Marguerite Carrithers
@divinetautology.bsky.social
Just finished my masters in Library Science, passionate about medieval studies, early modern printing, miniatures, and other things I’m currently forgetting, she/her
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Got 5 minutes? Fire up your rageful typing fingers and write a comment on the government's efforts to ban trans healthcare for kids.
Tell them you're taking time out of your Christmas to write it because it's that important.
Tell them you're taking time out of your Christmas to write it because it's that important.
PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW OPEN on prohibiting gender affirming care for young people.
Flood 'em with comments!
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Flood 'em with comments!
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Medicaid Program; Prohibition on Federal Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures Furnished to Children
This proposed rule would require that a State Medicaid plan must provide that the Medicaid agency will not make payment under the plan for sex-rejecting procedures for children under 18 and prohibit t...
www.federalregister.gov
December 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Got 5 minutes? Fire up your rageful typing fingers and write a comment on the government's efforts to ban trans healthcare for kids.
Tell them you're taking time out of your Christmas to write it because it's that important.
Tell them you're taking time out of your Christmas to write it because it's that important.
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The end of the year is in sight, and with it, the end of the embroidery of the adults I have some meaningful interaction with, every day this year. Down to the last few spirals. #DHmakes
December 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The end of the year is in sight, and with it, the end of the embroidery of the adults I have some meaningful interaction with, every day this year. Down to the last few spirals. #DHmakes
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Gender affirming care is a mere fraction of total healthcare, even for hospitals that provide it.
Less than 0.1% of all children and teens receive gender affirming care. GAC has a near 0% regret rate.
They’re shutting down hospitals and arresting doctors who serve millions of people over lies.
Less than 0.1% of all children and teens receive gender affirming care. GAC has a near 0% regret rate.
They’re shutting down hospitals and arresting doctors who serve millions of people over lies.
December 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Gender affirming care is a mere fraction of total healthcare, even for hospitals that provide it.
Less than 0.1% of all children and teens receive gender affirming care. GAC has a near 0% regret rate.
They’re shutting down hospitals and arresting doctors who serve millions of people over lies.
Less than 0.1% of all children and teens receive gender affirming care. GAC has a near 0% regret rate.
They’re shutting down hospitals and arresting doctors who serve millions of people over lies.
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Indeed. The purchaseable *product* we call the TTRPG begins in the 1970s with Western Gunfight, Chainmail, and D&D.
Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D.
Parlor games were feminized...
Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D.
Parlor games were feminized...
December 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Indeed. The purchaseable *product* we call the TTRPG begins in the 1970s with Western Gunfight, Chainmail, and D&D.
Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D.
Parlor games were feminized...
Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D.
Parlor games were feminized...
The archive at the Met Cloisters has a collection of miniature reproductions of art, furniture and architectural details that was used in planning the layout of the Cloisters. It’s kind of a Cloisters dollhouse and my fave thing in archives I’ve worked with (so far!).
Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.
I live in the heart of California gold country. One of the richest mines ever in CA is nearby. Opened circa 1860 closed 1942. A local foundation has preserved the records on site. I know not a stitch has been digitized and am confident no more than 2 pro historians have ever been in there.
December 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The archive at the Met Cloisters has a collection of miniature reproductions of art, furniture and architectural details that was used in planning the layout of the Cloisters. It’s kind of a Cloisters dollhouse and my fave thing in archives I’ve worked with (so far!).
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My longtime love of physical media is only increasing as algorithms & AI seep into everything online like toxic runoff in groundwater, so I love this @coyotemedia.org story about a librarian in SF starting a vinyl collection for middle schoolers: www.coyotemedia.org/a-bay-area-l...
A Bay Area Librarian Is Using Vintage Vinyl to Show Tweens Where Music Comes From
Gina Cargas reached out to the community about collecting records for her middle school students. The response was overwhelming.
www.coyotemedia.org
December 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
My longtime love of physical media is only increasing as algorithms & AI seep into everything online like toxic runoff in groundwater, so I love this @coyotemedia.org story about a librarian in SF starting a vinyl collection for middle schoolers: www.coyotemedia.org/a-bay-area-l...
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The 60 Minutes reporting on CECOT, with video recorded straight from broadcast (not multi-part phone recording off tv), now on Internet Archive.
Good news, someone ripped my video and put it on the Internet Archive. If you're having trouble downloading from Filemail, here it is:
archive.org/details/60mi...
archive.org/details/60mi...
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The 60 Minutes reporting on CECOT, with video recorded straight from broadcast (not multi-part phone recording off tv), now on Internet Archive.
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I am sure this is on these professionals' minds, but I want to say it out loud: sometimes the digging you want to do is related to the actual physical form of the object! Digitizing things is a 'lossy' operation! You also have to make certain those digital records remain available, which is work!
