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Ex-Curator Sam
@ex-curator.bsky.social
he/him | Storyteller, public historian, ethnomusicologist, archivist, trans guy living on Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabek lands | Land Back |
@catespice, I miss your photos of wing night and pavlovas and the seascapes and sand art and the little creatures you painted and the cat and Ankh's poetry. Thought you should know.
December 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Signing of the Admissions Books continues today in the Wren Library. Here's Isaac Newton's entry from 1667.
October 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Two days after Trump was elected again, Amy Lendian and her wife no longer felt safe in Florida.

They're among a growing crowd of trans folks fleeing to states like IL amid a wave of federal and state anti-trans laws — w/ @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social
chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/0...
March 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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“We are never going to stop existing. I’m never going to stop being trans. A letter on a passport can’t change that, fuck this administration.”

— Hunter Schafer on uniting with trans people against Trump’s administration.
February 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Here’s another one I saved a few years ago…

nymag.com/intelligence...
An Ex-KGB Agent Says Trump Was a Russian Asset Since 1987. Does It Matter?
Revisiting the Trump-Russia mystery in light of the newest revelation.
nymag.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Jorts come watch tv. Jorts let’s clean your ears. Jorts put your toys away. Jorts do your timesheets. Jorts you’ve been in the hippo all day. Why are they so obsessed just let me stay in the hippo
February 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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RIGHT??!! CMON
You're telling me there are 535 of you and not a single one knows how to bust through a door into a building housing an agency you ostensibly oversee?
February 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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right now a 25 year old berkeley grad is slapping chat gpt cobol code into the treasury’s electronic payment system. im sure this will be fine.
February 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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This is so catastrophically bad.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Elon Musk’s team has gotten access to the Treasury Department’s payments system.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Same exact thing.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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You said you were too busy to play with me but you’re literally just eating candy and reading wikipedia articles about mummies
January 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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January 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Was hoping I wouldn’t have to dust off this gem again.
January 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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This Cybertruck has not crashed. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash from a certain perspective, but it's important that we dont rush to judgement and assume it has the same failings as every Tesla that's come before
January 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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AOC: "I want folks at home to look at what members of Congress are invested in private prisons companies, and look at the votes on this bill. It is atrocious that people are lining their pockets with private prison profits in the name of a horrific tragedy."
January 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯
January 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Breaking News: Pete Hegseth’s former sister-in-law made a sworn statement to senators that the secretary of defense nominee was abusive toward his second wife.
Hegseth Ex-Sister-in-Law Tells Senators He Was ‘Abusive’ to Second Wife
A woman once married to the brother of Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary nominee, submitted a sworn statement to the Senate in a late-hour complication to his confirmation. His attorney denied her a...
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Rainbow capitalism was always hollow but it's jarring to see two decades worth of progress pushing equality wiped away in a few weeks.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Amazon cuts mentions of DEI and LGBTQ rights from public policies
The online retailer removed commitments to supporting transgender rights and the safety of Black customers and employees from a webpage of corporate policies.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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"There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed."
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
January 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Blue‐faced honeyeater ruling the roost, while a noisy miner stands by.
Hardings Paddock, Ipswich region, QLD
#birds #ausbirds #ozwildlife #lichen
January 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Don’t tell me what to do I’m a cat who smokes cigarettes now. Due to bad influences
January 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Free speech means you can speak (draw) truth to power. Ann Telnaes is one of the best at doing so, and was censored from doing so. open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
open.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Behold the "sci fi tarot"

A tarot deck in which each card is done in the style of a golden-age sci-fi pulp novel

designed and sold by Brian Alcott

Item #4 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
January 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM