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Stacey Wedlake
@staceyaw.bsky.social
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Digital equity, info & society researcher UW (Seattle) iSchool | UAW 4121 | tweets don't represent employer | MPA / MLIS | Formerly TX, CO, Mongolia | she/her | adoptee
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Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is.
Photo from a display from the National Museum of American History. On display is a collection of items from kids’ shows including Mr. Roger’s’ sweater and shoes and muppets Oscar the Grouch, Elmo, and Rosita. The bottom left is the text, “How does it make you feel” and “¿como te hace sentir?”
August 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Here are just a few of the IMLS grants cancelled by DOGE today. I’m sorry for everyone involved in a grant that got illegally terminated today.
Screen capture of a tweet from DOGE X account: “ Good work by @US_IMLS @Sonderling47 cancelling $25M in wasteful DEI grants for $15M in savings, including: -$265K for Queens College in New York to research “why BIPOC teens” read Japanese comic books -$250K to erect “LGBTQ+ historical markers” across Ohio -$140K for the University of South Carolina to create “safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals” in libraries -$400K for the University of Tennessee to study “LGBTQ+ library users’ metadata” -$105K to California Association of Museums to address “systemic racism” in museums -$6.7M for the California State Library to “enhance equitable library programs” -$1.5M to Connecticut State Library system to “integrate social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion” into their daily work”
April 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Today’s print copy of the New York Times. Causal news consumers live in a different universe.

Elon’s access to the Treasury Payments system doesn’t appear until page 18.
Front page of Feb 2nd New York Times. Top headline reads, “ TRADE WAR LOOMS AS TRUMP IMPOSES ROUND OF TARIFFS.” Large photo of Congolese with bags and looking solemn and determined. Caption reads “Life after a Rebel Takeover.” Underneath the photo are two more headlines: “Trump’s Recall of Foreign Aid Worsens Crises” and “Beyond Chaos of Freeze, a Bipartisan Thorn. A Shared Goal to Cut Spending. But How?”
February 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Sending cozy vibes to all
A roaring fire inside a tile fireplace behind a black grate. A tuxedo cat lounges on a white throw pillow laying on a hardwood floor.
November 6, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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This might be my favorite one so far.

Saw this posted on @theneedling.bsky.social insta, and I was able to reproduce it.
A screen capture of “my Rainer eruption prediction” Google search. “According to Washington State geologists, Mount Rainier is unlikely to erupt during peoples lifetime with a possible exception of the very end.” Underneath is a link to the satire site, “The Needling.”
May 24, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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I’m in Dallas for a Digital Inclusion Research Forum.

DFW doesn’t really make it easy to take the train into town, but I worked with a group of strangers and we managed to make it.

And I was greeted by a County of Dallas poster for ACP sign ups.
Photo of inside a city train. There’s a poster that reads “Bring the Internet Home Lleva el internet a casa”
October 11, 2023 at 9:01 PM
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I’m a week late, but I enjoyed @kashhill.bsky.social hosted by UW’s Tech Policy Lab last week.

I appreciated the takeaway of the importance of state law and regulations to control the dystopia. (True for many policy areas!)
A woman wearing a hot pink shirt holding a microphone standing in front of a larger screen with the text, “Your Face Belongs to Us” and “A Clearview Caper” and “Kashmir Hill”
October 11, 2023 at 2:26 PM