Amanda Garfunkel
@agrfnkl.bsky.social
Archivist. Reader. Cat enthusiast. Melancholy vibes. Lurker. New York
Someone trying to schedule a research appointment today or Friday since they’re “in town for the holiday” literally has me considering walking into the sea
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Someone trying to schedule a research appointment today or Friday since they’re “in town for the holiday” literally has me considering walking into the sea
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We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
The same museum getting rid of their institutional archivist? …shocking
"The director of the Museum of the City of New York, Stephanie Hill Wilchfort, said she no longer needs to hire copy editors to work on annual reports. [She is turning to AI.]"
This should be embarrassing to admit.
nymag.com/intelligence...
This should be embarrassing to admit.
nymag.com/intelligence...
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The same museum getting rid of their institutional archivist? …shocking
Are flare jeans really coming back?
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Are flare jeans really coming back?
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Dan Brown is my Colleen Hoover. I don’t even care
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Dan Brown is my Colleen Hoover. I don’t even care
Can’t decide if missing every single product placement in Nobody Wants This S2 means I’m an advertiser’s dream or nightmare demographic
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Can’t decide if missing every single product placement in Nobody Wants This S2 means I’m an advertiser’s dream or nightmare demographic
Love being super embarrassed about my larger institution on the Friday of a week where they’ve failed to help the archives during an environmental issue
a cat laying on a couch with a remote control
Alt: a cat laying on a couch with a remote control
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Love being super embarrassed about my larger institution on the Friday of a week where they’ve failed to help the archives during an environmental issue
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Okay, I've seen enough.
Not election night related, just been a long year and I have seen way too many things
Not election night related, just been a long year and I have seen way too many things
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Okay, I've seen enough.
Not election night related, just been a long year and I have seen way too many things
Not election night related, just been a long year and I have seen way too many things
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If That’s a donation, it goes to the treasury and only congress can decide how to spend it. No such (lawful) thing as private payment of government obligation.
Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
If That’s a donation, it goes to the treasury and only congress can decide how to spend it. No such (lawful) thing as private payment of government obligation.
Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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you can get a book at the library for free
October 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
you can get a book at the library for free
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Gemini: Wrestling with your demons is usually a metaphor for boring things like developing effective coping strategies and discipline. Not today though. Today Satan is going to hit you with a folding chair.
October 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Gemini: Wrestling with your demons is usually a metaphor for boring things like developing effective coping strategies and discipline. Not today though. Today Satan is going to hit you with a folding chair.
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Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre
October 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre
Holy shit
This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
PROFESSORS RESPONSE @lia #anatomy #ai #fyp #chatgpt #anatomyandphysiology
TikTok video by lia
www.tiktok.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Holy shit
She’s here!!! But super shy so may be a few days before she starts to come out 🥹
My adoption application for a new cat got approved - prepare for cat pics once I’m able to bring her home!
October 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
She’s here!!! But super shy so may be a few days before she starts to come out 🥹
Ya’ll need to stop giving air to this human Q-tip
Stephen Miller: "ICE officers have to street battle against Antifa, hand to hand combat every night."
October 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Ya’ll need to stop giving air to this human Q-tip
Adopting from a rescue in NYC is what will start my villain era…
My adoption application for a new cat got approved - prepare for cat pics once I’m able to bring her home!
October 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Adopting from a rescue in NYC is what will start my villain era…
Things no one talks about 😅
Whether acknowledged publicly or not, every collection has these stories (the missing X, the Y returned decades later).
Every.
Collection.
Every.
Collection.
October 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Things no one talks about 😅
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It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.
October 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.
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Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
September 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
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checks and balances? in this economy?
September 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
checks and balances? in this economy?
Another banger from Ologies
Y'ALL LIKE REVOLUTIONS?
Storming the Bastille. Facing off with tanks. Canceling a streaming subscription.
Here's a breakdown of why they happen -- and how -- with the world's foremost expert in revolutions and social change. (And yes there are tips.)
www.alieward.com/ologies/revo...
Storming the Bastille. Facing off with tanks. Canceling a streaming subscription.
Here's a breakdown of why they happen -- and how -- with the world's foremost expert in revolutions and social change. (And yes there are tips.)
www.alieward.com/ologies/revo...
Revolutionology (REBELLIONS & SOCIAL CHANGE) with Dr. Jack Goldstone — alie ward
Storming the Bastille. Facing off with tanks. Canceling a streaming subscription. We’re talking protests, boycotts, insurrections, and demonstrations. Scholar, professor, and actual real life R...
www.alieward.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Another banger from Ologies
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$14 million dollars allocated to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) was pushed through to the America 250 team to fund "Freedom Trucks"–propaganda telling a whitewashed version of history.
What's happening at IMLS is beyond budgetary concerns.
bookriot.com/imls-freedom...
What's happening at IMLS is beyond budgetary concerns.
bookriot.com/imls-freedom...
The IMLS's Freedom Trucks Project Is Propaganda in Support of Historical Erasure: Book Censorship News, September 12, 2025
This week, the IMLS announced their Freedom Trucks initiative. It is blatant propaganda.
bookriot.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
$14 million dollars allocated to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) was pushed through to the America 250 team to fund "Freedom Trucks"–propaganda telling a whitewashed version of history.
What's happening at IMLS is beyond budgetary concerns.
bookriot.com/imls-freedom...
What's happening at IMLS is beyond budgetary concerns.
bookriot.com/imls-freedom...
Am I experiencing “reviewer #2” or should I just never publish again? 🙃
September 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Am I experiencing “reviewer #2” or should I just never publish again? 🙃
My adoption application for a new cat got approved - prepare for cat pics once I’m able to bring her home!
September 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My adoption application for a new cat got approved - prepare for cat pics once I’m able to bring her home!