Suzy the pensive shelf elf
@queensuzy.bsky.social
Library/archives conservator. Internet person. Aquarium nerd. Artist and maker of crafts. Covered in glue, surrounded by beads, and engulfed in yarn. Knox College ‘06 alum.
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What happens to democracy when government records vanish?
James Jacobs, Jim Jacobs, & Shari Laster discuss how libraries, archivists & advocates protect public access in the latest Future Knowledge #podcast, PRESERVING GOVERNMENT INFORMATION.
🎧 Listen: futureknowledge.transistor.fm
James Jacobs, Jim Jacobs, & Shari Laster discuss how libraries, archivists & advocates protect public access in the latest Future Knowledge #podcast, PRESERVING GOVERNMENT INFORMATION.
🎧 Listen: futureknowledge.transistor.fm
September 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
What happens to democracy when government records vanish?
James Jacobs, Jim Jacobs, & Shari Laster discuss how libraries, archivists & advocates protect public access in the latest Future Knowledge #podcast, PRESERVING GOVERNMENT INFORMATION.
🎧 Listen: futureknowledge.transistor.fm
James Jacobs, Jim Jacobs, & Shari Laster discuss how libraries, archivists & advocates protect public access in the latest Future Knowledge #podcast, PRESERVING GOVERNMENT INFORMATION.
🎧 Listen: futureknowledge.transistor.fm
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We are likely about to see a mass purging of archival documents and restricted access to researchers. This will be part of the regime’s effort to rewrite history itself.
February 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We are likely about to see a mass purging of archival documents and restricted access to researchers. This will be part of the regime’s effort to rewrite history itself.
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Do you think when Sisyphus gets the rock to the top of the hill, before it rolls back down, a little party horn goes off? Maybe a kazoo?
February 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Do you think when Sisyphus gets the rock to the top of the hill, before it rolls back down, a little party horn goes off? Maybe a kazoo?
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Librarians aren't going to save us. Librarians aren't superheroes.
They're just people trying to keep largely underfunded and overwhelmed public services going.
Praise is nice; realistic expectations are better; material support is best.
They're just people trying to keep largely underfunded and overwhelmed public services going.
Praise is nice; realistic expectations are better; material support is best.
February 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Librarians aren't going to save us. Librarians aren't superheroes.
They're just people trying to keep largely underfunded and overwhelmed public services going.
Praise is nice; realistic expectations are better; material support is best.
They're just people trying to keep largely underfunded and overwhelmed public services going.
Praise is nice; realistic expectations are better; material support is best.
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I wrote this thread last year during one of the worst periods in my life, and it helps me when the urge to worry and doomscroll for hours is particularly powerful
When things feel extra chaotic and overwhelming, here's what helps me:
-doing less
-resting more
-spending more on outsourcing tasks
-aggressive hydration
-high-protein meals
-weekly therapy
-scheduling offline activities like museums and long dog walks on weekends
-focusing on things in my control
-doing less
-resting more
-spending more on outsourcing tasks
-aggressive hydration
-high-protein meals
-weekly therapy
-scheduling offline activities like museums and long dog walks on weekends
-focusing on things in my control
January 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I wrote this thread last year during one of the worst periods in my life, and it helps me when the urge to worry and doomscroll for hours is particularly powerful
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Can we please remember that very recently South Korea showed us all what we should do when the president does illegal shit
February 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Can we please remember that very recently South Korea showed us all what we should do when the president does illegal shit
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If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not
January 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not
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Shout out to all the fuckwits who told me, two months ago, that scientists must strive to remain apolitical.
February 1, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Shout out to all the fuckwits who told me, two months ago, that scientists must strive to remain apolitical.
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incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit
January 30, 2025 at 4:41 AM
incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit
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This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern.
#upcycling
#upcycling
January 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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이렇게 수정된 짤 발견! 누가 만들었나 🤣
January 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
이렇게 수정된 짤 발견! 누가 만들었나 🤣
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this genuinely, without exaggeration, healed a little fracture inside of me that has been broken my whole adult life
DID YOU KNOW for 25 years Matthew Shepard had no permanent resting place due to concerns his grave would be vandalized
Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral.
www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep...
She was and is a real hero.
Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral.
www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep...
She was and is a real hero.
January 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
this genuinely, without exaggeration, healed a little fracture inside of me that has been broken my whole adult life
Well the country is in tumult but I successfully advocated for the deaccession (archival word for removal) of a 10 year old tube of #chapstick from our university #archives today. So I got that going for me! It was originally strawberry daiquiri flavored. It smells about as rancid as you’d expect.
January 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Well the country is in tumult but I successfully advocated for the deaccession (archival word for removal) of a 10 year old tube of #chapstick from our university #archives today. So I got that going for me! It was originally strawberry daiquiri flavored. It smells about as rancid as you’d expect.
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I think this platform needs more beautiful, marble-like gooseberries
January 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I think this platform needs more beautiful, marble-like gooseberries
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You’re all about to be gaslit about that Nazi salute and I’m begging you to spend no time on it. You know what you saw.
January 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
You’re all about to be gaslit about that Nazi salute and I’m begging you to spend no time on it. You know what you saw.
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Student: "what makes something archival?"
Me: "I'm about to be really annoying, so bear with me"
*steeples hands*
Me: "I'm about to be really annoying, so bear with me"
*steeples hands*
January 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Student: "what makes something archival?"
Me: "I'm about to be really annoying, so bear with me"
*steeples hands*
Me: "I'm about to be really annoying, so bear with me"
*steeples hands*
January 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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This is the archives equivalent of brushing your cat and ending up with a whole second cat’s worth of fluff
The issues on the table are all the duplicates of the contents of what’s already in the box.
The issues on the table are all the duplicates of the contents of what’s already in the box.
May 17, 2024 at 5:36 PM
This is the archives equivalent of brushing your cat and ending up with a whole second cat’s worth of fluff
The issues on the table are all the duplicates of the contents of what’s already in the box.
The issues on the table are all the duplicates of the contents of what’s already in the box.
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Whenever I open an archival box that has folders that don’t match the box, this is what I see. #archives #preservation #specialcollections #boxes
December 5, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Whenever I open an archival box that has folders that don’t match the box, this is what I see. #archives #preservation #specialcollections #boxes
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My mother gave this to me, and I just found it pressed in a book, so now I'm sharing it with you
December 17, 2024 at 4:13 PM
My mother gave this to me, and I just found it pressed in a book, so now I'm sharing it with you