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silver weighted sun ~ FatT & tøp stan ~ archivist in training ~ posting from LHS 1140 b ~ they/them ~ icon by @pinlakes on tumblr
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cosmos24368.bsky.social
Flower mechs
November 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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notalegalrecord.net
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.

Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.

This is great news. 📚
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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v21.bsky.social
appreciate this article breaking down a taxonomy of knowledge games (also, unfortunately, known as metroidbrainias)

azhdarchid.com/against-metr...
Against 'Metroidbrania': a Landscape of Knowledge Games
What are knowledge games? How do we relate them to each other? What sub-genres exist – and which ones might be implied?
azhdarchid.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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annethegnome.bsky.social
Here is the first draft to my brief guide to the digital preservation of Actual Play, from a digital archives perspective, targetted at AP producers.

allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/posts/2025-1...

I say "brief guide" but, you know, I'm me.
October 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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moomanibe.bsky.social
reading about this man and my scream rising to a higher and higher pitch
Ethan Evans went from being fired twice for poor soft skills to becoming a Vice President at Amazon, leading a team of over 800 engineers. Former Amazon VP Ethan Evans revealed that a CEO he worked for seduced his wife in retaliation for professional disagreements, resulting in his divorce and departure from the company. After the crisis Lesson 4: Own the problem My direct report volunteered to take the fall. The engineer who wrote some of the code did the same. My manager also sought to take overall responsibility. Ultimately, Bezos knew it was my team and code, meaning I had to own the problem. Amazon has a process called COE (correction of errors), which involves a written investigation of a problem's root causes and a plan to prevent similar problems. I wrote this report and was asked to share it with all my peers in the organization. Publicly sharing an analysis of our mistakes was embarrassing, but doing a good job of it helped me reestablish trust in my leadership ability. The week after the launch, I was scheduled to attend a meeting with Bezos about another project. I considered skipping it, but I decided that if I couldn't face Bezos, I should probably pack my desk and find a new place to work.
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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themerl.bsky.social
AWS is down, post hog
A painting of a very large hog.
October 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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treelet.bsky.social
Sacred Objects I & II 🏺🪑
A line ink color drawing over several objects arranged in neat rows. The objects are all colored in earth tones of yellow, brown, and green and feature statues, baskets, pottery, shadow puppets, and teaware. A digital watercolor drawing of several objects arranged in neat rows. The objects are all colored in earth tones of yellow, brown, and green and feature statues, a potted plant, ginkgo leaves, a carved snake atop a human skull, pottery, a gold coin, masks, and teaware, etc.
August 17, 2023 at 10:51 PM
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alyazabirze.bsky.social
it is funny when someone accidentally invents Cohost from first principles, because Cohost was a good idea. unfortunately it is less funny to tell then what happened to Cohost
October 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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akatopdeck.bsky.social
A screenshot of a page from the core rulebook of the tabletop RPG "Lancer". The screenshot is of a third-tier talent called "Here, catch!", describing an ability where mechs can eject superheated fuel rods as a means of attacking their enemies. Exact text follows: Here, Catch! You've modified your mech to launch its superheated fuel rods at enemies. Gain the following weapon as an integrated mount: Fuel Rod Gun Main CQB, Limited 3, Unique [Threat 3][Range 3][1d3+2 Energy damage] On Attack: Clear 4 Heat
September 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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wormmo.de
Osprey calculating fish math midair

wormmo.de/boatpost_00x...
vector line art type illustration of an osprey calculating water refraction midair in the pursuit of a fish
September 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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spookymeatball.bsky.social
Christian Girl Autumn is canceled…it’s time for Fuck Fascists Fall
September 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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kohiu.com
"Your malice, your mercy, will be the last thing I remember from this planet"
original work, 2020
August 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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hatok.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
perennialknife.bsky.social
when you find one goddamn legal size file in your collection and it fucks up the whole aesthetic 😡 #archives
rows of archival boxes, with one larger box on the bottom shelf being a lighter color than the rest
August 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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junlper.beer
the official national republican congress committee account posted this fake project 2026 agenda that democrats supposedly have and it’s so fucking funny they thought they could fool people into thinking it’s real
August 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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mattnava.bsky.social
10th anniversary Journey thread, recreated:
I was the art director of thatgamecompany's Journey. It set the course of my career and my art. I'm forever thankful to the community of players and their incredible love for the game. This is a thread comparing early dev images and how things shipped.
The intro title shot from the PS3 game Journey. This is from the finished game. The title "Journey" is displayed above a distant mountain, with the player character seeing it from atop a sand dune. The intro title shot from a work in progress version of Journey. The title's font is different, the composition is asymmetrical, and the distant mountain is not as tall as the final version. My initial sketch for the title shot for the game Journey. A simple, small line drawing featuring the player character in the foreground and the mountain in the distance.
November 23, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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everest.bsky.social
an actual gift of the internet age is how relatively easy it has become for non-wealthy people to maintain memory systems. both personal ones (photos, backups, searchable mail) and collective ones (wikis, archives, fan communities)

the glee with which that is being destroyed right now floors me
August 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
I'll say it again, as this is ramping up: if you gave access to the archives of goverment data and information, it is your moral responsibility to make sure that untouched versions get preserved, now. There are people worh archival expertise who can help you, if you don't have it yourself. Start now
davidrvetter.bsky.social Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Aug 8
The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.
US to rewrite its past national climate reports
US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.
www.france24.com
August 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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okie.gay
I found her gofundme! She's already raised 41.5k of her 45k goal for gas, vehicle maintenance, phone/internet costs (for posting the videos), food and supply drives for the community, and emergency funds in case she gets into legal trouble:
August 2, 2025 at 5:46 AM
perennialknife.bsky.social
processing an archival collection using mplp feels both like im sinning and have unlocked a superpower. straight zooming through these records, no staples can stop me
July 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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davekarpf.bsky.social
I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.
July 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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kayandskittles.bsky.social
Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
tuthanhha.bsky.social Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · Jul 26
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
July 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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nolnir.com
I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc.

F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨
Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne
More info below 👇
a digital drawing of a young character with a turquoise bow on her head. She possesses canine-like features and wears a white outfit with yellow gloves. To the right of her is text that reads "Fuck it, let's make a website!"
June 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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freegovinfo.bsky.social
awesome news. Congratulations @archive.org on being designated an FDLP library!! www.kqed.org/news/1204942...
SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED
The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.
www.kqed.org
July 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM