My fantasy short story, "A Mountain Retirement", is now available in issue 3 of Plott Hound Magazine. My story features a dragon! plotthoundmag.com/issues/ #shortstory #fantasy #dragons #writingfiction

‪This article in the Washington Post made me think of course of Pleiti's literature-driven garden efforts. Thought you would enjoy it! @older.bsky.social wapo.st/3IUmxO3

"If it was 1822, I'd be THE HAPPIEST." www.youtube.com/watch?v=KADJ...

Happy #Caturday! This is Noodle Pie. I'm definitely trapped (for my own forced relaxation).

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We've made several changes to our archiving collecting scope. Here is what and where we are collecting as we open our new physical archive. Have something you'd like to talk to us about? Email us at [email protected]

We hope you all have a wonderful 🌍Earth Day🌎 What is your favorite environmental data source out there?

You might like this little film of Joan Aiken in the 1970's, talking about the early 'Wolves' books including The Whispering Mountain, with a lovely Welsh reading of the prophecy about the stolen harp of Teirtu... www.joanaiken.com/puffin-club-...

Please forward: CDC On Demand Publications Warehouse is Closing The last day to place orders for printed materials is September 2, 2025. Currently, the Publications Warehouse has more than 1,000 publications in multiple languages. Questions? please contact [email protected]. @altcdc.altgov.info

You know what? Today feels like an excellent day for a sale. Just because. 10% off EVERYTHING on shop.keyboard.io. And $50 off the Model 100, our gorgeous ergonomic keyboard with a milled hardwood enclosure. Keyboards ship free to the US (at least until tariffs kick in on May 2.)

When I wrote this back in January, I hoped it would make a few people smile. Now it's come full circle and made *me* smile, because @meganseling.bsky.social at @thestranger.com over in Seattle decided it would make a good cartoon, and got Greg Stump to draw one. 😁 www.thestranger.com/climate-issu...

🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾 📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save

🚨Over 1,300 former DOJ officials—spanning both parties—have signed a statement condemning the Trump Administration’s attacks on the legal profession and the rule of law. Read their urgent warning and call to action: protdem.org/doj-alumni-s...

Crossing every finger that @eff.org and @ajlunited.bsky.social have responded to this request for comments: "Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan" with comment period that ends today (03/15/2025). www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Back issues sale at @onspecmag.bsky.social! A whole pile of On Spec issues from Sept 2021 and before now just 99 cents! weightlessbooks.com/category/for...

Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...

Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab has published their archive of Data.gov, collected intermittently between 2024-11-19 and 2025-02-06 and intended to be updated daily. source.coop/repositories...

Research software engineers change lives! Share your evidence of their impact in the GLAM / digital cultural heritage sector and academic arts and humanities to help ensure their recognition and funding forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Closes Feb 14 #MuseTech #DigitalHumanities #RSEs #GLAMtech

A group of us made something heartfelt. Survive the Tyrant! is an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive state. Stay safe! survivethetyrant.infy.uk www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... www.deviantart.com/survivethety... drive.google.com/file/d/1n0XG...

GET INVOLVED! The ever-brilliant National Archives have made some of the #Railway company accident records available for transcription. Could YOU help with a page or two? A brilliant way to get involved with #Railway200! Find out more here - & thanks!

Registration is now open for the Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference. Come discuss how the born-digital transforms what and how we research in the humanities. 📆 2-4 April 2025 Register before 3 Feb to take advantage of the early-bird discount. www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/ins...

PLEASE read this really important message about The Folklore Library and Archive and if you can help follow this link www.gofundme.com/f/keep-the-f... Even if you can't help directly, please forward this message on to everyone you can. These archives are valuable. Thank you.

Illinois State University's Special Collections - Circus Wardrobe Collection open for research 📜 Announcement: news.illinoisstate.edu/2025/01/miln... And, since I love this kind of thing - How they define Special Collections is on their page here: library.illinoisstate.edu/services/spe...

In anticipation of a second assault on federal environmental information by Trump, we’re ramping up our website monitoring work, coordinating a multi-organizational data preservation effort, and expanding our civic data science tools. envirodatagov.org/press-releas...

