Hannah O'Daniel McCallon
@hodanielmccallon.bsky.social
Digital archivist & public historian. Sewing & quilting the rest of the time 💾📜
Interests in digital collections usability, labor, environmental sustainability, records management, ethics, disability representation.
hodanielmccallon.com
Interests in digital collections usability, labor, environmental sustainability, records management, ethics, disability representation.
hodanielmccallon.com
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We're going to be in movement for the rest of our lives, there's a world to win & so much between us and freedom. How do we make struggle sustainable? So ask yourself, what is the best use of my skills and resources. Limit yourself to that work, because you can't be everywhere.
September 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
We're going to be in movement for the rest of our lives, there's a world to win & so much between us and freedom. How do we make struggle sustainable? So ask yourself, what is the best use of my skills and resources. Limit yourself to that work, because you can't be everywhere.
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I love my colleagues and collaborators. But I HATE their file names.
October 11, 2024 at 11:15 PM
I love my colleagues and collaborators. But I HATE their file names.
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Put even more simply: Maybe Trump isn't forcing these institutions to do anything they wouldn't like to do anyway, and pressure from Trump insulates them from the criticism they'd receive if they did it on their own.
July 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Put even more simply: Maybe Trump isn't forcing these institutions to do anything they wouldn't like to do anyway, and pressure from Trump insulates them from the criticism they'd receive if they did it on their own.
So much of LinkedIn feels like a forced graduate school discussion board where people respond that they agree and then rehash what that person wrote right back at them.
July 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
So much of LinkedIn feels like a forced graduate school discussion board where people respond that they agree and then rehash what that person wrote right back at them.
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It's always this stupid. Always.
Honest question for the historians of empires: is the end always this stupid or are we breaking new ground here?
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It's always this stupid. Always.
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Best activism tip I've ever received, shared once again: find the people who have already been doing the work for decades and ask them what they need, rather than launching your own bespoke advocacy project about an issue that's new for you.
May 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Best activism tip I've ever received, shared once again: find the people who have already been doing the work for decades and ask them what they need, rather than launching your own bespoke advocacy project about an issue that's new for you.
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The reason fascism is defeated only by the application of power (through violence or overwhelming solidarity) and not the mechanisms of democracy or civil society is that it is immune to shame. It only cares for power and it only responds to real power.
I don’t know how to say it more clearly. But being hypocritical is the point of power. It’s not being done despite of the rule violation but BECAUSE of it.
In a video posted by Elon Musk’s PAC, a $1M check recipient linked voting to receiving the money:
“My name’s Ekaterina Deistler. …I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars.”
“My name’s Ekaterina Deistler. …I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars.”
March 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The reason fascism is defeated only by the application of power (through violence or overwhelming solidarity) and not the mechanisms of democracy or civil society is that it is immune to shame. It only cares for power and it only responds to real power.
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There's a list in here of the kinds of topics that people might cry "revisionist history!" about and they've nearly all been the subject of an EO at this point. I'm not claiming to be some visionary, just that this was all pretty clearly where these folks wanted to go, even in 2019.
"It’s not that historians are distorting the past to make a point about the present. The discomfort comes from the fact that historians are often disrupting or destroying connections people have already made between the past and the present, connections that may be based on no evidence at all."
What Is Revisionist History?
What is revisionist history--and is it dangerous?
contingentmagazine.org
March 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
There's a list in here of the kinds of topics that people might cry "revisionist history!" about and they've nearly all been the subject of an EO at this point. I'm not claiming to be some visionary, just that this was all pretty clearly where these folks wanted to go, even in 2019.
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"Let the weak die off" is eugenics. "Herd immunity" without vaccination is eugenics. The administration treating Medicare and Medicaid like it is a waste of taxpayer money is eugenics. MAHA is eugenics. Full stop.
March 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"Let the weak die off" is eugenics. "Herd immunity" without vaccination is eugenics. The administration treating Medicare and Medicaid like it is a waste of taxpayer money is eugenics. MAHA is eugenics. Full stop.
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“What university leaders must realize is they are coming for your funding, no matter what. They are coming for the Dept of Ed, no matter what…The new segregationists are coming for public education no matter what, because it is a civil right that multiple targeted communities fought for.”
March 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
“What university leaders must realize is they are coming for your funding, no matter what. They are coming for the Dept of Ed, no matter what…The new segregationists are coming for public education no matter what, because it is a civil right that multiple targeted communities fought for.”
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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
February 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
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just speaking from personal experience now, i think it is really important to understand that simply being black is read by a non-trivial number of people as anti-white extremism
February 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
just speaking from personal experience now, i think it is really important to understand that simply being black is read by a non-trivial number of people as anti-white extremism
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I have no patience for "that's what they get" replies. I don't care the fuck anybody voted for or didn't vote for. The people whose lives are being destroyed by Trump are not my enemies. Period.
