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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS

@mkramer.bsky.social

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engagement + crowdsourcing products, ProPublica; librarian, journalist, hyperlocal information ecosystems, public(s) and participation, digital archives, dogs, civic joy, mom, mummer, board games, philly, carrboro north carolina 🌈 melodykramer.github.io

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · Nov 9

Intro: Hello! I’m a librarian and journalist who has also spent time with demographers, Wikipedia, and 18F. I care about hyperlocal information ecosystems, new models of information sharing, the South, digital archiving practices, hound dogs, and walking in the woods without headphones.

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 27m

hour one

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i have five hours, three new yorkers, and one book. (also: two children currently quietly playing together but who knows what the future brings)

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 1h

Five years after it was published, I still think about this @highcountrynews.org project that connects land-grant universities back to the land they were granted, what tribe owned it immediately prior, how much it was worth then, and how much it’s worth now. A complete reframe of land grants.

Land-grab universities - High Country News

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

www.hcn.org

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 51m

I think maybe even less!

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caramelizing 8 pounds of onions

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2h

The place where the first report of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in a cohort of gay men revealed the disease that came to be called AIDS

Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 2h

They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2h

I spent five years working alongside demographers and population researchers before joining @propublica.org - info below on how to reach us.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 20h

Federal workers: If you were impacted by the Trump administration's just-announced mass layoffs, our reporters are here to listen.

We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your privacy seriously.

Here's how to get in touch securely 👇

How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica

Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.

propublica.org

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 4h

children have requested to listen to hype album on the 4 minute drive to the fields.

Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 4h

8:15 carrboro rec league little league game

a man in a suit and tie is standing at a podium and saying way too early for that .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing at a podium and saying way too early for that .

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 15h

seems like there’s a lot of good card and dice games on that channel. good for an upcoming rainy weekend!

Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 15h

goofballs and i learned a new card game called collapsi which is great because it involves a deck of cards and two other objects and that’s it youtu.be/6vYEHdjlw3g?...

How to Play Collapsi: NEW two player abstract game with playing cards!

YouTube video by Riffle Shuffle & Roll

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 15h

It’s been a week. If you know someone who would benefit from this information, please share widely.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 20h

How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica

Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.

propublica.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h

The forever chemical PFNA is so hazardous that the EPA struck an agreement with 8 companies to phase it out nearly two decades ago.

Now an EPA report on its harms sits in limbo, and the Trump administration won’t say when it will be released.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

www.propublica.org

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Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · 19h

Last year a @merrillcollege.bsky.social grad student told me she wanted to build a news app about evictions in DC. Given the schedule and amount of work, it was an ambitious project.

Taylor Nichols not only did it but got it published by a DC news org!

streetsensedc.github.io/evictions-ap...

Mapping evictions in Washington, D.C.

streetsensedc.github.io

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 1d

taking my goofballs on a field trip this weekend to see the world’s oldest long leaf pine tree

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. has been accused of nearly 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

The state COULD have fined the company more than $3M...

BUT

Regulators are only seeking a penalty of $242,800.

By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social and Dayvid Figler

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

www.propublica.org

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t know about your post but it was very accurate!

Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 1d

tagging @jesszimmerman.com because this is very funny to me

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

wow that is eerily exactly what happened

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Jeremy Markovich @ncrabbithole.com · 2d

bill belichick has lost the blog blog

Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 2d

We considered some options for Bill Belichick if he loses his job. (this consideration involved photoshops)

triangleblogblog.com/2025/10/09/w...

satirical image of Belichick holding a promotional sign at the corner of Franklin and Columbia Streets hawking coleslaw and hot wings

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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 2d

We considered some options for Bill Belichick if he loses his job. (this consideration involved photoshops)

triangleblogblog.com/2025/10/09/w...

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

I have spent 20 years working and writing online, and this is my most popular post. It’s turtles all the way down. 🤣🤣

Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

there’s a tiny turtle in my yard!

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

I had TikTok for a short period of time and wasn’t sure how to find decent videos so I went to four people’s profiles I admire and just watched all of the videos they liked. It was actually a very good way to be served excellent content.

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

next up: bridge to terabithia.

just going to wallow.

a cartoon of patrick star with tears running down his face

ALT: a cartoon of patrick star with tears running down his face

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

tuck everlasting destroyed me tonight at bedtime reading.

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