Mary Magdalene. Not penitent. Just Melancholy. Or just wanted a nap. Painted in the 1620s by Artemisia Gentileschi, whose day was today.

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

If you’re concerned about the loss of digital historical materials over time, you can write a letter to your dean or president about the necessity of funding and sustaining archival labor. There are people who work towards mitigating digital ephemerality and they’re being laid off left and right.

When I search for the late Calvin Hathaway (museum director, one of the "Monuments Men") a picture of Ludacris comes up

The Long 19th century 1815-♾️

An enormous fly seems to have come into the apartment and my cat is yelling to inform me she is about to launch herself at the ceiling

At this point do I have to move back in with my parents are run for Senate? Ffffffffff

going back to basics over here

Meanwhile, in the state where I find myself, people are having fistfights on I-95 before 6 am: www.providencejournal.com/story/news/c...

My beautiful home state is very dear to me and we are just taking Ls and looking stupid right now

huh I didn't know mcconnell's first name is addison

Sometimes it’s hard not to dwell on how different my entire life would be if anyone with even a mote of a power cared at all about women and girls

🧵: On the 4th of July, I believe we should do more than just celebrate independence—we should read the instigating declaration and grade the current state of the union against its stated grievances. This thread will consider each of the Fonders’ 27 grievances and create a 2026 report card. 1/31

I don't know how campaign contribution transparency works and know that nobody gives a shit about me personally but for my own conscience, I gave his campaign ten dollars when he first started running and have lived to regret it

I feel like in a state with a fairly strong history of unaffiliated candidates, an independent could theoretically rise out of this mess in time, but ugh. UGH.

The White House released a 162-page report on Independence Day branding Smithsonian leadership as "radical activists who cannot be trusted." Lonnie Bunch, the first African American to lead the Smithsonian: "History is driven by scholarship, not partisanship." A takeover is being prepared.

Spy stuff is catnip to me even though building intelligence solely in support of empire is antithetical to my politics, and since I do not have a social life I watched the entire second season of The Bureau on my parents' Paramount+ account today

I havent had human contact in like three days so I am about to bring some unsettling energy to CVS

did he do that two hour speech he promised, in defiance of william henry harrison's legacy

The black raspberries in the yard are ripening, so I actually did go outside today. Saw a little rabbit :)

Why are people setting off fireworks in the daytime

I am on a Complicated Feelings journey today and this line from the Declaration hits like a bus: "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

"American Shahada" is just "The New Colossus".

I'm feeling like I want to ignore everything today

Reading "How Fascism Works" in observation of the holiday weekend

I wish people would bother to proofread their automatically-generated captions when they post videos

#1C543E

This could have been really bad, wow

All of us on our archives team hate our collections mgmt system (& it is expensive & we are convinced it is not going to be supported much longer) but whenever we voice this someone says the migration to this system took 4 years (???). If you've done a migration, how long did yours take?

Infinite growth on a finite planet is a physical impossibility.

A tour guide told me that three times this past week people have been coming up to guides in one of our houses to ask where the "Marie Antoinette Room" is. This room does not exist. Instead of using our app with our audio tours, they're asking Gemini to create their tours 🙃

I can never remember my volunteer's schedule. She always tells me but I always forget. I am doing my best but my best is * not very good *

And compared to Reuters today:

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

I am absolutely overreacting about my labdlord's son coming to take photos of my crumbling apt while I am trying to pack but no one has ever pulled this with me and it makes me so mad

For the last day of Pride Month and the leadup to what will surely be the dumbest semiquincentennial imaginable youtu.be/IslF_EyhMzg?...

I have a vague memory of there being a website or collection of content dedicated to a fictional research institute. Not the one from Backrooms. Did I make this up?

I've started taping white paper to my windows in preparation for the heat. My landlord's son is coming to take photos of the unit tmw (I've never had an owner try to do this *while I am packing*) and he is going to have to deal with the dystopian vibe in here

I have started watching In the Hand of Dante and all the stuff it aggressively gets wrong about archives and manuscripts has me ready to riot

There's a new archives book coming out with a cover that is giving "graphic design is my passion." What are we even doing

I love that Robert Eggers is doing his next film in Middle English. Absolute freak behavior (complimentary). Our culture belittles and dismisses enthusiasm and expertise but he's like no, I have a special interest and will be depicting it correctly😎

My landlord's son wants to come take pictures of my unit (lol everything is falling apart bc your dad is neglectful, good luck) in the middle of the day and assures me I do not need to be there, that he will not let my cat out. Bruh why would I trust you

As I get older I'm realizing there are no real consequences for most behaviors that violate the social contract, common decency, or even the law, & it freaks me out. People can just go feral/endanger others & there is no recourse because our LE apparatus is devoted to terrorizing immigrants and POC

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

I know this isn't the point of the thread but this photo goes so incredibly hard

I’m not thrilled that apparently the secret to success in basically every field right now is “be really good at short form video”

someone actually counted and there are currently MORE heat deaths in the EU than gun deaths in the US. It's completely shocking

I move in like 4 weeks and you are not going to get me to leave the house ever after that