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Abigail Kabaker

@akabaker.bsky.social

she/ her Independent museum collections contractor (looking for work) . Talks about museums, video games, science, politics, and pop culture. Views are my own.

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Twin Peaks Logo Generator

Turtle Power!

Twin Peaks Logo Generator Turtle Power!

02.03.2026 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 7766    πŸ” 1850    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 41

Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!

03.03.2026 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 293    πŸ” 85    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 7
The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 1, Episode 2: Day of the Dot

The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 1, Episode 2: Day of the Dot

03.03.2026 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Front view of a pale orange ruched velvet dress with long sleeves and a long skirt. It has ruching around the neck and a matching cap

Front view of a pale orange ruched velvet dress with long sleeves and a long skirt. It has ruching around the neck and a matching cap

Back view of the pale orange 1930s velvet dress that shows the wide sleeves and drape of the skirt

Back view of the pale orange 1930s velvet dress that shows the wide sleeves and drape of the skirt

A partial view of the 1930s pale orange velvet dress that highlights the ruching at the neckline and shows the matching cap with silk bow at the back

A partial view of the 1930s pale orange velvet dress that highlights the ruching at the neckline and shows the matching cap with silk bow at the back

This looks as if it were a fun wedding dress worn by Arline Nelson in 1935. The dress itself is all kinds of crinkled velvet loveliness but that little matching cap! #NewfieldsToday #FashionHistory πŸ—ƒοΈπŸͺ‘

02.03.2026 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1
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Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches, an Online Symposium

I'm delighted to be keynoting next Thursday at the Online Symposium "Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches" organised by the Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. I will present on "Play It Again" & the #AusEAASI network. @aarnet.edu.au
www.digitalscholarship.ox.ac.uk/event/videog...

03.03.2026 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Objectively, what is the funniest piece of furniture?

02.03.2026 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 5
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Ticktin shows how innocence focuses on individual victims and saviors, foreclosing forms of collective responsibility. She wants to understand this function, while showing that alternative political forms already exist.

centerforthehumanities.org/event/agains...
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

02.03.2026 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

youtu.be/bNg_yTyLG0M?...

03.03.2026 05:07 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
professional looking dude, neat hair, glasses, shirt, using a computer at a desk, the image on the screen is him using a computer, and so on and so on, inwards as far as the eye can see. a plant is behind the computer.

professional looking dude, neat hair, glasses, shirt, using a computer at a desk, the image on the screen is him using a computer, and so on and so on, inwards as far as the eye can see. a plant is behind the computer.

byte, magazine, cover (1979) archive.org/details/byte...

03.03.2026 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 277    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Hundreds of Beavers screenings brought such warm, fuzzy energy to a movie about a guy running around naked in the snow

03.03.2026 05:14 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Oliveira with dancing furries

Oliveira with dancing furries

Yovska

Yovska

Oliveira happy

Oliveira happy

Oliveira with Arrkay and Skylier

Oliveira with Arrkay and Skylier

YOU CAN RUN WITH US!

pics from this weekend’s Dumpster Raccoon screenings of HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS at the Revue Cinema - with generous support from @baystreetvideo.bsky.social and @yovska.bsky.social !

Join us March 28th for our WICKED 1 & 2 SINGALONG SPECTACULAR - GRAB YOUR SLOT NOW!!

02.03.2026 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
17.01.2026 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2614    πŸ” 1124    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 13
Deadline article: Hulu Developing Animated Action Comedy Series 'The Kids From S.I.P.P.Y. From Branson Reese & Nicole Silverberg
By Matt Grobar
March 2, 2026 2:30pm
Two pictures: one of a mustachioed man who looks like the smoking breakroom aliens from Men In Black and the other of my beautiful wife Nicole. Both photos were taken by the extremely talented Mindy Tucker.

Deadline article: Hulu Developing Animated Action Comedy Series 'The Kids From S.I.P.P.Y. From Branson Reese & Nicole Silverberg By Matt Grobar March 2, 2026 2:30pm Two pictures: one of a mustachioed man who looks like the smoking breakroom aliens from Men In Black and the other of my beautiful wife Nicole. Both photos were taken by the extremely talented Mindy Tucker.

Let's fucking go

02.03.2026 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2035    πŸ” 123    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 17

Neil is so knowledgeable about the city and about the nuts and bolts of American architectural history writ large β€” this is going to be a great project

03.03.2026 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The fetishization of a sickly level of thinness has reached such disturbing heights. I'm afraid for young women and girls who internalize this shit. It feels as bad as the 90s, when I was a teenager. I remember sitting in class and hearing very thin girls talk about how Cindy Crawford was "fat."

03.03.2026 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 883    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 34

To Live AND Die in L.A.? In THIS economy?

03.03.2026 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Did you know I have ENDLINGS and CONVERGENT EVOLUTION enamel pins? 9 extinction animals and their stories on the back of the cards, from Benjamin the last Thylacine to Najin and Gary the last Northern White Rhinos! And the history of wing evolution with glow in the dark bones!

03.03.2026 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Made a short video as a response. 3 questions remain for me.

1) What is the definition of a "DEl activity," and how is it being communicated to NIH staff so they can determine whether a grant qualifies?

(Continued below)

01.03.2026 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 8

Thank you again @michaeldgreen.phd for speaking out.

I don't know what bothers me more:

Director Bhattacharya's callousness that damaging the careers of talented young scientists is "the cost of doing business" for his politics

or

His ignorance and lack of imagination about experimental design.

02.03.2026 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Unity Asset Store will remove all assets from publishers based in China, Hong Kong, and Macau after March 31, 2026.

I'd really like to understand the bigger story behind this because it has broader implications for growing global divides.

Here's the list: cdn.bfldr.com/S5BC9Y64/as/...

03.03.2026 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

BREAKING: As I was first to report earlier, Trump has nominated Bradford Wilson, who does not meet the statutory requirementsβ€”which include that the nominee be nonpartisan and professionally qualifiedβ€”to be the next Archivist of the United States.

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

03.03.2026 01:04 β€” πŸ‘ 684    πŸ” 350    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 22

being talked down to by colleagues who assume my informed resistance to AI is ignorance: a story in many enraging parts

03.03.2026 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: β€œBREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center.
STORY TK”

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: β€œBREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GWβ€˜s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

03.03.2026 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1656    πŸ” 574    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 36
Mattel monster high dolls made to look like beetlejuice characters

Mattel monster high dolls made to look like beetlejuice characters

One is Miss Argentina and the other is the sawn in half magician’s assistant from the afterlife waiting room

One is Miss Argentina and the other is the sawn in half magician’s assistant from the afterlife waiting room

these are cute

02.03.2026 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Twin Peaks tv show opening credits shot of a Pacific Northwest road, mountains, and trees with a sign β€œWelcome to Twin Peaks”. Green words are superimposed on top: β€œONE HELL OF A 2026, COOP.”

Twin Peaks tv show opening credits shot of a Pacific Northwest road, mountains, and trees with a sign β€œWelcome to Twin Peaks”. Green words are superimposed on top: β€œONE HELL OF A 2026, COOP.”

28.02.2026 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is this from a generator or did you photoshop/ edit it yourself ?

28.02.2026 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Swan Boy wearing a Descendents shirt becking you to visit swanboy.com. The background looks like a vacation to southern Florida threw up "all over da place"

Swan Boy wearing a Descendents shirt becking you to visit swanboy.com. The background looks like a vacation to southern Florida threw up "all over da place"

swanboy.com

20.10.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1160    πŸ” 167    πŸ’¬ 126    πŸ“Œ 277

If you've grown up having to deal with the weirdest and most unsettling of church goers (often white and republican, lets not mince words) you know how true this is. Christian Nationalism is just that mind bending and dangerous. Its basically no different from a turbo cult but now they have power

28.02.2026 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1545    πŸ” 527    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 9
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In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT An AI chatbot convinced health investigators they had the right answer.

"the fair’s beer supply in the single tent was kept cold in a large makeshift cooler...hosed off at the start of the fair, but then never fully drained or cleaned again. It was simply refilled daily with ice...as melting occurred...handled the beer and ice with their bare hands"

I just dry heaved

28.02.2026 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThis is a distraction” is a bankrupt thing to say when they’re trying to get away with EVERYTHING.”

28.02.2026 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0