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Kat Louro
@katlo91.bsky.social
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Arts, museum, library and archives gal // Northern BC - Lheidli T'enneh Territory // Currently at home with my children // My views do not represent those of my employer (my children)
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momfriend64.northsky.social
You don't want a remake of Goldeneye; you want a remake of when you were 10 years old and could still feel joy
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
katlo91.bsky.social
We built a city we can't afford.
YouTube video by North of Somewhere
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October 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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stephaniewalter.bsky.social
“Moving fast and breaking things is no longer acceptable and as designers, we need to start considering both possibilities and the responsibilities we hold.”
Yes, to all of this. Ida Persson presents an interesting framework that you can re-use, to help people ask the big question: “at what cost”.
Image comparing questions to ask for how might we and at what cost (full text is in the article)
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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loxy.bsky.social
If you made a major career shift midlife:

A. How did decide your direction?
B. What prompted the shift?
C. What support systems made it easier?

If you want to, what’s stopping you?
July 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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mcapriglioneart.bsky.social
soooo I've maxed out my credit card prepping for conventions this year and I'm super broke.

If you want to help me out, pls check out my online shop! I have over 150 items listed, including funny cat stickers, cute art prints, and stationery💖

Pls help support a queer artist💖

💖 mcapriglione.art 💖
June 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
katlo91.bsky.social
Propaganda I am falling for: when LinkedIn tells me people are looking at my profile.
June 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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tranniehathaway.bsky.social
The Rush to Archive America’s Diversity Programs:
How an Alabama-based nonprofit- Invisible Histories- and its team of volunteers is preserving decades of digital history
oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/the-r...
To help protect existing collections from comparable forms of suppression, Invisible Histories launched an emergency loan program earlier this year. If any library archive holds LGBTQ+ or adjacent collections that are at risk of being censored, destroyed, or deaccessioned, the organization will keep the materials until it is safe to send them back to their original institution. One university professor and researcher, who spoke with the Oxford American on the condition of anonymity, has been working on a years-long oral history project that documents decades of LGBTQ+ life in her small Southern community. Initially, she worked with her university’s archive to store materials from the project. Recently, though, she began donating her work to Invisible Histories because she believes her research will be best preserved by an archive that does not receive government funding. Public universities and libraries, she said, “can only ensure the safety of our material so far. When you’re dependent on federal and state funding, then you have to comply.” (To date, the university maintains control over the material the professor donated prior to her decision to work with Invisible Histories.) Processing a single collection is a methodical and time-consuming exercise, which is not a problem for archivists under usual circumstances. But Invisible Histories is no longer operating under usual circumstances. Rather, the organization has found itself performing the kind of rapid response collecting often associated with historic moments of crisis, when archivists actively seek out and preserve for posterity the ephemera that reflects the time. (During the early days of COVID, archivists practiced rapid response collecting.) Invisible Histories has even created guides for documenting protests to aid volunteers who want to engage in contemporaneous record-keeping. In this way, Burford and Sullivan are not just preserving the legacies of diversity programs; they’re also preserving a contemporary landscape of anti-DEI policies and a widespread acceptance of those policies by the nation’s universities. “There’s a huge, huge problem at our institutions,” Sullivan said. “We can’t pretend like they’re victims. They’re not victims, they’re enablers.” Oftentimes, she said, university systems are “the number one economic engine in a state, and [they’re] just rolling over like [they] have no power Sullivan and Burford have stepped into new territory. “We have had to start collecting things that are quite a bit outside of our scope,” Sullivan said. “We’re calling it queer adjacent.” In the weeks since that first hackathon, Invisible Histories has expanded from a repository for southern LGBTQ+ history to a safe haven for materials from any closing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility office in the country. The nonprofit organization purchased a fifty-terabyte server to store and backup digital materials and began hosting additional hackathons focused on DEI office closures. So far, volunteers have helped preserve roughly twelve hundred websites, downloading close to three thousand photos, flyers, and images before they could be wiped from institutional memories. Amid uncertainty about funding streams for research grants, Invisible Histories is also backing up federally funded research.
April 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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karlbode.com
any mass media platform where center-right, pro-business politics isn't the dominant paradigm is inevitably going to be maligned in this way by wealthy and powerful people trying to dictate the contours of acceptable discourse

they've been playing this game (quite successfully) for a generation
ernie.tedium.co Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · Jun 13
The problems with Bluesky are true with every other platform. It's not that it's a bubble, though. It's that people feel a desire to protect a place they like.

