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Amanda Garfunkel
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Archivist. Reader. Cat enthusiast. Melancholy vibes. Lurker. New York
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Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · 1d
Can’t decide if missing every single product placement in Nobody Wants This S2 means I’m an advertiser’s dream or nightmare demographic
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Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · 2d
Ugh I know you do. We’re being so brave 😭
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Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · 2d
Love being super embarrassed about my larger institution on the Friday of a week where they’ve failed to help the archives during an environmental issue
a cat laying on a couch with a remote control
Alt: a cat laying on a couch with a remote control
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Jake i 🇵🇸 ✡️ (alt Space Laser Command) @jakei.bsky.social · 5d
Okay, I've seen enough.

Not election night related, just been a long year and I have seen way too many things
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 15d
If That’s a donation, it goes to the treasury and only congress can decide how to spend it. No such (lawful) thing as private payment of government obligation.

Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
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it's gita time @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 17d
you can get a book at the library for free
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 21d
Gemini: Wrestling with your demons is usually a metaphor for boring things like developing effective coping strategies and discipline. Not today though. Today Satan is going to hit you with a folding chair.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21d
Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre
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Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · 22d
Holy shit
histoftech.bsky.social Gales of November ReMar-mbered @histoftech.bsky.social · 22d
This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it.

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PROFESSORS RESPONSE @lia #anatomy #ai #fyp #chatgpt #anatomyandphysiology
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Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · 25d
Settling and coming out of her shell
A cat sits on a cat tower in front of a window and looks at the camera A young tortie/tabby cat lays on her side and looks upside down at the camera A small tortie/tabby cat on a carpet and looks at the camera
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Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · 29d
We’re getting movement 😻
A dilute tortie cat pokes her head out from underneath a bed. There is a full bowl of dry food in front of her.
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Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · Oct 10
She’s here!!! But super shy so may be a few days before she starts to come out 🥹
agrfnkl.bsky.social Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · Sep 22
My adoption application for a new cat got approved - prepare for cat pics once I’m able to bring her home!
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Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · Oct 9
I’m so sorry for your loss. It’s so tough 😭
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Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · Oct 7
Ya’ll need to stop giving air to this human Q-tip
kenklippenstein.bsky.social Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Oct 6
Stephen Miller: "ICE officers have to street battle against Antifa, hand to hand combat every night."
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Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · Oct 4
Adopting from a rescue in NYC is what will start my villain era…
agrfnkl.bsky.social Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · Sep 22
My adoption application for a new cat got approved - prepare for cat pics once I’m able to bring her home!
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Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · Oct 3
Things no one talks about 😅
thelabandfield.bsky.social Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · Oct 3
Whether acknowledged publicly or not, every collection has these stories (the missing X, the Y returned decades later).

Every.
Collection.
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Jordan Fischer @jordanonrecord.bsky.social · Oct 1
It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Sep 29
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · Sep 27
checks and balances? in this economy?
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Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · Sep 27
Another banger from Ologies
ologies.bsky.social Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social · Sep 25
Y'ALL LIKE REVOLUTIONS?

Storming the Bastille. Facing off with tanks. Canceling a streaming subscription.

Here's a breakdown of why they happen -- and how -- with the world's foremost expert in revolutions and social change. (And yes there are tips.)

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Revolutionology (REBELLIONS & SOCIAL CHANGE) with Dr. Jack Goldstone — alie ward
Storming the Bastille. Facing off with tanks. Canceling a streaming subscription.  We’re talking protests, boycotts, insurrections, and demonstrations. Scholar, professor, and actual real life R...
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · Sep 27
$14 million dollars allocated to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) was pushed through to the America 250 team to fund "Freedom Trucks"–propaganda telling a whitewashed version of history.

What's happening at IMLS is beyond budgetary concerns.

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The IMLS's Freedom Trucks Project Is Propaganda in Support of Historical Erasure: Book Censorship News, September 12, 2025
This week, the IMLS announced their Freedom Trucks initiative. It is blatant propaganda.
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Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · Sep 24
Am I experiencing “reviewer #2” or should I just never publish again? 🙃
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Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · Sep 24
Also “you must save everything because you’re an archivist!” I would throw things out in front of them out of spite
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Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · Sep 22
My adoption application for a new cat got approved - prepare for cat pics once I’m able to bring her home!
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Amanda Garfunkel @agrfnkl.bsky.social · Sep 21
My favorite thing about visiting museums in Athens is the information placards listing where missing pieces are housed or where items were repatriated from - we love a good homecoming story
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