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Laura Melbourne

@mslauraeb.bsky.social
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She/Her. Archivist. Cine/video/bibliophile & geek generalist. Mom and stuff.

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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Eve's Bayou is a wonderful, uniquely American gothic film. Director's cut is leaving Criterion at the end of this month. You should watch it.
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As someone turning 50 in the next 12 months...
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Digital Preservation Coalition @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Three new resources are now available in the DPC’s Digital Preservation Toolkit for Community Archives: 📷 A Basic Digitisation Guide 🗂️ Adding Digitised Records to a Catalogue 🤖 Thinking About Using AI? Practical guidance to help community archives care for […] [Original post on digipres.club]
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
bloggERS!, the blog of the SAA's Electronic Records Section, fosters communication w/in the section & across the wider (digital) archives community. We’re seeking volunteers to join our intrepid editorial team as new Team Members! Details & a link to apply here: saaers.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/j...
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Join the bloggERS team!
bloggERS! fosters communication within the ERS and across the wider (especially digital) archival community. We’ve put together a fantastic editorial team of intrepid information professionals, and…
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Emily Higgs Kopin (spooky) @ehkopin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Job posting: The director and curator administers and oversees all operations for the List Gallery, a regionally acclaimed exhibition venue. . .including contemporary artists, student work, and works from the Swarthmore College Art Collection.” careers.swarthmore.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Details - Director & Curator, List Gallery :: Human Resources :: Swarthmore College
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I just leveled up my audiobooks.* Did you know you can change the length of time you borrow a book on Libby?! When it says, "Borrowing for..." the length of time it shows is a dropdown! Pick a longer time for big books! * Thanks to my friendly librarian, Abbie!
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I love New York. Thank you, Knicks!
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Also, no.
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Oh no. I am that person. I accidentally emailed the whole listserv. I can never be trusted with a computer ever again. *hanging head of shame*
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Now's a great time to support LaVonnia Moore, a rural Georgia librarian who was fired because she approved a library display (set up by community members) that included a book featuring a transgender character. Her legal case enters the mediation process this week. 📚 www.gofundme.com/f/help-lavon...
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Donate to Help LaVonnia Moore Seek Justice and Equality, organized by Lavonnia Moore
Seeking help for legal fees and life. My name is LaVonnia Moore. For … Lavonnia Moore needs your support for Help LaVonnia Moore Seek Justice and Equality
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
You can also donate to the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund, which runs an annual campaign focused on freeing Black mamas and caregivers: www.phillybailout.org
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Philadelphia Community Bail Fund
The mission of the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund is to end cash bail in Philadelphia. Until that time, we post bail for those who cannot afford to pay for their freedom.
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Hell is a concessions stand line.
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"tags could be used to highlight the presence of disabled people within a particular document or document series..." 1/3 Emma Yeo in Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession search.worldcat.org/title/Preser...
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Preserving disability : disability and the archival profession | WorldCat.org
"Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession weaves together first-person narratives and case studies contributed from disabled archivists and disabled archives users, bringing criti
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Say Mistage ʕ•ᴥ•ʔノ☆ @sayomgwtf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Khajiit has wares if you have coin
Phoeo of a cute cat behind a super market toy set looking at the camera, with the silly caption of "Khajiit has wares if you have coin" which is a known The Elder Scrolls line.
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"Lost, inaccurate or incomplete records, and the consequent loss of identity and personhood, were part of systemic abuse." Stace, Hilary, Susan Martin, and Martin Sullivan in Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession search.worldcat.org/title/148298...
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Preserving disability : disability and the archival profession | WorldCat.org
"Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession weaves together first-person narratives and case studies contributed from disabled archivists and disabled archives users, bringing criti
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Spent a week digging out of the stuff that came in while I was on vacation* just to miss Monday being sick. It's fine.**
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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This came up in a Google search and, in light of the librarian shenanigans (firings) in the news lately, I'm reposting it. Read it again, especially the last paragraph. Make sure your local library knows you expect diverse collections, programming, and staff. raforall.blogspot.com/2025/01/libr...
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Library Staff Are Not Superheroes: a Guest Post by Robin Bradford
Just before the new year, Robin and I were chatting  and she sent me this text: "Can I come to a guest post on our blog that libraries are N...
