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Mary Kidd

@shakeypea.bsky.social

Tech Lead, Archival Systems at Yale Adjunct Instructor, Digital Archives, Public Archives and History at NYU

79 Followers  |  103 Following  |  18 Posts  |  Joined: 15.11.2024  |  1.8187

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This is the post that set me off, the funny part being the op may actually be a real person. Maybe itโ€™s more that Threads aesthetic is AI slop

26.02.2026 23:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Threads is a living example of endless bot shitposts and nothing replies. It is Moltbook disguised as Twitter.

26.02.2026 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.

18.02.2026 15:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 306    ๐Ÿ” 187    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 29

everything but the hegel

13.02.2026 11:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The shadows the hanging pieces cast were the best part

23.11.2025 13:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS was one of the best internet technologies and they just can't stop trying to kill it i hate this timeline

21.11.2025 19:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The most beautiful font is Times New Roman italicized!!!

02.10.2025 22:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How Ruby Went Off the Rails What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

New: the world of Ruby has gone completely off the rails over the past few weeks. Developers suddenly locked out, corporate pressure, and claims of a "hostile takeover" of one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure for the internet we all rely on everyday
www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...

29.09.2025 13:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 231    ๐Ÿ” 91    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
Three hand-beaded 1-cm strawberry charms

Three hand-beaded 1-cm strawberry charms

Lucky charms

24.09.2025 22:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

24.09.2025 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5417    ๐Ÿ” 1570    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 81    ๐Ÿ“Œ 96

There should be entire MLIS sections dedicated to teaching students breathing techniques before opening up their first 100k line logfile

23.09.2025 16:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This beaded tomato slice doesnโ€™t look like a tomato at all. Persimmon meets watermelon? Iโ€™m feeling more confident in diverging from the YouTube tutorial Iโ€™m following but realizing fruit pallets are hard to get right with little glass pixels.

22.09.2025 19:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot of Ratfactor's Illustrated Guide to Folding Fitted Sheets, ft an illustration of a purple sheet as the grim reaper

Screenshot of Ratfactor's Illustrated Guide to Folding Fitted Sheets, ft an illustration of a purple sheet as the grim reaper

A fantastic Web 1.0-style how-to: ratfactor.com/cards/fitted...

15.09.2025 16:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 65    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Taught myself to make little beaded fruits like this little cara cara slice. A way to distract from endless scrolling (while watching TV ๐Ÿ˜)

12.09.2025 21:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And in case it's of interest, I taught a whole Spring 2024 class about Local Media, and I've got an open-access website (as I do for all of my classes :)

localmedia.wordsinspace.net/spring2024/

12.09.2025 01:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Public transit is (or *can* be) efficient and sustainable and delightful and popular!

11.09.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I hope they unite the south/north ferry routes so you donโ€™t need to transfer to get from south Brooklyn to Queens!

11.09.2025 18:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

one day it will be mine

03.09.2025 17:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1288    ๐Ÿ” 63    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 64    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Hi after forever Eileen! ๐Ÿ™‚โ€โ†”๏ธ๐Ÿ™‚โ€โ†”๏ธ๐Ÿ™‚โ€โ†”๏ธ

22.08.2025 14:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now.

www.weherepress.org

20.08.2025 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 284    ๐Ÿ” 97    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Swallowed an entire star anise?!

14.08.2025 20:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sweet and Salty Frozen Grapes

It's hot and muggy in Toronto and the only things I want to eat are frozen

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...

11.08.2025 21:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

The highlight that the Internet Archive preserving Flash is starting to get "but flash was awful" comments but I can't hear you over the sound of 600 cooking games.

archive.org/details/soft...

07.08.2025 18:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda Preservationists at the Video Game History Foundation purchased the rights to Computer Entertainer, the first video game magazine ever written and uploaded it for free.

Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda

๐Ÿ”— www.404media.co/computer-ent...

07.08.2025 19:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 243    ๐Ÿ” 53    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

i kind of miss my twitter pals and banter. bluesky is like transferring to a new school in a new state

20.07.2025 23:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
An assortment of six brightly colored issue of nest magazine โ€” some with aberrantly cut edges, some with ornamented coversโ€ฆ

An assortment of six brightly colored issue of nest magazine โ€” some with aberrantly cut edges, some with ornamented coversโ€ฆ

A pink magazine cover depicting bananas and cherries with a tongue dispenser affixed

A pink magazine cover depicting bananas and cherries with a tongue dispenser affixed

A red and white striped cover, with the words warp and wood, with a green mesh overlay

A red and white striped cover, with the words warp and wood, with a green mesh overlay

A red magazine cover with a fabric band wrapped around it

A red magazine cover with a fabric band wrapped around it

I had forgotten that nest magazine of the early aughts was such a fascinating physical object.

Relatedly, it breaks my โค๏ธ + ๐Ÿง  to think that the monsters destroying our nation at this very minute โ€” theyโ€™re currently ๐Ÿช“ public media + transportation โ€” are devoid of + disinterested in creativity

16.07.2025 17:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ngl i love it when my parents comment on my tiktok content

17.06.2025 19:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Stock image of a stack of blue rolling shopping baskets.

Stock image of a stack of blue rolling shopping baskets.

10 Things I Hate About You

01.05.2025 00:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy start of Taurus season

24.04.2025 18:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The mental fortitude required to eat an apple in the long car ride and hold the sticky core in between thumb and pointer finger until the next trash can.

30.03.2025 21:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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