Happy #portfolioDay! My #photography examines the micro-landscape of the ground beneath our feet. I magnify the interplay of nature and human influence and #photograph the edges: seeking to magnify the beauty of details hiding in plain site. site: www.jeannekramersmyth.com/photography

Calling #quilters looking for a way to help prople suffering loss due to the #lafires : consider joining this coordinated quilt #donation drive sandiegosewn.com/blogs/san-di...

Who captured these historic 1960s San Francisco snapshots? 📷 Abandoned for years in a storage unit, these unseen photos are finally seeing the light of day, but the photographer's identity remains a mystery. Can you help solve it? 🕵️‍♀️ Join the search: blog.archive.org/2025/01/10/e...

I'm on the hunt for college radio goodies! Take a look at these highlights of what we've collected for the college radio collection within the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications on @archive.org. blog.archive.org/2024/12/19/c...

There are currently 2,934 certified open source hardware projects, Adafruit is almost up to 800! We're just 4 away! certification.oshwa.org/list.html?q=... which is 27.13% of all certified open source hardware projects! @oshwassociation.bsky.social #electronics

Nominations are now open for DH Awards 2024 dhawards.org/dhawards2024... Open until 2025-01-26

Folks, I've got trouble! My workhorse writing/bookcreating Macbook has developed keyboard & (just now) power issues that mean it's got to go into the shop pronto. Can I point you (tho not UK folks, sorry) at some ebook bundles to help defray the cost? Thanks! (& repost plz?) dduane.link/EBDBundles

One of our goals for 2024 was to get a little shop up and running. We've got one now. It's small, it's mighty. Check out the Flickr Foundation's Best Little Museum Shop. shop.flickr.org #Shopping #Holidays

Happy to announce a newly packaged up #webarchiving U.S. Election web archive dataset has been released! Learn more blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

Thinking With Moss is a project I've been working on for the past few years w/ @eayers0.bsky.social‬ & @aansari86.bsky.social. In collab w/ NYBG, we explore the digitization of botanic collections, and the invisible or under attended histories of the natural sciences. www.thinkingwithmoss.net

📚 Don’t miss our final book talk of 2024! ⁠ Join VANISHING CULTURE authors & editors Luca Messarra, Chris Freeland & Juliya Ziskina for a roundtable discussion on the growing threats to preserving our cultural heritage.⁠ 🕳️ 📆 Tues, Dec 3 ⏰ 10am PT / 1pm ET 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

Are there new #DataRescue events aiming to archive US Government #environmentaldata? I attended #datarescueDC back in 2017 & found a blog post about the 2017 event on the #waybackmachine : web.archive.org/web/20170224... Does anyone know if www.datarefugestories.org/our-story-1 is still active?

My next book, Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory comes out in just a few weeks (December 10th!) with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. It'll be open access. Can't wait to share it all with you. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

I invented the #LooneyPyramids game, Freeze Tag. It won an Icehouse Community Excellence Award in 2011, as voted on by fans -- and still had enough fans in 2016 to be included in the Pyramid Arcade list of "22 More Great Games". Find info and rules here: www.looneylabs.com/content/free...

Check out this starter pack for authors of the BRAVE NEW GIRLS anthologies! All of these authors have contributed stories about girls in STEM to benefit the Society of Women Engineers scholarship fund 👩‍🔬 go.bsky.app/HYM6hMH

“Can’t you just digitise it all!” we’re asked. Sadly not my friend, because resources. #Decisions are made based on likely user-interest & fragility of material. Here's our digital collections site with c.15,000 images: archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/special-coll... #EYADecisions #ExploreYourArchive

I enjoy writing #SpeculativeFiction short stories. A few years ago, the Society of American Archivists held a short fiction contest. I won and you can read my winning story here: www2.archivists.org/kramer-smyth... (and yes, I wrote a pandemic story in 2018) #shortfiction #scifi #author #writing

Introduce yourself with four movies [done under duress... because 4 isn't enough, but doing my best!]

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Remember those who have been killed, injured, abused, tortured for being who they are. Remember those who have taken their own lives because they could not live in a world where they could not be themselves. Remember them. And make the world remember them.

A first #LookDown photo for BlueSky! I am fascinated by the intersection of the human-made and natural world. My #photography examines the micro-landscape of the ground beneath our feet.

Overdue first post: I am an author, artist, & creative geek w/a passion for the intersection of archives & technology. I'll likely post about #GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, & museums), #DigitalPreservation, #Art, #TableTopGames, #Nature, and #Photography.