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Michelle Watson
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Archivist. Community historian. Genealogist. Stockton, NSW during WW1. MIM - family history researchers as an uni archives user group. Digital Humanities. LOD. (she/her) - https://www.michellewatson.org - Worimi Country
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After two years of work, the @stocktonhistsoc.bsky.social Online Archive is now live. I hope it can act as a model for small heritage and #GLAM groups to make their collections more accessable and create backups of unique cultural materials. Cost $100AUD p/a #GenHour

stockton.omeka.net
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If there’s one room in America that you absolutely know you’re about to enter it’s, it would be the Oval Office.

Were tourists wandering in? Was Door Dash getting confused? Was Trump having a hard time re … ooohhh.
New sign outside the Oval Office..
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📣 New #OpenAccess article available on #FirstView

📃 @kimberleynyc.bsky.social, 'Indexing Negro main streets: Black business directories and the development of urban spaces'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
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What historians see when people claim AI is solving mysteries that have baffled historians for years.
just....enjoy this
Not only a funding issue. Even when offers of help are made some projects are unwilling to make their data available or transfer custodianship of online projects for long term archiving. End of life really needs to be added to ethics approvals and project plans.
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we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate
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is that...
...is that one sheet of A4 and two sheets of legal printer paper scotch taped to the outside of the WH?
New sign outside the Oval Office..
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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For the remarkable number of folks in excellent law firms, corporate suites, non-legal academia who still aren't really sure "where we are" country-wise, I'm just not sure how much clearer he can be. Countries in which opponents of the government can "never obtain power" are not democracies.
Trump: "They're gonna make DC a state and they're gonna make Puerto Rico a state. So now they pick up two states, four senators. They're gonna pick up electoral votes. It's gonna be a very, very bad situation. Now, if we do what I'm saying, they'll most likely never obtain power."
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Democratic leaders should not rely on litigating their way out of this. Take action now. Arrest these guys. Throw them in jail.

Make *Republicans* file the lawsuits. Make *THEM* argue before a judge or jury why they were justified in kidnapping a preschool teacher in front of her children.
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Save this for the next time some Terf decides to speak on behalf of all cisgender women. And the next, and the next because they don’t love facts.
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Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
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“Quick, we need interviews with property investors, banks, real estate agents, landlords and young people with rich parents who are buying them a house.” chaser.com.au/general-news...
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I’m told almost daily that if I softened my messaging more folks would support me

It’s not the messaging that’s the problem

It’s what we’re saying

Ableism is everywhere & many people want disabled folks to disappear. They don’t want us taking up space.

So we’ll take up more!
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"The Australian Wars" (2025) The history of over 150 years of battles, massacres and guerilla warfare as Indigenous nations resisted colonial invasion and occupation of their lands. Editors: Rachel Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray & Henry Reynolds. HB 4Nov2025. 416p. #Australia #history #BookSky
When Florida cops thinking u r being dodgy af 👀
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Deaf and Deaf-adjacent folks, I need some help.

I have a student who needs to hire a writing coach that specialises in helping folks who are primarily ASL speakers write in English. Where do I look to find one who is able to assist with dissertation-level academic writing? Does anyone know someone?
A burn test is your best bet to get fibre content.
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One day these companies will learn…

Deleting incriminating evidence out of the blue is evidence tampering,

but deleting incriminating evidence on a periodic basis (w/o a hold) is a perfectly legal retention policy.
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