Claire Blechman
@cblechman.bsky.social
Digital asset management, mutual aid, museums, communism. Cuba sí, bloqueo no
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Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.
publicdomainreview.org
January 1, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain
Fools and charlatans will tell you 2026 is the semiquincentennial, but really it's the centennial of the greatest, most charismatic socialist this side of the atlantic. Fidel Castro: born August 13th, 1926. Mark your calendars
January 1, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Fools and charlatans will tell you 2026 is the semiquincentennial, but really it's the centennial of the greatest, most charismatic socialist this side of the atlantic. Fidel Castro: born August 13th, 1926. Mark your calendars
Triumph of the revolution baybee 🇨🇺 hasta la victoria siempre
January 1, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Triumph of the revolution baybee 🇨🇺 hasta la victoria siempre
I don't know why it was so damn hard to search and find the original post but anyway here's my 2026 bingo card
December 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I don't know why it was so damn hard to search and find the original post but anyway here's my 2026 bingo card
Dems can win veto-proof majorities and it still won't matter unless they aggressively impeach and prosecute all the ghouls who run this administration. FFS even my centrist dad thinks that we should prosecute and jail every ICE agent. That's the compromise position if you want liberal democracy back
Trump is too inept to be of use to US allies or adversaries while Vance wants to pursue an arrogantly deluded path that turns US allies into more adversaries.
2026 mid-terms look like the last moment through which this slide into self-inflicted American decline can be reversed.
2026 mid-terms look like the last moment through which this slide into self-inflicted American decline can be reversed.
December 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Dems can win veto-proof majorities and it still won't matter unless they aggressively impeach and prosecute all the ghouls who run this administration. FFS even my centrist dad thinks that we should prosecute and jail every ICE agent. That's the compromise position if you want liberal democracy back
Does not inspire confidence, Comcast
December 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Does not inspire confidence, Comcast
I have the week between Christmas and New Year off thanks to my union (HUCTW), and I absolutely love mandatory no one doing a damn thing time. This should be quarterly.
December 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I have the week between Christmas and New Year off thanks to my union (HUCTW), and I absolutely love mandatory no one doing a damn thing time. This should be quarterly.
Cry about it. That's what 😂
December 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Cry about it. That's what 😂
Having a cheesy fun Boston time watching a whole memory care unit sing along with a guitarist playing Sweet Caroline
December 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Having a cheesy fun Boston time watching a whole memory care unit sing along with a guitarist playing Sweet Caroline
Six minutes into the audio book about Harry Widener's ghost and the narrator pronounces Houghton "Howton". Devastating
December 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Six minutes into the audio book about Harry Widener's ghost and the narrator pronounces Houghton "Howton". Devastating
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
I use it about once every 3 years but I still believe that anyone who ran for president on a single issue platform of "we will Nationalize Ticketmaster" would win in a landslide
December 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I use it about once every 3 years but I still believe that anyone who ran for president on a single issue platform of "we will Nationalize Ticketmaster" would win in a landslide
I didn't want to see a swastika necklace in the tiktok shop. Thanks dickholes
December 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I didn't want to see a swastika necklace in the tiktok shop. Thanks dickholes
Thinking about the cascading failures that lead to a production design decision like this. The English word "flatlined" on a heads up display instead of...flat lines.
*Man, everything is so fucking literal. What happened to subtlety?"*
> The word "Flatlined" on the monitor
> The word "Flatlined" on the monitor
December 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Thinking about the cascading failures that lead to a production design decision like this. The English word "flatlined" on a heads up display instead of...flat lines.
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Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.
I live in the heart of California gold country. One of the richest mines ever in CA is nearby. Opened circa 1860 closed 1942. A local foundation has preserved the records on site. I know not a stitch has been digitized and am confident no more than 2 pro historians have ever been in there.
December 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.
Overheard on Amtrak: "Canada won't let me in, we already know that"
December 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Overheard on Amtrak: "Canada won't let me in, we already know that"
Eternal Sunshine did not consider Bari Weiss
it’s so annoying that i have to know what so many stupid incurious and hateful bigoted people are up to all the time. i shouldn’t even have to know what a “bari weiss” is.
December 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Eternal Sunshine did not consider Bari Weiss
One Battle After Another was p good. I still feel like none of these screenwriters ever get the ideological commitment in there though.
December 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
One Battle After Another was p good. I still feel like none of these screenwriters ever get the ideological commitment in there though.
That's not what "colonizer" means, I stg
This season of Strange New World suxxxxxx
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
That's not what "colonizer" means, I stg
This season of Strange New World suxxxxxx
December 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This season of Strange New World suxxxxxx
Shakespeare Monkeyed my way through this but holy shit the program ran.
December 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Shakespeare Monkeyed my way through this but holy shit the program ran.
We need an international standard for what counts as an IKEA "Hack." Two ends of the spectrum:
1. If it requires the use of power tools it is not a hack, that's just carpentry
2. You have to be using the product off-label. No "put the kallax here to make a sleeping zone" that's interior design
1. If it requires the use of power tools it is not a hack, that's just carpentry
2. You have to be using the product off-label. No "put the kallax here to make a sleeping zone" that's interior design
December 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We need an international standard for what counts as an IKEA "Hack." Two ends of the spectrum:
1. If it requires the use of power tools it is not a hack, that's just carpentry
2. You have to be using the product off-label. No "put the kallax here to make a sleeping zone" that's interior design
1. If it requires the use of power tools it is not a hack, that's just carpentry
2. You have to be using the product off-label. No "put the kallax here to make a sleeping zone" that's interior design
Called the university health plan benefits office to see if I could get an appointment faster by changing my PCP and the woman apologized before telling me--in an impeccable townie accent--that I was "trying to mickey the system" and had to be careful to change back to avoid denials. No notes
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Called the university health plan benefits office to see if I could get an appointment faster by changing my PCP and the woman apologized before telling me--in an impeccable townie accent--that I was "trying to mickey the system" and had to be careful to change back to avoid denials. No notes
The democratic establishment has also been happy to blockade Cuba for 65 years, launch hundreds of failed plots at regime change, and cut Cubans off from the global banking system, all because their socialist government dares to provide for its people instead of accepting US imperialism.
I hate to be such a bummer but this is no different from the established Democratic approach to Venezuela (and, you know, dozens of other countries), except insofar as he’s more open about it. They all support regime change and think it’s our right to engage in imperialism all over the world
December 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The democratic establishment has also been happy to blockade Cuba for 65 years, launch hundreds of failed plots at regime change, and cut Cubans off from the global banking system, all because their socialist government dares to provide for its people instead of accepting US imperialism.
