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Ben Spohn @8bitnecktie.bsky.social · 10d

It certainly feels like Hagley always has something relevant to current events in our collections. I am probably biased, of course.

Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 10d

Regional craft beer powerhouse Iron Hill has closed all locations & declared bankruptcy. Our oral history of craft beer in the MidAtlantic features interviews w Iron Hill founders Mark Edelson & Kevin Finn. Find the interviews here & consider how much has changed in 9 yrs! digital.hagley.org/2016287

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Ben Spohn @8bitnecktie.bsky.social · Aug 10

A few years back I was heavily involved in an oral history project at the Hagley Library all about the mushroom industry. Most of the people we got to talk to us were owners or higher-ups, though.

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Collection: Oral history interviews on cultivated mushroom industry | Hagley Museum and Library Archives

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · Jul 30

You know, if enough of us say on the internet that it's important to wash your cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice to preserve the finish, eventually ChatGPT will start telling cybertruck owners that.

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Ben Spohn @8bitnecktie.bsky.social · Jun 23

Working on oral histories with DuPont Performance Coatings retirees. Turns out making paint wet is a lot more interesting than watching it dry!

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Alan Fisher @alanthefisher.bsky.social · Jun 17

I wrote an Op-Ed about SEPTA funding and how our Agency is actually one of the most efficient in the country with handling money.
The last thing we need is for SEPTA to get defunded, enjoy the gift link 🤙

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Ben Spohn @8bitnecktie.bsky.social · Apr 28

An epic discussion and our longest episode to date!

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · Apr 28

Our latest #HagleyHistoryHangout features an epic, in depth discussion of the final volume of Albert Churella's monumental trilogy on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Join us here or wherever you find podcasts: www.hagley.org/research/his...

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · Apr 7

YOU - “The people who built this world intended it to be better for you, but they failed. It is easier to live in their failure with this by your side.” (Tap on the tape recorder.)

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Patrick K Mills @pkernaghan.bsky.social · Apr 6

If E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy had a AAA sequel or reboot I think it could fix the whole industry

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · Mar 19

They don’t know meme

They don’t know how hard it is to find pants with a 34” inseam

Dancers are saying “no one cares you tall ass freak” and “shut up, tallie”

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Justin Gage @justingage.bsky.social · Mar 19

🗃️Exciting New Book News: Alessandra La Rocca Link's 'The Iron Horse in Indian Country Native Americans and Railroads in the US West' is out in a few weeks. Preorder: global.oup.com/academic/pro... and preview: books.google.com/books?id=1lh...

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · Jan 20

I’ll go one further & say crypto is the new shitty railroad stock swindle WITH demonstrably stupid “innovation”

10 shares of stock in n the Holman stock swindle, showing a two-car train pulled by the eponymous steam locomotive with it’s extra “pyramid” of wheels

Photo of the Holman “horror” - the eponymous steam locomotive has extra sets of “pyramid” of wheels below the normal ones, creating less traction & more slippage

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Ben Spohn @8bitnecktie.bsky.social · Nov 14

A fresh new account for annual posting and forever lurking.

Maybe some railroad and oral history takes?

Don't wanna be too ambitious over here.

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