Pat of the Jackos
@caravonicapat.bsky.social
Living in Elliston, South Australia on Wirangu, Nauo and Kokatha land. It’s coastal and the town is small.
History, archives and a bunch of other stuff.
I probably won’t follow you back if you follow me. I’m at my maximum following limit.
History, archives and a bunch of other stuff.
I probably won’t follow you back if you follow me. I’m at my maximum following limit.
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6 sleeps to go - School's Out by Alice Cooper #jollydollychristmas
*from the archives
*from the archives
December 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
6 sleeps to go - School's Out by Alice Cooper #jollydollychristmas
*from the archives
*from the archives
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On the third day Travis head scores a century again
December 19, 2025 at 6:29 AM
On the third day Travis head scores a century again
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Hive mind: in the early 1970s I learned a #carol which I can't find anywhere. The #lyrics I remember are "Riding on their camels came those 3 great kings,/Bringing gifts of frankincense and costly things./Only the star was guiding kings in the desert riding/Long ago, long ago. Any ideas?
December 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Also, next to the problematic part of storing public and private data from handwritten sources with a US-based company without transparency about what they are gonna do with the data we are providing by asking for "transcribing" help, there are relevant issues for the craft of history itself:
December 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Also, next to the problematic part of storing public and private data from handwritten sources with a US-based company without transparency about what they are gonna do with the data we are providing by asking for "transcribing" help, there are relevant issues for the craft of history itself:
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Why on earth are we leaving all good criticism of privately owned data behind for this? Offering AI-fueled accesses to handwriting of the past is a data trap. We pay with the data we are providing, i.e. mostly archival documents, plus a few privately owned letters etc.
Also,
Also,
December 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Why on earth are we leaving all good criticism of privately owned data behind for this? Offering AI-fueled accesses to handwriting of the past is a data trap. We pay with the data we are providing, i.e. mostly archival documents, plus a few privately owned letters etc.
Also,
Also,
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To make myself more clear: AI-fueled transcribing of "old" human handwriting is becoming a market these days, and will grow in the near future. As a historian reading such texts often, I generally welcome more help and future faster assistance.
But, and this is a mighty "but" ...
But, and this is a mighty "but" ...
December 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
To make myself more clear: AI-fueled transcribing of "old" human handwriting is becoming a market these days, and will grow in the near future. As a historian reading such texts often, I generally welcome more help and future faster assistance.
But, and this is a mighty "but" ...
But, and this is a mighty "but" ...
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Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians
Gemini’s ability to read handwritten archival documents has importance beyond the humanities. It opens new frontiers for scientific research and collaboration with the humanities.
foundhistory.org/seeing-old-s...
#ClimateScience #DataScience #Agriculture #Archives #Research #LandGrant #AI
foundhistory.org/seeing-old-s...
#ClimateScience #DataScience #Agriculture #Archives #Research #LandGrant #AI
Seeing Old Science
Gemini’s ability to read handwritten archival documents has importance beyond the humanities
foundhistory.org
December 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians
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Tempted to add Kriegies to your Christmas/New Year reading pile after ace review in RAHS Journal? 'important contribution' 'thorough analysis' 'Kriegies is an impressive book that deserves a wide readership.' Available alexanderfaxbooks.com.au, shop.awm.gov.au/products/kri..., and that other place.
December 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Tempted to add Kriegies to your Christmas/New Year reading pile after ace review in RAHS Journal? 'important contribution' 'thorough analysis' 'Kriegies is an impressive book that deserves a wide readership.' Available alexanderfaxbooks.com.au, shop.awm.gov.au/products/kri..., and that other place.
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Mr Tulk and our librarians?!
This eradication of SLV culture and history is bewildering and also expected from an inexperienced board.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This eradication of SLV culture and history is bewildering and also expected from an inexperienced board.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
If the ‘suits’ can come for the State Library of Victoria, they can come for anyone, and no public institution is safe
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Mr Tulk and our librarians?!
This eradication of SLV culture and history is bewildering and also expected from an inexperienced board.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This eradication of SLV culture and history is bewildering and also expected from an inexperienced board.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Does anyone in Australia know good Kids Charity that isn't one of the big ones. My best friend doing her daughter's estate who left list but Child Flight no longer operating, & Hummingbird House now owned by Wesley Mission. Luckily Karuna is still going strong . Any help appreciated 🫂
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Does anyone in Australia know good Kids Charity that isn't one of the big ones. My best friend doing her daughter's estate who left list but Child Flight no longer operating, & Hummingbird House now owned by Wesley Mission. Luckily Karuna is still going strong . Any help appreciated 🫂
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How Paris Became Paris: The Story Behind Its Iconic Squares, Bridges, Monuments & Boulevards
How Paris Became Paris: The Story Behind Its Iconic Squares, Bridges, Monuments & Boulevards
Even today, the Paris of the popular imagination is, for the most part, the Paris envisioned by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann and made a reality in the eighteen-fifties and sixties.
www.openculture.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
How Paris Became Paris: The Story Behind Its Iconic Squares, Bridges, Monuments & Boulevards
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Question for the Australian sports #historians . Did early “football” clubs play multiple codes? Eg I have articles about Stockton Football Club playing games using both “association rules” and “Australian rules”. To me that would mean soccer and Aussie Rules respectively.
