"trans rage" found by chance in a Hamilton wood type specimen book from 1895
Michelle Watson
@michwatsonoz.bsky.social
Archivist. Community historian. Genealogist. Stockton, NSW during WW1. MIM - family history researchers as an uni archives user group. Digital Humanities. LOD. (she/her) - https://www.michellewatson.org - Worimi Country
A long shot: is anyone currently doing research at the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú in Lima? I'm trying to track down two seventeenth-century single-sheet printed broadsides. I'd be very grateful to connect. Thanks! #earlymodern
As thousands of research academics are made redundant the whole system of free/cheap peer review will collapse.
A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks
New America has been awarded a two-year, $250,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build a digital exhibit on the 1939 sit-in at Alexandria's whites-only public library, the think tank announced Monday.
New America wins $250,000 grant to build digital exhibit on Alexandria's 1939 library sit-in
The Mellon Foundation award funds an interactive online exhibit, due in 2027, on what is considered the country's first sit-in demanding desegregated access to a public library.
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"Pull a standard U.S. history textbook off the shelf and you’re unlikely to find more than a paragraph on the 1919 riots; what you do find downplays both racism and Black resistance, while distorting facts in a dangerous 'both sides' framing." Read more ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-o...
Remembering Red Summer — Which Textbooks Seem Eager to Forget
By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Confronting a national epidemic of white mob violence, 1919 was a time when Black people defended themselves, fought back, and demanded full citizenship in thousands of acts of c...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d agoI think today's liberals in the US are used to a social environment where pogroms are rare and don't realize the role armed self defense plays in that state of affairs www.history.com/articles/red...
Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
And more #PublicDomain books I've got Google to release from 'snippet view': Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: books.google.co.uk/books?id=zys... Sample Census 1966 books.google.co.uk/books?id=fyo... Consolidated list of Govt publications, 1925: books.google.co.uk/books?id=cyd...
Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: British Isles, c. 1410-1860
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Please consider writing a piece for this volume on Africana Digital Humanities at HBCU’s. I’ve worked with each of the editors, and they are all top notch humans! ( please circulate as well)
My brother sucked and he’s not worth remembering. No condolences needed. But my father and the work we do in his name is. Please consider supporting. ThurmanPerryFoundation.org
The Thurman Perry Foundation | Creating An Equitable World For Women & Girls Impacted By Incarceration
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My unvaccinated brother died of COVID in 2021. I was about a year and a half into my epidemiology career. Healthcare staff did absolutely everything they could but they cannot cure ignorance. They cannot cure an anti-science belief and culture. Thats YOUR responsibility. Not Dr. Fauci’s.
30 July 2026 Who will you contact about National Archives closures? #Genealogy #NARA #NationalArchives
Why is no one talking about the upcoming NARA closures?? #Genealogy #NationalArchives #BookSky #History #NARA @maddow.bsky.social @cnn.com federalnewsnetwork.com/facilities-c...
National Archives to transition out of three federal records centers | Federal News Network
The decision is expected to cut costs and reduce the agency’s real estate portfolio, but it’s not yet clear how the moves will impact NARA employees.
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A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.
Lucas Tieman@lucastieman.bsky.social · 6d agoThere would be more pushback if folks left of center were more serious about outreach. But folks aren't despite the fact that our system does give disproportionate power to rural areas. But instead of taking that as the rules of the game as it exists, and actually organizing, we complain about it.
When Joshua James was 10, his mother & sister perished in a shipwreck. Five years later, he joined his father & older brother at the Massachusetts Humane Society as a life-saver, a role he'd perform for the next 60 years--& that his wife & their son likewise performed. That & more in today's post! 🗃️
Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 6d agoSo for the next post in my Coast Guard sesquicentennial blog series, a trio of iconic individuals & moments that (along with the WWI events I highlighted in yesterday’s post) illustrate the Coast Guard doing what it does best: rescues! blackwhiteandread.com/july-30-2026...
Most rural areas have a ruling class. And they want cheap unfree workers & to pass their fiefdoms on tax-free forever. It ain't rocket science. The fact that we're scared to talk about THAT, ime, is what's costing us a lot of rural voters!
Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.
Pixar's Layoffs Came Days After Receiving a $26 Million Tax Credit. So I Wrote California Officials.
State tax incentives should create and retain jobs for Californians, not subsidize corporate layoffs.
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we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.
Paula Wirth@paulawirth.bsky.social · last wk.Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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The caller on Rand Paul’s virtual town hall is all of us.
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
It’s honestly outrageous that META continues to ban queer accounts across Facebook and Instagram. On the face of it a very obvious breach of discrimination law that the Government should be looking to enforce.
29 July 2026 It’s time to get loud about NARA closures. Go to saveournationalarchives.org #Genealogy #NARA #NationalArchives
We object to the college’s excessive hiring and promotion of top administrators while low-income part-time workers lose their jobs and the full-time faculty and staff lines go unfilled. Sign the petition: psc-cuny.org/issues/save-...
I get that most ppl won't know this, but this website is a News Corp site and this journalist in particular is a really really nasty piece of work. Please share the original @404media.co that NC is copying for clicks www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
“First the traitors, then the invaders” is not a line that appears in the Turner Diaries…
Avel Guénin--Carlut@fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · last wk.Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".
Straight man, instead of responding to this by telling ME how much you love Nolan, talk to each other. The loneliness epidemic isn’t going to fix itself.
Well, there we go, Ben Carroll becomes the fiftieth person to be premier of Victoria, the first in Australasia to reach 50 Of the other Australasian parliaments to gain self-government in the 1850s, NSW, SA, and Tasmania are all on their 47th premier, NZ is up to its 42nd, and Queensland its 41st
Leroy@leroylynch.bsky.social · last wk.Ben Carroll becomes premier after Kilkenny pulls candidacy www.theage.com.au/politics/vic... #springst