Michelle Watson
@michwatsonoz.bsky.social
Archivist. Community historian. Genealogist. Stockton, NSW during WW1. MIM - family history researchers as an uni archives user group. Digital Humanities. LOD. (she/her) - https://www.michellewatson.org - Worimi Country
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Michelle Watson
@michwatsonoz.bsky.social
· Sep 12
After two years of work, the @stocktonhistsoc.bsky.social Online Archive is now live. I hope it can act as a model for small heritage and #GLAM groups to make their collections more accessable and create backups of unique cultural materials. Cost $100AUD p/a #GenHour
stockton.omeka.net
stockton.omeka.net
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Something special to share. I’ve been up to my old tricks again – scanning, restoring, and researching a collection of over 600 Edwardian-era glass slides that were found in an attic.
I've connected them to Birmingham schoolmaster and amateur photographer Charles Francis Hayward.
I've connected them to Birmingham schoolmaster and amateur photographer Charles Francis Hayward.
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Something special to share. I’ve been up to my old tricks again – scanning, restoring, and researching a collection of over 600 Edwardian-era glass slides that were found in an attic.
I've connected them to Birmingham schoolmaster and amateur photographer Charles Francis Hayward.
I've connected them to Birmingham schoolmaster and amateur photographer Charles Francis Hayward.
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'[T]here is evidence that items may have been acquired in the aftermath of ‘dispersals’ – the common euphemism used to downplay punitive actions often resulting in the indiscriminate killing of Indigenous Australians.'
#history #academic #research
#history #academic #research
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
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‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.
Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...
www.csmonitor.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
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"By its own definition, the alt-right is no more. Because it’s no longer an alternative to the right. It is the right." From the archives:
The Alt-Right Is Now the Entire Right
The voices of reason, reality, and responsibility are a cowering minority in the Republican party.
www.thebulwark.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
"By its own definition, the alt-right is no more. Because it’s no longer an alternative to the right. It is the right." From the archives:
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Question: does anybody know of good scholarship on the history of Liberia’s diplomacy/consular network, esp late 19th century?
I’ve returned to some research I did in 2021 for my chapter in Australia on the World Stage: foreign powers with consuls in Aus/NZ. I’m intrigued how Liberian consuls…
I’ve returned to some research I did in 2021 for my chapter in Australia on the World Stage: foreign powers with consuls in Aus/NZ. I’m intrigued how Liberian consuls…
November 15, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Question: does anybody know of good scholarship on the history of Liberia’s diplomacy/consular network, esp late 19th century?
I’ve returned to some research I did in 2021 for my chapter in Australia on the World Stage: foreign powers with consuls in Aus/NZ. I’m intrigued how Liberian consuls…
I’ve returned to some research I did in 2021 for my chapter in Australia on the World Stage: foreign powers with consuls in Aus/NZ. I’m intrigued how Liberian consuls…
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After their homecoming Fed Square gig was cancelled over security fears, Amyl and the Sniffers put $5,000 behind the bar at seven live music venues around Melbourne.
'Wild' night in city as band shouts $35k in free drinks after gig cancelled
After their homecoming Fed Square gig was cancelled over security fears, Amyl and the Sniffers put $5,000 behind the bar at seven live music venues around Melbourne.
www.abc.net.au
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
After their homecoming Fed Square gig was cancelled over security fears, Amyl and the Sniffers put $5,000 behind the bar at seven live music venues around Melbourne.
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"Epstein is distinct because he's actually for once acting guilty and shamefaced," @davidfrum.bsky.social says of Trump. "And that has led, I think a lot of people think, this must be really horrible. If all the other things he did, he doesn't cover up; what happened here?"
November 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"Epstein is distinct because he's actually for once acting guilty and shamefaced," @davidfrum.bsky.social says of Trump. "And that has led, I think a lot of people think, this must be really horrible. If all the other things he did, he doesn't cover up; what happened here?"
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Several years ago, we put a whole bunch of data from a project into Wikidata. Now, as a result, some people who we had no more info for aside from a name or could not disambiguate are actually identifiable. LOD FTW.
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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this was for a colorado measure guaranteeing universal free lunch for kids. funny how a short two-column table can say so much in so little space.
This is how it looked on the ballot.
Clear and easy to understand.
Clear and easy to understand.