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Question for the Australian sports #historians . Did early “football” clubs play multiple codes? Eg I have articles about Stockton Football Club playing games using both “association rules” and “Australian rules”. To me that would mean soccer and Aussie Rules respectively.
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I've started a new Kākahu. The first one I've woven since my dad,
Te Rangikaiamokura, died. I'm weaving it in honour of him and it will go to my mokopuna, born a few days after we buried dad. My moko carries his koros name Louis Te Rangikaiamokura 💙
Te Rangikaiamokura, died. I'm weaving it in honour of him and it will go to my mokopuna, born a few days after we buried dad. My moko carries his koros name Louis Te Rangikaiamokura 💙
November 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I've started a new Kākahu. The first one I've woven since my dad,
Te Rangikaiamokura, died. I'm weaving it in honour of him and it will go to my mokopuna, born a few days after we buried dad. My moko carries his koros name Louis Te Rangikaiamokura 💙
Te Rangikaiamokura, died. I'm weaving it in honour of him and it will go to my mokopuna, born a few days after we buried dad. My moko carries his koros name Louis Te Rangikaiamokura 💙
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I’ve had so much fun in Boston this week this week, and I’ll be heading home tomorrow with a hard drive full of manuscript pictures and a head full of ideas. Thank you to all the amazing and knowledgeable archivists who helped me. Y’all rock! 🙏🏻
October 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I’ve had so much fun in Boston this week this week, and I’ll be heading home tomorrow with a hard drive full of manuscript pictures and a head full of ideas. Thank you to all the amazing and knowledgeable archivists who helped me. Y’all rock! 🙏🏻
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Here we go!
Thousands of shiny, happy, people holding hands and singing their heads off in Melbourne. 🎉😀🦘
#PubChoir #Melbourne #Rem #Music #Singing #ShinyHappyPeople
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVcy...
Thousands of shiny, happy, people holding hands and singing their heads off in Melbourne. 🎉😀🦘
#PubChoir #Melbourne #Rem #Music #Singing #ShinyHappyPeople
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVcy...
2800 'Shiny Happy People' (R.E.M.) singing at Pub Choir
YouTube video by Pub Choir
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Here we go!
Thousands of shiny, happy, people holding hands and singing their heads off in Melbourne. 🎉😀🦘
#PubChoir #Melbourne #Rem #Music #Singing #ShinyHappyPeople
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVcy...
Thousands of shiny, happy, people holding hands and singing their heads off in Melbourne. 🎉😀🦘
#PubChoir #Melbourne #Rem #Music #Singing #ShinyHappyPeople
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVcy...
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Always remembered on 4th October. The anniversary of the Battle Of Cable Street.
In October 1936 Sir Oswald Mosley planned a highly provocative march of his British Union of Fascist blackshirts through predominantly Jewish Stepney. East Enders, Catholic dockers alongside Jewish tailors,
In October 1936 Sir Oswald Mosley planned a highly provocative march of his British Union of Fascist blackshirts through predominantly Jewish Stepney. East Enders, Catholic dockers alongside Jewish tailors,
October 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Always remembered on 4th October. The anniversary of the Battle Of Cable Street.
In October 1936 Sir Oswald Mosley planned a highly provocative march of his British Union of Fascist blackshirts through predominantly Jewish Stepney. East Enders, Catholic dockers alongside Jewish tailors,
In October 1936 Sir Oswald Mosley planned a highly provocative march of his British Union of Fascist blackshirts through predominantly Jewish Stepney. East Enders, Catholic dockers alongside Jewish tailors,
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#Academics #historians
Did you wait a couple of years to publish your thesis?
If so, did you change the content much as a consequence of your additional research experience?
#book #publication
Did you wait a couple of years to publish your thesis?
If so, did you change the content much as a consequence of your additional research experience?
#book #publication
September 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
#Academics #historians
Did you wait a couple of years to publish your thesis?
If so, did you change the content much as a consequence of your additional research experience?
#book #publication
Did you wait a couple of years to publish your thesis?
If so, did you change the content much as a consequence of your additional research experience?
#book #publication
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Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
CALLY: Oh, you fool, Vila.
VILA: Stop worrying, Cally. I'll be back soon. Tell you what, I'll bring you back a present. What would you like, Cally? Name it and it's yours.
CALLY: A necklace, Vila, made from your teeth.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/201
CALLY: Oh, you fool, Vila.
VILA: Stop worrying, Cally. I'll be back soon. Tell you what, I'll bring you back a present. What would you like, Cally? Name it and it's yours.
CALLY: A necklace, Vila, made from your teeth.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/201
September 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
CALLY: Oh, you fool, Vila.
VILA: Stop worrying, Cally. I'll be back soon. Tell you what, I'll bring you back a present. What would you like, Cally? Name it and it's yours.
CALLY: A necklace, Vila, made from your teeth.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/201
CALLY: Oh, you fool, Vila.
VILA: Stop worrying, Cally. I'll be back soon. Tell you what, I'll bring you back a present. What would you like, Cally? Name it and it's yours.
CALLY: A necklace, Vila, made from your teeth.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/201