I don't want anyone harmed. I want the harm to stop.
I don't want anyone harmed. I want the harm to stop.
February 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I have no patience for "that's what they get" replies. I don't care the fuck anybody voted for or didn't vote for. The people whose lives are being destroyed by Trump are not my enemies. Period.
I don't want anyone harmed. I want the harm to stop.
I don't want anyone harmed. I want the harm to stop.
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When someone says any variety of “if you fight back they’ll authoritarian crack down you” I always wonder what they think is going to happen if we don’t fight back
February 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
When someone says any variety of “if you fight back they’ll authoritarian crack down you” I always wonder what they think is going to happen if we don’t fight back
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We're going to have to fight like hell to keep them from killing kids with mental health disabilities.
February 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
We're going to have to fight like hell to keep them from killing kids with mental health disabilities.
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Firing everyone isn’t about efficiency, just like gutting the liberal arts wasn’t about budgets, just like crushing anti-genocide protesters wasn’t about safety
February 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Firing everyone isn’t about efficiency, just like gutting the liberal arts wasn’t about budgets, just like crushing anti-genocide protesters wasn’t about safety
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Buy Nothing also has an app, which they specifically designed to encourage people to get off of Facebook. buynothingproject.org/join
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January 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Buy Nothing also has an app, which they specifically designed to encourage people to get off of Facebook. buynothingproject.org/join
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Makes sense. This is one of the implicit points advanced in the Eyes on the Prize documentary. All of those white folks saying things like, "What about my civil rights?!" before and after scenes of civil rights protesters getting beaten and harassed.
Not a coincidence that as awareness of systemic discrimination surged in the wake of BLM, Republicans saw White people as aggrieved.
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January 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Makes sense. This is one of the implicit points advanced in the Eyes on the Prize documentary. All of those white folks saying things like, "What about my civil rights?!" before and after scenes of civil rights protesters getting beaten and harassed.
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What the AF?! 61% of disabled workers under this program made less than $3.50 / hr. in 2024?
Disgusting, disgraceful & derogatory; kill it, yesterday.
Disgusting, disgraceful & derogatory; kill it, yesterday.
January 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
What the AF?! 61% of disabled workers under this program made less than $3.50 / hr. in 2024?
Disgusting, disgraceful & derogatory; kill it, yesterday.
Disgusting, disgraceful & derogatory; kill it, yesterday.
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Please PLEASE go comment in favor of this rule. The subminimum wage for disabled folks is vile and evil and *must* be eliminated.
The poverty rate of disabled folks is astronomical compared to abled folks. There is no doubt this disgusting discriminatory policy is part of the reason why.
The poverty rate of disabled folks is astronomical compared to abled folks. There is no doubt this disgusting discriminatory policy is part of the reason why.
ALERT: The Department of Labor is seeking public comment on a rule that would ELIMINATE the subminimum wage for disabled people in the US: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Employment of Workers With Disabilities Under Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA or Act) authorizes the Secretary of Labor to issue certificates allowing employers to pay productivity-based subminimum wages to workers with disabilities, but only ...
www.federalregister.gov
January 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Please PLEASE go comment in favor of this rule. The subminimum wage for disabled folks is vile and evil and *must* be eliminated.
The poverty rate of disabled folks is astronomical compared to abled folks. There is no doubt this disgusting discriminatory policy is part of the reason why.
The poverty rate of disabled folks is astronomical compared to abled folks. There is no doubt this disgusting discriminatory policy is part of the reason why.
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Implicit in a lot of anti-vaccination and anti-public health narratives like those of RFK Jr is a deep disgust/fear of disability; but also an unspoken hope that unchecked disease will "cull" the population of "weaker/less fit" people.
I really just can't see past a lot of that.
I really just can't see past a lot of that.
January 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Implicit in a lot of anti-vaccination and anti-public health narratives like those of RFK Jr is a deep disgust/fear of disability; but also an unspoken hope that unchecked disease will "cull" the population of "weaker/less fit" people.
I really just can't see past a lot of that.
I really just can't see past a lot of that.
I'm going to struggle without any post-lunch naps when I go back to work 😭
January 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I'm going to struggle without any post-lunch naps when I go back to work 😭
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For historians of the news, media, eighteenth-century Ireland, and the Atlantic world: the Dublin Gazette, 1750-1800 is up on the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social online platform here www.virtualtreasury.ie/browse/Dubli...
Virtual Treasury
Virtual Treasury
www.virtualtreasury.ie
December 23, 2024 at 11:02 AM
For historians of the news, media, eighteenth-century Ireland, and the Atlantic world: the Dublin Gazette, 1750-1800 is up on the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social online platform here www.virtualtreasury.ie/browse/Dubli...
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People do this thing where they piss me off
December 18, 2024 at 2:59 PM
People do this thing where they piss me off