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I don't bake often, but this new recipe was a hit tonight so I thought you might like it, too. www.recipetineats.com/flourless-or...
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Whole Orange Cake - rind and all!
This unique flourless orange cake uses whole oranges - rind and all - blitzed with almond meal, sugar and eggs. Wonderful gluten free cake!
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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 18/03/2026
My sister doesn't work. She's got her own challenges, but she spent the last two decades taking care of my mom. All the money I make from book sales for the next few months are going to go to her. You'll find buy links for the paperback and ebook at the link below. 18/18
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A Dark Hole Darkly
Sometimes neurodivergence makes you a much SHITTIER detective.
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Calling scholars of Quaker history, Peace history, and allied topics! Swarthmore College Special Collections is accepting applications for our Moore Research Fellowship for 2026-2027. Academics, creatives, and researchers at all levels are welcome to apply! www.swarthmore.edu/libraries/re...
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Sinners is a perfect film.
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Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN) @awnnetwork.org · 27/02/2026
Great article about activist Anita Cameron, disability history, and the storytelling project "We Were There Too: Blacks in the Disability Movement"
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An old photo album captures a history of Black disabled activism. For Anita Cameron, it’s personal
Many of the photographs in a family album tell a story that Cameron said has been erased from the conversation about the history of the disability rights movement in the U.S.: Black people also built ...
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Our smart_funny_cool pal Joey wrote a book, and I'm excited to read it. You can, too! spot.fund/cr7jmlxsc #horror #IndieAuthors #booksky
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Click here to support Joey Pettine's story *JoeyPettineHorrorNovels
*spotfund is the easiest place to create beautiful and free online fundraisers. It takes just minutes to start raising money today.
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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 07/02/2026
THIS MONTH ONLY!!! To celebrate my books NO LONGER BEING AVAILABLE FOR KINDLE, I'm offering all 3 as an Itch mini-bundle for just $3. That's 80% off probably?!? Includes BOTH books in the space-fantasy adventure comedy PERCIVAL GYNT series + the neurodivergent AF mystery comedy A DARK HOLE DARKLY.
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Drew's $3 Bye-Bye Kindle Sale by Drew Melbourne
A bundle by Drew Melbourne, $2.97 for Percival Gynt and the Conspiracy of Days, Percival Gynt and the Inevitability of Fire and Other Cases, A Dark Hole Darkly
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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three cats are sitting on a wooden floor and one of them is looking at the camera .
Alt: Four kittens, probably. Three are sleeping huddled together in the background. In the front, a gray kitten appears to yawn and fall over.
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I posted my first full finding aid today. Am I an archivist now?
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Thank goodness the first day of 2026 is over. How many are left to go?
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
It helps that we are translating She-Ra to Star Wars. I started with Adora as Luke, Horde as the dark side, etc., keeping it simple. Kid: oh so Hordak is Snoak and Catra is Kylo Ren? Me: ... Good job, no notes #She-Ra
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 13/12/2025
"If we truly want to support dysregulated students, especially neurodivergent ones, we need to stop putting the burden of managing big emotions solely on them & instead take a hard look at the environments we create." From @endseclusion.bsky.social: endseclusion.org/2025/07/10/n... #neurodiversity
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Neurodivergent Students Don’t Need a Calm Corner, They a Whole Classroom Rooted in Calm, Connection, and Compassion
“Just make a calm-down space in your room!” they say, as if emotional regulation can be solved with a bean bag chair, a glitter jar, and a cute sign that says “breathe.” But here’s what so many people...
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Yup. I just had a request today for something we clearly didn't/wouldn't have in the archive.
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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 19/10/2025
And that's it!!! I think our winners are gonna be these (mine, wife's, kiddo's). What are yours??? 10/
My pick: Demon cat and bird from K-Pop Demon HuntersWife's pick: Daniel Tiger from PBS KidsKiddo's pick: Minecraft Chicken Jockey
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
My parents were Republicans because George H.W Bush signed the Americans with Disabilites Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. A generation of people with disabilities went to college, got jobs and lived independently because of IDEA. abcnews.go.com/Politics/spe...
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Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources
The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.
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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 03/10/2025
Happy ADHD Awareness Month! You can find my latest novel, A DARK HOLE DARKLY, in this Itch ebook bundle. DARKLY is a comedy, a mystery, a piece of genre fiction *about* genre fiction, and a bit of a (low-key?) primal scream into the [achingly neurotypical] void. 💙📚⚡️ itch.io/b/3300/adhd-...
A promo image for this Itch bundle. Reads "22 Books | ADHD Awareness Month Fiction | by Mostly ADHD Authors | Most with 1+ Signficant ADHD character(s) | Oct 1st-15th" with all the books (22, with A DARK HOLE DARKLY towards the center) against an orange background.
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
When the NY Liberty are out, then I'm Team Coach Hammon. #wnba
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
My mom has covid. First time. I said get yourself some Paxlovid. Urgent care gave her a prescription for Lagevrio. OK, but she asked at the pharmacy before getting it, and it will cost her $1074, so she didn't get it. Nevermind that it might save future costs. I hate our medical system so much.
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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
If Robert Redford had only been the youthful star of "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men," Dayenu. It would have been enough. If he'd only directed "Ordinary People" and "Quiz Show," Dayenu. If he'd only founded and nurtured all things Sundance, Dayenu. #RIP
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
That Liberty game was almost too exciting. My poor heart! #NYLiberty
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we here®️ @wehere.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
THE HOUSE ARCHIVES BUILT AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON BLACK ARCHIVAL POSSIBILITIES BY @dorothyjberry.bsky.social COMING OCTOBER 14 LETS GO ❤️‍🔥 www.weherepress.org
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
New bookshelves. Thinking about attempting an LOC arrangement at home. Fun or torture?
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The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Recently one of our manuscripts was rebound in modern conservation binding. Follow the progress, and an amazing discovery, as our Head of Conservation reveals the steps taken for this careful work A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️ www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...
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Chronicles of a Book Detective: The case of MS 328
A lost sewing structure. A trip to Winchester which turns up an unexpected clue. A conservator looking for answers. This is the case of MS 328.
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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 25/08/2025
Family. Fandom. Who we are. And who gets to write the endings to our stories. A DARK HOLE DARKLY A Detective's Story Don't believe the lies your TV tells you: Sometimes neurodivergence makes you a much SHITTIER detective. Out *TODAY*! #IndieAugust #ADHDetective #ADHD 💙📚⚡
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A Dark Hole Darkly
Sometimes neurodivergence makes you a much SHITTIER detective.
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Drew's new book is here, and I have my own copy. This one is a neurodivergent mystery set in fandom culture, and I love it. You can get YOUR copy at www.drewmelbourne.com/adhd
I am a white woman with salt and pepper short hair and purple glasses. I am holding a paperback book. The title is "A Dark Hole Darkly."
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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 18/08/2025
In 7 days.
Words on lined paper: "CLUES: - blunt trauma to head, - no murder weapon (crossed out), - forced entry, - no pants, - voicemail: 'I've been thinking a lot about Regulus'"
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
There are two Star Wars rose shirts at Hot Topic, and I like them, but they are only in men's sizes 🙄 #RoseTicoIsTheBest
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 06/08/2025
"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white" www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/a...
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Annie and Lakeesha struggle in school. AI teacher assistants treated them very differently.
A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of tea...
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 29/07/2025
Even if you're not into your autistic person's passions, you can follow along with them, and make them feel seen: "I wouldn’t be interested in those topics but then I know it's something that makes her happy […] you want to make your kids feel heard and happy." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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“There is Nowhere Else That I’d Rather be Than with Them”: Parents’ Positive Experiences Parenting Autistic Children - Melanie Heyworth, Catherine McMahon, Diana Weiting Tan, Elizabeth Pellicano, 2025
Background and Aims A significant body of research focuses on the negative outcomes of parenting Autistic children, particularly when parents identify as non-Au...
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Captain: Janeway First officer: Spock Doctor: Bashir (post-war) Security: Noonien Singh Helm: Paris? Ortegas? Paris for now... Sci/Ops: Data Engineering: Torres
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Does this mean I should start watching Foundation?
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Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
No cheating, post the last pic of your pet(s)
A small striped cat sleeping on a blanket over someone's legs.
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