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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻

@emgeekay.bsky.social

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Retired archivist, librarian, linguist, feminist, reader, mom, grandma, pacifist, socialist, supporter of trade unions, the welfare state, and Amnesty International. I like digital preservation and old photographs. Banner: painting by Andrew Nicholl.

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 34m

This is why archives need funding support. There is knowledge in analogue media that we are racing against time to preserve.

#digipres #archives #library #DigitalPreservation 📚

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A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 48m

“Why is academia bending over and folding on our basic principles in such a blatant way…. “It’s a violation of the first amendment in such a blatant way that nobody should have obeyed it. But instead, there is this climate of fear.”

Charlie Kirk embodied hate.

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US professors facing threats, firings and harassment over Charlie Kirk posts

As many as 40 academics have been dismissed in aftermath of shooting, allegedly without due process

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 55m

This is such a moving story. I remember that strong connection when my baby was born and how I always knew when she was hungry and wanted to nurse. That physical connection is powerful.

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Brain damaged mum Rachel Harry walks again after childbirth injury

The bond between a mum and her baby helps her on the long road back from a terrible brain injury giving birth.

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 58m

I agree with Kate. Look up from your screens because you’re missing your children’s childhoods.

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Kate warns too much screen time damages family life

The Princess of Wales says that smartphones and digital devices are causing an "epidemic of disconnection".

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you. You are one of the best MPs we’ve ever had.

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 1d

Striking and collective bargaining are protected by our Constitution. They are not optional, they are fundamental parts of a democratic society.

Through my #BillC247 I and the @ndp.ca are putting power back where it belongs: with the workers. #UnionStrong

MP Leah Gazan stands alongside labour leaders and NDP interim leader Don Davies presenting her Bill C-247 to remove Section 107 from the Canada Labour Code.

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Larsen Erik @larsenerik.bsky.social · 1h

Most especially when you can manipulate and monitor mass resources and usage!

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1h

That also, absolutely.

Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1h

When media fails to do their job, it supports authoritarian regimes. I’m with the Pope on this one.

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You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 13h

This company has mushroom farms in Ontario and Washington. Boycott them!

United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 1d

Do you buy mushrooms? Windmill farm workers are calling on you to sign and share the #BoycottWindmillMushrooms petition: act.seiu.org/a/windmill_i...

Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1h

The frog in Portland's war zone! 🐸

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johnfracisco.bsky.social @johnfracisco.bsky.social · 7h

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Outside the Portland ICE facility amid ongoing protests and the legal battle over the deployment

YouTube video by KATU News

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 12h

Also he already tried to murder everyone in Congress.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 12h

He has been kidnapping people, throwing them into concentration camps, a bunch of random people are getting shot and he’s also been murdering random people in the Carribean but sure, this indictment is what truly scares me.

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1h

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, that's a shame.

Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1h

lolz🐸

Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1h

Awesome! Thank you.

Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, likely not on the outside casing itself.

Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1h

You too, Jean! 😍

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1h

You can do anything you want when you lie to people and suppress data like the US regime.

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1h

I almost feel like I'm there!

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t know when delivery will be back to normal. Is there a reason you didn’t get it through the courier?

Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 10h

Love it!

Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 10h

So clever!

Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you!