my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
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my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
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damn that’s a good read @publicbooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...
20.02.2026 03:15 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Petaluma's own Petaluma Voice — a new nonprofit newsroom founded by locals in the wake of the acquisition of local newspapers by a private equity firm — has published its first story.
Read and join as an early supporter today!
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“There are book challenges; that is not new. What is happening now is brazen breaking of protocol on a scope that has never been seen like this.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social @la-cac.org @oif.bsky.social @uabookbans.bsky.social
deadline.com/2026/02/the-...
Heard a reference to Fobazi and the concept of vocational awe in Cory Doctorow’s new book “Enshittification” and wanted to bump the latest post about her GFM.
12.01.2026 06:48 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Well, I guess that rules most librarians out, with our pesky commitment to knowledge equity and open access and information literacy! 📚
08.12.2025 10:13 — 👍 23 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1Love BEAM for getting them thinking about sources and the overall research process. I have found it helps steer them away from good/bad thinking and focuses them more on where does this fit/how does it fit and where are my gaps.
04.12.2025 05:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
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Dale Partridge on Twitter writes: "Feminist media is BIG mad about me saying that women shouldn’t wear underwear (leggings and sports bras) as outerwear. As Pearl says, “It’s amazing how hard women will fight to be naked.” Immodest ladies, read 1 Tim. 2:9, repent, and follow Christ." Attached are two images. Image 1 headline: “Outraged pastor slams worker at quaint coffee shop for wearing ‘sinful’ leggings and sports bra in front of kids” Image 2 headline: “‘Make sin shameful again’: Pastor sparks row after sports bra complaint”
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
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Must watch: youtu.be/VNLdyWPAz18
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November 20, 2025 To: UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk CC: Monroe Gordon, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Steve Lurie, Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus and Community Safety Anthony Solana, Jr., UCLA Employee and Labor Relations Subject: End Arrests at Protected Labor Actions Two rights are ironclad in California: the right of organized labor to strike when contract negotiations fail and the right of citizens to speak freely in public. This week, the University of California violated both. Four UCLA undergraduate students were arrested by university police on Tuesday while picketing in support of AFSCME 3299's protected strike. Two UCLA graduate student members of UAW 4811 were detained by university police on Wednesday at a union action about contract violations and labor cuts. We demand the University of California immediately cease and desist from arresting union members and their supporters during actions protected by the First Amendment and California labor law, and that UC leadership ensure none of the six students face criminal charges or student disciplinary proceedings. Drop all charges - legal and disciplinary. Signed, AFSCME 3299 UAW 4811 Teamsters Local 2010 UPTE CWA 9119 UCLA Faculty Association UCLA Chapter of University Council - AFT Undergraduate Students Association Office of the President Undergraduate Students Association Office of the Internal Vice President Undergraduate Students Association Office of the External Vice President Undergraduate Students Association Office of General Representative 2 Undergraduate Students Association Office of General Representative 3 Undergraduate Students Association Cultural Affairs Commission Undergraduate Students Association Office of the Transfer Student Representative UC-AFT Local 1474 UC San Diego Chapter of University Council - AFT UC Berkeley Faculty Association UC Irvine Faculty Association UC Merced Faculty Association UC Riverside Faculty Association UC San Diego Faculty Association UC San Francisco…
Four UCLA undergrads were arrested on Tuesday while exercising their right to support @afscme3299.bsky.social’s picketed strike. We demand all charges be dropped.
21.11.2025 03:49 — 👍 46 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 0
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years.
youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU
Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
11.11.2025 05:02 — 👍 1374 🔁 649 💬 55 📌 2This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.
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A circular infographic chart categorizing cheeses by type of milk and texture. At the center, four sections are labeled cow, sheep, goat, and buffalo, radiating outward into concentric rings for textures: soft, semi-soft, semi-hard, and hard. Each cheese name is placed within its corresponding segment, with illustrated wedges of cheese circling the outer edge. Cow’s milk occupies the largest portion, featuring well-known varieties like Brie, Camembert, Taleggio, Havarti, Gouda, Cheddar, and Parmesan. Sheep’s milk includes cheeses such as Roquefort, Manchego, and Pecorino Romano. Goat’s milk features options like Chèvre, Crottin de Chavignol, and Humboldt Fog. Buffalo is represented by Mozzarella di Bufala Campana and Buffalo Blue. The cheeses are organized visually so that softer varieties appear closer to the center and harder ones toward the edge. Small colored drawings show each cheese’s texture, rind, and tone, from creamy whites and soft rounds to golden blocks, crumbly wedges, and blue-veined interiors. The background is a deep charcoal gray, making the warm oranges, yellows, and creams of the cheeses stand out clearly.
EVERYONE STOP
cheese wheel of cheeses
Randomly thinking about assumptions we make about other people's jobs. It's so obvious that [job X] is easy, we could do it with no training, the person we see doing it (and maybe having a hard time) must just be stupid or something, we know how it should go!
The thing is.
"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university."
06.09.2025 01:00 — 👍 113 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 5Heads-up folks if you're heading to the Russian River, Lake Mendocino or Navarro River in Mendocino County this weekend.
29.08.2025 22:27 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
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The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project. All collections are of equal importance. Every letter, photograph, or other artifact has an important story to tell. The collections and their contents are not edited or censored. Our role as historians is not to judge the past in light of the present, but to present everything in its entirety at the time of its creation.
PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏
The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...
This is not only a serious issue for historians and not only a serious issue for academics (although it is that). It's a development that's also deleterious for the GLAM sector, for example, and part of a much larger trend nationally and internationally to restrict and dismantle access to archives.
24.08.2025 08:03 — 👍 197 🔁 106 💬 6 📌 12When people say, “do your own research,” they generally mean, “google it.” They generally do NOT mean, “conduct an independent, ethical, peer reviewed study.” I would love if we spent more time differentiating between “research as knowledge production” and “research as knowledge consumption.”
15.08.2025 19:37 — 👍 475 🔁 86 💬 21 📌 7Incredibly useful source of information relevant to my professional work!
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Grave marker at Burial Hill Cemetery Plymouth MA. “Mrs Susanna Atwood with infant in arms” Dated 1785
Most that I was looking at were a later date and so more readable. It was also challenging to figure out which were original markers and which were replacements.
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