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
December 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I am sure this is on these professionals' minds, but I want to say it out loud: sometimes the digging you want to do is related to the actual physical form of the object! Digitizing things is a 'lossy' operation! You also have to make certain those digital records remain available, which is work!
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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Treating trans children (and adults) this way is immoral. The people who say such things are wrong; a government that develops such policy is unjust; all its citizens suffer moral injury as a result. Trans people morally and materially suffer and die needlessly.
At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
December 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Treating trans children (and adults) this way is immoral. The people who say such things are wrong; a government that develops such policy is unjust; all its citizens suffer moral injury as a result. Trans people morally and materially suffer and die needlessly.
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14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
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Happy 21st December evening everyone. May the Great Veiled Bear pass over you house tonight and not present you with one of his cursed Christmas cookies.
December 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Happy 21st December evening everyone. May the Great Veiled Bear pass over you house tonight and not present you with one of his cursed Christmas cookies.
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suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
December 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
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The present corporatized, monolithic, surveilled state of the internet is just one possibility out of many, and there is radical promise in uncovering alternatives: pirate radio to barbed wire telegraph, synthesizers transmitted over the telephone to encoded messages bounced off the surface of the 🌙
December 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The present corporatized, monolithic, surveilled state of the internet is just one possibility out of many, and there is radical promise in uncovering alternatives: pirate radio to barbed wire telegraph, synthesizers transmitted over the telephone to encoded messages bounced off the surface of the 🌙
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I've been thinking about how to organize a silent/solo game meetup for a while. At a library? Somewhere else? I love the idea of playing solo ttrpg games together.
The idea is not unlike silentbook.club but the logistics, as with all things, can be complicated.
Any experiences to share?
The idea is not unlike silentbook.club but the logistics, as with all things, can be complicated.
Any experiences to share?
Solo club?? I'd love more details! I was just thinking about organizing a "silent trrpg night" where everyone is playing solo ttrpgs and I'm milling around answering questions players may have.
Kind of a play on silent bookclubs.
Kind of a play on silent bookclubs.
December 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I've been thinking about how to organize a silent/solo game meetup for a while. At a library? Somewhere else? I love the idea of playing solo ttrpg games together.
The idea is not unlike silentbook.club but the logistics, as with all things, can be complicated.
Any experiences to share?
The idea is not unlike silentbook.club but the logistics, as with all things, can be complicated.
Any experiences to share?
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Fascinating article in @uk.theconversation.com from the @ihr.bsky.social's @justincolson.bsky.social and @uni-bamberg.de's Werner Scheltjens discussing their work with colleagues on the "Unlocking Upcycled Medieval Data" project.
📰You can read the article here: bit.ly/3L5CthA
📰You can read the article here: bit.ly/3L5CthA
Medieval Londoners’ cheaply imported mass-produced Christmas gifts look surprisingly familiar
We often imagine medieval life as dull, dirty and short, with little in the way of material comfort or decoration. However, medieval Londoners were importing toys, treats and trinkets by the boatload ...
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Fascinating article in @uk.theconversation.com from the @ihr.bsky.social's @justincolson.bsky.social and @uni-bamberg.de's Werner Scheltjens discussing their work with colleagues on the "Unlocking Upcycled Medieval Data" project.
📰You can read the article here: bit.ly/3L5CthA
📰You can read the article here: bit.ly/3L5CthA
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Take a break from doom scrolling and have a little peak at the commission. I’m working on today. Next step, the grasshopper and the foliage.
December 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Take a break from doom scrolling and have a little peak at the commission. I’m working on today. Next step, the grasshopper and the foliage.
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Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
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Academics are making the decision to shove unpublished original research that isn’t even theirs into the plagiarism machine. I can’t.
I find this very alarming. AI is being used in explicitly prohibited ways. No doubt this will soon be the norm. The consequences of this will be dramatic. Over the holidays, the publishers and the whole of academic community are doing nothing else but working on a solution to this, right? RIGHT?!
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
www.nature.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Academics are making the decision to shove unpublished original research that isn’t even theirs into the plagiarism machine. I can’t.
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Here are some actions you can take to defend gender-affirming care in your hospital system.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Here are some actions you can take to defend gender-affirming care in your hospital system.
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.
New research finds trans teens have high satisfaction with gender care
The survey published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that trans teens taking puberty blockers or hormones had very low rates of regret.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.
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This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default.
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
Anyone who supports this is an embarrassment. "Instead of typing it out they'll generate their idea"? Are you insane?
Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
December 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default.
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
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In the print made from the wood block, flag outline is meant to be colored in + the appropriate checkboxes ✔️ed. Here's an example print from the old version (where I accidentally ran the text together confusingly when resizing to fit different material than planned for):
December 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
In the print made from the wood block, flag outline is meant to be colored in + the appropriate checkboxes ✔️ed. Here's an example print from the old version (where I accidentally ran the text together confusingly when resizing to fit different material than planned for):
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sooper cool!
December 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
sooper cool!