Melody Joy Kramer
@mkramer.bsky.social
engagement + crowdsourcing products ProPublica; librarian, journalist, hyperlocal information ecosystems, public(s) and participation, digital archives, dogs, civic joy, mom, mummer, philly, carrboro north carolina, learning asl! 🌈 melodykramer.github.io
Somehow my family is now in a 4-day-long Spades binge, playing to infinity.
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
I worked on this story behind the scenes - making a bunch of scripts and workflows that helped us organize and understand the data - and am glad to see it out in the world.
ProPublica@propublica.org · yesterdayNEW: The EPA spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social and ProPublica show that years later, many yards still have harmful levels of lead.
it’s empty peanut butter jar day for coconut pumpernickel, a holiday that appears sporadically and takes an entire day’s effort (split up by naps)
taking a vacation soon to charlottesville va and hot springs va. looking forward to seeing new places.
OH: “spades is a game played by old ladies in tea houses. they don’t rip their shirts off and yell.”
omg the ice cream truck is driving around my neighborhood!!!
Phenomenal news! 🎉🎉🎉 ProPublica Hires Four Reporters to Expand Washington and National Security Coverage
ProPublica Hires Four Reporters to Expand Washington and National Security Coverage
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The US 65+ population has nearly doubled since 2000, hitting 61 million in 2024, and will reach 82 million by 2050. Our new brief maps out how dementia, caregiving, isolation, and state policy are shaping this generation's aging experience—and what could narrow the gaps: buff.ly/hCgQxtD
We just got a landline so my children can call their grandparents and there are now lengthy daily conversations about weather taking place.
Really enjoying cardgames.io - it helped us solidify the rules for Spades and Hearts, and we are now trying Whist.
Took a clay throwing class at Clayboro. It was fun and very hard!
Today we are learning how to play euchre, cribbage, hearts, and spades.
It’s my birthday and I am spending the day offline, reading a decent fiction book and taking my family out for tacos in Durham before returning home for homemade peach cobbler.
Minka Comics: The Answer is 42
ALT: Minka Comics: The Answer is 42
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Was going to celebrate my birthday tomorrow by going on a quest to find purple honey - only found in the Sandhills of NC! - but it’s seasonally sold out. I have no backup adventure.
told one of my goofballs that I would help him out with chess nomenclature in a book about chess moves, so I am now learning how to read chess nomenclature an hour in advance.
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
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My great-grandparents had a lunch truck at Kensington and Allegheny.
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d agoEnough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
Working on a couple of neat things at work, turning 42 tomorrow, playing lots of card games with my family, taking a wheel throwing class.
We identified a network of at least 10 political nonprofits that raised more than $33M on the promise of supporting admirable causes, but that spent little on activities that could be construed as having a political purpose. (Published June 2024)
How a Network of Nonprofits Enriches Fundraisers While Spending Almost Nothing on Its Stated Causes
ProPublica identified a group of connected political nonprofits — with names like American Breast Cancer Coalition and National Coalition for Disabled Veterans — that appear to be funneling more than ...
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listened to glen hansard’s winning streak on repeat when having a rough go with ivf. watching his world cafe live appearance singing it now, next to two small humans having a pillow fight.
was just told watching tiny desk concerts aren’t fun to watch if I continue to point out everyone I used to work with throughout.
Back In2011 Song
ALT: Back In2011 Song
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