Maya

I need a trinket shelf. I've collected so many tiny things that are laying on my desk since I don't have anywhere else left to put them

Update:
After visiting the house, holy shit guys... It might not actually be that old. And it was gutted and has pretty much no historic material remaining inside it. Hopefully we can solve this mystery tho! It's really odd, only modern wire nails on the siding??

A Pumpkin Patch Tarantula on a leaf eating a cricket surrounded by webbing

Casper is growing up so fast 🥺

My dream car is on bring a trailer aaaaa I'll probably get outbid

Alsooo I am so excited!! I got accepted for a fall internship with my university's archives! Still a while til September, but I can't wait!!

Also featuring a tiny glass deer & silly dachshund I found as well :3

Green fat penguin glass figurine with four babies in front on a white shelf. To the left is a glass figurine of a deer and to the right a dachshund with big eyes.

Currently obsessed with this fat penguin family I got from an estate sale today

Looking at historic houses and imagining living the rural life just because I can afford them only in places I would never actually be able to live long term

weird creature wednesday

it's been a rough week so i thought i'd rotate a gyro for everyone. as a treat

Yup my library has been pushing AI lately (with a bunch of classes on using ai and now copilot) and I refuse to have anything to do with it

This whole 'no ethical consumption under capitalism so I might as well use substack' thing just does not fly for me. It does not. There are alternatives which come with their own problems, but they are not actively funding Nazis? Like this feels like a clear choice at this point.

I love The Magnolia Electric Co.

"Source was compiled using GPT"

Complaining about people being angry when there is irresponsible reporting.

Taking time out of my depression spiral today to warn people, if you've noticed reporting inaccuracies for some time from Alejandra Caraballo, turns out she's been using AI as a source for months, and has just been revealed. The list of blocked programs she posted today has severe misinformation.

YouTube video by mothertongue AFRONAUTS | short film

Learning about the Zambia space program and the Afronauts. They never got the funding to try to make it a reality and Matha got pregnant, but this short film is based on it and shows the possibilities!

u nerds are gonna love this

Mine is too and I hope she doesn't find me lmao

ADD A "COOL LINKS" PAGE TO YOUR WEBSITE

PARTY LIKE IT'S 1999

I AM SERIOUS

The Made in Chicago Museum is so cool! I love learning the history of random everyday objects

THE INTERNET IS BUILT ON LINKS
SHARE EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING
SPIN YOUR OWN INTERWEB

It is ALWAYS a good day to resist fascism.

I get to actually go inside a currently-abandoned historic house (from 1867) for my class next month!! For important purposes though so it doesn't end up demolished by the land owner since they don't know how to preserve it.

All these media people only now making their way over to Bluesky insisting they don't want to put in the effort to build a new social media account and that we can find them on SUBSTACK...

Good job propping up vocal alt-right, anti-trans and nazi sympathizers!

Which side are you on?

Thank you :3

A display of farm toys in The MERL galleries, showing toy tractors of all shapes and sizes.

"I never see you at the club"

ok but I never see you at the farm toys gallery in The Museum of English Rural Life

never using AI, don’t care about it, i will always be hating on that shit forever, i will never stop and cannot be stopped

Cover of the zine "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave", featuring a design of bold color blocks inspired by the opening titles of the TV show "I Think You Should Leave"

📣 New zine!! "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave" is a 40-page zine about why we should think twice about using & supporting generative AI. violetbfox.info/against-ai/ #noAI #zines

#promosky

Forgot to add that but I also like collecting trinkets and doing jigsaw puzzles :3

GLITCH SURVIVES. In 1993, one year before Sadie Plant coined the term cyberfeminism, poet Lucille Clifton wrote "won't you celebrate with me." As glitch feminists we call for it here, celebrating with Clifton at her request and sharing her transformative words: won't you celebrate with me what I have shaped into

a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.

a poem for today: "won't you celebrate with me", Lucille Clifton, 1993 (reproduced in GLITCH FEMINISM, 2020, which you should read)

The Modern Illustration archive is so cool! Focuses on illustrations from 1950-75
www.modernillustration.org