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Suzy the pensive shelf elf

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Library/archives conservator. Internet person. Aquarium nerd. Artist and maker of crafts. Covered in glue, surrounded by beads, and engulfed in yarn. Knox College ‘06 alum.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Sep 10

What happens to democracy when government records vanish?

James Jacobs, Jim Jacobs, & Shari Laster discuss how libraries, archivists & advocates protect public access in the latest Future Knowledge #podcast, PRESERVING GOVERNMENT INFORMATION.

🎧 Listen: futureknowledge.transistor.fm

Podcast cover for Episode #9 of "Future Knowledge" titled "Preserving Government Information." The design features portraits of the three guests—James Jacobs, Jim Jacobs & Shari Laster—arranged in a grid. Surrounding them are collage-style retro-futuristic elements, including a classical statue head, a vintage computer with the word "NEW" on its screen, a modernist observation tower, and abstract architectural shapes. The title uses bold, blocky typography, giving the cover a vintage sci-fi aesthetic.

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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · Feb 6

We are likely about to see a mass purging of archival documents and restricted access to researchers. This will be part of the regime’s effort to rewrite history itself.

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · Feb 4

Do you think when Sisyphus gets the rock to the top of the hill, before it rolls back down, a little party horn goes off? Maybe a kazoo?

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · Feb 3

Librarians aren't going to save us. Librarians aren't superheroes.

They're just people trying to keep largely underfunded and overwhelmed public services going.

Praise is nice; realistic expectations are better; material support is best.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · Jan 21

I wrote this thread last year during one of the worst periods in my life, and it helps me when the urge to worry and doomscroll for hours is particularly powerful

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · Jul 14

When things feel extra chaotic and overwhelming, here's what helps me:
-doing less
-resting more
-spending more on outsourcing tasks
-aggressive hydration
-high-protein meals
-weekly therapy
-scheduling offline activities like museums and long dog walks on weekends
-focusing on things in my control

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · Feb 1

Can we please remember that very recently South Korea showed us all what we should do when the president does illegal shit

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jan 31

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 1

Shout out to all the fuckwits who told me, two months ago, that scientists must strive to remain apolitical.

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barbisblue @barbisblue.bsky.social · Feb 1

"At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I'm 'passing the torch.' I explain that I'm keeping my torch, thank you very much - and I'm using it to

LIGHT THE TORCHES of OTHERS.

Because only if each of us has a torch will there be enough light."

-Gloria Steinem

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · Jan 30

incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · Jan 25

#BooksInThings #ManuscriptWaste

Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · Jan 24

This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern.
#upcycling

Sewing pattern for part of a shirt. It is clearly made from a dark brown manuscript page with small lettering written in two columns.

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Suzy the pensive shelf elf @queensuzy.bsky.social · Jan 24

😬 I would like to unsmell what I smelled.

Suzy the pensive shelf elf @queensuzy.bsky.social · Jan 24

Ah ha ha oh bless their heart.

Suzy the pensive shelf elf @queensuzy.bsky.social · Jan 24

Agreed! And this is coming from someone who was a big fan of those 90s era Bonne Bell lipsmackers! I’d take Dr Pepper chapstick over rancid Strawberry Daquiri chapstick any day.

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Suzy the pensive shelf elf @queensuzy.bsky.social · Jan 24

We sure did! 🤦

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밝은아침 빅터, MD @kkendd.bsky.social · Jan 24

이렇게 수정된 짤 발견! 누가 만들었나 🤣

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Jan 24

this genuinely, without exaggeration, healed a little fracture inside of me that has been broken my whole adult life

LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · Jan 24

DID YOU KNOW for 25 years Matthew Shepard had no permanent resting place due to concerns his grave would be vandalized

Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral.

www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep...

She was and is a real hero.

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Suzy the pensive shelf elf @queensuzy.bsky.social · Jan 24

Well the country is in tumult but I successfully advocated for the deaccession (archival word for removal) of a 10 year old tube of #chapstick from our university #archives today. So I got that going for me! It was originally strawberry daiquiri flavored. It smells about as rancid as you’d expect.

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Suzy the pensive shelf elf @queensuzy.bsky.social · Jan 22

I got a bigger #pond for Christmas, and had the genius idea to light it with a red light for maximum nightpond enjoyment

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · Jan 21

I think this platform needs more beautiful, marble-like gooseberries

An early 19th century botanical illustration of 12 ripe gooseberries I. Shades of green and red, each with a glass-like shine

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Suzy the pensive shelf elf @queensuzy.bsky.social · Jan 22

I forgot to add “even if the donor is deceased with no heirs”.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Jan 20

You’re all about to be gaslit about that Nazi salute and I’m begging you to spend no time on it. You know what you saw.

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · Jan 22

Student: "what makes something archival?"
Me: "I'm about to be really annoying, so bear with me"

*steeples hands*

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Suzy the pensive shelf elf @queensuzy.bsky.social · Jan 22

In my experience it’s archival if everyone is worried about what a donor may think if we put it in the recycling bin (even if that’s the best place for it).

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Suzy the pensive shelf elf @queensuzy.bsky.social · Nov 26

Today in the #archives: I found this fish!

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