart of sign language families, including French, Japanese, Arab and other families.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 14/11/2023

Pictures from my research trip to Ottawa this past weekend. I want to go back sometime when it is not so cold, because there was so much more I would've liked to do, had it not been so absolutely freezing (to my mid-Atlantic self). See alt text for image descriptions along with extra captions!

A small dish of poutine, which is mostly fries with a few curds visible under the gravy. A glass of cider sits behind the plate. This was not the only vegetarian poutine I had, but it was the most photogenic. It was not the best-tasting, though - this was from Pure Kitchen, and I liked the one at Zak's better.

Media clippings and posters on the wall in a museum, with shirts flying high on the wall above. I enjoyed the Ottawa Art Gallery's exhibition on 40 years of hip-hop in the Ottawa-Gatineau area, particularly this section on the breakdancing group Canadian Floor Masters.

Meredith poses in front of the large OTTAWA sign. She is wearing a hat, scarf, and sunglasses. It was so terribly cold that not many people were waiting to take pictures, and I managed to grab a selfie with no one else in it. I imagine that is impossible in the warmer months.

A sound exhibit at the Canada Science and Technology Museum allows you to choose songs to play: Amen Brother, Never Gonna Give You Up, Last Night, Are You My Woman, and Baby Elephant Walk. I had a meeting with the curator of this exhibition before I spotted this - when I email him to thank him, I will have to tell him I appreciated the rickroll opportunity.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 01/11/2023

This feels like takeout, if I do say so myself. Which was the idea - I ordered Chinese recently, saw they wanted $14.95 for stir fried bok choy without any protein, and decided to make it myself for less. (There's also spinach under the tofu.)

A plate piled high with browned tofu triangles and stir fried bok choy, sitting on some spinach. A thick line of chili crisp is on top of it all.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 26/10/2023

I am teaching about graphic design this week, discussing art styles. I'm focusing on whether generative AI can eliminate the job of graphic designers, and I asked an AI to create a cat in the style of the De Stijl movement. Admittedly I'm partial to De Stijl, but I really like what it came up with.

A line art image of a cat, backed by squares and shapes in a grid. The colors red, yellow, and blue are prominent, with black, white and gray as well. It echoes this particular art style very well, albeit with curves and other non-grid shapes to make up the cat.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 26/10/2023

I don't see the resemblance

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 21/10/2023

When your hearing friends ask to go to your deaf school's football game, you say yes, even though you've never been before yourself. Thanks @kylehill.bsky.social @alsokate.bsky.social for making me go! #cfb

The Gallaudet football field, with opposing team near the camera and home team across the field.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 14/10/2023

I finally made oden after ages of meaning to. I couldn't find ganmodoki, so I just used tofu. The kinchaku is my favorite part, I was happy to find it at the Japanese grocery in Rockville. 🇯🇵🍢😋

A bowl of soup, with carrots, lotus root, potato, tofu, and other ingredients.

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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 25/09/2023

I spent a lot of time at the National Aquarium in Baltimore when I was a kid, but I haven't been back in ages. I went yesterday, and while the $50 admission fee means I will not be back any time soon, it was a nice trip down memory lane. Plenty of things have changed, but many are still the same.

The underside of a ramp used to travel between floors in the aquarium, with a large whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling on the left and blue neon waves on a wall in the back.

A brightly lit exhibit tank full of coral, colorful yellow fish, and a few other bright fish.

A red, yellow, and blue bird with a long tail sits on a log, with a waterfall, rocks, and trees behind it.

A sign with a picture of two dolphins. Text: "We No Longer Offer Dolphin Shows. But don't worry! Now you can observe the dolphin pod learning and playing no matter when you arrive at Dolphin Discovery."

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