November 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
this was for a colorado measure guaranteeing universal free lunch for kids. funny how a short two-column table can say so much in so little space.
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It would mean a lot to me personally if you would participate in this boycott. A few posts down is a link where you can register to receive updates such as when the consumer boycott is over.
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
It would mean a lot to me personally if you would participate in this boycott. A few posts down is a link where you can register to receive updates such as when the consumer boycott is over.
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just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car
he was married at the time
he was married at the time
"All they could do to distract from the Schumer shutdown cover-up is leak Epstein emails ... What a sleazy leak."
Jesse Watters attacks Democrats for releasing Epstein emails
www.mediamatters.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car
he was married at the time
he was married at the time
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Two centuries before the Trail of Tears, English colonists drove Maryland's Indigenous tribes from their land. The Piscataway Nation wants people to know their story. "We're still here," says tribe member Gabrielle Tayac. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
We’re Still Here: The Still-Evolving Story of the Piscataway Nation
Two centuries before the Trail of Tears, English colonists drove Maryland’s Indigenous tribes from their land. Piscataway descendants want people to know their history.
www.baltimoremagazine.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Two centuries before the Trail of Tears, English colonists drove Maryland's Indigenous tribes from their land. The Piscataway Nation wants people to know their story. "We're still here," says tribe member Gabrielle Tayac. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
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At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
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Governments have been crying poor to justify & conceal their priorities for decades…now some of our publicly owned universities are using the same neoliberal accounting tricks to claim they are in ‘crisis’ when they are hoarding records amounts of cash and shares
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Governments and universities alike have perfected the art of crying poor to conceal wealth
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
October 31, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Governments have been crying poor to justify & conceal their priorities for decades…now some of our publicly owned universities are using the same neoliberal accounting tricks to claim they are in ‘crisis’ when they are hoarding records amounts of cash and shares
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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(8) Reconstructing events in time and space. Convenors: Yu Lee An and Ryan Shaw, University of North Carolina. Sign up via: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The activity will create a repository and web page under the Distributed Knowledge Graph Lab Github Organization: github.com/dkglab
The activity will create a repository and web page under the Distributed Knowledge Graph Lab Github Organization: github.com/dkglab
Reconstructing Events in Time and Space Linked Pasts Symposium 2025
Event Timing: December 1-12, 2025 (time slot TBD)
Convenors: Yu Lee An and Ryan Shaw, SILS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
docs.google.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
(8) Reconstructing events in time and space. Convenors: Yu Lee An and Ryan Shaw, University of North Carolina. Sign up via: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The activity will create a repository and web page under the Distributed Knowledge Graph Lab Github Organization: github.com/dkglab
The activity will create a repository and web page under the Distributed Knowledge Graph Lab Github Organization: github.com/dkglab
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(3) Enriching digital heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data, convened by Gethin Rees, Elton Barker, Sarah Middle, Anna-Maria Sichani, Mia Ridge. Working on the Cultural Heritage AI Cookbook. Sign up at forms.gle/DErqFUuY2Vn7...
Enriching digital heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data, Linked Pasts 2025
Combining Large Language Models (LLMs) with Linked Open Data (LOD) offers great potential to make cultural heritage metadata FAIR. The proposed activity will bring together specialists from cultural h...
forms.gle
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
(3) Enriching digital heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data, convened by Gethin Rees, Elton Barker, Sarah Middle, Anna-Maria Sichani, Mia Ridge. Working on the Cultural Heritage AI Cookbook. Sign up at forms.gle/DErqFUuY2Vn7...
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Linked Pasts 11 is an online and asynchronous symposium for discussion and practice around linked open data for the historical world, especially place, people, time, objects and texts.
Rather than coming to listen to speakers, participants are expected to build, plan, discuss and learn about LOD.
Rather than coming to listen to speakers, participants are expected to build, plan, discuss and learn about LOD.
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Linked Pasts 11 is an online and asynchronous symposium for discussion and practice around linked open data for the historical world, especially place, people, time, objects and texts.
Rather than coming to listen to speakers, participants are expected to build, plan, discuss and learn about LOD.
Rather than coming to listen to speakers, participants are expected to build, plan, discuss and learn about LOD.
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The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
Does anyone know if State Library of NSW has IIIF support?
November 13, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Does anyone know if State Library of NSW has IIIF support?
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Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
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Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app