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Internet Archive @archive.org · 07/10/2024

We’re thrilled to announce that Aruba will receive the 2024 Internet Archive Hero Award! 🇦🇼 Join us in celebrating this island nation’s groundbreaking efforts in digital preservation & making cultural heritage accessible worldwide: blog.archive.org/2024/10/07/a...

“We thank Internet Archive for this great honor of recognizing Aruba’s hard work and efforts in preserving and making our cultural heritage accessible through the Coleccion Aruba online platform. This award is a significant encouragement to continue our work in safeguarding our culture and history. Thank you for supporting our efforts to keep our rich cultural heritage alive and accessible for our future generations.”
Minister Xiomara Maduro
Minister of Finance and Culture, Aruba

Having Fun in the Sun at Aruba (Postcard, ca. 1963) Sugar-white beaches at the Caribbean’s newest vacation playground. From Coleccion Aruba: https://archive.org/details/BNA-DIG-POSTCARDS-026-004

Leopold Tromp, age 18, native Aruban, Apprentice on Pressure Still operation (#4525, Lago, Aruba, April-May 1944). From Coleccion Aruba: https://archive.org/details/BNA-DIG-LAGO-MORRIS-001-04525

Fotocollectie Hochstuhl, potret # 305 (1950-1960). From Coleccion Aruba: https://archive.org/details/ANA-DIG-HOCHSTUHL-305

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 07/10/2024

Charlie Barlow, BLC: "While Schonfield suggests that libraries have limited market power, this overlooks that ITHAKA, through JSTOR, brokers nearly $100 million in content agreements with publishers annually, largely supported by library funding." ⤵️ www.libraryfutures.net/post/cdls-fu...

libraryfutures.net

Library Futures | CDL's Future Depends on Us All: A Response to Scholarly Kitchen's

Championing the right to equitable access to knowledge.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 08/10/2024

Public records are essential for accountability and transparency. 🗄️ In the latest post for our #VanishingCulture series, Maria Bustillos (@mariabustillos.bsky.social) explores the critical role of preserving these 'receipts' for future generations. Read more: blog.archive.org/2024/10/08/v...

Why is it important to preserve public records?

“In other words, nothing is ‘meant to be thrown away.’ Nothing.”
Maria Bustillos

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 11/10/2024

Latest update from @brewster.kahle.org : “Update: @internetarchive’s data has not been corrupted. Services are currently stopped to upgrade internal systems. We are working to restore services as quickly and safely as possible. Sorry for this disruption.”

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 11/10/2024

Latest update on the DDOS attack from Brewster Kahle (Oct 11 @ 10:22am PT): "The data is safe. Services are offline as we examine and strengthen them. Sorry, but needed. @internetarchive staff is working hard. Estimated Timeline: days, not weeks. Thank you for the offers of pizza (we are set)."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

ok the vibe in new york right now is very substitute teacher went to the bathroom

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

NYT posts Adams clearly pre-recorded video statement but inexplicably cuts it down from 2:28 to 1:12, leaving out the part where he blames his problems on the border situation

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Check on your New Yorker friends this evening. We’re doing fantastic. We are actually having a ball and everything is great

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Ryan Cox @coxitron.com · 25/09/2024

I was too busy earlier to post a coherent sentence so let’s try again. Gonna go through some CA road trip vids from last year and roll some for timeline cleansing. I forgot a wind muff on this trip, so they be no audio (boo the bad man boo!). Here’s Ragged Point where we got married

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Fun film fact. In Escape from New York (1981) they used reflective tape on a miniature model of the city & filmed it under black light to approximate 'cutting-edge' wireframe CG, which would have blown the budget at the time.

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

This green meteor was captured while taking a time-lapse to document the urbanization around the Skyislands southern in India. The camera was set at 15s exposure for 999 shots and this came into one of those shots.

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Lucie🐈‍⬛Catnip @luciecatnip.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

#cats Today's art lesson:

A pic that looks like graffiti on a wall with Historia da Arte and 6 blackline sketches of cats in the style of famous painters: da Vinci Rembrandt, Monet, Pollock, Picasso and Dali

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Ghoul Fleshman @glennf.com · 26/09/2024

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: The police, who commit crimes, and the mayor, who commits crimes.

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

I made parmesan garlic croutons out of some sourdough for my salad and now I only want to eat the croutons

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Librarians and booksellers, if you're dong a Banned Books Week display, I better not see any of the classics up there. Use this opportunity to discuss with your communities the attacks on marginalized identities and children and young adults.

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Hannah Bartlett @hbediting.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

I may not be able to buy all the books from all the indie authors I want to support, but I can fill out request forms at my local libraries 🫶

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

seriously trump's current line about "we put it back in the states where everybody wanted it" is sheer bullshit lunacy. but the thing you always have to remember with trump is, just imagine him as a salesman reeking of desperation who will say whatever it fuckin takes to close the deal.

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skasmith.bsky.social @skasmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,307,454!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,307,454, skasmith.bsky.social ‪@skasmith.bsky.social‬, joined on Dec 2, 2023"

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Kitty the tiny dancer @girlyfriday.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

I came in to set up a display this afternoon in a low income building. I never had so many residents talk to me. They were thrilled about the posters, and so happy to meet me. It was such a difference. I'm really looking forward to future visits.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 14/09/2024

Most think of proposed mass deportation as the removal of foreigners. No: The plan explicitly includes the mass deportation of *US citizens*. It is not about who should get US citizenship. It is about some US citizens illegitimizing other US citizens.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

AI is a tool of the capitalist class to automate everything and keep more of the profits to themselves. Automation doesn't mean your job gets easier, it means your job gets ELIMINATED. And when this is happening in every industry, there are fewer jobs for you to move on to.

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swingandswirl.bsky.social @swingandswirl.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

The fact that tech is so dominated by people who have never had the burden of care fall on them by default has nothing yo do with this, I imagine.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

did U know.... finland won eurovision 2006 with this insane song with people dressed as orc demons and the chorus starts "all we need is lightning" youtu.be/gAh9NRGNhUU?...

youtu.be

Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah - 🇫🇮 Finland - Grand Final - Eurovision 2006 Winner

YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 14/09/2024

It's the most Jefferson Pilot-Lincoln Financial matchup imaginable, and so it's fitting it is being produced today by Raycom Sports.

Ole Miss vs Wake Forest in front of a half empty stadium

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Goth Music Latin America @gothmusiclatam.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Nothing feels like bigger stolen valor like when people say it's sO cOoL that I "just say what [I] want and don't care what anyone thinks." I actually care quite a bit about what others think and I don't want to hurt people's feelings; I'm just autistic and lack social skills and a proper filter.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/09/2024

Repeating fascist lies, even to refute them, does damage. You’re implanting that narrative into people’s brain, even if you’re doing it to refute it. (This is called negation.)

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

More marvellous moonlight, courtesy of the genius of Atkinson Grimshaw...

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

I just had to explain to my kid why he can't marry his baby sister who doesn't even exist. What are y'all up to?

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Received a note from a reader who said my new story "The Neighborly Thing to Do" — published yesterday in the latest issue of @dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social — moved them to tears ... but in a good way. Which has me thinking I could publish a collection titled Tales to Verklempt.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 07/09/2024

One of the local commercial greenhouses grows strawberries and has a self-serve booth where you can buy flowers and strawberries

A greenhouse filled with strawberry plants

A shelf, a fridge, and a box. The fridge has a few boxes of strawberries and has a sign that says “jarðaberjabox kr. 500” or “box of strawberries, 500 ISK”. The box has “pening” and “casa” scribbled on it in a marker. “Pening” is “money” in Icelandic

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Taste the rainbow.

Sabrina, the snake is wrapped around my hand with her tongue sticking out with a rainbow behind her. It’s almost a double rainbow as they say.

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skasmith.bsky.social @skasmith.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

Cool! What book is this, I'd love to read it.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

Sidney Lumet on the "lens plot" he used to increase the tension in 12 Angry Men. So cool.

...a "lens plot" occurred to me. As the picture unfolded, I wanted the room to seem smaller and smaller. That meant that I would slowly shift to longer lenses as the picture continued. ... In addition, I shot the first third of the movie above eye level, and then, by lowering the camera, shot the second third at eye level, and the last third from below eye level. In that way, toward the end, the ceiling began to appear. Not only were the walls closing in, the ceiling was as well. The sense of increasing claustrophobia did a lot to raise the tension of the last part of the movie.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2024

Spent some quality alone-time in the sky yesterday 🛩️ #aviation #avgeek

A view from 5000 feet in a small airplane. There are lots of green fields below and a scattered cloud layer about 500 feet above, with high cirrus clouds far overhead

A selfie of me flying the plane. I’m wearing aviator sunglasses and a headset, looking relaxed

A photo of the plane (a Mooney) parked on the tarmac with the setting sun behind, lighting up the high clouds orange

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

ahhhh yes that den of anti-Americanism (checks imaginary notes) ... the upper Midwest

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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

Since everyone’s making starter packs, here’s one from me - some of the urban economists and economic geographers on here. This is just people I know, so please LMK below if I’ve missed anyone. #EconSky 📉📈 #geosky go.bsky.app/DpxtxXn

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

my cuddliest most friendly glue cat is also a former feral which we all forget because of how sweet he is, but every so often one of the others will get a little too big for their boots during playfights and then he goes full Khabib on their ass- and then grooms them after they cry, what a character

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Grandma Janet @sweetgrandmajan.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

Everything is great when you start the day the right way.

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Mixtress of Dorkness @pinballwitch.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

queen shit

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

Small portion of the deep universe. Almost every spec of light here is a distant galaxy, containing countless of stars. Processed JWST/NIRCam data by @thocarp.bsky.social p www.flickr.com/photos/19746... 🔭 🧪

A deep-field image of a massive galaxy cluster, SPT-CLJ0151-5954, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). The image shows a vast number of galaxies, both young and old, in a wide range of colors and shapes. The cluster is so massive that it acts as a gravitational lens, warping the light of galaxies behind it and magnifying them. This allows us to see galaxies that are too faint to be detected with other telescopes.

The image is filled with details, including bright, active galaxies, distant, faint galaxies, and clusters of galaxies. The colors in the image represent different wavelengths of light, with blue and green representing shorter wavelengths and red representing longer wavelengths. The overall effect is a stunning and awe-inspiring view of the universe on a massive scale.

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

A disturbing thing about this attitude is that it treats queer male sexuality like it’s primarily a cultural product. It’s also really similar to what happens with trans women in fiction. Trans female imagery and stories are made into artistic opportunities for others, while we get pushed out them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2024

i’m too tired to reason through it but the way harris is tweaking and adapting the idea of the “iron lady” is so interesting to me

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skasmith.bsky.social @skasmith.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

Could be they want to kep the AI (and other IP thieves) at bay.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/08/2024

I'm not saying it's going to happen, but if Beyonce and Taylor Swift collaborated on a track meant to endorse the Harris/Walz ticket, the election would probably be over right then

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InordinateLochNess (18+) @sixarmedsweater.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Ellipses are for slow realizations. Dashes are for sudden, PANICKED realizations.

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Sheila Jenné @jennelikejennay.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Glad somebody understands. My editor tried to replace em dashes in dialogue with ellipses and like—those sound very different when you say them aloud! An em dash CUTS off, ellipses TRAIL off.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 19/08/2024

That is an ellipses thought, not an em-dash thought. They are DIFFERENT goddamnit.

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