I don't agree with Cuban here but I think we need to come up with ways to not let this become its story.

fortune.com/2025/06/12/b...
Bluesky is backfiring. Mark Cuban says the 'lack of diversity of thought' is actually pushing users back to X
The billionaire argues Bluesky’s liberal-heavy user base creates an echo chamber.
fortune.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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nashishereforit.bsky.social
At least we have this to look forward to…
May 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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jmcelroy.bsky.social
happy 65th birthday to british columbia's second favourite roadside attraction but first favourite burly giant log man

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Happy birthday, Mr. PG! Prince George's lumbering mascot turns 65 | CBC News
Prince George, B.C.'s wooden mascot made his debut on May 8, 1960. The beloved icon has taken many forms through the years; he's been made of wood, fibreglass, metal, even a phone booth (Mr. PG Junior...
www.cbc.ca
May 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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apihtawikosisan.bsky.social
On this Red Dress Day, I'd like to ask if you've read the final report of the National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls report? If not, today is a good day to start.

www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/
Final Report | MMIWG
www.mmiwg-ffada.ca
May 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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kellyblack.ca
'Do Archives Matter?'

My latest Left Coast Dispatch: buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #yyj #BChist #CdnHist #BCpoli #archives
Do Archives Matter?
There has been much talk lately of defending BC and Canada. Canadian flags are flying in apartment windows and on lawns. There’s a giant maple leaf pinned to...
buttondown.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
katlo91.bsky.social
Mr. PG has some competition in Prince Rupert. Mr. PR?
April 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.

Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
mississippitoday.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
katlo91.bsky.social
People who wanna ban books in the public library always say they don't want their child to find a book on sex or LGBTQ+ folks. Unfortunately, they are more likely to be exposed to James Patterson.
March 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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thetyee.ca
In February, the population of Prince Rupert swells for one of the largest basketball tournaments — and among the biggest Indigenous cultural events — in B.C.

thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
At the All Native Basketball Tournament, Stoking Friendship and Pride | The Tyee
Held in Prince Rupert, the games bring together relatives and relations separated by colonial borders.
thetyee.ca
February 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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gerrycanavan.bsky.social
famously, the heroes of Office Space
February 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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apihtawikosisan.bsky.social
If anyone has any leads on funding for creating a free, online Indigenous language course lemme know. Just the money, I got the rest.
February 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
katlo91.bsky.social
That NFL Superbowl commercial with Brad Pitt was the most obvious propaganda I think I've seen.
February 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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ladyhistorian.bsky.social
Historians are really extra not okay right now
February 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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daniellie.bsky.social
I just want a 90s Barbie coloring book and a fresh box of Crayolas.
January 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM
katlo91.bsky.social
I know there are more pressing matters at hand but I logged into my school email where I'm on maternitu leave from a graduate program ONLY TO FIND OUT I was still enrolled in one course that started weeks ago.

I know it can be resolved but this is a nightmare scenario for my anxiety disorder.
January 21, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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larryneufeldsk.bsky.social
As Living Costs Rise, Good Publicm Transit Can Help #transit #Canada #transportation #netzero thetyee.ca/News/2025/01...
As Living Costs Rise, Good Public Transit Can Help | The Tyee
It’s a way governments can help people save. So why is Alberta putting the brakes on a key light-rail project?
thetyee.ca
January 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
katlo91.bsky.social
I have a general rule that I don't listen to opinions from people whose adult children don't speak to them.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 16
sure, why not
January 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM