K.D.
@readerofbooks.bsky.social
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K.D.
@readerofbooks.bsky.social
· Jan 22
TikTok & Instagram refugee looking for my people!
- Archivist & writer
- Physical media enthusiast (books, VHS, CDs)
- 35mm photographer
- Media literacy & critical thinking advocate
- Fostering curiosity & wonder
- Lover of quirk, kitsch, & nostalgia
- SCUBA, ocean conservation, & citizen science
- Archivist & writer
- Physical media enthusiast (books, VHS, CDs)
- 35mm photographer
- Media literacy & critical thinking advocate
- Fostering curiosity & wonder
- Lover of quirk, kitsch, & nostalgia
- SCUBA, ocean conservation, & citizen science
May 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
LA native, DC transplant and this is facts
I’ve thought this for a long time, but spending a few days here in DC has pretty much confirmed it: LA and New York are not alike at all. DC is MUCH more like LA.
April 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
LA native, DC transplant and this is facts
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Want to help restore the planet but don't know how?
Explore the interactive to find an action you can take—some in just 11 minutes.
From planting trees to changing how we produce and consume, find your action and join #GenerationRestoration: www.decadeonrestoration.org/game
Explore the interactive to find an action you can take—some in just 11 minutes.
From planting trees to changing how we produce and consume, find your action and join #GenerationRestoration: www.decadeonrestoration.org/game
April 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Want to help restore the planet but don't know how?
Explore the interactive to find an action you can take—some in just 11 minutes.
From planting trees to changing how we produce and consume, find your action and join #GenerationRestoration: www.decadeonrestoration.org/game
Explore the interactive to find an action you can take—some in just 11 minutes.
From planting trees to changing how we produce and consume, find your action and join #GenerationRestoration: www.decadeonrestoration.org/game
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Happy Birthday to Jane Goodall!
For nearly 60 years, she’s championed the deep connections between people, animals and planet—showing the world what it means to act #ForNature.
Today and every day, we celebrate her pioneer work. 💚
For nearly 60 years, she’s championed the deep connections between people, animals and planet—showing the world what it means to act #ForNature.
Today and every day, we celebrate her pioneer work. 💚
April 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Happy Birthday to Jane Goodall!
For nearly 60 years, she’s championed the deep connections between people, animals and planet—showing the world what it means to act #ForNature.
Today and every day, we celebrate her pioneer work. 💚
For nearly 60 years, she’s championed the deep connections between people, animals and planet—showing the world what it means to act #ForNature.
Today and every day, we celebrate her pioneer work. 💚
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🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark?
From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️
www.kqed.org/news/1203198...
From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️
www.kqed.org/news/1203198...
What Happens if the Internet Archive Goes Dark? | KQED
For decades, the Internet Archive has preserved our digital history. Lately, journalists and ordinary citizens have been turning to it more than ever, as the Trump administration undertakes an ideolog...
www.kqed.org
March 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark?
From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️
www.kqed.org/news/1203198...
From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️
www.kqed.org/news/1203198...
I will also add that I'm a big fan of Plex and maintain a library of about 250 shows and movies linked to a 5 TB hard drive that travels with me. But all of that is a digital surrogate for the physical copies I keep and watch at home.
DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too.
🔗 www.404media.co/the-digital-...
🔗 www.404media.co/the-digital-...
March 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I will also add that I'm a big fan of Plex and maintain a library of about 250 shows and movies linked to a 5 TB hard drive that travels with me. But all of that is a digital surrogate for the physical copies I keep and watch at home.
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“It’s very important as an educator and a mother and ... just a resident in my community that every single person in my community feels seen and heard and every single person in every community should see their families represented on the shelves of books in libraries.”
www.wgbh.org/culture/book...
www.wgbh.org/culture/book...
Despite threats, ‘That Librarian’ Amanda Jones continues the fight against book bans
A campaign against small-town school librarian Amanda Jones is in full force because she spoke out against censorship.
www.wgbh.org
February 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“It’s very important as an educator and a mother and ... just a resident in my community that every single person in my community feels seen and heard and every single person in every community should see their families represented on the shelves of books in libraries.”
www.wgbh.org/culture/book...
www.wgbh.org/culture/book...
I'm a digital archivist and I collect DVDs, VHS, CDs, cassettes, etc. That should tell you something about the state of digital media. I've seen 5 year old files that are irretrievable, but my 40 year old VHS of Pee-wee's Big Adventure is going strong. Physical media > digital media > streaming
DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too.
🔗 www.404media.co/the-digital-...
🔗 www.404media.co/the-digital-...
March 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I'm a digital archivist and I collect DVDs, VHS, CDs, cassettes, etc. That should tell you something about the state of digital media. I've seen 5 year old files that are irretrievable, but my 40 year old VHS of Pee-wee's Big Adventure is going strong. Physical media > digital media > streaming
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Fishing for compliments? gty.art/43yxlpJ
January 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Fishing for compliments? gty.art/43yxlpJ
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🎬 Last week, “The Librarians” had its premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival! Read more about the big day, film updates, & what you can do to #UniteAgainstBookBans in @technolibrary.bsky.social’s UABB blog post: uniteagainstbookbans.org/book-banning... @librarianjones.com @becalzada.bsky.social
"The Librarians" is a Documentary, Not a Hoax
A new documentary film that explores record-breaking rates of U.S. book banning debuted at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival—on the same day that the U.S. Department of Education declared book bans a "h...
uniteagainstbookbans.org
January 31, 2025 at 2:11 AM
🎬 Last week, “The Librarians” had its premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival! Read more about the big day, film updates, & what you can do to #UniteAgainstBookBans in @technolibrary.bsky.social’s UABB blog post: uniteagainstbookbans.org/book-banning... @librarianjones.com @becalzada.bsky.social
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Archivists are working to identify and save thousands of datasets disappearing from Data.gov
🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...
🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...
January 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Archivists are working to identify and save thousands of datasets disappearing from Data.gov
🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...
🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...
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Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.
bookshop.org/ebooks
bookshop.org/ebooks
Bookshop.org US
Explore digital books on Bookshop.org
bookshop.org
January 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.
bookshop.org/ebooks
bookshop.org/ebooks
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Layers of information in an archival document:
- What is said
- What is not said
- What is alluded to
- What is omitted intentionally
(and unintentionally)
- What is misleading
- What is ambiguous
- What is highlighted
- What is downplayed
- What is weaponized
- What is unintelligible today
...
- What is said
- What is not said
- What is alluded to
- What is omitted intentionally
(and unintentionally)
- What is misleading
- What is ambiguous
- What is highlighted
- What is downplayed
- What is weaponized
- What is unintelligible today
...
January 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Layers of information in an archival document:
- What is said
- What is not said
- What is alluded to
- What is omitted intentionally
(and unintentionally)
- What is misleading
- What is ambiguous
- What is highlighted
- What is downplayed
- What is weaponized
- What is unintelligible today
...
- What is said
- What is not said
- What is alluded to
- What is omitted intentionally
(and unintentionally)
- What is misleading
- What is ambiguous
- What is highlighted
- What is downplayed
- What is weaponized
- What is unintelligible today
...
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@thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social is phenomenal. I had a different emotional reaction at all 3 screenings. I’m so proud to be a part of this film, especially alongside the brave librarians and library advocates featured, and will be forever grateful to everyone involved!
January 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
@thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social is phenomenal. I had a different emotional reaction at all 3 screenings. I’m so proud to be a part of this film, especially alongside the brave librarians and library advocates featured, and will be forever grateful to everyone involved!
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‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online
‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online
Exclusive: Wiener Holocaust Library has digitised more than 150,000 items including letters, pamphlets and photos
One of the world’s largest Holocaust archives is accessible online for the first time after a three-year digitisation of much of the…
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online
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TikTok & Instagram refugee looking for my people!
- Archivist & writer
- Physical media enthusiast (books, VHS, CDs)
- 35mm photographer
- Media literacy & critical thinking advocate
- Fostering curiosity & wonder
- Lover of quirk, kitsch, & nostalgia
- SCUBA, ocean conservation, & citizen science
- Archivist & writer
- Physical media enthusiast (books, VHS, CDs)
- 35mm photographer
- Media literacy & critical thinking advocate
- Fostering curiosity & wonder
- Lover of quirk, kitsch, & nostalgia
- SCUBA, ocean conservation, & citizen science
January 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
TikTok & Instagram refugee looking for my people!
- Archivist & writer
- Physical media enthusiast (books, VHS, CDs)
- 35mm photographer
- Media literacy & critical thinking advocate
- Fostering curiosity & wonder
- Lover of quirk, kitsch, & nostalgia
- SCUBA, ocean conservation, & citizen science
- Archivist & writer
- Physical media enthusiast (books, VHS, CDs)
- 35mm photographer
- Media literacy & critical thinking advocate
- Fostering curiosity & wonder
- Lover of quirk, kitsch, & nostalgia
- SCUBA, ocean conservation, & citizen science
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Signal boosting for the EFF.
Job alert: do I have any archivists in the house? I'm looking for someone for a remote contract gig on a knowledge management project at an abortion support org. Hit me up.
November 26, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Signal boosting for the EFF.
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“There is an ecosystem, where you have the academic librarians, and the public (librarians) and the school, and the parents, and the student activists, and we all have to work together,” Jones said. “It is going to take all of us.”
alabamareflector.com/2024/11/26/l...
alabamareflector.com/2024/11/26/l...
Louisiana librarian discusses book bans at Montgomery event • Alabama Reflector
The book, titled 'That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America' provides details into her experiences about censorship.
alabamareflector.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:15 AM
“There is an ecosystem, where you have the academic librarians, and the public (librarians) and the school, and the parents, and the student activists, and we all have to work together,” Jones said. “It is going to take all of us.”
alabamareflector.com/2024/11/26/l...
alabamareflector.com/2024/11/26/l...
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I think adults should get a personal pan pizza for reading books too
November 19, 2024 at 3:42 PM
I think adults should get a personal pan pizza for reading books too
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"Book bans are antithetical to free speech and free thought. They are antidemocratic, antiscience & antievidence. Reading this editorial with no one looking over your shoulder is your fundamental right. Our children deserve the same." www.scientificamerican.com/article/book... #UniteAgainstBookBans
Book Bans Harm Kids
Censoring what children read deprives them of reality and the chance to feed their curiosity and develop empathy
www.scientificamerican.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:18 PM
"Book bans are antithetical to free speech and free thought. They are antidemocratic, antiscience & antievidence. Reading this editorial with no one looking over your shoulder is your fundamental right. Our children deserve the same." www.scientificamerican.com/article/book... #UniteAgainstBookBans
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Update: archive.org is back online in a provisional, read-only manner. Learn more in our latest post: blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/i...
October 21, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Update: archive.org is back online in a provisional, read-only manner. Learn more in our latest post: blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/i...